Month: November 2020
-
The Underground Movement Trying to Topple the North Korean Regime | The New Yorker
The Underground Movement Trying to Topple the North Korean Regime Adrian Hong says he leads a group of “freedom fighters” conducting a revolution. Has the U.S. already betrayed them? via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/23/the-underground-movement-trying-to-topple-the-north-korean-regime On the afternoon of February 22, 2019, a tall Asian man rang the doorbell of the North Korean Embassy in Madrid. His…
-
Why Trump Carried Out His Pentagon Purge | The New Yorker
Why Trump Carried Out His Pentagon Purge With his Administration coming to a close, the President is still reshaping the government around himself. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/why-trump-carried-out-his-pentagon-purge The situation in Afghanistan is tenuous. In February, American and Taliban diplomats signed an agreement, by which the United States would withdraw all of its forces once…
-
Death at The U: Who killed Bryan Pata?
Death at The U: Who killed Bryan Pata? Bryan Pata was 22 when someone killed him in the parking lot of his apartment complex after football practice in 2006. Fourteen years later, a police investigation had gone dormant. Then an ESPN investigation revealed some theories — and a suspect. via ESPN.com: https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/30204203/killed-miami-hurricanes-football-player-bryan-pata “I was nowhere…
-
A Public Defender’s Lonely Fight Against Family Separation
A Public Defender’s Lonely Fight Against Family Separation Before “zero tolerance” was rolled out nationwide, Sergio Garcia found himself up against a secret pilot project to test family separation in El Paso. via The Intercept: https://theintercept.com/2020/11/01/el-paso-family-separation-border-patrol/ But the Trump administration had no such objections. Even before Trump took office, his chief immigration adviser Stephen Miller,…
-
Inside the New York Times’ Heated Reckoning With Itself
Inside the New York Times’ Heated Reckoning With Itself The paper has evolved during the Trump years: less dispassionate, more crusading. This has sparked a raw internal debate over its mission and future. via Intelligencer: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/inside-the-new-york-times-heated-reckoning-with-itself.html What the paper did have — in increasing numbers in fact — was a growing cohort of people who…
-
Opinion | We Hereby Dump Trump – The New York Times
Opinion | We Hereby Dump Trump (Published 2020) When it came to planning his postelection fight, Trump was an Apprentice. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/06/opinion/sunday/trump-biden-election.html It was the same old tired Trump routine we’ve watched for four years, right through the pandemic failure: Beat your chest and bleat that you’re king of the world. Then do nothing except…
-
Marc Polymeropoulos served nearly 3 decades in the CIA: Ep. 67 – YouTube
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2-qvjUVrt8 Marc Polymeropoulos served in the CIA for nearly three decades working across the middle east until his career was cut short by a mysterious attack in Moscow.
-
Trump’s Brief Speech from the White House Made America’s Troubles Worse | The New Yorker
Trump’s Brief Speech from the White House Made America’s Troubles Worse What Trump wants is for election officials to stop counting votes that do not favor him, and to make sure to count the ones that do. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/trumps-brief-remarks-from-the-white-house-made-americas-troubles-worse When Donald Trump came out to speak just before 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday,…
-
In the Presidential Election, the Worst-Case Scenario Is Happening | The New Yorker
Biden May Win, But Trump Remains the President of Red America His attacks on “the rigged election” are a worst-case scenario for the country. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/the-worst-case-election-scenario-is-happening There have been many times, over the past four years, that covering Trump’s Washington felt like a foreign assignment to me, never more so than while…
-
Dr. Opioid | HuffPost Latest News
Dr. Opioid William O’Brien was a well-heeled doctor with a thriving Philadelphia medical practice. He was also at the center of a massive painkiller supply chain run by an outlaw biker gang. via HuffPost: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opioid-doctors-philadelphia-william-obrien_n_5f99c7f5c5b6c7fe582b5e31 Anna Marie thought the police should have paid more attention to a strange incident that occurred the day before. She…
-
Donald Trump’s 2020 Superspreader Campaign: A Diary | The New Yorker
Donald Trump’s 2020 Superspreader Campaign: A Diary From “COVID, COVID, COVID” is a fake to “Fire Fauci!” via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/donald-trumps-2020-superspreader-campaign-a-diary An hour after the rally, I could not stop thinking about the most remarkable moment from it: Trump accusing U.S. doctors of artificially inflating the number of covid deaths in order to somehow…
-
“Bring Hearts and Souls Back”: Ohio’s Former Top Public-Health Official on How America Can Avoid Dual Cataclysms | The New Yorker
“Bring Hearts and Souls Back”: Ohio’s Former Top Public-Health Official on How America Can Avoid Dual Cataclysms Dr. Amy Acton argues that immediate bipartisan leadership—and acknowledging the country’s pain and division—must be part of the way forward. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/how-america-can-avoid-dual-cataclysms Trump and his allies had set a publicly disparaging tone against health officials,…
-
“We Don’t Protest”: Borough Park’s Mask-Burning Demonstrators | The New Yorker
“We Don’t Protest”: Borough Park’s Mask-Burning Orthodox Jewish Demonstrators Heshy Tishler, a radio host and City Council candidate, has emerged as the leader of a neighborhood’s uprising against government coronavirus measures. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/we-dont-protest-borough-parks-mask-burning-demonstrators In Borough Park, Tischler has become the leader of this movement. He has posted hundreds of videos on social…
-
In the Streets with Antifa | The New Yorker
In the Streets with Antifa Trump is vowing to designate the movement as a terrorist organization. But its supporters believe that they are protecting their communities—and that confronting fascists with violence can be justified. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/02/trump-antifa-movement-portland Across Oregon, 911 calls inquiring about Antifa arsonists flooded dispatch services, and checkpoints manned by armed citizens slowed evacuation efforts. During a…
-
How the waters off Catalina became a DDT dumping ground – Los Angeles Times
How the waters off Catalina became a DDT dumping ground A new generation of scientists have uncovered barrels containing DDT, a toxic pesticide banned decades ago, dumped into the deep ocean. via Los Angeles Times: https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-coast-ddt-dumping-ground/ Shipping logs show that every month in the years after World War II, thousands of barrels of acid sludge…
-
Annotating Glenn Greenwald’s sudden resignation from The Intercept | Boing Boing
Link: https://boingboing.net/2020/11/01/annotating-glenn-greenwalds-sudden-resignation-from-the-intercept.html The Intercept’s version of events is largely confirmed through a series of emails shared by Greenwald. In a single email, editor Peter Maas pushed back on a few parts of Greenwald’s sprawing 6,000+ word essay, offering suggestions — as editors are wont to do — for ways to improve and clarify its meandering…
-
Why Trump Can’t Afford to Lose | The New Yorker
Why Trump Can’t Afford to Lose The President has survived one impeachment, twenty-six accusations of sexual misconduct, and an estimated four thousand lawsuits. What happens when his Presidential immunity is gone? via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/09/why-trump-cant-afford-to-lose No American President has ever been charged with a criminal offense. But, as Donald Trump fights to hold on…