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    jimrutenberg
    @jimrutenberg
    Writer At Large, NYT + NYT Mag
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  • Michael S. Schmidt
    @nytmike
    21 hours ago
    "Like the Tiger King Got Elected Tax Collector." Profile of Joel Greenberg, the local tax collector who is now the defendant at the heart of the investigation into Representative Matt Gaetz. w/@PatriciaMazzei @ktbenner https://t.co/meD4TzJFBN
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    ‘Like the Tiger King Got Elected Tax Collector’: Inside the Case That Ensnared Matt Gaetz

    Joel Greenberg, a onetime local official in Florida, is accused of an array of crimes, including bribery, stalking and corruption.

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  • Dan Barry
    @DanBarryNYT
    a day ago
    A very smart and enlightening story - effectively about the USA of 2021 - by @AllMattNYT: "A Teacher Marched to the Capitol. When She Got Home, the Fight Began." https://t.co/gjIaKARb1g
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    A Teacher Marched to the Capitol. When She Got Home, the Fight Began.

    Kristine Hostetter was a beloved fourth-grade teacher. Then came the pandemic, the election and the Jan. 6 riot in Washington.

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  • Michael Slackman
    @meslackman
    2 days ago
    In reality, a New York Times analysis of mortality data shows deaths in Russia during the pandemic last year were 28 percent higher than normal — an increase in mortality greater than in the United States and most countries in Europe. https://t.co/VbHtxa0l5m
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    ‘You Can’t Trust Anyone’: Russia’s Hidden Covid Toll Is an Open Secret

    The country’s official coronavirus death toll is 102,649. But at least 300,000 more people died last year during the pandemic than were reported in Russia’s most widely cited official statistics.

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  • Philadelphia Flyers
    @NHLFlyers
    2 days ago
    🔶 FLYERS WIN 🔶 Had to have it. @WellsFargo | #BOSvsPHI https://t.co/vWAg0kazQR
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  • Matthew Rosenberg
    @AllMattNYT
    2 days ago
    Kristine Hostetter was a beloved fourth-grade teacher. Then came the pandemic, the election and the Jan. 6 riot. A story of extremism and race and how the the divisive politics of post-Trump America divided a redoubt of Southern California conservatism. https://t.co/eEoxpETAa6
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    A Teacher Marched to the Capitol. When She Got Home, the Fight Began.

    Kristine Hostetter was a beloved fourth-grade teacher. Then came the pandemic, the election and the Jan. 6 riot in Washington.

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  • Jim Windolf
    @jimwindolf
    2 days ago
    I go to sea in the short story "Businessman." https://t.co/5rZ6vRG9L7
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    BUSINESSMAN by Jim Windolf | X-R-A-Y

    My father told me, when I was fourteen, that business was a language anyone could learn. I never got fluent. So there I stood, a thirty-six-year-old man with not much in the bank, at the side of a...

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  • Daniel Dale
    @ddale8
    2 days ago
    This is a lie. Protesters did not storm Iowa’s Capitol...they had a permit, they went through security, the building is open to the public. Per Des Moines Register, the one arrest was of a high school student an officer claimed “pushed my arm in an attempt to gain my attention." https://t.co/ajexIPOtZc
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  • Maggie Haberman
    @maggieNYT
    3 days ago
    An image from the Capitol on Jan 6 shown by the group that hosted the rally. The event is being held at a Trump property https://t.co/GMd7EqwmxC
    Kyle Mazza
    @KyleMazzaWUNF
    3 days ago
    Women for America First signage shown at the Save America Summit in Miami, FL on April 9, 2021 @america1stwomen @AmyKremer #SaveAmericaSummit https://t.co/2caVgSbIOm
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  • Nicholas Kristof
    @NickKristof
    4 days ago
    Great work by @clarissaward of @CNN. https://t.co/McsayZeQ8e
    The Lead CNN
    @TheLeadCNN
    4 days ago
    Exclusive access inside Myanmar's brutal military crackdown, as pro-democracy activists beg for justice @clarissaward reports https://t.co/LMh0EnCEtZ https://t.co/FFKVw7HYyJ
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  • Michael S. Schmidt
    @nytmike
    4 days ago
    NEW on Gaetz investigation: Feds learned in recent weeks about a conversation Gaetz and a prominent lobbyist had about having a sham candidate run in a Fla State Senate race in 2020 to siphon votes from an ally’s opponent w/@ktbenner @PatriciaMazzei https://t.co/rPcWJwCHzJ
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    Indicted Matt Gaetz Associate Is Expected to Plead Guilty, Lawyers Say

    The associate could cooperate with prosecutors, giving them information about Mr. Gaetz’s relationships that investigators are examining for possible sex trafficking violations.

