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Indira Lakshmanan

@Indira_L

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Leading Ideas & Opinions @USNews . Former Exec Editor @ NatGeo & Pulitzer Center; enterprise editor AP; reporter+ columnist BostonGlobe, Bloomberg, NPR, Intl NYT

Washington, DC
Joined January 2011
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Indira Lakshmanan
3 years
Thank you @Oprah for shining a light on 100 Women of Color and giving us space @OprahDaily to share stories of prejudice, obstacles and what we learned & overcame. Humbled to be on this list and to draw inspiration from others, esp at at time of rising #hatecrimes #StopAsianHate
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Dr. Maya Angelou once said: “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” In this powerful @oprahdaily piece, 100 women remind us that words matter.
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Trump claims Saudi arms deal creates 1 million new jobs. Fact-check: the ENTIRE US defense contracting industry employs 335,000 people in the US. Lockheed said the Saudi arms deal would create several hundred new jobs - in Saudi Arabia.
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Daniel Dale
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In March, Trump said the Saudi military deals would produce 40,000 jobs. A week ago, he made it 450,000 jobs. Wednesday, 500,000 jobs. Yesterday afternoon, 600,000 jobs. Yesterday evening: "The million jobs."
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My mom survived WWII, Nazis, Soviets, cancer + more with grit & a force of will I've seen nowhere else. I'm brokenhearted she died yesterday of #COVID19 . She fought to the end. Deepest thanks to all who prayed for her recovery and to ease her passage. Here's her story via @NatGeo
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Indira Lakshmanan
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Nazis came to her door, shot men in her yard, and took her father. The 8-year-old lost it all in #WWII and only a leap from a train saved her from a death camp. What kept her going? Indomitable will. A tribute to that survivor~My Mother @NatGeo #MothersDay
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Reminder: Journalism isn’t stenography. It’s irresponsible to audiences who rely on us for accurate news & information to repeat falsehoods in headlines and stories. When we amplify lies without factchecks and context, we legitimize & spread misinformation
@NBCNews
NBC News
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President Trump directly accused Hillary Clinton of engaging in a conspiracy with Russia to affect the 2016 election during a rally in Pennsylvania.
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Newspapers are still shedding on average 1,000 jobs per month - more than mining, steel, fishing and all the beleaguered industries politicians talk about. The news industry - in all formats - is in crisis. We need sustainable business models for journalism
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Paul Farhi
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A brutal day for digital news organizations: BuzzFeed, HuffPost, AOL, Yahoo all set layoffs. Gannett cuts Pulitzer winner. My writeup:
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Nazis came to her door, shot men in her yard, and took her father. The 8-year-old lost it all in #WWII and only a leap from a train saved her from a death camp. What kept her going? Indomitable will. A tribute to that survivor~My Mother @NatGeo #MothersDay
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HUGE SCIENCE NEWS: Bizarre Spinosaurus makes history as first known swimming dinosaur. @NatGeo 's @MichaelGreshko had exclusive access to team + dig site where new fossils are stretching our understanding of how and where dinosaurs lived
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7 years
During transition, sr official told me Trump wrongly thought NATO members pay dues to US. How could aides not correct & stop such a blunder?
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6 years
Does anyone know what Roseanne is talking about?
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6 years
What happened to the president who told “Chuck & Nancy” on live TV two days ago, “I am proud to shut down the government... I will take the mantle of shutting it down” ???
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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Let’s not do a shutdown, Democrats - do what’s right for the American People!
