Liam Stack
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I write about New York for @nytmetro . Once in Cairo, now in New York City. Khawaga-at-large. liam.stack @nytimes .com.
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The director of the World Food Program, Cindy McCain, said parts of the Gaza Strip are experiencing a “full-blown famine” that is rapidly spreading throughout the territory after almost seven months of war. “It is a horror,” she said of conditions there.
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“If it wasn’t my job I would do it for free. It was absolutely my pleasure to crush a white nationalist insurrection,” he said. “And we’ll do it as many times as it takes.”
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the woke mob
Mafia drops ban on homosexuality after discovering mob boss’ son is a fabulous drag queen
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Under 40? Expect an 'unprecedented' life of extreme heat waves, droughts and floods.
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European politicians appear to be making some sort of coronavirus vaccine beefcake pinup calendar
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Can you imagine Ronald Reagan mishandling the response to a new, deadly virus?
Fmr. AG Holder says President Trump's coronavirus response shows he "is not up for the job."
“Can you imagine Ronald Reagan…can you imagine Bill Clinton… either of the Bushs…Barack Obama saying that this is something for the states to work out?”
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@AOC
just gave an impassioned speech about impeachment to more than 100,000 people on Instagram at 11 o’clock on a Tuesday night.
Her natural political skills, spontaneous eloquence and fluency with social media are so striking, especially at a national moment like this.
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The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, ladies and gentlemen! Let’s give 2020 a round of applause.
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A New Zealand man brought an emotional support clown to a meeting where he knew he’d be fired. The clown blew up balloons and folded them into a series of animals throughout the meeting, then mimed crying when the man was handed a pink slip.
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So, I tested positive for Covid-19 last week, even though I’m fully vaccinated. Consider this a PSA that “breakthrough cases” are uncommon but not freakishly rare — my doctor in Manhattan told me I was the third one she’d seen in 2 weeks.
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“West of Manhattan” is the New Yorkiest possible way to refer to New Jersey
A 4.8 magnitude earthquake hit west of Manhattan and has been felt throughout New York.
My team is assessing impacts and any damage that may have occurred, and we will update the public throughout the day.
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Lindsey Graham swarmed by angry Trump supporters at the airport. “It’s gonna be like this wherever you go, for the rest of your life!”
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The US Embassy in London is directly contradicting
@realDonaldTrump
's criticism of
@SadiqKhan
I commend the strong leadership of the
@MayorofLondon
as he leads the city forward after this heinous attack. – LLukens 3/3
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When I was in college there was a Catholic priest who taught a class called “The Church and the poor.” He began each semester by slamming his hand on his desk and shouting “IT NEVER TRICKLES DOWN!”
50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says
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My latest: there is a killer, or maybe more than one, stalking gay bars in NYC. At least 2 men were drugged, robbed using their phone’s facial recognition tech, and killed.
More survived similar attacks, most recently on Nov 12. I spoke to 6 survivors.
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In the future, if anyone ever asks me what the 2020s were like I will tell them, “Well, there was this one day when ‘Armageddon’ was trending on Twitter, but it was trending under ‘politics,’ and everyone was so burnt out that it was only the 29th most trending thing.”
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Here is a picture of Lady Gaga taking a golden microphone, as Mike Pence looks on, so she can sing the national anthem at the inauguration of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. This is how the Trump era ends.
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The FBI Director was just asked under oath if this tweet was accurate. He said this tweet is not what he said.
The NSA and FBI tell Congress that Russia did not influence electoral process.
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Steven Anderson, an American preacher who told his congregation that he prayed for the death of Obama and praised the gunman who killed 49 people at an Orlando gay bar, has become the first person ever banned from Ireland
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Trump said he placed sanctions on Ayatollah Khomeini, who died in 1989.
President Trump has just signed an executive order to deny Iran's Supreme Leader and his associates access to key financial resources and support.
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Cheers of “Trump! You’re! Fired!” break out in Times Square as thousands of New Yorkers celebrate the defeat of
@realDonaldTrump
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There are thousands of people in Times Square right now cheering, singing, dancing and celebrating the defeat of
@realDonaldTrump
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A 70 year old coronavirus survivor in Seattle has received a hospital bill charging him $1,122,501.04 for life saving healthcare. The bill is 181 pages long.
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Here are some things Trump advisor Roger Stone spent Saturday night saying to random people on Twitter
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May you all love something in life as much as people from Philadelphia love being from Philadelphia
gritty and the eagle are now dancing together because Philly
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Schumer says Biden can cancel up to $50,000 of people’s student debt via executive order
Chuck Schumer to
@AnandWrites
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argues for an FDR-like first 100 days.
