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@NYTmag contributing writer. Conflict, immigration, Islamophobia, literature. Fellow @NewAmerica . Tips? email: Rozina.ali @nytimes .com Signal: rozina.30
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I wrote about three friends who grew up in Ramallah, and a shooting in Vermont. For
@NYTmag
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New York yellow taxi drivers started a hunger strike this week, calling for relief on crippling loans they took out to purchase permits to drive cabs.
A brief thread:
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Sources close to Rashida Tlaib's office told me that Biden has not met with or called Tlaib, the only Palestinian-American in Congress, in the past month
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In December 2001, Donald Rumsfeld rejected a negotiated peace deal with the Taliban.
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A
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investigation found that the 600+ deaths from the migrant ship disaster were entirely preventable.
The ship was adrift for almost 7 hours. People waited for rescue. No one came.
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The lives of those who tragically lost loved ones on 9/11 will never be the same. We should never forget them. We should also not forget those whose lives were permanently altered by 9/11 without having been anywhere near Ground Zero.
This is a thread about them:
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Nearly 300 bodies found in mass grave at Gaza hospital
"There were signs of field executions. We do not know if they were buried alive or executed. Most of the bodies are decomposed."
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A Harvard instructor who teaches about predatory lending said at the time: "I don't think I could concoct a more predatory scheme if I tried. This was modern-day indentured servitude."
More here:
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How bad was Muslim surveillance under Bloomberg? Here's a thread:
The NYPD surveilled Muslim neighborhoods--mosques, restaurants, business--en masse. It looked for "radicalization" indicators, like "wearing traditional Islamic clothing" and "growing a beard."
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How big are these loans? Some cab drivers paid $600k, some more than $1 million, for medallions -- the city permit that allows them to drive a yellow taxi. Today, these same medallions are worth about $75k. Cab drivers barely make $40k a year.
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A
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investigation in 2019 found: "Drivers were trapped in exploitative loans, including hundreds who signed interest-only loans that required them to pay exorbitant fees, forfeit their legal rights and give up almost all their monthly income, indefinitely."
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With it being near impossible for foreign journos to report from Gaza, and local journos under bombardment, it's been difficult to cover this conflict. Still, media orgs have published imp investigations that shed light on how Israel has been conducting this war.
A thread:
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Few recognize that Rumi, who wrote popular love poetry, was also versed in Muslim scripture. My latest
@NewYorker
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Today, the Supreme Court ruled 8-0 in Tanzin v Tanvir case, finding that Muslims who were put on the No-Fly list after they refused to become FBI informants and spy on their communities, *can* sue the government for damages
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The former head of one of the lender organizations made $30 million in salary around 2014, when the cost of the medallion was the highest.
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The
@NYTWA
says the debt relief program the city has created helps hedge funds and banks, not the taxi drivers. The hunger strike is a last resort effort to change this calculus.
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Meanwhile, the people who had bought medallions had taken out their life savings and borrowed money, believing taxi-driving would be a stable job.
There was no way to pay back mounting debt. In 2018 alone, 8 drivers committed suicide
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More here, including an interview with
@ZohranKMamdani
, who has been actively involved in the hunger strike:
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Twitter account of
@standwkashmir
, a US-based activist group critical of the Indian military's role and govt policies in Kashmir, has been suspended for “artificially amplifying or suppressing information or engaging in behavior that manipulates people’s experience on Twitter.”
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Protestor yells at
@AOC
: “I want to see your name on that ballot in four years!” And NYPD cop takes a photo of her from van
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One Congressional staffer told me that constituent calls the past month have been 10-1 in favor of a ceasefire
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In the days and weeks after the attacks, Muslim and immigrant families couldn’t locate their husbands, fathers, brothers, sons. That’s because across the country, law enforcement was picking up men on the streets, from workplaces, from their homes, on suspicions of terrorism.
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For months I have been investigating how a US Marine adopted a baby girl who was orphaned in Afghanistan, and took her away from her family. This is a story about the battle over a little girl -- and about the fictions we tell ourselves. For
@NYTmag
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Four years after Ledell Lee's execution, DNA showed that he had been wrongly convicted of murder. But our commitment to the death penalty is such that some lawmakers will start using firing squads to execute people amid shortage of lethal-injection drugs
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“In my life, I’ve never seen anything like this in terms of severity, in terms of scale, and then in terms of speed.”
