Jack McCordick

working @nytopinion / studying @gc_cuny

[John Hudson @John_Hudson]

An Ohio college student from Haiti who had grown increasingly distraught after losing his protection from deportation stepped into traffic and was killed Monday in what his family believes was a suicide

[Jonathan Guyer @mideastXmidwest]

"So much of what we’ve been involved in these last several decades is really policing the empire." https://t.co/35GCuGso2r

[Natalie Korach @NatalieKorach]

Bari Weiss personally directed this morning’s CBS News headline about Abdul El-Sayed to be tweaked to specifically mention deleted tweets referencing the September 11 terrorist attacks

New from @oliverdarcy

https://t.co/vR0sNlaIZP

[Ben Smith @semaforben]

News from the publishing industry

[Shane Goldmacher @ShaneGoldmacher]

NEW: The midterm elections are drowning in dark money.

@teddyschleifer and I document how billionaires and special intests have flooded $1 billion into the elections.

Gift link 🎁: https://t.co/vX8ldlCBrD

[Jack McCordick @jackmccordick]

https://t.co/roIg6YG1zd

[Jack McCordick @jackmccordick]

A useful exercise to count the number of quotes in this piece, from former top intelligence and security officials, that would violate the IHRA anti-semitism definition, particularly the injunction against "drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis"

[Jack McCordick @jackmccordick]

"Perhaps no works of political history have exercised greater influence on the language of elite self-defense than those of Hofstadter." https://t.co/RYqM4uifQI

[Lydia Polgreen @lpolgreen]

I wrote about how Democrats use identity as both crutch and cudgel, and how there is a better way. https://t.co/g1CGVJAHeS

[Matthew Sitman @MatthewSitman]

Probably the best thing I've read about Dolly written since she passed: https://t.co/ipE0FzkhIW

[Jack McCordick @jackmccordick]

https://t.co/Rn53bBEz0B

[Jack McCordick @jackmccordick]

On Israel's business/tech elite which "sees itself as the embattled defender of the remnants of Israel's procedural democracy" but "profits disproportionately – as employees, investors, shareholders and entrepreneurs – from the condition of perpetual conflict management and war":

[Jack McCordick @jackmccordick]

Great @Haaretz investigation on the IDF and Shin Bet's cultivation of Palestinian militias in Gaza: "Soldiers told Haaretz that the dynamic could lead to atrocities reminiscent of the Sabra and Shatila massacre." https://t.co/ucWfMCD105

[Jack McCordick @jackmccordick]

It can't be a coincidence that two of these books are being written for @HattieLeFavour 🥰

[New America @NewAmerica]

🎊 We're thrilled to announce the Class of 2027 New America Fellows!

We selected 14 talented Fellows from hundreds of applicants to examine some of the biggest issues of our time.

▶️ Meet this year's cohort: https://t.co/WVRFbXFkiw

[Max Tani @maxwelltani]

Precedent-setting moment in news media. The editor of the second most important opinion page in the country greenlights the use of AI for drafting pieces, no disclosure necessary.

[Jack McCordick @jackmccordick]

"Experts say that the rate of brain disease [in football] represents an occupational safety hazard with little comparison in the American workplace." https://t.co/GLw42HzX41

[Drew Harwell @drewharwell]

New: We found cops who misused Flock to spy on their wives. Their bosses at the police department had no idea. Three are being investigated and one was arrested after we asked about their searches. https://t.co/MWuNMywkv0 @dmac1 @aaronjschaffer

[Jeremy Gordon @jeremypgordon]

Because fair is fair I used the viral, vibe-coded movie listings site to see what's playing on my birthday next week — 11 out of the 14 listings are from Metrograph, and every one of them is not actually playing that day.

[Jack McCordick @jackmccordick]

"The arc of Silicon Valley’s moral universe doesn’t seem to last longer than the next presidential election. In the end, it’s not bombs that Silicon Valley loves, but profits."

[Sharon Weinberger @weinbergersa]

I wrote about how Silicon Valley learned to stop worrying about China’s consumer market and love building bombs.

https://t.co/uG2agh7zU9

[Sharon Weinberger @weinbergersa]

I wrote about how Silicon Valley learned to stop worrying about China’s consumer market and love building bombs.

https://t.co/uG2agh7zU9