Alec MacGillis
, ex-WaPo, BaltSun, TNR. Author of THE CYNIC and forthcoming FULFILLMENT: Winning and Losing in One-Click America (FSG) [email protected]
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Man fatally shot shopper who made him stand in line at Family Dollar in Cleveland, police say
cleveland 33d 1 tweets
Jeffrey Saffo, 32, of Euclid, was fatally shot outside a Family Dollar in Cleveland, police said.
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Alec MacGillis Meanwhile, the dollar-store shootings just keep coming. In Ohio alone this month, a Family Dollar shopper killed in Cleveland after a fight over his holding up the line, and a Dollar General employee shot in the head in Dayton. 33d
Man shot in head outside Dollar General in Trotwood
dayton-daily-news 33d 1 tweets
The man was shot in the head, but was alert, according to police dispatchers.
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Alec MacGillis Meanwhile, the dollar-store shootings just keep coming. In Ohio alone this month, a Family Dollar shopper killed in Cleveland after a fight over his holding up the line, and a Dollar General employee shot in the head in Dayton. 33d
The Two Americas Financing the Trump and Biden Campaigns
Shane Goldmacher - Nytimes.com 34d 20 tweets
See how Joe Biden outraised President Trump in some of the country’s wealthiest and most educated ZIP codes — the same ones that supported Republicans in past elections.
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Alec MacGillis It's hard to overstate the extent and import of the shift of upper-income coastal America toward the Democrats. Not long ago, the NYC burbs, Northern Virginia, etc were full of major Republican donors. No longer. An amazing map 33d
Coronavirus Deaths, Job Losses Hit Pennsylvania Hardest of 2020 Battlegrounds
John McCormick - WSJ 35d 1 tweets
In Bucks County and elsewhere in Pennsylvania, it has been a tough year, and both presidential campaigns see the state—with its 20 Electoral College votes—as critical to capturing the White House.
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Alec MacGillis This is one of the best Covid impact graphics I have seen all year: the places that have had especially high mortality, especially high job loss, and especially high levels of both. (It's striking how little the two categories overlap: mostly just the NE.) 35d
Neoliberal Education Reformers Have Found a New Way to Scapegoat Teachers
Jacobinmag.com 37d 2 tweets
Liberal writers sympathetic to the corporate education reform movement are beating the drum about reopening schools, claiming to stand up for low-income students. But attacking teachers and their unions does nothing for poor and working-class...
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Alec MacGillis "Narratively, MacGillis’s article is a prime piece of poverty porn." 37d
With graceful editorials and essays, Donald MacGillis illuminated the news and the wilderness - The Boston Globe
BostonGlobe.com 48d 1 tweets
Widely respected for the editorials he wrote, Mr. MacGillis died after a hiking mishap on Mount Katahdin.
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Alec MacGillis This is a really lovely and conscientiously reported full obit in today's . Thank you, . 48d
House Panel Calls for Congress to Break Up Tech Giants
John D. McKinnon, Ryan Tracy - WSJ 53d 2 tweets
The biggest U.S. technology companies have leveraged their dominance to stifle competition and innovation, Democrats said in a report following a 16-month inquiry and called on Congress to take antitrust action.
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Alec MacGillis “To put it simply, companies that once were scrappy, underdog startups that challenged the status quo have become the kinds of monopolies we last saw in the era of oil barons and railroad tycoons." 53d
The Covid Economy Carves Deep Divide Between Haves and Have-Nots
Eric Morath - WSJ 55d 15 tweets
The comeback since the start of the pandemic is kind to those who can work from home, to firms serving them and to regions hospitable to them. Left behind are the less-educated, old-line businesses and areas dependent on tourism. Rising wealth...
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Alec MacGillis Just brutal stats here on the divergent recovery, with highly-educated, high-earning people back to where they were pre-pandemic, while others are absolutely reeling. 53d
Sabotage in the Liberal City
Ross Douthat - Nytimes.com 54d 17 tweets
The disparate racial impact of progressivism’s pandemic-era policy blunders.
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Alec MacGillis This column needs to be reckoned with. 54d
Maryland reports 471 new coronavirus cases, one new death
The Baltimore Sun - baltimoresun.com 54d 1 tweets
Maryland officials reported 471 newly confirmed cases of the coronavirus and one more death.
