I wrote a new piece about the Patchwork Pandemic--not one crisis but many interconnected ones playing out in very different ways across the country, making things harder to predict, control, or come to terms with. The piece has three parts. 1/ https://t.co/n33jpJkNp7
Hi! I also have a name, it’s Jocelyn Benson. And we sent applications, not ballots. Just like my GOP colleagues in Iowa, Georgia, Nebraska and West Virginia. https://t.co/kBsu4nHvOy
One of the things I love about my job is that I learn so many new things with every story. That was particularly true in my reporting for this story about #covid19 clusters and susperspreading events. Read it here and/or bear with me for a thread... https://t.co/jLG8IUPga5
“Lots of Americans ... want to live in a country that doesn’t insist you have to live like the elites. They want to stop being considered losers for not wanting to shape their life around building a resume.” Read the whole thing https://t.co/JSXJmAnJel
By Floyd Abrams & John Langford, May 19. Abrams is a visiting lecturer at Yale Law School and author of “The Soul of the First Amendment.”.Langford is counsel at Protect Democracy.
Young people entering the job market during any downturn face lasting disadvantages. In this crisis, the pattern may play out with a vengeance. https://t.co/3AhZzKiWbW
We don't want to see a world where inaccurate tests disrupt people’s lives and invade their privacy, give a false sense of security, or waste time and other resources that could be better used in fighting the pandemic. https://t.co/h4hBuHSiQc
“You are at all times independent. This absolute freedom of the cyclist can be known only to the initiated,” Maria Ward wrote in her 1896 manifesto Bicycling for Ladies (https://t.co/P0t8i9OHrZ) and apparently this virus-stricken world is with her now: https://t.co/XcHEZJLx7P
Powerful analysis from @FukuyamaFrancis in @aminterest In China, we are “dealing with an aspiring totalitarian country like the mid-20th century Soviet Union, and not with some kind of generic “authoritarian capitalist” regime.” https://t.co/1ZmRIyRyCV
What a quote: “We needed our Thrasher’s. We know an employee at the Wawa who just died of this. So it hits close to home. But we needed this break today.” https://t.co/EsMytrpLQv
— Amanda Kolson Hurley (@amandakhurley) May 18, 2020
SCOOP: Allies of Saudis imprisoned by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) are hiring lobbyists with ties to TRUMP world to try to convince the US to press for their freedom.
But it could be an uphill fight, given the ties between MBS & Trump + KUSHNER. https://t.co/031Xz9i4cC
The man, the myth, the legend - in his own words! Don't miss this spectacular documentary about Justice Clarence Thomas, airing TONIGHT on PBS at 9/8c (sorry, west coast, check your local listings). https://t.co/VZpnaKalJn
