We looked inside some of the tweets by @jenszalai and here's what we found interesting.
Inside 100 Tweets
Nationwide, a third of the registered nurses who have died of Covid have been Filipino, though Filipinos make up only 4 percent of RNs overall https://t.co/S7ouRpsopm
Just when you start feeling bad for the Trump/Kushner security detail in that bathroom story, there’s a twist https://t.co/tROAgwhPEZ
Whenever Dr. Bornstein’s name came up in the last few years it would make me think of this anecdote from 2017 that seemed so telling — both in terms of who they were and what their relationship must have been like https://t.co/BuYNiJcKCj
Today’s print paper https://t.co/ozDWVKl2HO
During the course of editing this essay I accused one of the editors of being Orwellian because he was making helpful suggestions AND THEREFORE TRYING TO SILENCE ME https://t.co/BlKuyBvDXI
"Aftershocks" is "a gorgeous and unsettling memoir of Nadia Owusu’s own peripatetic childhood, along with the bewilderment and breakdown that came after," says @jenszalai https://t.co/2LCcdSF68g
New piece by the historian Robert Paxton, author of "The Anatomy of Fascism" (2004) https://t.co/7vkb37I1ue
Quoted @AndrewFeinberg
This @NYTimes photo of @CapitolPolice Officer Eugene Goodman facing down a mob by himself is breathtaking... https://t.co/vBEYJerd5V
Instantly iconic shot by Ash Gilbertson. Who is a celebrated war photographer. https://t.co/Vl7POdjROD
“For a septuagenarian whose closest allies and aides say often exhibits the emotional development of a preteen, and for whom attention has been a narcotic, the instant gratification of his tweets was hard to match.” Amazing description from @maggieNYT https://t.co/Ys4VRwF5DH
Three years ago today, I started as one of the NYT’s daily book critics. One of the books in that first review — “How Democracies Die” — turned out to be pretty (and unsettlingly) prophetic https://t.co/NQjhkuf3uk
Revisiting this from @jenszalai during the summer in the light of the last two months https://t.co/1LN3G9ay8X
Quoted @MarkMaxwellTV
Illinois’ newest member of Congress quoting Adolf Hitler outside the US Capitol. Not sure why anyone would ever need to reference a Nazi to make a point about educating children. https://t.co/SN6yr1qSBP
If she really felt the need to attribute the notion that “children are our future” to someone, she had any number of people to choose from — JFK, Nelson Mandela, even Whitney Houston. Instead she chose Hitler. https://t.co/0IOZsUHxJF
Incredible that something that was assumed as a matter of course with every previous WH was thrown into such doubt by this WH that a minimal acknowledgment that a transfer of power will indeed take place is, in our current dispensation, headline material https://t.co/MV8XSj3Uvo
I wrote about Paxton’s book and others in June https://t.co/Lmdn4T3g9w
Quoted @lionel_trolling
Not to do a Chomsky email, but I got this email from Robert Paxton just now https://t.co/0flIwlV0wH
The historian Robert Paxton, the author of “The Anatomy of Fascism” (2004), one of the best books on the subject, has been reluctant to use the f-word in regard to Trumpism. Yesterday, he says, that changed. https://t.co/Duu63qfUGD
Quoted @xanalter
Simon & Schuster Cancels Plans for Senator Hawley’s Book https://t.co/IwyTlqor5A
Wowowow https://t.co/U8JVXV7ArG
"Sedition" has been on the lips of everyone form the president-elect to business leaders to half of Twitter, & was most-searched word on Merriam-Webster yesterday. I talked to historians about its complicated echoes across American history. https://t.co/tJCm8wKH4a