NinaBernstein1

NinaBernstein1, 8 months ago to random

Enough already! So tired of these stories about Dem voters wanting a younger candidate. The reality check:
“Any discussion of an alternative is little more than a fantasy, they say, since challenging Mr. Biden would not only appear disloyal but would also most likely fail — and potentially weaken the president’s general-election standing.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/17/us/politics/biden-democrats-voter-concerns.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

NinaBernstein1, 5 months ago to random

“Anyone invoking rising life expectancy as a reason to delay Social Security benefits is, in effect, saying that aging janitors must keep working (or be cast into extreme poverty) because bankers are living longer.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/opinion/nikki-haley-social-security.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

NinaBernstein1, 10 months ago to random

Tony Bennett was thrilled as a young G.I. In WWII Germany when he ran into a high school friend, also in uniform. Rabid, institutional racism turned their reunion into a horror show that he never forgot.
Gift link.

https://wapo.st/3O5smqR

NinaBernstein1, 6 months ago to random

And in NYC….”Whether Mr. Adams knew any details about potential straw donors to his campaign, he has given the appearance that he is open to being influenced, Mr. Kaehny of Reinvent Albany said.
‘There’s a big concern that the city is for sale and that New York has gone back to the bad old days where pay to play and bribery were just a part of political life.’”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/04/nyregion/eric-adams-straw-donor-scheme.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

NinaBernstein1, 9 months ago to random

Excellent piece calls for the NYT and other “marquee” news media to face up to journalistically wrong handling of the Clinton emails story.
Let’s Correct the Record on the Media’s Handling of the Clinton Email Story - Nieman Reports

https://niemanreports.org/articles/clinton-emails-new-york-times/

NinaBernstein1, 7 months ago to random

Why do MAGA politicians want to cut Ukraine off?
“Whatever Republican hard-liners may say, they want Putin to win. They view the Putin regime’s cruelty and repression as admirable features that America should emulate. They support a wannabe dictator at home and are sympathetic to actual dictators abroad….People claiming to be worried about the cost don’t really care about the money. What they are, basically, is enemies of democracy, both abroad and at home.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/opinion/columnists/maga-republicans-ukraine.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

NinaBernstein1, 10 months ago to random

A Small-Town Paper Lands a Very Big Story

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/31/a-small-town-paper-lands-a-very-big-story

NinaBernstein1, 9 months ago to random

“Even if his opponents must ultimately defeat him at the ballot box, it would have been untenable for the legal system to stay quiet in the face of an effort to put an end to the American experiment in republican self-government. Trump is the only president in the history of the United States to try to nullify an election and prevent the peaceful transfer of power.”
Now get rid of the undemocratic quirks he used, like the Electoral College, argues Jamelle Bouie. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/opinion/trump-indictment-jeffrey-clark-insurrection-act.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

NinaBernstein1, 6 months ago to random

Vast concentration camps, workplace raids, detention and summary expulsion without a hearing….call it xenophobic demagoguery or call it fascism, Trump’s plans are clearly inspired by the book that was once his bedtime reading: “Mein Kampf.”#GiftLink https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/us/politics/trump-2025-immigration-agenda.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9kw.Tplj.HsD-eJBkJTSa&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

NinaBernstein1, 7 months ago to random

Terrific and important speech. More prominent coverage, please!
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/28/us/politics/biden-mccain-library.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

NinaBernstein1, 11 months ago to random

A story that was stupid from the get-go and then executed in a deplorable way. News flash to the NYT: jurors have to swear that they can base their decision only on the evidence presented. These random voters would mostly be eliminated for cause if they voiced similar convictions. Quoting a handful of mostly Fox-addled Floridians as a measure of what the Trump jury might be just reinforces GOP claims that it’s all political. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/12/us/trump-voters-florida-jury.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

NinaBernstein1, 7 months ago to random

The best baguette in France, judged anonymously, goes to a Sri Lankan. Mouthwatering paragraphs about French food here, and a bitter reality check about French prejudice: He wasn’t invited to the party or Macron photo op. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/world/europe/france-baguette.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

NinaBernstein1, 11 months ago to random

“I think it’s quite obviously a cynical — and I would say wildly partisan — attempt to chill research,” said Jameel Jaffer, the executive director of Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute, an organization that works to safeguard freedom of speech and the press.
The new McCarthyism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/business/gop-disinformation-researchers-2024-election.html?unlocked_article_code=xK9b-JL_69UB4MMwuW7aez9qXHv7_IUVJRpbf6jEr7mp_M2Li5s_Lo8QT5u_wf5K12OltdhV63sEj9VqLLupN4Kz8rqpIiz2FpjRKQcekczxY_xk9Wqb43Kw9Zvx9yPVRVBs06-6RH2XjC9hz1ZUk0M-64E-DrVRiHDil_ZTlf4LsYom0b7Y_1NwwqEvcEf9vokpRQXhF0HdWo7SGgbd-MypsHAwgH-fMpVH_-8S5WPxxu3Nds-1HJ5SqLzWR8Z7tQjmfmKbGndzr6CFdrtpqATEcTP06HTIWNlYSHCeLntDQyPye4N05IRVlTfPHReY1vq4nLB9xOPcFmTBZ8Qbqxi0H1fUnG0IKSg-MzWlEO0qBgwrCus&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