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7 years
Thrilled @washingtonpost launched a new series to explain how journalism works, how reporters gather & fact-check info -- in response to troubling findings in our @Poynter Media Trust Survey. Episode1 is on Roy Moore reporting @mccrummenWaPo @bethreinhard
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I interviewed Colo. man who found fraudulent $250 donation to Roy Moore via fundraising platform @anedot on his credit card statement. No other fraudulent charges & he's never been to Alabama. Card statements below. Anyone heard of others? Pls spread word, reach out to me
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This is my Mom, an inspiring #WWII survivor. As a child in #Poland , she was targeted by Nazis & Soviets and survived both. We hoped to celebrate #MemorialDay as always but today she was sent to the ICU in critical condition with #COVID . Please send her healing wishes for recovery
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Indira Lakshmanan
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Nazis came to her door, shot men in her yard, and took her father. The 8-year-old lost it all in #WWII and only a leap from a train saved her from a death camp. What kept her going? Indomitable will. A tribute to that survivor~My Mother @NatGeo #MothersDay
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6 years
Stunning to see 2 of #Kavanaugh ’s Yale *friends* telling ⁦ @TheLastWord ⁩ ⁦ @Lawrence ⁩ that Kavanaugh lied about his drinking. They didn’t witness assault but say they came forward & would talk to @FBI because Kavanaugh drank excessively & perjured himself about that
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Thrilled to share news~I'm joining @NatGeo as Senior Executive Editor in January! I grew up exploring new places & ideas in @NatGeoMag and I'm honored & excited to join the talented folks whose stories are more relevant than ever to understanding our fascinating & fragile world
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Nat Geo PR
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National Geographic Adds Indira Lakshmanan As Senior Executive Editor @Indira_L @NatGeoMag
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8 years
This story is jaw-dropping: Ex-British spy says FBI ignored Trump allegations while singleminded pursuing Hillary
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"Not all colored girls are the same, Jack"- @ananavarro after jaw-dropping moment when guest mixes her w/ @AprilDRyan & says April is partisan
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igorvolsky
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So much is going on in this clip. It's really amazing
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Indira Lakshmanan
7 years
I checked the latest figures available, and it's actually dropped to 50,000 jobs...fewer than are employed by Whole Foods
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David Frum
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The entire coal industry employs 76,000. Not just miners - everybody. WashPost has some interesting comparisons here
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Also "leaks" are warranted when people are being lied to or government is doing wrong. That's the purpose of whistleblower protections
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Nick Baumann
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It's almost as if people in the intelligence community watch the press briefings to see if Spicer is saying things that aren't true.
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Joyful & life-affirming superstar ⁦⁦⁦ @lizzo ⁩ played DC tonight~Most unexpected moment: ⁦ @librarycongress ⁩ loaned her Pres. James Madison’s 1813 crystal flute to play onstage, making her 1st person to do so! She thanked LoC for preserving history & making it cool
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Former advisor to Condi Rice under George W Bush admin>
@EliotACohen
Eliot A Cohen
6 years
Having led a two year study of bombing in the First Gulf War, I would say this: (a) you never hit everything you think you have, and (b) the other side is not dumb. This was self-soothing martial display masquerading as something serious. It will do little if any good.
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Alisyn Camerota pushed back strongly against this poisonous, foul man spouting Nazi views, but why did @CNN @NewDay give him free media and a choice national platform for his candidacy of hate?
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Yahoo News
7 years
CNN host tells Holocaust-denying congress candidate: "You'll go down in flames"
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Indira Lakshmanan
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Hugging it out with your opponent - now that is what I call sportswomanship! 🤗
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Rex Chapman🏇🏼
4 years
This is the Twitter content I’m here for...
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WOW in day of many WOWs. Non-partisan head of @OGE +top Bush & Obama ethics lawyers say Trump no-conflict plan fails any test @BrookingsGov
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Indira Lakshmanan
8 years
"Plan we heard today is not in compliance with the law...pres-elect has 9 days to fix it"-says Richard Painter-former top Bush ethics lawyer
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These are people, not statistics. An American has died of #COVID19 every 1.5 minutes since February. That’s like losing Salt Lake City or 1450 plane loads of people. So why do we become numb to an enormous death toll? @SarahE_Richards for @NatGeo
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Indira Lakshmanan
6 years
Why Trump uses “fake news” rhetoric: Because it conditions his supporters to trust only one source (him) & reject facts that don’t conform to their beliefs Why it’s dangerous: Blind faith in a single leader & knee-jerk rejection of independent reporting endangers democracy
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Aaron Rupar
6 years
TRUMP: "I believe in polls -- only the ones that have us up, because they're the only honest ones. Other than that they're the fake news polls. Fake news! [boos] Just like their reporting is dishonest, their polls are dishonest."
