CANNOT WAIT to hear this ✨✨✨

I am getting lots of inquiries from people in Afghanistan or people who know those trying to get to safety. I am compiling names to try and push for evacuation. I cannot promise anything but will do everything I can. Email [email protected] Here are more resources: THREAD

HELPING HERE IN U.S.: Additionally, if you’re in the United States and wish to help people evacuating Afghanistan, here’s how you can help: If you want to volunteer for airport pickup, apartment setups, and/or meals for Afghans, go to lirsconnect.org/get_involved/a… 5/10

If you want to help provide transportation, housing, and other basic needs for Afghans at Fort Lee in Virginia, go to lssnca.org/take_action/af… 6/10

Read this now, from David Rohde, and understand the accelerating existential panic that is gripping so many of our fellow humans newyorker.com/news/daily-com…

Whoa, whoa, whoa

A thing you should know: Scott Stewart, who today will argue that the U.S. Supreme Court should overturn Roe v. Wade, was the Trump administration's top lawyer defending family separations in federal court.

Meet Phyllis Taylor. She’s a big New Orleanian billionaire philanthropist. A friend called her a “Gentle Dove.” She also likes hunting, and shot this leopard in Zambia:

Yep, this --> From Ilya Marritz Let’s Recall What Exactly Paul Manafort and Rudy Giuliani Were Doing in Ukraine propublica.org/article/lets-r…

This is the Ukrainian member of the Fox News crew. She was killed today alongside their cameraman. Fox News doesn’t even mention her in their report. (Photo published by Oksana Romaniuk of the Institute of Mass Information)

Amazon to ban the word "union" on its new worker chat app, per internal company documents leaked to me. Other banned terms include "living wage," "slave labor," "harassment" and "restrooms" theintercept.com/2022/04/04/ama…

!! Extremely excited for this

No institution in America has had more power with less journalistic scrutiny than SCOTUS. It's well past time for that to end. A clarifying call from Richard Tofel, who also lays out exactly what that would look like. dicktofel.substack.com/p/time-for-rea…

incredible 152 word sentence nymag.com/intelligencer/…

John Williams Ntwali was a lifeline for many victims of human rights violations, and often the only journalist who dared report on issues of political repression. He joins a long list of people who have challenged the government and died in suspicious circumstances. #Rwanda Human Rights Watch

On the left, Republican Senator Mike Lee feigns outrage during the State of the Union when President Biden suggests that some Republicans want to cut Social Security and Medicare. On the right, Mike Lee says he wants to get rid of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

Without the student debt forgiveness plan, the end of the loan forbearance period will subtract 0.1 percentage points from GDP growth, as I explained last week: nytimes.com/2023/06/21/bus…

I thought I knew everything there was to know about "subway vigilante" Bernhard Goetz and the shooting that rocked 1980s NYC, but then I listened to the first episode of the new season of Fiasco. Highly, highly recommended:

Overnight, Trump AG Pam Bondi nuked the Foreign Agents Registration Act. It is no longer enforcing criminal charges unless it involves espionage. This is a very bad idea and will embolden foreign governments secretly influencing the U.S. 1/9🧵