NinaBernstein1, 3 months ago to random

The media hype around Biden’s age. Charles Blow column #GiftLink https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/10/opinion/trump-biden-age.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UU0.g7t-.4hhntxvxWA6k&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShar

NinaBernstein1, 9 months ago to random

Jamelle Bouie is great today.
“The same lawmakers who want to rob their constituents of the right to bodily autonomy have also begun to treat democracy as an obstacle to avoid, not a process to respect. If the people stand in the way of ending abortion, then it’s the people who have to go.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/opinion/abortion-republicans-ohio-idaho.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

NinaBernstein1, 6 months ago to random

Terrible to read and necessary to know. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/29/opinion/pediatrician-gaza-hospitals-fuel.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

NinaBernstein1, 8 months ago to random

A corrective to some of the anti-union coverage of the autoworkers strike:
“history shows that the potential for a strike, and sometimes the reality of one, is necessary for workers to receive healthy raises and ensure good working conditions.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/briefing/uaw-strike.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

NinaBernstein1, 7 months ago to random

“There is no differentiation between targets,” he said. “The paramedics themselves are targeted.”

The United Nations said that since Saturday, nine ambulances had been hit in Gaza and 13 attacks on health care facilities had been reported. Gaza’s Health Ministry accused Israel of systematically targeting ambulances.

An Israeli military spokesman did not respond to questions about whether the military was targeting ambulances. #Gift Link https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/11/world/middleeast/gaza-airstrikes-rescues.html?unlocked_article_code=SN9NhfowJ2xsBMk-_-CDPhKWnU1GPGWsQ6jO2xmkgr6fC1A82L7uDwnnKwaTKjYjK87LUqUnNf6aghaX9zY3Agzk5JC-3SNEy4zdCjUbwQE9X1DItScW5Z9meo7CUXfeo0bG-eVjwFHzCCPL7LDfbn9xkXDED4nIwIQKgoTWDvL42GRVIoJDa5MWBp22NPQo85U8kDobmlL9hOuDoSUNAfCZF2SpZ7C9sXnylPQobA2HRp1MfSV0nJkzst2aZkw80_MGYOb49M7MDnhNXZZgozwroYtSOR-0dzmzTkIZ5A7NKmnpSixdwejOU4DL5Zq3jEoVAeiJBZnWnhyxMi7Ko76Nk0ad-Qw-Ew&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

NinaBernstein1, 11 months ago to France

“The real secret of French parenting is—sh-h-h—likely to be found in policies such as universal health care, a sixteen-week paid maternity leave (and twenty-eight-day paid paternity leave), compulsory education from the age of three, and affordable college tuition. But the notion persists, among Americans…that the French possess some collective, ineffable talent for raising children.”
#France #kids https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-europe/french-parents-dont-know-what-theyre-doing-either

NinaBernstein1, 6 months ago to random

Bernie: “The blank check approach must end. The US must make clear that while we are friends of Israel, there are conditions to that friendship & that we cannot be complicit in actions that violate international law & our own sense of decency.”calls for end to indiscriminate bombing, the right of displaced Gazans to return; no long-term Israeli occupation of Gaza; an end to West Bank settler violence & a freeze on expansion; commitment to talks for 2-state solution. #gift https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/opinion/bernie-sanders-israel-gaza.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AU0.OBHq.vOardFzlLFX5&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

NinaBernstein1, 4 months ago to random

Terrific investigation of the secretive multi-year rightwing campaign, pro-patriarchy, pro-bigotry, anti-“woke,” successfully attacking public education. Damning emails mined by Nicholas Confessore. #GiftLink https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/20/us/dei-woke-claremont-institute.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PU0.wEhm.C2_iYDdN6QvJ&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

NinaBernstein1, 3 months ago to random

“In a remarkable passage, Engoron wrote that the Trump family’s “complete lack of contrition and remorse borders on pathological.” This refusal to admit to their unlawful misdeeds persuaded Engoron that they “will engage in [fraud] going forward unless judicially restrained.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/donald-trump-civil-fraud-355-million-new-york-restrictions-trump-organization.html

NinaBernstein1, 1 month ago to random

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/world/middleeast/hamas-hostage-sexual-assault.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fk0.ytEf.pXQeA8bfhViS&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&ugrp=m

NinaBernstein1, 23 days ago to random

That “precision” police operation that Eric Adams bragged about with edited video? A cop fired his gun “accidentally” in Columbia’s Hamilton Hall, THE CITY confirms — scooping the media establishment. It’s under DA investigation. https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/05/02/nypd-officer-fired-gun-columbia-hamilton-hall-raid/

NinaBernstein1, 15 days ago to random

Terrific and important op-ed. Campus protest crackdowns claim to be about antisemitism – but they’re part of a rightwing plan | Arielle Angel | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/11/us-university-protests-antisemitism-free-speech