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It's gonna be the kind of week where @normeisen.bsky.social breaks big news at least once a day (yesterday was this and mail-in ballots, which will be lack later this week, today-tomorrow will be Davey Hearn).
More thoughts from me--- and a breakdown of the arbitrator's decision. The Washington Post Fired Me. I Fought—and Won My Job Back. karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...
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If Dems take back the House, Hakeem Jeffries must not become Speaker. The Dem Party, the entire country, needs a Speaker who will meet this moment. By meeting with Jared Kushner, Jeffries proved he cannot meet this moment. Give this a read.👇 socialcontractwithjoewalsh.substack.com/p/hakeem-jef...
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17 August 1974, When Will I See You Again" made No 1 on the UK singles chart. It was a soul-pop song by The Three Degrees, featuring a classic Philadelphia Soul sound. Written by Gamble and Huff, the track explored the emotional uncertainty of a new relationship. It was their only No.1 #ThreeDegrees
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My latest, on how the British/global media hounded Jason Arday to death. “Given the history of white media’s key role in terror against Black people, at what point do we call such actions of journalism outlets digital terror campaigns? “ karenattiah.substack.com/p/jason-arda...
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💯. A great example is how Bill Ackman made it his life’s work to ruin a black woman’s life over accusations of plagiarism and anti-semitism. Then it came out that his new wife had also been credibly accused of plagiarism. With a straight face, he said when his wife did it, it was different.
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A load bearing mythos of pop leftism is that the Dems used to be good and for the working man and then embraced neoliberalism so the working man got sold out, instead of "white America as a whole turned on the Dems after the Civil Rights Act and began tearing down their own commons and prosperity"
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“Virtually every destroyed building is a crime scene, containing the uncounted remains of victims beneath it.” Israel cleared 11+ million tons of debris likely holding human remains in a “deliberate” move to erase evidence of genocide & war crimes, Ahmad Abushawish reports.
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“I begin each morning with the same gnawing fear: Did my insulin make it through the night?” In Gaza, displacement & chronic illness are a slow-burning crisis, Lojain Naswhan reports. For displaced Palestinians living with diabetes, accessing insulin is a matter of life & death.
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UK TV news gave the Edinburgh terror attack on five Muslim men just 160 minutes of coverage. A comparable antisemitic attack in London two months earlier received 1,107 minutes, according to new data from the Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM), an independent media monitoring project based in London
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On this day in 1964, #TheBeatles started a 21-week run at the top of the UK album charts with A Hard Day's Night. youtu.be/9_c2XZd9mMo?...