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Michael Powell
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Michael Powell
@powellAtlantic
Staff writer, The Atlantic Magazine. Former cabbie, tenant organizer & doorman. Brooklyn w 2 boyz. Author of "Canyon Dreams" canyondreamsbook.com
New York City
Joined May 2011
- To Vaccinate or Not? Vermont, w highest concentration of vaccinated people, and Alabama, state w lowest. In last 7 days Alabama recorded 901 COVID cases; Vt recorded 8. Alabama has 65 hospital admissions daily. Vermont? Zero. Alabama 41 deaths last week. Vermont? Zero.
- 1. Embarrassing. Ron Klain, former White House Chief of Staff, on Biden last August: “He’s clearly up to the job. He’s doing it every day. He’s doing it successfully.” Klain in new book: "Biden “didn’t know what Trump had been saying and couldn’t grasp what the back and forth was
- Chris Cuomo says it makes no sense to close NYC schools with minimal rate of infection. Dr Fauci: “I agree with you completely.”
- When working on 2022 article about transgender athletes & elite sports, I called GLAAD. Their officials tried to tell me who I should NOT interview and that I should not "platform" tennis great and gay pioneer Martina Navratilova because her views ran counter to their line.Yesterday, @nytimes published yet another biased, anti-trans article. This morning, we’re at the NYT headquarters holding them accountable.
00:00 - Krugman four months ago: "As anyone who has recently spent time with Biden (and I have) can tell you, he is in full possession of his faculties — completely lucid and with excellent grasp of detail."I’m in Warsaw talking about the future of the European economy, so I’m late to this party. But I’ll have a blog post up soon very reluctantly making the case for Biden — the best president of my adult life — to step aside in favor of Harris.
- Last May and June, demonstrators in NYC were repeatedly penned, pepper sprayed and arrested for blocking streets late at night without much traffic. But you block major bridges and highways midday and no arrests, no towing of cars, nada? nytimes.com/2020/11/01/us/…
- Inside a Battle Over Race, Class and Power at Smith College. Tension between a student’s deeply felt sense of personal truth and facts that are at odds with it. My story:
- Chanting ‘Fuck you Fascists’ at a Park Ranger is demented#NOW Park Police dances as protesters throw bottles and chant "Fascist!" at him outside of White House DC
00:00 - Why are cops letting these rioters to remain in place?
- These fellows were disarmed and marched away by the cops. Then California banned guns in capitols. Wonder why different ... ?
- So Trump's choice as National security advisor discussed kidnapping a legal resident of USA and shipping him to Turkey?
- "For reporter Donald McNeil to end his long career as a result of a single word, risks sending a chilling message. That the paper apparently altered its course ... as a result of public pressure is a further worrying signal. Pen America weighs in:
- BREAKING: The NYTimes has learned John Glenn accomplished this same feat 59 years ago
