Month: January 2021
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‘The Internet Is a Crime Scene’ – POLITICO
‘The Internet Is a Crime Scene’ Misinformation and online radicalization led to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, says Joan Donovan—and understanding exactly how that happened is the first step to seeing where we’re headed. via POLITICO: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/14/us-capitol-disinformation-online-qanon-trump-insurrection-459505 “The internet is a crime scene,” says Joan Donovan, research director at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media,…
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Trump and Aides Drove Family Separation at Border, Documents Say – The New York Times
Trump and Aides Drove Family Separation at Border, Documents Say (Published 2021) Notes and testimony from a Justice Department official implicate President Trump and White House aides in the “zero tolerance” policy that led to family separations at the border. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/us/politics/trump-family-separation.html During a meeting with Mr. Sessions on May 11, 2018, the attorney general…
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‘I Could Just Vanish’: In Kabul, Pocket Notes to Prevent Anonymous Death – The New York Times
‘I Could Just Vanish’: In Kabul, Pocket Notes to Prevent Anonymous Death (Published 2021) As violence engulfs them, some Afghans carry notes with their names, blood types and relatives’ phone numbers in case they are killed or severely wounded. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/world/asia/afghanistan-attacks-pocket-notes.html “This is how we live in Afghanistan,” she added. “It is not just me.…
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Insurrection At The U.S. Capitol – Diane Rehm
Insurrection At The U.S. Capitol Diane talks with Norman Ornstein,resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute via Diane Rehm: https://dianerehm.org/shows/2021-01-08/insurrection-at-the-u-s-capitol Norman Ornstein is resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Diane asked him about the week’s events, what must happen now, and what to expect in the final days of Trump’s presidency.
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The Hard Crowd | The New Yorker
The Hard Crowd Coming of age on the streets of San Francisco. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/18/the-hard-crowd As I said, I was the soft one. Maybe that’s why I was so desperate to escape San Francisco, by which I mean desperate to leave a specific world inside that city, one I suspected I was too…
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Man With Assault Rifle Charged With Threatening Pelosi, Officials Say – The New York Times
Man With Assault Rifle Charged With Threatening Pelosi, Officials Say (Published 2021) The Department of Justice said on Friday that Cleveland Grover Meredith Jr. was one of 13 people who had been charged in federal court after a violent pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/us/pelosi-threat-Cleveland-Grover-Meredith.html The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Mr. Meredith had erected…
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An Air Force Combat Veteran Breached the Senate and Descended on Nancy Pelosi’s Office Suite | The New Yorker
An Air Force Combat Veteran Breached the Senate The Texas-based pilot was with a group that descended on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office suite. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/an-air-force-combat-veteran-breached-the-senate As insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol this week, a few figures stood out. One man, clad in a combat helmet, body armor, and other tactical gear,…
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Mob Rule in the Capitol | The New Yorker
Mob Rule in the Capitol Five years after the Trump era began, a physical assault on America’s basic symbols of democracy feels both shocking and inevitable. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/mob-rule-in-the-capitol Two hours into the siege of the U.S. Capitol, as another puff of tear gas wafted over the melee with police, Sharon Krahn, a…
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Opinion | Have Trump’s Lies Wrecked Free Speech? – The New York Times
Opinion | Have Trump’s Lies Wrecked Free Speech? (Published 2021) A debate has broken out over whether the once-sacrosanct constitutional protection of the First Amendment has become a threat to democracy. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/opinion/trump-lies-free-speech.html Free speech theorists have lots to be anxious about these days as we grapple with abiding faith in the many virtues of…
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How the Insurgent and MAGA Right are Being Welded Together on the Streets of Washington D.C. – bellingcat
How the Insurgent and MAGA Right are Being Welded Together on the Streets of Washington D.C. – bellingcat Recent rallies in Washington D.C. have become networking opportunities for the far-right. via bellingcat: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2021/01/05/how-the-insurgent-and-maga-right-are-being-welded-together-on-the-streets-of-washington-d-c/ Yet these rallies are not just excuses for extreme elements to get into street fights. They are also networking opportunities for the…
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Opinion | Horrified by the Blackwater Pardons – The New York Times
Opinion | Horrified by the Blackwater Pardons (Published 2021) The F.B.I. agent who led the Blackwater investigation and two other letter writers are appalled by the pardon of men who killed innocent civilians. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/opinion/letters/blackwater-pardons.html I was the F.B.I. case agent who led the investigation of the Blackwater massacre in Baghdad. We originally went to…
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Targeted Killings Are Terrorizing Afghans. And No One Is Claiming Them. – The New York Times
Targeted Killings Are Terrorizing Afghans. And No One Is Claiming Them. (Published 2021) Most officials believe the Taliban are behind the attacks on civil leaders, but others fear that factions are using chaos as a cover to settle scores, in an echo of Afghanistan’s past civil war. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/02/world/asia/afghanistan-targeted-killings.html KABUL, Afghanistan — A military prosecutor…
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How Trump Tried, but Largely Failed, to Derail America’s Top Climate Report – The New York Times
How Trump Tried, but Largely Failed, to Derail America’s Top Climate Report (Published 2021) The White House repeatedly attempted to thwart the country’s premier climate science document, one meant to steer policy for years. Scientists got in the way. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/climate/trump-national-climate-assessment.html President Trump, asked about the assessment’s findings that global warming could devastate the economy,…