New Interview: I talked to Arif Husain, the chief economist of the World Food Programme, about the food crisis in Gaza, why it may get worse, and what it means for Gaza’s children.
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Just this morning a journalist in Gaza told me that she and her colleagues are staying in hospitals because it's the safest place to be.
There were at least 500 victims as a result of an Israeli air strike on Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza strip, spokesman for the health ministry in Gaza said on Tuesday.
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Jonas Salk, who invented the polio vaccine, did not patent it.
When asked who owns the vaccine, he answered:
"Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?"
This is obscene. Last week, 8 investors in Pfizer and Moderna became $10 billion richer as news about the Omicron variant spread. It's time for these pharmaceutical companies to share their vaccines with the world and start controlling their greed. Enough is enough!
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A hospital worker was arrested after a coworker complained that he wore his surgical mask “more than necessary.” Another man was detained because agents showed up at his apartment looking for the previous tenant, and when they didn’t find him, took him instead.
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In this week's
@NYTMag
, I wrote about what the govt said was a thwarted terrorist attack in NYC. But in reality the alleged terrorist, Matin Siraj, was targeted by a paid NYPD informant who befriended him for almost a year & encouraged him towards a plot
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An investigation by
@washingtonpost
finds no proof to support Israel's claims that Hamas had a command center under Al Shifa hospital. The claims were repeated by both the USG and Israeli govt to justify evacuation and storming of the hospital:
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Read this tweet. Then read it again.
More than 3 million women nationwide reported that their first sexual experience was rape, according to a new study, which surveyed women aged 18 to 44.
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What happened on 9/11 was tragic in more ways than one, and we should never forget how it changed America and our democracy.
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These men were locked up in detention centers without charges—sometimes held in solitary confinement in maximum security prisons. Like the brothers Hany and Yasser Ebrahim, who were held on different floors of the Metropolitan Detention Center. They eventually were deported.
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@Anand_Gopal_
‘s reporting on this and why the US failed in Afghanistan, is a must-read, in his book “No Good Men Among the Living”
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Moments before , an armed line of NYPD in front a peaceful protest
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A new bill, intro by
@IlhanMN
, would est office to monitor Islamophobia worldwide. Gottheimer proposed an amend that would exclude Israel from such monitoring--the same day it was discovered that a US anti-Muslim group infiltrated CAIR for years and was giving info to Israeli gov
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@washingtonpost
NYT finds that Israel routinely used massive bombs in southern Gaza -- after telling civilinas to flee there
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A very concerning trend with regards to how Israel-Gaza conflict is covered: 50+ Palestinian journos killed, foreign journos not allowed in, chilling of narratives/views in the US, and now Biden admin admitting it's worried about foreign journos covering Gaza during pause
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@washingtonpost
CNN similarly finds that Israel has dropped hundreds of 2000 bombs on Gaza Strip. One analyst said the density of bombardment in the first month has "not been seen since Vietnam"
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In prison , men were verbally abused and physically assaulted by guards. Later, a DoJ OIG report found that the FBI “made little attempt to distinguish” between genuine suspects and those who had no connection to terrorism.
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It didn’t stop there. In 2002-03, the Bush Administration enacted NSEERS, a special registry that required men and boys from Muslim majority counties to register. 80,000 people registered, but the government failed to find any terrorist links. Still, thousands were deported.
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Fear was pervasive among Muslim, and particularly immigrant, communities. One community leader in Brooklyn told me he would come to his office and find apt keys left by family members who decided to flee the country. He watched his neighborhood steadily shrink.
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@washingtonpost
@972mag
.
@972mag
reveals that Israel has been bombing non-military targets, while also loosening constraints regarding expected civilian casualties:
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@washingtonpost
.
@972mag
investigation finds that Israeli launched airstrikes, with little intel to where hostages are kept:
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@washingtonpost
Sky News investigation finds that Israel hit a neighborhood in the city of Deir al-Balah after telling civilians to flee there:
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Hello! I'm looking for a researcher/journalist to help with a study of post-9/11 detention of Muslims in the U.S. -- preferably someone who speaks Arabic and/or Urdu. Paid position, excellent opportunity for aspiring journalists. Please DM if interested, and please share. Thanks!
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@washingtonpost
@972mag
.
