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3 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Please send your holiday weekend prayers, subscription checks, donations and love to New York local reporters who just got an unexpected dump of election results.
These are partial results mind you, and may change when absentee ballots are included, but they still have to be pored over deep into what should be the post-game of a ridiculous week.
I've reported on or supervised coverage of multiple elections in South Africa and its neighbors, as well as across India. I've never seen anything approaching this level of malignant shambolics
Miles to go before we sleep, but the latest round of results is live here: projects.thecity.nyc/nyc-2021-prima…

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4 Jul
How did a proponent of the white genocide myth, and spokesperson for the South African hard right get into the US despite Covid travel restrictions? Was he granted a National Interest Exemption? If so, why?
Ernst Roets has already been on Tucker's show once, feeding the white rage machine with tales from South Africa. Not hard to guess what he is here for now huffingtonpost.co.uk/2018/05/16/afr…
Grounds for SA travelers seeking a National Interest Exception to enter the US: journalists, students, academics, work on infrastructure, public health and national security. Roets fits none of these categories travel.state.gov/content/travel…
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Some of us are old enough to remember when the push to end the tax race-to-the-bottom came from leftish technocratic leaders in the global south. If the west gets there 15 years later, I guess the destination is what matters. reut.rs/3fNxCj7
Within the US, the reinstatement of the SALT deduction is one of the few tools the Biden administration has to blunt the impact of tax competition on states with more redistributive budgets and give them policy space. Will Yellen bring this thinking home? thecity.nyc/2021/4/5/22369…
In which the FT feels compelled to match @THECITYNY's budget reporting ft.com/content/22c9b7…
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16 Dec 20
Some ... personal news: thecity.nyc/pages/the-city…
New York City must navigate the pandemic, and recovery efforts, while battling compound pre-existing conditions: racial injustice, inequality, and climate vulnerability. Local accountability journalism will make all the difference in the world to the shape we emerge in.
The team at @THECITYNY has an incredible record of impactful reporting, and I can't wait to join them in January. Some examples:
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13 Dec 20
Facebook's internal human rights team has designated India a "tier 1" risk for harm to vulnerable populations. But the company is not prepared to protect its staff against the consequences of deplatforming the Bajrang Dal, or take the business hit. wsj.com/articles/in-in…
The Bajrang Dal make the Proud Boys look like a knitting circle
When people die thanks to hate preached on open platforms, and violence co-ordinated via messaging apps, no-one will be able to say they didn't know. Only that they didn't care.
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13 Jul 20
The Press Trust of India, @PTI_News, roughly India’s AP, may not be a bastion of accountability journalism, but it is a crucial institution providing news from across the country. Now it faces a campaign of intimidation from the Modi government. (Short thread)
On June 25, with tensions running high over clashes at the Sino-Indian border, PTI published this typically anodyne interview with the Chinese ambassador: ptinews.com/news/11592287_…
The first response came from one of the wire service’s most important subscribers, the state broadcaster, which described the coverage as “anti-national” - a catchall slur for government critics: thewire.in/media/governme…
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“Even before COVID-19, we squandered a decade in the fight against poverty, with misplaced triumphalism blocking the very reforms that could have prevented the worst impacts of the pandemic” a stinging final report from ⁦@PhilipGAlston⁩ chrgj.org/2020/07/05/phi…
From the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, at the end of his 6-year term, this is both a critique and manifesto for very specific change in the way the global poverty reduction agenda is framed, measured, and pursued
“Over the past decade, the UN, world leaders and pundits have promoted a self-congratulatory message of impending victory over poverty, but almost all of these accounts rely on the World Bank’s international poverty line, which is utterly unfit for the purpose"
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