Month: October 2020
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How the “QAnon Candidate” Marjorie Taylor Greene Reached the Doorstep of Congress | The New Yorker
How the “QAnon Candidate” Marjorie Taylor Greene Reached the Doorstep of Congress “There’s nothing she can do to lose my vote, unless she murdered a baby or something,” a local Republican official said. “Nothing.” via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/how-the-qanon-candidate-marjorie-taylor-greene-reached-the-doorstep-of-congress When I asked Greene about the alleged affair, she replied by texting me a series of…
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Longform Podcast #410: Jiayang Fan · Longform
Longform Podcast #410: Jiayang Fan · Longform Jiayang Fan is a staff writer for The New Yorker. Her latest article is a “How My Mother and I Became Chinese Propaganda.” “I think considering the unusual shape of our lives—the lives of my mother and I—from bare subsistence to one of the via Longform: https://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-410-jiayang-fan “I…
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Putin, Long the Sower of Instability, Is Now Surrounded by It – The New York Times
Putin, Long the Sower of Instability, Is Now Surrounded by It (Published 2020) Fueled by the pandemic, uprisings in Belarus and Kyrgyzstan and a war in the Caucasus region are undermining the influence of the Russian leader. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/world/europe/putin-belarus-kyrgyzstan-caucasus.html “For Putin, practically his entire mission and his vision of Russian greatness and success revolve around…
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What Happened When Medical Residents Asked for Hazard Pay | The New Yorker
What Happened When Medical Residents Asked for Hazard Pay At the peak of the pandemic in New York, residents at a multibillion-dollar hospital system asked for better working conditions. The ensuing debate highlighted the profession’s persistent inequities. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/science/medical-dispatch/what-happened-when-medical-residents-asked-for-hazard-pay He also circulated an e-mail that one of the medical chairs had sent…
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The Contested Afterlife of the Trump-Alfa Bank Story | The New Yorker
The Contested Afterlife of the Trump-Alfa Bank Story Accusations of secret cyber links remain unproved, but both the Russian bank and the Justice Department are pursuing the case. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-contested-afterlife-of-the-trump-alfa-bank-story For those defending themselves against the lawsuits, their attorneys’ power of discovery would give them extraordinary access to Alfa Bank’s records. But…
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The Last Patrol — The California Sunday Magazine
The Pardon of a Convicted War Criminal In 2019, President Trump pardoned Army Lieutenant Clint Lorance, who was serving a 20-year sentence for ordering the murder of two Afghan civilians. To Lorance’s defenders, the act was long overdue. To members of his platoon, it was a gross miscarriage of via The California Sunday Magazine: https://story.californiasunday.com/clint-lorance-court-martial-pardon-the-last-patrol…
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Justin Sun: the crypto millionaire who acquired BitTorrent — and waded into the trade war – The Verge
The crypto millionaire that acquired BitTorrent—and waded into the trade war The Verge’s investigation reveals an attempt to use decentralization to escape accountability from both the US and Chinese governments. via The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/21459906/bittorrent-tron-acquisition-justin-sun-us-china Employees had questions about where Tron was headed and submitted anonymous questions for BitTorrent’s traditional Q&A with the company’s senior leadership.…
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The Golden Thread: The Cold War Mystery Surrounding the Death of Dag Hammarskjöld by Ravi Somaiya
The Golden Thread A true story of spies and intrigue surrounding one of the most enduring unsolved mysteries of the 20th century, investigative reporter Ra… Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42277173-the-golden-thread?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=7Cb7cRwegO&rank=3 A true story of spies and intrigue surrounding one of the most enduring unsolved mysteries of the 20th century, investigative reporter Ravi Somaiya uncovers the story behind the…
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The Iconoclast Remaking Los Angeles’s Most Important Museum | The New Yorker
The Iconoclast Remaking Los Angeles’s Most Important Museum Will the new LACMA building be Peter Zumthor’s masterpiece or a fiasco? via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/12/the-iconoclast-remaking-los-angeles-most-important-museum Anna studied him. She has blond hair, cut asymmetrically, and wore a cobalt-blue shirt. “No,” she said. “You’re a good example of post-traumatic growth.” In 2004, she had accompanied her…
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One Life One Chance with Toby Morse: John Joseph on Apple Podcasts
