Eric Umansky
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Planting 1 trillion trees might not actually be a good idea
The Verge 362d 2 tweets
Scientists are
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Eric Umansky Trump just said "we're doing the Trillion Tree program." So I googled it. It's a Davos thing. 97d
A Gated Community in N.Y.C. Where Trump Flags Fly
Corey Kilgannon - Nytimes.com 99d 3 tweets
Breezy Point, a private enclave in Queens, is bastion of Trump supporters in liberal New York City.
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Eric Umansky “Breezy Point remains 92 percent white.... Prospective buyers have to recommendations from three residents.” I feel like there’s a name for that. 99d
Trump’s Sanctions on International Court May Do Little Beyond Alienating Allies
Nytimes.com 101d 3 tweets
Critics say the administration has targeted a human rights lawyer with economic penalties meant for warlords, dictators and authoritarian governments.
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Eric Umansky BTW, the Trump admin has issued sanctions against the head of the International Criminal Court. This is her. Her crime? Investigating potential U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan. 101d
How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti ­and Built Six Homes
Justin Elliott - ProPublica 1249d 4 tweets
Even as the group has publicly celebrated its work, insider accounts detail a string of failures
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Eric Umansky The NYT has a happy interview w/ CEO Gail McGovern "Humanitarianism is like an addiction," she says. Among our *many* Red Cross stories: How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti and Built Six Homes 108d
Facing Disaster After Disaster, the American Red Cross C.E.O. Stays Optimistic
David Gelles - Nytimes.com 109d 5 tweets
“I really believe when we’re all set free from captivity, we are going to be so happy and kind to each other,” Gail McGovern says.
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Eric Umansky The NYT has a happy interview w/ CEO Gail McGovern "Humanitarianism is like an addiction," she says. Among our *many* Red Cross stories: How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti and Built Six Homes 108d
Concern rises for White House residence staff as their workplace emerges as a virus hot spot
Washingtonpost.com 114d 11 tweets
The workers, career employees who work across administrations, are the latest to be put at risk by an administration that has flouted guidelines.
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Eric Umansky These are the people Trump is putting at risk. 114d
The White House to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
The White House to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center 117d 1 tweets
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Eric Umansky Walter Reed is just 8.5 miles away from the White House. 117d
Trump Tests Positive for the Coronavirus
Maggie Haberman, Peter Baker - Nytimes.com 118d 40 tweets
The president’s result came after he spent months playing down the severity of the outbreak that has killed more than 207,000 in the United States and hours after insisting that “the end of the pandemic is in sight.”
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Eric Umansky “White House officials generally do not wear masks in deference to the president’s disdain for them.” 117d
How Journalists Need to Begin Imagining the Unimaginable — ProPublica
Eric Umansky - ProPublica 1112d 2 tweets
Win McNamee/Getty Images A few highlights from the conversation: Journalists needed to realize Trump wasn’t playing chess… I'm going to borrow a metaphor from Garry Kasparov, the chess champion, wh...
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Eric Umansky A few weeks after the 2016 election, & I talked w/ about how journos should cover the coming admin. Masha said: Don't treat Trump like he's playing a normal game of chess. He's knocking the pieces off the board. Listen to Masha. 118d
Chris Wallace Calls Debate ‘a Terrible Missed Opportunity’
Michael M. Grynbaum - Nytimes.com 119d 37 tweets
The veteran anchor conceded he was initially “reluctant” to step in during the Trump-Biden matchup. “I’ve never been through anything like this,” he said.
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Eric Umansky These two paragraphs... 119d
The Top Contender for RBG’s Seat Has a Fundamentally Cruel Vision of the Law
Slate Magazine 130d 8 tweets
Here's what we can expect if Trump fills the late justice's seat.
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Eric Umansky The rulings of Trump's reported favorite to replace RBG, Judge Amy Coney Barrett: 129d
Bronx woman who accused cop of ripping her eye out gets $1.25 million settlement from city
New York Daily News - nydailynews.com 139d 2 tweets
The payout ends a two-year saga that began when Johanna Pagan-Alomar was arrested June 7, 2018, after she asked Officers Theresa Lustica and Konti Markvukaj why they were handcuffing her friend.
