At the request of my mom&aunt: this is a last ditch effort to find their missing brother, Eli Adler, handed off to a fixer during WWII near Grodzisko/Leszajsk Poland and never seen again. If you have any leads, or would like more info, please message me. Please RT.
Schools in need of space for kids to socially distance...Movie theaters around the nation sitting empty for the foreseeable future...Let them earn federal tax breaks for using their spaces as lecture halls. Welcome to AMC High!
The debate commission & cable news nets are totally missing the zeitgeist on this one: the massive proliferation of podcasts is further evidence that audiences are willing to sit and listen to actual conversations about issues. The 90-second game show format is dumb and dated.
HAPPENING NOW:
@Columbia
students have taken over a building for protests. Jewish students and faculty are pleading with the university to shut it down but are being rebuffed.
During my research on Jim Comey, I did a deep dive on the US Atty of the Southern District (he had the job, too). This may be helpful context for those unfamiliar with the office/its role: 1. It’s arguably the most powerful prosecutor in the US outside the AG....
3. Here's a clip from
@jonathanvswan
's interview with Jared Kushner.
Jonathan mentions that
@AOC
calls the President a racist and then asks Kushner about Birtherism and the Muslim ban.
The entire interview is really good and I hope
@HBOPR
posts the entire interview on YouTube
I’m old enough to remember when Trump told Jews voting Dem made them “disloyal”...and then said they should vote for him to protect their money...and then went to a car plant and talked about Henry Ford’s good bloodlines...
Is
@ProjectLincoln
actually converting Republican voters? How skewed are polls by closet Trump supporters? Did the abortion litmus test doom the GOP by driving out centrists? Cofounder
@ReedGalen
tells all on Season 2 premier of
#HazmatHotel
with
@Lea
.
I know it’s premature, but we should rechristen the Sunday b/f Labor Day “Front Line Day”. For the drs, Rns, first responders, delivery ppl, researchers, drivers, orderlies, cleaners who literally risk everything on our front lines. What would our country be without them?
I’ve watched a lifetime of movies where the shlub gets the bombshell (knocked up starring, ahem, Seth rogen...half of the Kevin James cannon.) I’m ready for movies where our heroine peels off her bra as soon as she gets home from work—and still gets a Hemsworth.
The part of Lor was played by Julianne Nicholson. And I want to see her dressed by some serious A list designers for the Emmys because that woman earned her statue this evening.
I’d watch
@Pixar
’s
#Soul
alone first before seeing it w/ the kids. There’s A LOT in here for adults, esp at this moment, esp this time of year, as you wrestle with the detours & what comes next. I’ve been thinking about it nonstop since I saw it last night (bravo
@Powerkeni
):
The portrait in the background: The Signing of the Declaration of Independence by Charles E. Armand-Dumaresq, donated to WH by Holocaust survivor Sam Salz, to thank the US for welcoming him as a refugee.
This is the field where my grandmother’s family was murdered in April 1943. I met one of the witnesses, a neighbor, several years ago. She said she saw them being marched away, was told by a Nazi to get back inside or risk joining them... 1/
#InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay
Videos show sailors sending off ousted USS Roosevelt commander with cheers: US Navy relieved the captain who sounded the alarm about a coronavirus outbreak aboard the ship -
@eslavin_stripes
.
@JustinTrudeau
,
@EmmanuelMacron
,
@BorisJohnson
and other VIPs shared a few words at a Buckingham Palace reception Tuesday. No one mentions
@realDonaldTrump
by name, but they seem to be discussing his lengthy impromptu press conferences from earlier in the day. (Video: Host Pool)
Now would be the perfect time for somone to repost that "How Katie Holmes secretly pulled off divorcing Tom Cruise" story, with the burner phones and lawyers in every state...
@AkilahObviously
I’ll be wearing the ring my grandmother survived the Holocaust with, while clutching the siddur my mother gave me on my wedding day. Faith.
In the video, President Trump “strikes John McCain in the back of the neck. He hits Rosie O’Donnell in the face and then stabs her in the head. He strikes Representative Maxine Waters. He lights the head of Senator Bernie Sanders on fire.”
Only out of towners would plan a protest on a Sunday morning on 5th Avenue, two blocks from Trump Tower. Probably the quietest stretch of NYC, especially during a pandemic. But you really owned those libs!
FEMA gave a $55,000,000 no-bid contract to a bankrupt company with no employees for N95 masks – which they don't make or have – at 7x the cost others charge.
At Highlights, our core belief is that children are the world's most important people. In light of the reports of the living conditions of detained children & threats of further deportation & family separation, here is a statement from our CEO Kent Johnson.
#KeepFamiliesTogether
Just here to say that one of the most iconic fashion magazine covers in history was under the brilliant stewardship of
@laurabrown99
and her aces at
@InStyle
. How gorgeous is this.
President Trump has told friends he wants to start a digital media company to clobber Fox News.
"He plans to wreck Fox. No doubt about it," said a source with detailed knowledge of Trump's intentions.
3) Barr botched it by not reading the fine print, assuming Berman would go gently into that good night. Tho the office conducts business behind close doors, this raises a big question that doesn't go away til answered: What is Berman investigating that Barr wants to shut down?
Interesting scoop from
@Jezebel
about Sheryl Sandberg's pretzel-like contortions to justify the company's head of public policy throwing Brett Kavanaugh a party in his home.
