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1. Not gonna lie; I'm surprised that World Magazine, an evangelical publication, would release such a withering expose of Liberty University's authoritarian crackdown on the college newspaper. But this is a must read:
world.wng.org/2018/08/papere…
#Exvangelical #EmptyThePews #Resist
world.wng.org/2018/08/papere…
#Exvangelical #EmptyThePews #Resist
2. Heavy-handed control over college newspapers--essentially rendering them propaganda outlets--is one common tactic used when evangelical colleges crack down to impose orthodoxy, a frequent pattern. Here's an investigative piece I did on these crackdowns
religiondispatches.org/special-report…
religiondispatches.org/special-report…
3. I interviewed David Wheeler (@WheelerWorkshop), who was faculty adviser for the student paper at Asbury University, and one of his former students for the article linked above. Asbury refused to print the student's article making a Christian case for legal same-sex marriage.
Without journalists on Twitter:
@Fahrenthold’s investigation of the Trump Foundation would have lost a powerful research tool.
Guantánamo would have gotten much darker without @CarolRosenberg’s live feed.
The NY trial of Reza Zarrab would have been largely censored in Turkey.
@Fahrenthold’s investigation of the Trump Foundation would have lost a powerful research tool.
Guantánamo would have gotten much darker without @CarolRosenberg’s live feed.
The NY trial of Reza Zarrab would have been largely censored in Turkey.
On Twitter, reporter @BradHeath’s creation of the @big_cases bot connected more people with the raw records of our public institutions than perhaps any other act of journalism in memory.
Large swaths of the Chelsea Manning court-martial would have had no public record without journalists tweeting developments at hearings that got little coverage (and no official transcript).
Nicholas Biwott, Israelis and Mossad ties || By @johnKamau1 nation.co.ke/news/1056-4016… via @dailynation
That time EACC went for Biwott only to 'discover' he was their landlord 😂😂😂
(Which couldn't have been a surprise really, since he had stolen Trade Bank which stood where Integrity Center is today. Which was also once a church, then a disco).
(Which couldn't have been a surprise really, since he had stolen Trade Bank which stood where Integrity Center is today. Which was also once a church, then a disco).
Details of the scene at Trump Hotel DC during SOTU (by @brfreed for @washingtonian) washingtonian.com/2018/01/31/tru…
GSA employees spent taxpayer funds at Trump Hotel DC, BLT Prime. (As president, @realDonaldTrump oversees GSA; GSA owns the building Trump Org leases for Trump Hotel DC.)
(by @CristinaAlesci, @CurtDevine
for @cnn) cnn.it/2s4BEwq
(by @CristinaAlesci, @CurtDevine
for @cnn) cnn.it/2s4BEwq
Attorney representing Cork wine bar in its unfair competition suit against Trump Hotel DC weighs in on CNN article that GSA employees spent taxpayers’ money at Trump Hotel DC
10 Stories that I enjoyed reading the most in 2017....
#Fiction #Longreads via @Longreads
longreads.com/2018/01/09/10-…
#Fiction #Longreads via @Longreads
longreads.com/2018/01/09/10-…
@pageturner Amelia Gray's "House Heart"
#Fiction #Longreads via @Longreads : @grayamelia
longreads.com/2015/04/13/hou…
#Fiction #Longreads via @Longreads : @grayamelia
longreads.com/2015/04/13/hou…
The year was bad. These stories were good. longreads.com/2017/12/11/lon…
I am going to now attempt to thread all of the @Longreads Number 1 picks. Pray for me.
1. "The Prisoner," by Skip Hollandsworth @TexasMonthly #longreads #bestof2017 texasmonthly.com/articles/the-p…