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Eric Umansky A woman lost her eye after an NYPD officer apparently punched her in the eye with a handcuff key. The city recently settled for $1.25 million. The NYPD still maintains the officer's use of force was "neither excessive nor unnecessary.” 131d
Wells Fargo’s Drive-Up Food Bank Campaign | Feeding America
Feedingamerica.org 134d 1 tweets
This summer Wells Fargo and Feeding America food banks are hosting drive-up food distributions at branches across the country. Learn more.
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Eric Umansky I keep watching these Wells Fargo ads where they crow about the bank providing "50 million meals" to people in need. So I looked it up. Turns out, every $1 Well Fargo donates gets counted as 10 meals. 134d
Scarcity of key material squeezes medical mask manufacturing
AP NEWS 139d 8 tweets
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Rachel Spray is still grieving the loss of her fellow nurse who died after being exposed to the novel coronavirus at Kaiser Permanente Fresno Medical Center. Now, as she...
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Eric Umansky Supplies of masks and other medical equipment “have only gotten worse,” says the president of the American Medical Association, the AMA. Six months in... 139d
N.Y.C. to Allow Indoor Dining, in Milestone on Recovery From Pandemic
Jesse McKinley - Nytimes.com 140d 6 tweets
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced that restaurants can open for indoor service at 25 percent capacity, starting on Sept. 30.
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Eric Umansky The Cuomo and de Blasio show. 140d
Research Editor
ProPublica 151d 1 tweets
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
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Eric Umansky We're hiring a research editor. You'll have a team of awesome researchers who specialize in finding docs & data wherever they exist. Deadline is Sept 25. Qs? Ask me! 151d
The NYPD Is Withholding Evidence From Investigations Into Police Abuse
Eric Umansky - ProPublica 163d 14 tweets
The NYPD has regularly failed to turn over key records and videos to police abuse investigators at New York’s Civilian Complaint Review Board. “This just seems like contempt,” said the now-retired judge who ordered the NYPD to use body cameras.
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Eric Umansky The NYPD has been undermining investigations into police abuse It‘s been withholding records even though the law *requires* NYPD to cooperate has declined to get involved But he *has* told the civilian oversight agency it’s having $ cut 163d
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Eric Umansky New from me: The NYPD has been undermining investigations into police abuse. They aren’t giving civilian investigators critical records or body worn camera footage “This just seems like contempt,” said former fed judge who order NYPD to use the cameras. 163d
Secret NYPD Files: Officers Can Lie To Juries Or Brutally Beat Civilians And Still Keep Their Jobs
Kendall Taggart 🕵️‍♀️ - BuzzFeed News 179d 1 tweets
Internal NYPD files show that hundreds of officers who committed the most serious offenses — from lying to grand juries to physically attacking innocent people — got to keep their jobs, their pensions, and their tremendous power over New Yorkers'...
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Eric Umansky BTW, Buzzfeed did *amazing* work a couple of years ago unveiling a whole tranche of NYPD discipline records. They found.. at least 50 NYPD employees who lied under oath 38 who used excessive force ...none of whom were seriously disciplined. 179d
2020 Election Live Updates: Trump Floats Whether to ‘Delay the Election,’ Something He Cannot Legally Do
Nytimes.com 181d 19 tweets
Trailing badly in the polls, the president baselessly suggested the November election would be “the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT” in history.
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Eric Umansky Good headline. 181d
The NYPD Files: Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers - ProPublica
Derek Willis - ProPublica 185d 6 tweets
After New York state repealed a law that kept NYPD disciplinary records secret, ProPublica obtained data from the civilian board that investigates complaints about police behavior. Use this database to search thousands of allegations.
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Eric Umansky *This* is what police unions have been fighting to keep secret: -34 current NYPD officers have had *40 or more* abuse allegations against them. -303 officers have had *five or more* allegations substantiated. See for yourself 185d