Says they will focus on:
climate
$15 minimum wage
infrastructure bill that will also employee ppl w/ prison records
student debt cancellation via executive order
immigration
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Rudy Giuliani:
• spelled Lindsey Graham’s name wrong
• spelled Sotomayor’s name wrong
• spelled Kagan’s name wrong
• never voted to confirm either of them because he never served in the U.S. Senate
Senator Lindsay Graham distinguished himself today as the fairest man and the best lawyer in Washington. He voted for Justices Sotormayor and Kagen on old fashioned principles. I also did. If he is going to vote for Judge Kavanaugh, the Senate all should.
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I love the use of “allegedly” here
Brazen daylight robbery caught on camera as a seagull allegedly enters a bakery and steals a bag of chips.
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What is happening at the Capitol is nothing like Benghazi. It is nothing like Iraq. It is nothing like “a third world country.” I am hearing so many of these comparisons on cable news. This is politics in America — the richest, most powerful country on Earth. Americans own it.
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This is a lie. I have worked in Gaza for international publications and Hamas did not control me or my colleagues.
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The 2020 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree looks like one of those really old tree people in “Lord of the Rings” that just wanders off into the forest to die
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I recently interviewed a 19 year old who told me "I am an old soul, so I tend to identify with millennials."
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An Italian-American Secretary of State saying multiculturalism is un-American is a good example of pulling the ladder up after you once you’ve reached the top
Woke-ism, multiculturalism, all the -isms — they're not who America is. They distort our glorious founding and what this country is all about. Our enemies stoke these divisions because they know they make us weaker.
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A Brooklyn man died last year of a mysterious, drug resistant infection. After he died, every object in his room tested positive for it. The walls, the bed, the doors, the curtains, the ceiling. Everything.
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When I joined Twitter the energy on here was “young revolutionaries overthrowing Mubarak and changing the world” and now it’s “traumatized middle aged people just barely holding on by a thread.”
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WSJ reports that Trump and his team didn't realize what a big job the United States presidency was, so Obama will give him "guidance."
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NYC is so expensive when the aliens get here they just go straight to Queens
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I am at a restaurant and a lady just asked the waiter to tell her about the toast and without missing a beat he said “It is two pieces of bread, heated and finished with butter.”
The customer then said, “oh that sounds good, I’ll have that.”
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There will be many partisan efforts to spin the Fall of Afghanistan, but after 20 years and 4 presidents from 2 parties, the entire US governing class is implicated in this. Every official or DC think tanker or cable news talking head you see on TV today.
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Claudia Conway posted two video compilations tonight that appear to show her mother, Kellyanne Conway, verbally abusing her.
"What the fuck is wrong with you?"
"You can't get coronavirus from the president."
"You're lucky your mother is pro-life."
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The Satanic Temple launched a virtual abortion clinic in New Mexico where patients can receive tele-health screenings and "free religious medication abortion care."
They have named it "The Samuel Alito’s Mom’s Satanic Abortion Clinic."
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Every night the internet is flooded with new videos of police brutality in NYC and every morning
@NYCMayor
tells the people of New York that the things they saw never happened
Cops hit a man with batons and shove a reporter after arrests on Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn. Wild
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Today I learned that my cousin’s 11 year old daughter somehow downloaded The Washington Post app — without my cousin’s knowledge — at the age of 9 and has been a loyal reader for the last two years.
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A doctorate in what now from where?
#Iran
: Brig. General Mohammad Hassan Nami has announced his candidacy for president. He holds a doctorate degree in state management from North Korea. He says he would drop out of the race if chief justice Raisi decides to run. Election on to be held in June.
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The
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just announced they will honor Juneteenth, Veterans Day, and Indigenous Peoples' Day for non-union employees only. This is a new low in union busting designed to scare our
@NYTGuildTech
colleagues before they vote in their election. We will fight it, and we'll win.
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first rule of homosexuality
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John McCain: “I don’t give a damn what the president of the United States wants to do. We will not waterboard.”
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The bearded man on the left is wearing a shirt that says “Camp Auschwitz” over the image of a human skull
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His Facebook page includes Pepe, swastikas, Bashar al-Assad (called "undefeated") & a baby picture of Adolf Hitler
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38% of Coronavirus patients who were sick enough to be hospitalized were were between the ages of 20 and 54. Roughly half of those were between 20 and 44.
