Read this!  Need a quick jolt back into things after the long weekend? Well, how about this: “The former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, regularly slagged by the president of the United States for disapproving of him, just said this: ‘Honestly, his demeaning fake orgasm was really the straw that broke the camel’s back.’ This is some show.”
Kurt Andersen is referring to the candid interview with Lisa Page by Molly Jong-Fast of The Daily Beast, in which Lisa Page, the former FBI lawyer and ongoing Trump target, breaks two years of silence — and has plenty to say. Bill Kristol calls it “A gripping and important piece by @MollyJongFast. Come for the sympathetic profile of Lisa Page, but stay for what it reveals about ‘how deeply [Trump’s] corrupted the government to serve his will and his whims,’ especially the Justice Department.” Maya Wiley urges, “Read this! The most powerful man in the world fakes an orgasm at a rally to scapegoat a career public servant, a woman, in the most vile way. This used to be unacceptable. But now? Women need to vote as women.” Quite a shot Also breaking his silence in a big interview, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who speaks out on Trump, Putin and a divided Europe in an interview with reporters including Simon Shuster of TIME magazine. As Kari Odermann says, “Politics is not an exact science | @shustry from @TIME lets @ZelenskyyUa explain the situation in #Ukraine for the American audience in easily digestible post-Thanksgiving servings.” And Jim Sciutto notices, “This is quite a shot at Trump from Zelensky: ‘We’re at war. If you’re our strategic partner, then you can’t go blocking anything for us. I think that’s just about fairness.’” The mother of all backstories Still others are going on the record. Aman Batheja links to a “Startling deep-dive into the case of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher that includes colleagues of his speaking publicly for the first time.” That piece, by Dave Philipps, Peter Baker, Maggie Haberman and Helene Cooper in yesterday’s New York Times, reveals, among many disturbing details, that fellow SEALs privately called Gallagher “el diablo,” or the devil. Tweets Philipps, “Edward Gallagher held a dead captive’s head up for a trophy photo. The president held him up as a war hero. Here’s how we got there.” Michael Tackett calls it “The mother of all backstories on ‘Chief Gallagher,’” and Jonathan Martin says, “This alone is worth the price of today’s paper.” Grimly amazing, powerfully presented Switching gears for a moment, “This is a devastating story—and one of the most beautifully done pieces of interactive journalism I've seen in a long time.” Derek Thompson links to The Class of 2000 ‘Could Have Been Anything.’ Until Opioids Hit, a heartbreaking look by Dan Levin of The New York Times at the opioid crisis through the lens of the Minford, Ohio high school class of 2000. The students were freshman the same year Purdue Pharma introduced OxyContin. “‘Every single one of our friends got addicted.’ This is grimly amazing and powerfully presented,” says Howard W. French. John Schwartz notes, “Opioid addiction and the damage it causes are everywhere. But with a sharp focus on one high school class in one Ohio town, this story makes it heartbreaking in a way the statistics alone can’t.” And as Ted Bauer says, it’s “Another thing we need to pay attention to, but don’t, because The Gram is so fascinating to us.” The political economy of shade 
As Tim Arango explains, “Shade in Los Angeles sits at the intersection of two crises: climate change and income inequality. City officials are rushing to deploy cover to hundreds of bus stops and plant 90,000 trees.” Read his piece for The New York Times, with photographs by Bethany Mollenkof, to learn Why Shade Is a Mark of Privilege in Los Angeles. Jonathan Derbyshire dubs it “The political economy of shade in Los Angeles,” while Stuart Emmrich highlights “In the land of abundant sunshine, ‘shade is increasingly seen as a precious commodity.’ This @tarangoNYT piece perfectly captures one of the many contradictions of daily life in LA.” Subway map porn Back on the east coast, Antonio de Luca and Sasha Portis of The New York Times give you a look The New York City Subway Map as You’ve Never Seen It Before. How to describe this one? We’ll defer to Chad Orzel: “If you’ve ever thought to yourself both ‘I bet there are cool stories behind the design of the NYC subway map’ and ‘Y’know what I miss? The disorienting animation effects of Prezi,’ the New York Times is ON IT.” Put another way, John Schwartz says, “what a dizzying thing of beauty this is, map and territory and design and all of it.” Dodai Stewart dubs it, “subway map porn,” or at the very least, “This close-up examination of the NYC subway map is a lot more fun than trying to catch a train,” tweets Eric Asimov. The point is, as Sloane Crosley says, “Oooo. A link both dads AND Pratt-grad ex boyfriends can send you as if you don’t have your own phone.” Yikes Charles Ornstein offers fair warning about this next one: “Yikes.” For more than a year, Hillary Flynn, Keith Cousins and Elizabeth Naismith Piccianii investigated what dating apps do to protect their users’ safety. The answer: not much, as is revealed in their new ProPublica story, co-published with Columbia