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Admin/Pictures/Kolkowitzia", "00.01 Admin/Pictures/Hibiscus/IMG_3898.jpg", "00.01 Admin/Pictures/Hibiscus/IMG_3899.jpg", "00.01 Admin/Pictures/Hibiscus", - "00.02 Inbox/Consent.md", - "02.03 Zürich/@@Zürich.md", - "00.02 Inbox/Template.md", - "00.03 News/The Global Sperm Count Decline Has Created Big Business.md", - "01.02 Home/Bandes Dessinées.md", - "01.02 Home/Entertainment.md", "00.01 Admin/Pictures/Viorne Tin/IMG_3889.jpg", "00.01 Admin/Pictures/Viorne Tin/IMG_3890.jpg", "00.01 Admin/Pictures/ima2787069855116213160.jpeg", @@ -284,15 +287,12 @@ "01.08 Garden", "00.01 Admin/Pictures/Sally/ima1046640698913285522.jpeg", "00.01 Admin/Pictures/Sally/8db2ca52-4745-49db-8efc-5c0b8795e65d.jpg", - "00.01 Admin/Pictures/Sally/ac7647bf-ac03-45fe-a4d5-d0eab35198ea.jpg", - "00.01 Admin/Pictures/Sally/ima13927264761198733686.jpeg", "00.01 Admin/Test Canvas.canvas", "00.01 Admin/Pictures/Sally", "01.07 Animals", "00.01 Admin/Pictures/Gallery", "01.06 Health", "00.01 Admin/Emails/Print.pdf", - "00.01 Admin/Emails/2023-03-05 PPZ.txt", - "00.01 Admin/Emails" + "00.01 Admin/Emails/2023-03-05 PPZ.txt" ] } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-03-08.md b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-03-08.md index c04af918..30050e28 100644 --- a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-03-08.md +++ b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-03-08.md @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ hide task count This section does serve for quick memos.   -- [ ] 06:35 :clapper: [[2023-03-08|Memo]], [[Entertainment]]: Download Kiss the Future 📅 2023-11-25 +- [ ] 06:35 :clapper: [[2023-03-08|Memo]], [[Entertainment]]: Download Kiss the Future 📅 2024-06-25 - [x] 06:42 :clapper: [[2023-03-08|Memo]], [[Entertainment]]: Download Esterno Notte (arte.tv) 📅 2023-03-11 ✅ 2023-03-08 - [x] 06:42 :clapper: [[2023-03-08|Memo]], [[Entertainment]]: Download House of Dragons 📅 2023-03-11 ✅ 2023-03-08 diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-05-08.md b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-05-08.md index d6a66ae4..5ca4ef3c 100644 --- a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-05-08.md +++ b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-05-08.md @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ This section does serve for quick memos.   - [x] 11:11 :blue_car: [[@Life Admin|Admin]], [[2023-05-08|Memo]]: Contact [[Rex Automobile CH]] re brakes and other parts to change 📅 2023-05-12 ✅ 2023-05-08 -- [ ] 11:14 :stopwatch: [[@Life Admin|Admin]], [[2023-05-08|Memo]]: Get Lip watch back 📅 2023-05-30 +- [x] 11:14 :stopwatch: [[@Life Admin|Admin]], [[2023-05-08|Memo]]: Get Lip watch back 📅 2023-05-30 ✅ 2023-10-14 %% --- %% diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-09-15.md b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-09-15.md index 15b9772e..24f8dc0e 100644 --- a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-09-15.md +++ b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-09-15.md @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ hide task count This section does serve for quick memos.   -- [ ] 14:11 :house: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Find a repair shop for toaster 📅2023-09-30 ^bq4j6f +- [x] 14:11 :house: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Find a repair shop for toaster 📅 2023-09-30 ✅ 2023-10-14 ^bq4j6f - [x] 14:13 :house: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Put the name plates into the mailbox 📅 2023-09-18 ✅ 2023-09-18 diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-07.md b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-07.md index 727a96d0..380025ef 100644 --- a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-07.md +++ b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-07.md @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ hide task count This section does serve for quick memos.   -- [ ] 17:34 :house: :potted_plant: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Buy a 3rd pot for the upcoming plant 📅2023-10-14 +- [x] 17:34 :house: :potted_plant: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Buy a 3rd pot for the upcoming plant 📅 2023-10-14 ✅ 2023-10-11 - [x] 17:34 :house: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Organise a handyman to fix the ceiling lamps 📅 2023-10-13 ✅ 2023-10-09 diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-09.md b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-09.md index 10f6161b..6f3460e5 100644 --- a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-09.md +++ b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-09.md @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ hide task count This section does serve for quick memos.   -- [ ] 08:42 :potted_plant: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Buy garden accessories (watering can, bine, secateur)s 📅 2023-10-13 +- [x] 08:42 :potted_plant: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Buy garden accessories (watering can, bine, secateur)s 📅 2023-10-13 ✅ 2023-10-11 - [ ] 08:44 :house: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Buy a desk for the front room 📅2023-11-30 ^rns1zk - [ ] 08:46 :speaker: [[@Lifestyle|Lifestyle]]: Re-organise my music in the main room 📅2023-12-31 - [ ] 09:28 :house: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Buy a small table for the sleeping room 📅2023-12-31 diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-10.md b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-10.md index 4fb25626..c689c158 100644 --- a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-10.md +++ b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-10.md @@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ Stress: 25 FrontHeadBar: 5 EarHeadBar: 20 BackHeadBar: 30 -Water: -Coffee: -Steps: +Water: 3.5 +Coffee: 5 +Steps: 11579 Weight: 89.4 Ski: IceSkating: @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ This section does serve for quick memos.   -Loret ipsum +🍴: [[Big Shells With Spicy Lamb Sausage and Pistachios]]   diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-11.md b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-11.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..816e9ce2 --- /dev/null +++ b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-11.md @@ -0,0 +1,136 @@ +--- + +title: "🗒 Daily Note" +allDay: true +date: 2023-10-11 +Date: 2023-10-11 +DocType: Note +Hierarchy: +TimeStamp: +location: +CollapseMetaTable: true +Sleep: 7.5 +Happiness: 85 +Gratefulness: 90 +Stress: 25 +FrontHeadBar: 5 +EarHeadBar: 20 +BackHeadBar: 30 +Water: 3.5 +Coffee: 4 +Steps: 10366 +Weight: +Ski: +IceSkating: +Riding: +Racket: +Football: +Swim: + +--- + +%% Parent:: [[@Life Admin]] %% + +--- + +[[2023-10-10|<< 🗓 Previous ]]       [[@Main Dashboard|Back]]       [[2023-10-12|🗓 Next >>]] + +--- + +  + +```button +name Record today's health +type command +action MetaEdit: Run MetaEdit +id EditMetaData +``` +^button-2023-10-11Edit + +```button +name Save +type command +action Save current file +id Save +``` +^button-2023-10-11NSave + +  + +# 2023-10-11 + +  + +> [!summary]+ +> Daily note for 2023-10-11 + +  + +```toc +style: number +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### ✅ Tasks of the day + +  + +```tasks +not done +due on 2023-10-11 +path does not include Templates +hide backlinks +hide task count +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### 📝 Memos + +  + +This section does serve for quick memos. + +  + + +%% --- %% +  + +--- + +  + +### 🗒 Notes + +  + +🍴: [[Spicy Szechuan Noodles with Garlic Chilli Oil]] + +🍽: [[Msakhan Fatteh]] + +  + +--- + +  + +### :link: Linked activity + +  + +```dataview +Table from [[2023-10-11]] +``` + +  +  \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-12.md b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-12.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..510b94bf --- /dev/null +++ b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-12.md @@ -0,0 +1,136 @@ +--- + +title: "🗒 Daily Note" +allDay: true +date: 2023-10-12 +Date: 2023-10-12 +DocType: Note +Hierarchy: +TimeStamp: +location: +CollapseMetaTable: true +Sleep: 7.5 +Happiness: 85 +Gratefulness: 90 +Stress: 30 +FrontHeadBar: 5 +EarHeadBar: 20 +BackHeadBar: 35 +Water: 2.5 +Coffee: 4 +Steps: 7650 +Weight: +Ski: +IceSkating: +Riding: +Racket: +Football: +Swim: + +--- + +%% Parent:: [[@Life Admin]] %% + +--- + +[[2023-10-11|<< 🗓 Previous ]]       [[@Main Dashboard|Back]]       [[2023-10-13|🗓 Next >>]] + +--- + +  + +```button +name Record today's health +type command +action MetaEdit: Run MetaEdit +id EditMetaData +``` +^button-2023-10-12Edit + +```button +name Save +type command +action Save current file +id Save +``` +^button-2023-10-12NSave + +  + +# 2023-10-12 + +  + +> [!summary]+ +> Daily note for 2023-10-12 + +  + +```toc +style: number +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### ✅ Tasks of the day + +  + +```tasks +not done +due on 2023-10-12 +path does not include Templates +hide backlinks +hide task count +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### 📝 Memos + +  + +This section does serve for quick memos. + +  + + +%% --- %% +  + +--- + +  + +### 🗒 Notes + +  + +🪴: delivery of the [[Kolkowitzia|Kolkowitzia]] + +🪴: Re-potting of the [[Viorne Tin]] from 8L to 10L + +  + +--- + +  + +### :link: Linked activity + +  + +```dataview +Table from [[2023-10-12]] +``` + +  +  \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-13.md b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-13.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2cf83434 --- /dev/null +++ b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-13.md @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +--- + +title: "🗒 Daily Note" +allDay: true +date: 2023-10-13 +Date: 2023-10-13 +DocType: Note +Hierarchy: +TimeStamp: +location: +CollapseMetaTable: true +Sleep: 6.5 +Happiness: 85 +Gratefulness: 90 +Stress: 30 +FrontHeadBar: 5 +EarHeadBar: 20 +BackHeadBar: 35 +Water: 3 +Coffee: 4 +Steps: 10126 +Weight: +Ski: +IceSkating: +Riding: +Racket: +Football: +Swim: + +--- + +%% Parent:: [[@Life Admin]] %% + +--- + +[[2023-10-12|<< 🗓 Previous ]]       [[@Main Dashboard|Back]]       [[2023-10-14|🗓 Next >>]] + +--- + +  + +```button +name Record today's health +type command +action MetaEdit: Run MetaEdit +id EditMetaData +``` +^button-2023-10-13Edit + +```button +name Save +type command +action Save current file +id Save +``` +^button-2023-10-13NSave + +  + +# 2023-10-13 + +  + +> [!summary]+ +> Daily note for 2023-10-13 + +  + +```toc +style: number +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### ✅ Tasks of the day + +  + +```tasks +not done +due on 2023-10-13 +path does not include Templates +hide backlinks +hide task count +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### 📝 Memos + +  + +This section does serve for quick memos. + +  + + +%% --- %% +  + +--- + +  + +### 🗒 Notes + +  + +Loret ipsum + +  + +--- + +  + +### :link: Linked activity + +  + +```dataview +Table from [[2023-10-13]] +``` + +  +  \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-14.md b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-14.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7f45c3eb --- /dev/null +++ b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-14.md @@ -0,0 +1,136 @@ +--- + +title: "🗒 Daily Note" +allDay: true +date: 2023-10-14 +Date: 2023-10-14 +DocType: Note +Hierarchy: +TimeStamp: +location: +CollapseMetaTable: true +Sleep: 7 +Happiness: 85 +Gratefulness: 90 +Stress: 30 +FrontHeadBar: 5 +EarHeadBar: 20 +BackHeadBar: 35 +Water: 2 +Coffee: 3 +Steps: 10402 +Weight: +Ski: +IceSkating: +Riding: +Racket: +Football: +Swim: + +--- + +%% Parent:: [[@Life Admin]] %% + +--- + +[[2023-10-13|<< 🗓 Previous ]]       [[@Main Dashboard|Back]]       [[2023-10-15|🗓 Next >>]] + +--- + +  + +```button +name Record today's health +type command +action MetaEdit: Run MetaEdit +id EditMetaData +``` +^button-2023-10-14Edit + +```button +name Save +type command +action Save current file +id Save +``` +^button-2023-10-14NSave + +  + +# 2023-10-14 + +  + +> [!summary]+ +> Daily note for 2023-10-14 + +  + +```toc +style: number +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### ✅ Tasks of the day + +  + +```tasks +not done +due on 2023-10-14 +path does not include Templates +hide backlinks +hide task count +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### 📝 Memos + +  + +This section does serve for quick memos. + +  +- [ ] 11:17 :stopwatch: [[$Basville]]: trouver un réparteur pour l'oignon Lipp 📅2023-12-20 +- [ ] 13:55 :house: :bread: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Go to [Repair Café Witikon](https://gz-zh.ch/gz-witikon/angebote/repair-cafe-witikon/) between 10am and 2pm 📅2023-11-04 + + +%% --- %% +  + +--- + +  + +### 🗒 Notes + +  + +Loret ipsum + +  + +--- + +  + +### :link: Linked activity + +  + +```dataview +Table from [[2023-10-14]] +``` + +  +  \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-15.md b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-15.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8cc3ba0f --- /dev/null +++ b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-15.md @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +--- + +title: "🗒 Daily Note" +allDay: true +date: 2023-10-15 +Date: 2023-10-15 +DocType: Note +Hierarchy: +TimeStamp: +location: +CollapseMetaTable: true +Sleep: 8 +Happiness: 85 +Gratefulness: 90 +Stress: 30 +FrontHeadBar: 5 +EarHeadBar: 20 +BackHeadBar: 35 +Water: 3.5 +Coffee: 3 +Steps: 9941 +Weight: +Ski: +IceSkating: +Riding: +Racket: +Football: +Swim: + +--- + +%% Parent:: [[@Life Admin]] %% + +--- + +[[2023-10-14|<< 🗓 Previous ]]       [[@Main Dashboard|Back]]       [[2023-10-16|🗓 Next >>]] + +--- + +  + +```button +name Record today's health +type command +action MetaEdit: Run MetaEdit +id EditMetaData +``` +^button-2023-10-15Edit + +```button +name Save +type command +action Save current file +id Save +``` +^button-2023-10-15NSave + +  + +# 2023-10-15 + +  + +> [!summary]+ +> Daily note for 2023-10-15 + +  + +```toc +style: number +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### ✅ Tasks of the day + +  + +```tasks +not done +due on 2023-10-15 +path does not include Templates +hide backlinks +hide task count +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### 📝 Memos + +  + +This section does serve for quick memos. + +  + + +%% --- %% +  + +--- + +  + +### 🗒 Notes + +  + +🍽: [[Beef Noodles with Beans]] + +  + +--- + +  + +### :link: Linked activity + +  + 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f871180f..39b40f19 100644 --- a/00.03 News/A Young Man's Path Through the Mental Health Care System Led to Prison — and a Fatal Encounter Crime Seven Days.md +++ b/00.03 News/A Young Man's Path Through the Mental Health Care System Led to Prison — and a Fatal Encounter Crime Seven Days.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ CollapseMetaTable: true --- Parent:: [[@News|News]] -Read:: 🟥 +Read:: [[2023-10-17]] --- diff --git a/00.03 News/America’s epidemic of chronic illness is killing us too soon.md b/00.03 News/America’s epidemic of chronic illness is killing us too soon.md index 844f097b..7344dbcf 100644 --- a/00.03 News/America’s epidemic of chronic illness is killing us too soon.md +++ b/00.03 News/America’s epidemic of chronic illness is killing us too soon.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ CollapseMetaTable: true --- Parent:: [[@News|News]] -Read:: 🟥 +Read:: [[2023-10-13]] --- @@ -52,18 +52,8 @@ This phenomenon is exacerbated by the country’s economic, [political](https:// The mortality crisis did not flare overnight. It has developed over decades, with early deaths an extreme manifestation of an underlying deterioration of health and a failure of the health system to respond. Covid highlighted this for all the world to see: It killed far more people per capita in the United States than in any other wealthy nation. -Line charts showing the percentage increase in income and death rate gaps, along with a death rates of the poorest and richest counties. - Chronic conditions thrive in a sink-or-swim culture, with the U.S. government spending far less than peer countries on preventive medicine and social welfare generally. Breakthroughs in technology, medicine and nutrition that should be boosting average life spans have instead been overwhelmed by poverty, racism, distrust of the medical system, fracturing of social networks and unhealthy diets built around highly processed food, researchers told The Post. -[Press Enter to skip to end of carousel](https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2023/american-life-expectancy-dropping/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjk2NDc4NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjk3ODYwNzk5LCJpYXQiOjE2OTY0Nzg0MDAsImp0aSI6ImNjZjUwMDJiLWZlOGMtNDBmOS1hYzY0LTcwOWZkOGExYmVjZSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9oZWFsdGgvaW50ZXJhY3RpdmUvMjAyMy9hbWVyaWNhbi1saWZlLWV4cGVjdGFuY3ktZHJvcHBpbmcvIn0.9b2MXxthi_kDVr53_a1xO71yXfkp_vYAq5CGlQcHb5I&itid=gfta#end-react-aria3220407715-1) - -###### Introducing the storytellers - -1/8 - -End of carousel - The calamity of chronic disease is a “not-so-silent pandemic,” said Marcella Nunez-Smith, a professor of medicine, public health and management at Yale University. “That is fundamentally a threat to our society.” But chronic diseases, she said, don’t spark the sense of urgency among national leaders and the public that a novel virus did. America’s medical system is unsurpassed when it comes to treating the most desperately sick people, said William Cooke, a doctor who tends to patients in the town of Austin, Ind. “But growing healthy people to begin with, we’re the worst in the world,” he said. “If we came in last in the next Olympics, imagine what we would do.” @@ -199,8 +189,6 @@ For this story, The Post concentrated its reporting on Louisville and counties a The Louisville area does not, by any means, have the worst health outcomes in the country. But it possesses health challenges typical in the heartland, and offers an array of urban, suburban and rural communities, with cultural elements of the Midwest and the South. -Chart showing regional death rate gaps in urban and rural areas - Start with Louisville, hard by the Ohio River, a city that overachieves when it comes to Americana. Behold Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby. See the many public parks designed by the legendary Frederick Law Olmsted. Downtown is where you will find the Muhammad Ali Center, and the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, and a dizzying number of bars on what promoters have dubbed the Urban Bourbon Trail. This summer, huge crowds gathered on the south bank of the Ohio for free concerts on Waterfront Wednesdays. Looming over the great lawn is a converted railroad bridge called the Big Four, which at any given moment is full of people walking, cycling or jogging. diff --git a/00.03 News/Benjamin Netanyahu’s Two Decades of Power, Bluster and Ego.md b/00.03 News/Benjamin Netanyahu’s Two Decades of Power, Bluster and Ego.md index 39c31520..f5ab3925 100644 --- a/00.03 News/Benjamin Netanyahu’s Two Decades of Power, Bluster and Ego.md +++ b/00.03 News/Benjamin Netanyahu’s Two Decades of Power, Bluster and Ego.