Viveca Novak

Peripatetic reporter/editor: @WSJ, @McClatchyDC, @TIME, @AnnistonStar. Travel, dogs, cooking, NYY, Czechishness

[Viveca Novak @vjn]

Not much insanity yet — at least not in this election: https://t.co/OuVAh9raHa

[Viveca Novak @vjn]

Pair of scissors after encounter with Jaws of Doom

[Viveca Novak @vjn]

It’s Oct. 14. They’re selling two-ft-tall Santa figures at CVS.

[Viveca Novak @vjn]

It’s dangerous to have heroes. But this guy: https://t.co/0pBu8X4bKk

[Viveca Novak @vjn]

If the Nazis had TikTok… https://t.co/mH0PP0WM6u

[Viveca Novak @vjn]

3/3 Hoping agency declassifies material we need on her work. Meanwhile, seeking input from any and all who knew her -- Dagmar Stapleton, nee Novakova. DMs are open.

[Viveca Novak @vjn]

1/3 Cleaning out my late mom’s house. Painful. But finding gems, too -- like her hand-scribbled account of escaping from #Czechoslovakia in 1950, decades before she became a spy for #CIA.

[Viveca Novak @vjn]

2/3 Left #WSJ last year, now am working on a project -- w/ @bySheilaKaplan, formerly of #NYTimes -- on mom's life: Born wealthy in #Prague, jailed by Communists in ‘49, escaped, worked at #HICOG in Frankfurt, arrived in U.S. dirt poor and, eventually, joined the agency’s D.O.

[Viveca Novak @vjn]

My first part-time job, while in high school, was in a public library (where I was reprimanded for wearing skirts that were too short). This piece about redesigned libraries as vital public spaces is heartening https://t.co/PZ0pekuOIf

[Viveca Novak @vjn]

My review of great new book by @JEPomfret, on the post-Cold War alliance betw/ US & Polish intel services #Poland #CIA #CzechRepublic https://t.co/b91toV5eaJ

[Ronald Brownstein @RonBrownstein]

“These animals were killed using packs of dogs, snares and leg-hold traps,” Kitty Block, chief executive of the Humane Society of the United States, said on Tuesday. “It was a race to kill these animals in the most cruel ways.”

[Viveca Novak @vjn]

Important: First time a gov't official has said (at least formally) that law enforcement and intel use of citizens' app-based phone GPS data without a warrant may violate landmark Supreme Court ruling in Carpenter v. U.S. @ByronTau
https://t.co/SpCpCtUJpR

[Dave Michaels @davidamichaels]

The SEC is going back to allowing more of its senior officers to authorize new enforcement probes, a sign of potentially more aggressive oversight during the Biden administration
https://t.co/S2bEieGp0U via @WSJ

[Simon & Schuster @SimonBooks]

"Prodigious...Superb...a full account of its subject’s multi-dimensional life." @PeterOsnos on "The Triumph of Nancy Reagan" by @ktumulty, coming in April.

Read the piece on @Medium https://t.co/HpD4x05NYy

[Viveca Novak @vjn]

In-depth, scoopy look at how gov't failed to act on its own intel ahead of the Capitol riot.
At 2:26 pm, a top DHS intel official sought info on the rioters from colleagues.
The rioters had already breached the Capitol.
@rachael_levy @djfroschWSJ @sgurman
https://t.co/A9rIGGvPXk

[Viveca Novak @vjn]

Trump had impact of 2-term president with judicial app’ts. More appellate nominees in 4 yrs than Obama had in 8, making road for Biden’s agenda rougher. @brkend https://t.co/urzyo9ftFl

[Dave Michaels @davidamichaels]

My latest with @aosipovich: Is the $GME mania = market manipulation? https://t.co/gRHV03y4kt via @WSJ

[Sadie Gurman @sgurman]

“Thanks to the efforts of news outlets like the @NYT, @WSJ, and @CNN, we keep finding out more about the last gasps of Trump's coup attempt.” Read ours here ➡️ https://t.co/ABEpbrhqJK

[Viveca Novak @vjn]

High sales #s = subsidized health insurance for MassMutual agents. Tying benefits, not just bonuses, to sales is perfectly legal for some cos. @davidamichaels https://t.co/hmXIz4WcKd

[Viveca Novak @vjn]

With groups on the left staying away from downtown DC, some pro-Trump protestors have only the cops to tangle with @rachael_levy
https://t.co/hDapjX6T0w