coffee. longtime journalist. development projects around food & drink. co-founder @ProBaristas, @FloRoadMarket, Rock Farm, Skylark Coffee.
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By now, you've likely heard about the #PandoraPapers - the landmark reporting on financial secrecy havens, corruption, and the hidden wealth brought to you by the @ICIJorg and its 140 media partners worldwide.
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ALT The main image for the ICIJ's Pandora Papers site, a tsunami of papers fluttering around a corporate boardroom.
Spot on, and a major issue in the homeless shelter where I've worked.
Homeless people often think of their dogs as kin. Being refused access to homeless services because of their dog leaves them frustrated.
Anthrozoös, Feb 2021
Link to paper: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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The Hotel Rwanda star is ... quite a complicated guy. Fantastic reporting here.
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The conversation around complex biodiversity and soil health in coffee seems light years behind the broader food system. So appreciate this piece:
It's been a minute since I've traveled or felt like I could form a cogent thought but I managed to string together a few words for the blag about Castillo, selective breeding programs, and technological fixes in coffee christopherferan.com/2021/03…
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Were pre-pandemic restaurants already hollowed out, via apps and nostalgia and inequality and cultural fetishes? Things now laid pretty bare. Such a thoughtful read: nplusonemag.com/online-only/…
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ben szobody retweeted
Deadliest days in American history:
1. Galveston Hurricane - 8,000
2. Antietam - 3,600
3. 9/11 - 2,977
4. Last Thursday - 2,861
5. Last Wednesday - 2,762
6. Last Tuesday - 2.461
7. Last Friday - 2,439
8. Pearl Harbor - 2,403
ben szobody retweeted
Good Lord, everyone should read this thread and be thankful for everything but especially immigrants and migrant workers
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we’ll share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
#WeFeedYou #ThankAFarmworker
The most enlightening piece I've read about the election, easily. It may be that Biden is the aberration, not Trump. If you've had a foot in conservative/religious waters, this is especially excavating.
It's not "Trumpism without Trump." It's where the Republican Party has been headed for a long time. This by Fintan O’Toole in @nybooks is the best thing I have read about the 2020 election. It explains why I keep talking about a counter-majoritarian party. nybooks.com/articles/2020/12…
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What happens to Republicans after Trump? Highly lucid:
Jockeying for the 2024 Republican nomination is under way. Did Donald Trump’s ascension represent a significant change in the Party’s orientation, and, if so, will the change be temporary or lasting? nyer.cm/0jDF3v1
Always stunning.
OK it turns out that @TriciaLockwood can still write. BOY can she write. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n14/…
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Can’t get this incredible and gut-wrenching piece by Sarah Resnick, currently paywall free @nplusonemag, out of my head. nplusonemag.com/issue-37/the…
"I don’t think anybody needs another essay about being arrested written by someone for whom getting arrested is an exotic and largely voluntary experience." This is way better.
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Transcendent.
Proud to share my thoughts in @NewYorker’s “injustice issue” on (and for) our beloved young people I call the #TrayvonGeneration. newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…
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Superb, thought-provoking exploration of why people collaborate with oppressive regimes, and why a few end up resisting.
History Will Judge the Complicit, by @anneapplebaum.
"Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?" theatlantic.com/magazine/arc… I recommended it yesterday but I am repeating that instruction today. This is a necessary read.
An essay about obscure mysteries of Russian literature (for which I have no great affection). And yet, a complete masterpiece.
This week, we’ve brought four essays by the great Elif Batuman out from behind the paywall. nplusonemag.com/issue-2/essa…
My absolute favourite classic to discover as an adult, for exactly this reason.
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