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Michael Powell
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Staff writer, The Atlantic Magazine. Former cabbie, tenant organizer & doorman. Brooklyn w 2 boyz. Author of "Canyon Dreams" canyondreamsbook.com
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    Michael Powell
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    Aug 31, 2024
    Thrilled that forthcoming Netflix movie inspired by my book, "Canyon Dreams" will open at Toronto Film Festival. With producers Lebron James and Katie Elmore of North Node Studios rottentomatoes.com/m/rez_ball/pic…
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    Michael Powell
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    Jul 21, 2021
    To Vaccinate or Not? Vermont, w highest concentration of vaccinated people, and Alabama, state w lowest. In last 7 days Alabama recorded 901 COVID cases; Vt recorded 8. Alabama has 65 hospital admissions daily. Vermont? Zero. Alabama 41 deaths last week. Vermont? Zero.
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    Michael Powell
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    Apr 2, 2025
    1. Embarrassing. Ron Klain, former White House Chief of Staff, on Biden last August: “He’s clearly up to the job. He’s doing it every day. He’s doing it successfully.” Klain in new book: "Biden “didn’t know what Trump had been saying and couldn’t grasp what the back and forth was
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    Michael Powell
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    Nov 20, 2020
    Chris Cuomo says it makes no sense to close NYC schools with minimal rate of infection. Dr Fauci: “I agree with you completely.”
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    Michael Powell
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    Aug 24, 2023
    When working on 2022 article about transgender athletes & elite sports, I called GLAAD. Their officials tried to tell me who I should NOT interview and that I should not "platform" tennis great and gay pioneer Martina Navratilova because her views ran counter to their line.
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    GLAAD
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    Aug 24, 2023
    Yesterday, @nytimes published yet another biased, anti-trans article. This morning, we’re at the NYT headquarters holding them accountable.
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    Michael Powell
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    Jun 28, 2024
    Krugman four months ago: "As anyone who has recently spent time with Biden (and I have) can tell you, he is in full possession of his faculties — completely lucid and with excellent grasp of detail."
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    Paul Krugman
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    Jun 28, 2024
    I’m in Warsaw talking about the future of the European economy, so I’m late to this party. But I’ll have a blog post up soon very reluctantly making the case for Biden — the best president of my adult life — to step aside in favor of Harris.
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    Michael Powell
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    Nov 2, 2020
    Last May and June, demonstrators in NYC were repeatedly penned, pepper sprayed and arrested for blocking streets late at night without much traffic. But you block major bridges and highways midday and no arrests, no towing of cars, nada? nytimes.com/2020/11/01/us/…
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    Michael Powell
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    Feb 24, 2021
    Inside a Battle Over Race, Class and Power at Smith College. Tension between a student’s deeply felt sense of personal truth and facts that are at odds with it. My story:
    Smith College is an elite 145-year-old liberal arts college, where tuition, room and board top $78,000 a year and where the employees who keep the school running often come from working-class neighborhoods.
    Inside a Battle Over Race, Class and Power at Smith College (Published 2021)
    From nytimes.com
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    Michael Powell
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    Jun 8, 2024
    Chanting ‘Fuck you Fascists’ at a Park Ranger is demented
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    Oliya Scootercaster 🛴
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    Jun 8, 2024
    #NOW Park Police dances as protesters throw bottles and chant "Fascist!" at him outside of White House DC
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    Michael Powell
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    Jan 6, 2021
    Why are cops letting these rioters to remain in place?
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    Michael Powell
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    Apr 30, 2020
    These fellows were disarmed and marched away by the cops. Then California banned guns in capitols. Wonder why different ... ?
    This is one in a series of videos looking back at big stories in Sacramento-area history. This one took place on May 2, 1967, when two dozen armed members of the Black Panther Party entered the state Capitol.
    From the pages of The Bee, 1967: Armed Black Panthers invade Capitol
    From sacbee.com
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    Michael Powell
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    Mar 25, 2017
    So Trump's choice as National security advisor discussed kidnapping a legal resident of USA and shipping him to Turkey?
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    Michael Powell
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    Feb 7, 2021
    "For reporter Donald McNeil to end his long career as a result of a single word, risks sending a chilling message. That the paper apparently altered its course ... as a result of public pressure is a further worrying signal. Pen America weighs in:
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    PEN America Responds to Resignation of New York Times Reporter McNeil
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    Michael Powell
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    Jul 20, 2021
    BREAKING: The NYTimes has learned John Glenn accomplished this same feat 59 years ago
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