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Staff writer, The Atlantic Magazine. Former cabbie, tenant organizer & doorman. Brooklyn w 2 boyz. Author of "Canyon Dreams"

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Michael Powell
3 years
My book, Canyon Dreams, new in paperback
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To Vaccinate or Not? Vermont, w highest concentration of vaccinated people, and Alabama, state w lowest. In last 7 days Alabama recorded 901 COVID cases; Vt recorded 8. Alabama has 65 hospital admissions daily. Vermont? Zero. Alabama 41 deaths last week. Vermont? Zero.
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Chris Cuomo says it makes no sense to close NYC schools with minimal rate of infection. Dr Fauci: “I agree with you completely.”
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When working on 2022 article about transgender athletes & elite sports, I called GLAAD. Their officials tried to tell me who I should NOT interview and that I should not "platform" tennis great and gay pioneer Martina Navratilova because her views ran counter to their line.
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GLAAD
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Yesterday, @nytimes published yet another biased, anti-trans article. This morning, we’re at the NYT headquarters holding them accountable.
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Last May and June, demonstrators in NYC were repeatedly penned, pepper sprayed and arrested for blocking streets late at night without much traffic. But you block major bridges and highways midday and no arrests, no towing of cars, nada?
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Inside a Battle Over Race, Class and Power at Smith College. Tension between a student’s deeply felt sense of personal truth and facts that are at odds with it. My story:
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Why are cops letting these rioters to remain in place?
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These fellows were disarmed and marched away by the cops. Then California banned guns in capitols. Wonder why different ... ?
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So Trump's choice as National security advisor discussed kidnapping a legal resident of USA and shipping him to Turkey?
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"For reporter Donald McNeil to end his long career as a result of a single word, risks sending a chilling message. That the paper apparently altered its course ... as a result of public pressure is a further worrying signal. Pen America weighs in:
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BREAKING: The NYTimes has learned John Glenn accomplished this same feat 59 years ago
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“There is no light at the end of the tunnel. This was not supposed to be my life” College Lineman Became a Doctor, Thousands of hits later, Dementia has Made Him Retire. He’s Only 42. My column:
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This is idiotic even by the standards of Network Big Storm Idiocy.
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Meet the Press
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WATCH: @alroker pummeled by waves as Hurricane Ida targets New Orleans
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Star climate physicist Dorian Abbot is denied a speech at MIT. Now an attempt to have him speak at UC Berkeley is blocked, causing another top climate physicist to resign
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David Romps
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I am resigning as Director of the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center (BASC) @BerkeleyAtmo . To reduce the odds of being mischaracterized, I want to explain my decision here.
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"Seaver was the immortal, the forever young, so composed and so fiercely competitive and so analytical about his efforts." Tom Terrific, the Essential Met. My column:
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Michael Powell
4 years
So another NBA team, the LA LAKERS, announces that it tested all of its millionaires for the virus. This is a continuing outrage as each of those tests is one taken away from an EMT, a Doctor, a Nurse, a seriously ill woman or man. Sports reporters need to wake up to this
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Call me crazy but this seems ... unsustainable
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Lyanne Melendez
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This just happened at the @Walgreens on Gough & Fell Streets in San Francisco. #NoConsequences @chesaboudin
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Trump two days ago: "But we signed a wonderful paper saying they're going to denuclearize their whole thing. It's going to all happen."
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The Associated Press
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BREAKING: North Korea Foreign Ministry says talks with Pompeo 'regrettable,' accuses US of unilateral demands for denuclearization.
