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John Emerson retweeted
20 Dec 2023
One of the most horrific and heartbreaking of our investigations: hospital by hospital in Gaza targeted, put under siege, invaded…mass graves of patients, children and medical staff desparately dug in courtyards. A step by step recon. of this systematic and widespread crime.
20 Dec 2023
Our aggregation of news reports since 7 Oct suggests that hospitals in Gaza are subjected to a repeated pattern of intimidation, direct targeting, siege, and occupation by the Israeli military: gaza-hospitals.forensic-arch…
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John Emerson retweeted
16 Jul 2023
Writers, and I cannot emphasise this enough, FINISH THE DRAFT. It is only when you have a complete draft that it can later be posthumously published by your friend and literary executor, possibly in direct contravention of your own express wishes
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John Emerson retweeted
29 Jun 2023
“Pedestrian deaths will have increased for the 12th consecutive year, nearly doubling from 4,302 in 2010 to an estimated 8,126—the highest number in more than 40 years.” prospect.org/infrastructure/…
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John Emerson retweeted
27 Jun 2023
This afternoon I created a tool to automatically email myself when I have an overdue records request.
When I'm done making it better I plan to roll it out for anyone else to use for free #FOIAFriday
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John Emerson retweeted
26 Jun 2023
“Moving on” - These were all published in the last week.
ALT The Denver Post: “LongCovid patients in Colorado are still struggling as the world moved on: ‘We’re fighting for our lives. More than 200,000 in the state have experienced new worsening symptoms that develop after initial Covid infection.”
ALT Washington Post: Covid isn’t over but even the most cautious Americans are moving on” June 25, 2023 by Fenit Nirappil Aara’L Yarber Sheila Regan
ALT Post bulletin: As the U.S. moves on from its COVID-19 health emergency, Rochester couple calls attention to long COVID Tina Ridler and Dean Myrick of Rochester have been navigating their lives with long COVID symptoms since they first fell ill in early 2020
ALT The Japan Times; “Covid orphans face grief and poverty as world moves on”
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BREAKING: A judge has signed off on our agreement with LA County, which holds them accountable to improving conditions inside LA County jails.
This is a huge win for the rights of incarcerated people held in the biggest jail system in the country.
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John Emerson retweeted
8 Jun 2023
Discovery in this case will unearth the use of NYC-area High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area's facial recognition tool/database by NYPD and cops in NJ. I've come across a number of cases over the years involving this end-run, tho defense attys were too reticent to go on record
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John Emerson retweeted
3 Jun 2023
🧵 If reforestation could work anywhere, it's in Brazil's Amazon rainforest. I followed two reforestation projects for 3 years to find out why it's so hard. Threats at gunpoint, botanical mysteries, here's what I found. 1/
reuters.com/investigates/spe…
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John Emerson retweeted
12 May 2023
A 🧵 || My Twitter feed of my people in Gaza is literally everyone saying goodbyes to each other and apologizing to anyone who they might have hurt. Asking for forgiveness from each other and solving any beef they may have had with each other.
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John Emerson retweeted
19 Apr 2023
Support local journalism. nytimes.com/2023/04/18/us/ok…
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John Emerson retweeted
11 Apr 2023
Over the past decade, some 900 soldiers facing criminal charges were allowed to leave the Army rather than go to trial.
More than half of them were accused of violent crimes.
Incredible reporting by @ViannaDavila @renLarson_
& @davis_winkie propublica.org/article/milit…
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John Emerson retweeted
6 Apr 2023
When I was coming out (back in what feels like the Axial Age), it was axiomatic even in more conservative parts of the LGBT movement that parental authority was a wellspring of oppressive abuse. It wasn't neutral or apolitical. Curtailing it was where politics began.
6 Apr 2023
This devastating thread speaks to two truths:
- The media are whipping up an anti-trans moral panic based on lies and distortions
- Parents do not always know what is best for their children - and in some cases, the absolute opposite.
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John Emerson retweeted
6 Apr 2023
It'll never stop being funny to me that the Malay nickname for a proboscis monkey is orang belanda, meaning Dutch guy. They must have had different names, and then one day the Dutch arrived and everyone was like lol yeah that's them for sure.
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John Emerson retweeted
2 Apr 2023
A ~twenty year difference in life expectancy driven mostly by young deaths. This is the American tragedy in one map.
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John Emerson retweeted
31 Mar 2023
NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got.
My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/re…
And some utterly damning charts.
1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.
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A new report finds that more than 121,000 people globally were injured or killed by crowd-control weapons since 2015.
truthout.org/articles/police…
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