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Alec MacGillis More continued encouraging trends in Maryland: only one Covid-19 death in whole state reported on Sunday, newly hospitalized patients down to 35. 54d
Biden transition elevates former Facebook exec as ethics arbiter
POLITICO 58d 2 tweets
Left-wing Democrats blasted the move as frustrations with Facebook mount.
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Alec MacGillis "Joe Biden’s transition team named Jessica Hertz, until recently a Facebook executive focused on govt regulations, as its general counsel and charged her w/ navigating conflicts of interest and other ethical issues for the Biden administration-in-waiting." 58d
This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic
The Atlantic 60d 157 tweets
It’s not R.
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Alec MacGillis Such an important piece by , on mounting evidence that coronavirus is heavily driven by superspreader events. The implication: focus efforts on limiting superspreader events and lighten up on costly & cumbersome efforts vs more routine transmission. 59d
To Battle Covid, Airlines Bet on Disinfectants That Come With Questions
WSJMiddleSeat - WSJ 59d 2 tweets
U.S. carriers are using higher amounts of some chemicals to show their planes are safe. The unknown long-term effects of these antiviral sprays concern some scientists.
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Alec MacGillis "Scientists say long-term effects of one chemical used by several airlines, including the three biggest U.S. carriers, aren’t well known, and multiple applications of it each day hasn’t been studied." 59d
Despite dozens of temporary school closures, some Connecticut towns begin shift from mix of online and in-person learning to five days a week in the classroom
Hartford Courant - courant.com 60d 2 tweets
While the rate of new coronavirus cases has been creeping up statewide and dozens of schools have closed temporarily due to infections, some Connecticut districts plan to begin transition from hybrid models of online and classroom learning to...
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Alec MacGillis Story I am eager to read: how did Connecticut get to the point of returning to 5-day/week in-person instruction in many districts--even for high school!--despite having the same anti-Trump climate that has helped lead most other blue states to stay closed? 60d
How Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right
Nytimes.com 97d 67 tweets
Ms. Tufekci, a computer programmer who became a sociologist, sounded an early alarm on the need for protective masks. It wasn’t the first time she was right about something big.
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Alec MacGillis Reminder: not long ago, rightly called "perhaps the only good amateur epidemiologist" and asked, "What is she right about now? And what are the rest of us wrong about?" Well, I think we might have the answer to that question. 61d
Fulfillment | Alec MacGillis | Macmillan
US Macmillan 61d 1 tweets
An award-winning journalist investigates Amazon’s impact on the wealth and poverty of towns and cities across the United States.In 1937, the famed writer ...
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Alec MacGillis Some personal news, while we're on the subject of gaping disparities: As I've been working on the school reopening piece, I've also been at work on FULFILLMENT, a book on America's growing regional divides, as told through the lens of Amazon. March 2021... 61d
The Students Left Behind by Remote Learning
Alec MacGillis - ProPublica 62d 34 tweets
Has a desire to keep the coronavirus out of schools put children’s long-term well-being at stake?
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Alec MacGillis This past spring, I realized quickly how disastrous remote learning would be for many kids, through the vantage of one in particular. I assumed this would be moot, that schools would reopen where cases had fallen. I was wrong. The story of how we got here 62d
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Alec MacGillis Yup. It's in here 39d
Two weeks after Labor Day, Maryland again sees lowest testing positivity since March
The Baltimore Sun - baltimoresun.com 67d 1 tweets
Two weeks after the Labor Day holiday, Maryland has avoided a spike in coronavirus cases, and has seen positivity rates continue to set new low marks.
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Alec MacGillis More good news in Maryland (where every school district is now remote): "The state now has reported single-digit deaths in 16 out of past 17 days. On Sunday, the state reported its lowest positivity rate and number of active hospitalizations since March." 67d
Facebook Has Been a Disaster for the World
Nytimes.com 72d 16 tweets
How much longer are we going to allow its platform to foment hatred and undermine democracy?
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Alec MacGillis .: "Zuckerberg is right that our democracy can survive a pandemic. It is unclear, however, if it can survive a platform optimized for conspiratorial thinking." 68d
The Homeschool Evangelists
Emma Green - The Atlantic 77d 5 tweets
COVID-19 is a catalyst for families who were already skeptical of the traditional school system—and are now thinking about leaving it for good.
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Alec MacGillis "COVID-19 has created a strange natural experiment in American education: Families who would have never otherwise considered taking their kids out of school feel desperate enough to try it." 76d