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Michael C Moynihan
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The Fifth Column podcast. Ex-Vice on HBO / Vice News Tonight. Ex-Daily Beast. Various other things.
New York / East EggJoined February 2009
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Please be the granddaughter of neocon sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset...
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As a friend observed, some journalists are too big to fail (see also: Zakaria, Barnicle, Rather, Williams, etc)
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I wonder what that lady who plagiarized all that stuff about Vice thinks about the downfall of Vice
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Not long ago, Vice was winning Peabodys for news while BuzzFeed News was building a first-class investigative reporting unit on the back of viral sensations. Now, they're shutting down.
@JillAbramson investigates what happened—and what went wrong. vntyfr.com/wkWUbe8
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I really enjoyed talking to as always - this time about The Debutante. It gets quite deep cut, so it's probably better to listen to The Debutante first.
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This with @mcmoynihan and @jonronson was great. Both of top form talking about their craft. The Debutant is one crazy story. twitter.com/wethefifth/sta…
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With President Biden soon to arrive in Belfast…scenes in Derry today a reminder that even 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement, some young people not even born when it was signed are still being drawn into violence.
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Roald Dahl - 2001 authorized Puffin edition vs 2022 authorized Puffin edition.
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A great pleasure to have joined The Fifth Column () last night. #390 "Stupid People, Stupid Ideas, and Stupid Solutions" w/ Douglas Murray
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Happy Christmas everyone and thank you for all your messages and prayers 👍🎄👍🙏
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Interviewer might have pushed back on this rather important discrepancy
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EXCLUSIVE: Transgender Fugitive Who Spurred Wi Spa Riots Bares All
The just-arrested Angeleno, who launched a firestorm from a women’s locker room, spoke with LAMag while on the lam
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The videos are impossible to forget: Dozens of bodies strewn along a street in Bucha, on the outskirts of Ukraine's capital.
An eight-month visual investigation shows how a Russian military unit killed dozens of civilians on a single street in the town. nyti.ms/3PM4Orb
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A "disgraced" "conman" poynter.org/ethics-trust/2
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This ungrateful piece of sh*t does not have the decency to wear a suit to the White House -- no respect the country that is funding his survival.
Track suit wearing eastern european con-man mafia.
Our leaders fell for it. They have disgraced us all. What an incredible insult.
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Zelensky has continued to wear the green uniform throughout the year, as a commander-in-chief in solidarity with his soldiers who are risking their lives on the frontline. It is not intended to disrespect any audience or institution.
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Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense promises to "return" Russian ammunition seized from parts of the de-occupied Kharkiv region
“We do not accept gifts from murderers, torturers, marauders, or rapists. In the coming days, we will return everything, down to the last shell.”
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Katyn 2022
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Horrific scenes in Izyum today. Some 445 people buried in this forest, all of whom died during six-month Russian occupation of the city. Another 17 Ukrainian soldiers were executed and dumped together in a single pit. Prosecutors say there’s evidence the soldiers were tortured pic.twitter.com/EgmH6lPnqb
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Who will stand with Salman Rushdie?
correspondent and co-host joins me on to get pissed about what happened to Rushdie last week.
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God, I miss the Hitch. His response here to Shirley Williams and the question whether Salman Rushdie should’ve got a knighthood is a class act that no other pundit or thinker have managed or ever will manage to reach.
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Note Seagal checking his script at 0:27. Once a halfwit, slurring D-list actor who can’t remember his lines, always a…
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The Steven Seagal saga gets worse.
"...one of the interesting things is that, one of the Nazis that was killed is a Nazi that was just starting to talk a lot Zelensky and Zelensky being responsible for ordering torture and other atrocities..."
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In his first post-primary interview, we spoke with our old pal about his primary loss to MAGA weirdo John Gibbs. And for all those stupidly complaining about Meijer being gracious in defeat, we asked him if he plans on supporting Gibbs in Nov.
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Concerns as Sri Lanka arrests top protest leader Joseph Stalin | reports from Colombo
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You are one of history’s greatest monsters
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It’s happening!
We’re minutes away from officially turning NYC’s speed cameras on 24/7.
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But did she fake being handcuffed?
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U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was arrested during an abortion-rights demonstration outside the Supreme Court. She didn’t fake the arrest. bit.ly/3bbIQ1c
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From Skokie to student loans…
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Another surprising archival find: Henry Louis Gates's 1990 contribution to a NYT forum on "multiculturalism," in which he denounces "academic autism" and the "mantra of race-class-gender," and laments that academic conferences have become the "Oppression Academy Awards"
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Pretty stunning Time/CNN poll from 1997. Wonder what these figures would be today...
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“We believe in diverse voices and freedom of expression but…”
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We hear you. Tonight’s show has been cancelled at First Avenue and is moving to the Varsity Theater. See our full statement for more.
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Russian state TV is incredible…
Last night, they ran a piece dedicated to the benefits Russians get when their sons are killed in Ukraine.
This father is honored by having been able to buy a white Lada for the “coffin money” he received from Putin.
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I mean…I suppose you *could* call a 73 yr old woman immobilized by a bad hip a “former athlete” t.co/qmZHR5iO0F
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This was a really fun conversation
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Video of the Russian Kh-22 missile strike on the shopping mall in Kremenchuk yesterday from a nearby park.
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*Life for Cubans under communism
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life under communism
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Has capitalism killed the American Dream? I debate /'s . Fantastic, serious, civil discussion of urgent matters thanks to , who moderates w wit & aplomb, and .
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A Russian Member of Parliament has submitted a bill to the State Duma which seeks to annul the independent status of Lithuania.
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Imagine a legal code that allows you to vote in a free, democratic election; start an opposition party; publicly criticize the regime; start a newspaper not controlled by the state…
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Cuba's new Family Code: "Different family structures... are created among relatives, whatever the nature of the relationship"
Queer marriages, polyamorous families, platonic arrangements - imagine a legal code that says you determine your protected legal family unit. twitter.com/morganastra/st…
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