@pgourevitch.bsky.social
Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
I found that the least compelling/memorable thing about it - but I don’t get that critique either. What flummoxed me was the sense that the sisters were orphaned by the father leaving as if the mother who raised them didn’t exist.
No, but I take it I should.
Also really terrific.
at last, just saw The Secret Agent - a truly great movie
“Studies have been conducted into opening other fronts where the enemy has little experience & would be highly vulnerable,” supreme leader Khamenei said. “Their activation will take place if the state of war persists.” (Bloomberg)
See also Josea 8:7 "They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind"
Trump, Mitch McConnell Clash In Oval Office Over Where They Are https://theonion.com/trump-mitch-mcconnell-clash-in-oval-office-over-where-they-are/
re-freakin’-tire already old man — the fact that you’d like your seat to be hereditary is reason enough
This is just the pentagon’s bill — the cost to the US is way more than that and it will continue to cost us terribly for a very long time to come
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The latest episode of @economist.com's Insider show looks at the war in Iran, how long it might last & how serious this could get for the world economy. It was a really sobering conversation, and consensus was that markets are still mispricing the risk. www.economist.com/insider/the-...
De Telegraaf, the Netherlands’ largest newspaper, recently published an interview with a woman promoting €1,600 seats on private evacuation flights from Dubai. Bellingcat found that her image was likely AI-generated, and flight data suggests no such plane took off. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
curious to see whether lying incessantly, massively and delusionally about a horrific war for no reason that is going catastrophically will incur more of a political cost for Trump and his court than lying incessantly, massively and delusionally about everything else for the past decade has
UN report says Trump’s hate speech sparked ‘human rights violations.’ White House responds: ‘No one cares’
Israel bombards Beirut suburbs and southern Lebanon as conflict with Hezbollah escalates
“Specifically, scholars note that when polling places close and voters’ distance to their new precinct increases, voter turnout declines as people have to travel further, and the effects are larger in minority neighborhoods.”
Of course he did.
This is in fact the normal way that we identifiable Jews live
WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) — Suspect in attack on Michigan synagogue is dead, AP source says.
Remember, as Jared Polis argues that Tina Peters was punished too harshly, that this is how his Department of Corrections has treated everyday, non-famous prisoners: required labor for almost zero pay, and possible solitary confinement if you decline to work.
Read this by @brycecovert.bsky.social:
Two people were injured after a gunman opened fire inside a campus building at Old Dominion University in Virginia, according to officials. The gunman is dead.
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Police are responding to reports of an “active shooter” at a synagogue outside Detroit, where smoke is billowing from the roof.
Maryland Democrats say they've recruited candidates to run in every legislative district for the first time since 1974
Then again no president, sitting or unseated, has ever before won the FOGA peace prize
I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.
Another word you might use for it is "looting".
"This appears to be the first administration to take such widespread advantage of taxpayer-funded military housing to accommodate political appointees who do not have a direct connection to the military..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
imagine this is how we find out UFOs are real
I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.
good work by Julia Moskin here — now let’s see Danish law enforcement step up
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/d...