If Trump loses in November, can Americans rely on law enforcement to ensure a peaceful transition of power? I asked natsec expert
@AshaRangappa_
about the election what ifs, on the latest
#HazmatHotel
.
"Your indifference cost these men and women their most valuable commodity: time."
Jon Stewart receives a standing ovation from 9/11 first responders after slamming lawmakers for failing to fund programs providing healthcare to the first responders
Video of Jewish students being sequestered by security at Cooper Union right now while protestors bang on doors outside. Cops were called over 40mins ago but still no response. They are worried for their safety.
@cooperunion
@nypost
@NYPDChiefOfDept
@thistallawkgirl
The whole "don't go to bed angry" thing is a myth, imho. I'm actually much more sensible in the morning. It's ok to let a fight fester, and return to it when you're calmer. A night's rest will do wonders for your perspective.
If the
@BarackObama
Administration made testing harder how did we manage to test 1 million people within the first month of the H1N1 outbreak? Why did you dismantle the White House office
@BarackObama
created in NSC post Embola? Why did you cut funding to CDC? Come on!
I had some calls today w/ ppl who don’t have kids. And when I asked how they were doing, each caveated their feelings w/ “I know it’s harder w/ kids.” And I just want to say, IT’S HARD. I don’t think I have it harder w/ kids. You don’t need to minimize your struggle. That is all.
In a hypothetical poll, done by one of the worst pollsters of them all, the Amazon Washington Post/ABC, which predicted I would lose to Crooked Hillary by 15 points (how did that work out?), Sleepy Joe, Pocahontas and virtually all others would beat me in the General Election....
CBS News has confirmed Guilfoyle is in South Dakota tonight but did not travel aboard Air Force and was not in direct contact with the President. h/t
@NicoleSganga
Guilfoyle and Donald Trump Jr. will drive home from South Dakota in a car instead of plane.
I’m in Tel Aviv, a km away from the attacks. Made my way back to my Airbnb in wild traffic (several street closures) to find people standing on balconies yelling at pedestrians (including me) to get inside. It was…surreal.
At least six people injured in mass shooting terrorist attack in Tel Aviv just now. One shooter reportedly neutralized, the other still at large. Civilians have been told to stay indoors and lock their homes.
Anyone know where I can sign the open letter to the Times flagging the obsessive, critical and ultimately dangerous coverage of a minuscule, vulnerable community?
@NYTimes
Shout out to
@AlyssaMastro44
and
@yashar
who really helped move the needle. You guys use your platforms for the most amazing things. You change lives, you two.
But this firing of Geoffrey Berman stinks for a slew of reasons articulated by many (including Preet, et al): 1) 5 months before election day. Timing is suspect. 2) Announced hours before Trump rally, an attempt to bury it in news cycle.
Our history teacher Mr. Corby has entered the
@HamiltonMusical
lottery everyday for the past few years without luck so our class pitched in to get him tickets to see the show. He is super excited!!!
@Lin_Manuel
I want to launch a podcast featuring journalists telling their favorite crazy journo stories. All reporters have one! Here’s mine: Eons ago, while at Forbes, hunting billionaires for their rich lists, I traveled to Ukraine to profile a shadowy Russian diamond dealer.
For 25 years the culture at The View has been toxic and an HR nightmare on many levels.
That ABC has never taken any meaningful steps to fix the problems at the View is a disgrace.
We’re not just talking about backstage drama, we’re talking about major HR issues
It beggars belief that in a nation as blessed as ours, with a whole category of tech cajillionaires, we have kids dropping out of school b/c of *poor WiFi*. You want to be legends? Wire low income communities.
I’ll never understand why the police unions don’t come out full force for basic gun reform. How is it not in their best interest? But “the cops are for gun reform and we back the blue” said no politician ever.
Berman was a Jeff Sessions appointment so Trump could have argued “Sessions was terrible and so were his guy” but that he did it now is obviously loaded. The ‘why now’ is the important piece.
Just so she gets the credit she deserves: this is EP’d by Brie Bryant at Lifetime, also EP’d the R Kelly doc. Brie makes the kind of TV that stops you in your tracks. Put her on all your ‘22 lists.
Don’t be fooled by mortgage forbearance by many banks right now. They may suspend monthly payments but they expect the payment of those months in full (minus interest) at the end of the forbearance, vs tacking on to term of your loan. That passes for “relief” in bank land.
Now that I’ve had some time to think about De Blasio, I suppose what I’m trying to say is: I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THE TRAIN FOR 23 MINUTES TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE INFRASTRUCTURE IN YOUR OWN CITY BEFORE YOU RUN FOR PRESIDENT YOU FECKLESS BUREAUCRAT THE GROUNDHOG WOULD BE BETTER
@dave__whiteside
Snacks. Good ones. Lots of them. It sounds ridiculous, but after I delivered, I was famished. And at 3 am, when no one was around and I couldn't drag myself from bed, it was nice to have a duffel bag full of them handy. Chips. Juices. Chocolate. Sweet, savory--all of it.
ONE
My dad died. Classic start to a funny story. He was buried in a small village in Sussex. I was really close to my dad so I visited his grave a lot. I still do. [DON’T WORRY, IT GETS FUNNIER.]