When I worked there in 2018, we had a whole slate of nakba-anniversary pieces lined up that got killed at the last minute. Still very 🤔 about what happened there, tbh.
Asked about the high death toll in Gaza, Biden says he doesn't believe "the Palestinians are telling the truth."
"I'm sure innocents have been killed and it's the price of waging a war," Biden says.
The U.N. & experts say statistics are mostly accurate.
“Sometimes something is treated as an official secret not in the hope that an adversary would never find out about it but rather [because] the U.S. government ... does not want to officially acknowledge it ... "
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@kenklippenstein
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@DRBoguslaw
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NEW: BI parent Axel Springer says it’s going to take “a couple of days” to “review the processes” around BI’s stories related to Neri Oxman, an academic and Bill Ackman’s wife, even though “the facts of the reports have not been disputed.”
if you grew up in texas in the 80s and 90s, this is the only picture they ever let you look at. they'd literally send you to jail if you tried to look at anything else -- haven't checked if the rules have changed since (not going to bother)
Today in 1836, following his San Jacinto defeat, Mexican Army leader Santa Anna is captured. Gen. Houston would shrewdly spare his life in exchange for two treaties recognizing the Republic of Texas.
A fiery union boss. A Wall Street hotshot. A contract that could transform the lives of 340,000 workers, forever altering the deliveries business and laying the groundwork for big time organizing efforts at Amazon...
Folks, it's all here, READ IT:
magnificent essay by Osita Nwanevu that keys in on an unavoidable truth: any real reckoning with the history of the New Democrats requires, as a prerequisite, an acceptance of their quite serious commitment to markets
"If anything, he said, the deal will help Ford, in part because the four-year contract ensures there will be no labor strife during an intense phase of the transition to electric vehicles."
The host of a podcast I appeared on several years ago referred to this particular strain of diasporoidism as producing the perfect sort of 'neoliberal achievement monster,' or something to this effect
this is unironically how many Indian diasporoids think. it's why most of the Indian kids in my graduating class became copy paste doctor/engineer/pharmacist/scientist. systematic devaluing and suspicion of social causes
PROOF that NYMAG acted like duplicitous character assassins in their smear job on Andrew Huberman from emails I've obtained. Detailed below and in video:
1. NYMAG obsequiously emailed Huberman's team in August 2023 indicating they wanted to write a glowing profile : "When my
The book is not at all a hagiography, treats the promethean comparison skeptically (even mockingly at times), and leaves you with an *incredibly* nuanced picture of Oppenheimer and the times he lived in and shaped.
3/n
For the record:
I have never read “American Prometheus” on which the Nolan film “Oppenheimer” is apparently based.
I find much of the hagiography of Oppenheimer & equating of Oppenheimer & Prometheus…distasteful. At best.
Reddit:
"The lesson of the past four decades is also that every attempt to wipe out Palestinian armed groups has only produced more extreme iterations and worse conundrums."
The indispensable
@KimGhattas
:
If you're wondering, why did he do this piece... so in December,
@sidhubaba
and I had the following DM exchange. I thought we were joking around, didn't followup. Then a few months later
@RyuSpaeth
pitched this exact idea to me and I realized history had selected me for this role
Unions are great and I wish we had stronger labor politics but I do always think it’s strange when they’re talked about as part of “the left,” when neither the members nor the organizations are typically super radical
“Put another way, ChatGPT seems so human because it was trained by an AI that was mimicking humans who were rating an AI that was mimicking humans who were pretending to be a better version of an AI that was trained on human writing.”
there is a vast gulf between a topic and a story, but if you try to tell a normal person not involved in professional editing this, they will send you to The Hague
"The Times turned crucial elements of its reporting on one of the most difficult and sensitive stories it has ever published to amateurs, one of whose social media posts would make reasonable people question her ability to be fair."
in 2019 i felt kicked to the curb and truly without direction. working at Insider turned it all around for me, because of the curious, strange, hilarious, whipsmart, down-to-earth newsroom. feel gutted for my pals today.
" ... to summarize, Deputy Mayor Phil Banks, close friend and advisor to the mayor, high-ranking City official, bought a company five years ago from a guy alleged to have run a straw donor operation for the mayor's campaign."
“It is because of land reforms that our poverty ratio is 10 percent, which is less than half of all India level; our indebtedness at 12.67 is nearly one third of the national average ... there is a near absence of landless labor ... "
@JakeAnbinder
i take your point, but, man, talk to some folks who have 'made it' at some of our prestige outlets without a single in, either via a family or social network ...
Need more reflective mea culpas like this
But hoping for more writing that recognizes the foundational work of Barry C. Lynn, who, for decades, was the only guy in Washington preaching sanity on competition, markets, and the cult of efficiency.
@JakeAnbinder
it's not, like, 'nepotism in theory,' it's 'this guy got this level of attention and platform while who knows how many other pitches/ideas from folks beyond the inner circle got shot down-nepotism-in real time practice'
🚨🚨Scoop: Biden “obsessed” with
@morningjoe
. Staff plot 7 am appearances to reach POTUS…Biden calls Joe for advice, to vent, and aides are in regular contact with his panel…lots of great
@AlexThomp
details…
"People would say that she’s fragile ... No, no, no. Many people would have collapsed under the weight of being Sinead O’Connor, had it not been Sinead."
This is the text I received from the Business Insider director when we were trying to arrange a call for Sunday morning:
“Thanks, Bill.
I read your posts. (If you ever get sick of managing money, you will be in great demand as a writer. I know from experience that it is harder
"Alice would create serene, drifting arrangements that centered her own harp playing against Sanders’s melodic saxophone and McBee’s soothing bass. Here, it seemed, Alice wanted to lull listeners into deeper states of calm."
When you've amassed $27 billion in the tech world, Washington tends to treat your word as gospel on all things AI and China -- even when you stand to profit off big government investments in AI.
Call it the Eric Schmidt experience.
Coming up at 9 tonight on CNN, Charles Barkley and Gayle King interview Secretary Blinken on whether Israeli forces are heeding U.S. calls to operate differently, followed by our panel's post-GOP debate analysis with
@andersoncooper
at 10. Join us.
when you're going 5 or 6,000 words deep on a topic of existential importance and you + your editor do not to pick a central character or bother with scene development, no matter how much i care about said topic, i'm truly sorry, that is an affront to the reader
Not sure what it says about me or my acceptance of change -- natural or unnatural -- but I resist the idea of a vastly altered Austin because it gives me great sadness to think about other people, newer to the city, knowing it better than I do
I understand the point, but calling I'M NOT THERE a biopic really waters down just how radical an experiment Haynes undertook with this movie. It's a poetic meditation on artistic inspiration, identity, authenticity, and possibility...
I still am so confused why they’re making a Bob Dylan biopic when we already had the best musical biopic that went through all his periods and homaged music and film styles in such a uniquely erudite fashion that didn’t dumb itself down for non Dylan fans.