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    Out today in paperback: THE WAY OF THE STRANGERS, my book about ISIS and its supporters: – at MSNBC Studios

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  2. I am naturally inclined to greet Harry and Meghan like ordinary people, but reading articles like this ("bow or curtsy… stand facing them with arms at your sides. They will offer their hand to you first”) fill me with a desire to kick them in the shins:

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    Leila Janah, a social entrepreneur who employed thousands of desperately poor people in Kenya, Uganda and India in the fervent belief that jobs, not handouts, offered the best escape from poverty, has died at 37

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  5. Jan 31

    These guys are going to blow themselves up sooner or later.

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  6. Jan 31

    "Maybe two grenades was too much."

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  7. Jan 31

    $193 for New York to Hong Kong sounds like a bargain, but you can get to Hong Kong (r/t) for $550 most of the time, without the risk of fatal pneumonia:

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  9. Jan 29

    "With those precautions in place, I observed a public health miracle: Not only did no child get SARS, but it seemed no student was sick with anything at all for months on end. No stomach bugs. No common colds. Attendance was more or less perfect."

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  10. Jan 28

    Obviously you can hurt your head/brain without hurting other parts of your body, but I do wonder what kind of missile attack levels buildings and rattles brains without causing other noteworthy casualties.

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  11. Jan 28

    50 traumatized brains. No other traumatized body parts?

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    Jan 27

    Call me a neoliberal shill if you must, but I'd rather not gamble the ability to get Trump out of office on the appetite of the median voter for socialist revolution w 3.6% unemployment, the longest economic expansion in history, &consumer confidence near post-dot-com-boom highs.

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    1) This tweet below, #7 in a thread by , rings absolutely true to me. If and when journalism puts out its other burn-down-the-house emergencies, people can begin reckoning with this one. (Short thread of my own follows.)

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  14. Jan 28

    At this point, when I know someone who visits Iran and then comes home on schedule, I am pleasantly surprised

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    “John Bolton knows what he is doing.” An authoritative — and a little bit terrifying — peek inside John Bolton’s head, by .

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    "[David] Frum is Bolton’s former colleague at the American Enterprise Institute, so I suspect he knew that appealing to Bolton’s selfless, wholly unremunerated goodwill is about as likely to be successful as asking him for a foot massage."

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    Jan 27

    new Obsession from me: coronavirus. of note: theories as to why bats are good disease reservoirs

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    I find as impossible to summarize as he is consistently delightful to read. And this piece on Bolton is .... oh, boy

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    Jan 27

    They hire the guy to be an offensive coordinator, then they get mad when he’s offensive. Can’t win.

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    Jan 27

    Those devastating lines of W.H. Auden: God may reduce you on Judgement Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.

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