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Historic Bombing Runs: The Memphis Belle Case – bellingcat

Historic Bombing Runs: The Memphis Belle Case – bellingcat

Geolocation is not just useful for investigations involving current events. The same techniques that we use to geolocate images in modern day cases of human rights violations and child sexual abuse can be used to determine the location of images captured

via bellingcat: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2020/08/12/historic-bombing-runs-the-memphis-belle-case/

Geolocation is not just useful for investigations involving current events. The same techniques that we use to geolocate images in modern day cases of human rights violations and child sexual abuse can be used to determine the location of images captured long ago. Historians and film buffs, for example, can use geolocation to find out more details and discover new facts about past events.

October 6, 2020
The Fractured World of Tennis Amid a Prolonged Pandemic | The New Yorker

The Fractured World of Tennis Amid a Prolonged Pandemic

The coronavirus has illuminated the stark divides in a global game—and spurred new efforts to bridge them.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/the-fractured-world-of-tennis-amid-a-prolonged-pandemic

The coronavirus has illuminated the stark divides in a global game—and spurred new efforts to bridge them.

October 6, 2020
Inside Jimmy Lai’s Apple Daily During Hong Kong’s Media Crackdown – The New York Times

‘We Will Persevere’: A Newspaper Faces the Weight of Hong Kong’s Crackdown (Published 2020)

Apple Daily, a pro-democracy paper known for celebrity gossip and hard-hitting investigations, has become a target in Beijing’s new national security law in Hong Kong.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/world/asia/hong-kong-apple-daily-jimmy-lai.html?ref=oembed

Apple Daily, a pro-democracy paper known for celebrity gossip and hard-hitting investigations, has become a target in Beijing’s new national security law in Hong Kong.

October 6, 2020
Inside the Iraqi Kleptocracy – The New York Times

Inside the Iraqi Kleptocracy (Published 2020)

Corruption, as much as violence, makes Iraq unlivable. It helped fuel the rise of ISIS. And America provides the cash to sustain it, at least $10 billion a year in hard currency.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/magazine/iraq-corruption.html?ref=oembed

Early last October, while working in his office in Baghdad, a businessman named Hussein Laqees got a phone call from a number he’d never seen before. “We need to talk,” the caller said. The man’s voice was gruff and self-assured, a little menacing. He demanded that Laqees come meet him but refused to give his name.

October 6, 2020
As Coronavirus Invades West Wing, White House Reporters Face Heightened Risks – The New York Times

As Virus Invades West Wing, White House Reporters Face Heightened Risks (Published 2020)

At least three correspondents have tested positive for the coronavirus, along with the press secretary and two of her deputies.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/business/white-house-coronavirus.html

Throughout a pandemic that has now landed squarely in the West Wing, Trump officials — who routinely shunned masks — declined to institute thorough safety protocols to protect the White House press corps, according to interviews with reporters who now face the prospect of a rapidly escalating outbreak in their daily work space.

October 5, 2020
Inside the Lincoln Project’s War Against Trump | The New Yorker

Inside the Lincoln Project’s War Against Trump

Progressives are wary of the conservative group hammering the President, but its founders say they’re fighting for all Americans.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/12/inside-the-lincoln-projects-war-against-trump

After Obama won his second term, the Republican National Committee commissioned a study that became known as the “autopsy report.” The country’s voting population was diversifying rapidly, and, the report said, young voters were “increasingly rolling their eyes at what the Party represents.” It noted, “Many minorities wrongly think that Republicans do not like them or want them in the country.” In a recent book, “It Was All a Lie,” Stevens writes, “How do you go from dedicating a political party to expansion and inclusiveness and two years later rally around a man who calls Mexicans ‘rapists,’ and called for a religious test to enter the United States?” He goes on, “For decades, conservatives attacked liberals for living by ‘situational ethics,’ but the ease with which Republican leaders abandoned any pretense of being more than a whites-only party is the ultimate situational ethic.” In January, Wilson told Trevor Noah that Trump “has broken the Republican Party—it doesn’t believe in anything.” Stunningly, the 2020 Republican National Convention put forward no new platform, signalling that the Party’s sole position was fealty to Trump.

