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“Three reformers, all women, were messing with the gravity of things.” @arax_mark reports on a new movement fighting the powers that be in the San Joaquin Valley. nytimes.com/2023/06/01/mag…

These Masters mile times could be read as age-defying achievements. Or they are the gifts of age: self-awareness, discipline, fortitude, resilience, and the energy of history applied in the moment. usatf.org/news/2023/2023…

“During his time in Washington, Gedda covered every secretary of state from Dean Rusk to Condoleezza Rice, carving out a niche for himself as an expert on Latin America and Cuba.” Matt Lee @APDiploWriter reports.

“Globalization, seen in recent decades as unstoppable a force as gravity, is clearly evolving in unpredictable ways.” @PatcohenNYT reports. nytimes.com/2023/06/18/bus…

Sometimes a crisis hits so hard that a country needs help from others to overcome it. That’s not one-way humanitarian saviourism, it’s international solidarity. 200 South African firefighters land in Edmonton, Canada to help fight the wildfire. Sound up 🔊

Don't forget that Donald Trump seems likely to be indicted for a third time in August. rb.gy/42s6f

Pat Robertson, who forged the alliance between conservative Christians and the GOP, died this week. I look back at how he and Jerry Falwell changed the religious and political landscape. ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-vo…

“The intrusion of a business ‘ethic’ of maximizing revenue has once again trumped the traditional service ethic of health care.” — @johngeymanmd counterpunch.org/2023/05/04/pro…

Russia has blown up Ukraine’s massive Kakhovka. The resulting floods threaten catastrophic destruction, human and environmental. Another war crime by Putin’s forces.

On this day in 1989 I grabbed the video cassette containing all the famous pictures of the Tiananmen massacre inc the tank man & walked down to the Beijing Hotel lobby. A cop came over to arrest me but a burst of fire outside distracted him & I slipped past. We got the pictures out via Hong Kong.

On my last official day as a staff writer at the @NewYorkTimes, it was a pleasure to mark the moment by talking with @SimonGraf1 and to go old school and read the papers, just like we did at my first #RolandGarros in 1991 tagesanzeiger.ch/wegen-roger-fe…

“An estimated 30,000 people of Doukhobor descent reside in Canada, and for decades they lived ascetic, communal lives reminiscent of the Quakers or Mennonites, though suffused with Russian culture and traditions.” @DanBilefsky reports. nytimes.com/2023/06/04/wor…

Women clergy lead congregations to repurpose underutilized properties for social impact. @YonatShimron reports.

My first story for NPR was in 1991, 32 years later today is my last. It was a great run, adios amigos.

Nobody’s going to make a movie about reporters at home with their cursors. nytimes.com/2023/04/29/opi…

At a low-turnout meeting in a small New England town, a surprise motion passes to cut the school budget in half - forcing people to realize what they had taken for granted. Here's my story: a cautionary tale for these times, or maybe a reflection. nytimes.com/2022/07/10/us/…

After 42 years on the Chicago media beat, I'm calling it a day. Thanks to all of you for your loyalty and trust. bit.ly/3OPsCbW

Hope and despair: Kathy Gannon on 35 years in Afghanistan (from @AP) apnews.com/article/e50af0…

Call them the Disunited States: Pressed by Supreme Court decisions diminishing rights that liberals hold dear & expanding those cherished by conservatives, the US is drifting apart, with diametrically opposed social, environmental and health policies. nytimes.com/2022/07/02/us/…

Mark Shields, the longtime political commentator on @NewsHour, died today at 85. Here’s my obituary of him for @nytimes: nytimes.com/2022/06/18/bus…