1/ THREAD: Afghanistan is on the brink of a mass starvation that aid groups say threatens to kill a million children in "a winter of absolute desperation and potentially death."
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Christina Goldbaum
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Christina Goldbaum
@cegoldbaum
Joined December 2012
- Last night, the subway ended late-night service for the 1st time in NYC history. We stayed up all night to report it. Please read our story. I am so tired.
- Things are getting tense at Barclays. Police pushed protesters down 4th ave, then surged into the crowd and made one arrest
00:00 - Protesters — now a couple hundred strong — are taking a knee at Bedford Ave and Eastern Parkway. “Do we want to be back here tomorrow? So we have to leave at an appropriate time,” one organizer is saying, telling people to go home now.
- Replying to @cegoldbaumOutside the NYPD 7th precinct building, the roughly 1,000 person-strong group gathered as two dozen police with batons and helmets stood behind a metal barricade. Then the crowd took a knee.
- On today's A1: Nervous about riding the subway right now? It may be much safer than you think. In countries where the pandemic has ebbed & ridership on mass transit has rebounded, no new outbreaks have been traced back to transit. Here's why 1/x
- Intentionally bombing hospitals is a war crime, but proving culpability in a complex civil war is extremely difficult. This NYT visual investigative team just did it. Some incredible journalism here, take a look >> nytimes.com/video/world/mi…
- Last week, I spoke with dozens of people who credit Michael Evans with turning the vision for the Moynihan Train hall into a reality. Then, 10 months before opened, he took his own life. This is his story.
- Update: Taliban just seized Mazar-i-Sharif. Barely an hour after the Taliban broke through the city's front lines, gov forces and militias fled — incl those led by Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum and Atta Muhammad Noor — effectively handing over the city @MSharif1990 @NajimRahTaliban broke the frontlines of Mazar-I-Sharif, the last major city standing in northern Afghanistan, on Saturday night as the insurgents edge closer complete military takeover @MSharif1990 @NajimRah nytimes.com/2021/08/14/wor…
- New: Men have dominated cycling for decades. But (like oh so much else these past few months) the pandemic quickly upended the scene on the streets. In NYC, women have been a driving force behind the city's recent bike boom, cycling in record numbers:
- Replying to @cegoldbaum“While we struggle for the world that we dream of, we must also survive this one,” Carlos Polanco, 21, yelled in a call and response. “So we most vote out people that do not serve us!” With that, he told protestors to head home and this group dispersed.
- NEW: Getting back on the subway and worried about coronavirus? Here's a (pretty cool) interactive graphic with everything you need to know about how air flows through a subway car
- The move against Imran Khan is a drastic escalation of the tense power struggle between the country’s current government & its former leader and risks renewed public unrest w/ @salmanmasood
