Paige Williams
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Staff writer @NewYorker | #HottyToddy | https://t.co/rqvF0LIFAa
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Give it to *her.* She saved herself.
It's not clear where the $50,000 reward offered in the Jayme Closs kidnapping case will go now that the 13-year-old is home safe.
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“He’s never cared about us" — Secret Service agent, as reported by @CarolLeonnig and team
sending my best wishes to the Secret Service agent driving the active Covid patient in a car with the windows rolled up.
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Deep inside the secret war room of the Lincoln Project—part psyop, creativity factory, digital ground force. One supporter told me the @ProjectLincoln founders and their staff have "expanded the universe of who's fighting for our country." .
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"It is my belief that you were doing great and irreparable harm to my country."—General Mark Milley, in an undelivered resignation letter to Trump, after the photo-op spectacle at Lafayette Square. @sbg1 @peterbakernyt have the full text of that letter:
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Every editor, to the reporter who won't stop reporting and start writing:.
'Peanut, get out of that mud puddle.' 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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“She’s the best investigative reporter in America. Not the best female investigative reporter.” Wonderful portrait of the peerless @JaneMayerNYer. 🔥🙏🏼😍
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Easy for us to narrate all this from a safe distance. Thanks to those reporters on the ground, giving us the information on this truly alarming escalation of insanity.
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Time for these guys to go on the record.
Anonymous former administration official is disgusted that current administration officials won’t rebuke the president.
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Kudos to this reporter for calmly asking the right questions, calmly doing her job.
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Dr. Amy Acton famously led Ohio thru the early pandemic, then resigned after demonstrators w/guns showed up at her home. She went dark—till now. NEW, as COVID-19 surges: Acton on bipartisan leadership, resiliency, and public health as national security
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Crenshaw: "The whole thing was always a lie. And it was a lie meant to rile people up.” And, "We have a lot of people in the political world that are just willing to say things they know aren’t true. It’s a huge manipulation." Listen:
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As fine a description of what it's like to be a journalist as you may ever see, from @lawrence_wright and THE PLAGUE YEAR:
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"y’all, I could have been rewatching Winter’s Bone instead of this patronizing mush."
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“We’ve told the truth on the guy effectively, in a way that hurts. It’s fair to say that we’re the first group that cut him, in a fight, in a long, long time.” An exclusive visit to @ProjectLincoln's 24/7 war room. "Right Hook," in this week's issue:
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“A little coup, a lot of con, and a total and reckless disregard for the health of our democracy or country” Nu from @sbg1:
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the >300 people charged so far include: police officers from Texas/Virginia, former NYPD officer, retired FBI section chief "who prosecutors allege plotted with a militia group to overrun the Capitol.".
Some news: The DEA has suspended an agent who was in the crowd, armed, outside the U.S. Capitol as a mob of Trump supporters besieged it, the first known case of authorities examining the conduct of a fellow federal agent during the deadly riot.
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A must read, as govt shutdown verges on longest in US history: ~5,000 FBI special agents, intelligence analysts, attorneys, staff are furloughed. Agents: this threatens national security.
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“How do we hide as much information as possible from the American people?” — @neal_katyal, right now, on @maddow re: McConnell’s proposed impeachment trial rules.
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E.D. doc to his young residents: "Hold your patient’s hand for a minute as they near death or pass, and ask your entire team to stop for five or 10 seconds, bow your heads, state the patient’s name, and ask for silence."
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Intelligence community also warned.
President Trump: "Did anybody in this room think a thing like this could happen?". Context: Health officials been warning about the next pandemic for years and criticized the Trump administration’s decision in 2018 to dismantle a NSC pandemic directorate.
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"The research revealed a previously hidden spread of the virus that might have been detected if aggressive testing programs had been put in place." Study has not been peer reviewed.
Breaking News: The virus came to the New York area mainly from Europe, not Asia, genetic analysis shows, arriving weeks before the first confirmed case
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“Don’t be a dumbass: if it’s a problem, fix it.” . Evergreen life advice from St Dolly:.
