James Appell

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[James Appell @jamesappell]

@FootballCliches Footballers Names in Things exhibit from the 1 line of the NYC Subway. Not a great piece of audio content but felt obliged to share nonetheless

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

One of the worst things about US sports leagues continuously maximizing profit over passion is that the world’s best players don’t get to compete in environments like this. Real fans get priced out and the atmosphere at games becomes much less fun.

[Slava Malamud @SlavaMalamud]

A widow of a killed mobilized Russian soldier speaks to other war wives after visiting "the new territories" where her husband was killed.
"People here don't need it, they don't want us. Your beloved are dying here for nothing."
Whatever it takes for some of them to wake up.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Israel Gaza: Hamas raped and mutilated women on 7 October, BBC hears https://t.co/7s8aw6UBh6

[Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis @chiefrabbi]

The stubborn reluctance of international women’s rights organisations to condemn the systematic rape and sexual mutilation of women by Hamas in Israel, has been shameful and inexcusable. It betrays a partisan agenda which wholly undermines the international progress that has been made to give women a voice as victims of sexual violence. There can be no hierarchy of victims in which Israeli women find themselves relegated to triviality.

https://t.co/aQNhOw9kn1

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

BREAKING: State Department spokesman Mathew Miller says it seems that the reason Hamas refused to release all the women who it held hostage was because the terror group didn't want them to tell what they went through while in captivity in Gaza

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

I just watched the roughly 45-minute footage of October 7th at a private screening in NYC. Here are my immediate thoughts minutes after watching it. 🧵

[Oli Franklin-Wallis @olifranklin]

I have never watched Don Lemon but it allows me to revisit the greatest sorbet-related celebrity interaction ever, by the great @taffyakner https://t.co/s3kXmlGJrf

[Tim MacMahon @BannedMacMahon]

Gregg Popovich asked whether any of us were carrying guns at the end of his pregame media chat.

"I just wondered because we have a governor and lieutenant governor and an attorney general that made it easier to have more guns. That was a response to our kids getting murdered.”

[Jason Rezaian @jrezaian]

When reporting on Evan's ordeal, avoid repeating the Russian narrative. The fact that he is a hostage is the story, not the supposed charges against him. Constantly humanize Evan.
Drop all our notions of competition and steel ourselves for a potentially long ordeal. #FreeEvan

[Pjotr Sauer @PjotrSauer]

For years, Evan did everything he could to tell the story of modern Russia. It is now our turn to keep the light shining on him
https://t.co/6tQtmQizLQ

[Matthew Rose @MtthwRose]

All of Evan’s reporting is now free to read. https://t.co/3kXPOTjS8t

[Emma Tucker @emmatuckerWSJ]

Top news organizations from around the world are calling for the release of our WSJ colleague Evan Gershkovich, a trusted and experienced reporter arrested while doing his job. We are grateful for all the support as we seek his immediate release

https://t.co/dYu3dppCBS

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Wow. @substack experimented with pricing, reducing it by 1 cent, so e.g. instead of $10/month, do $9.99/month.

The result?

A significant decrease for the pricing ending with .99. Which goes against conventional pricing wisdom!!

Why it's worth running experiments!

[James Appell @jamesappell]

Highly recommended reading

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

In a conversation with @IChotiner, a social anthropologist discusses the connections between President Erdoğan’s leadership and the tragedy unfolding in Turkey.
https://t.co/GmJPWiGibv

[James Appell @jamesappell]

@LukeMcLaughlin Look at that stretch from 60-90 mins - didn’t even get a shot away. Lacked ideas and a game plan to get around Forest’s low block.

[James Appell @jamesappell]

@WilliamsBob75 Tyler Adams is first on the team sheet irrespective - Leeds’s best player this season. The others though…

[max seddon @maxseddon]

“I’m against the war, but . . .  People are biological creatures and have to adapt.”

I wrote about life in Moscow, where indifference to the death and misery Russia’s army is wreaking in Ukraine has been normalized – and where the champagne still flows.

https://t.co/VJvll6h2Gq

[Quentin Sommerville @sommervilletv]

2022 has been a lesson in never judging a book, nor a country, by its cover. At the end of February, while the city of Kharkiv was still under attack, I met 21 yo, Eugene Gromadskyi. At the time I had no idea what he, nor Ukraine, were capable of. https://t.co/V5ICbZ2bFy