'May the best woman win'  For the first time ever, the New York Times editorial board has endorsed two candidates. They believe Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren Are the Democrats’ Top Choices for President. "May the best woman win," Rubina Fillion quoted.
Meanwhile, leading liberal Rep. Pramila Jayapal endorsed Bernie Sanders for president, Sean Sullivan and Jeff Stein reported at the Washington Post. Speaking of the election, New York Times' Astead Herndon reported that, this time around, The Big Ask of Black Voters Is: Trust the Government. “When Warren rallied in Brooklyn, I was in Virginia at a roundtable with black farmers skeptical about her rural plan. The problem wasn't the plan. Or Warren herself. But they didn't believe government upheaval could work in their favor when the government has so often done the opposite,” Herndon wrote. 'All due respect to the dipshits of the world' A Washington Post analysis via Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo, and Meg Kelly revealed that President Trump made 16,241 false or misleading claims in his first three years. At another part of the Post, Laurence H. Tribe laid out why Trump’s lawyers shouldn’t be allowed to use bogus legal arguments on impeachment. "The president is entitled to robust legal representation. But his lawyers should not be allowed to use bogus legal arguments to mislead the American public or the senators weighing his fate,” Michael Larabee quoted. Even Mia Farrow shared the op-ed. James Robenalt pointed out, “You can trust Lawrence Tribe to get it right every time. Dershowitz, on the other hand, is a dipshit (said with all due respect to the dipshits of the world).” There’s also Jennifer Rubin’s op-ed in the Post that The media must expose bad-faith arguments on impeachment. “Remember when the claim was that the whistleblower was lying? That argument and accusations of treason against the whistleblower went on for weeks until, one by one, the allegations were proved true. The smears of each of the witnesses — Yovanovitch, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, et al. — attempted to discredit their testimony. But as the witnesses and documents bolstered their accounts, attacks on witnesses’ credibility. After arguing for months that all these people were lying, the White House cannot produce a single witness or document to disprove the central allegations,” Rubin tweeted. The Luanda Leaks  The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists published a massive series of stories from the Luanda Leaks, 715,000 documents that revealed How Africa’s Richest Woman Exploited Family Ties, Shell Companies And Inside Deals To Build An Empire. All together, the stories claim that Isabel dos Santos made a fortune at the expense of the Angolan people. “@isabelaangola says her wealth comes from her business acumen, but #LuandaLeaks tells a different story,” Kyra Gurney tweeted. Nanjala Nyabola added, “Where there's an African economic crime, there's an American management consulting firm. ☕”
The part of the story that comes from the New York Times, Mike Forsythe — who wrote the piece with Kyra Gurney, Scilla Alecci, and Ben Hallman — explained, “focuses on how U.S. consulting firms aided her rise.” He added, “Angola, blessed with oil and diamonds, is racked by poverty and one of the world's highest infant mortality rates. A new @ICIJorg investigation shows how the daughter of the longtime president was able to move a fortune abroad.” Don’t miss How U.S. Firms Helped Africa’s Richest Woman Exploit Her Country’s Wealth. Jason Farago tweeted, “‘They are all-purpose providers of whatever these elites are trying to do. They have no moral status — they are what you make of them.’ #LuandaLeaks, on A1 today, is a story bigger than Isabel dos Santos; a story of PwC, McKinsey and Boston Consulting.” “I recommend keeping a google news alert for the NYT's Michael Forsythe,” Duff McDonald added. And The Guardian, there's Revealed: how Angolan ruler's daughter used her status to build a $2bn empire via Juliette Garside, David Pegg, and Hilary Osborne. “This is the kind of reporting that makes me proud to work for the Guardian,” Patrick Greenfield admitted. SAG Awards  The Screen Actors Guild Awards were last night and all anyone talked about were these two pictures of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston which we, admittedly, projected A LOT of feelings onto.
