Staff Writer at The New Yorker, author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families'
Apr 10, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
the LePen threat (and for many French voters its the LePen temptation) has been haunting French elections for a long time — I wrote this profile of Marine’s father Jean-Marie LePen in 1996 newyorker.com/magazine/1997/…
I wrote of papa LePen that he asked me, “What do I have to do to not be racist? Marry a black woman? With AIDS if possible?” He sent a letter saying I’d missed his joke because he said “un noir”—a Black man—not “une noire.” Vile man. His Putinist daughter’s no better.
Sep 27, 2020 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
well…
The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
"Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750.
He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years — largely because he reported losing much more money than he made."
Sep 2, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
CNN reports UAE denies involvement in Rusesabagina’s arrest, saying he arrived in Dubai on commercial flight & departed legally on private jet for “East African country.” A senior Rwanda government source tells me “can confirm what UAE said is accurate" edition.cnn.com/2020/09/02/afr…
Sr Rwandan govt source says Rusesabagina “departed UAE voluntarily by private jet en route to a country in East Africa” & “When that plane made a stop in Rwanda, he was placed under arrest pursuant to the international arrest warrant issued in November 2018.”
Aug 19, 2020 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
these are just great american tableaus
northern mariana islands
Apr 9, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
rainy day windows
Jan 17, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
a lot of history and of literature in those 121 yrs of paper, including— if I remember from a photo of this I saw—a long ago serialization of Madame Bovary in Yiddish, which was read aloud by readers on ladders amid the laborers hand-rolling cigars in Lower East Side sweatshops…
the letters of that radio station’s call sign stood for Eugene V. Debs
Sep 30, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Trump tweet said report on McGahn limiting FBI investigation incorrect—but @NYTimes paints Trump tweet as incorrect nytimes.com/2018/09/29/us/…
Times says McGahn, working with McConnell/Senate GOP, is indeed setting FBI limits: only 4 people are approved for FBI interviews: Judge, Keyser, PJ Smyth & Ramirez. FBI to ask Judge about Swetnick allegations, but not Swetnick. Question of Kav downplaying drinking are off limits
Sep 29, 2018 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
sources “characterized the White House instructions as a significant constraint on the FBI investigation” nbcnews.com/politics/polit…
"the FBI cannot ask the supermarket that employed Judge for records verifying when he was employed there, one of the sources was told."
Sep 25, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
long before sex assault accusations surfaced, Kavanaugh was manifestly unfit for SCOTUS: what other nominee made his name as a sleazy partisan operative, hid most of his record, lied repeatedly under oath to Congress & came saddled with such a mess of dodgy unexplained finances?
except for Thomas, has any Justice in living memory been confirmed with anything even close to such a blatantly compromised profile? many have faced fierce ideological opposition, but none has so reeked of personal & public corruption & represented such a dishonor to the court