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Journalism is meant to ask difficult and discomforting questions, and to question institutions, including the medical establishment. I am very proud to work at a place that publishes the work of @emilybazelon , Katie Baker, Azeen Ghoryashi, @mega2e and @DouthatNYT
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There is to LeBron's narrative a genuine and moving American Story
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Jeff Passan
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News at ESPN: LeBron James and the Los Angeles Dodgers have teamed up to turn Dodger Stadium into a polling place for the November general election. Story:
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Michael Powell
4 years
America has fought and won World Wars. The USA is the most powerful economic power in the world. And we cannot produce testing kits and ventilators with a two month head start? Unconscionable
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Michael Powell
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Performative? One need not sanction Israel/Hamas War tactics to note absurdity of his claim: Syria: 150k civilians killed; Yemen: 150k killed; Afghanistan: 30k killed ; Ethiopia 150k; Congo: Many tens of thousands killed. defeat of ISIS at Mosul: At least 10k civilians killed
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UN News
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“We are witnessing a killing of civilians that is unparalleled and unprecedented in any conflict since I have been Secretary General”- UN chief @antonioguterres
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Michael Powell
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Says the $251k Deputy Mayor for Communications who never returned a phone call and did not reach out in two months of reporting, Oh, & whose press office declined to provide a single Administration official to interview . Otherwise, I hear ya
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Fabien Levy
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. @NYCMayor often likes to say NYC has 8.3 million New Yorkers, but 35 million opinions. Wondering where all those opinions were in this piece, @powellAtlantic ? 🤷‍♂️ But glad you were able to muster the strength to include one entire complimentary quote in a 6,300-word piece.
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Michael Powell
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“DSA reaffirms our call for the US to withdraw from NATO and to end the imperialist expansionism that set the stage for this conflict”
From the National Political Committee: DSA condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and demands immediate diplomacy and de-escalation to resolve this crisis. 1/3
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Michael Powell
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City after City after City ... This speaks to lack of training and leadership
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I now know 7 people in NYC who have all symptoms of Coronavirus. Precisely one of them has been tested and found positive. That is to define flying blind
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"Implicit was that it was being used for non-medical" purposes, Doctor says of lower ward of al-Shifa hospital. Warned he could be shot if he went there
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British doctor who worked at al-Shifa hospital says that a lower ward leading to a basement was off limits to medical staff. Clear implication was that it was under the control of Hamas, which struck fear in the hearts of everyone else.
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Michael Powell
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This took five months
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Craig McCarthy
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NEW: Cops who ignore the NY mask mandate will now face unspecified “disciplinary action,” according to a new NYPD memo. The stern warning follows pressure from the public, lawmakers — and months of city officials downplaying the issue. @juliakmarsh & me
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@freedlander @AOC I guess AOC and the audience did not get the memo that she is supposed to be unpopular and shrill
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U.S. Grant was declared a slaveholder last night and his statue toppled in Ohio. There was truth there; he owned a slave for two years. But history and human understanding suffered. Grants views evolved over the course of a bloody war to end slavery. By 1863 he #thread
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In which prominent intellectuals at Columbia U retreat to conditional tense to assert “right” to slaughter civilians not least children, infants and the like. “One could regard the events of October 7th …as an occupied people exercising a right to resist”
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Michael Powell
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Ah, damn coastal elites, Great Lakes Division
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Women marching Chicago, 01/21/17
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Michael Powell
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The article in question was in fact deeply researched and painstakingly fair.
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GLAAD
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Yesterday, @nytimes published yet another biased, anti-trans article. This morning, we’re at the NYT headquarters holding them accountable.
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What Would Hamas Do If It Could Do Whatever It Wanted? Kill Jews. “It is … a dereliction of responsibility on the part of progressives not to try to understand the goals and beliefs of Islamist totalitarian movements.” ⁦ @JeffreyGoldberg ⁩:
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At MIT, 41% of students and 38% of faculty believe that the administration wouldn’t defend a speaker’s rights during a controversy @TheFIREorg :
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Red Splish-Splash. @jimgeraghty with autopsy: "I don’t want to hear another Republican claim he stands for silent majority. As I warned in Sept, if your silent majority doesn’t show up to vote ... it doesn’t have much say in how this country is governed":
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Michael Powell
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This is not just ethically obtuse it is inaccurate. Hispanic- and Asian-Americans have longer lifespans than white Americans. And females of all races outlive males of all races.
