Super grateful to
@sajahq
board & members for electing me SAJA president for our 30th anniv year.
I stepped down as inaugural prez 20 yrs ago & it's been 12 yrs since I was on the board.
SAJA has grown in so many wonderful ways since then. Let's collab: president
@saja
.org 1/
SAJA's new 2024 leadership announced:
Pres:
@sree
VP:
@priyankaKvora
Comms Dir:
@tania_rah
Sec:
@allanaakh
Treasurer:
@johnlaxmi
See list of Board members + plans for the year and a note from co-founder Sree, who returns to the Board after 12 years.
I spent years as a kid in Moscow at the height of the Soviet Union. I spoke fluent Russian.
The official newspaper of the Communist Party was called "Pravda" Правда, or "Truth."
That's how you knew it was all lies.
No surprise that Trump's new platform is called "Truth."
One minute of cheering on NYC’s Upper West Side! Congrats to America. Perfect for Diwali: Triumph of good over evil.
My President is a good guy.
My VP is a woman. My VP is Indian. My VP is Black.
Brilliant line by
@Acosta
@cnn
: As the President is getting his physical and we are looking for his health report, “much of the world, and even here in Washington, the focus is on what’s in the President’s soul.”
@axios
Thanks for sharing these numbers and the analysis,
@axios
@mikeallen
. Companies need to get called out on their financing supporters of The Big Lie.
Just made a modest donation to
@CREWcrew
to encourage them to do more such research.
Dr
@PeterHotez
on CNN makes a great analogy about poor vaccine deployment. It’s as if the US govt shipped 40 million boxes of IKEA furniture and the states are opening them to discover some assembly required. 💉
The Mark Meadows news is another important scoop by
@JenniferJJacobs
. She’s the one who helped the world know about October outbreak in the White House:
NEWS: Along with Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, at least FOUR other White House aides currently have coronavirus, per sources.
Pains were taken to keep Meadows’ illness a secret, I’m told. And people around him who knew were told to keep quiet.
#MyNameIs
Sreenath Sreenivasan. Little white boys used to make fun of my name when I arrived in NYC as a kid. Now, a Republican Senator mocks the name of
@KamalaHarris
. Go to to make a plan to cast your vote for leaders who respect our values.
#iWillVote
Starting a long-term thread about losing your job, unemployment and what to do next. Each week, I’ll try to post tips, resources, ideas. Would love to hear your thoughts if you’ve dealt w/ this, as well as your strategies on coping. Thanks for helping me help others.🙏🏾
#sreetips
Start of an epic 🧵.
In July, I have the honor of joining
@Cronkite_ASU
to run
#CronkitePro
, a new program providing lifelong learning for professionals around the globe.
So grateful to Dean
@BattintoBattsJr
and his colleagues for giving me this opportunity to work w/ them. 1/
The Cronkite School welcomes journalist, digital media executive & educator
@sree
who will serve as managing director of CronkitePro, a new program that will provide lifelong learning & skills development for professionals across the globe. 👥
Read more:
This
@Schwarzenegger
video will be a part of the legendary artifacts of this war.
With his influence in muscle-bound & macho world of military people, he might be able to pierce the Putin disinfo curtain.🤞
And the part about his dad is just devastating.
Can you describe
@ElonMusk
in 4 words? How about "world's richest online troll"...
And in 175 words? See below for
@karaswisher
's masterpiece of a mini-portrait of Musk in this year's
#TIME100
list...
@time
“Stigmatize those who let people die, not those who struggle to live.”
Part of a deep quote from
@sarahkendzior
.
Happy birthday, Sarah • ht
@awad
.
Dr
@PeterHotez
, a hero we need right now. “We’re not trying to make money. We just want to see people get vaccinated.” All hail
@mebottazzi
and the entire
@TexasChildrens
team. 🙌🏾
On Aug 13,
@svdate
, White House correspondent for
@HuffPost
, asked Trump this question about his lying.
