Seth Maxon
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Editor/journalist helping out at @voxdotcom and https://t.co/eXwtL326vn. Edited politics and sports at @slate for a long time. @methsaxon.bsky.social.
Brooklyn
Joined August 2012
RT @joshuakeating: Why won't Ukraine just redraw its borders to end the war? . I took a look at the risks for Ukraine's military position,….
vox.com
The future of the country’s borders is more than just a real estate deal.
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.@MollyOlmstead asked, and his answer was very weird.
slate.com
We really, really didn't expect this.
Has anyone in the press corps publicly asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth yet why he approvingly shared a clip calling for women's to lose their right to vote?. If not, why not?.
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Wish more Israelis and Americans understood what @dahliasc articulates so clearly in her interview with @zackbeauchamp about Israeli public opinion.
vox.com
An Israeli pollster explains what people there actually think about the events shocking the world’s conscience.
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RT @abdallah_fayyad: I wrote about the long history of engineering famines—and what makes Israel’s starvation of Gaza unique: https://t.co/….
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There’s a long history of using starvation as a weapon of war. But this is different.
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Very useful and troubling explainer of what’s in the Columbia agreement, and why these Ivy League capitulations endanger every college and university, from @nicolenarea.
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The Ivy League agreements with Trump are a danger to all of higher ed.
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Really useful explainer from @joshuakeating on how—even after nearly two years of horrors—we got to this particularly horrific moment in Gaza.
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Who is to blame for the failure to feed Gazans?
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Bracing interview from @nicolenarea with @JeremyKonyndyk on famine in Gaza. “This is a ‘do harm’ ethos . You’re creating a situation where, in order to access aid, you compel people to cross a military perimeter where they are routinely shot at.”.
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A veteran aid worker’s warning on what happens next in Gaza.
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RT @Reuters: An internal US government analysis found no evidence of systematic theft by the Palestinian militant group Hamas of US-funded….
reuters.com
An internal U.S. government analysis found no evidence of systematic theft by the Palestinian militant group Hamas of U.S.-funded humanitarian supplies, challenging the main rationale that Israel and...
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Republicans may regret this.
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Senate Republicans are taking an enormous risk with the federal bench right now.
Emil Bove nomination to Third Circuit advances, 50-48. Collins and Murkowski voted no.
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Watching the horrors in Gaza, thinking about this piece I edited last April from famine expert @YanSlobodkin on how to think about mass starvation as a process, not an arbitrary threshold of widespread hunger that either has been passed or not.
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There are three key factors to understand.
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Trump take cow.
The average price of a pound of ground beef rose to $6.12 in June, up nearly 12% from a year ago, according to U.S. government data. The average price of all uncooked beef steaks rose 8% to $11.49 per pound.
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The Trump administration’s deportation policies are premised on a fundamental misunderstanding of what will happen when all those people are gone. Another banger from @nicolenarea:
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The economic logic of deporting undocumented workers doesn’t add up.
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Very happy to have started helping out with some editing at @voxdotcom. New one from @nicolenarea on what ICE will do with its big payday is very useful (and alarming).
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ICE just got its biggest cash infusion in more than two decades. We know how they’re going to spend it.
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RT @alex_sammon: Happy pub day to the one and only @aymanndotcom—read this excerpt today in @slate, buy the book, be dazzled by his charms….
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The many male-only spaces of Cairo and my journey to fatherhood.
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RT @AP: BREAKING: Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil has been released from federal immigration detention after 104 days in custody. http….
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Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil has been released from federal immigration detention. The former Columbia University graduate student left a federal facility in Louisiana on Friday after 104 days...
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Do you ever think about death?.
NY Times reports that The Washington Post will build an opinion site stocked with pieces by outside writers, aided by AI that tells writers how their piece is shaping up, analyzing the story's “early thesis,” “supporting points” and “memorable ending.”
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Great reporting, important story.
slate.com
One hour inside the prison holding America's political prisoners.
My report from inside “the black hole” of Jena, LA, the excruciating ICE detention center in which Mahmoud Khalil is being kept, and the story of one woman’s attempt to provide a brief respite, by bringing him photos of his newborn son, whose birth ICE refused to let him see.
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Please read the incredible work Ruwaida did for me at Slate.
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All stories by Ruwaida Amer
The heavy bombing does not stop. I cannot sleep at night because of the intensity of the bombing. I am afraid that my heart will stop from the intensity of the fear. If something happens to me, don’t forget me and talk about me a lot. I am not a number, I’m very great story.
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