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Noah Rothman
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This is ghastly.
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The sort of bullying behavior that Left activists * rightfully * condemn when aimed at Arabs and Muslims
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Jordan Van Glish
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Protestors in Philadelphia stand outside of a Jewish & Israeli owned falafel restaurant “Goldie, Goldie you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide”
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NYC seeing daunting explosion in Covid Infection. BUT -- deaths for vaccinated very low for months now and not trending up. Hospitalizations also remaining very low for vaxxed;
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Michael Powell
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Tom Seaver Will Always Be the Essential Met. Last year I had the chance to salute an all-time great and a boyhood hero
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A young friend, a nurse, writes from Long Beach, CA: Running out of High Flow Oxygen and Ventilators, ICU filled. Every woman on Labor floor has Covid-19. Thank you to all who insisted 'their' travel, 'their' refusal to wear masks, 'their' holiday dinner was about Personal Rights
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So important for middle class New Yorkers -- particularly those who are drawing income -- to continue paying those who clean our houses, walk dogs and care for our kids even as they are quarantined. That's our side of the social compact
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Floyd Mayweather by unanimous decision. He is preening and crowd is loudly booing
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Dinkins rebuilt neighborhoods, gave poor children after school centers and expanded police force. 11 years Ago Rudy Giuliani launched a patented scabrous attacks on the former mayor, and I looked at his mayoralty and found better than many realized:
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“I’m mystified when I hear so many of our 20-something news assistants prefer to work from home. At that age I never could have latched onto so many breaking stories if I hadn’t raised my hand and said, “I’ll go.” Maureen Dowd w Requiem for the Newsroom
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Mitchell Katz, head of NYC’s public hospitals, opposed shutting down city in March, telling De Blasio: “The good thing is greater than 99 percent will recover without harm.” Now ⁦ @NYCMayor ⁩ has put him in charge of Virus Response
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What happens when genuine sympathy for civilian suffering mixes with a fervor that borders on the oppressive? My essay :
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What Happens When a Poor State Guts Its Public University . My story on a Flagship State University and working class student aspirations and faculty careers tossed aside - The Atlantic
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Want to Address Global Warming? Reconsider shuttering Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, which provides 8 % of California's carbon free electricity. Two Former Obama Energy Secretaries make the case:
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NYC, was a city of 7 million and had 2,262 homicides in 1990. NYC now has 8.4 million pop. and 319 last year. Even this year, with a disturbing rise in shootings and homicides, is not remotely close to 1990.
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Eric Metaxas
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DeBlasio has undone thirty years of progress toward making NYC one of the safest cities on earth. These lives being snuffed out on his watch are blood on his hands.
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“Academia’s campaign to disregard or neglect the classics is a sign of spiritual decay, moral decline and a deep intellectual narrowness” Cornel West on Howard University’s removal of classics as a spiritual catastrophe - The Washington Post
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So 24 years without once voting for mayor means Andrew Yang passed on Giuliani/Messinger, three Michael Bloomberg elections and two de Blasio. But this oh so ambitious tik tok dude wants to be mayor because .. of course he does
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Portland Mayor Disbands Gun Violence Police unit and Shootings and Homicides Spiral. “Without a doubt, I think it is a possibility that my nephew could still be alive if unit was not dissolved,” says Uncle. @ap :
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Donald Trump Should Be Impeached and Removed from Office Tomorrow - by John Podhoretz
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"I thought scientists would not get on board with the denial-of-free-speech movement,” said evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne. “I was absolutely wrong, 100 percent so.” M.I.T.’s Decision to cancel speech by top Physicist ripples outward. My story:
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I read the now-censored Guernica essay by Israeli writer and translator @joannachen1 and it's beautiful and humane and achingly sad. If THIS qualifies as cause for staff resignations and censoring our culture is deeply damaged:
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Michael Powell
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I subscribe to a # of substacks and enjoy em. With just a single exception, however, all would be improved by cutting words by one-third, often by half. Is the Substack an Inadvertent Homage to the Missing Editor?