I’ll ask SV about it on my daily global show at 9 am ET today. Live on FB, LI, YT and Twitter/
@PeriscopeCo
. What else should I ask?
#sreecovid19call
UPDATE: President Biden names senior VOA news executive Keli Chao as acting CEO over its parent agency, the US Agency for Global Media.
Chao had been named whistleblower in lawsuit that successfully alleged illegal acts by Michael Pack, whom she replaces
WHOA! This in-depth investigative project across multiple journalism outlets is impressive.
I learned coroners in some US counties are elected positions. In one Trump county, ME says his office “doesn’t do COVID deaths.”
Politics isn't the only reason for undercount, of course.
BREAKING: First freezing rain report in Central Texas just in from NW of Johnson City.
Freezing drizzle freezing on contact with elevated surfaces
#atxwx
#txwx
Times Square today... "The Last Color," one of the first indie movies out of India to be marketed & promoted at this scale in NYC. Historical moment. Directed by
@TheVikasKhanna
, Michelin chef and philanthropist, in his new avatar as director!
#TheLastColor
So let me see if I understand this. $12 billion to help our worthy farmers caught in a trade war unnecessarily provoked by the Trump Administration. But the administration doesn’t have enough money to help our worthy fellow citizens in Puerto Rico?🤔🇵🇷🇺🇸
Much to admire about legendary
@MadhurJaffrey
, her career & her life. Add also this beautiful essay, written at 90!
It starts in 1857 and will teach you about how tamarind got its name: "Arab travellers referred to it as tamar-i-hind—the dates of India."
The reason
@RepBoebert
@laurenboebert
apologized of sorts wasn’t because she’d misspoken. It was because she was called out for a change. She and
@JoeTalkShow
are deplorables in every way.
In May, when asked about Ilhan Omar and AOC, Lauren Boebert called them “full time propagandists …for state sponsored terrorism,” and supporters of “politicians with suicide belts strapped their body.”
My new social media guide in the NYT, ends w/ a line I heard in FB's early days: "What's common sense in real life is common sense on social media." A look at LI/FB/Twt/IG/Snap:
Hindutva trolls combed through years of tweets by WSJ's
@SabrinaSiddiqui
and found this.
She — and I and millions of Indians — hate it when people confuse “Hindi” and “Hindu.”
At
@sajaHQ
, we call our stylebook, “Telling your Hindi from your Hindu.”
✈️ In all my years flying global airlines, I am sorry to say I have only heard a woman's voice as the pilot or a woman's name as co-pilot a handful of times.
So I was delighted on my
@flynorse
flight to Oslo to hear the pilot say his co-pilot's name was Nikita Patel!
Happy anniversary to
@roopaonline
(follow her, folks)! Thank you for 21 amazing years. You look the same today as you did in this 1999 photo. Me, not so much! 🥰
33,000 jobs under threat as
@ToysRUs
@BabiesRUs
likely to close all 700 remaining US stores. The footprint affected is so much bigger. Each employee’s family, suppliers, neighborhoods the stores sit in, taxes and so much more. An era ends.
If you don't know the history of the vile phrase Trump tweeted early this morning - "the looting starts, the shooting starts" - here is NYT explanation of the connection to a vile 1960s Miami police chief.
WHOA! NYT hits my hallway doorstep at 4:35 am on Christmas Day🎄 • It's raining and 37F/3C, but the delivery folks are doing their jobs. Very grateful to those who work hard to improve our lives. 🗞
🙌🏾 Huge news, Seattle! As a so-called “upper caste Hindu,” am happy to caste added to the anti-discrimination laws of Seattle. This is another small step in the moral arc of the universe bending toward justice.
Imagine you have to choose, for your 16-hour flight from China to the US, one of these two situations:
1. No wifi.
2. No recline.
Which would you pick?
Well, I was lucky enough to get BOTH! 🤦🏾♂️
Thanks, China Southern Airlines!
