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Nicholas Kristof
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Nicholas Kristof
@NickKristof
NY Times columnist, author and farmer of cider apples and wine grapes @KristofFarms
- When all 57 Buffalo police officers on the emergency response team resign because two were suspended for knocking down a 75-year-old man and sending him to the hospital, this seems like an opportunity to find 57 new police officers who don't approve of assaulting senior citizens.
- This is a police force begging to be defunded.
- Remember Tani Adewumi, the Nigerian refugee kid I wrote about 2 years ago who won the NY State chess championship while in a homeless shelter? Now well housed (thanks to you readers!), he just won a championship and is officially a National Chess Master as a 10-yr-old 5th grader!
- I just heard that Navajo Nation, which has done a heroic job wrestling the coronavirus to the ground, is now donating extra PPE to India. The Navajo have been a model of resolve in fighting the pandemic, and are now a model in supporting others worldwide who need help.
- Remember Martin Gugino, the 75-year-old victim of a police assault in Buffalo whom President Trump denounced? Gugino's lawyer, Kelly V. Zarcone, confirmed to me that he is still hospitalized with a fractured skull and unable to walk. Infuriating.
- Reminds me of a press conference I attended -- in North Korea.Kayleigh McEnany stormed off without taking questions after lecturing the press on how much Pres. Trump loves our troops
00:00 - A hospital in Seattle area has sent out a note to staff, shared with me, suspending elective surgery and warning that "our local COVID-19 trajectory is likely to be similar to that of Northern Italy." The hospital is down to a four-day supply of gloves.
- Of the 32 new Rhodes Scholars chosen today, a record 21 are women and almost half are immigrants or first generation Americans. One is undocumented and under DACA. They constitute another reminder that immigration can enrich America.
- A struggling Nevada mom suffers a miscarriage. Then the police show up and arrest her for manslaughter, and she's sentenced to 2.5-8 years in prison. Only when a pro bono lawyer steps up and appeals does a judge reverse the conviction and set her free to return to her children.
- Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Within an hour of starting interviews, I had the names of a 10-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl who had died because of decisions by wealthy men in
- I’ve covered warlords, dictators and corrupt authoritarians for decades, Mr. President, and they always threaten journalists. But in the end, they have a way of being toppled, even imprisoned, sometimes together with their corrupt family members. We will continue to do our jobs.The New York Times is an embarrassment to journalism. They were a dead paper before I went into politics, and they will be a dead paper after I leave, which will be in 5 years. Fake News is the Enemy of the people!
- And if we stopped issuing death certificates, Americans would live forever.Trump on coronavirus: "If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any" hill.cm/g4vKJ4u
- Lt. Col. Vindman, a decorated military officer who was injured by an IED in Iraq, is urgently receiving 24-hour military security protection because of threats provoked by a head of state. Not Russia's, not China's, but our own. Let that sink in.