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Michael Powell
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From Gaza Mayor's column in NYT: "One of my major goals after the Hamas administration appointed me mayor in 2019 ... "
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Khalil Sayegh
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Haley’s comments are more concerned about American domestic politics and attacking NYT. However, the mayor of Gaza is not a Hamas appointee nor a Hamas member
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Oh, the Stories Hubie Brown Can Tell. “This is going all over the world, 33 million people listening in China and, what, you want to make an ass out of yourself and not be prepared?” he said. “Stop it already.” My column:
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Michael Powell
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Summer in Neuva York. Someone figured it was a great idea to ride their motorcycle down to the platform of the 42nd Street subway. Says cop: “Man, I am just trying to figure how to get it out of here”
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Smart, unpretentious and blessed with a great sense of humor: A Journalist's Holy Trinity. Journalist Alan Finder, 72, of Ridgewood, dies of coronavirus disease via @northjersey
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Jerrold Nadler (age 74) is about to faceoff with Carolyn Maloney (age 76). Both have been in congress 30 years. Wild thought but wonder if there's any New Yorker born after 1948 who harbors congressional ambitions?
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I rode this past weekend through a Harlem neighborhood rebuilt from rubble by David Dinkins. Libraries kept open, SROs created for homeless. A mayor with flaws but at New York’s Nadir, He Gave the City the ‘Freedom to Imagine’ . My essay:
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Brooklyn’s streets are swamped with cars, Horns, the middle finger salute and truly reckless driving cars . All these over caffeinated folks need to get back on subways and buses and oh yes, Congestion Pricing now, please
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Bravo. A master class in a reporter refusing to get cowed
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The Hill
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Reporter: “It’s an action that you say they have taken, but you have shown no evidence to confirm that. [...] This is like - crisis actors? Really? This is like Alex Jones territory you’re getting into now.” Must-watch exchange between @APDiploWriter Matt Lee and @StateDeptSpox .
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Personal news: My book on the great Navajo Nation and some remarkable young men -- "Canyon Dreams" (now in paperback -- is the basis for a Netflix movie w LeBron James as executive producer and Sydney Freeland as director:
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Michael Powell
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This is appalling, and makes me think we've fallen down on energetically pursuing this story
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Jacob N. Kornbluh
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A sad year in review — how 2019 looked like for Orthodox Jews in America תכלה שנה וקללותיה
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My cancer might be spreading but, look, before we talk about that, what's your view on decolonization of the academy?
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@powellAtlantic In 2020, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center lead a cluster hire—noting its commitment "to ensuring that all candidates hired share our commitment to diversity, antiracism, and inclusion." The guidelines for writing a DEI statement notes that that might including…
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"How many people cheering on Hamas as noble freedom fighters could seriously imagine pumping fists while watching men on their way to murder Jewish teenagers? The abstract, Latinate air of the word decolonization ... a fig leaf" @JohnHMcWhorter : .
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Not sure how a team — the Sixers — is supposed to win a playoff series when its point guard is afraid to handle the ball past half-court and drives never
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My childhood best friend was the son of refugees from the Holocaust. My wife’s grandparents fled impoverished southern Italy. My Flatbush and East Flatbush are reborn thanks to West Indians. Brave Afghans fleeing medievalists want to replenish our city? Welcome
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At Liberty University, All Sins Forgiven on Altar of Greed. Football, Christianity & Willful Blindness. My column:
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I am a New Yorker born and bred, and I have ridden subways forever. I refer to the Q train as my reading room. The vast majority of riders pay fares and are law abiding. To pretend crime and disorder are vanishingly rare and not problems is a terrible condescension.