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Indira Lakshmanan
6 years
💙 this! Be Prepared + Question Authority + Be Fair & Accurate = Accountability Journalism
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Jim Acosta
6 years
Kudos to the young student reporter who asked @PressSec about the admin’s response to school shootings. He clearly came prepared, notebook in hand. Well done!
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6 years
Korean War ended 65 years ago. Parents of MIAs/POWs died decades ago. No way any talked to Trump in 2016 unless he hears ghosts
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Aaron Rupar
6 years
Trump claims, preposterously, that parents of Korean War veterans came up to him during the 2016 campaign and said, "when you can, we'd love our son to be brought back home -- you know, the remains." The Korean War ended in 1953.
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According to @FBI , US murder rate at lowest level since 1964. The real America is not the crime-ridden, gang-infested horror show described
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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)
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"This American carnage" is a fiction in historical perspective
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6 years
Notable because DeutscheBank records of loans to Trump were subpoenaed in Mueller probe of alleged Trump-Russia ties
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6 years
The death of local news is affecting civic behavior and voting patterns. Deep dive by @Politico found Trump performed best in "news deserts," areas with lowest newspaper circulation/readership by @ShawnMusgrave @MatthewNussbaum
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Indira Lakshmanan
7 years
That this is not the biggest news story of the day is a sign of the extraordinary times we live in
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Eric Lipton
7 years
Trump Era Moment: EPA's Scott Pruitt, with 45 CEOs of largest oil and gas companies in the USA for private briefing. Profits, to Trump Hotel
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I am gutted to hear of the passing of Stella Tennant, an incredibly kind soul. In 1989, we met in the UK and went to Chile to study/work for the last year of the Pinochet regime. I spoke no Spanish and knew no one. She met me at the Santiago airport. 1/
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Pope Francis @pontifex calls for civil union laws for same-sex couples
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Indira Lakshmanan
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Half a century ago in Hollywood, Tippi Hendren (star of The Birds & mom of Melanie Griffith) faced harassment from Hitchcock
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Tippi Hedren
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Not funny "joke." Even if you disagree with someone's politics, pls remember we're all human. A political rival is also dad/mom, spouse etc
@Acosta
Jim Acosta
6 years
A WH official confirms WH aide Kelly Sadler mocked John McCain’s cancer diagnosis saying “he’s dying anyway” in response to his opposition to Haspel nomination. The “joke... fell flat” the official said.
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Timothy McVeigh, the right-wing terrorist who killed 168 people in the 1995 Oklahoma bombing, cared about one issue above all: guns. And he believed any attempt to regulate them was tyranny McVeigh’s dream is coming true, writes ⁦ @michelleinbklyn ⁩ ⁦
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Indira Lakshmanan
8 years
This from few days ago is still true. Whatever transcripts of Flynn-Russia calls may show, Trump said he was OK with Flynn talking sanctions
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Glenn Thrush
8 years
The story ISN'T the press conference. It isn't his attack on the press. It's that Trump has no problem w/ Flynn talking sanctions w/ Russia.
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This smear vs @SenJohnMcCain has been debunked many times, including by @PolitiFact People who repeat the lie do so because he has vocally opposed torture, including by CIA. No surprise it's revived this week during Haspel hearing
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Jake Tapper
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no big deal, just Fox Business News giving a platform to a smear of Sen. John McCain's time being tortured in a Vietnamese POW camp.
