Joseph Addington 🌲
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Poetic modern malcontent | Associate Editor @amconmag | Latter-day Saint | Writing about Latin America
What an unbelievably rotten hit piece meant to mislead people. He paid his contractor, but the contractor kept the money and didn’t pay the subs. Trevor did nothing wrong. I’m hoping that most people are catching on that journalists are really just activists with an audience.
A Utah construction company says it is owed $165,000 for work done on the home of a Republican state lawmaker, Rep. Trevor Lee ksl.com/article/514915… #utpol
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Getting Harvard, Yale, or Stanford is a lottery that you must be extremely qualified to even enter. It's not really fair, but it kinda *can't* be and also doesn't really matter. But at, like, BU? UNC? NYU? Northeastern? Wake Forest? Fordham? That general range? Real injustices.
The cover story in this month's @TheAtlantic is an 11,000 word feature on which restaurant has the best free bread. The cover story in this month's @curaffairs is a deeply-reported look at the impacts of the Cuba fuel blockade on the population. Read a serious magazine.
New images of Cole Thomas Allen have been released by federal prosecutors. Allen took a selfie 30 minutes before rushing Secret Service at the WHCD where he is shown with multiple knives and a handgun
"Today, the Department of Justice filed three federal charges in United States District Court against Cole Tomas Allen," says @DAGToddBlanche. "The first count is attempted assassination of the President of the United States. This count is punishable by up to life in prison. The second count is interstate transportation of a firearm to commit a felony. This is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. And the third count is discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence, which is punishable by a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 10 years, a maximum of life."
This door in Westminster Abbey is older than most modern nation-states. Made in the 1050s from an English oak, it's the only surviving Anglo-Saxon door in Britain.
