Journalist. Prof at the University of Miami. Recent words in @CNNOpinion, @Haaretz @NBCNewsTHINK @TIME. Former @csmonitor bureau chief. Author of Baghdad Fixer.
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I wrote this piece about my years of reporting on #Hamas in #Gaza for @CNNOpinion. It's been interesting to see the reactions pouring in. I'm not on X much these days but thought I would share it here.
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Listen up Miami, Kendall, Doral and Hialeah, Brickell, Key Biscayne, Homestead and Cutler Bay, voter registration deadline for the November 3 election is October 5 and early voting in Miami Dade county begins October 19.
Your vote is your voice! Tell every single member of the South Florida delegation that you are done with the lies and the blatant corruption. No Mas!
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Content creators were paid $1.50/1,000 clicks to boost Ron DeSantis in a recent clipping campaign. The main rule was "can't make Ron look bad."
It one among a growing number of low-cost, high-volume social media plays that is changing the way political influence is wielded. 1/
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Yesterday dropped in at the Kansas City Star and the feeling among colleagues after the elimination of jobs across @mcclatchy is the same: reporters feel demoralized & like we are dying a slow death. Q; If we no longer have a Miami city hall reporter can we still call ourselves Miami Herald?
As a journalist, I'm proud of the great reporting the @propublica did on this story. And I'm so happy to never, ever hear this lady's voice on the radio or TV again. #NoemOUT
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From DHS Ad Contracts youtube.com/shorts/96R4vHlZM… via @YouTube
This is such a fantastic interview of @saribashi speaking about her new book, Upside Down Love, which I cannot wait to read. open.substack.com/pub/peterb…
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A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
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Vice President Vance hurried to Minneapolis in an attempt to defuse an explosive story about how ice detained a five-year-old immigrant child.
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Take a moment to look at the inhumanity captured in this extraordinary photo running on the front page of tonight's Minneapolis @StarTribune. It shows federal immigration agents immobilizing a protester on the ground and spraying chemical irritant directly into his face. The scene reminds me of the brutality used against civil rights protesters in the 1960s. We look back at those old photos and wonder how the authorities could have behaved so savagely; many years from now, young Americans will look at these photos from 2026 and wonder how anyone could have justified shooting a woman in the head as she tried to drive away, arresting 5-year-old schoolchildren on the street, or holding a man down and spaying chemicals into his face. Thanks to the Star Tribune reporters and photographers for documenting this work; they create accountability, they make democracy work, and they make all of us in journalism proud.
“So all we want is a piece of ice…”
Am I the only one who notices how distasteful and chilling this is? And what it sounds like? #Trump #Davos26 #Greenland
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it’s because of Rob Reiner and his wife falling in love that we have a happy ending to one of the most infamous romcoms of all time.. Insanely sad tonight.
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In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.
She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.
This is not about immigration enforcement.
It's about terrorizing Americans.
The political violence has got to stop. What a sad day for America. #CharlieKirk
I'm not quite sure what I'll be doing at 11:35 p.m. on a weeknight starting next May, but it won't be laughing and thanking my lucky stars I live in a democracy where you can poke fun at the powerful without repercussions. #StephenColbert #cbscensors @CBS
News alert: @GovRonDeSantis just signed a bill banning #fluoride for the entire state. Florida is the second state to do so.
Read my @MediaLabFAU students' factual coverage of the issue here tinyurl.com/yjz3ndpk and tinyurl.com/3n6kcx64
#BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis signs the Florida farm bill to ban fluoride in the water and protect/promote agriculture and farmers, which was made possible by Agriculture Commissioner @WiltonSimpson, and bill sponsors, Rep. @KayleeTuck2, Danny Alvarez, and Sen. Keith Truenow (@SodFatherFL)
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#BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis signs the Florida farm bill to ban fluoride in the water and protect/promote agriculture and farmers, which was made possible by Agriculture Commissioner @WiltonSimpson, and bill sponsors, Rep. @KayleeTuck2, Danny Alvarez, and Sen. Keith Truenow (@SodFatherFL)
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"Is there anyone in America who is comfortable with him and his gang of 20-year-olds using their own computer servers to poke through your tax returns, your health information and your bank accounts?"
— Sen. Elissa Slotkin on Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency during the Democratic response to President Trump's address
Does anyone else find this image jarring? I love a “bring your son to work day” but it doesn’t usually happen in the third week on the job. Nobody but John-John got to run around the White House at this age. #MuskIsDangerous
Q: “You said $50 million in condoms were sent to Hamas. That wasn’t true.”
Musk: “Some of the things I say will be incorrect. Nobody is gonna bat 1000.”
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