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James Fallows
Writer. New book w/ 'Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America.' Views here = 100% personal, not representing any institution.
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James Fallows 54 mnt
A local experiment in dealing with a widespread national problem.
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James Fallows 1 j
If you’re coming to the in San Diego next month, and I look forward to seeing you and talking about today’s wave of city-by-city renewal.
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James Fallows 12 j
Look forward to future ethics dissertations / rabbinical-Jesuitical analyses, on relative moral weight: - Those who devised/rationalized a cruel policy (Trump, Sessions, Miller, Nielsen, Sanders, etc); vs - Those who *knew* they could stop it, and didn’t bother. (GOP Sen/House)
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Mike McPhate 23 j
On Highway 99 between Merced and Fresno, a palm tree and cedar tree stand in the center median. Researchers think they were planted around the 1920s as a monument to the midline of California — the palm for the south, and the cedar the north. The story →
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James Fallows 14 j
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2/2 And I realize that, in current context, this line from Carter’s 1977 human rights speech deserves particular emphasis. (Remember discussion about whether people would get the allusions of ‘blood and soil’)
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James Fallows 14 j
Back in 1977 (when I was much younger than S Miller is now), I helped prepare presidential speech on why abiding awareness of human rights should be indispensable basis of US foreign policy. Today US withdrew from UN Human Rights commission. The old days:
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James Fallows 15 j
Re-upping: Down East with a Q/A on our other-home-town of Eastport, ME.
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James Fallows 16 j
Congrats to Mayor and Chasten Glezman !
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James Fallows 16 j
Thanks Mr. Ambassador!
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James Fallows 21 j
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Disagree.
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James Fallows 21 j
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2/2 And to be clear, I’m talking about “first-hand experience” as a WH aide getting interviewed — and how, if a recorder is running and a session is on the record, you *have* to assume that the recording will eventually come out.
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James Fallows 21 j
This is my practice as well. It’s arguably diff when you’re interviewing a WH aide, in the WH, on the record. Speaking from first-hand experience, that aide might rightly expect that anything said while on the record would be used. (I assumed so.) But NYT choice understandable
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Bill Bishop 23 j
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James Fallows 22 j
Re-upping: a really interesting story from , and not at all the standard “we went to a diner in the Rustbelt and asked people with MAGA hats if they still liked Trump” account you’ve read a million times.
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James Fallows 23 j
Wow. I went out with some of these crews, off Cebu, back in the 1980s, wrote about it then, and had thought this devastating practice was stopped long ago. Arrgh.
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Eric Redman 24 j
Misconceptions about Hawai’i lava flows are impacting tourism (and not just on the Big Island). Here’s an interesting graphic intended to help counteract that.
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James Fallows 24 j
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James Fallows 19 Jun
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Language historically associated with de-humanization, from the head of govt, actually deserves note — in the context (which I and others have fully engaged in) of policy outrages that need to be opposed and reversed.
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James Fallows 19 Jun
We’ll see!
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James Fallows 19 Jun
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2/2 Of the 125,000+ words in ‘Our Towns,’ exactly two are “infest.” One refers to roaches that ate up a school’s garden; another, to an invasive plant now choking the surface of Caddo Lake, TX-LA. Applying it to people is an undeniable tell, like “shiftless.”
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