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a school therapist
ARRESTED: Christine Priola, a school therapist who stormed the Capitol & got to
@VP
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Hundreds of protesters, lead by more than 100 doctors and medical personnel, are now taking a knee in Times Square
#nycprotests
#GeorgeFloyd
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I do not know what kind of creature this is but I identify with it very strongly
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This is the best child actor I have ever seen in my life
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If you have a baby this year, the most severe effects of climate change could cause a planet-wide crisis by the time that baby is 22 years old.
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RuPaul once said the key to success is knowing who you are and delivering at all times and The Year 2020 has really taken that advice to heart
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BREAKING: UK government now mandates crop tops in all settings where social distancing is not possible
U.K. Government advice on how to make your own face coverings.... using old t-shirts.
👕+✂️=😷
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Coronavirus has made my friends and I fast forward to old age: every day we ask each other about our health and our small talk is like “I took a walk today” or “I sat by the window for a while.”
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There aren’t usually NYPD officers lined up at the entrance to the NYT building. One of them said it was a “precaution” after the newsroom shooting in Annapolis.
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Unionize your workplace, even if that workplace is a one thousand year old monarchy
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AOC is now taking questions from viewers. There are very few people in the United States, politicians or otherwise, who would either agree to do this sort of event or would be any good at it. And she does things like this pretty often.
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I would read an oral history of how CNN’s New Year’s Eve show became so gay
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“The president and a small group of people know exactly what she meant” --
@PressSec
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#🚦lolaklkk🚥🚦⛲️🚝🚦🚞🚢🚂
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CNN found a man on the street in London, Martin Kenyon, age 91, who was one of the first people in the world to receive the coronavirus vaccine.
“Well, there’s no point in dying now when I’ve lived this long, is there?”
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I have replaced three square meals a day with one oblong meal that stretches through all of my waking hours.
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Australian TV viewers got to watch an American police officer punch an Australian cameraman, cutting off the live report to the visible shock of the TV anchors back in Australia
Here’s how this scene was viewed live in Australia. One of America’s closest and most dependable allies. Rendered speechless. Just watch.
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The New York Times published its first article about HIV/AIDS 40 years ago today: “Rare Cancer Seen In 41 Homosexuals.”
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I spent many years reporting from Egypt and here is one thing I learned: when people begin to believe that their country’s military has taken a political side, society can unravel very quickly.
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This man brought his goose to the “count every vote” protest. I love New York City.
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Also, another thing to note: at no point did I have the most famous symptoms of Covid. It did not attack my lungs, and I never lost my sense of taste or smell. I got tested out of an abundance of caution — even the doctor who tested me said he thought it wasn’t COVID. But it was.
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"I Voted" stickers in Ulster County NY are designed by the winner of a student contest judged at the end of July. This year's leading design has more than 37,000 votes (94% of the total) which is a higher tally than the county saw in the June primaries.
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“People used to fear Trump’s wrath,” a former friend of Ivanka’s said. “Now they fear his affiliation.”
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Now that it’s getting dark the civilians directing traffic in Hell’s Kitchen are using whatever light they can get, including cellphones and... light sabers
#NYCblackout
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I am so shocked and so sad to hear about the tragic death of Blake Hounshell (
@NYTBlake
@blakehounshell
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Steve Bannon was arrested by the Postal Service
From CBS' Pat Milton: Steve Bannon was taken into custody today by US Postal Service agents. He's expected to be arraigned today before a US magistrate.
@SDNYnews
alleges he had a role in defrauding donors as part of an online crowdfunding campaign known as “We Build the Wall”
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Kabul Airport is the last patch of Afghanistan still under American control. Chaos, panic, desperation.
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Kellyanne Conway made up a non-existent terrorist attack to help justify Trump's immigration ban
.
@KellyannePolls
says that 2 Iraqi refugees "were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre."
(There was no such massacre.)
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“He voted against adding ‘sexual orientation, gender identity, gender and disability’ to the federal hate crime protection groups, against the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ and for the Defense of Marriage Act.”
Former GOP Congressman Aaron Schock spotted at Coachella making out with a guy
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I’m old enough to remember when people thought this website was going to bring democracy to the Middle East
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I am mostly fine at this point — my symptoms seem to be winding down, aside from congestion and fatigue. It’s been unpleasant. Getting Covid while vaccinated, for me at least, felt like the flu. If you feel like you’ve got a bad cold or flu, go get tested!
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I genuinely thought “West Elm Caleb” was going to be about something like this
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This same royal cousin, Princess Michael of Kent, was accused of racism in 2004 when she told a group of black diners in New York (a former colony) that they should “go back to the colonies.”
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I’ve been wondering this for weeks. I was hospitalized on New Year’s Eve for what an ER doctor called “a monster pneumonia” and then missed a month of work.
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