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ CollapseMetaTable: true --- Parent:: [[@News|News]] -Read:: 🟥 +Read:: [[2023-10-14]] --- @@ -36,18 +36,8 @@ Credit...Photo illustration by Lola Dupre The nation’s current crisis can be traced back, in ways large and small, to the outsize personality of its longest-serving prime minister. -Credit...Photo illustration by Lola Dupre - -Ruth Margalit - -Ruth Margalit, a contributing writer for The Times Magazine, spoke to more than 50 of Netanyahu’s childhood acquaintances, friends, current and former associates, critics and biographers, for this article. She is based in Tel Aviv. - -- Published Sept. 27, 2023Updated Sept. 28, 2023 - Flanked by two bickering ministers, Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to shrivel in his seat. It was late July in the Knesset, the last week before the summer recess, but there was no anticipatory buzz in the air. While lawmakers were preparing to vote, anti-government protesters, walled off from Parliament by newly installed barbed wire, chanted *“Busha!”* — “Shame!” -### Listen to This Article - Sitting to Netanyahu’s left was Yariv Levin, Israel’s dour justice minister, a man “with less charisma than that of a napkin,” in the mordant opinion of Anshel Pfeffer, a Haaretz journalist and Netanyahu biographer. To Netanyahu’s right was Yoav Gallant, a former major general who serves as Israel’s defense minister. The two ministers hail from the right-wing Likud party, as does Netanyahu himself. But their consensus — much like every other consensus in the country — had splintered. Levin’s camp was bent on using the government’s majority to pass a package of bills that would do away with judicial oversight in the country and concentrate power in its hands. Gallant’s camp, seeing the extraordinary blowback that the bills had touched off around the nation, worried that this was a step too far. The manner of the proposed legislative package (unilateral; rushed through) and scope ([total overhaul of the system](https://www.nytimes.com/article/israel-judiciary-crisis-explainer.html)) had managed to rattle a public that had already accepted the most extremist coalition in Israeli history. Israel has no written constitution. Its Parliament is largely toothless as a check on power: The governing coalition has the majority and the means to impose its decisions there. Now it was proposing to neutralize the only curb to executive overreach: the country’s Supreme Court. @@ -84,10 +74,6 @@ But while the judicial overhaul is unpopular — only one in four Israelis wants His status is such that his personal base of supporters is far greater than that of his party. Campaign posters from 2019 showed him shaking hands with Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, with the caption “Netanyahu: A Different League.” For his electorate, he is exactly that: a once-in-a-generation leader, suave and polished, speaking a refined American English, and also a bare-knuckled sabra who has shown no qualms about taking on Barack Obama, the Palestinian leadership and the U. N. Security Council. “He has turned himself into a symbol for entire sectors of the public that are drastically different from him but that are willing to die for him,” Zeev Elkin, a former Likud minister under Netanyahu who is now chairman of National Unity, told me. -Image - -Yariv Levin, Israel’s justice minister, in January.Credit...Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90 - Netanyahu is secular and Ashkenazi (of Jewish European origins); he comes from a liberal milieu in Jerusalem that is similar to the social elites against which he, and his voters, rail. He is erudite, thorough, lonesome and vengeful. He is prone to grandiloquence, but then so are his admirers: “I look at Bibi and think that he’s a rare man, and we should thank God every day for giving us such a gift,” Benny Ziffer, a friend of his, told me. One of Netanyahu’s main achievements in office has been overseeing Israel’s transformation into a country with one of the highest per-capita investments in start-ups in the world; a second has been forging relations with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco. Each achievement has asterisks attached. In the early 2000s, he served as finance minister in the government of Ariel Sharon; he spurred growth in part by slashing large annual subsidies to the ultra-Orthodox. He then led Likud to its worst-ever defeat in an election. Lesson learned: Never again would he dare cross the Haredim, or ultra-Orthodox. As prime minister, Netanyahu has since doled out more annual subsidies and additional inflated budgets to the Haredim than any leader before him. A Haredi family in which the father is unemployed (as more than half of Haredi men are) now receives four times more financial assistance than a non-Haredi Jewish household, one research institute found. @@ -114,10 +100,6 @@ Tragedy soon brought his life into focus. On July 4, 1976, as the United States Bibi and Yoni shared an extraordinary bond. “I think I love him more than anyone else in the world,” Yoni wrote in a letter to his girlfriend in 1964. At times, they were each other’s sole family. Their parents left Israel with them when they were young, after Benzion failed to secure an academic position. They resorted to a lengthy American exile, with Benzion working first at Dropsie College in Pennsylvania and later at Cornell. The parents were notoriously absent, spending months abroad and leaving Netanyahu with friends. -Image - -Netanyahu speaks in front of a banner depicting his late brother Yoni Netanyahu.Credit...Amir Cohen/AFP, via Getty Images - “Bibi spent the whole summer in Israel alone when he was 13, and they didn’t bother calling him more than once,” someone who knew him as a child recently recalled. Bibi “was different from all of us from a very young age in his over-independence,” he went on. “What you see is a lonely person. He didn’t have this thing that the rest of us had” — a warm parental presence. Benzion, who died in 2012 at age 102, was an intransigent, difficult man. But the boys “worshiped him,” Dan Netanyahu, a cousin, told me. For Bibi, “the image of the father remains a guiding light,” his friend Ziffer says. @@ -132,10 +114,6 @@ To ease his foray into politics, Netanyahu took up work as a marketing executive In 1984, Netanyahu was named as Israel’s permanent representative to the United Nations, and he later threw himself into defending the right-wing policies of Yitzhak Shamir, the prime minister, with gusto and skill. He became a fixture on “Nightline” and U.S. news, learning to present his best side to the camera: the one that hid the scar on his lip (a result of a childhood game involving an electric socket). During one memorable appearance, at the height of the gulf war, air-raid sirens sounded while he was on the air from Jerusalem. Rather than cut the interview short, Netanyahu — ever attuned to ratings — suggested that they keep rolling with gas masks on. Larry King told Vanity Fair that women used to stop by the studio to inquire about his dashing guest from Israel. -Image - -In the middle of a live TV interview in 1991, Netanyahu put on a gas mask when air-raid sirens sounded during the gulf war.Credit...Mario Suriani/Associated Press - Netanyahu’s first marriage ended when Miki, pregnant with their daughter, discovered that he had been carrying on an affair with Fleur Cates, a British-German student he had met at Harvard Business School. He and Cates — who, the Israeli tabloids were scandalized to note, was not Jewish when they met — married in 1981. After Netanyahu’s stint at the United Nations ended, in 1988, the couple moved to Tel Aviv. They lived rent-free in a seafront apartment belonging to the Australian billionaire John Gandel, two independent sources told me. This was an early indication of Netanyahu’s cozying up to moneyed friends, a pattern that would come back to haunt him. His thriftiness is, by now, infamous. “He is stingy to the point of extreme,” Uzi Arad, Netanyahu’s former national-security adviser, who has since turned into a critic, told me. “He cannot pay for his lunches!” A former employee of Benzion’s recalled of Bibi, with whom she also worked for a while, “He was a person who walked around without a wallet.” As Netanyahu and Cates settled in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu quickly established himself on the Likud roster. He showed little reverence for party seniority. “His innovation was that he moved from the outside in,” Elkin, the former Likud minister, told me. He set up marathon sessions with many of the 2,500 voters who made up the committee that determined the party’s list for Parliament. @@ -152,10 +130,6 @@ In elections held the following year, Netanyahu defied the polls and a newly hos **One paradox of** Netanyahu’s time in office is that although he is venerated in Israel for his presence on the world stage, he has made few friends there. According to Aaron David Miller’s “The Much Too Promised Land,” an exasperated Bill Clinton came out of their first meeting in 1996 fuming to aides: “Who the \[expletive\] does he think he is? Who’s the \[expletive\] superpower here?” Clinton’s secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, used to describe Netanyahu unfavorably as an “Israeli Newt Gingrich” and felt condescended to, Miller, who worked for her, has written. In 2011, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France was caught on mic complaining to President Barack Obama, “I cannot bear Netanyahu, he’s a liar.” Obama responded, “You’re fed up with him, but I have to deal with him even more often than you.” -Image - -President Nicolas Sarkozy of France was caught on mic complaining to President Barack Obama.Credit...Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images - That May, Netanyahu traveled to Washington for a scheduled meeting with Obama in the Oval Office. From the outset, their relationship had been strained. During their first meeting in office, two years earlier, according to Netanyahu’s memoir, he expected pleasantries when Obama suddenly turned to him. “Bibi,” he recalled Obama saying. “I meant what I said. I expect you to immediately freeze all construction in the areas beyond the 1967 borders. Not one brick!” @@ -168,10 +142,6 @@ Now Netanyahu was stunned again. The day before they met, Obama reiterated in a “I was absolutely furious,” Netanyahu wrote. In front of a roomful of reporters, he seemed to lecture Obama, saying, “It’s not going to happen.” -Image - -Obama and Netanyahu meeting at the White House in 2011. They had a frosty relationship.Credit...Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images - Obama was understandably dubious when, in 2013, John Kerry, his secretary of state, pressed him to begin peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Still, Obama told Kerry to proceed. The issue of Palestinian refugees became a major flashpoint. At stake was whether Israel would grant refugees who had fled or been expelled from the country during its war for independence in 1948 a “right of return,” as the Palestinians demanded. Speaking via video conference from Paris, Kerry and Martin Indyk, the U.S. special envoy for Israeli-Palestinean negotiations, proposed to Netanyahu that Israel would take in a symbolic number of refugees and contribute to a fund that would provide further compensation. Netanyahu then asked to take a break. When it was time to resume, half an hour later, the Israeli negotiators “came into the room, and said, ‘We’re very sorry, the prime minister is indisposed,’” Indyk recalls. Netanyahu had reportedly gone over the details of the refugee agreement with his media adviser, who told him that it was a “complete disaster” and that the Israeli public “would never accept it,” Indyk says. @@ -190,10 +160,6 @@ What the left “doesn’t get,” a source close to Netanyahu says, “is that The most consistent he has been on any issue is on the prospects of a nuclear Iran. But that has proved a colossal failure. At least three former Mossad chiefs have called Netanyahu’s actions on Iran dangerous. In 2015, he blindsided Obama by speaking out in Congress against the United States’ [signing “a very bad deal” with Iran,](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/15/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-deal-israel.html) even though a deal was imminent and Democratic support was all but ensured. In fact, according to Indyk, while Netanyahu knew that the United States and Iran had been negotiating, he himself was blindsided by the nuclear agreement. “He was screaming at Kerry the day after the framework deal was announced,” Indyk says. “He was furious.” Three years later, at Netanyahu’s urging, President [Trump pulled out of that agreement](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/world/middleeast/trump-iran-nuclear-deal.html). Iran now has enough enriched uranium to produce “several” bombs, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency warned earlier this year. Iran’s enrichment is “100 percent the result of the U.S. pulling out of the agreement,” Tamir Hayman, a former Israel military intelligence chief and the managing director of the Institute for National Security Studies, told me. Hayman called the pullout from the deal a “grave mistake,” adding, “We retreated from Plan A without having a Plan B in place.” -Image - -Netanyahu gives a speech against the Iran nuclear deal to the U.S. Congress in 2015.Credit...Win McNamee/Getty Images - Elkin, the former Likud minister, believes that Netanyahu’s sole governing ideology is his own survival. “He began with a worldview that said, ‘I’m the best leader for Israel at this time,’” Elkin says. “Slowly it morphed into a worldview that said, ‘The worst thing that can happen to Israel is if I stop leading it, and therefore my survival justifies anything.’ From there, you quickly reach a worldview of ‘The state is me.’ He believes in it wholeheartedly.” **It’s impossible to** grasp Netanyahu’s complex brew of self-regard and insecurity without understanding his marriage to his third and current wife, Sara. In one astonishing recording from 2002, released by the public broadcaster Kan, Sara can be heard lashing out at those who have criticized her husband: “Bibi is bigger than this country!” she declares. “People here want to be slaughtered and burned? Why should he even bother? We’ll move abroad, and the whole country can burn.” @@ -214,10 +180,6 @@ However shaky the beginning of their relationship, by now there is no question t Known in Israel as Case 4000, it details allegations that, in exchange for giving the owner of the news site Walla regulatory benefits, Netanyahu had sought favorable coverage for himself and his family, claims that the defendants have denied. Many of the demands, according to the indictment, had to do with Sara. (Walla ran stories about her “fashionable makeover,” lighting Hanukkah candles with Holocaust survivors and attending a Mariah Carey concert.) -Image - -Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, on the way to a state visit to the United States in 1996.Credit...Yaakov Saar/GPO, via Getty Images. - Critics of Netanyahu argue that his insistence on forging ahead with the judicial overhaul stems from his legal woes. Netanyahu and his inner circle reject the argument. But Elkin, the former Likud minister, recalled that Netanyahu summoned him to his office in 2020, as his trial got underway. Earlier, Netanyahu signed a power-sharing agreement with the centrist Gantz, whereby he would serve first in rotation as prime minister and Gantz would serve second. Now Netanyahu told Elkin that he wished to renege on that agreement. “I was very much opposed, and told him why,” Elkin says. “He listened and nodded and then he said something I will never forget. He said, ‘If I don’t call an election now, I won’t get to nominate the next state prosecutor.’ He was willing to risk *everything* just to save his own skin.” **If you were** to identify a turning point in Netanyahu’s 16-year rule, the election of 2015 would be it. The previous year, Netanyahu called for the dissolution of Parliament over disagreements with his center-left coalition partners, including their attempts to pass a law that would curb the influence of a free newspaper bankrolled by the U.S. mogul Sheldon Adelson that was widely seen as friendly to Netanyahu. That decision reflected his growing obsession with his own press coverage and a sharp rightward turn in his political calculus. Told by the news media and many advisers that he was facing defeat, Netanyahu ended up winning that election decisively — thanks in large part to a by-now infamous video in which he warned against the voting rights of a fifth of the public: “Arab voters are coming out in droves to the polls. Left-wing organizations are busing them out.” Netanyahu’s scare-tactics campaign that year was the brainchild of his son Yair, together with two of Yair’s friends from the military spokesperson’s unit who now run Netanyahu’s social media strategy. @@ -240,10 +202,6 @@ In early September, Israel’s Supreme Court heard petitions against the amendme Still another court hearing looms. Until now, during the three years of his trial, Netanyahu has resisted taking a plea bargain, which would most likely require him to admit wrongdoing and thus avoid prison time but force him out of political life for years. His former senior aide told me that Sara wouldn’t let him consider such a deal: “She is clinging to power at all costs.” Things may be different now. Next year, the prosecution is expected to wrap up its side of the hearings, and Netanyahu will be called to take the witness stand. It’s a prospect he dreads. “His close associates have told me that he doesn’t want to testify,” Shalev, the Walla reporter, says. “There are gaps between the things he told police and what his lawyers wrote in their defense, and he doesn’t want those gaps to be exposed. It will make him out to be a liar.” -Image - -Netanyahu accompanied by members of his Likud party at the district court in Jerusalem in 2020.Credit...Yonatan Sindel/Associated Press. - Observers who follow the trial closely say that he might accept a plea bargain this time. Especially if Israel and Saudi Arabia manage to reach a normalization agreement — an agreement that, by all accounts, Netanyahu is desperate to sign. Perhaps then the historical record will show a palpable achievement: something to distract from the crisis in his own country that he has helped engineer. For years, liberal Israelis were afraid that a right-wing coalition would come along and annex West Bank settlements. “Then came the twist,” the author Etgar Keret wrote earlier this year. “Instead, the settlers annexed the country.” These may be the twilight months of Israel’s longest-serving leader, then, a feeble coda to two decades’ worth of power and bluster and ego. diff --git a/00.03 News/Bitter rivals. Beloved friends. Survivors..md b/00.03 News/Bitter rivals. Beloved friends. Survivors..md index 1e56c8cb..4ba53d0f 100644 --- a/00.03 News/Bitter rivals. Beloved friends. Survivors..md +++ b/00.03 News/Bitter rivals. Beloved friends. Survivors..md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- -Tag: ["🫀", "🥉", "🎾", "🚺"] +Tag: ["🫀", "🥉", "🎾", "🚺", "🦠"] Date: 2023-07-17 DocType: "WebClipping" Hierarchy: @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ CollapseMetaTable: true --- Parent:: [[@News|News]] -Read:: 🟥 +Read:: [[2023-10-16]] --- @@ -198,14 +198,6 @@ Navratilova was unstrung by the rejection. As Estep gave her a congratulatory hu One person knew how Navratilova felt that day: Evert. For years she had lived with the “ice maiden” label and frigidness from crowds that considered her too impassive. Goolagong, the wispy, ethereal Australian, had always been more favored by fans, to the point that on one occasion Evert came back into the locker room after a loss and flung her rackets to the floor and spat bitterly, “Now I hope they’re happy.” -[Press Enter to skip to end of carousel](https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/interactive/2023/chris-evert-martina-navratilova-cancer/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjM2NTY2MzMiLCJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjg4NzAyNDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjg5OTk4Mzk5LCJpYXQiOjE2ODg3MDI0MDAsImp0aSI6Ijk1MjgxZDU2LTc3MDMtNDI3Ny1hYTc5LTc0YTY0Zjk4ZjBhOSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9zcG9ydHMvaW50ZXJhY3RpdmUvMjAyMy9jaHJpcy1ldmVydC1tYXJ0aW5hLW5hdnJhdGlsb3ZhLWNhbmNlci8ifQ.ME7ZnnAS4VhPX9dzymxryvk2QcP44DyAegtbH8K_CDM&itid=gfta#end-react-aria296517925-1) - -###### Covering two tennis giants, on and off the court - -1/3 - -End of carousel - Evert and Navratilova wanted to be appreciated for who they were. But it felt impossible with all the media caricatures of them as princesses, robots, “Chris America” vs. the foreigner, the delicate sweetheart vs. the bulging lesbian. “All that stuff hurt,” Navratilova says. Evert refused to play into any of the tropes that day — or any other day. For which Navratilova felt deeply grateful. “Chris *never* did anything to make it worse, you know?” Navratilova says. diff --git a/00.03 News/Bodegas The small corner shops that run NYC.md b/00.03 News/Bodegas The small corner shops that run NYC.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7c4e7918 --- /dev/null +++ b/00.03 News/Bodegas The small corner shops that run NYC.md @@ -0,0 +1,119 @@ +--- + +Tag: ["📈", "🇺🇸", "🗽", "🏪"] +Date: 2023-10-15 +DocType: "WebClipping" +Hierarchy: +TimeStamp: 2023-10-15 +Link: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20231005-bodegas-the-small-corner-shops-that-run-nyc +location: +CollapseMetaTable: true + +--- + +Parent:: [[@News|News]] +Read:: 🟥 + +--- + +  + +```button +name Save +type command +action Save current file +id Save +``` +^button-BodegasThesmallcornershopsthatrunNYCNSave + +  + +# Bodegas: The small corner shops that run NYC + +(Image credit: Pierina Pighi Bel) + +![A bodega in New York City](https://ychef.files.bbci.co.uk/976x549/p0gjrv16.jpg "A bodega in New York City") + +Want to feel like a local in one of the world's most international cities? Head to these beloved neighbourhood stores spearheaded by Hispanic entrepreneurs. + +I + +It's 07:00 in Brooklyn's East Flatbush neighbourhood and Yovanna Melo is busy answering the phone while jotting down breakfast orders. Every morning, calls from busy New Yorkers in English and Spanish come into her *bodega* (a small neighbourhood grocery store), asking for *beiconeganchí* (bacon, egg and cheese melts), *pavo dulce* (honey turkey sandwiches) and *pan con bistec* (Cuban-style steak rolls) to help them power "The City That Never Sleeps".  + +Berlin has its [Spätis](https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20211021-spatis-the-convenience-stores-that-rule-berlin), Japan has its [convenience stores](https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20190610-the-unique-culture-of-japanese-convenience-stores) and New York City has its beloved bodegas. According to the city's Health Department, some 7,000 bodegas dot the city, and you can hardly walk two blocks without stumbling upon one of these handy, all-in-one convenience stores that have historically been owned by members of the Hispanic community. Many are open 24/7; some feature friendly felines behind the counter; and, in a city where space is at a premium and large supermarkets can be hard to come by, all are stocked with a mixture of everyday items like eggs, tinned foods, snacks, beer, cleaning supplies, toiletries and lottery tickets.  + +"What I like most about being a *bodeguera* (bodega owner) is giving people that confidence. It pleases me to know that I serve them well," said Melo, who has owned [El Vacilón](https://maps.app.goo.gl/Zxx5YneSZnmf6s4t7) (The Shindig) with her husband for 20 years since she moved to New York City from the Dominican Republic. + +![Melo and her husband have run El Vacilón in Brooklyn for 20 years (Credit: Pierina Pighi Bel)](https://ychef.files.bbci.co.uk/976x549/p0gjrv3b.jpg "Melo and her husband have run El Vacilón in Brooklyn for 20 years (Credit: Pierina Pighi Bel)") + +Melo and her husband have run El Vacilón in Brooklyn for 20 years (Credit: Pierina Pighi Bel) + +Like so many bodegas, El Vacilón isn't just a store. Melo knows many of her customers by name, trusts them to come back to pay for sandwiches and goods if they don't have the time or money and even lets families drop their children at the shop while they run errands. These neighbourhood landmarks are also known to let customers send packages there and hold onto keys in lieu of a doorman. In fact, to truly understand how New York City runs and how it's changed with each successive wave of immigration, it's important to understand bodegas and the communities they serve.  + +**The origin of bodegas**  + +According to Carlos Sanabria, author of the book [The Bodega: A Cornerstone of Puerto Rican Barrios](https://centropr-archive.hunter.cuny.edu/publications/centro-press/all/bodega-cornerstone-puerto-rican-barrios-justo-mart%C3%AD-collection), these neighbourhood shops likely originated with Spanish and Cuban immigrants in the early 1900s. As Puerto Ricans began migrating to New York City in large numbers in the 1920s (after the island became part of the US in 1917), they took over the stores, which came to be known as bodegas, a Spanish word that initially meant "wine cellar" or "warehouse". While many NYC grocery stores continued to be owned by Irish, Italians, Jews, Greeks, Germans and other immigrants, these small corner shops became especially associated with the Puerto Rican community.  + +Bodegas provided food from the island that was hard to find, like dried codfish, papaya and guava preserves, plantains, chorizo sausages, spices, green banana cakes and *mondongo* (tripe), among others. They also carried other items like religious candles and recordings of Puerto Rican and Latin music. + +"By the late 1920s, there were an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 Puerto Ricans living in New York, and they were served by more than 200 bodegas and *colmados* (bodegas in the Dominican Republic)," writes Andrew F Smith in [New York: A Food Biography](https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442227125/New-York-City-A-Food-Biography). + +![Bodegas have long served as communal living rooms for members of New York's Latino community (Credit: David Grossman/Alamy)](https://ychef.files.bbci.co.uk/976x549/p0gjrvcq.jpg "Bodegas have long served as communal living rooms for members of New York's Latino community (Credit: David Grossman/Alamy)") + +Bodegas have long served as communal living rooms for members of New York's Latino community (Credit: David Grossman/Alamy) + +After World War Two, Sanabria says the Puerto Rican population in NYC increased to more than 600,000, and their bodegas began to spread from East Harlem in Manhattan and Gowanus in Brooklyn into neighbourhoods like the Lower East Side, Spanish Harlem, the Upper West Side, the South Bronx and Williamsburg. Like a communal living room, bodegas served as vital centres for Puerto Rican immigrants to socialise, get information about employment or housing, or buy goods on credit if they were short on money.  + +"Bodegas became the social hub, the social network. Anything that was happening, you could find out in the bodega, even the bad rumours," said documentary filmmaker Lilian Jiménez. "Bodegueros were highly respected and people trusted them. My mother would say, 'If you ever get into trouble, run to the bodega'."  + +**Bodegas today**  + +Many bodegas have changed in recent decades with the city's shifting social and demographic trends. When early Puerto Rican bodega owners decided to retire, many of their children didn't necessarily want to take over the family business, so they sold their bodegas to Dominicans, who started arriving in New York City in large numbers in the 1980s*.* Today, the amount of Dominican immigrants in NYC is [nearly seven times](https://www.nyc.gov/assets/immigrants/downloads/pdf/Hispanic-Immigrant-Fact-Sheet.pdf) that of elsewhere in the US, andaccording to Christian Krohn-Hansen, author of the book [Making New York Dominican: Small Business, Politics, and Everyday Life](https://www.pennpress.org/9780812244618/making-new-york-dominican/), by 1991, Dominicans owned roughly 80% of the Latinx-owned bodegas in NYC.  + +Just as their Puerto Rican predecessors did, Dominican bodegueros cater to their fellow compatriots, selling dishes like the popular *mangú* (boiled mashed plantains), *arroz con habichuelas* (rice and beans), chicken *chicharrones* (fried pork belly or rinds), *frituras* (fried treats), sausages, fried cheese and sauteed onions. + +![In addition to everyday items, many Dominican-owned bodegas also serve traditional Dominican dishes (Credit: Pierina Pighi Bel)](https://ychef.files.bbci.co.uk/976x549/p0gjrvml.jpg "In addition to everyday items, many Dominican-owned bodegas also serve traditional Dominican dishes (Credit: Pierina Pighi Bel)") + +In addition to everyday items, many Dominican-owned bodegas also serve traditional Dominican dishes (Credit: Pierina Pighi Bel) + +Mexicans, who started arriving in large numbers to NYC in the late 1980s, also now own many bodegas. There are even some "bodegas/taquerías" that sell tacos, notes Zilkia Janer in her book [Latino Food Culture](https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/latino-food-culture-9780313087905/). Other bodegas are now owned by Yemenis and East Asians, too.  + +According to the [NYC Department of Health](https://www.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/cdp/healthy-bodegas-rpt2010.pdf), a bodega is now defined as any store under 300 sq m that sells milk, meat or eggs but is not a specialty store (bakery, butcher, chocolate shop, etc) and doesn't have more than two cash registers. But ask many New Yorkers and they'll offer a more colourful explanation of what makes a bodega a bodega. + +"If there is not a cat, it's not a bodega," said Melisa Fuster, author of the book [Caribeños at the Table: How Migration, Health, and Race Intersect in New York City](https://uncpress.org/book/9781469664576/caribenyos-at-the-table/), referring to the many bodegueros who let their felines roam inside their stores. Back when Fuster, who is Puerto Rican, used to live in New York, she said, "I would go to bodegas for specific Puerto Rican food that I would not see at supermarkets, like *platanutres* (plantain chips), *[sancochos](https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230915-sancocho-a-panamanian-chicken-and-vegetable-soup)* (stews); it was a little bit of nostalgia," she recalled.  + +While these uniquely New York establishments face threats like gentrification and rising rents, they continue to power the city. + +![Many bodega owners let their cats roam free in their stores (Credit: Paul Matzner/Alamy)](https://ychef.files.bbci.co.uk/976x549/p0gjrvrj.jpg "Many bodega owners let their cats roam free in their stores (Credit: Paul Matzner/Alamy)") + +Many bodega owners let their cats roam free in their stores (Credit: Paul Matzner/Alamy) + +"Bodegas are the most resilient establishments, so they survive," said Rachel Meltzer, author of the research paper [Bodegas or Bagel Shops? Neighborhood Differences in Retail and Household Services](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0891242411430328). "They can exist in a really small space, and adapting their products to their communities' demands is not very costly. Also, NYC is so big and dense that in a small radius around a bodega, you will have a ton of people, so it is economically viable."  + +For Melo, bodegas embody the rapid pace of the city, allowing New Yorkers to dash in for a quick coffee or call ahead for a hot sandwich that's ready when you run in.  + +"\[New Yorkers\] don't want to go to the supermarket because they have to stand in a long line to pay for a gallon of milk, so they go to a bodega because it's faster," she said.  + +According to Radhames Rodriguez, who moved from the Dominican Republic in 1985 and now owns the [Pamela Green](https://pamelasgreendeli.square.site/) bodega in the Bronx, ultimately what makes these stores unique is the intimacy between bodeguero and bodega customer. + +![One of Rodriguez's favourite parts about being a bodeguero is interacting with people from the neighbourhood (Credit: Pierina Pighi Bel)](https://ychef.files.bbci.co.uk/976x549/p0gjrvsp.jpg "One of Rodriguez's favourite parts about being a bodeguero is interacting with people from the neighbourhood (Credit: Pierina Pighi Bel)") + +One of Rodriguez's favourite parts about being a bodeguero is interacting with people from the neighbourhood (Credit: Pierina Pighi Bel) + +"When you go to a bodega, they greet you, ask how are you doing, how is your family doing. I already know how my customers like their coffee and their sandwiches. There is a very close integration with people," said Rodriguez, who founded the [United Bodegas of America](https://unitedbodegasofamerica.net/) (UBA) association in 2018 to offer bodegueros better access to security cameras and protection from robberies, among other purposes.  + +But despite adversities, he loves working at his bodega. "For me, it is like therapy. I love contact with people. Behind the counter, I feel like Frank Sinatra singing at a concert. I love greeting and serving clients; it gives me great satisfaction," he said.  + +Ask any New Yorker and they'll tell you this is a city of neighbourhoods. So for visitors, there is perhaps no better way to make this endlessly big, multicultural metropolis somehow feel like home than by stopping into your local bodega for a chat. Whether you're grabbing a morning sandwich or some late-night ramen, chances are you'll come away with a smile – and feeling more like a local in the process. + +*Join more than three million BBC Travel fans by liking us on* [*Facebook*](https://www.facebook.com/BBCTravel/)*, or follow us on* [*Twitter*](https://twitter.com/BBC_Travel) *and* [*Instagram*](https://www.instagram.com/bbc_travel/)*.* + +*If you liked this story,* [*sign up for the weekly bbc.com features newsletter*](https://cloud.email.bbc.com/SignUp10_08) *called "The Essential List". 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Someone else mentioned that there had been a private event on Sunday—the one day of the week when the restaurant is usually closed. The last guests had trickled out at 4 *A.M.