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Sep 26, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Lori Abrams came down with a Black Lives Matter sign and is walking solo towards the event. She's continuing even after others warned her that it is dangerous.
It's about a 20-minute walk to a nearby event organized by Black activists. There are about 200 gathered, listening to a speech about the history of Vanport, where many Black families moved as part of the shipbuilding effort of World War 2.

nytimes.com/2020/09/26/us/…
At the Proud Boys event...

The event with BLM activists at Vanport has wrapped up, and the crowd is departing in a large vehicle caravan. Police are watching at a nearby intersection.
With the Proud Boys event and the Black-led event wrapping up at the same time, police are directing Proud Boys traffic onto Interstate 5 north (foreground) while the BLM traffic heads south (way in the background)

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Mar 14
Seattle’s only national park honors the grit of the Klondike gold rush, where Donald Trump's grandfather built the family's early wealth.

But the DOGE cuts have placed the park’s future at risk.

A 🧵 about the park and Frederick Trump... Image
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There are some fascinating twists of history in this story.

Frederick Trump had his first foray into the world of hospitality as a 22-year-old in Seattle, when he opened a restaurant very close to the site of the current national park.

nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/…
In 1896, Frederick Trump made the family's first foray into U.S. politics in the mining town of Monte Cristo. In a local campaign, he apparently allied himself with William Jennings Bryan, the populist Democrat who railed against tariffs.

nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/…Image
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Jan 30
NEW:

A preliminary FAA report says staffing in the air traffic control tower at Reagan National was "not normal" last night.

One controller was managing both helicopters in the vicinity and planes — tasks typically divided between two controllers. Image
More here:
nytimes.com/live/2025/01/2…
For those who haven't seen it, my NYT colleagues did an outstanding project looking at FAA records, air traffic control staffing, and a series of close calls in commercial aviation.

nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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Jan 10
So, did Los Angeles cut the Fire Department budget or increase it? There are lots of people trying to score political points on that question.

If you are among the exclusive group of people who care about understanding the more complicated reality, here is a brief thread.

1/6
Last year, the mayor approved a $23 million budget cut for the fire department, including:

• Eliminating 73 civilian positions
• Reducing money available to pay firefighters’ overtime by $7.9 million

BUT…

2/6
 nytimes.com/2025/01/09/us/…
When the budget was signed, the city was still negotiating a new contract with the firefighters’ union. After that was settled, more money was approved, so the total fire budget is now actually $53 million more than last year.

BUT…

3/6
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Jan 4
NEW: We have obtained more details about Shamsud-Din Jabbar, his descent into radicalization, and some of his final words as he drove toward his attack in New Orleans.

THREAD 1/8
In one of his final messages, Jabbar told his family: “I wanted you to know that I joined ISIS.”

Then, a chilling addendum: “I don’t want you to think I spared you willingly.” He described how he had considered a fake “celebration” for them.

Story:

2/8nytimes.com/2025/01/04/us/…
Jabbar’s family members said his radicalization was a secret to them.

But they had noticed changes: He was stressed financially, upset about “genocide on both sides” in the Middle East, and expressing disgust of partying (something, we found, was once part of his life).

3/8
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Jan 2
We spent much of today interviewing a series of people who knew New Orleans attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar, including his brother, who spoke to Jabbar recently.

“I would have never imagined him doing something like this,” he told us.

1/8
There is much more detail here in this story, thanks to reporters on the ground in New Orleans and Houston, and others digging through his history on the internet and in the military.

But I’ll also thread some of the details we learned today.



2/8nytimes.com/2025/01/01/us/…
Jabbar’s brother, Abdur, tells us the two grew up Christian but that his brother converted to Islam.

A woman who used to be Jabbar’s neighbor recalled him as someone who played with his kids and was always courteous, referring to her as “ma’am.”

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Jan 18, 2023
NEW: We have reviewed search warrant records in the case of Idaho killings suspect Bryan Kohberger. Among items seized from his apartment:
• a black disposable glove
• possible hair strands
• computer
• items with red or brown spots/stains
nytimes.com/article/univer…
Investigators said in one document they wanted to see if hair had transferred onto Kohberger and then back to his apartment. That included not only the hair of victims but the hair of Kaylee Goncalves’s dog.

One of the items collected was a “possible animal hair strand.”
Here is a list of the items seized by authorities during a search of Bryan Kohberger’s apartment.
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