One Life One Chance with Toby Morse: John Joseph on Apple Podcasts Show One Life One Chance with Toby Morse, Ep John Joseph – Oct 3, 2020 via Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/john-joseph/id1449669906?i=1000493485627 In this episode, Toby sits down with Singer/Writer/Iron Man/Author John Joseph of the legendary hardcore band the Cro-Mags. They talk about his past trials & tribulations…
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The Secret History of Kimberly Guilfoyle’s Departure from Fox | The New Yorker
The Secret History of Kimberly Guilfoyle’s Departure from Fox A former assistant at the network accused Guilfoyle, who is now one of the Trump campaign’s top fund-raising officials, of sexual harassment—and of attempting to buy her silence. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-secret-history-of-kimberly-guilfoyles-departure-from-fox Ordinarily, allegations like those that have trailed Guilfoyle would likely prove disqualifying for…
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Donald Trump Tests Positive for the Coronavirus, and a Nation Anticipates Chaos | The New Yorker
The President Tests Positive for the Coronavirus, and a Nation Anticipates Chaos The October surprise is here: the health of Donald Trump and that of his wife and senior advisers, and what it all will mean for the governance of the United States. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/donald-trump-tests-positive-for-the-coronavirus-and-a-nation-anticipates-chaos From the very beginning of the pandemic,…
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Right-Wing Militias Are Bracing for Civil War – The Atlantic
A Pro-Trump Militant Group Has Recruited Thousands of Police, Soldiers, and Veterans An Atlantic investigation reveals who they are and what they might do on Election Day. via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/right-wing-militias-civil-war/616473/ In the crowd, I noticed men muttering into walkie-talkies, their eyes hidden behind wraparound shades. To me they had the aspect of children playing…
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Project Veritas Video Was a ‘Coordinated Disinformation Campaign,’ Researchers Say – The New York Times
Project Veritas Video Was a ‘Coordinated Disinformation Campaign,’ Researchers Say (Published 2020) The timing of the deceptive video, which accuses Ilhan Omar of voter fraud, indicates that several conservatives, including Donald Trump Jr., may have known about it in advance. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/us/politics/project-veritas-ilhan-omar.html A deceptive video released on Sunday by the conservative activist James O’Keefe, which…
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Opinion | Biden and Trump’s First Debate: Best and Worst Moments – The New York Times
Opinion | Biden and Trump’s First Debate: Best and Worst Moments (Published 2020) How Round 1 looked to Times Opinion writers. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/opinion/presidential-debate-trump-biden.html Peter Wehner Maybe the lowest point in an unbelievable series of low points was when Biden spoke movingly of his late son Beau, in the context of his war service, and Trump…
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Biden and Trump’s First Debate Did Not End Well | The New Yorker
Biden and Trump’s First Debate Did Not End Well Debates are meant to present contrasts, but at the outset this one delivered only characters. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/biden-and-trumps-first-debate-did-not-end-well Wallace kept trying to get the President to say that he would play by the normal rules, but each exchange only encouraged Trump to signal that…
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“This Is So Unpresidential”: Notes from the Worst Debate in American History | The New Yorker
“This Is So Unpresidential”: Notes from the Worst Debate in American History Trump talked and talked on Tuesday night, but, politically speaking, it added up to nothing. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/this-is-so-unpresidential-notes-from-the-worst-debate-in-american-history But even for Trump, there was something particularly over the top about his debate performance on Tuesday night. It was more of a…
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Tax Records Reveal How Fame Gave Trump a $427 Million Lifeline – The New York Times
Tax Records Reveal How Fame Gave Trump a $427 Million Lifeline (Published 2020) “The Apprentice” rescued Donald J. Trump, bringing him new sources of cash and a myth that would propel him to the White House. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/28/us/donald-trump-taxes-apprentice.html This article is based on an examination of data from those returns, which include personal and business…
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Donald Trump Barely Pays Any Taxes: Will Anyone Care? | The New Yorker
Donald Trump Barely Pays Any Taxes: Will Anyone Care? Will the latest bombshell change anything? The election is the only way to know. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/donald-trump-tax-returns-irs-750-dollars A reader of the Times bombshell, then, can reasonably ask, how is this different from the last bombshell? How is it different from the memoirs by Mary…
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Trump’s Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Income Tax Avoidance – The New York Times
Trump’s Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Income Tax Avoidance (Published 2020) The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than…