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John Schwartz
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UT Austin journalism prof | Former NYT/WP | Latest book: This Is the Year I Put My Financial Life in Order | Serious goofball | Galveston BOI | jswatz@gmail.com
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NEW: The has acquired the papers of Joan Didion & John Gregory Dunne.
Letters, notes, drafts, photos, screenplays, datebooks, dinner-party menus, even a “homemade cookbook” (!) or two. (Didion was “very committed to Chantilly cream”)
My story:
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This NYT deep dive on the Durham investigation, and Barr's complicity in skewing it, is a showcase of excellent reporting and writing ...
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Everybody needs to read this great, upsetting story about the ethics-challenged Durham investigation.
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For months, @ktbenner @adamgoldmanNYT & I have been scrutinizing the Durham investigation into the Russia investigation. It just went online. nytimes.com/2023/01/26/us/
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For months, & I have been scrutinizing the Durham investigation into the Russia investigation. It just went online.
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Thanks to for sharing the important report he and colleagues prepared on the Barr/Durham investigation, instigated to discredit probes of Russian help to the 2016 Trump campaign.
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Here is a gift article link so you can read this article even if you are not a subscriber and have already hit the paywall. nyti.ms/3HeA9Ps
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“This stuff has my head spinning,” Mr. Luskin said. “When did these guys drink the Kool-Aid, and who served it to them?”
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How climate change contributes to tragedy in the Lone Star State: heat-related deaths in 2022 reached a new high for this century. texastribune.org/2023/01/26/tex via
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“One in every nine tanks of gas, diesel or jet fuel pumped in California comes from the Amazon,” said Angeline Robertson, the lead author of the report. “So if you take nine trips somewhere, one of those trips was Amazon oil.”
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The confounding partisanship allegiance to gas stoves, red meat, guns, and avoiding vaccinations is starting to seem more and more like a problem that will solve itself
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Even a mild case of COVID-19 can increase a person’s risk of cardiovascular problems for at least a year after diagnosis.... the risk was elevated even for those who were under 65 years of age and lacked risk factors, such as obesity or diabetes.
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My new one : Meta is Bringing Trump Back to Facebook. It Should Keep Him on a Short Leash to Protect Our Democracy.
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Choose belonging over isolation, community over hate. A lovely story.
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“A reader opening one of his books is gently lowered into a bath of perfect temperature, as ideas, revelations, universes float by,” said.
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“We have shifted this conversation so incredibly far in the direction of restrictions on trans people’s autonomy and rights in a way that was completely unfathomable to many of us even just three or four years ago.”
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An arrest in the deaths of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips.
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“We don’t get to save the planet and not take on the ravages of poverty.” Sierra Club's new head, , talks with
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"We know that what we are doing is something that’s very difficult, but it’s exactly the size of the challenge that makes our commitment grow." interviews
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“When we build in the flood plain and we’re expecting more flooding in this flood plain, the two aren’t balanced,” said William Sweet, an oceanographer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who has studied sea level rise and flooding.
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To fight flooding, fight climate change: “Sea levels will continue to rise, and flood risk will continue to rise.... Less heating equals a greater chance of hitting lower sea level targets in the future, which will keep flood risk at bay.”
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The shift to renewables? Jobs, jobs, jobs. "With that job, I made enough money to buy my first home," said Maximo Decaba, an industrial painter. "It's time we get off fossil fuels, and it's time people make an honest living with green energy."
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In this excellent first column for the Guardian, makes strong points, and somehow resists explicitly calling Elon Musk a dumbass. Props for that.
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Inbox; @sulliview joins The Guardian to be a weekly columnist on media, politics and culture.
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John , novelist and internet personality, is the 2023 winner of the Robert A. Heinlein Award.
The award is bestowed for outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings that inspire the human exploration of space. It will be presented at #balticon2023
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Willie Nelson is going to be 90. That's right. And a bunch of us are going to sing some of his songs at the Hollywood Bowl, and you should come. #willienelson
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Campaign records show the Louisiana Democratic Party took more than $90,000 in donations from utility companies, energy producers, and their executives during the elections for two Louisiana Public Service Commissioners.
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Louisiana Democratic Party leaders are accused of funneling thousands of dollars from utility companies to a fossil fuel–friendly candidate for the state’s utility regulatory committee—after first endorsing his pro-climate challenger, reports
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My new billion-dollar idea: dead drop for politicians’ classified docs. Name? “Special Oops.”
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The Washington Post laid off 20 of our newsroom colleagues today. No justification has been given for job cuts at a company that will continue to grow and hire at a historic pace.
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Today, The Washington Post laid off 20 of our colleagues.
While 20 is much smaller than 200 — “a single digit percentage of the workforce,” as Publisher Fred Ryan indicated, that’s little consolation to those who lost their jobs today.
That number should be zero.
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I am the luckiest man alive
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When I showed this story to my wife, she said “they should have gone with somebody who had a track record.”
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Having said that, keep in mind that these new examples appear to be very different from Trump intentionally gathering documents, lying about them, refusing to cooperate with legal authorities, suing, screaming "witch hunt!" etc.
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In the future, everyone will have classified documents for 15 minutes.
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1/At this point it's clear that we need a bipartisan process to reform the classification system & how documents are handled at the highest levels of government. But that doesn't alter the fact that Trump knew...
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Like it or not, and whether or not you support same-sex marriage, is legally married to Buttigieg. A meditation on rage, love, social media, homophobia, respect, tolerance, and Jesus.
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That Earth's-core-reversing thing? NOT a disaster: "This may sound like a setup for a world-wrecking, blockbuster movie. But fret not: Precisely nothing apocalyptic will result from this planetary spin cycle, which may have been happening for eons. "
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When people asked for a turnaround, this is not what they meant
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Earth's inner core, a hot iron ball the size of Pluto, has stopped spinning in the same direction as the rest of the planet and might even be rotating the other way, research suggested on Monday.
u.afp.com/idwo
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