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  • Cliff Levy
    @cliffordlevy
    4 days ago
    Rep. Lee Zeldin, a NY Republican and staunch Trump supporter, declared on Thursday that he was entering the 2022 race for NY governor, hoping to emerge as his party’s challenger to embattled Gov. Cuomo. By @katieglueck https://t.co/3uprbtB2GP
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    Rep. Lee Zeldin, an Avid Trump Backer, to Run for N.Y. Governor

    Mr. Zeldin, a Republican congressman who voted to overturn the results of November’s election, would face an extraordinarily uphill battle running statewide.

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  • jimrutenberg
    @jimrutenberg
    4 days ago
    They knew: official warned of problems at Emergent in June, months before it forced the destruction of millions of vaccine doses ⁦@SherylNYT⁩ ⁦@SharonLNYT⁩ ⁦@ChrisDHamby⁩ https://t.co/M95QfoWQna
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    Top Official Warned That Covid Vaccine Plant Had to Be ‘Monitored Closely’

    An Operation Warp Speed report last June flagged staffing and quality control concerns at Emergent BioSolutions’ factory in Baltimore. The troubled plant recently had to throw out up to 15 million...

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  • sarah emerson
    @SarahNEmerson
    5 days ago
    A few stories I'll always remember: Here's one about literal dog shit becoming a vector for creeping surveillance. This was the very first story I pitched for OneZero and appreciate @SarahFKessler immediately greenlighting a story about turds https://t.co/VvBXvJmryl
    Dog Poop DNA Tracking Introduces Spy Tech to Our Backyards

    Companies say they can pinpoint tenants who aren’t cleaning up after their pets. But is a clean lawn worth giving up your dog’s DNA?

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  • sarah emerson
    @SarahNEmerson
    5 days ago
    This was a fun yarn in which an AmazonBasics battery exploded on my kitchen counter, prompting me to trace its secretive origins to a factory in Indonesia where Amazon reskins another manufacturer's product to sell as one of its most popular branded items https://t.co/r8wJRdsTyn
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    Unraveling the Secret Origins of an AmazonBasics Battery

    One of Amazon’s smallest and most popular products has a surprisingly large footprint

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  • sarah emerson
    @SarahNEmerson
    5 days ago
    Last year, I wrote about the unique discrimination that technology employees on H-1B visas face at companies like Facebook, Microsoft + massive outsourcing firms. We polled more than 10,000 tech workers to illustrate the lives of this silenced underclass https://t.co/EyfxWclKIe
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    Exclusive Survey Reveals Discrimination Against Visa Workers at Tech’s Biggest Companies

    OneZero conducted a 10,000-person poll to shed light on the plight of H-1B workers

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  • sarah emerson
    @SarahNEmerson
    5 days ago
    I am probably proudest of this investigation reported by @HudsonGiles and myself about a secretive religious cult that created a wildly popular education platform, all while being accused by members of horrific abuse and acts of violence spanning decades https://t.co/s4rPaaGwHQ
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    A Popular Online Learning Platform Was Actually Created by an Underground Religious ‘Cult’

    The creator of Acellus and the ‘cult’s leader has been accused of violence and abuse

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  • Katie Glueck
    @katieglueck
    5 days ago
    The quote was absolutely in context. Here is the story: https://t.co/zBa0VPXA4N https://t.co/kKbixv2pcl
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    Can Andrew Yang Make It in New York City Politics?

    Mr. Yang has name recognition, fund-raising ability and some different ideas on how to run a government. How will that play in a city ravaged by the pandemic?

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    Jillian Jorgensen
    @Jill_Jorgensen
    5 days ago
    Yang dismisses his comments to the NYT about working/school children in a small apartment as "out of context" which is funny because the context of the interview -- about his campaign for mayor of New York City -- was that he did it from his country home.
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  • jimrutenberg
    @jimrutenberg
    5 days ago
    And re-upping this on voting because it wasn't too long ago when the Senate reauthorized the (fully intact) Voting Rights Act by a vote of 98-0 under a Republican president https://t.co/1E8XYlqKlJ
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    Nine Years Ago, Republicans Favored Voting Rights. What Happened? (Published 2015)

    The issue’s political polarization has a surprisingly short history.

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