Max Toomey
@MaxToomey
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British journo & doc maker. I produce, I shoot, I edit. Signal: +19292382216 | [email protected]
New York City
Joined July 2012
Immortalized in Wikipedia for eternity, one of our military’s finest moments.
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A BBC World Service & BBC Arabic analysis shows that Meta’s Facebook suppressed audience engagement with news produced by Palestinan journalists in the occupied territories. Meta says it did change algos post 7/10 but denies accusations of censorship or bias.
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Manhattan’s Chinatown has suffered from bridal service shops and banquet hall closures over the years. Documented visited The One Wedding Plaza, Chinatown’s last full service wedding boutique dedicated to keeping the tradition alive. https://t.co/1CAKAAMbzH
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Once a bustling and thriving wedding destination, Manhattan’s Chinatown has suffered from bridal service shops and banquet hall closures over the years.
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Thank you to everyone honoring our NYT Games picket line and breaking your Wordle streaks! We're so grateful that made you a strike game! Play today's union-friendly connections here:
connections.swellgarfo.com
Create custom puzzles based on the game popularized by New York Times
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NEW: United Sovereign Americans, a fringe group on the right, is helping to mainstream election conspiracy theories by filing frivolous lawsuits that experts say are premised on a "gross misunderstanding of federal law." That and a whole lot more here:
documented.net
Documented is an investigative watchdog and journalism project committed to holding the powerful interests that undermine our democracy accountable.
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A statement from the editor of New York Times Opinion in response to criticism of a recent guest essay. https://t.co/fs3X3ivadq
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Happening now: “Gaza burns, Wall Street booms! Arms embargo now!” An estimated 500 members of @jvpliveNY have rushed the New York Stock Exchange, chaining themselves to entrances and an exterior fence. Security tried, and failed, to impede the masses.
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The image of hospital patients, tethered to IVs as American-supplied Israeli bombs ignite fires around them in Gaza, may well stand as the defining image of this horror.
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Hey all - I’m a freelance journalist in Asheville and I’m available for work. Best way to reach me is Jessica dot Wakeman at gmail. HOWEVER, Internet service is quite bad here at the moment.
As local media is wiped out and more and more journalists live in the Acela corridor, there's less and less coverage of anything outside of it, whether it's corruption, school shootings, or weather-related catastrophes.
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“The raid on the office is not only an attack on Al Jazeera, but an affront to press freedom and the very principles of journalism,” the network says. “These measures are intended to prevent the world from witnessing the reality in the occupied territories and Gaza.”
RAMALLAH: Palestine Bureau Chief Walid Omary was live on air when the Israeli army raided the office. Back in May, Israel banned Al Jazeera from reporting within the country. Israeli forces raided our office in Occupied East Jerusalem, and confiscated our equipment.
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Donald Trump's Truth Social often gets talked about dismissively. A Twitter knockoff. A meme stock. Etc. But its value is in the **billions** If he’s elected, his stake could create conflicts of interest that eclipse the concerns during his first term about his hotel biz. 🧵
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That's correct. Publishers removed '1984' from our library. 🕳️
@internetarchive Orwell warned us about it, but you can't read him now.
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So tired of seeing murdered journalists on my timeline. It’s not “activism” to demand it to stop. These are our colleagues
Breaking: Journalist Ibrahim Muhareb was killed after his body was found near Hamad City, northwest of Khan Younis. He had been missing since yesterday when Israeli forces targeted a group of journalists in the area.
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Here is Ismail’s tribute to himself and the dying humanity. “Let me tell you, my friend, that I no longer know the taste of sleep. The bodies of children and the screams of the injured and their blood-soaked images never leave my sight. The cries of mothers and the wailing of
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Christina Assi, a Lebanese photojournalist, carried the #ParisOlympics torch in honor of all journalists harmed while reporting in conflict. 110 journalists have been killed worldwide between 2023-2024, 94 of them in Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and Lebanon alone.
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I know Biden pulling out of the US presidential race is big news but I can’t stop thinking about how an asparagus fortune teller prediction on Jeremy Vine could be right.
BREAKING: Joe Biden pulls out of 2024 US presidential race https://t.co/9aHp7B4c0Q
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