How sad: three guys desperate enough to rob an impoverished delivery worker with a machete. nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyc…

Taylor Swift’s Innate Decency Drives MAGA Warriors Crazy open.substack.com/pub/theunpopul…

Greetings to my dear Libyan friends as Ramadan begins. Shout out to #Zwara #Sabratha #Benghazi#Tripoli.

"Casual fans of Trump’s dictator-talk may wish to ponder the merits of a system which leads here: 'Eventually, passing from one room to the other became a complicated activity. . . . Any repetitive movement increased my heartbeat.'" plus.thebulwark.com/p/hisham-matar…

My recent essay on what the new novel "My Friends" by Hisham Matar tells us about #Libya and how dictatorships change the psyche of those who endure them. A good gift for anyone who talks about voting for #Trump.

The Plunder Party. For an excellent in-depth look at #Libya-#Turkey construction corruption dating back from the Gaddafi regime to the GNU regime, download this paper below: researchgate.net/publication/34…

"When Vlad wants something, he gets it." How a Soviet-born billionaire conquered the exclusive hotel empire of Aman. The latest in glossy Doroninology, but thorough #Doronin #Aspen. The Russian mise en scene is missing, though.. wsj.com/lifestyle/trav… via The Wall Street Journal

Money laundering in the U.K. has never been easier. London’s Heathrow Airport doesn’t check outbound suitcases for cash. Dubai welcomes sacks of it with no questions except: How much you got? wsj.com/business/airli… via The Wall Street Journal

It is easier to ask God for forgiveness than to forgive oneself.

Opinion: Canada will finally allow banks to share data about crooked clients to combat financial crime /via The Globe and Mail #aml #financialcrime theglobeandmail.com/business/comme…

First of a series of questions no one asks about Vlad #Doronin: At the beginning of his career, how did this obscure Soviet university grad come to the attention of Marc Rich, who could have hired anyone? Was it a family connection? wsj.com/lifestyle/trav… via The Wall Street Journal

Happy belated birthday to #AnthonyTrollop! Why Anthony Trollope Is the Most Jewish of the Great English Novelists tabletmag.com/sections/arts-…

The fantastically skilled and prolific Anthony Trollope, who was born yesterday in 1815, has much to say about what makes a lady or a gentleman, yet his ferocious work ethic and unabashed interest in money has made his own status questionable: tabletmag.com/sections/arts-…

Anthony Trollope did his writing - 43 novels' worth - between 530 am and leaving for a high level job at the Post Office where he worked for 32 years. Then again, he didn't have to check his social media.

#AnthonyTrollope, xenophobe & anti-semite? Or the most "Jewish" of great British novelists? A contrarian view by Ann Marlowe Tablet Magazine tabletmag.com/sections/arts-…

Now that my NYC neighborhood is filled with the horrific noise of (news) helicopters, it feels that the wars have come home..

Parents who pimp influencer teen daughters to #instagram audience of pervy men…with instgram’s knowledge.immensely disturbing article wsj.com/tech/young-inf…

And a plastic bottle of water with hundreds of thousands of particles of micro plastics is the perfect accompaniment to this brutalized ultra processed bread

Do you know what the worst drug I’ve ever tried is?Lexapro. That is why I haven’t been able to tweet. I’ve been in horrible pain a great deal of the time. Do not ever ever ever take an SSRI off of them is unbelievably difficult.

In a position once occupied by Thomas Jefferson #kushnerlife