Michael Bilow ✍️
@MikeBilow
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News Editor covering news, politics, law, theater, film, and weather for @MotifMagRI — Rhode Island's leading arts, entertainment, music, and culture magazine.
Providence, RI
Joined November 2015
I'm on Mastodon @MikeBilow.mastodon.social and on Bluesky @MikeBilow.bsky.social. I was an early adopter of both but have not really used them, but the increasingly problematic status of Twitter/X is motivating a move. See my thoughts from Apr 2022:
motifri.com
Bilow’s Law of Twitter: “No worthwhile ideas can be expressed in 140 characters, and even fewer in 280.” My public journalist Twitter account (@MikeBilow) was created in 2015 by which time Twitter...
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I had a lot of respect for @ezraklein but he severely dropped the ball from a journalistic perspective, letting his interviewee get away with so many such statements and assertions essentially without challenge.
I read Ezra Klein’s interview with Mahmoud Khalil, so you don’t have to. Here are the most outrageous moments. Buckle up 🧵
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Hamas are nihilistic Islamist seekers of martyrdom, willing to sacrifice every Palestinian Arab, explicitly committed to genocidal murder of every Jew in the world per their own charter. Hamas must be destroyed regardless of terrible cost. @AaronRegunberg
newrepublic.com
A letter to my Jewish American mother, who refuses to oppose Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza
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RT @JamesSurowiecki: Unsurprisingly, the Financial Times is reporting that Japan does not agree with Lutnick's description of the deal - an….
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RT @SpencerHakimian: Well would you look at that. Heavy selling pressure on Tesla shares begin at 1:23 PM EST (first red circle). But Tr….
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RT @RLHeinrichs: My first essay in the @TheFP, on the push to rewrite America’s identity to turn her focus inward and to turn her back to t….
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Donald Trump progresses from a participation trophy to a non-participation trophy. He really is learning from Vladimir Putin!.
thedailybeast.com
Trump took every opportunity to make the new, expanded soccer tournament all about himself.
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The weird thing is there are a lot of people like me who are prepared to believe "the Epstein files" never existed at all but are unprepared to trust the assurance of the Trump administration to that effect.
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It's like riding a unicycle: once you learn, you never forget how to fall flat on your face. — my comment this morning over breakfast.
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RT @NWSSWPC: WARNING: Geomagnetic K-index of 5 expected.Valid From: 2025 Jul 06 2320 UTC.Valid To: 2025 Jul 07 0600 UTC.Warning Condition:….
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RT @Mr_Andrew_Fox: The only option left to take with those disingenuous snakes still claiming a genocide in Gaza, in the face of all availa….
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RT @Mr_Andrew_Fox: I have seen firsthand some of the evidence mentioned here, as have others. It is incontrovertible. No matter how often w….
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RT @ADL: The term 'Shylock' evokes a centuries-old antisemitic trope about Jews and greed that is extremely offensive and dangerous. Presid….
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RT @TimothyDSnyder: Trump spoke of “shylocks,” which is one of the most recognizable antisemitic terms in modern English. Watch who tries t….
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RT @CSPANClassroom: This NEW lesson details the history of U.S. tariff policy and features @AHAhistorians' Alexandra Levy, economics profes….
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RT @npunwani: June 25th is the anniversary of a major victory in the annals of free trade, free markets, and free people: the 1846 repeal o….
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Do the Iranian clerics sense their position is in danger of imminent collapse?.
“Last week, Iran flew at least four civilian aircraft to the Omani capital of Muscat for safekeeping. One of the planes included Iran’s presidential Airbus A340, which landed in Muscat on June 18, according to flight trackers.” The Iranian planes were filled with cash in case.
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I haven't read the book yet, although I will, but this review by S.C. Cornell (whom I know nothing about) is a masterpiece of sarcasm.
newyorker.com
The label is exclusionary, inconsistently applied, and a license to behave badly. Why can’t we give it up?
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