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The
@nytimes
' recently obtained tax records also show no $20 million donation from Trump to St Jude's, reconfirming this
@washingtonpost
story from 2016
This photo opp is fascinating. Not one Indian soldier seems to have external injuries needing any bandages...they are all able to sit straight up (no internal injuries?), the pristine hospital ward with beds that look un-slept on...zero medical equipment. What is going on here?
The kind of hate , misogyny, threats, abuse I have seen on my timeline in the last two days is something I have never witnessed before ( Given that i am immune to the worst possible trolling on social media). If this is not intimidation, I don't know what is
❤️ THIS
Kids in Noida, India, stick a small container full of toothpicks with a small trash bin next to elevator buttons and encourage their high-rise neighbors to not touch floor buttons with their fingers. Simple, eco-friendly and very much a
#coronavirus
#jugaad
🙏🏾👏🏾👊🏾
A new low-cost coronavirus vaccine heading to India, where it will be manufactured by Hyderabad’s Biological E as Corbevax, was developed by a small American team in Texas which shared it patent-free. It expects nothing in return.
via
@washingtonpost
A steady stream of Republican complaints in Milwaukee was putting the recount far behind schedule, county clerk George Christenson said. He said many Trump observers were breaking rules by constantly interrupting vote counters with questions and comments.
“That’s unacceptable."
Today, after 36 years of teaching hundreds of Indians who aspired to be journalists, Thomas Oommen is formally putting aside his pen, which never ever ran out of red ink in the critical pursuit of excellence among his students.
I owe everything of professional consequence to him.
For the first time ever, solar and wind made up ~66% of new power generation in the world in 2019, marking a seismic shift in how nations produce their electricity via
@business
Meanwhile, also in America...
Charges Dropped against Alabama Cop Who Partially Paralyzed 58-year-old Sureshbhai Patel via
@nbcnews
illustrates how difficult it is to hold law enforcement officers accountable under the criminal laws for brutal acts
In which
@shakeshack
, a company with revenue of over $100M and no franchises, first tapped $10 mil in "small business" coronavirus relief loan. When asked about it, chain says it will return the money
via
@FortuneMagazine
Like populists elsewhere, Modi will be reluctant to take actions that might imply his govt's earlier mistakes fuelled today’s outbreak. Unless he does, more funeral pyres will burn across his nation.
The tragedy of India’s 2nd wave,
by
@FT
Editorial board
On The Impossible
@RanaAyyub
, written by someone who deserves a similar profile for her own courage and talent, Priya Ramani via
@livemint
in
@Mint_Lounge
On February 1, 2007, >7 months of mostly secret preparation, we launched Mint in print (
@livemint
web site went live the night before). Happy anniversary to its founding team—so many of them now my dear friends; former colleagues, and everyone now in the newsroom of my third-born
The Trump administration formally shut the door on the Open Skies treaty, exiting the agreement while moving to get rid of the planes that were used to carry out the accord, making it more difficult for Biden administration to restart the program via
@WSJ
Customs Gambit
After winning gold in first ever online FIDE Chess Olympiad, Team India players were asked to pay customs duty on the gold in their medals that were sent to them from Russia via
@livemint
👏🏾
Daisy Veerasingham Named President and CEO of
@AP
She will be the first woman, first person of color and first person from outside of the United States to lead The Associated Press in its 175 years
I ran the
@WhiteHouse
pandemic office.
@realDonaldTrump
closed it. Now, the federal government is moving too slowly, due to a lack of leadership, by Beth Cameron
As someone who rarely focuses on the rear-view mirror to measure how far we have come, when we still have such a long way to go, this was humbling. And also reassuring that we all need to stay this course, no matter how frustrating it can sometimes seem.
Thank you,
@ONA
board.
The recipient of the
#OJA20
Rich Jaroslovsky Founder Award is Raju Narisetti (
@raju
)! 🏆
Come celebrate with us on YouTube, where we're sharing statements from ONA Board members and Raju is giving his acceptance speech.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announces he’ll hold briefing about COVID-19 with limit press coverage on Monday at 2 pm. The Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News once again not allowed to be there to ask questions despite both cities seeing huge spike in ICUs.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett failed to disclose to the Judiciary Cmte. her participation in a 2006 two-page ad in the South Bend Times calling for Roe v. Wade to be overturned, two Democratic committee aides confirm to
@NBCNews
.
