sarah berman
@sarahberms
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don’t call it a cult. pressure cooker. escaping twin flames. rep: @cforde_litagent / @translitagency
Joined October 2008
as promised, you can read my new story here:
vice.com
Before he became the messianic leader of an online spirituality school—and the subject of TV documentaries on Amazon and Netflix—Jeff Ayan aspired to work at Google.
my reporting is featured in a netflix series that dropped today! watch escaping twin flames here: https://t.co/TK9MqB8DPd and watch this space for more from me tomorrow 👀
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budget flex
“The Good Whale” tells the story of the experiment to return Keiko, star of the movie “Free Willy,” to the ocean. In Episode 5, Keiko disappears at sea for weeks without human contact. Since nobody knows what happened during that time, we decided to recreate it as a musical.
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i scouted superfans for this story yesterday. the woman in the photo crocheted that jacket and hand beaded a top naming every taylor song. left me speechless
Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is coming to an end on Sunday night in Vancouver, Canada. With frenzied anticipation in every city, the two-year tour broke attendance records and had vast economic impacts. https://t.co/FLeqOFzNsm
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Read this feature by @jwints and @sarahberms, which traces the legal fight that led to the CRAB Park encampment becoming Vancouver's only fully legal tent community — and how its residents are still fighting for the camp's survival to this day.
macleans.ca
The battle over one tent village in a portside Vancouver park turned it into the city’s only fully legal tent community. What that means for the thousands of Canadians living in encampments nationw...
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Israel is yet to issue the required permits necessary to evacuate the two Al Jazeera journalists shot while reporting in Gaza “We hold the Israeli government responsible for any deterioration of their conditions caused by this prolonged delay.”
Two critically wounded @AJEnglish journalists, Ali Al-Attar and Fadi Al Wahidi, are in need of immediate, lifesaving medical treatment. Al Wahidi was in a coma as of Thursday morning. In a letter to COGAT, the Israeli military office responsible for humanitarian coordination,
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I will never stop talking about the Al Ahli Arab Hospital bombing - it was critical in setting up Palestinian hospitals as ‘legitimate’ targets. But more than that, it was central in being used to establish Palestinians as ‘untrustworthy witnesses’ to their own genocide.
In case you guys were wondering: tonight’s Israeli hellfire that burned alive people in hospital beds comes almost a year to the day when Israel first bombed Al-Ahli hospital. Mainstream media absolved Israel of it, and continues to absolve every other war crime they commit.
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Vancouver’s surprise decision this summer to allow natural gas heating in new buildings followed behind-the-scenes discussions & lobbyist meetings that included the top adviser on the Mayor’s payroll, who is also director of 2 private natural gas companies https://t.co/dO9GtchEz0
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did not expect one of those social media reminders to transport me back through 100+ hours of surveillance tape on a saturday night but here we are
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this story (and podcast) dropped two years ago. the RCMP’s undercover scenarios were generally absurd but the political grievances discussed were very real. israel-palestine conflict circa 2013 among them.
good morning! CBC let me write about the time RCMP faked a meth lab bust just to evacuate john nuttall and amanda korody’s neighbourhood https://t.co/eYnpXki1TW
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calling all literary journalists! i’ll be joining some amazing faculty at the @banffcentre for a two week residency next may. info on how to apply here: https://t.co/riDXgDC4d6?
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More United Nations employees were killed over a period of several months by Israel in Gaza than at any time in the UN's history. There were virtually not repercussions by the UN or its member states, so Israel is now killing UN employees in Lebanon.
Dina Darwiche, a UNHCR employee, has been killed alongside her son Jad in an Israeli strike that hit their residential building in Bekaa, Lebanon😞
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Dina Darwiche, a UNHCR employee, has been killed alongside her son Jad in an Israeli strike that hit their residential building in Bekaa, Lebanon😞
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An unfathomably grim day in Lebanon, with more yet on the horizon. A 5th wave of arial bombardement is now underway, pounding more Lebanese villages, towns & cities. The death toll keeps rising: so far there are 492 dead - among them at least 35 children
ft.com
Deadliest single day in country for decades followed US warnings against escalating attacks on Hizbollah
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Israeli forces carrying guns have entered Al Jazeera’s offices in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, ordering staff to vacate and imposing a 45-day closure.
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Every American journalism school and newspaper editorial board ought to be SCREAMING
BREAKING: Israeli soldiers have stormed the Al Jazeera office in Ramallah, located in the occupied West Bank, and have ordered them to shut down for 45 days. This is a developing story.
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I spoke to a couple Canadian authors about the Giller Prize's decision to drop "Scotiabank" from its name, without divesting from Elbit Systems. “This whole prize is structured around art-washing the genocide in Gaza,” Avik Jain Chatlani said. https://t.co/Xh0zr2kweD
thestar.com
The foundation, which announced its 2024 long list, says the big bank will remain the lead sponsor of the award, but its name has been removed.
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hope this HR investigation confirms whether or not biden has committed a war crime
Top Wash Post editors are reviewing Taylor Lorenz's private Instagram story which appeared to label President Biden a "war criminal" in a photo she took at White House event. She argues it was just a joke off a real social media meme My story for NPR: https://t.co/JaJkPvpHsB
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Now that the fanfare of the Olympics has died down, which was an exciting three weeks, it's a good time to dig into a podcast about how the games impacts cities. I spent a year with people who are moved out, pushed out and priced out in the name of sport. https://t.co/KHvCzywx2D
globalreportingcentre.org
The Olympics are meant to welcome the world, but who are they really for? In this six-part series, meet the people who are moved out, pushed out, and priced out in the name of sport.
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72 hours & no Canadian media coverage. Normally, we’d find the Canadian engineers involved in building the solar powered water plant in Gaza & get a comment from @GAC_Corporate about Israel blowing up their project. But, it’s Israel, so this story wouldn’t make it past the pitch.
Israel blew up the solar powered water treatment plant in Rafah that was drilled by Canada’s CIDA & paid for by Canadian tax payers in 1999. Israel has destroyed all civilian infrastructure in Gaza. Death, destruction, displacement; that’s their plan. Their only plan.
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by this definition of “childless” every US president in history is without children (i don’t think obama, trump or biden gave birth)
JD Vance says women who haven’t given birth like Kamala Harris are “childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives,” and have “no direct stake” in America.
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Hey folks, I tried to avoid this but I’m looking for work—freelance or otherwise. Preferably hybrid (caring for my mom, a stroke survivor) I've written culture/film & tech/gaming critiques & interviewed many. Please reach out with any leads. For more, visit
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