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    7 Sep 2018

    My review for of Chris Martin's . Based on 's superb book, it is a gripping account of the killing of Marie Colvin (and Conroy's near-miraculous escape). I also reflect on what this meant for journalism and .

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    Sep 23

    A woman has been arrested on hate crime charges one month after she allegedly hurled a glass bottle—and a racial slur—at a jogger.

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    14 hours ago

    Bill Murray receives a legal demand from the Doobie Brothers. And it’s everything you’d want it to be...

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    18 hours ago

    It has been *very* interesting to see DC thinktankdom line up behind the "Abraham Accords" after so much resistance to other aspects of Trump's Middle East policy where the UAE is *not* involved

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    5 hours ago

    Former President Obama has urged voters to focus on down-ballot races, arguing that while the presidential race gets the most attention, it is down-ballot races that could have the greatest impact on politically-motivated gerrymandering

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    5 hours ago

    CNN found that Uyghur women were being forced to use birth control and undergo sterilization as part of a deliberate attempt to push down birth rates. Here, Chinese officials confirm to CNN that Xinjiang birth rates dropped by almost a third in 2018.

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    5 hours ago

    "Like Richard Nixon, he is able to combine personal anti-Semitism with a public record of support for Israel. What can’t be plausibly denied, however, is that he is an anti-Semite."

    Report: Trump Said Jews Are ‘Only in it for Themselves’
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    6 hours ago

    I’m the one who got hit and I don’t tell the story this much.

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    "They say it hurts. That is only going 52 miles per hour. A bullet goes about 2000 miles per hour." -- Trump on Ali Velshi getting shot with a rubber bullet in Minneapolis
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    6 hours ago

    There is now more evidence than ever that is imprisoning - a must read by

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    6 hours ago

    : Taxi driver saves protestor from the police. (📹)

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    6 hours ago

    This is a beautiful way to honor Chadwick Boseman. It is perfectly him.

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    12 hours ago

    A sharp rebuke to those who point fingers at sanctions as the cause of human suffering in Syria. As usual, the path leads directly back to the corruption of the regime and its willingness to exploit ordinary people for profit.

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    20 hours ago

    My latest book purchase by as recommended by my buddy .

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    7 hours ago

    You can use ASPI's new Xinjiang Data Project to find 380 detention facilities, 396 destroyed cultural sites and 570 destroyed mosques. It draws on open source data including satellite imagery, Chinese government documents and official statistics.

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    17 hours ago

    The framing of the remains the same today as when we published in Aug. 2019: We acknowledged 1776 as this nation's official founding but asked readers to imagine what it would mean to consider 1619 as our birth year. That text hasn't changed.

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  16. 8 hours ago

    An investigation by BBC News Arabic has found that Russian oligarch, Roman Abramovich, controls companies that have donated $100m to extremist Israeli settlers.

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    Sep 23

    Revolution Calling!

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    13 hours ago

    . is enabling and amplifying the smearing of Breonna Taylor. Just in case you didn’t think the platform was hateful enough.

    the top 2 posts on all of Facebook about are videos from Candace Owens & Charlie Kirk smearing her.
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    10 hours ago

    “This is an election between Donald Trump and democracy – and democracy must win. ”

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    16 hours ago

    Yeah I was in Aleppo just as ISIS was kicked out by other factions + as the regime continued to bomb the city. No one needed convincing that ISIS + Assad were two sides of the same coin. They lead their own PR for that. Here’s the footage I filmed in 2014.

    UK gov contractor called InCoStrat boasted of building a massive “network of over 1600 journalists and key influencers with an interest in .” It claimed responsibility for creating the Syria narrative: "ISIS & Assad - two sides of the same coin"
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    13 hours ago

    Andy Ngo contacted me about a book talk I gave a couple years ago, which he's apparently planning to report on as "clandestine training." This is absurd, but so is he and the Post Millenial.

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