Peabody Award-winning journalist, story producer & editor. Priors: @frontlinepbs @teamtrace @RollingStone leechristophersmith at gmail My dog's name is Moby
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‘Fissures and Cracks’: America’s Division, From 9/11 to the Rise of White Supremacy
Janet Reitman's new book, "The Inheritance: A Tragedy in Five Acts," traces how the war on terror created our current national reality
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1/One more time, for those in the back: I wanted to share my new investigation, published in partnership with @RollingStone . It’s about how red flag laws are under attack from a gun rights group called the 2nd Amendment Foundation: thetrace.org/2024/08/red-fla…
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March 1933 The Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state – at Minneapolis, MN
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"If you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing can happen."
~ Anouk Aimee, R. I. P.
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Wish there’d been a Schoolhouse Rock episode on how everyone in politics is morally bankrupt and motivated purely by careerism & ambition. 😂
Terrific reporting as always from @MarkObbie
A City Tries to Measure the Violence It’s Preventing nytimes.com/interactive/2024…
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Columbia still has its official website up lionizing the protesters of 1968 who occupied university buildings to protest the Vietnam War until the NYPD, in Columbia's own words, "stormed" campus, creating a "fallout that dogged Columbia for years." news.columbia.edu/content/ne…
BREAKING: Student protesters occupying Hamilton Hall will face expulsion, University spokesperson Ben Chang wrote in a Tuesday press release.
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They scammed the country. Leonard Leo ally Tim Busch says that abortion isn’t a “states rights” issue after all. Nope. They plan to use the 14th Amendment to overturn state constitutional amendments protecting abortion rights. He also calls SCOTUS the “Leo court.” 1/
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Chicago Bears fans had a dim view of Aaron Rodgers before it was cool.
WOW… #Jets QB Aaron Rodgers says that HIV was created by the US government.
‘The gameplan was made in the 80’s’
(Via NBC)
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If helping students with debt is “buying votes”, then surely giving tax cuts to the wealthy is also “buying votes”. Right?
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“Welcome back to SportsCenter Presented by ESPN Bet, for more on the Ohtani situation we go to our FanDuel MLB Insider Jeff Passan at our DraftKings Studio in Los Angeles brought to you by Caesar’s Sportsbook. Jeff, how could something like this happen?”
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A stunning live TV moment showcasing the reality of America today: Parents of Parkland victim, Joaquin Oliver, were on-set to talk to @CNN about their gun reform work...their interview derailed by breaking news of Kansas City shooting.
"Not surprised at all," the father says.