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Social-media culture makes it increasingly hard for journalism and media-literacy professors to convey that journalistic popularity ≠ credibility. Noise ≠ journalism. Hot takes ≠ reporting. Signed: cranky lady from the land of #fact.
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“The millions of Americans who understood this Presidency from its first day as a national emergency, a threat to domestic and global security, can be excused for finding it curious that so many are now taking the exit ramp for the road to Damascus”
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Trump "has insisted publicly he was not curtailing the FBI probe. But privately, the White House restricted the FBI from delving deeply into Kavanaugh’s youthful drinking and exploring whether he had lied to Congress about his alcohol use".
As FBI background check of Kavanaugh nears its end, probe appears to have been curtailed in scope w/ @DevlinBarrett @robertoharrow @thamburger @CarolLeonnig
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Which the Guardian just called “not just another Trump tell-all” book. This is the deeply sourced/detailed contextual work that no one else has done.
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a 25-second lesson in how to avoid inadvertent tyrant/dictator creation.
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"I see the destruction that Donald Trump has brought to our reputation and to international relations in general, and the danger that brings to the world. This is the most afraid I've ever been for our country." — @SteveKerr to @TheRickWilson @TaraSetmayer
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“Mitch is kidding himself if he thinks he’ll be remembered for anything other than Trump. He will be remembered as the Trump facilitator,” @stuartpstevens tells @JaneMayerNYer:
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The story behind the story of the McCurtain Gazette, the sheriff, the county commissioners, the intensifying challenges of local journalism, and the stunning fruits of a secretly recorded conversation in McCurtain County, Okla. Out today, "Breaking News"
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The media isn't "the enemy of the people. It *is* the people," @brianstelter says just now on the final episode of @ReliableSources. The country needed/needs shows that hold journalism/media accountable. I'm glad this show existed. 🙏🏼.
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“Most of us knew he was a fake. But we made him out to be the most important person in the world. It was like making the court jester the king.” - "Apprentice" editor to @praddenkeefe, in a must-read piece on Mark Burnett's role in the rise of Trump
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Stop calling these people "reporters" and "journalists.".
Two prominent reporters at the far-right TV station OAN are running a dark money organization that they say is helping fund a farcical “audit” that Trump supporters believe will overturn Arizona’s 2020 election results.
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“It’s embarrassing for the legal system that for a long time the best presentation of the investigation was from a golf magazine.” What a story.
What a wild story: a prisoner serving 39 years to life started making drawings of golf courses. The drawings made their way to Golf Digest, which wrote about him, then realized his conviction was sketchy, then investigated, and now he's free
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We devoted nearly the entire @NewYorker to @lawrence_wright's exquisitely reported narrative of the pandemic: Revelations about key figures, including Birx. As a native Mississippian, this passage, in particular, moved me:
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"By their existence and their conduct, they offer an alternative to the nationalism of men who claim a monopoly on the meaning of country and flag."
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Re-upping: don't miss this new one from Eli.
Just brutal: "There’s no relief. This virus, I can’t escape it. It’s torn up our family. It’s all over my Facebook. It’s the election. It’s Trump. It’s what I keep thinking about. How many people would have gotten sick if I’d never hosted that weekend?"
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"We identify a third explanation: that senior military officials constrained the mobilization and deployment of the National Guard to avoid injecting federal troops that could have been re-missioned by the President to advance his attempt to hold onto power.".
New from @just_security: evidence is mounting that the most senior defense officials did not want to send troops to the Capitol because they harbored concerns that President Donald Trump might utilize the forces’ presence in an attempt to hold onto power.
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Post calls for removal.
From the Washington Post Editorial Board:. Trump caused the assault on the Capitol. He must be removed.
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In which I report on Moms for Liberty and its attack on Wit & Wisdom, an English and Language Arts curriculum used in the predominant school district in Williamson County, Tennessee:
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awful. “the notion that dead New Yorkers could be left to decay in broad daylight in rental trucks on crowded street underscored the challenges facing city as it tries to absorb a disaster that has already killed nearly five times as many as died on 9/11”
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👇🏼A version of this has been reported out numerous times, w/particular foreboding in #AVeryStableGenius @CarolLeonnig @PhilipRucker. Wish I had the text right in front of me, for reference.
