Nathan Man 萬勵腾

“I want to go home and rethink my life.”

[Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire]

https://t.co/JAkyxrnA5m

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Much of the mourning for the late great @washingtonpost has rightly focused on how democracy dies in darkness at the national level, which is hugely important. But the evisceration of Metro coverage is every bit as devastating because there is no comparable news outlet keeping local governments and institutions honest.

Eight of my 20 years at the Post were spent on Metro, which was the heart and soul of the Post under the legendary @dongrahamdc1. The undertakers now running the paper have all but wiped out the metro staff, leaving just 12 reporters, according to reports, to cover a region of 6.5 million people.

We had twice that many journalists in Fairfax alone back in the day. And it mattered. Reporters are the eyes and ears of the community, keeping tabs on people in power. We were there for every supervisors meeting, every school board meeting. We pored through planning commission documents and campaign filings.

When county officials wasted taxpayer money, raised taxes on overstretched homeowners, gave sweetheart zoning deals to developers who filled their election coffers, we were there. When teachers who sexually abused students were quietly transferred to other schools to do it all over again, we were there.

We were there for the more uplifting stories too, the cops who broke a cold case, the educators who turned around a struggling school, the residents who rallied to help neighbors in trouble, the student athletes who won the big game, the entrepreneurs who started something new.

Our friend @SariHorwitz who has won more Pulitzers than I can count, wrote so movingly online about the Post (https://t.co/lxame7tiSF). To recognize how indispensable local coverage is, you need only look at her holy-shit investigations of a broken child welfare system, rampant police shootings and the corporate-fed opioid crisis, stories that opened eyes and led to change.

Democracy is not just what happens at the White House and the Capitol but in our own backyards. The Post has just turned the lights down at home too.

[Evan A. Feigenbaum @EvanFeigenbaum]

The @WashPost has now laid off its Asia editor, its New Delhi bureau chief, its Sydney bureau chief, its Cairo bureau chief, the entire Middle East reporting team, China correspondents, Iran correspondents, Turkey correspondents, and many more. The world is becoming less America-centric by the minute while the United States is becoming more America-centric than ever. It is just a depressing yet somehow perfect summation of our current moment that one of the most important newspapers in the history of the country - one that has actually shaped the history of the United States - doesn't think reporting on the world is of any use anymore. What an utterly perfect encapsulation of where we have arrived.

[Nathan Man 萬勵腾 @lilnathanman]

“Davis wide open down low but Young pulls up from 35 feet…airball. Wizards don’t get back in transition, easy dunk and they trail by 20…Davis is down & looks shaken up”

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

BREAKING: The Dallas Mavericks are trading 10-time NBA All-Star Anthony Davis, Jaden Hardy, D'Angelo Russell and Dante Exum to the Washington Wizards for Khris Middleton, AJ Johnson, Malaki Branham, Marvin Bagley III, 2 first-round picks and 3 second-rounders, sources tell ESPN.

[Samuel Bickett @SamuelBickett]

Today’s shooting in Minneapolis has strong parallels to a 2019 police shooting of a protester in Hong Kong. Like today’s shooting, an officer attacked a non-violent protester. Another protester, without drawing any weapon, came to help. The aggressive officer then shot the helper. The officer was never charged, but of course the victim was imprisoned.

After the Hong Kong shooting, the Orwellian government demanded we not believe our own eyes. After the ICE press conference this afternoon, it’s clear the US government is doing the same.

For those of us who lived through the 2019-2020 authoritarian crackdown in HK, it’s far from the only parallel between the two regimes over the past few months.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Cannot help Ukraine, Taiwan, or the people of Iran because the US government is bogged down in wars of aggression against Minnesota and Denmark.

[Frank Shyong @frankshyong]

Josie Huang, tireless chronicler of SoCal's Asian American communities among so many others, lost her home in the Altadena fires. Please help her family if you can. https://t.co/nQdFIMMdOL

[Your Rich BFF @Your_RichBFF]

PSA: If u or someone u know is evacuating bc of wildfire, video record every room in ur house with ur phone. Open every drawer, cabinet, closets, etc. film everything. Insurance co’s will make you prove what you had & w/o video evidence or receipts they will not honor your claim.

[Angeles National Forest @Angeles_NF]

#EatonFire

Mandatory evacuations North of New York Drive, East of Altadena Drive, West of Sierra Madre Villa Ave.
Pasadena Fire, US Forest Service & LA County Fire in Unified Command. Over 200 acres spreading at rapid growth.
Mass Care and Sheltering being established.
We will post on https://t.co/FMuZjFURUf as soon as possible. @PasadenaGov @LACoFDPIO

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

Pasadena and Altaneda be prepared to evacuate if you are asked to tonight. The #CloseFire is explosively growing and exhibiting long-range spotting into the Eaton Canyon Golf Course area well ahead of the main fire.

[Nathan Man 萬勵腾 @lilnathanman]

@MattMrX @BillSimmons You know he’s got Blazers Pistons on league pass going.

[The r/BillSimmons Podcast @rBillSimmonsPod]

Bill Simmons sneaking in some NBA at Monday Night Raw?

[Nathan Man 萬勵腾 @lilnathanman]

@ethuun I think so, for live programming especially. Live lends itself to breaks more especially with sports that have natural spots for them. Scripted series got to be the guinea pig for ad-free and no one’s figured out how to replace that lost revenue yet.

[Nathan Man 萬勵腾 @lilnathanman]

@MattMrX @Carter_Shade

[Steve Wyche @wyche89]

Here at @nflnetwork, we lost a dear friend, our producer Larry Campbell. He will be missed so much 🙏🏾

[Nathan Man 萬勵腾 @lilnathanman]

@JessDiPaola 👀

[Nathan Man 萬勵腾 @lilnathanman]

@JessDiPaola @ObsSojourn @Breadly_TV @SHANKUMS11 @Unstopmonkey @BirdieGoesChirp @Capitiano 👀

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Breaking news: The U.S. just set a grim record for mass shootings and deaths in a single year. Fatal shootings this weekend in Texas and Washington pushed the nation to 38 mass killings with a gun this year — the highest of any year since at least 2006.
https://t.co/FGq89QMs6W

[Nathan Man 萬勵腾 @lilnathanman]

@NeilezGG

[Nathan Man 萬勵腾 @lilnathanman]

@JessDiPaola 👀