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Mutations don’t mean #coronavirus is becoming more harmful. Instead, subtle shifts in the virus’s genetic code are helping researchers quickly figure out where it’s been, as well as dispel myths about its origins @NatGeo @NatGeoMag
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Under Nazi & Soviet occupation, my Polish mom was one of millions of children who suffered unimaginable horrors-and forged grit to survive. A tribute to Last Voices of a generation @anneapplebaum @sikorskiradek @121Dulag @USEmbassyWarsaw @PolishEmbassyUS @1944pl @MNKrk @PolandMFA
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Showing how the sausage (of #journalism ) is made is a smart way to build #Trust in #news . Kudos to @60Minutes for explaining how they got #StormyDaniels interview, that they did NOT pay her & why she did it … via @CBSNLive
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I predicted he'd fail at this job and he has. John Kelly Must Go. My @BostonGlobe @Globe Opinion column
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Stunning press conf now w/Walter Shaub, head of @OfficeGovEthics , saying the proposed Trump plan to avoid conflicts interest doesn't work
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Former State Dept chief of staff says there's no Trump Doctrine - they have no idea what they're doing @politicomag
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@waltshaub @RWPUSA @matthewamiller Shaub: Mueller is all that stands btwn us & end of rule of law. "If they pull Sat night massacre, I'm going to be in the streets" #tribfest
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Indira Lakshmanan
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Oh boy...a stunning assessment from Condi Rice's former advisor, who had before said Rs should serve in Trump admin
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Eliot A Cohen
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After exchange w Trump transition team, changed my recommendation: stay away. They're angry, arrogant, screaming "you LOST!" Will be ugly.
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Indira Lakshmanan
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BRING PENCILS. Pens don't work when your notebook is wet
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Al Tompkins
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Our heart is with journalists about to work nonstop covering #HurricaneHarvey . Be smart not brave. Keep cameras and photographers dry.
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So much fun trick-or-treating tonight! Winner of best parent costume in our neighborhood goes to ⁦ @jaketapper ⁩ as ⁦ @TedLasso ⁩! #HappyHalloween #halloween 🎃💀👻
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Even before #coronavirus , air #pollution killed 7 million people a year. Now, lockdowns are clearing the air. Will today's cleaner air inspire us to do better? via @NatGeo @Gardiner_Beth
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Indira Lakshmanan
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Shocked & disheartened to hear via @Lawrence that Fox News fired the insightful, intelligent, conservative (& anti-Trump) pundit @GeorgeWill
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The Last Word
8 years
Kellyanne Conway says the journalists who criticized Trump during the campaign should be "let go." But @Lawrence says it has already begun:
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Indira Lakshmanan
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. @DerSPIEGEL got notes from G7 meeting-it wasn't pretty. Trump says he wants to stop world from "laughing at us." But is US out of the club?
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Michiko Kakutani
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Der Spiegel: "Donald Trump's Triumph of Stupidity.The G-7 has become the G-6. The West is divided" fm @SPIEGELONLINE
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Indira Lakshmanan
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Thrilled this NYC public school teacher will use @PulitzerCenter teaching guides on @NYTmag #1619Project in her class. You can too - it's free online ! We're planning events for some lucky classes w/writer @nhannahjones & #teacher trainings too -stay tuned!
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This week in terrorizing attacks by US citizens on US soil: 1) 14 explosives mailed to Trump critics, allegedly by Trump loyalist in FL 2) gunman tries to attack black church, kills 2 black people at Kroger in Louisville, KY 3) gunman kills 11 people in Pittsburgh, PA synagogue
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Maggie Haberman
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Horrific week of domestic terrorism
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This is really nuanced, thoughtful & compassionate from @Trevornoah . Also, Trevor could be a great mediator for our divided nation - seriously
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The Daily Show
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Some thoughts on Liam Neeson. #BetweenTheScenes
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US Congressmen being denied access to detention centers where children have been taken away from parents
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Bill Pascrell, Jr. 🇺🇸🇺🇦
6 years
Detention center employees have covered the window with paper to block our view. The supervisor is attempting to justify it. We are still being denied access.
