@KJKnodell@Medium Me too - I did a few via the now-dead @latterlymag and loved putting together on-the-spot stories to run alongside the longer, narrative stuff. I did one from the drug war in Manila that added a lot to the larger reporting. https://t.co/PrfHVQcAxN
Going back through old notes and came across this inside-baseball-y piece I did for @Medium years ago in #Mumbai. I quite like it - kinda wish I did more of it now. https://t.co/U8Crqf0Hhk
The best thing Latterly did was to tell stories no one else would. One of our great storytellers is J. Malcolm Garcia. Now he has yet another book out about why people flee Central America.
"I purposely seek out people that we often ignore," he said.
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I’ve put some extra time to good use and redesigned my website! All of my writing for @NewYorker, @PacificStand (RIP), @latterlymag (RIP) and elsewhere is here: https://t.co/9jwFywulFq
.@SamHarrisOrg Minneapolis didn’t abolish the police, they dissolved it to be replaced with a different model. Love your podcast usually, but you’ve misrepresented the bulk of the anti-racist messaging in this one.
Want to know why it’s so hard for #cops to be ‘good apples’...
It was 2007 and I was assisting a call with an officer I’d never met before. He was from another team working overtime. Right in front of me he broke a kids nose with a punch. The septum was clearly deviated and
I am scared. Trans and non-binary people are scared today. LGBTQ folks are generally scared today. We need you to step up and realize that lives are literally on the line in this election. They want you to be distracted and forget and become complacent. Don't. /thread
In 1829, some white families asked John Brown to help them remove Native Americans from the area. Brown replied, “I will have nothing to do with so mean an act. I would sooner take my gun and help drive you out of the country”
If you don't quite understand what horror the Trump administration inflicted today on transgender and non-binary people seeking medical care and why we're scared, let me tell you a quick story.
[TW: transphobia, trans death]
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@Google@sundarpichai@Twitter@jack His opinions about "radicals" don't allow people to learn useful information about what an autonomous zone is or gain accurate news about this particular one. #CHAZ
“Whether information is true doesn’t matter: It represents a side, a position to defend.” I wrote this 3 (!) years ago for
@latterlymag: https://t.co/Vdmsvi5olk