Y23 | Someone once said I’m naturally anti-dogmatic. Housing is a human right. Research Fellow @InTheseTimesMag. Investigations in @thenation, @theappeal, etc.

New Haven, CT
Joined August 2017
BREAKING: In solidarity with Columbia, hundreds of Yale students have just constructed an encampment of tents outside a Board of Trustees meeting. Organizers say they won’t leave until Yale divests from all military weapons manufacturing. FREE PALESTINE!
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Breaking news: The Justice Department has moved to preemptively block certification of the results of Alaska’s Senate race if Republican incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses his tight race against Democrat Mary Peltola next month. wapo.st/47GV3EC
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Mississippi's Attorney General has ruled that a white Senatobia police officer was justified in fatally shooting a Black infant, Kohen Wiley, in June. Senatobia's police chief was fired last month after he was found to have used racial slurs in private texts.
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POV: Channeling my inner Rihanna because I won my case against the @washingtonpost — and they owe me a year’s worth of back pay. 👊🏾💰
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When Trump raided John Bolton last year it was met w/ immediate outrage in the opinion pages of NYT, WSJ, WaPo, Atlantic & New Yorker. Since Rep Omar was raided Mon––and subsquently threatened w/ deportation––these same outlets have been silent. I wrote about this double standard
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Last month, 51 senators—nearly all Republicans—voted against requiring a report on U.S. citizens killed by Israeli forces and settlers. Today, Israeli settlers backed by Israeli troops viciously attacked Palestinians and a 64 year old American journalist. washingtonpost.com/world/202…
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To be clear, the only reason I was able to reach Heidi was because young Palestinians provided cover with rocks against machine-gun- and tear-gas-wielding settlers and soldiers. It’s those kids, not the settler terrorists, who the IDF was hunting after the attack.
This is @infinite_jaz rushing to help Heidi under fire from Israeli settlers slings
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American @washingtonpost journalist Heidi Levine was just severely beaten by settlers in Abu Falah. Videos coming in a minute.
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Calling all young journalists disillusioned with for-profit, billionaire-owned media! It's the last day to apply to @inthesetimesmag's Winter/Spring editorial internship. Apply by midnight to get a crash course in fact-checking and anti-fascist reporting. inthesetimes.com/internships
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Investigative reporting is often about showing who knew about and had a chance to fix a problem and didn’t. This is a case in point. Scammers Are Stealing Millions From Food Stamp Recipients. Congress Could Fix It — but Won’t. propublica.org/article/food-…
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rather than read whatever war crimes apologia brett mcgurk has spewed out, read @AkbarSAhmed's book detailing exactly the kind of unrepentant genocide enthusiast mcgurk is thenation.com/article/politi…
Surprisingly damning review in the NYT of Brett McGurk's Gaza memoir:
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The federal government is lying to you. And we have the receipts. projects.propublica.org/amer…
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Jewish supremacists stormed a book event in Morningside Heights featuring Mahmoud Khalil and assaulted staff!
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"nearly" is the only word that matters here.
The day that Biden grew so angry at Netanyahu that he nearly cut him off: "He was just completely fed up with everything and I think at that moment he was ready to just say, 'I’m done,'" @brett_mcgurk recalls as he releases "Brink," his memoir of Gaza war. nytimes.com/2026/10/01/us/po…
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the people who did this walk among us. we are rehabilitating those in the biden admin who facilitated this already. the trump admin is continuing it. the triggermen get to roam our streets and those who demand accountability for this heinous crime are treated like criminals.
New aerial footage shows the scale of devastation in Gaza
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The Los Angeles Times is running a full webpage advertisement promoting tourism to Israel. The ad is backed by the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. The ad also includes a map of Israel that erases Palestine.
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For more than two months, I have been working on a truly horrific story about one of the gravest war crimes committed by the United States since Vietnam: The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran. It was one of the first targets struck in the opening hours of the war on February 28, 2026. At least 156 people were killed in the U.S. cruise missile strikes—120 of them were children and 26 were teachers. We spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, doctors, teachers, psychologists, and other witnesses. Some of them had never before shared their experiences of that day. It would be impossible to do justice to what happened in Minab that day with words alone. In more than 25 years in journalism and reporting on war, I do not believe I have reported on a more heinous single crime. Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave dropsitenews.com/p/minab-sch… Please share this story with as many people as you can.
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So excited to share this guide I've been working on with a group of excellent homelessness beat reporters across the country. Learn more about our new toolkit and our 2025 guide on ethics and working with homeless sources. 👇👇
Hey media folks.👋Have questions about covering homelessness? We’ve got a new guide to help you navigate the avalanche of information, competing perspectives and political narratives surrounding the topic. Check it out: shorturl.at/JDQet
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NEW: Israel snatched an American teen from his West Bank home in the middle of the night — days before his birthday & during national exams. He's been held for 3 months with no charge. Netanyahu just came to the US for the 8th time in Trump's second term.zeteo.com/p/israel-has-kidna…
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