KILO has been translated into ten languages. Filmmaker, authour, foreign correspondent. I chose this life so now better learn to live with the consequences.
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Paperback of Kilo: Inside the Cocaine Cartels is out soon from @WmMorrowBooks I’m giving away 5 signed copies. Kilo travels the front lines of the unending war on drugs, meeting the traffickers, hired killers, and police amid record cocaine output. Retweet & I’ll pick five names
"...walking past the chips, the Big Mama sausages and the candy bars..." Local news has space to be fun like this - dunk on the alleged mugger's awful fashions, end with the gimmicky face behind the bars shot.
D.C. police are asking for the community’s help to identify a suspect wanted in connection with a violent robbery inside a Shell gas station in the 900 block of Brentwood Road, Northeast.
According to police, the suspect approached a victim inside the store at the gas station, assaulted the victim, stole their property and fled the scene.
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A new GEICO commercial — "Cancelled Plans" — is about a couple celebrating a cancelled dinner with friends, so they can put on their PJs and fall into the couch to watch TV with popcorn and pizza.
I don't want to be some annoying leisure-time scold (pizza is good) or act like some media-studies nerd who treats a car insurance commercial like a Rosetta Stone of modern life.
But, like, we can all see what's happening here, yes? The generation that spends less and less time with people; that reduced hosting and dinner parties by 70% in 50 years; and increased time spent at home by 2 hours so far this century; also celebrates when the few plans they do have are canceled, and expects other people to understand the cause for celebration when plans with people outside the home are scrapped.
The problem is not loneliness. Truly lonely people are desperate for social connection. The whole joke here is that everybody knows that everybody knows that we don't want to be around people so much. Loneliness is literally the opposite of the problem.
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A good story in the New Yorker on covering the Syrian civil war as a freelancer while living on the Turkish border.
I'm pretty sure I'm that "bastard". I knew Harvester and remember telling him about the sniper just missing me in Aleppo, joking I had "bled for Syria."
The other question he raises: did media blackouts on journalists being abducted lead to more journalists getting kidnapped? Probably yes. If you weren't in the right secret Facebook groups, you couldn't know how dangerous Syria was for reporters.
.@MichaelSctMoore as someone who's lived this more than anyone ever would, what are your thoughts?
I argued we should report on these cases. But others urged a deference to the families' wishes. The problem is that families are always advised to ask for a blackout - but it's not necessarily always the best response to a kidnapping. Each case is different.
We're run by a set of legislators who don't even understand the laws they help pass.
We have the dumbest version possible of democracy.
(does anyone know the name of the journalist here? she's a legend).
Stefano Pozzebon @StePozzebon moved out of an apartment leaving behind just under $1,000 in bills.
I’ve spent weeks urging him to pay what he had always said he would. But so far nothing.
Pay up, Sefano, and let’s move on.
The journalism of this story is strange.
A senator is accused. He offers an "exclusive" statement that rejects all the claims (with no evidence) and you run it?
An interview is different. You can push back, demand proof. This is literally copying and pasting his defense.
New — John Fetterman breaks silence after detailed WSJ report on indifference to the job.
“Per usual — lies, half-truths, innuendos, smears and anonymous,” he told me.
He responds to three of the incidents detailed in report, including one text he called a “dumb joke.” Says the incidents lack full context.
More here on the extraordinary rift between Fetterman and his former staff:
cnn.com/2026/09/06/politics/…
El tema de la delincuencia aburre a la izquierda. Lo mismo pasa en el Reino Unido y en la USA. Y eso hace que los votantes no confíen en ellos cuando se trata de seguridad. La izquierda debe copiar Blair: «mano dura contra el crimen, mano dura contra las causas del crimen».
Hace unos meses escribí sobre la urgencia de que el progresismo dispute el terreno de la seguridad y hoy me parece buen día para recordarlo. La noticia sobre "Bendito Menor" muestra capacidad operativa del Estado y se trata de alguien que causó mucho daño y burló a la institucionalidad.
Entonces, mientras el progresismo siga ausente del debate sobre qué es la seguridad, cómo se garantiza y cómo se comunica, buena parte de la población seguirá viéndolo como lo ve hoy: el sector inexperto que no entiende ni es empático con la inseguridad que vive la gente, el que tolera el caos y la impunidad.
Y sí, a rey muerto, rey puesto, y si no se va más allá de capturar o dar de baja, poco cambiará de fondo. Pero hoy la gente se queda con que algo se está haciendo, con que su reclamo por seguridad es tomado en serio. Y posiblemente poco se exigirá a mediano y largo plazo y poco se cuestionará de aquí en adelante. Y así caminar entre muertos, exhibirlos, hablar como el enemigo que se dice combatir quedará en un segundo plano.
Highly recommend - a fantastic novel. Great prose (and translation). The centrality of violence, bloodshed as the means and the end. Things to keep in mind as we enter a new age of violence.
I'm sure this is fine and nothing to worry about at all.
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