Congratulations to former
@WSJ
boss and always mentor, Paul Steiger who formally wrapped up his stint as part-time executive chairman of
@ProPublica
.
Paul is a brilliant, kind and no-nonsense leader, and was the founding editor-in-chief, CEO and President of ProPublica 2008-2012
What happened to 17,000 wallets, containing various sums of money, that were "dropped" in 355 cities across 40 countries.
What was the level of civic honesty across nations?
via
@ScienceMagazine
Death is big news, recovery is not. Do we know that more than 85% people recover without hospitalization and only 5% need critical care. But the larger debate in the country is not about recovery or death: it is about who should be blamed for the pandemic.
Israel has chosen a two-tiered society. Violence is the inevitable result.
Denial of human rights to Palestinians is simply unsustainable--in the long run.
Why journalism needs to stop pretending its newsrooms are objective.
One report, two very factual headlines yet two (self reinforcing) opposite news judgement prisms.
@nytimes
(left): Page A15: 2-col headline top of page.
@wsj
(right): Page A4: 6-col headline middle of page.
Jack Rowe, a friend of Dr Fauci, is journalism gold. What a perfectly vivid distillation of a life:
“All you really need to know about Tony Fauci is that, at five-foot, seven-inches, he was the captain of his high school basketball team.”
?
@mollylroberts
Mourning the loss of Payal (Mehta) Sethi, 55, a Times School of Journalism (TRFI) classmate; founding member of
@livemint
on our copydesk; daughter, spouse, mother, and a dear friend, who was opinionated, funny, hard-working, affectionate and fiercely stood on her own two feet.
I continued to be a bit stupefied that journalism about
#coronavirus
& platforms simply ignores the one platform with billion visitors,
@wikipedia
, where we got it right from day one: the
#Coronavirus
article w/ 13,000 edits by over 2,000 editors since the start of the pandemic
The
@WhiteHouse
didn't even call him when they found out about Hope Hicks, despite the days of working together on debate prep.
He found out via news media.
Now...
I just received word that I am positive for COVID-19. I want to thank all of my friends and colleagues who have reached out to ask how I was feeling in the last day or two. I will be receiving medical attention today and will keep the necessary folks apprised of my condition.
The Washington Post
#OneFreePress
campaign spotlights
@sandhyaravishan
, an India journalist whose work on sand mafia has led to death threats and harassment:
Irene Cybulsky was a superstar surgeon—the only woman in Canada to head a cardiac surgery division—but her all-male staff resented her. When she was replaced with a man, she found a novel way to seek justice:
You know, whatever else you think of Kamala Harris, it’s pretty amazing and awesome that immigrants can come to the U.S., meet, marry, have a child, and their daughter can grow up to be DA, state attorney general, U.S. Senator, and on a presidential ticket.
How Does an 83-Year-Old Jesuit End Up in Prison?
Father Stan Swamy spent decades fighting for the rights of India’s marginalized people. In October, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government imprisoned him under antiterrorism laws.
? via
@nytimes
I lost my father to covid-19 — along with my faith in India’s government to protect our people
How much more heartbreak, death and lies from the government can my country endure during this pandemic?
by
@BDUTT
Donald Trump paid $750 (yes, seven hundred and fifty dollars) in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750.
He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years.
?
@nytimes
NEW: "Mr. Trump did not merely fail to end Washington’s insider culture of lobbying and favor-seeking. He reinvented it, turning his own hotels and resorts into the Beltway’s new back rooms"
The Swamp That Trump Built
? via
@nytimes
I am very sorry that Richard Regis, the epitome of a quintessential behind-the-scenes editor, who made
@wsj
one of the best edited newspapers in America for decades, died this week, four years after retiring from the Journal's news desk. I was lucky to have worked with Rich.