October 5, 2020
The Promise of Vaping and the Rise of Juul

The Promise of Vaping and the Rise of Juul

Teens have taken a technology that was supposed to help grownups stop smoking and invented a new kind of bad habit, molded in their own image.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/14/the-promise-of-vaping-and-the-rise-of-juul

October 3, 2020
Cashgate

Cashgate

How a scandal started with a poor housemaid and ended up taking down the most powerful woman in Africa

via Medium: https://medium.com/latterly/cashgate-2e6628549bf5

October 3, 2020
The Sound and the Fury: Inside the Mystery of the Havana Embassy

The Sound and the Fury: Inside the Mystery of the Havana Embassy

More than a year after American diplomats began to suffer strange, concussion-like symptoms in Cuba, a U.S. investigation is no closer to determining how they were hurt or by whom, and the FBI and CIA are at odds over the case. A ProPublica investigation reveals the many layers to the mystery — and…

via ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/article/diplomats-in-cuba

October 3, 2020
Bundyville

Bundyville: The Remnant – Longreads

A series and podcast from Longreads, in partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting.

via Longreads: https://longreads.com/bundyville/

October 3, 2020
The Curious Case of Bryan Colangelo and the Secret Twitter Account

The Curious Case of Bryan Colangelo and the Secret Twitter Account

A collection of Twitter accounts that has criticized Joel Embiid and Markelle Fultz, disclosed sensitive information, and outlined team strategy shares eye-opening similarities. What does that have to do with the Philadelphia 76ers’ decision-maker?

via The Ringer: https://www.theringer.com/nba/2018/5/29/17406750/bryan-colangelo-philadelphia-76ers-twitter-joel-embiid-anonymous-markelle-fultz?utm_campaign=theringer&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

October 3, 2020
Coronado High

Link: https://magazine.atavist.com/story/10765

October 3, 2020
War of Words: Meet the Texan Trolling for Putin

War of Words: Meet the Texan Trolling for Putin

In 2014, Russell Bonner Bentley was a middle-aged arborist living in Austin. Now he’s a local celebrity in a war-torn region of Ukraine. His journey reveals a troubling development in Putin’s information war.

via Texas Monthly: https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/son-wealthy-businessman-foot-soldier-vladimir-putin-russia-hacking/

October 3, 2020
Murder at the Alcatraz of the Rockies

Murder at the Alcatraz of the Rockies – The Atavist Magazine

The inside story of the first homicide in America’s most secure prison.

via The Atavist Magazine: https://magazine.atavist.com/murder-adx-florence-fbi-mexican-mafia

October 3, 2020
All-American Nazis

All-American Nazis: Inside the Rise of Fascist Youth in the U.S.

How a senseless double murder in Florida exposed the rise of an organized fascist youth movement in the United States

via Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/all-american-nazis-fascist-youth-united-states-w519651

October 3, 2020
The Original Donald Trump

Frank Rich: Roy Cohn, Donald Trump, and the New York Cesspool That Created Them

The city’s Establishment will ignore unscrupulous acts to serve its interests — just look how it treated the onetime lawyer to the president.

via Intelligencer: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/frank-rich-roy-cohn-the-original-donald-trump.html

October 3, 2020
The Spy Who Came Home

The Spy Who Came Home

Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/07/the-spy-who-came-home

October 3, 2020
Dying Laughing

The Hilarious Life and Agonizing Death of Online Comedy

For years, inventive companies like The Onion and Funny or Die capitalized on a culture that just wanted to laugh online. But after massive disruptions in digital advertising and on social media platforms, those companies find themselves imperiled. Did th

via The Ringer: https://www.theringer.com/2018/3/26/17157020/online-comedy-the-onion-funny-or-die-digital-media

October 3, 2020
The Ridiculous Saga Of Lance Armstrong, The Cheater Who Became An Enemy Of The State

The Ridiculous Saga Of Lance Armstrong, The Cheater Who Became An Enemy Of The State

It was more than five years ago when Lance Armstrong went on Oprah, looked her in the eye, and admitted to the world that his iconic comeback story was fueled by the most comprehensive doping regimen in cycling history. The seven-time Tour de France winne

via Deadspin: https://deadspin.com/the-ridiculous-saga-of-lance-armstrong-the-cheater-who-1802288537

October 3, 2020
Interview with Maurice Sendak

Home Page || Culture

Get the latest news and updates on art, literature, music, travel, and history in a fun and interesting way.

via Culture: https://www.believermag.com/issues/201211/?read=interview_sendak

October 3, 2020