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Original reporting + longform journalism, + behind-the-scenes of how it's made. Newsletter: http://t.co/8x3xFq7jF3 From @nickbaumann + @samanthastorey.
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At the end of 2018, @mattbooshell quit a cushy 9-to-5 job that he had been at for two years. Here's what happened next: https://t.co/DXOj6OHbsz via @HuffPostPol
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Trump has used his veto 6 times. 4 of those were to protect Saudi Arabia. Congress could've made him again choose between an embarrassing veto or letting MBS face consequences. Republican+Democratic political calculations & Jared Kushner got in the way. https://t.co/wtlVEUwayT
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"I wasn't f**king caving," said Adam Smith, chair of the House Armed Services Committee, as lawmakers and human rights advocates traded barbs.
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This is such a sad story – an extreme case, but the truth is the trade is full of freelancers with no proper training and no idea what they are doing
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Christopher Allen reported from some of the most dangerous places in the world. Who was looking out for him?
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New: Huge federal review of facial-recognition systems finds that white people get more accurate searches than everyone else. With some algorithms, Asian and African American people were *up to 100 times* more likely to be falsely identified than white men
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Researchers found that most facial-recognition algorithms exhibit “demographic differentials” that can worsen their accuracy based on a person’s age, gender or race.
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This is a beautiful, thoughtful piece that I hope helps a lot of folks feel less alone & some other folks do a bit more reflection: https://t.co/Sa7S7sVHg8 via @scaachi
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This year I picked up a pastime I thought was reserved for white people: fighting with my family about their terrible politics.
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A few years ago, Gabriel started sending me polite but insistent emails suggesting that maybe, *maybe* I had a lot of unquestioned colonial assumptions underlying my thinking. Finally asked him to just do it in essay form.
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How strategy games have held on to one of colonialism's most toxic narratives, and how they might finally be letting it go.
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In the aftermath of his lung-cancer diagnosis, Peter Schjeldahl assumed the persona of the Dying Man, which he found to be a handy mask.
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The I.R.S. accidentally conducted an experiment on 3.9 million Americans — and, in the process, provided the best evidence yet that health insurance saves lives. https://t.co/BvHn6c0V9g
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The study was an accident. The results show the positive effects of health insurance.
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This week's @NewYorker has an excerpt from my forthcoming book "Between Two Fires"--a profile of Konstantin Ernst, head of Channel One, a complicated and multisided figure, who combines "cosmopolitan savviness with ultimate subservience to the state."
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How the television producer Konstantin Ernst went from discerning auteur to Putin’s unofficial minister of propaganda.
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NEW: We obtained video inside the Border Patrol holding cell where 16-year-old Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez died last May. The video does not match the Border Patrol's account of his death.
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As president, Pete Buttigieg wants to give 25 percent of federal contracts to minorities. As mayor, he gave 3 percent. https://t.co/e3hB3XhnbO by @akela_lacy
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Even as Buttigieg pushes diversity efforts as mayor, less than 3 percent of South Bend’s business in 2018 went to minority- and women-owned firms.
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In the past year, there have been 596 media mentions of Pete Buttigieg being a Rhodes scholar. But Cory Booker is also a Rhodes scholar. Why has his scholarship been mentioned only 79 times?
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Media outlets mention that Pete Buttigieg was a Rhodes scholar far more often than they mention that Cory Booker was one too.
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NEW: Tulsi Gabbard is pledging to reveal “all the info” about 9/11, hinting at a conspiracy. The 28 pages have been out for 3 years. But disingenuous or no, the ploy reflects a plan: keep trying to merge lefties with conspiracy theorists, Islamophobes & co
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A new campaign email from the Hawaii representative dovetails with her past conspiracy theories and fear-mongering.
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This story is one of the most disturbing I've read in recent memory. Excellent work from @Sophia_MJones @FullerProject on the horrors of "virginity testing," which is rarely acknowledged publicly in the U.S.
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No procedure exists that can prove virginity, yet dangerously unscientific virginity tests occur regularly—even in the United States.
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i wrote the most thorough review of an airbnb host ever https://t.co/EdSu7e2Gjh
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While searching for the person who grifted me in Chicago, I discovered just how easy it is for users of the short-term rental platform to get exploited.
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A thread: Getty fire: Housekeepers, gardener go to work despite the flames - Los Angeles Times
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As the Getty fire rages, the streets were mostly empty in the nearby neighborhood — except for the workers who tend the gardens, clean the hilltop homes and care for the children in one of the city's...
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"Popular Information has uncovered a network of 14 large Facebook pages that exclusively promote content from The Daily Wire. None of the pages reveal their connection to The Daily Wire, and many purport to be independent media outlets."
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Read @PaulBlu on Trump's legal arguments that he is immune from oversight, noting that the president calls judicial appointees "my judges" https://t.co/7EnnfEVU9w
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Justice Brett Kavanaugh is the Trump Supreme Court appointee with the longest record on presidential power.
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