Phenomenal reporting from Reuters here shows that AT&T is responsible for the founding and for putting up ~90 percent of the revenue of OAN News. https://t.co/uuxe0Xm748
A top-secret cable warned every CIA base last week about troubling numbers of foreign informants who have been killed, arrested or turned into double agents. Intelligence services in Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan have been hunting down CIA sources. https://t.co/4H5TBG7M3L
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have apparently all gone down in a major outage.
The social network and the Facebook-owned platforms all stopped working around 11:30 a.m. ET Monday morning according to the site Down Detector. The outage affects nearly 7 billion users between the three platforms.
California officials are trying to limit the damage from a major oil spill off the coast of Orange County, as clumps of oil and dead fish and birds wash up on beaches south of Los Angeles https://t.co/XCfIrDJB00
A massive trove of private financial records shared with The Washington Post exposes vast reaches of the secretive offshore system used to hide billions of dollars from tax authorities, creditors, criminal investigators and citizens around the world. https://t.co/xHOaGlp2yb
Good exchange of letters in the NYRB in which Sean Wilentz briefly summarizes the most compelling reasons not to regard the United States as founded on white supremacy https://t.co/zz7PRGMgvXpic.twitter.com/HxRwRp1GJV
PENNY PRITZKER ’81, a member of the Harvard Corporation since 2018, has made a $100-million commitment to build a new home for the economics department, the University announced today. Beyond satisfying a long-term need for the economics faculty, the gift suggests some of the ways in which the Corporation’s role has evolved [....]
Link is to "Sinema" trending on Twitter; AOC is so yesterday. Lots of interesting opinions and reactions. She is either self-aggrandizing for personal gain or representing a new political paradigm or both. I start with The Onion, because they are the wisest as usual. A few more examples I found of interest in the first comment.
“Murder may be up 30%, they argue, but property crime is down; nothing to see here… It’s worth debating what caused the problem and how we can address it—But denying [it] exists, especially under the cover of weak statistics and analysis, isn’t helpful.”https://t.co/igJs89Rj57
#Mexico | Northern Guatemala has been seeing an escalation in threats and shootouts that have been blamed on Mexico's most dangerous cartel, the CJNG. https://t.co/OKRW9LEZyL
Some new intermarriage stats from Pew. 39% outmarriage rate for U.S.-born Hispanics in 2019.
Intermarriage is happening a lot faster for Hispanics than it did for Italians and Jews at a comparable point in time after their big immigration wave. pic.twitter.com/HD4JKfM8mW