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ICYMI - from the @washingtonpost editorial board: Trump colluded with Russia. Openly. @PostOpinions
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Indira Lakshmanan
6 years
The internet disrupted old business models, with free online content and rock-bottom digital ad rates depriving news organizations of sustaining ad revenue. Till someone comes up with something better, there are two solutions: PAY for news you trust & DONATE to nonprofit news
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Indira Lakshmanan
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@ohheyjenna This is terrible news. 47 laid off today from @HuffPost . Please pitch us freelance stories on Animals, Environment, History & Culture, Science or Travel @natgeo . Fill out forms here
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Indira Lakshmanan
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@waltshaub I actually just tweeted this today from a neighborhood redbud:
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Indira Lakshmanan
4 years
How crazy is it that this beautiful redbud tree makes me think of the shape of novel Coronavirus?
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GOP can't have it both ways: if anonymous sources & classified leaks are bad, why did Nunes leak intel? My column:
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Mediaite
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NBC's Peter Alexander Grills Spicer: Nunes Using Anonymous Sources When ‘Politically Advantageous’ is ‘Okay’? VIDEO
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Congressman from CA, ranking Dem on Veterans' Affairs committee->
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Mark Takano
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Meals on Wheels feeds 500,000 veterans every year. Where does taking food from hungry veterans fit into the "America First" doctrine?
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Trump attacked Obama for spending >$10M in taxpayer $$/year on vacation. Trump will have spent as much in ONE MONTH
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Mark Harris
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"Breather." This is his 27th day in office. This will be his third weekend in Florida.
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I encourage you to read our whole Last Voices of #WWII @NatGeoMag package. Here's a letter from editor-in-chief @susanbgoldberg about why stories from WWII’s last survivors matter now more than ever: … #VEDay75 #VEDay
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An extraordinary thread of photos of leading GOP politicians & NRA officials photographed with alleged Russian spy arrested yesterday
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Shannon Watts
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. @ScottWalker with arrested Russian nationalist and @NRA lifetime member Maria Butina.
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Indira Lakshmanan
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It sounds crazy, but my mom survived so much that she seemed indestructible. WWII; Nazi camp; property & family destroyed; communism. Breast cancer (twice), stroke, dementia, she just kept going. That she couldn't beat #COVID19 feels like a sign of how tough the disease is.
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Indira Lakshmanan
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⁦. @NatGeo ⁩ Society launches emergency global fund for journalists to cover #COVID19 , especially in underserved communities that may lack evidence-based information on #coronavirus . Apply now #grants #journalism
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Indira Lakshmanan
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Some of you kindly asked after my beloved dad, who was my lifelong best friend. He died suddenly in late February, devastating. I'm grateful we were able to celebrate his life with a ceremony before lockdown. Now it's impossible. It's been a tough year....for everyone out there
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Indira Lakshmanan
8 years
OMG this is stunning. Trump, the @GOP nominee, says our country's intelligence agencies don't know what they're talking about.
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Indira Lakshmanan
6 years
Did Tillerson feel this way when he was SecState, and if so, why didn't he speak out then? And Tillerson denied any rifts between him & president, denied he called Trump a "moron," etc - do those count as concealing truth or alternative realities?
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Jim Acosta
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“If our leaders seek to conceal the truth, or we as people become accepting of alternative realities that are no longer grounded in facts, then we as American citizens are on a pathway to relinquishing our freedom” - Rex Tillerson
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If your newsroom isn't explaining in the headline that Trump created this family separation crisis that he now claims to have "solved," you're doing it wrong
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Indira Lakshmanan
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. @BrianStelter on a better way to report on false statements: Trump's deceptions & denial of reality are a daily story..."Here's what the president said" is the wrong frame. The right frame is "Why isn't he telling the truth about XYZ? Is he misinformed, or lying, or worse?"
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Indira Lakshmanan
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I watched Manchester coverage: An endless loop of terror & lazy journalism that lets ISIS run the newsroom @Poynter
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Indira Lakshmanan
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Trump's quotes make clear he thinks same North Korea's leader "outplayed" Bill Clinton & Obama and is still at it. Kim Jong Il died in 2011
@anamariecox
Ana Marie Cox
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Guys. Guys. I don’t think Trump knows who’s the leader of North Korea.