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"A teachable moment" is such a lovely phrase. Students jumped and beat up a black uniformed security guard and rampaged through the halls as a Jewish teacher hid behind locked doors. De-escalation training perhaps falls a tad short?
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These organizations will play a crucial role in contributing to the broader mission of de-escalation and creating teachable moments from this challenging situation.
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@ijbailey It was a scrupulously fair piece
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From a year ago, Sarah Huckabee Sanders: “He certainly didn’t dictate, but like I said, he weighed in, offered suggestion like any father would do.”
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Maggie Haberman
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For the first time, Trump’s lawyers say he dictated his son’s response to NYT over Russian lawyer meeting. They call the statement “short but accurate.”
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“His face was in your windshield, Jason. Think about that,” a detective told South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg . He faces criminal charges, impeachment over fatal car incident - The Washington Post
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University of Chicago Chancellor Robert Zimmer resigns from advisory board to fledgling University of Austin, saying ‘the new university made a number of statements about higher education in general, largely quite critical, that diverged very significantly from my own views.’
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@benyt ⁩ Re: Knishes
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Walked to vote at 5:40 a.m. and found a line already around the block in Flatbush, nurses, orderlies, bus drivers and retirees waiting under a near full moon. Something deeply moving about democracy ...
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Today the WSJ says its cutting its city report. This is NOT a lament about today's NYC reporters, whose talent, passion and intelligence is every bit the match of past generations. They've done a service even as journalism's financial roof has fallen in. But what's lost #thread
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Mom, 54, dies on floor. “We never thought it was COVID,” the daughter said said. “We didn’t even realize she had it.” As coronavirus surges, Houston confronts its hidden toll: People dying at home. Excellent @Mike_Hixenbaugh @charlesornstein : via @nbcnews
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Worth recalling there was a ceasefire in place, agreed to in May 2023. And work permits too. It was all smashed when Hamas slaughtered at least 1,200 Israelis
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Cub fans, who treated Mets fans here well, stick around and give their team a long standing ovation
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This, again, did not absolve Grant of the racism and atavism that haunt too many still. It left him that familiar figure, a flawed hero, and man of his time, admirable and flinch-worthy, and worth reckoning with. I'd pull that statue up again ...
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There is quite honestly no one I respect more in this journalism world than @jimdwyernyt . He is the best of us, rigorous and tough and moral and with a heart overflowing for this world and our city. Heart broken at his passing
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“What is glaringly absent from these tribunals? There is no recognition of even the remotest possibility that the person may be wrongfully accused, The Left Continues to Destroy Itself and Others With Evidence-Free Destruction ⁦ @ggreenwald
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A reminder of the Problems for Student Rights & Due Process created by Obama Era Title IX rules. Triple Jeopardy in College Sexual Assault Case Ends an N.F.L. Career
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This Working Man Was Ready to Retire. But the Virus Took Him. A Tale of A Block and Those Fighting to Hold It together in Hazleton, Pa. a working class city in the Poconos. I spent 5 days there and this is their story:.
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The rudeness of this is bizarre. This is not a defund the cops Democrat
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Andrew Yang never bothered voting in mayoral election, left Manhattan to wait out pandemic peak in Hudson Valley. And signature idea of national campaign — a universal basic income — isn’t relevant. ⁦ @harrysiegel ⁩ peers into Donut Hole that is Yang
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Black teenage boy hears far too many slurs and reacts. White teenage girl says something offensive but means no ill. And virtually all adults in positions of power here behave badly and/or cowardly.
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Michael Powell
2 years
France lost 567k people in WW2 and 1.9 million people in WW1
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The Recount
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Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) poses a very helpful hypothetical showing tremendous brainpower: “Can you imagine if [Putin] went into France? Would they do anything to put up a fight? Probably not.”
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Jim Bouton RIP. Ball Four read revelatory to me as a teenager, almost like Hunter S Thompson on politics. ⁦ @TylerKepner ⁩ did a nice story on him a couple years back about his struggle with dementia
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