Tfw you realize @potus is not fighting to control the pandemic, he’s fighting to win every news cycle. Every Day a new idea is floated that gets chased all day. Something new every day to control the news cycle.
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CDC: of the 508 patients known to have been hospitalized, 38 percent are between ages 20 and 54. Nearly half of the 121 patients who were admitted to ICU were adults under 65:
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"I’m happy I get a chance to be a small part of the good." This is great, @RexChapman 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
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"You're outnumbered. There's a fucking million of us out there—and we are listening to Trump, your boss." Please watch every second of Luke's raw footage:
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"Trump has been asking aides/friends/associates whether they’d like a pardon. When one such person declined Trump’s offer—explaining that they faced no charges, committed no crimes, therefore had no need for clemency," Trump responded, "Yeah, well, but you never know.".
NEW —> Trump’s final day: A diminished and aggrieved president stays out of public view before exit. My final collaboration with @AshleyRParker + @jdawsey1 (at least final collaboration while Trump is president).
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Veteran Secret Service/Homeland Security officials "described a level of concern unlike anything in their careers." Reps from up to 60 federal agencies/ private companies—FBI, DOD, CSX, Amtrak—will work largely in 12-hr shifts, HQ'd at Secret Service's DC field office:.
TONIGHT High alert for the Inauguration: With thousands of police and troops, the @SecretService launches a security mobilization that will be unlike any in modern U.S. history. Fear #1: a repeat of Capitol siege. me and @NickMiroff @karoun @jjouvenal
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"it was paramount for the president to be the voice of leadership, not to undermine the scientists, not to berate the Dr. Faucis of the world. And now Fox says the president should set a good example and put on a mask. Really, *now*? After 120,000 deaths?”.
NEW —> Republican leaders now say everyone should wear a mask -- even as Trump refuses and mocks some who do. My latest with @seungminkim on a shift on the political right as coronavirus cases soar in red states.
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Clicks "aren't measures of journalistic achievement.".
We have alarming news. The owner of The Sacramento Bee is trying to tie journalists’ pay to the number of clicks their stories get. We’re urging the company to reconsider. Here's our letter to McClatchy’s new CEO about how this could hurt our community. #NoPayForClicks 1/9
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Stunning, that this piece even exists:.
Where can Americans actually travel now? Here's the list of countries allowing U.S. citizens.
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“Being cross-examined by the press is as American as it gets. It does not happen in Moscow, Beijing, or Pyongyang,” @peterbakernyt once told outgoing WH press secretary Sarah Sanders. My latest, on the Arkansas politics/mindset to which Sanders returns:
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Brains? Is it brains that aren't working?.
Anthony Fauci: "Something's not working. I mean, you can do all the diagramming you want, but something is not working"
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This is a yes/no question. The unwillingness to answer is the answer.
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“Some debtors who have been arrested owed as little as $28.” Stunning @lizziepresser piece:.
Welcome to Coffeyville, Kansas, where the judge has no law degree, debt collectors get a cut of the bail, and Americans are watching their lives — and liberty — disappear in the pursuit of medical debt collection.
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"What did you learn from the process of working on this story you believe will stick w/you most?" . "That you’ll always find the hidden connections between things. They don’t hide forever." . Beautiful @JenSeniorNY backstory of her 9/11 @TheAtlantic piece.
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“Unless you’re one of the people who has lost somebody to this, you don’t understand.” Please read this moving story by @juliebosman and team:
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2019 American Psych Assn survey: 62% of adults cite rising political climate as stress source "not unlike a child living in a home that’s chaotic; we don’t have faith in the leaders we have historically put trust in, and that’s creating a lot of trauma."
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Cannot RT this sentiment enough.
I hope journalism students are taking notes on @jeffmason1’s questioning of President Trump today. A class act of pressing for answers for the American people.