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Indira Lakshmanan
7 years
Echo of PressSec urging ESPN to fire @jemelehill . Shocked any prez would try to stamp on free market/private business. Imagine if Dem did it
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Indira Lakshmanan
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A journalist colleague asked for the source on this: It's 355,000 jobs-sorry for typo!-on p2 of 2017 annual report of US aerospace & defense association: "defense and national security sector generated $146.7 billion in sales and supported 355,500 jobs" …
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Indira Lakshmanan
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On #HolocaustMemorialDay , sharing my family's story. My Polish grandfather & uncle were sent to Nazi slave labor camps. My mom & grandmother were taken to @121Dulag , destined for a death camp. When the train paused, my grandmother shouted “Jump!" @NatGeo
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Indira Lakshmanan
6 years
Ret 4-star general...Remember when WH PressSec Sarah Sanders scolded journalists for questioning anything uttered by Ret. 4-star John Kelly?
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Barry R McCaffrey
6 years
Reluctantly I have concluded that President Trump is a serious threat to US national security. He is refusing to protect vital US interests from active Russian attacks. It is apparent that he is for some unknown reason under the sway of Mr Putin.
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Indira Lakshmanan
7 years
WAKE UP AMERICA~Appalling attacks on our 1st amend & watchdog press, with implicit blessing of @POTUS who deemed media "Enemy of the People"
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Michael Calderone
7 years
In the past two weeks, reporters have been arrested, pinned against a wall, and now body slammed -- all for trying to ask a question.
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Indira Lakshmanan
6 years
More than a year into Trump admin, 38 ambassadorships remain vacant (most of them in Africa, but also South Korea). Many would say this is costing the US, by ceding its global influence.
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Indira Lakshmanan
7 years
So Trump has been seeking all this time to ease Obama-era sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine/Crimea, but State Dept fought back
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Michael Isikoff
7 years
In Jan.,the Trump WH began secret effort 2 lift Russia sanctions. SD officials moved quickly to block them
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Indira Lakshmanan
6 years
This column is personal.. The attack on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood - and mine - and what he taught us about "Tikkun Olam" and the power of words to divide or to heal @BostonGlobe @GlobeOpinion
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Indira Lakshmanan
4 years
@KFILE We are all praying and visualizing her full recovery - and the Boston Children’s staff are miracle workers. We nearly lost our son twice to cancer at ages 1 and 4 and they brought him back from the brink...he’s now a healthy, happy, lanky, lovable teen. All energy & ❤️ to you all
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Indira Lakshmanan
8 years
I've worn myself out writing/saying that automation, not trade, killed low-skill, high-wage jobs. Trump can't fix but no one wants to know
@FrankLuntz
Frank Luntz
8 years
85% of lost U.S. manufacturing jobs are due to technology (automation), not international trade.
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Indira Lakshmanan
5 years
Mayor @PeteButtigieg learned an *entire new language* (Norwegian) so he could read more novels by an author he liked? - Whoa! Quite a contrast from a president who wants any reading kept to less than a page, bullet points
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Indira Lakshmanan
7 years
Emails show WH rejected evidence refugees generated $63B in benefits to US eco in 10 years, b/c study undercut logic for Trump's entry ban
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Peter Baker
7 years
Agency found refugees bring more revenues than they cost. Then White House stepped in. @juliehdavis @SominiSengupta
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Indira Lakshmanan
7 years
. @christinawilkie came on @TheLastWord tonight about crowd-sourcing her investigation into dubious donors to Trump inaugural. Check it out:
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Christina Wilkie
7 years
If you want to help verify Trump donors, click here. Pick any unclaimed donor and put your research in the comments!
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Indira Lakshmanan
4 years
#Derecho2020 that swept the Midwest this week traveled 770 miles in 14 hours and knocked out power for more than a million people. But what even is a derecho, and why is it so destructive? @NatGeo Science team has you covered via @AmyMcKeever
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