Notable Tweets

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Min Jin Lee @minjinlee11

Written by Julia Cho and directed by Domee Shi. Nominated for an Academy Award. No. 1 streamed film. In short, a critical and commercial success. 🏆

Nancy Wang Yuen @nancywyuen

#TurningRed was the top streamed film by BIPOC and white households (so basically everyone!) in 2022, according to the newest UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report 2023. For the full report: https://t.co/eDSRyOgfPb https://t.co/0fg3VKFuXX

Brian Stelter @brianstelter

Regarding her testimony that it wasn’t her responsibility to fact check what someone was going to say on air, Grossberg says she was "bullied, coerced and intimidated into saying that, just to keep my job" https://t.co/Frg478AgUg

TODAY @TODAYshow

Abby Grossberg, the fired Fox News producer at the center of a legal battle over Dominion Voting Systems, is speaking out for the first time in a broadcast exclusive to @CynthiaMcFadden. https://t.co/i5HLibfuKo

Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart

Are we just going to forget about how a bunch of prominent names in the tech/hedge fund/crypto community started posting all these completely unfounded rumors about how they heard regulators were going to let SVB depositors get clipped that weekend?

Mike Flynn @MFlynnGT

I’ve never made a political social media post in my life, and I’m 100% comfortable posting this. It’s not political. I’m posting it because my wife is a teacher. And because we have 2 school-aged kids. And because I’m proud to work with @CoachBrentKey and call him a friend.

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Legal machine guns have to be 37 or more years old, you have to get local law enforcement consent and pass a federal background check to buy them, and they’re expensive. But you can absolutely own fully automatic guns in most of the US:

cnn.comFact check: Biden’s claim that ‘you’re not allowed’ to own a flamethrower or machine gun isn’t true in most states | CNN PoliticsPresident Joe Biden claimed Tuesday that Americans aren’t allowed to own a machine gun or a flamethrower. But that’s not true in most of the country.

Akayla Gardner @gardnerakayla

Vice President Harris meets with survivors of the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Tanzania. This year marks 25 years since the tragedy.

Sewell Chan @sewellchan

The @TexasObserver will continue publishing, after its board reversed course and rescinded its decision to lay off the staff. The board cited the $300K crowdsourced since Monday as the reason they changed their minds.

texastribune.orgTexas Observer will continue publishing after staff crowdfunds more than $300,000The crusading liberal magazine had planned to lay off its staff and shut down. But the board has now reversed course.

Jonathan Martin @jmart

If only there was a GoFundMe to buy out Gannett, Lee. McClatchy

latimes.comThe California newspaper that has no reporters leftThe decline of Salinas’ 152-year-old newspaper leaves residents hungry for a trusted watchdog and worried about what stories won’t be covered.

Karim Zidan @ZidanSports

Wagner, the Russian mercenary group, is using MMA and boxing gyms to recruit for the ongoing war in Ukraine. As of the time of writing, I've found more than **50** recruitment centers in gyms across Russia. Some of those gyms catered to children.

bloodyelbow.substack.comInvestigating Russia’s MMA-to-mercenary pipelineWagner, the Russian paramilitary organization, is setting up recruitment centers in dozens of martial arts gyms and children’s sports clubs across Russia.

London Review of Books @LRB

‘When no one in the political mainstream is willing to attack authoritarian policies on a basic ethical level, extremism can become consensus. While the hard right of the Conservative Party dehumanises migrants, Labour condemns their lack of efficiency.’

lrb.co.ukMichael Chessum | Not So Clever Politics · LRB 21 March 2023Ducking fights on difficult issues may work in the short term, if your aim is to win the support of this or that portion...

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Huge swathes of the country are depopulating.

Howard French @hofrench

By me. "The Ugly Paradox Behind the West’s Demographic Problems - France’s pension reforms, Italy’s elder-care robots, and Arkansas’s child labor all have one thing in common: a fear of immigration."

foreignpolicy.comThe Ugly Paradox Behind the West’s Demographic ProblemsFrance’s pension reforms, Italy’s elder-care robots, and Arkansas’s child labor all have one thing in common: a fear of immigration.

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Do We Really Need to Have a Cold War With China? (NYT)

Beijing Doesn’t Know Who to Blame for Gold Mine Murders (FP)

Vice President Harris aims to reframe U.S. views on Africa, foster partnership (PBS)

Israel’s Transformative Protest Movement (TNY)

Teachers, neighbours and even family members are turning to Soviet-style denunciations in wartime Russia (FT)

Biden’s awkward democracy summit America still lacks an effective approach to the global south. (FT)

Millennials Aren’t Killing ‘Objective’ News — the Market Is (NYMag)

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