@_Nechama

Reader. Problem solver. Builder of products and teams. Mother of many. Thoughts here are my own but you are welcome to them.

Joined October 2010
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One thing I left out of yesterday's big COVID piece: a press critique. Hardly any of the retrospective journalistic accounts of the last year have even acknowledged that the U.S. had not an exceptional but a typical experience. A thread (1/x) nymag.com/intelligencer/2021…

How the West Lost COVID

How did so many rich countries get it so wrong? How did others get it so right?

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When you foolishly thought the tech spec was pretty clear:
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Doesn’t quite read the same way it would have a few months ago, does it.
Zeke Miller
@ZekeJMiller1 Feb 2021
.⁦@PressSec⁩ on Burma
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Failures of Leadership in a Populist Age nationalreview.com/corner/fa…
Trump confronts the reality that we have not “turned the corner” on COVID and offers the below reflection on the thousands of daily deaths we are suffering in the waning days of his Presidency:
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump30 Dec 2020
Twitter is shadow banning like never before. A disgrace that our weak and ineffective political leadership refuses to do anything about Big Tech. They’re either afraid or stupid, nobody really knows!
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The "election fraud" allegations. by @TangleNews tangle.substack.com/p/electi…
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Political narratives used to explain (ex post)moves up in #stocks in the last few weeks Trump win is good Divided govt is good Blue wave is good Divided govt is good Now: All good as no street violence. Better explanation Repeated evidence of central bank support for asset prices
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I still can't believe that... 1) ...we are living through a major global pandemic and... 2) ...that living through a major global pandemic now feels completely normal.
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Our covid times :-) 5★, by @stephanpastis
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Alternate headline: “.022% of Cases Traced to Churches.” @nytimes Churches Were Eager to Reopen. Now They Are a Major Source of Coronavirus Cases. nytimes.com/2020/07/08/us/co…
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New Jersey
@NJGov7 Jul 2020
MASK: Not what your country can do for you MASK: What you can do for your country
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I’ll read my daily briefings.
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A general life lesson: when pundits write about something you know something about--your own community, your area of study--you see how little they actually know. That conclusion is broadly generalizable.
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More images of today’s donations. Toda raba! Thank you! Gracias!
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More #LakewoodLove! Food, cleaning products and even toys are among the donations delivered a moment ago at the collection point for Latinx families in need in the greater Lakewood area.
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This help came in today.
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I just paid a shiva call, by phone, to a classmate who has lost her husband. There are no words.
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Liberal apoplexy. Real story: "Rookie uses too many words, hits trigger, respondent misses point." Story of my life. nyti.ms/2ldHjJx

A Jewish Reporter Got to Ask Trump a Question. It Didn’t Go Well. (Published 2017)

After a berating by President Trump, a correspondent from Ami Magazine, an Orthodox Jewish weekly, said, “Regretfully, today was a day I wish we could have done over.”

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And Israelis, while you're at it? xitter.cf/sayedmodarresi/status/…
Sayed Mahdi Modarresi@SayedModarresi31 Jan 2017
Wrong move. If it were me, I'd say: you know what? We're better than you; we'll lift all visa requirements from Americans traveling to Iran! xitter.cf/jzarif/status/82543886…
But generally not, as 2016 proved in spades. xitter.cf/ezlusztig/status/82674…
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