Even doing the same thing a month earlier with his twin didn’t prepare me for college drop-off for my son.
We are so proud of our baby boy.
@roopaonline
and I have been empty nesters for 24 hours now. Invite us to stuff (but only if you’re vaccinated)!
I tried an experiment to begin new year.
24 hours of only RTing women or content by/about women - and only new-following women.
About 65 tweets.
Followed 50
#newtome
accounts.
Expanded my horizons.
Shared new/better/diff. content.
Found new experts.
Improved my timeline.
EPIC 🧵 TIME! Sharing some personal news & documenting the journey over months ahead.
I’m humbled to be inaugural MARSHALL R. LOEB Visiting Professor of Digital Innovation & Audience Engagement at
@stonybrooku
’s
@SBUjournalism
.
Details:
#loebsbu
More proof about how the rich and famous can carve their own path in the world.
Have been a fan of
@DjokerNole
’s play, but this anti-vaxxer should get no exemptions.
Shame on you,
@AustralianOpen
.
#ausopen
This popped up from a more innocent time:
7:18 pm ET on Election Night 2016, before the world changed.
From left:
@hari
,
@JudyWoodruff
,
@BeschlossDC
.
Whenever I see Dr
@PeterHotez
on TV or on my timeline, I stop whatever I'm doing and pay attention. He's a source of accurate, level-headed medical advice in a world sorely lacking in them. 🙏
Media:
@PeterHotez
to
@Acosta
: "Pretty much any time we've seen a new variant, it's spread around the world. And we've not seen any evidence that it produces more severe disease. It's unlikely to be totally resistant" to existing vaccines. "We'll know within the next two weeks."
Every small-business owner who supports Trump because he SAYS he loves small business, needs to read this and understand what's happening in the U.S. It's not about politics (for a change) - it's about waking up and smelling the dying roses around us. 🥀 🥀 🥀 ht
@roopaonline
Shocked to learn that my friend of 20 yrs, amazing chef
@floydcardoz
has died from Covid19. He was a ⭐️ on NYC food scene for
@dhmeyer
’s magical Tabla and so many other places and the lives he touched. Saw him last in 2018 and we talked about doing an event together. RIP, Floyd.
Happy birthday, Will Rogers!
“A king can stand people's fighting, but he can't last long if people start thinking.”
- Will Rogers, humorist
(Nov. 4, 1879-1935) • via
@awad
Great stories are a result of great work by reporters AND editors. As
@RonanFarrow
and
@newyorker
rightfully get praise for latest scoop, a shoutout to
@dfmendelssohn
, who edited the piece.
Watching
@FareedZakaria
this morning reminds me that he doesn’t get enough credit for correctly labeling Trump “a bullshit artist” way back in August 2016. Most folks were tiptoeing around Trump’s lies at the time.
1. He started with what he already knew
2. He learned from someone w/experience
3. He put his customers' needs first
3 strategies a college student used to turn $3,000 into a $150,000 passive income stream backed by
@MCuban
.
#entreptips
We all know Florida Man. But I had two of the best Florida Political Men on my
#NYTReadalong
today. I learned so much about what’s at stake in November and what it will take to defeat Trump. Thanks,
@TheRickWilson
@steveschale
for the insights. EVERYONE WATCH THIS! 👇🏾
“At issue is a once widely used test that overestimated how well Black people’s kidneys were functioning, making them look healthier than they really were — all because of an automated formula that calculated results for Black & non-Black patients differently.” •ht
@nhannahjones
Ugh, did Tucker Carlson go after me tonight on Fox News? Whenever Fox or their fellow travelers does that it’s often followed by a wave of aggression on the internet or worse, sometimes with antisemitic with Nazi images. Looks like they’re starting to roll in…
Dr
@PeterHotez
, a hero we need right now. “We’re not trying to make money. We just want to see people get vaccinated.” All hail
@mebottazzi
and the entire
@TexasChildrens
team. 🙌🏾