New from @spulliam: “I asked the Falwells, as a personal favor to me, to assist with the lagging Trump campaign in Iowa,” Cohen wrote in a text. washingtonpost.com/education/2020…
Falwell confirmed Tuesday that Cohen had helped him. He did not say who was threatening to circulate the images, only that someone had stolen photos from his phone — of he and Becki in their backyard — and Cohen spoke to the person’s lawyers and threatened to contact the FBI...
They weren’t fully nude,” Falwell said of the images. “They were just pictures of my wife. I was proud of how she looked.”
Cohen, however, implied Granda was involved. Cohen told The Post in a text message Tuesday that he had worked with Granda’s lawyer to “ensure the alleged photos were not released to the public.”
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Been wanting to inject a bit of context into the WaPo discussion this week. An important note is nearly every publisher has experienced similar precipitous declines in audience since 2020. No sugarcoating!
COVID/election year was a peak traffic moment for almost everyone. Then came social platform algorithm changes; news fatigue; subscription fatigue; and rapidly changing reader habits.
Now we have Google AI Overviews and other algorithm changes that are causing steep declines. Search has long been the biggest referral source for many publishers.
At middle school basketball game at the Barclays center, the girls behind us are cheering for the opposing team. One bursts out: “If we lose, I’m going to smack one of those Chinese girls.” I talk to her. She denies it. Her mother comes over and gets in my face. #thisis2023
Not unusual, of course, but talking to two other Asian American parents nearby…we talked about the heart-pounding. The fear.
They’re kids. Where is this coming from? Just shows how people who seem foreign, alien, different…are perceived in America. It’s embedded in our history.
Speechless at this extraordinarily brave, visceral, and important story by Luke Mogelson, who spent two weeks embedded in the front lines, documenting the unimaginable. War reportage at its finest. Journalism in its most vital function: bearing witness. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
Meet Doc, a former marine with a degree in computer science who worked for Google. “A thick scar spanned his neck, from a bar fight in North Carolina during which someone had sliced his throat with a box cutter.”
Many foreigners, no matter how seasoned or élite, were unprepared for the reality of combat in Ukraine: the front line, which extends for roughly seven hundred miles, features relentless, industrial-scale violence of a type unknown in Europe since the Second World War.
In this week’s @newyorker, I write about Mai Ngai’s new book, “The Chinese Question.” The gold rush made California the substrate for an experiment in multiracial democracy that had little precedent in the country’s history. Hint: it didn’t end well. newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…
“The Chinese of the gold-rush era are mostly anonymous to us today. The absence of their voices from historical accounts perhaps contributes to the mistaken impression that they were passive in the face of abuse.”
“Even though several million Irish and German immigrants had streamed into American cities, it was whites’ resentment toward the Chinese that became a virulent nationwide movement.”
SIREN @JaneMayerNYer: a well-funded national movement has been exploiting Trump’s claims of fraud in order to promote alterations to the way that ballots are cast and counted in 49 states, 18 of which have passed new voting laws in the past 6 months. newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…
“Dark-money organizations…have relentlessly promoted the myth that American elections are rife with fraud, and, according to leaked records of their internal deliberations, they have drafted, supported, and in some cases taken credit for state laws that make it harder to vote.”
Re: the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. “Based in Milwaukee, the private, tax-exempt organization has become an extraordinary force in persuading mainstream Republicans to support radical challenges to election rules—a tactic once relegated to the far right.”
Extraordinary details here via @sbg1. Beginning in late 2020, Milley began having daily 8 am calls: “…both engines are out, the landing gear are stuck, we’re in an emergency situation. Our job is to land this plane safely...” newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…
“Milley repeatedly met in private with the Joint Chiefs. He told them to make sure there were no unlawful orders from Trump and not to carry out any such orders without calling him first…”
In the months after the election, with Trump seemingly willing to do anything to stay in power, the subject of Iran was repeatedly raised in White House meetings with the President, and Milley repeatedly argued against a strike.