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Even more remarkable than @CarolLeonnig & co's formidable reporting skills? She spent the better part of an hour today talking to my @columbiajourn students. You on deadline? I asked when we started. "I'm always on deadline," she said. And here we are:
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Live shot of you reading the new @CarolLeonnig @PhilipRucker book #AVeryStableGenius when it comes out tomorrow.
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Soldiers stop for gas, hear a guy say he plans to "mess up some FEMA personnel." Reports it to sheriff. Man arrested had AR/handguns, charged w/going armed to the terror of the people. Same day, National Guard encounters militia members "out hunting FEMA.”
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Public health=politics. Biden took office "pledging to follow the science, vaccinate the country" but "he could not vaccinate against Fox News. There was no shot that could give viewers immunity to Tucker Carlson or Marjorie Taylor Greene.".
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New must-read Margaret Talbot. Ex-EPA official: “Pruitt’s repeal of rules, failure to enforce rules, and weakening of rules will result in him creating many *new* Superfund sites.”
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"This isn’t a fun game that we’re playing on Twitter, it’s serious. It’s bigger than you and your career.".
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Holy *lord* this majestic essay. Cannot believe I'm just now reading this. ICYMI:.
Runner’s World just won the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing for this stunning piece on Ahmaud Arbery. Congratulations, @MitchSJackson, on this incredible honor!
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"They're testing 10,000 a *day* in some countries and we can't get this off the ground. I'm a practitioner on the firing line and I don't have the tools to properly care for patients.".
The New Yorker who tested positive 'was only the 32nd test we've done in the state,' says @DrMattMcCarthy. The lack of tests 'is a national scandal'. (and again, @CNBC continues to have the best cable coverage of the #coronavirus outbreak) .
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Two security executives call this “the most significant cyber security threat we’ve ever seen in the United States” and an offensive that "is unprecedented in magnitude for the U.S.".
BREAKING: The FBI and federal agencies say a major ransomware assault threatens the U.S. healthcare system. The attack has hobbled at least four hospitals and could impact hundreds more.
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Luke Mogelson, who usually covers conflict overseas, has been reporting on American militias for months. By Jan. 6, he had contextualized what—and who—drove them. For “The Storm,” his new piece, now live, he was on the ground, at the Capitol:
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"The harassment of an independent press isn’t coming to an end. It’s getting worse.” - @PostBaron
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For this week's issue, I profiled the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Ours is the first in-depth magazine profile of Sanders, one of the President's most loyal servants.
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"Is this what democracy looks like?".
BREAKING: Drama in Tennessee House subcommittee as protesters are removed by state troopers. Their violation: quietly holding up signs.
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At one WHCA panel discussion, the Times's @peterbakernyt told Sarah Sanders that if the President is "gonna say things that aren’t true, we’re gonna have to say they’re not true. That doesn’t make (the press) ‘the opposition.’”.
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the best part is the 'girl, bye' head toss at the end.
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"I’m not going to be able to persuade everyone, but I will persuade some people, simply because I stand on the facts and the truth," Alexey Navalny tells @mashagessen
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"It’s a fantastic thing to be a member of the press in this country and you’re not there just for yourself. You’re a representative of the public and its right to know things." - @JaneMayerNYer
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Reading this vivid @mccrummenWaPo portrait of a giddily reopening Georgia and you'll find, almost as an aside, the crux of it: “When you start seeing where the cases are coming from and the demographics — I’m not worried.”
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"The Sandy Hook families have a broader goal beyond damages for Jones: They want the trials to alert Americans to the mounting damage done to vulnerable people and civic life by viral political lies"
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“If our response to a crisis is to ignore the scientific method that has gotten us this far, then we are setting ourselves up for additional and preventable problems.” via @NewYorker.
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NYC to provide childcare to health workers, first responders:
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"despite the often militaristic rhetoric of police unions,the average cop is not going to be ready for a situation most United States marines have never faced. When we arm citizens with such lethal weapons, we can’t always expect uncommon valor."-@PhilKlay
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Exactly.
Why couldn't all of the networks have done fact checking chyrons just like this one for the past three years?. You owe your viewers that. You owe it to them.
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