Newsletter 5.8.18

We're back! Here's this week's newsletter, please enjoy. Fresh episode coming tomorrow. Thanks again for all your support. 

–– Florence, Nima, and Adam

p.s. There was obviously some pretty huge news regarding the Iran nuclear deal today and both Adam and Nima have had plenty to say about it on Twitter already.

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In a National May Day Strike, Puerto Rican Marchers Face Down Tear Gas To Protest Privatization - Kate Aronoff, In These Times (5/2/18)

“It’s a colonial situation that we are facing," Mercedes Martinez, president of the Teachers Federation of Puerto Rico told ITT.

Giuliani Takes Cash to Speak to Terrorist Cult; Media Find This Unnoteworthy - Adam Johnson, FAIR (5/7/18)

Why does the mainstream press have such a hard time explaining what the MEK really is? After all, the accurate description "terrorist cult" even takes up less space than the whitewashed phrase "dissident group."

Israeli Operatives Who Aided Harvey Weinstein Collected Information on Former Obama Administration Officials - Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker (5/6/18)

#IsraelGate grows deeper as Trump flunkies worked with ex-Mossad agents to undermine the Iran deal by digging up dirt on Obama-era White House officials. 

What Do US Pundits Know About North Korea That 88% of South Koreans Don’t? - Adam Johnson, FAIR (5/4/18)

Friend of the show Tim Shorrock notes something very important in US coverage of the Korean peace summit: American consensus is wildly divorced than the opinion of those actually in South Korea.

The Heartbreak of Kanye West - dream hampton, The New York Times (5/7/18)

What happens when your artistic idol goes full MAGA? One writer dissects the harm and consequence of red-pilling. 

All-American Nazis - Janet Reitman, Rolling Stone (5/3/18)

How a senseless double murder in Florida exposed the rise of an organized fascist youth movement in the United States.

Why Cultural Critics of Color Matter - Elizabeth Méndez Berry, Hyperallergic (5/3/18)

Diversity in writing staff doesn't solve everything, but there's almost never a case it doesn't make publications better. Méndez Berry explains why. 

10 of the Most Sociopathic Washington Post Columns - Adam Johnson FAIR (5/2/18)

Adam ranks the most blasé and morally glib columns The Post has published in recent decades––with a five-time appearance by noted racist and fumbling lech Richard Cohen. 

Amid National Uprising, Teachers Just Took a Major Step Toward Unionizing Charter Schools - Rachel M. Cohen, The Intercept (5/2/18)

Here at Citations Needed we make no secret of our dislike of charter schools and our love of teachers unions. Now the latter is undermining the political project of the former and we couldn't be happier.