@ForensicArchi
finds that hospitals in Gaza are subject to repeated patterns of intimidation and targeting
Our aggregation of news reports since 7 Oct suggests that hospitals in Gaza are subjected to a repeated pattern of intimidation, direct targeting, siege, and occupation by the Israeli military:
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I wrote about Rashida Tlaib, her fight for Detroit, and what she means for the growing Palestinian rights movement on the Hill. In this week’s issue of
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Jonas Salk, who invented the polio vaccine, did not patent it.
When asked who owns the vaccine, he answered:
"Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?"
After getting taxpayer help to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, Moderna made $12 billion in net income in 2021 and juiced their CEO’s pay by 41%. Now apparently they’re considering quadrupling the vaccine price, up to $130 a dose.
Corporate greed can’t come before public health.
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It wasn’t just the FBI, but also police departments like the NYPD, that scoured communities with informants to find “terrorists.” But because there were hardly any actual terrorists around, the government ended up manufacturing the very threat it was trying to fight.
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In 2001, Congress passed the Patriot Act, allowing mass surveillance. Over the years, the FBI grew a stable of informants to 15,000, who scoured communities looking for potential extremists.
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Some of those who registered told me that they were kept overnight and taunted. One told me officers kept a pile of handcuffs on the table as intimidation. They couldn’t understand why the government was treating them this way.
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Illuminating interview
New Interview: I talked to former Middle East peace negotiator Aaron David Miller about the contradictions of Biden’s Israel policy, and why American leaders are so reluctant to cause conflict with Israel.
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Important piece in
@NewYorker
today by Dexter Filkins on the dangerous rise of Hindu nationalism in Modi's India, and brave reporters
@RanaAyyub
who are fighting it
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@dialash
has done important work on the use of informants:
Also read this powerful story about Terry Albury, a former FBI agent, who realized "I helped destroy people"
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But as one FBI agent told PBS, The old paradigm was innocent until proven guilty, whereas the new paradigm was to assume "we have [no] information to show they’re not engaged in terrorism.”
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The US has left Afghanistan, but has our war ended?
A thread:
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Such policies and shifts have had lasting transformations: families have been destroyed, dreams and ambitions dashed. Some families still struggle financially because their breadwinner was deported or is in prison.
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Watch this powerful video, from
@theCCR
, of the letters they exchanged with each other while in prison:
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“New York is one of the most, if not the most, diverse Muslim cities in the world. There is no such thing as a ‘Muslim world’ somewhere else.”
In this week's
@NewYorker
Talk of the Town, I wrote about a tour that covers Harlem's Muslim & activist history
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I wrote about one such case earlier this year for
@NYTMag
, about the case of an immigrant named Shahawar Matin Siraj, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison, though he never committed a crime of terrorism.
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What's remarkable about the Shireen Abu Akleh case is that the US government is actively ignoring or casting doubt on the work of established media outlets like NYT, WaPo, CNN
A New York Times investigation found that the bullet that killed Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian American journalist, was fired from the approximate location of an Israeli military convoy — most likely by a soldier from an elite unit.
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First murder happened four days after 9/11. Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh.
The inscription on a plaque memorializing him says: “He was killed simply because of the way he looked.”
Today at the 9/11 Memorial in NYC, remembrances of loved ones mixed with powerful moments like this:
"Back then, no one cared if you were a Republican, Democrat, age, gender, race, ethnicity, we were united ... it should not take another tragedy to unite our nation ..."
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This feels familiar.
Josh Gottheimer, a moderate Democratic congressman, privately told other Democrats that American Muslims "should feel guilty" or are "all guilty" for the Hamas attack
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Why aren’t airlines required to operate at 25% capacity, like restaurants?
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I wrote about what the past month has been like for some Gazans and their Palestinian-American relatives, for
@NewYorker
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In 2009, two University of Texas scholars found that journalists helped brand the War on Terror policy, then "labeled the frame as public opinion,” ultimately contributing to the acceptance of that frame as a “fact of life,” and a “larger narrative of struggle and heroism.”
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"This isn't a place like Iraq or Afghanistan that has seen conflict raging for decades; this is a relatively civilized, relatively European...city"
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What kind of America votes Trump & a Muslim immigrant woman into public office the same night? My piece on
@IlhanMN
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NYPD didn't just monitor Muslims, it employed "mosque crawlers" to listen to what Muslims were saying, especially political speech. Many times, informants goaded people into making remarks that landed them in jail.