Journalism Investigations and BuzzFeed, Tinder Lets Known Sex Offenders Use the App. It’s Not the Only One. That’s right: “Tinder doesn't screen for sex offenders. Have a nice day!” tweets Timothy Noah. But wait, are we sure? Well, one spokesperson for Match Group, which owns most major online dating services, told them, “There are definitely registered sex offenders on our free products.” Match Group screens for sexual predators on Match, but not on Tinder, OkCupid or PlentyofFish. In other words, “This is absolutely terrifying and horrible,” tweets Lily Herman. Checking in on the 2020 race Dave Weigel of The Washington Post reports that Montana Gov. Steve Bullock has dropped out of the presidential race. Not only that, he says he won’t run for Senate. Steve Bullock himself has written about his decision in a post on Medium, Thank you. At The New York Times, Astead Herndon and Lauren Leatherby explain How Black Voters Could Help Biden Win the Democratic Nomination. Tweets Herndon, “NEW: A visual aide to our black voters reporting. We dug into the DNC delegate math to show why, to this point, black voters give Joe Biden a structural advantage in this primary that's even bigger than polling would suggest.” Dispatches from Oz Apparently, Nationals MP George Christensen is ‘a regular’ at a Philippines adult entertainment bar called Ponytails. Jonathan Kearsley, Anthony Galloway and Rob Harris have that story for The Sydney Morning Herald, and Dave Earley tells us, “I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell you! Well, not that shocked.” At news.com.au, Rohan Smith reports that Tracey Spicer is threatening to sue women over #MeToo doco row, and Rob Stott says it’s a “Good example here of how easy it is to use defamation laws – even just the threat of them – to shut down commentary.” Marnie O’Neill’s take: “Wow wow wow I didn’t think this story could get any worse but here we are.” And Mike Ticher admits, “Have to say I did not see this plot twist coming.” He links to the latest from Naaman Zhou of The Guardian, Naomi Wolf accuses Angus Taylor of ‘antisemitic dogwhistle’ and false claim about Oxford University. Go get it 
In case you missed it, last week in the New Yorker, Amanda Petrusich profiled Beck for Beck Is Home, a piece that includes, as she tweets, “Fellini, Warhol, moonlight, Pharrell, steakhouses, Ode to Joy, the nineties, old Los Angeles, new Los Angeles, go get it.” Also among the things we learn: Beck is a big John Ashbery fan. Aarik Danielsen calls it “Further proof that @amandapetrusich is probably our best modern writer about music and musicians.” Brent Staples agrees: “How to make a thing levitate: an absorbing and gracefully written @NewYorker profile of Beck.” And Matt Welch admits, “I am old enough to forget things, but this might be the best @Beck profile I’ve ever read.” Monday round-up - “Report for America says it’s on pace to place 250 journalists in 164 local newsrooms in 2020. It’s one of the largest single-day hiring announcements for journalists at the local level.” Axios’s Sara Fischer writes about The race to fill local newsrooms. Read The 2020-21 Report for America Newsrooms and Beats for all the details.
- Farnaz Fassihi and Rick Gladstone of The New York Times report on a recent mass killing in Iran, With Brutal Crackdown, Iran Convulsed by Worst Unrest in 40 Years. Michael Slackman shares, “Iran’s leaders did not want you to know about this. They shut off the internet. The worst spasm of violence - mostly by state security forces against civilian protesters - in decades.” “The horror of the state brutality in Iran deserves our attention and our outrage,” says Nicholas Thompson.
- “How do you make 200 million people into second-class citizens? The tragedy of India under Modi.” David Beard links to Dexter Filkins’ interview with one of India’s best-known investigative reporters, Rana Ayyub, for the New Yorker, Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India. She tweets, “What a privilege to be meticulously detailed and examined by none other than the sharp and exacting Dexter Filkins for New Yorker...this profile was exhaustive, difficult on body and soul, but it was urgent.”
- Kathleen Kingsbury tweets, “One victim of London Bridge attack was Jack Merritt, a 25-year-old advocate for prison reform. My colleague @emmabgo knew him and has written this moving tribute, joining his dad, @butwhatifitsall, to ask @BorisJohnson not to undo work he stood for.” In an op-ed for The New York Times, Emma Goldberg writes, Jack Merritt Died in the London Bridge Attack. Don’t Forget What He Stood For.
- In an interview with Nick Gillespie of Reason, Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Andrew Napolitano says, “The Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee have unearthed enough evidence, in my opinion, to justify about three or four articles of impeachment against the president.”
- Across the country, attorneys are scrambling to file a new wave of lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by clergy, thanks to rules enacted in 15 states that extend or suspend the statute of limitations to allow claims stretching back decades, write Bernard Condon and Jim Mustian of AP News. They report that the new suits could cost the Roman Catholic Church over $4B.
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