Of course Ukraine can win this war. Politicians of impotence like JD Vance want to make Ukraine lose, because they want to show that no one can really do anything and that nothing really matters. See my article on weak man politics.

We’ve seen a consistent pattern of journalist killings in a few notable countries over decades.

CPJ’s 2023 data shows that targeting of journalists remains constant in nations including Iraq, Philippines, Mexico, Pakistan, India, and Somalia.

Read more: cpj.org/reports/2024/0…

Journalists are civilians doing important work & must not be targeted by warring parties.

Millions across the world are counting on reporters to provide accurate information about the #Israel #Gaza war.

Journalists, like all civilians, must be protected—they’re #NotATarget .

Today I feel honored to join flacos law at the city hall Shaun Abreu .
We are making flacos a symbol that will protect more birds.

A new documentary tells the story of Kim's Video, the East Village video rental store for cool kids and independent art that closed in 2014. Founder Yongman Kim came on All Of It With Alison Stewart along with Ashley Sabin and David Redmon, co-directors of the documentary. wnyc.org/story/kims-vid…

On the presidential pardon, and its potential for abuse. Obligatory reading

“The Republican right treats Ukraine as an enemy and Russia as a friend. Defining that stance as isolationist is lazy and wrong. It is actively pro-Russian.”
ft.com/content/98f37c…

After an unexpected magnitude 4.8 earthquake rattled the New York City area, questions abound regarding how likely it is that a major earthquake could occur there and whether the city is prepared trib.al/rTP2XV1

My new book 'THE GREAT WAVE: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider' is now in stores:
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/574592/t…

The unemployment rate ticked down to 3.8% in March.

We're now at 26 consecutive months of sub-4% unemployment, the longest such stretch since the late 1960s.

A large swath of America has apparently lost its collective mind about the Trump era.

My new column on the #Trumpamnesia factor in 2024: newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…

Liz Cheney:

“If Trump wins we’ll be living in a nation that’s unrecognizable, and the danger is so grave that, for the first time in my life, I will be working with every fiber of my body against the Republican nominee for president.”

Liz Cheney: 'Defeating Trump means reelecting President Biden and rejecting third-party candidates, she said forthrightly. Though she disagrees with Biden on many policy issues, she said his victory in November is necessary to save the country from potential dictatorship.'

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One simple paragraph, $640 million donated to great causes, no pathetically narcissistic tweeting that seeks to divide us and zero fucks to give in the best of ways. MacKenzie Scott shows the boys of tech how it’s done.

“Trump’s repeated elevation of dictators as models of leadership should be understood as part of a re-education strategy: conditioning Americans to see authoritarianism as a superior form of government to democracy. That is likely why he is explicitly making strongman rule his…

The theft of Ukraine's cultural heritage is one element of a larger genocidal policy. And those Ukrainian state archives have been the single most important basis of research on the Soviet Union.

A traveling exhibit will focus on the work of three women - Hisako Hibi, Miki Hayakawa and Miné Okubo - whose art grappled with the experience of Japanese Americans in internment camps during WW II. nytimes.com/2024/04/05/art…

Remember: Trump is trying to keep
people in a state of existential dread so they can be emotionally manipulated and do whatever he asks, à la Jan 6. Right out of the autocratic playbook.

Reading this: a three-way biography of Miles, Coltrane and Evans and the before & after of Kind Of Blue. It's beautifully written - lucid & open, but full of a sense of revelatory music & musicians