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1. Tomorrow, Congress will vote on the NO BAN Act, which would end Donald Trump's Muslim travel ban and put limits on a president's authority to impose a future blanket ban. It is the first Muslim civil rights bill in the U.S.
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@dialash
@mehdirhasan
@DandiaAsad
Guess what? NYPD assistant chief said that in his six years in the Demographic Unit, that monitored Muslims, there was not a single lead that led to a terrorism investigation.
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As
@NaomiAKlein
reported recently, Big Tech has been helping the Indian government mute dissidents, not just those speaking out about Kashmir
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Last year, one of the biggest women's organizations in Afghanistan shut down its shelters across the country. For
@newyorker
, I wrote about the Afghan women left behind, and what we owe them.
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I wrote about media coverage of ISIS and why it's time to retire the War on Terror lens, for the latest issue of
@thedrift_mag
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@dialash
@mehdirhasan
@DandiaAsad
Bloomberg repeatedly defended Muslim surveillance. "We have to keep this country safe."
Guess who also justifies his anti-Muslim policies by citing national security?
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As Gaza’s health system collapses, the American Medical Association, a significant lobbying group, voted against considering a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza
Shifa hospital has collapsed. Wounded and staff leaving in droves. Missile attacks this morning on outpatient dept. which housed internally displaced.
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In light of this renewed fervor for a holy war against Islam (by Donald Trump Jr), re-upping my essay on how Rumi, a Muslim, can be a best-selling poet in the U.S., and yet Islam is still be feared in this country
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CALL: Do you know anyone affected by counterterrorism policies after 9/11, such as detention, registration, surveillance, etc? I am part of a team collecting oral histories of the post-9/11 period. Please get in touch!
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Media often frames the Kashmir conflict as an India vs Pakistan issue—to the detriment of Kashmiris. My latest:
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@dialash
@mehdirhasan
NYPD went after college students too, sitting in during Muslim student meetings, and following politically-active ones in particular. These tactics had a chilling effect on the larger community, forcing Muslims to self-censor their speech, limit their times at mosques.
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Get even more angry after reading this
NYPD will not discipline cop who killed
#EricGarner
, despite Civilian Complaint Review Board recommendation:
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Iraq parliament approves measure to restrict entry of Americans. Could affect journos, aid workers, military, contractors.
#MuslimBan
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@dialash
@mehdirhasan
@DandiaAsad
In its report on Islamophobia, Center for American Progress originally had a chapt about NYPD surveillance, describing it as a sophisticated, institutionalized form of Islamophobia. The chapter never made it in the final version. It helped that Bloomberg donated to CAP.
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Thread:
Today, India's Ministry of Information Technology ordered Twitter to suspend hundreds of accounts, including those of journalists, media outlets, activists, and accounts representing farmers, who are currently protesting against Modi's government.
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So many harrowing bits in this interview with
@SeemaJilani
On one of her first patients in Gaza:
New Interview: I talked to Seema Jilani, a pediatrician who spent two weeks working at a hospital in Gaza, about her experiences, and what Israel’s refusal to allow sufficient medicine into the territory has meant for Gaza’s children.
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Imagine how Obama felt when people doubted he was even American--a rumor started by the current president
Spicer: "When you wake up every day... and you're not seeing stories about the success he is having... yeah it is a little disappointing."
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Ajay Kumar was in ICE detention for nearly a year before he decided to go on hunger strike -- he didn't eat or drink for more than 70 days.
I spoke to Ajay about his decision, and how ICE responds to hunger-strikers like him
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Update on this story:
The case is still pending in Virginia courts, and the child is still with the Masts -- despite the USG saying the Masts should not have been able to adopt her.
For months I have been investigating how a US Marine adopted a baby girl who was orphaned in Afghanistan, and took her away from her family. This is a story about the battle over a little girl -- and about the fictions we tell ourselves. For
@NYTmag
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Spicer's answer is terrible, but the good Muslim/bad Muslim labels and seeing Muslims just through national security lens is not new
Asked to condemn Islamophobia, Sean Spicer completely dodges the question, talks about "radical Islamic terrorism" instead.
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This debate, which many lawmakers wish was quiet, is getting louder
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Incredible how the rallying cry that Islam is a threat to America has largely disappeared
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