* on Monday, and the managers hadn’t left until six. The party was for Beyoncé, who had just played a sold-out show at MetLife Stadium, and Jay-Z. (“I buried the lede,” the publicist said.) + +Kwame Onwuachi, Tatiana’s chef and proprietor, wouldn’t normally be at the restaurant so early, but he was there to record a television segment for WNBC—his second of the day, after the “Today” show, at half past eight. “You’ve had a busy morning!” the camera operator said. “It’s not really morning if you don’t sleep,” Onwuachi replied. + +For the segment, Onwuachi and a reporter named Lauren Scala were going to sample dishes that he’d be cooking for an event at the U.S. Open: pepper steak, hamachi escovitch, black-bean hummus topped with berbere lamb. A bottle of spring water was produced. Someone asked if there shouldn’t be wine, too. “Are you gonna turn this water into wine?” Scala quipped. Onwuachi laughed and said, “It is my Jesus year, though! Thirty-three.” + +“Do I remember when I was thirty-three?” Scala wondered aloud. + +[](https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a25466) + +“My goodness, Keith! You look like you’ve seen a goat.” + +Cartoon by Tom Chitty + +“It must have been a good year if you don’t remember it,” Onwuachi said. + +For Onwuachi, it’s been a very good year indeed. Last November, he opened Tatiana, his first restaurant in New York City, his home town. Tatiana is named for Onwuachi’s older sister, who helped raise him (an enormous portrait of her with her two daughters hangs in the private dining room), and its menu is inspired by his personal history. He grew up steeped in the cuisines of his elders—his roots are in Creole Louisiana, Nigeria, and the Caribbean—as well as in food from the city’s corner stores, street carts, and Chinese restaurants. + +At Tatiana, he fills dumplings with crab and egusi, a traditional Nigerian soup made with pungent ground melon seeds. He deep-fries pods of okra until their ridges blister and split—slightly puffed, crisp, and salted, they’re finished with honey and mustard powder, and served with a Trinidadian-style pepper sauce. For a dessert called Bodega Special, he makes a “cosmic brownie” (an homage to a Little Debbie product), which is dotted with rainbow-hued chocolate chips and paired with ice cream both flavored and shaped to look like a powdered doughnut. + +The first time I ate at the restaurant, shortly after it opened, Onwuachi made the rounds, checking in with every table. One of my dinner companions told him that her name was Tatiana, and he insisted that she stand up for a long embrace. He was dressed in street clothes, including a do-rag. If this made it seem as if he wasn’t actually working in the kitchen, the truth is that he doesn’t usually wear chef’s whites. Onwuachi, who is small and a bit boyish (“Booyakasha!,” he hollered, as he bounded down the steps to the basement prep kitchen), favors baseball caps and vividly patterned button-downs. He wears thick-framed glasses, which give him a slightly nerdy, erudite air, and he’s heavily tattooed. For a while, he had the word “patience” inked on his right forearm, but he had it removed and replaced with an elaborate depiction of the ingredients for gumbo. A jumble of text on his left arm includes the words “New York City Kid,” in script; a large “X,” as in Malcolm; and the name of his ten-year-old niece, Madisyn, in her own handwriting. + +His look is fitting for a restaurant that feels more like a night club than like a stuffy house of fine dining. The space has floor-to-ceiling windows that are hung with curtains of slinky gold chains. Music—hip-hop and R. & B., much of it from the late nineties and early two-thousands—is played at a volume that can make conversation challenging, or at least athletic. In the first few weeks after Tatiana opened, when the staff was still getting its footing and tables weren’t turning over fast enough to keep up with reservations, Onwuachi poured free tequila shots for waiting guests. + +“You’ll see some people walk in, and you see the surprise on their face,” Mouhamadou Diop, one of the restaurant’s managers, said. He recounted an evening when an older white woman had wandered in after a Mostly Mozart concert. She asked what music was playing—it was Cardi B. “She said, ‘I like this song,’ ” Diop told me. “And I said, ‘Let’s dance, then.’ ” + +Last March, Pete Wells, the *Times* restaurant critic, awarded Tatiana three stars, extraordinary for a rookie restaurant. Then came an even bigger shock: in April, when Wells published a list of the hundred best restaurants in New York, Tatiana held the No. 1 spot, ahead of Atomix, Le Bernardin, Via Carota, and other redoubtables. “We needed Tatiana. We needed a kitchen that puts Caribbean and African and Black American cooking, too often kept in the city’s margins, right at center stage,” he wrote. “And after quarantines and masks and distancing and sundry social traumas, we needed a party.” + +[](https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a26375) + +“I think we should break up.” + +Cartoon by Sofia Warren + +When I asked Onwuachi if he was surprised to have topped the list, he smirked. He knew the restaurant was a hit; it had been packed since pretty much the week it opened. But, he said, when a friend had sent him the link to the list on the day it was published, with a text that said, “Boom,” he’d instinctively started scrolling to the bottom: “When I got to one hundred, I thought, Oh, I must have skipped it. And then I got back up to ten, and I was, like, ‘No fucking way. No fucking way. No fucking way!’ ” + +Onwuachi had learned to temper his expectations when it came to establishment recognition. He’d attended the prestigious Culinary Institute of America, in Hyde Park, New York, and worked as a kitchen stage, or intern, at Per Se. His first job out of school was at Eleven Madison Park. But he became disillusioned by the racism he experienced in fine-dining kitchens. At Eleven Madison Park, he and the few other Black cooks on staff were overlooked and even stymied by their white supervisor, he wrote in his 2019 memoir, “Notes from a Young Black Chef,” which he co-authored with the food writer Joshua David Stein. One day, Onwuachi raised concerns about alienating Black patrons. His boss laughed and said, “No Black people eat here anyway.” Onwuachi left the job not long afterward. + +From there, his career proceeded in fits and starts. In 2015, when he was twenty-five, he competed on “Top Chef,” placing sixth. (His downfall was serving store-bought frozen waffles with his fried chicken.) The following year, he opened his first restaurant, the Shaw Bijou, in Washington, D.C. In some ways, it was a prototype for Tatiana, with an autobiographical tasting menu and an opulent dining room. It closed after just two and a half months, thwarted by flighty investors and harsh judgment from the press. The food critic for the Washington *Post*, Tom Sietsema, wrote that he had left feeling unimpressed and underfed. His review ended, “Pizza, anyone?” + +It seemed that Onwuachi had finally found his footing with Kith/Kin, a restaurant in D.C.’s InterContinental Hotel, which earned him the James Beard Foundation’s Rising Star Chef of the Year award in 2019. (Previous honorees included Grant Achatz and David Chang.) But Onwuachi walked away from the restaurant in 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, after the hotel refused his request for a share of ownership. He relocated to Los Angeles, unsure if he’d ever return to the kitchen, thinking he might become an actor instead. In L.A., he took classes, went to auditions, and eventually landed a small part in “Sugar,” a movie about social-media influencers who become drug smugglers. + +Onwuachi got a call from Lincoln Center in early 2022. In recent years, the institution had declared its commitment to expanding its programming, including food, beyond predictable Eurocentric fare. It was looking for someone to helm a new restaurant in the complex. Leah Johnson, a Lincoln Center executive, whose paternal grandparents were from Barbados, was delighted by the Caribbean elements of the dinner that Onwuachi prepared for the search committee, but she was also struck by his rainbow-cookie panna cotta, which, she told me, “tasted exactly like the cookies I grew up eating at Veniero’s”—the hundred-and-thirty-year-old Italian bakery on East Eleventh Street. The committee offered Onwuachi the space, and accepted his terms: he would be not a chef for hire but, instead, an equity partner in the business. + +Onwuachi was born on Long Island and raised in the Bronx. His parents, Jewel Robinson and Patrick Onwuachi, split up when he was three years old. Robinson, the daughter of a chef, was an avid home cook, and, after losing her job as an accountant, she opened a catering business, serving the Creole staples of her childhood. Five-year-old Kwame and ten-year-old Tatiana were often enlisted to help in the kitchen. In his memoir, Onwuachi recalled that his mother struggled with money, but that the business, whose clients came to include Queen Latifah and the hip-hop trio Naughty by Nature, satisfied her appetite for “glamorous adventure.” He wrote, “She’d bring a change of clothes to a gala she was catering and, after her shift was done, slip in as a guest.” + +Onwuachi lived with Robinson in a cramped apartment, and saw his father mostly on weekends. Patrick, who worked as a construction project manager, took his son to the batting cages and on vacations, but he could be abusive. (“My job as his dad was to prepare him for the world,” Patrick said.) Around the age of ten, Onwuachi began to act out. “I was a *bad* kid,” he told me. Robinson sent him to Nigeria to stay with his grandfather P. Chike Onwuachi, an Igbo chief and a luminary of the Pan-African movement who taught for many years at Howard University, so that he might “learn respect.” + +Onwuachi finishes a dish of curried snow crab with a drizzle of Calabrian chili oil. + +What Robinson had billed as a single summer stretched to two years, during which Onwuachi lived without municipal electricity or water, and learned to raise livestock and grow vegetables. It’s an experience that he references frequently, not only because it acquainted him so thoroughly with his heritage but also because it taught him at an early age how to adapt. “I was speaking pidgin within a couple months,” he recalled. But when he returned to the Bronx his rebellious streak flared up again. He was kicked out of Catholic school for antagonizing teachers and classmates, and he joined a gang at the Webster Houses, where his best friend lived. He worked at McDonald’s, for $7.25 an hour, until he realized that he could make more money selling weed, an enterprise he continued in college, at the University of Bridgeport. + +There, Onwuachi’s hustle caught up with him: before his first year was through, he was expelled for failing a drug test. He went to live with his mother, who had moved to Louisiana, and embarked on a “sad-ass parade” of menial jobs: as a prep cook for Robinson, who was an executive chef at a catering company; as a dishwasher; and as a server at a barbecue restaurant. Things began to look up when he got a gig cooking on a cleanup ship for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Onwuachi seemed to have little in common with the ship’s mostly white “back-country Louisiana boys”—until he started to make the food that they had all grown up eating. Before long, he was put in charge of the kitchen. + +In 2011, he enrolled at the C.I.A., where he dutifully learned the foundations of classical French cooking. He scraped together tuition money by running a catering company in the city, making burritos at a local Mexican restaurant, and selling ramen, boba tea, and pork buns behind the student rec center. (Not technically allowed, but the administration looked the other way.) The C.I.A. offered no classes on Afro-Caribbean cuisine, but for a work-study program—a sort of free-choice elective that tasked him with preparing lunch for fellow-students—he made dishes from various countries in Africa, fermenting his own Ethiopian injera and blending his own spices. + +Onwuachi’s formal training inspired him to exalt Afro-Caribbean ingredients and techniques, rather than to simply plug Afro-Caribbean flavors into European formulas. The building blocks of his cooking, as laid out in his cookbook “My America,” include browning—a caramel made with canola oil and sugar, used in the Caribbean as a coloring agent and a sweetener—and Southern-style “house spice,” a customizable mixture that goes in everything from eggs to the flour for fried chicken. He treats these with the same uncompromising rigor that Paul Bocuse, patron saint of the C.I.A., might apply to mirepoix and hollandaise. + +When I visited Tatiana, Onwuachi returned again and again to the basement prep kitchen to inspect the minutest of activities, giving cooks exacting instructions on how thick to cut the short ribs for his pastrami suya, a recipe that combines Jewish deli meat and Nigerian barbecue. My favorite dish on the menu was a big bowl of Jamaican-style braised oxtail, served with a smaller bowl of rice and peas. The carrots on top of the rich, sticky segments of bone-in meat were Thumbelina, an adorable heirloom variety, and they were expertly “turned”—kitchen-speak for peeled and cut. The dish also incorporated perfect orbs of firm but tender chayote squash, lily-pad-like nasturtium leaves, and carefully sliced chives. It was beautiful, but it still managed to look, and, more important, to taste, like something you’d eat at home, or at a family restaurant in the Bronx. + +Onwuachi’s work has been lauded for its specificity, for its fidelity to the places he comes from. In some ways, his success has uprooted him. He has the blinkered air of someone who is overscheduled; in the time I spent with him, he was never quite able to remember what he’d done the day before, and was constantly checking the calendar on his phone. He travels frequently, keeping places in midtown Manhattan and West Hollywood. But he’s long had a nuanced understanding of what gatekeepers in the food world like about his story. Of his admissions interview at the C.I.A., he wrote, “I cast myself partly as a lost wretch who had been saved (glossing over the exact nature of my transgressions at Bridgeport), partly as a one-man show of the black diasporic experience, and totally as a hustler.” + +Still, he bristles at being stereotyped. Before “Top Chef,” Onwuachi worked briefly for Dinner Lab, a startup that operated a members-only supper club in cities across the U.S. When the founder, who was white, asked him to cook Senegalese food for a fund-raiser, Onwuachi politely declined. (He had no particular connection to Senegal.) In their initial pitch, the investors behind the Shaw Bijou suggested that he offer “upscale riffs” on Southern cooking. Again, he declined, for fear of “becoming an actor in the long and ugly play of degrading black culture for the benefit of white people,” he wrote. + +On a typical night at the restaurant, Onwuachi makes rounds in the dining room, greeting guests. + +His project, instead, is to develop a varied, idiosyncratic Black culinary idiom—and to bring it into the mainstream. Onwuachi seems to revel in the contradictions of his position—blaring “music with the curse words” at the home of the New York Philharmonic—but he’s savvy about operating within the system. When I asked if he ever wanted to take a more radical approach, he was unequivocal. “I’m a businessman,” he said. “I’m an artist, sure, but I employ fifty people. I’m playing my fucking music that I wanna play, we’re putting oxtails on the menu, I’m putting a Black woman’s name on the side of Lincoln Center. I feel like I’m being as radical as I want to be.” + +In late August, Onwuachi flew to D.C., and then drove to a small town called Middleburg, at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia’s hunt country, an area that has long drawn élite weekenders from Washington. He was there for the third annual Family Reunion, a food festival that he started with Sheila Johnson, a co-founder of Black Entertainment Television and the first Black American woman to become a billionaire. In the late nineties, Johnson bought a horse farm in Middleburg. (Her young daughter was an aspiring equestrian.) One day, she noticed that a gun shop in the village center had a Confederate flag hanging in the window, so she bought the building that housed it. Later, she bought hundreds of acres of land nearby and placed most of it under conservation. In 2013, she opened a luxury resort, called the Salamander, on a small remaining parcel. + +Johnson and Onwuachi met in 2019, at a conference in the Bahamas. “I was so intrigued by him,” Johnson said. “He was kind of introverted, so I got him out on the dance floor. He couldn’t put two feet together. I said, ‘I’m gonna teach you how to dance.’ ” After Onwuachi left Kith/Kin, Johnson proposed that they work together. He conceived of the Family Reunion, a four-day gathering of Black chefs and food-industry professionals, plus enthusiasts who wanted to mingle with them, at the Salamander. The partnership has proved fruitful: since its inception, the Family Reunion has more than tripled in size, and next year Onwuachi and Johnson will open a restaurant together in the former Mandarin Oriental hotel in D.C., which Johnson recently added to her portfolio. + +This year’s Family Reunion was a *Who’s Who* of the Black American culinary world. The legendary pitmasters Bryan Furman and Rodney Scott, who had driven their rigs from Georgia and South Carolina, respectively, gave master classes on barbecue. A group of Caribbean American chefs from all over the U.S. retrieved crackly-skinned whole pigs and spatchcocked chickens from a ditch that had been dug into the Salamander’s lawn in order to illustrate the history of jerk, which originated, in Jamaica, with Indigenous people and Maroons—Africans who had escaped slavery—stealthily roasting wild game in pits. Virginia Ali, the eighty-nine-year-old co-founder of Ben’s Chili Bowl, a D.C. restaurant famous for feeding civil-rights activists during the 1968 riots, provided half-smoke sausages and hot dogs for a cookout-themed buffet. + +“You look wonderful,” Ali told Onwuachi on the first day of the festival, straining to be heard over a band rehearsing at top volume. “Hard work agrees with you.” + +“It does, right?” he said. “I think I’m addicted to it.” + +The menu at Tatiana draws inspiration from Nigerian, Caribbean, and Creole cuisine, as well as from New York’s street carts and corner stores. + +Onwuachi spent the weekend in a state of perpetual motion. He roamed the Salamander’s grounds, sometimes in a golf cart, with a demeanor that was part summer-camp director, part pastor, part door-to-door salesman. He greeted guests with a cheerful, if slightly canned, “Welcome home!” and doled out hugs and collegial shoulder squeezes. In many ways, the event was an advertisement for him: its full title—“Kwame Onwuachi Presents the Family Reunion”—was even printed on the tags of the T-shirts and hoodies for sale at the merch table, which was staffed by his mother, his sister, a former babysitter, and two childhood friends. + +Much of the time, he was trailed by a documentary film crew from Bronxville, a production company that he co-founded with the filmmaker Randy McKinnon, who adapted “Notes from a Young Black Chef” into a screenplay. (It was acquired by A24.) Hovering close behind, carrying a tote bag full of bottled water, was a strikingly tall young man with his hair in twists, whose name was Destined One Leverette. The Family Reunion arranges room and board for volunteers, and Leverette insisted that he had applied for a position—yet the organizers had no record of it. He’d come, on his own dime, from Birmingham, Alabama, where he worked in the kitchen of a chain restaurant called Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen. He was nineteen. Onwuachi said that he’d taken pity on Leverette: “He’s, like, ‘I’m ready to work.’ I’m, like, ‘Where’s your chef coat?’ He’s, like, ‘I don’t have it.’ I was, like, ‘Well, then, you’re going to just do whatever is needed.’ ” + +Onwuachi had learned at the first Family Reunion that he couldn’t host the event and cook for it at the same time. (His eyes widened when I asked if he’d be doing both.) The task of schmoozing with guests suited him, but he kept a close eye on the food and the service. He became noticeably irked when he saw a snaking, slow-moving queue for Scott and Furman’s barbecue. In an instant, he switched modes, suddenly chillier and more mercenary as he summoned an assembly line for pre-portioning plates. Servers tensed and hustled as Onwuachi shouted directions and called for extra hands. By the start of the evening’s late-night R. & B. karaoke party (dress code: all white), he was once again the gregarious m.c., wearing silk pajamas and revving up the crowd. + +The festival’s corporate underwriters included Coca-Cola, United Airlines, and Wells Fargo, the last of which hosted a talk on “elevating Black wealth.” But what might have felt like a cynical commercial exercise was infused with a sense of purpose and an unmanufactured joy. During a surprise performance by the R. & B. singer Joe, Onwuachi wrapped his arms around Johnson as they swayed to the music. At lunch on the final day, Onwuachi invited Leverette onstage and introduced him to the crowd as “a young man who showed up on the doorstep of the Family Reunion.” Afterward, Leverette was rushed by well-wishers offering jobs and, in one case, cash: a generous stranger wired him five hundred dollars. (Leverette later admitted that he’d fibbed about applying to volunteer at the festival; he had, in fact, just shown up.) + +That evening, after the première of a Lexus commercial that featured Onwuachi driving around Los Angeles, he and Johnson presented a lifetime-achievement award to Jessica B. Harris, the renowned culinary historian. In her acceptance speech, Harris called Onwuachi “the linchpin, a pivot point”—a connector of people and traditions. A few weeks later, when I spoke to Harris by phone, she noted the “dynastic” way that Onwuachi came into the food world, through his mother’s career. “His food embodies his stories, and his stories are really personal,” she said. “There are a lot of places that tell stories that are researched.” + +Onwuachi’s staff at Tatiana see themselves reflected in his food. The majority of the restaurant’s cooks and servers are people of color. “It’s like the Family Reunion—Black people just come,” he told me, laughing. The back-of-house environment is one of camaraderie and friendly competition. As I watched line cooks set up their stations, an intern pulled something out of a cabinet. “Why is there a bag of . . . Lay’s?,” she asked, holding up an industrial-sized bag of potato chips and looking genuinely befuddled. “Oh, that was for Jay-Z, but he didn’t eat them,” Onwuachi explained. “We’ll have them after service.” + +The chips had been intended for osetra caviar, two tins of which had also gone uneaten. Onwuachi doesn’t usually offer specials at Tatiana, but that morning he’d started to think about how he could sell what was left. For a jerk-cod entrée, the pastry team was making corn bread; maybe he’d serve squares of it topped with the caviar and crème fraîche. By the time the front-of-house staff arrived, the idea had evolved. “Corn-bread pudding,” he announced. “With a quenelle of caviar. That’s more interesting to me.” + +He bloomed curry powder in butter in a pot on the stove, then crumbled in the corn bread and added heavy cream and oat milk. When it had cooked down into a smooth, thick paste, he tasted it. “Fucking great!” he declared. “That’s fun.” Instead of crème fraîche, he decided to top it with the white sauce that he makes for his halal-cart-inspired shawarma chicken. In the finished dish, the gentle heat of the curry and the sweetness of the warm pudding were offset by the cool, tangy white sauce and a salty plink of caviar at the end of each bite. + +“No! Chef, no way!” Chase Ford, one of the line cooks, said as he tried the pudding. “I got chills.” It tasted, he said, exactly like a cornmeal porridge that his mother, who is Jamaican, had made when he was a kid. 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Then his accuser changed her story. + +![A man standing in a covered courtyard.](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/10/04/multimedia/00france-lie-01-gpzl/00france-lie-01-gpzl-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale) + +Farid El Haïry in June in Hazebrouck, France.Credit...Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times + +[Catherine Porter](https://www.nytimes.com/by/catherine-porter) and [Aurelien Breeden](https://www.nytimes.com/by/aurelien-breeden) + +The reporters visited the small French city of Hazebrouck twice, interviewed over a dozen people and went over court records. + +Published Oct. 8, 2023Updated Oct. 9, 2023 + +The phone echoed in Farid El Haïry’s home in northern France. It was February 1999. + +A rural police officer was on the line, asking if he could come down to the gendarmerie for a chat. + +“I asked them why and was it urgent,” he says. It’s nothing serious, he remembers being told. Come when you can. It won’t take long. + +Then a lanky 17-year-old about to start an apprenticeship in a bakery, Mr. El Haïry set out for the brick station a couple of days later. He grabbed some pains au chocolat and a Coke on the way for breakfast. + +He would not return home for years. + +He was charged with the sexual assault and rape of a 15-year-old girl from a neighboring high school, whom he knew only by sight and had never spoken to. The police had no witnesses, no corroborating evidence, just her word against his. + +After a night at the gendarmerie, he was sent to a nearby prison that was notorious for overcrowding, drug use and suicide. He spent the next 11 months and 23 days in pretrial custody before being released with one painful condition — stay away from his home city of Hazebrouck, where his accuser, but also his friends and family, lived. + +At a trial in 2003, a jury found him guilty and sentenced him to five years in prison, but so much of it was suspended that he would not return to jail. + +Since then, there have been two Farid El Haïrys — the hyperactive teenager, described by classmates and relatives as a joker who played games and didn’t take school seriously, and the sober adult, who hides his distrust behind a smiling facade and must always work to control the rage he describes as a “cancer burning inside of me.” + +Fuel for his rage included race. Mr. El Haïry, now 42, is the son of a Moroccan immigrant. He doubts a white citizen would have been charged on similarly flimsy evidence, let alone convicted. A growing pile of [reports](https://www.jstor.org/stable/23358671) and [court decisions](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/09/world/europe/france-racial-profiling-police-court.html) show that racial profiling by the police is a serious, unaddressed problem in France. + +For 23 years, Mr. El Haïry suppressed that anger — until another unsettling phone call arrived, this one interrupting his family’s Eid al-Fitr celebrations last year. + +Again, it was the police. + +There had been a development in his case, he learned. His accuser from so many years ago, now a mother herself, had been in touch. She had changed her story. + +## ‘Something Was Wrong’ + +Sitting in the gendarmerie on that morning in 1999, Mr. El Haïry assumed it was a mistake. So did his family. + +“It was impossible,” said his cousin Angélique Vanhaecke. “He never even talked to girls.” + +But over time, as the investigation continued and Mr. El Haïry suffered strip searches and solitary confinement, he began to feel differently. + +“Something was wrong,” he said on a recent walk around Hazebrouck to revisit the scenes of a crime that never happened. + +“They were looking for a culprit,” he added. + +As a French Arab who grew up in his hometown’s only housing project, he believed he made for a convenient one. + +Hazebrouck is a middle-class city of 21,000 people in a region known for its rich farmland, work ethic and love of beer. Locals describe it as insular and quiet. Only 2 percent of residents were immigrants [in 2019](https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/6455262?sommaire=6455286&geo=COM-59295). + +Image + +In central Hazebrouck.Credit...Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times + +Before his parents rented a nearby house, Mr. El Haïry grew up in “the blocks” — a group of subsidized high-rises where many of the town’s few immigrant families lived. + +His father worked at a steel plant in Dunkirk, 28 miles away. His mother, who grew up in Hazebrouck, was a cook in a hospice. Farid was the youngest of their three sons — a wiry boy buzzing with energy who roared around the neighborhood on a bike. + +Image + +Brahim El Haïry and Jocelyne Dewynter, Farid’s parents, in the early 1970s.Credit...via Farid El Haïry + +“He liked to laugh, tease and roughhouse,” Ms. Vanhaecke said. But, she added, “he wasn’t violent at all.” + +As a teenager, Mr. El Haïry was stopped regularly for identity checks by the local police. Sometimes, he recalled, the same officers would stop him more than once a day. + +Racial profiling by the police is a longstanding grievance in France. [One 2017 study](https://www.defenseurdesdroits.fr/sites/default/files/atoms/files/rapport-enquete_relations_police_population-20170111_1.pdf) found that young men “perceived to be Black or Arab” were 20 times as likely to be subjected to identity checks compared with the rest of the population. + +Mr. El Haïry had no criminal record. + +Court documents give his accuser’s original account: Mr. El Haïry had stopped her on the street one winter evening with a group of friends, described as of Northwest African origin. Together, they hauled her down an alley, pinned her down and molested her, she said. + +She knew Mr. El Haïry only by sight. But he was known as “a violent individual.” + +Five months later, she crossed paths with Mr. El Haïry again near the public pool. This time, a different man, again described as of Northwest African origin, held her to the ground while Farid raped her. She said she had been a virgin. + +Mr. El Haïry vehemently denied all of it. + +The police were never able to identify the man from the second incident. The accuser did pick out three of Mr. El Haïry’s friends from the first. Officers obtained initial statements from two that they had crossed paths with her alongside Mr. El Haïry. + +Under questioning from a magistrate months later, however, the stories shifted. The two friends said they had been pressured into their statements by officers, and denied ever seeing Mr. El Haïry and the victim together. The accuser said while the friends had talked to her, only Mr. El Haïry had molested her. + +Image + +An alley in Hazebrouck where Mr. El Haïry’s accuser said she was raped.Credit...Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times + +The case went forward anyway. + +“The police should have immediately, immediately, immediately said to themselves, ‘It’s not just one thing that is inconsistent, it’s a lot of things,’” Mr. El Haïry said. + +The gendarmerie in Hazebrouck declined to comment. They had not kept records of the investigation, an official said, and none of the officers involved still worked there. + +After being released from custody, Mr. El Haïry moved into an uncle’s apartment in Pantin, a Paris suburb. + +His parents traveled three hours to bring him groceries regularly. “I saw how my parents suffered,” said Christian El Haïry, Farid’s eldest brother. “They lost their little boy.” + +Mr. El Haïry was required to report weekly to a police station, which often took hours. He lost his first job as a shoe salesman because he couldn’t explain the absences. He struggled to keep and make friends because he worried they would find out. + +“He was broken,” Ms. Vanhaecke said. “He had a joie de vivre. From one day to the next, it was gone.” + +## A Surprise Letter + +The accuser cried continually through the trial, which lasted two days. + +The prosecution relied on her story, a gynecological exam and psychiatric reports that assessed her as credible, suffering from a severe lack of self-esteem and disgust with sexuality. She was also a good student, they noted. Mr. El Haïry was deemed immature, egocentric and defensive. He had been suspended from school repeatedly. + +Martin Grasset, Mr. El Haïry’s lawyer during the trial, saw the verdict as a partial victory. His client would not return to jail — a sign, he thought, that the jury had sensed holes in the case. + +“It’s behind him,” Mr. Grasset recalled thinking at the time. + +From the outside, it seemed that way. + +Mr. El Haïry went on to manage a shoe store before switching to a mobile phone business in Lille. He married, bought a house and had two children. + +But the conviction hung over him. + +His name was added to the national sex offender registry. + +In a brief article about the trial, which had been held behind closed doors, a local newspaper printed his name. + +People looked at his family differently, said his brother Christian. “We all held a bit of hate in our heart,” he said. + +Then, last year, Mr. El Haïry’s life was upended again by a call from the police. The accuser had written to the local prosecutor in 2017, admitting she had lied. + +“Mr. Farid El Haïry isn’t guilty of anything and never committed any actions of sexual violence or rape against me,” her letter read. It claimed that she had been raped by her older brother from the ages of 8 to 12, and had only been released from the “grip of family secrecy” after years of therapy. + +“I wish to set the record straight,” she wrote. “I feel ashamed and guilty with regard to Farid El Haïry. He didn’t deserve this.” + +After the call, Mr. El Haïry rushed to tell his parents. His mother, then 69, was in palliative care with kidney failure. + +Image + +Mr. El Haïry with his mother on the day that he told her his accuser had sent prosecutors a letter admitting she had lied.Credit...via Farid El Haïry + +“She said to me, ‘Don’t worry Farid, I won’t die,’” said Mr. El Haïry, recounting the scene. “‘I will be in the courtroom when you are exonerated.’” Soon after, she moved back home. + +But she was too sick to travel to Paris last December when judges on France’s top appeals court exonerated her son. + +After the ruling, Mr. El Haïry dropped his head in his hands. His lawyers patted his back, calling the case “historic.” + +Since 1945, only about 15 people convicted of serious crimes, like murder or rape, have been exonerated or found not guilty in France after a retrial, experts say. + +That offered little solace. Stepping out of the courtroom, Mr. El Haïry was in tears. + +“I did one year of imprisonment, but the 23 years of mental imprisonment are what’s hardest,” he told reporters. “One family was destroyed to protect another.” + +Just over two weeks later, Mr. El Haïry’s father died of a heart attack. His mother died a few months after that. + +## Julie’s Story + +Farid’s accuser was a girl named Julie. + +Now in her 40s, she agreed to meet at her lawyer’s office on condition that we not reveal her family name or where she now lived. At the same time she wrote the letter about Mr. El Haïry, she sent another one to prosecutors, accusing her older brother of repeated rape. That investigation continues. + +She talked for more than two hours, breaking into tears a few times. The story is still raw for her, too. + +Julie was born and raised in Hazebrouck, where her family used to own a textile business. + +Image + +Hazebrouck, where Julie was born and raised.Credit...Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times + +When she sent the letters in 2017, she had been carrying the lie for almost two decades. Several things pushed her to confess. + +She had recently given birth to her first child, a son, and was terrified the pattern of incest would repeat itself. + +That summer, a victim’s aid counselor urged her to come clean. + +In the fall, the #MeToo movement erupted. It inspired her, she said, even though her experience contradicted what many other activists at the time were saying — that the police regularly dismiss rape victims as liars. + +“#MeToo is about the liberation of speech,” she said. “So I spoke out, this time to tell the truth.” + +When she was 14, Julie’s first consensual sex with her boyfriend resurfaced traumatic memories of her brother’s incest, she said, triggering a gnawing anxiety. + +“I fell asleep with the fear of rape,” she said. + +Around the same time, her boyfriend clashed with Mr. El Haïry and became so scared of him that he refused to go downtown, just to avoid him. As Julie describes it, her fear of rape meshed with her boyfriend’s fear of Mr. El Haïry, and her decision to lie emerged from a teenager’s confusing jumble of feelings. + +“I think it was a survival instinct,” she said. “I needed to speak out.” + +While Mr. El Haïry is convinced that race and class influenced the police investigation and court case, Julie is less sure. + +“From my adolescent perspective, it was not at all something that I saw or perceived,” she said. “Did it play a role? I don’t know.” + +She did say, however, that every time she went to the “blocks” for dance classes, she was scared. + +Once cast, the lie shielded her: She was recognized as a victim within her family without tearing it apart. The incest never reoccurred afterward, she said. + +The story she told the police matched a common rape myth — that most rapists are strangers lurking in street shadows. In fact, “perpetrators are predominantly close relatives,” said Audrey Darsonville, a criminal law professor at the University of Nanterre. + +Malicious or fictitious accusations of rape are extremely rare, Ms. Darsonville noted, but it is not uncommon for minors — especially incest victims — to initially accuse the wrong perpetrator. + +“It’s a kind of cry for help,” she said, from victims who cannot bring themselves to name the family member abusing them. + +Julie initially told a handful of friends that she had been raped by Mr. El Haïry. One evening, her two brothers overheard and told their parents. She did not want to file a complaint, she insisted, but her parents took her to see a psychologist, who alerted the authorities. + +The investigation was a blur, she said. The psychologist and her mother sat in for her police interview. She barely interacted with her lawyer. She felt an “extreme solitude” and later became bulimic. + +She was trapped in her lie. But Julie also acknowledged she did nothing to defuse it, even after it put an innocent teenager in prison for nearly a year. + +In 2003, when she received a letter summoning her to court for the trial, she recalls thinking: “Either I kill myself, or I denounce my brother, or I go.” + +So she went. + +Now, as an adult and as a mother, she is coming to terms with her decisions. Her life was also cleaved in halves that she is now trying to restitch — the girl who was the victim of abuse, and the teenager who told a harmful lie to save her. + +“One protected