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Today in @thenation: a jaw-dropping investigation from Emmet Frazier (@moresycamore) on the damage that corporate and political interference caused to Scientific American. The stuff that Emmet uncovered from inside the magazine is NUTS. A must-read. thenation.com/article/societ…
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Earlier this year, Sarah Chihaya was diagnosed with MSA—a terminal neurodegenerative disease. Right now, she can no longer read or write—this will be her last piece. And it's a brilliant one about Emily Brontë and unknowability. thenation.com/article/cultur…
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My first in @thenation as a staff member! I wrote about Zohran Mamdani's predicament with the NYPD: thenation.com/article/politi…
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I think a lot of even left-leaning people are inclined to downplay one of the more famous current comedians calling all women “whores” on one of the country’s most well known shows bc of how misogynistic it is on here daily but that’s actually really scary and bad he did that
UPDATE: Ever since @thenation published this piece two months ago, people have been asking for a way to support Maryam and her family—who remain in ICE detention.
Maryam and her team have now launched a website for you to be able to do just that: freeprofsfamily.com
Today in @thenation: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. thenation.com/article/societ…
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Over the past month, the Turkish government has launched an unprecedentedly severe crackdown on the LGBTQ community. What's going on? thenation.com/article/world/…
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Sarah Chihaya on why Anne Carson's “The Glass Essay” "is indisputably the greatest breakup poem ever written." As fine an essay as you'll ever read. yalereview.org/article/sarah…
zohran is being confronted with the inevitable reality that you cannot wish the nypd's malign presence in nyc away, no matter how much you might not want to deal with it. at some point, something's gotta give
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Hey so ICE shooting a car with a 5 year old child in it is exactly what the IDF does to Palestinian families
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For all the moral panic about Hasan Piker, establishment Democrats have no issue hanging around a truly unrepentant bigot: Bill Maher. My latest for @thenation
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zohran will survive being protested. mayors get protested! he is a full and very powerful adult, and he wanted this job.
Read this.
ALT A day on which entire bloodlines were erased from the civil registry should not be an anniversary. A day our mothers were crushed beneath the concrete of their own kitchens should not be an anniversary. A day newborns suffocated in dark, unpowered incubators should not be an anniversary. A day flour sacks were soaked in the blood of men standing in line for bread should not be an anniversary. A day children had their limbs amputated without anesthesia on blood-slicked hospital floors should not be an anniversary. A day thousands of tons of explosives flattened every school, university, hospital, and library should not be an anniversary.
"The world remembers Gaza again this week. Had Palestinians wanted remembrance after each date we experienced atrocity, a full, long year wouldn’t have enough days. We have been faithful victims, though, haven’t we?"
I write @thenation on "the anniversary"thenation.com/article/world/…
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"The world remembers Gaza again this week. Had Palestinians wanted remembrance after each date we experienced atrocity, a full, long year wouldn’t have enough days. We have been faithful victims, though, haven’t we?"
I write @thenation on "the anniversary"thenation.com/article/world/…
rather than read whatever war crimes apologia brett mcgurk has spewed out, read @AkbarSAhmed's book detailing exactly the kind of unrepentant genocide enthusiast mcgurk is thenation.com/article/politi…
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In Ep 244, we examine the media obsession with "political mavericks" who "buck party orthodoxy"—almost aways with either trivial interventions or, as is most often the case, throwing vulnerable populations and causes under the bus.
w/ guest @jackmirkinson
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So happy beyond words to see these two incredibly relentless & talented young journalists & writers from Gaza surviving the genocide & relocating to the UK.
Ahmed Abu-Shawish, left, and Ali Skaik, right, have made Palestine so proud through their immensely profound reporting.
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Wrote about the arrests outside Netanyahu's speech at the UN for @thenation: thenation.com/article/activi…
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Netanyahu is the architect of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. He is a war criminal and a fugitive charged by the ICC.
He can, and must, be arrested and prosecuted for crimes against humanity.
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So grateful to @jackmirkinson @thenation for a detailed discussion of why CROSSING THE RED LINE is key to a foreign policy that's more humane, effective and accountable to those paying officials' salaries.
Please support this message by buying the book: bookshop.org/p/books/crossin…
