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
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.
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.
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."
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
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
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
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
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
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
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” ???
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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?
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
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
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."
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!
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.
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
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/
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
@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
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
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.
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
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?
“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
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
.
@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?"
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" …
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
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.
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.
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
@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
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
#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