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You may have seen the recent fury over @Motability: how ‘sickfluencers’ are helping ‘bedwetting boy racers’ get ‘50-grand Mercs’ for free. This is basically a myth, and its laundering into the mainstream is an object lesson in How Things Work Now. Thread follows.
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Wrote a piece about the misreading of where the political middle is that left Gary Lineker with a great big opening to become the martyr of the moment, somehow. And also about the BBC being crap about it.
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RIP Eater London - a groundbreaking outlet for food journalism that launched lots of great writers and made everyone else think harder about their work, even the many people it wound up london.eater.com/2023/2/14/2…
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A shock and a scandal. One of the only publications in London that actually made the city a better place to live.
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Ok, you should subscribe and read everyday blah blah but I especially recommend today’s First Edition. In which @archiebland really commits to all the things that should die a death with 2022. Contains big ‘revenge of the whatsapp group chat’ energy theguardian.com/world/2022/d…
I’m hiring an editor @AppleNews - come work with me! jobs.apple.com/en-us/details…
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Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who took more campaign cash from the oil and gas industry than any other senator, blew up the Democratic Party’s plan to fight climate change.
Here’s a look at how the plan unraveled as the Earth continues to warm. nyti.ms/3IFgTLe
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Today is wretched and plain. And it is not the bottom. It will get worse; we will go lower. As the Court’s dissent insists, correctly, “Closing our eyes to the suffering today’s decision will impose will not make that suffering disappear.” thecut.com/2022/06/rebecca-t…
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"The point of the leak, then, may have been to lock in the five-justice conservative majority."
By @adamliptak, who doesn't say things lightly
nytimes.com/2022/05/03/us/po…
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Today's First Edition is about the breaking news of a leak which appears to show the US Supreme Court is on the brink of overturning Roe v Wade. Sign up here to get it in your inbox at 7am each day. theguardian.com/global/ng-in…
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Exclusive investigation by me and @aamnamohdin and the BBC >> DJ Tim Westwood accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women theguardian.com/media/2022/a…
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If there is a solution to the subway’s woes that pretty much everyone agrees on, it’s this: The more people start taking the train, the less crime there will be. @reeveswiedeman writes after riding every line in the days after the Brooklyn subway shooting bit.ly/3LbNdpA
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Lush, floral insights will grow in the arid desert of your inbox if you sign up for First Edition, our free daily newsletter. Starts on Monday, comes every weekday at 7am, makes sense of the world in the time it takes to drink a coffee, no refunds. Cheers
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I have a new job! I’m excited. nitter.gq/NYTimesPR…
✨ We're thrilled to welcome @NoreenMalone to @NYTStyles as enterprise editor! nytco.com/press/noreen-malon…
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The evidence it presents in that regard is so extensive you would expect it to have provoked widespread soul-searching and contrition. The fact it hasn’t is pretty revealing and rather proves the need for its existence in the first place.
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Like any undertaking of its length, Serial's Trojan Horse podcast has some flaws, and there’s been a correction. Nothing, however, that alters the overwhelming take-home: its exposure of British media and political culture’s pervasive anti-Muslim prejudice.
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Here's my take on Putin's double-bill today, which feels like one of the most significant moments in his 22-years-and-counting rule over Russia
theguardian.com/world/2022/f…
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New from me:
Two years ago on Halloween, my wife @sarapekow saw an NYPD cop drive against traffic & hit a kid
NYPD told me it didn’t happen
Now, NYPD is quashing a move to punish the officer
They call what my family saw an “alleged traffic accident”
propublica.org/article/a-pol…
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“Oh,” he said, pursing his lips. “Anna and I were wondering” — Anna being Anna Wintour, his boss. “She said, ‘Cathy Horyn has very small feet.’” A remark to treasure. thecut.com/2022/01/my-time-w…