Still, The Hollywood Reporter tried to do their job and provided us with a 2020 SAG Awards Winners: Complete List. John DeFore tweeted this quote from "Fleabag's" Phoebe Waller-Bridge as she accepted her awards for best actress in a comedy series: "This whole thing really has been a dream and if I wake up tomorrow and discover it was just that, then, thank you it's been the most beautiful dream." There’s also a Complete Winners List (Updated Live) thanks to Variety, which is how we learned that "Game Of Thrones" and "Avengers: Endgame" won for stunt ensemble and the cast of "Parasite" received a standing ovation. Dys-turbing long reads  On Sunday, everyone on Twitter was talking about Kashmir Hill’s latest piece for the New York Times about The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It. “‘Sure, that might lead to a dystopian future or something, but you can’t ban it.’ Universal facial recognition as why-the-heck-not? Dys-turbing,” Ian Fisher tweeted. Rina Chandran added, “The AI weaponization possibilities are endless with just one app.” Siddhartha Mitter wrote, “The techno-fascist totalitarian surveillance state backed by, and incentive-aligned with, unregulated private finance, seems to be our end state as a species.” Jake Grovum added, “This story has it all. Florida cops. Peter Thiel. A former Giuliani aide. Paul Clement. Facebook. ‘Absent a very strong federal privacy law, we’re all screwed.’”
Also from the New York Times, How 17 Outsize Portraits Rattled a Small Southern Town via Audra Burch. “A small town in Georgia looks at itself, thanks to the work of an artist; Newman, as it turns out, didn't know Newman. An amazing story, beautifully told by @abscribe,” John Schwartz wrote. “Atlanta folks, this is 40 miles from you. Go see it,” Deborah E. Lipstadt urged. Adam Bruns had another suggestion: “For more on these beautiful large-scale portraits on buildings in Newnan (just down the road from Atlanta), I recommend reading @marybethmeehan's ReSeeing blog about the work and its subjects.” In The New Yorker, Ben Taub published The Fight to Save an Innocent Refugee from Almost Certain Death. He tweeted: “Ok, here it is: The President said there were terrorists in the refugee stream. There weren’t. Now the government is lying about an Iraqi refugee being an ISIS commander, and trying to extradite him—likely to death—for a murder he couldn’t have committed.” 'Follow the roubles'  Boris Johnson is being urged to publish his report on Russian meddling, per Dan Sabbagh Defence in The Guardian. ”You have to wonder why the Prime Minister is trying to sit on this report about foreign interference in the EU Referendum campaign until AFTER the UK leaves the EU,” Thom Brooks tweeted. Carole Cadwalladr suggested we “Follow the roubles.”
Elsewhere in The Guardian, Alan Rusbridger wrote that there’s a reason why the royals are demonized. But you won’t read all about it. “At last a new take on H and M as @arusbridger writes on how tabloids face huge fines over intrusion, phone hacking, printing lies about them, etc,” Denis MacShane said. John Keenan hailed the piece “a characteristically clear-eyed view on what we don’t read about when we read about royalty.” The BBC announced that Lord Tony Hall will step down as its director general. He had been in the role for seven years. You can also learn How a Belgian port city inspired Birmingham's car-free ambitions via Carlton Reid at (yes, again) The Guardian. Reid tweeted, “‘The best car plan is a bike plan,’ says the politician that part inspired Brum’s new get-out-of-your-cars policy.” Also quoting from the story, Geraldine Herbert added, “Providing more space for walking and cycling leads not only to more people walking and cycling, but it also makes space for people who really need to use their cars.” A few more - The Guardian’s Kate Lyons reported on the landmark UN human rights case which ruled that climate refugees can't be returned home. “This is hugely significant,” Ben Doherty highlighted.
- “In a powerful New York Times op-ed piece, Chicago Tribune investigative reporters David Jackson and Gary Marx explain the urgent threat that Alden Global Capital poses to impactful journalism—and why the Tribune needs a civic-minded owner,” Blair Kamin tweeted. Don’t miss Jackson and Marx’s story: Will The Chicago Tribune Be the Next Newspaper Picked to the Bone?
- Hail and dust storms are battering Australia as the deadly bushfires continue, CNN’s Jessie Yeung reported. It includes facts like, “In Australia, people have been filming rolling clouds of dust sweeping across New South Wales,” and “Golf-ball sized hailstones rain down on parts of southeastern Australia.”
- Elsewhere in Australia, ABC’s Jack Snape wrote that Scott Morrison's local soccer club boasted about funding weeks before grants announced. Jacqueline Maley tweeted this bit from the story: "Scott Morrison's local soccer club embarked on a building project costing more than half a million dollars in October, more than a month before sport grants were announced, without having enough funding to complete the project." Andrew Hornery tweeted, “Now this is interesting.”
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