Tag: Reading
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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…
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“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,…
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“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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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If We Are Going to Recover from Trumpism, We Must Deny Charity to Trump’s Henchmen | The New Yorker
If We Are Going to Recover from Trumpism, We Must Deny Charity to Trump’s Henchmen Miles Taylor, the anonymous author of “A Warning,” only deserves credit for implementing cruel policies. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/if-we-are-going-to-recover-from-trumpism-we-must-deny-charity-to-trumps-henchmen Here, Taylor was bizarrely understated in his metaphors and his statements of the facts. Suggesting that refugees be declared “enemy…
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How a C.I.A. Coverup Targeted a Whistle-blower | The New Yorker
How a C.I.A. Coverup Targeted a Whistle-blower When a Justice Department lawyer exposed the agency’s secret role in drug cases, leadership in the intelligence community retaliated. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/09/how-a-cia-coverup-targeted-a-whistle-blower Before dawn on January 23, 2019, Mark McConnell arrived at the Key West headquarters of the military and civilian task force that monitors drugs…
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The Network: How a Secretive Phone Company Helped the Crime World Go Dark
The Network: How a Secretive Phone Company Helped the Crime World Go Dark Vince Ramos wanted Phantom Secure to be the Uber of privacy-focused, luxury-branded phones—flood the market with devices, and sort out the law later. Then the FBI investigated him. Link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7m4pj/the-network-vincent-ramos-phantom-secure “Sinaloa Cartel that’s what up,” Ramos said. “And my boy is Punjabi…
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Data Disappeared
Data Disappeared Over the past four years, the Trump administration has destroyed or distorted vast swaths of information vital to public life and safety. This is an account of the damage. via HuffPost Highline: https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/article/disappearing-data/#introduction Whenever President Donald Trump is questioned about why the United States has nearly three times more coronavirus cases than the…
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How America Escapes Its Conspiracy-Theory Crisis | The New Yorker
How America Escapes Its Conspiracy-Theory Crisis The Trump Presidency has taken us down the rabbit hole. A past era of reform suggests a way out. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-future-of-democracy/how-america-escapes-its-conspiracy-theory-crisis No consensus exists regarding how to counter the explosion of false information online, or its exploitation by politicians. Mark Warner, the ranking Democrat on the…
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How Syria’s disinformation wars destroyed the co-founder of the White Helmets | News | The Guardian
How Syria’s disinformation wars destroyed the co-founder of the White Helmets The long read: In November 2019, James Le Mesurier, the British co-founder of the Syrian rescue group, fell to his death in Istanbul. What led an internationally celebrated humanitarian to take his own life? via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/oct/27/syria-disinformation-war-white-helmets-mayday-rescue-james-le-mesurier The disinformation campaign quickly grew, its…
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Stranger Than Fiction — The Atavist Magazine
Stranger Than Fiction – The Atavist Magazine Inside the ‘Epoch Times’: How an aspiring poet in Brooklyn became a tool in a right-wing propaganda blitz linked to Falun Gong. via The Atavist Magazine: https://magazine.atavist.com/stranger-than-fiction-epoch-times-falun-gong-trump-election-2020 A few months later, NBC News published an online exposé about the Epoch Times’ rise as a right-wing media outlet. It…
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The Erasure of Arsenal’s Mesut Özil – The New York Times
The Erasure of Mesut Özil (Published 2020) A year ago, he was one of the Premier League’s highest-paid players. Now, after angering China and refusing a pay cut, he has simply vanished. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/sports/soccer/mesut-ozil-arsenal-china.html His avatar was removed from video games. Searching the internet for his name in China brought up error messages. (It was…
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Trump Had One Last Story to Sell. The Wall Street Journal Wouldn’t Buy It. – The New York Times
Trump Had One Last Story to Sell. The Wall Street Journal Wouldn’t Buy It. (Published 2020) Inside the White House’s secret, last-ditch effort to change the narrative, and the election — and the return of the media gatekeepers. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/business/media/hunter-biden-wall-street-journal-trump.html But the last two weeks have proved the opposite: that the old gatekeepers, like The Journal,…
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Conservative News Sites Fuel Voter Fraud Misinformation – The New York Times
Conservative News Sites Fuel Voter Fraud Misinformation (Published 2020) Breitbart, The Washington Examiner and others amplify false claims of rampant cheating in what a new Harvard study calls a “propaganda feedback loop.” Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/business/media/voter-fraud-misinformation.html Breitbart, The Washington Examiner and others amplify false claims of rampant cheating in what a new Harvard study calls a “propaganda…
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Be prolific – Chris Mytton
Be prolific Produce lots of stuff and share it. via Chris Mytton: https://www.chrismytton.com/be-prolific/ Being prolific doesn’t mean that everything you produce has to be absolute gold. But the process of producing large quantities of work ultimately leads to a higher quality of work.
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Meet Citizen Pain, the Most Self-Destructive Man in America – The Ringer
Meet Citizen Pain, the Most Self-Destructive Man in America Zacharias Holmes grew up idolizing the anarchy of ‘Jackass.’ Then he took their vision of chaos to a whole other level. This is the story of Zackass. via The Ringer: https://www.theringer.com/tv/2020/10/21/21516074/zackass-zach-holmes-instagram He thought about this in November 2016. While he was fidgeting, half-naked, in his buddy…
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USC’s Dying Linebackers—Not So Much a Mystery – Sports Illustrated
In 1989, USC Had a Depth Chart of a Dozen Linebackers. Five Have Died, Each Before Age 50 None of them died on the field, but for each former Trojan, football was inextricably tied to mortality. These are their stories. via Sports Illustrated: https://www.si.com/college/2020/10/07/usc-and-its-dying-linebackers Scott tries to hang himself in the attic. He grabs his…