the other,” she said. “I had the right words, but not for the right person.” + +## No Vindication + +For over two decades, Mr. El Haïry imagined the moment when the lie would be exposed, his reputation redeemed and his lives welded. + +But that is not what happened. + +“I didn’t feel what I thought I would feel,” he said over lunch in a Hazebrouck tavern. “I was screwed over for 24 years, and it took 30 seconds to exonerate me.” + +Stories about the case ran on the national 8 o’clock news and in local and national newspapers. But true to the city’s tight-lipped reputation, the revelation caused little stir in Hazebrouck. Walking around the main square on market day, few locals knew about it. A former classmate running a bakery said he hadn’t known about Mr. El Haïry’s conviction in the first place. + +The city’s current mayor, who was 6 at time of Mr. El Haïry’s arrest, said he considered the case a personal affair and not a reflection of Hazebrouck, which he pointed out has no history of serious crime or police abuse. + +But in the blocks where Mr. El Haïry’s family is still known, the exposed injustice stings. + +“No one believed it,” said Moustapha Zidane, 47, a youth worker at the neighborhood’s small community center. “We were stigmatized by the police.” + +Mr. El Haïry’s North African heritage and his connection to the impoverished neighborhood made him an “easy target,” Mr. Zidane said. + +Image + +Mr. El Haïry playing with his father, Brahim, during a trip to Morocco.Credit...via Farid El Haïry + +“If you aren’t the same color as others, it’s not OK,” concurred Évelyne Lazoore, 63, outside the local primary school, where she had just dropped off her niece. “He was put in prison for nothing.” + +Mr. El Haïry has filed a complaint against Julie, accusing her of wrongfully accusing him. An investigation is continuing. + +He stews with anger at the justice system. + +He learned about Julie’s first letter nearly five years after she sent it. Court summons for Mr. El Haïry were sent to the wrong address. The pandemic further delayed things. But even for France, a country where the wheels of the overburdened judiciary often move slowly, his exoneration process was particularly long, experts say. + +“I could have enjoyed five years of that liberty and innocence with my parents,” he said bitterly. + +Mr. El Haïry is also seeking damages from the state to compensate for the hardship of his imprisonment and conviction. + +It is unclear how much he might be entitled to. In 2012, a man who had spent over seven years in prison on false rape charges [received nearly 800,000 euros](https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2012/09/25/les-indemnites-de-loic-secher-fixees-a-797-352-euros-par-la-justice_1765154_3224.html), or over $840,000, but Mr. El Haïry had far less jail time. + +For him, the main loss is immaterial — the life he might have lived, the person he might have been. + +Since he learned of Julie’s confession, Mr. El Haïry’s nights are sleepless again. He spends them turning over every detail of the case, asking questions that might never be satisfactorily answered. Just when he should be released from the lie, he is consumed by it. + +“It’s my lullaby,” he said. + +[Aurelien Breeden](https://www.nytimes.com/by/aurelien-breeden) has covered France from the Paris bureau since 2014. He has reported on some of the worst terrorist attacks to hit the country, the dismantling of the migrant camp in Calais and France's tumultuous 2017 presidential election. [More about Aurelien Breeden](https://www.nytimes.com/by/aurelien-breeden) + +A version of this article appears in print on  , Section A, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Rape, Race and Years-Old Lie That Still Wounds. 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The staff of the San Diego nonprofit Invisible Children had been working around the clock for the past several months. Now, the exhausted and exhilarated crew gathered round Director of Communications Noelle West’s desk as she typed “YouTube” into her browser and pressed “make public” on the 29-minute-long video that, according to the video’s narrator, would “change the course of human history forever.” At midday Pacific time, *Kony 2012* went live. A beat. A sigh. The view count hardly budged. Everyone returned to their seats.  + +That night, Jason Russell, the video’s protagonist and Invisible Children’s then-33-year-old co-founder, was in Los Angeles alongside his wife, Danica, and 5-year-old son (and *Kony 2012* co-star*)*, Gavin, leveraging the modest Hollywood connections he’d made to drum up excitement around the video. He premiered *Kony 2012* at the talent firm Creative Artists Agency, with an event hosted by Jason Bateman and family friend Kristen Bell. Around 200 people were in attendance. After the screening finished, Jason checked his phone. Things were going well so far. With help from a nationwide network of high school students the Invisible Children team had spent months cultivating, the video had climbed to 200,000 views. By midnight, it had reached 500,000, which was their goal for the entire year.  + +[ + +![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c4101b8-0b36-4dab-99d6-f577ba21b9ea_2580x1441.png) + +](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c4101b8-0b36-4dab-99d6-f577ba21b9ea_2580x1441.png) + +Jason Russell’s son Gavin in a scene from Kony 2012, in which Jason explains to Gavin who Joseph Kony is and what he has done to children in Uganda. (Image from Kony 2012) + +Then, Jason awoke in the middle of the night to a flurry of texts, all saying some variety of the same thing:  + +“*Jason, Oprah has tweeted the video*.” + +One tweet from the Queen of All Media set the video on a stratospheric trajectory. Jason began receiving messages from late-night TV hosts requesting to interview him, and from celebrities like Justin Timberlake who wanted to show their support. It was a tsunami of accolades and Jason was quickly overwhelmed. To this day, many of those messages remain unopened. + +The next morning, Jason drove from Los Angeles to Invisible Children’s office where dozens of strangers were milling about, filling the parking garages on either side of the fifth-story office, all wanting to meet Jason and his team — either to help out or to pitch business ideas of their own.  + +When Jason entered the conference room in front of the main office space, not a single head turned to face him. Siloed in their cubicles, each member of staff was incessantly pressing refresh on YouTube, gazing at their screens in a trance as the view count climbed by the millions:  + +Two million. *Refresh*. Three million. *Refresh.* Four million. It didn’t stop. + +Kim Kardashian was tweeting about it, Rihanna was tweeting about it. Justin Bieber was tweeting about it. Then, the office’s internet crashed. + +“Can anyone help me?” Jason asked. No one even looked up.  + +Jason grabbed Alex Collins, the artist relations manager, by the arm. “Help me,” he said.  + +“Can’t. Working,” Alex replied before returning to his seat.  + +Jason left the office and returned 15 minutes later with a wheelbarrow filled with bottles of Champagne, pushing it into the conference room. No one noticed. “Everyone in here!” he yelled. No one budged. They were glued to their computers, trying frantically to keep up with the video’s wild spread. “We are so fucking busy,” Jason heard someone say, while alone in the conference room with his wheelbarrow.  + +The entire world felt open to him. Because of him, a new generation of internet-raised digital natives would know revolution, true community, peace. Because of him, the most wanted international warlord would be brought to justice. Because of him, evil would be destroyed, and love and goodness would forever prevail.  + +All this, and not a single member of his staff would give him a simple gesture of acknowledgement.  + +Jason left the conference room and banged on a table: “We. Are. Celebrating.” + +Finally, the staff obeyed their leader — for a few moments. For 15 minutes, they popped Champagne and spiritlessly celebrated. “That was the only time we had any kind of celebration,” Jason says.  + +That video — *Kony 2012* — is an artifact of unprecedented viral success, reaching 100 million views in only six short days. At the time, it was the most viral video in YouTube history. And it is difficult to overstate how unlikely it was for this particular video to take that crown. YouTube had already proven the ability to reach Super Bowl-size audiences via web video, but the other most viral videos of that year were all either catchy pop hits like Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe,” cultural sensations like Psy’s “Gangnam Style” or political sendups such as “Barack Obama vs Mitt Romney. Epic Rap Battles of History.”  + +[ + +![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8f63c31-ee5c-4169-b838-bc071c6890d1_2580x1439.png) + +](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8f63c31-ee5c-4169-b838-bc071c6890d1_2580x1439.png) + +In the Kony 2012 video, a graphic shows the hierarchy of the Ugandan guerilla group the Lord’s Resistance Army, with Joseph Kony at the top. (Image from Kony 2012) + +*Kony 2012*, effectively a social advocacy video, was a viral anomaly. The campaign centered around Joseph Kony, leader of Ugandan guerilla group the Lord’s Resistance Army and, according to the video, the most evil man you’d never heard of. The viewer was directly challenged: Keep watching for the next 29 minutes, make Kony famous, change the world. It proposed an irresistibly simple and slick call to action, gamifying a pre-organized strategy: Share the video with friends; tweet it to celebrities and government officials; take to the streets. If all goes to plan, a groundswell of grassroots activism will compel the U.S. government to intervene, sending out troops to capture Kony. + +The Arab Spring — a pro-democracy uprising across several countries, triggered by viral footage of a young Tunisian man who set himself ablaze — had recently fueled a narrative about the democratic power of social media. Arriving in its wake, *Kony 2012* spoke the language of techno-optimism. It was a time when there was an ambient faith that digital democracy practices and social networking technologies could inspire mass mobilization against centralized, oppressive hierarchies. The internet could inspire a global manhunt. Viewers could help catch the real-life villain, defeat the evil. All you had to do was share the video. + +In the days that followed *Kony 2012*’s release, millions of Westerners previously numbed to charity footage of suffering Africans were suddenly inspired to take action, not only sharing the video, but also purchasing $30 kits filled with posters of Kony that they intended to spread around the streets.  + +Then, just as quickly, it all fell apart. + +The internet was unable to follow through on its promise to materialize the utopia we thought it capable of. Millions of people threw those same posters into landfills, laughing off their brief fervor like an adult looking back on a bad haircut. In less than one week, Jason Russell went from complete anonymity to worldwide celebrity to canceled villain to laughingstock, his very public “naked meltdown” mercilessly mocked across the web. *Kony 2012* did not forever alter the course of human history. Instead, it has become a digital relic of deep hubris. Those who recall this frenzy remember it mostly as a tragic joke. *Kony 2012* has become the stuff of shitposts and ironic halloween costumes at millennial-themed house parties.  + +[ + +![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad9a89b9-d51f-49e8-90ee-3c3bf266900c_2580x1935.jpeg) + +](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad9a89b9-d51f-49e8-90ee-3c3bf266900c_2580x1935.jpeg) + +The Invisible Children team’s Kony 2012 branding design ideas. (Photo courtesy of Jason Russell) + +*Kony 2012* may not have delivered the revolution — nor, notably, its promise to capture Kony. But it did, perhaps, presage the way in which democratic discourse takes shape online today, nudging a cultural shift away from tech optimism toward skepticism, and creating a more discerning, media literate class of online users. It also, very much unwittingly, kick-started conversations around two issues that now dominate our discourse: cancel culture, and the rise of disinformation. It served as an early look at the psychological consequences of flash viral fame, and it inspired the mainstreaming of the term “white savior,” which was used by Nigerian-American writer Teju Cole to describe Jason Russell and the phenomenon of *Kony 2012*. “The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality,” Cole wrote in one of his series of viral tweets criticizing the video.  + +“White Savior. I think it’ll be the name of my movie — and book,” Jason tells me 11 years later, hair slicked back, smiling. “I even bought the whitesavior.me website domain. It wasn’t very much, only $15.” + +Jason meets with me across multiple locations in Los Angeles, showing up at various bars and cafes in a red Corvette. He is charming and deeply sincere, warm and empathetic. He carries himself with total openness, as though he has nothing to hide. He is self-deprecating when he feels corroborated with; defensive and self-congratulatory when he feels challenged. Despite everything that happened, he still feels that creating *Kony 2012* was his destiny. + +“Had I not become a ‘white savior,’ that would have been shocking,” he says. “I was trained to make a difference, make an impact, go for your dreams, help people. How far can you blame a person when the environment, the culture, the community, the nation, the religion, groomed them to be a very specific way?” + +[ + +![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6d1fe87c-6ef7-4fce-95fa-b2514d8c207e_1198x276.gif) + +](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6d1fe87c-6ef7-4fce-95fa-b2514d8c207e_1198x276.gif) + +Jason Russell was born in San Diego in the fall of 1978. He attended a Christian kindergarten before studying at Anza Elementary, where he was under the tutelage of Mr. Dorfi, a sentimentalist who cared deeply about his students and the injustices in the world. He left a deep impact on young Jason. “He was everything you wanted a teacher to be. He was very emotional, he cared so much about us. And he was \[full of conviction\] when he told us about the Civil Rights Movement and about slavery,” Jason says. + +His parents are Paul and Sheryl Russell, the founders of the Christian Youth Theater, the largest national youth program of its kind in the United States. By the age of 12, Jason says he “wouldn’t be surprised if I had 10,000 hours” of musical theater experience. He had been the Tin Man and Mr. Toad, but at 13, he landed his dream role: Peter Pan. In Peter, he saw his desires, and he saw himself. He, like Peter, was a storyteller who longed for eternal youth and the ability to take flight. On stage, he got his wish. Underneath his green tights and shirt, he wore a flying contraption, allowing him to perform backflips midair. He flew through a window. He flew past the fireplace. He flew into the audience. + +“Peter Pan is just such a poignant story to me,” Jason says. “I think it’s all about the wisdom of youth, and it’s about the ultimate protection of children. Peter Pan runs and lives in an orphanage, protecting babies that fell out of their carriage the day they were born.” + +But Jason’s real life was far from a fairy tale. Backstage, he was being sexually assaulted. Jason says his predator was the person responsible for putting him into his harness, allowing him closer access to Jason’s body.  + +“It happened for a long time, definitely about two years, between the ages of 14 and 15. I think it stopped at 16,” Jason tells me. + +Jason was one of many victims of alleged grooming and sexual assault at Christian Youth Theater. In July 2020, alongside Jason, dozens of former students came forward with allegations of sexual abuse, racism and homophobia. The unnamed plaintiffs alleged that numerous adult instructors had given boys as young as 8 alcohol, before touching them inappropriately on multiple occasions. CYT, it was ascertained in court, created an environment where predatory behavior went unchecked. Paul and Sheryl, the students alleged, turned a blind eye to it, even encouraging their instructors to attend sleepovers and trips with the children.  + +“You were your parents’ invisible child,” Jason’s therapist told him after the fallout. “No wonder you wanted to protect invisible children.” Though he’s no longer close with his parents, Jason is careful not to place the blame on them, referring to them as “good people” who simply made bad decisions. + +“It’s interesting that the special about Michael Jackson was called *Leaving Neverland*,” Jason says, “ and I very much resonated with it. When it came out I was like, ‘That is my story. Yeah, that is my story.’” + +In his first year of college, Jason made a short film about Peter Pan in Neverland, before spending the summer with evangelical Christian youth organization Teen Mania (which has since shut down). Each year, the organization held enormous conferences in cities across the U.S., packing out stadiums with thousands of teenagers there to sign up for missionary trips. Jason, who wore blond dreadlocks at the time (“I was breaking all the rules”), attended one such conference, before spending a summer week training in Texas. + +[ + +![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed933bda-9589-4496-919a-6b3bf493a695_1935x2580.jpeg) + +](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fed933bda-9589-4496-919a-6b3bf493a695_1935x2580.jpeg) + +Laren Poole, left, next to Bobby Bailey, and Jason Russell, right, with a local man who helped them build a crane for production during their trip to Uganda. (Photo courtesy of Jason Russell) + +Jason traveled to Kenya with Teen Mania in the summer of 2000, performing 30-minute productions alongside 150 others, dancing around in costumes and offering up the word of the gospel. At the end of each production, they’d tell the villagers to raise their hands if they wanted to be saved — before heading back to their hotel in an air-conditioned minivan. In the U.S., criticism around the organization’s militaristic symbolism and training regimes grew. Teen Mania’s website battlecry.com, for instance, was decorated with a blood-red logo, battle flags and text that encouraged teenagers to “join the frontline.”  + +Gradually, while taking those air-conditioned minivan rides and reading about the criticism of Teen Mania online, Jason realized he wanted to approach this all differently. He was compelled to return with a camera, intent to embed himself in the lives of the villagers rather than feign help from a distance. He wanted to show the Western world what life was like +“out there,” through his lens.  + +In the summer of 2002, while working at a theater camp, Jason told his friend and campmate Bobby Bailey that next spring, he was “going back to Africa with a camera.” Bobby was adamant on joining him. Jason, however, was actually growing sick of Bobby, and was determined not to spend another several weeks with him. He held fast: “Or maybe you could not,” he said to Bobby. As lifelong students of Christianity, Jason and Bobby had spent much of that summer arguing back-and-forth over the issue of whether life was predetermined or whether one entered it with a free will. Jason was in the free will camp, while Bobby, a Calvinist, was in the former. They argued every day, past lights out, reaching the point of exhaustion and frustration. Neither was capable of changing the other’s mind. This disturbed Jason, a raconteur. + +“It’s kind of ironic that I now have this tattoo,” Jason says, pulling up his plaid sleeve to reveal his inner wrist, veins spread across it like mud cracks, the word “timshel” in typewriter font imprinted on top of them — a reference to John Steinbeck’s *East of Eden*, Jason’s favorite novel. “I think the big takeaway of it is whether or not we as beings are capable of free will, and ‘timshel’ \[means\] ‘thou mayest’ \[in Hebrew\], as in, you have the choice of whether or not to overcome sin.”  + +By Christmastime, Jason had decided on his location, a rather unorthodox choice: war-torn Sudan. But he hadn’t found anyone else brave enough to join him and was facing the prospect of traveling there alone. He returned to Bobby, begging and pleading with him. “You’re a jerk, you know that?” he said to Jason, before relenting + +Together, they tried to recruit Laren Poole, a then-lifeguard they were becoming close friends with, who had his own ambitions of directing blockbuster action movies. Laren, who was also on the side of Calvinism, said he would need “a sign.” Jason and Bobby took this literally. The following day, they broke into his unlocked car, played classic rock group Switchfoot at full blast — effectively snake-charming music for a Christian millennial — and held up a sign that read “GO OUT” in pink spray paint, outside of his house. It was an evangelical John Cusack move that drew tears from Laren’s eyes. “I’m going, I’m going, I’m going,” he said, on the phone to Jason and Bobby. “I don’t care if I die,” he wrote later that night in his journal. + +[ + +![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffdb05598-8582-4846-a689-06a2309892a2_2580x1927.jpeg) + +](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffdb05598-8582-4846-a689-06a2309892a2_2580x1927.jpeg) + +The Invisible Children core team with Oprah Winfrey. Left to right, Tom Shadyac, Bobby Bailey, Oprah Winfrey, Laren Poole and Jason Russell. (Photo courtesy of Jason Russell) + +Soon after, Jason wrote to none other than Oprah Winfrey, telling her about his trip to Africa. He signed off, thanking her. In Oprah, he saw himself. “As soon as I first saw her on TV I remember just being drawn to her light and her essence and power. So, I would make personal videos from me to her, and I knew how to message it to her. I knew how to speak her language.”  + +When Jason appeared on *The Oprah Winfrey Show* years later, she thanked him for the videos. + +[ + +![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F146eb952-c757-4083-ac0b-08b78befc618_1198x276.gif) + +](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F146eb952-c757-4083-ac0b-08b78befc618_1198x276.gif) + +When the three unaccompanied recent college graduates arrived in Sudan that following spring — just as the genocide in the western region had reached its height — Jason says they were the only white people there, “except for a guy named Jeff. It was so dangerous.” Their cameras, he says, gave them “a sense of empowerment — but not even just empowerment — of responsibility.” + +While they originally intended to document the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, when they arrived, there was scarcely any activity to shoot. A local woman they met on the road redirected them to Gulu, in the northern region of Uganda, telling them that was where they’d find their story. When they arrived they found children sleeping on the streets, children who told the white men with cameras about Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army.  + +Kony had come to prominence in the 1980s as the leader of the L.R.A., a military force that supposedly existed to combat Yoweri Museveni, the reigning president of Uganda who took control of the country after he led his own child soldier-assisted rebellions in 1986. In the decades since, Kony has abducted tens of thousands of people — mostly children — inducting them into the L.R.A and displacing them from their homes.  + +The children told Jason, Bobby and Laren stories about the rebel army mutilating the faces of their friends and raping them in front of their schoolmates; of the torture techniques that would leave them begging for death. + +Jason became particularly attached to one of these children — 11-year-old Jacob — as he recited the story of his brother’s abduction by the L.R.A. Jacob had aspirations of becoming a lawyer. He spoke lucidly and emotionally about the impact of Kony on his region. + +“We are going to do everything we can to stop them,” Jason told Jacob, a promise that is central to *The Rough Cut*, Invisible Children’s first film, and to *Kony 2012*. + +When Jason arrived back in San Diego, he rented out an office downtown and began to edit the footage from Sudan and Gulu. The partitive images didn’t initially seem to resemble a story or amount to a whole. Then, came Jason’s epiphany: What if the viewer was the story? What if viewers’ lives could change based on the movie they’d just watched? What if they didn’t passively consume the piece of media, but were instead active participants who were ultimately called and roused to action?  + +In *The Rough Cut*, Jason, Bobby and Laren centered their own naïvety, playing into their frat-boy personas, as they featured footage of themselves setting snakes on fire (*Jackass* was popular at the time). + +“There’s a rule in storytelling: Your hero can never think of themselves as better than anyone else,” Jason says. “We were telling an honest story. And we were saying, ‘We don’t know what we’re doing. We came here to find a story.’ And, oh my God, did we find a story.” + +Jason concedes that he was more interested in winning an Oscar than becoming the director of a nonprofit. They sent *The Rough Cut* to Sundance, but were rejected. “If we got into Sundance, there would have been no Invisible Children,” Jason says. While Bobby went back to school and Laren began to work, Jason, who was fueled by resentment, made his own Sundance instead. Only, rather than a film festival, it was a nonprofit. + +Invisible Children’s strategy was unique. Creative storytelling was at the center of its mission, and around 43 percent of its budget was spent on “awareness programs,” including media production. Humanitarian aid was posited as a means of mutual self-empowerment, of belonging to an impassioned collective. “I feel like that posture contributed to a lot of people wanting to feel involved,” Jason says. + +Spreadability was baked into the team’s strategy from the start, though they originally relied on pre-digital tools to disseminate their message. They created posters for distribution across college campuses, sticking them on students’ doors along with three copies of *Rough Cut*, and instructions to “take it,” “watch it,” “return it.” + +Jason was trying to target a specific demographic: white, middle class and popular. “We wanted to go after those types because then it would trickle down,” Jason says.  + +Prior to *Kony 2012*, Invisible Children made nine films which they presented across 15,000 screenings to a direct audience of five million. Varsity soccer players cried during screenings. Teachers and students alike said that the films changed their lives. The idea that *Kony 2012* *suddenly* went viral obscures the years of grassroots work that preceded it. “We kind of ran Invisible Children like the military,” Jason says. It was a full-scale operation that instilled in its followers an urgent sense of life-or-death stakes. An us-against-them scenario. + +In those years, Jason was rapidly spreading himself thin while traveling to screenings across the country. He needed to expand his team so he could stay in the office and strategize while others screened his films on the road. The way to do that, he figured, was to recruit ambassadors for the Invisible Children brand: young students willing to work for free and compete for the chance to spread the word of Invisible Children throughout the States. “Once you made it in, it was like a bootcamp for activism,” Jason says. He referred to the Invisible Children ambassadors as “roadies.”  + +[ + +![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a0a8b2d-6285-41d9-a4c1-a5ae18210c6e_2580x1935.jpeg) + +](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a0a8b2d-6285-41d9-a4c1-a5ae18210c6e_2580x1935.jpeg) + +Jason and active LRA soldiers in the LRA camp in Gulu, Uganda. (Photo courtesy of Jason Russell) + +Invisible Children rented out a house in a residential area of San Diego for roadie recruitment and training. There, around 40 to 60 roadies at a time would learn in greater depth about the history of the L.R.A., as well as bookkeeping, managing spreadsheets and navigating Salesforce. Then, they’d split up into state-based teams of around five to six, accompanied by a student from Uganda, and travel around the country, showcasing the films and spreading the word about Kony. + +“One of the things they had us do that I’ll never forget was watch a video called *Last Moments with Milo*,” Saul Malone, a writer who worked as a roadie around the time of *Kony 2012*’s release, tells me at a cafe in Los Angeles. The six-minute video featured a man’s final moments with his dog — on a walk, a bike ride, a car ride — before putting him down. “Yeah, it was pretty sad,” Saul says. Three weeks later, after intensive training, Invisible Children screened the video once more, aiming to demonstrate the impact of highly emotional content, the kind that was baked into each of their films. “Watching the video just that one time was tough, but this time, everyone broke down crying,” Saul recalls. “I sat there and I wept.” + +The sleeping situation — which Jason says wasn’t dissimilar to their setup in Gulu — “was probably not legal,” Justin Peterson, a doctor who also worked as a roadie at the time of *Kony 2012*, tells me. (Both Saul and Justin are now in their early 30s.) Justin slept in a room the size of a typical suburban teenager’s bedroom with around 24 other young men, their beds stacked on top of one another in military fashion. “One or two people didn’t have beds so they’d have to find somewhere random to sleep,” Justin says. “I think one of them slept in a closet.”  + +Meanwhile, as more staff came on board, the sense of urgency to capture Kony increased in the Invisible Children office. Inside, it was like a boiler room, the workers buzzy and sweating with excited and agitated energy. They brought their sleeping bags into work and spent nights editing footage, strategizing, campaigning until sunrise, occasionally sleeping beneath their desks, or on a co-worker’s couch.  + +“Here’s the thing about people that worked at Invisible Children. Nobody liked to talk shit behind people’s backs. Nobody liked to gossip,” Kevin Trout, a California native and one of *Kony 2012*’s lead editors, recalls. The majority of people gladly worked there for free, or for a salary that hardly paid the rent. Many of them were recovering evangelicals, almost all white millennials in their 20s. They had been taught to serve others as children, but after graduating college and becoming disillusioned with their childhood faith, found that there was no one to serve or save. Jason, like Captain Hook in *Peter Pan*, felt the ticking of the crocodile clock each second Kony was still at large. And he made everyone else feel that urgency, too. + +[ + +![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8ac4a80-715e-4f9c-ba54-8eafe32d2501_2580x1441.png) + +](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8ac4a80-715e-4f9c-ba54-8eafe32d2501_2580x1441.png) + +Jason and Jacob during a trip to Gulu, Uganda. (Photo courtesy of Jason Russell) + +Jason was a magnetizing figure. Still to this day, he carries himself with the conviction of a child who believes he has magical powers. He narrates his own life to me like an oracular storyteller. While there’s now a sense of pathos to his dogged earnestness and wide-eyed passion, when he was the captain of Invisible Children’s ship, he inspired deep reverence from just about everyone under his command. “It’s his charisma, his deep need to do good for the world,” says Andrew Collins, the brother of Alex Collins, the former artist relations manager. “When I went to visit the office, he was so excited to introduce me. I wanted to do anything I could to live there 24/7.” + +In 2010, Congress passed a counter-L.R.A. program bill, signed into law by Barack Obama, which meant that the State Department would spend some $1.2 million a month for two helicopters to surveil the greater Ugandan area and aid in the capture of Kony. For Jason and others devoted to stopping Kony, it was a start, but far from enough. + +While working in D.C., trying to keep the heat on senators and members of Congress, Michael Poffenberger of L.R.A research and advocacy program Resolve, phoned Jason after a somewhat unsuccessful afternoon. “If Kony was famous, then we’d get more meetings,” he said.  + +“I remember it hitting me like a lightning bolt,” Jason recalls. “Make. Kony. Famous.” He began skipping and running down the office hallway before taking a book on Andy Warhol from the shelf and making his creative team study the concept of fame: what it is and how celebrities leverage it in order to influence others. + +[ + +![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79778acb-666b-42cf-b523-fd52a7f50400_2580x1429.png) + +](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79778acb-666b-42cf-b523-fd52a7f50400_2580x1429.png) + +The $30 Kony 2012 package containing a t-shirt, bracelet, badges, flyers and stickers. (Image from Kony 2012) + +In their early designs, the Invisible Children team photoshopped Angelina Jolie in a meeting with Joseph Kony; women with mutilated faces on the covers of *Vogue*. Then, they developed an action kit: a $30 package containing a T-shirt, bracelet, badges and flyers to spread across the recipient’s neighborhood. “We treated the work that we were doing as though we were working at Nike or Apple, a brand. We knew we were competing for eyes, hearts and minds,” Jason says. “We were using that same kind of integrity and intensity to beat the drum about this story. We weren’t afraid to spend resources to do that in order to gain more people. It was incredibly radical for a nonprofit to do the kinds of things that we were doing.” While it may not have been quite as groundbreaking as he makes out — he was taking a leaf out of Bono’s book when it came to combining humanitarianism with corporate brand culture — Jason was uniquely talented when it came to branding a humanitarian crisis. + +As for the video itself, Jason wanted to “do something that had never been done before”: directly address the internet viewer, making them feel both culpable and empowered, before daring them to keep watching.  + +[ + +![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F99c25eb6-5e62-49b0-8d3a-595e94976309_2580x1935.jpeg) + +](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F99c25eb6-5e62-49b0-8d3a-595e94976309_2580x1935.jpeg) + +Invisible Children staff members Kimmy Vandivort, Jedidiah Jenkins and Ben Keesey working at the office in downtown San Diego right before the Kony 2012 campaign was launched. (Photo courtesy of Jason Russell) + +Kevin Trout had been brought in to digitize the footage from Gulu. “Man, there was some dark stuff, dude,” Kevin tells me on a Zoom call. Every day, he’d have to pore over clips of children crying out in emotional agony, recounting stories of their family members’ violent kidnappings by the L.R.A. He spent months with the recordings, coming to know the footage more intimately than anyone else, going home each night numbed. + +Kevin, alongside a team of five others, edited meticulously. They had a seven-second rule in which they asked themselves, “Do these seven seconds keep you engaged? Do they lead perfectly to the next seven seconds?” They cut and cut until they had a video just under 30 minutes in length. The arrangement of the video was cinematic in scope with short frame times.  + +The roadies were shown *Kony 2012* a week before hitting the road to promote it and around a fortnight before its public release. “I kind of had mixed feelings, to be honest,” Justin, the roadie, says. “I felt like, compared to their other films, I thought this was very much a kind of flashy call to arms sort of video.” + +Part of the punch of *Kony 2012* is its simplicity, the positioning of partial fact. A more detailed and rigorous video may have mentioned the South Sudanese peace talks, which occurred between 2006 and 2008 and led to the removal of the L.R.A from northern Uganda (as well as the slipshod U.S.-enabled military strike in 2008 that effectively terminated those peaceful negotiations and resuscitated the war). It may have detailed the complicated relationship between President Museveni and Kony — it may even have positioned Museveni as its primary target rather than Kony. “If you survey any Ugandans right now … and you ask them a basic question, ‘Who actually caused more destruction and deaths between the Uganda military and the L.R.A.? I don’t need to give you the answer,” Ugandan-American writer Milton Allimadi tells me. “The child soldiers originated with Museveni himself. He had child soldier bodyguards.”  + +Sangita Shresthova, a director of research at the University of Southern California, who led a research project on Invisible Children from 2009 to 2014, noticed a number of tensions within the organization, all of which eventually surfaced around the time of the *Kony 2012* campaign. The main one, she says, was the tension between wanting to tell an easily digestible version versus the complex story of the L.R.A. that needed to be told. “We saw the shortcomings of their approach, because once it was made visible in the way that it was, it was subjected to critique that they weren’t prepared for, and should have been,” Sangita says. + +To this day, it’s a criticism that Jason still rejects. “To the people who say I oversimplified the situation, I say ‘thank you’ because simplicity is the highest form of sophistication. It’s actually very sophisticated. That movie is layered and sophisticated and thought through of how to get you to keep watching.” + +[ + +![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8fef41c2-5ec8-4b18-907d-b8fe358456bc_1198x276.gif) + +](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8fef41c2-5ec8-4b18-907d-b8fe358456bc_1198x276.gif) + +When *Kony 2012* went viral, Jason was swept up in a simple kind of joy. He felt the world on his side — for a brief moment. Many of the world’s biggest celebrities — Angelina Jolie, Lady Gaga, George Clooney — were urgently telling the public not to sleep on the video. The public donated hundreds of thousands of dollars within the first 24 hours of it going live. *Kony 2012* was suddenly the world’s number one topic of discussion. + +“As everything does on the internet, after three days, things swing the other way,” Jason says. “That’s typically when you start to see the backlash.”  + +Jason stopped sleeping on that third day, as the pendulum firmly swung away from him.  + +“We realized quickly we were getting a lot of the same criticisms over and over, so we split up to try and conquer each one,” says Krista Morgan, one of Invisible Children’s writers. Key among those criticisms — in addition to  the video’s oversimplification — were charges of neocolonialism and the disempowerment and occlusion of African voices. Around the time of the video’s release, Ethiopian writer and activist Solome Lemma wrote in a now-deleted blog post that she was disturbed by “the disempowering and reductive narrative” on display in *Kony 2012.* “\[It\] paints the people as victims, lacking agency, voice, will, or power. It calls upon an external cadre of American students to liberate them by removing the bad guy who is causing their suffering,” she added.  + +Other commentators took issue with the video’s call-to-action for military intervention, and the naïvety of the potentially destructive consequences of such a strategy. “Any sensitive, long-term or balanced observer of events in the region will explain that Kony continues to survive and draw strength because of the militarized nature of the region,” wrote activist and author Matt Meyer. + +By this point, the roadies had been traveling across the States for three weeks, and were now receiving an increasing sense of animosity with each stop. The attacks became more personal: High schoolers ripped their posters apart right in front of them. The roadies said some of them were sleeping 20 minutes a night while driving upward of 14 hours a day. They still had seven weeks left on the road. + +[ + +![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a607c58-7d8a-46b2-bc58-7f587b0d3f37_2580x1935.jpeg) + +](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a607c58-7d8a-46b2-bc58-7f587b0d3f37_2580x1935.jpeg) + +High school students and supporters at “MOVE: DC,” an Invisible Children event that over 10,000 attended in November 2012. (Photo courtesy of Jason Russell) + +In the office, the staff had only one P.R. person to rely on, an intern. “We had to have responses, not only to Joe Shmoe asking on the internet, but also reputable sources,” Krista says. “We weren’t prepared. It was a really tiring time. And it just got harder and harder. The criticisms got worse and more.”  + +Jason tried to field some of those criticisms on a press trip to New York, where he sat down for around 17 interviews. When he got to the terminal at the San Diego airport on March 8 to catch a red-eye to New York, *Kony 2012* was playing on the TVs across the terminal. “Tell Gavin we say hi,” two girls said to him on the escalator, laughing. The woman sitting next to Jason on the plane told him she didn’t like his film, and turned away from him for the duration of the flight.  + +Jason arrived in New York at 3 a.m. When he got to his hotel, his transport for the *Today* show was already there waiting for him. Jason was still living his dream. The world knew about Kony, the world knew about Jacob. At 7 a.m. — when the *Today* show went live — that dream began to slowly dissipate. The tone of those interviewing him had done a complete 180 from the first few glowing days. “This isn’t how it works,” Ann Curry told him, hinting at the video’s oversimplification. From there, he took a car to his interview with *People* magazine, then *The New York Times*, then Reuters, then a few more news shows. When Jason returned to his hotel late into the evening, the heartbeat in his ear was so loud it prevented him from sleeping.  + +The next day, he met with Sunshine Sachs — a P.R. firm that specializes in helping celebrities through major public crises. But *Kony 2012* was too big; insurmountable. Jason says they told him that they’d never encountered anything like it; there was no way they could spin the story to help him regain control of his own narrative.  + +It wasn’t until later that day that Jason’s typically high spirits began to diminish. Ennervated, devitalized, he turned on a computer for the first time in days and read an article about himself on a popular website. “This guy is clearly gay,” he remembers a caption beneath an uncomplimentary photo of him read — repeating a suspicion that followed Jason throughout the campaign, due to his perceived campness and theatricality. For the first time, Jason realized that *Kony 2012* had become a bad joke. He felt burdened with the weight of himself, a dove-gray gloom surrounding him. For the first time in his life, he felt truly, all-encompassingly depressed. The train had left the station, and now, unloosed from the tracks, it was pummeling on his body with mud-slacked wheels. + +Jason returned to the Invisible Children office a week later. He hadn’t slept for several days. He brought a pile of paper plates with him to the conference room and began writing out screeds on good and evil, passing the plates around to the staff. He was at the center of the universe, the diviner of morality and mortality. With the questions from his interviews still reeling in his head, he felt he had to have the answers for what was to come next; that he was responsible for the fate of humanity, every living creature. The paper plates were his best shot at saving the world. + +[ + +![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b9cd4ae-c5f2-4aac-bbf2-0e6c141a22b0_2580x1436.png) + +](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b9cd4ae-c5f2-4aac-bbf2-0e6c141a22b0_2580x1436.png) + +Jacob tells his story during a high school rally organized by Invisible Children. (Image from Kony 2012) + +“He was our captain, and it’s hard to watch the captain of your ship completely disintegrate,” Krista, who had known Jason almost for his entire life, says. His younger sister, Janie, has been her best friend since she was 4 years old. She had never known Jason to be unwell. “He was always very off-the-wall, ‘dream big’, ‘dream impossible things,’ but never ill. It was shocking to see how fast that happened.” + +“I’m debating whether to go here or not,” Jason says with a sigh, looking at me and making sure I’m looking back with humanity; seeing him as someone who possesses sanity and humility rather than theistic delusions of grandeur. “OK, why not?” I respond. + +“So, there’s something that happens to me and my brain,” he says. “I think it’s because I’m bipolar,” a diagnosis he received shortly after the video’s release. “I figured out what it’s called — the name is unitary consciousness, and it’s when everything in the world that you can see and touch and feel and hear, syncs up,” he says, forming a globe with his palms. “It syncs up.” + +Jason says he experienced unitary consciousness for the first time on a trip to Palm Springs with his family shortly after the paper plates incident. Around the hotel pool, families were taking photos of Jason and his children. They retreated to their hotel room — the only place they felt a semblance of safety — and closed the windows and curtains as though they were hiding out in a bunker. They ventured outside less than a handful of times during that trip. On one such occasion, they went to a screening of *The Lorax* together before eating dinner at a burger joint. “The Kony guy’s right there!” a waiter said while pulling his line manager’s shirt.  + +“Now, what I’m about to describe, it’s probably impossible to believe. It’s like, say you have headphones on, and say you’re listening to any random song — you push shuffle and then you look toward the door and the song goes ‘the door opens,’ and then you look out the window and there’s a red car and it’s like ‘Little Red Corvette’ and you’re like — ” + +I stop him to ask about the red Corvette he drove here in. “Yes.” he says, understanding what I’m asking him. He tells me he bought it after finding a toy model of Lightning McQueen, the red car from the Pixar movie *Cars*, on his bed. It was a sign. It was unitary consciousness.  + +“Anyway, I was tripping out because our family was trying to be a unit, and I’m saying, ‘We need to plug in with each other. Let’s have dinner, plug in and feel each other.’” As he said this, he recalls, Homer Simpson repeated the same thing on the TV. He glanced over, and saw the Simpsons falling from a plane, trying to “plug in” and extract power from one another and cushion the fall.  + +At this moment, Jason felt like he was holding an umbilical cord to the divine. He was Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole, Peter Pan flying straight through to morning from the second star to the right, Lucy crawling through the wardrobe.  + +“My mentor says I don’t need to share this with anyone because it’ll only make me seem more crazy,” he says. “I can definitely see it being a paragraph where it’s like, ‘He think he’s God.’” It’s one of several times Jason references this article, worried that he can see his own story forming in my mind. + +“Oh, and by the way, I met God, and she’s Black,” Jason adds. + +[ + +![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a3074a9-bb07-48f7-89ed-e8faaf626cd4_2580x1323.png) + +](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a3074a9-bb07-48f7-89ed-e8faaf626cd4_2580x1323.png) + +Jason and locals during one of his trips to Gulu, Uganda. (Image from Kony 2012) + +Jason, to be sure, does not consider himself God. In his view, he’s closer to a prophet, a divine mystic; someone who spends their life trying to communicate what exactly God is, channeling her love like a river.  + +He reads me a centuries-old poem by the mystic poet Hafiz from his phone.  + +“*Running/Through the streets/Screaming*,” he reads, enunciating each word as though they have the power to split the world apart. “*Pulling out my hair/Tearing off my clothes/Tying everything I own/To a stick/And setting it on/Fire*.”  + +He looks up at me to make sure I register the connection.  + +“*What else can Hafiz do tonight/To celebrate the madness/The joy/Of seeing God/Everywhere!”* + +He puts his phone away, blood rushes to his cheeks, he appears flushed with some kind of divine aliveness — it doesn’t last. He looks at his feet on the ground. + +“That is my life. I ran through the streets, I tore off my clothes. I played with fire and I saw God everywhere,” he says. “But then you come out of it, and you’ve done damage. There’s like actual collateral damage.” Even divinity, it seems, has dire consequences. + +“I wish I could tap into the consciousness all the time every day, but it’s just not possible,” he adds. “It doesn’t last forever, but it can return. And I think if it does return, it’s my job to make sure it’s under a very tight leash.” + +[ + +![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7e74e9c3-6074-40b8-a6bf-b7a136a76224_1198x276.gif) + +](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7e74e9c3-6074-40b8-a6bf-b7a136a76224_1198x276.gif) + +Ten days after the video’s release, Jason tells me he had a divine encounter with the Holy Spirit. While a pastor read Psalm 46 (“The God of Jacob is our refuge”), he fell to his knees and began to cry on the church floor. He felt a spirit move through him. “God, how are you doing this?” he asked.  + +Jason experienced auditory hallucinations for the first and only time in his life three days later. This is the first time he’s told this part of the story. + +“Those that have tried for world peace have had to pass this test,” the voice said. “You can be Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela.”  + +“OK, whatever it takes,” Jason said to the voice. In that second, he felt a heavy sensation in his head which soon spread to the rest of his body. He became weightless, gravity escaping him. He felt like a marionette, strings pulled by some unknown force. Time sped up. Time slowed down. Timshel left his body. Fate became him. He took to the streets, wearing only underwear and a bathrobe, which he soon removed. He pounded his fists on the hot pavement. He shouted. He cursed. A passerby caught him on camera, selling the footage to TMZ for $30,000, according to Jason. + +Back in the Invisible Children offices, the communications department had been restlessly checking articles and online criticisms of *Kony 2012* for the past week and a half. On the morning of March 16, they saw a headline indicating that Jason had been masturbating in the street (a TMZ exaggeration — Jason is naked in the video, but is not masturbating). “Look at this,” Krista told a fellow staff writer, believing it was cheap gossip, clickbait. Together, they read the TMZ article, scrolling down to find the footage of Jason on the streets at the bottom of the page. “This I’ll never forget,” Krista says. “My fellow writer fell to her knees, fell to the ground. Legs collapsed. It was absolutely unreal.”  + +[ + +![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ff34715-faa6-408c-bae6-a0af4afc65a6_2580x1935.jpeg) + +](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ff34715-faa6-408c-bae6-a0af4afc65a6_2580x1935.jpeg) + +Jason on a television set for an interview during his press tour for Kony 2012. (Photo courtesy of Jason Russell) + +Krista then gathered all 10 of the interns together, flocking them into her office. “We didn’t want them to see it, as if we could keep it from them forever.” From her office, she texted Jason’s sister. “Tell me this is not happening,” she said. “Not in the way they’re saying it is,” Janie responded.  + +As the Invisible Children G-Chat was exploding with messages from confused, exasperated staff, Ben Keesey, the CEO — who was hired by Jason and fellow founders Laren and Bobby — immediately called an all-hands-on meeting. He told them everything he knew: Jason had fallen ill, he had taken to the streets, a passerby captured him on camera, he had been hospitalized. After confirming the news, almost everybody in the office began to cry. They experienced utter devastation. They understood immediately that their several months’ worth of work had now been for nothing. “It was heartbreaking, nauseating,” Krista says. + +For 36 hours, Invisible Children went dark. “Not because we weren’t going to deal with the aftermath, but because we had to protect our own selves, else we would all become Jason,” Krista says. Everyone went home. Krista slept for 14 hours. When she woke, she believed she was still dreaming. + +When the staff returned to the office, Tiffany Keesey, the CEO’s wife and HR manager, had yoga professionals and therapists come in while everyone else was making a list of words to block from the Invisible Children social media accounts. The most common word — and one that most of the staff had never come across before — was “fap.” “Apparently it’s the sound of masturbation,” Krista says. “We were drowning in ‘fap.’”  + +Despite sold-out screenings across the nation, there was talk of bringing the roadies home. “Things were bad in the office, but I can’t even imagine what the roadies were going through,” Krista says. + +Saul and his team were right outside of Chicago when they heard the news. They pulled into a McDonald’s parking lot when they received an email from the Invisible Children’s offices: “Standby, you’re about to receive a call from your regional manager.” + +Jess — the person responsible for overseeing the Midwest team — called shortly. “We thought, ‘Oh shit, we’re going to have to spend the next several weeks talking about this, not about the programs or how to write letters to senators or the Invisible Children finances, *this,*’” Saul says. The team sat down in the parking lot and briefly scattered to have some time in private. Saul called his dad. “I think it’s all over,” he told him. Instead, the team came back together, and stayed on the road. They made it through those scheduled screenings, but it was a major comedown. “It wasn’t the following several weeks that were the toughest,” Saul says. “It was the summer after we got off the road, when I was alone.”  + +On April 20th, “Cover The Night” — an initiative that was supposed to mobilize the crowds swayed by *Kony 2012* away from their screens and onto the streets, where they’d paste posters of Kony all over buildings, lampposts and shop windows — inspired a paltry turnout. The few posters that were spread were quickly swept up by street cleaners come morning.  + +[ + +![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5992fe98-97e4-444c-bd18-faa5e60c513e_1935x2580.jpeg) + +](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5992fe98-97e4-444c-bd18-faa5e60c513e_1935x2580.jpeg) + +During the recording for Kony 2012, an Invisible Children team member puts up a wall poster to visualize the “Cover The Night” action planned to take place on April 20th. (Photo courtesy of Jason Russell) + +Jason was ultimately hospitalized for several weeks. A statement by his family at the time said the diagnosis was a “brief reactive psychosis, an acute state brought on by extreme exhaustion, stress and dehydration.” + +In December 2012 — nine months after the video’s release — the Invisible Children staff lit a bonfire in the office parking lot. The leadership had been talking about a tradition among rescued L.R.A. soldiers, how, when they returned home, they’d burn the clothes they’d been abducted in. They suggested trying something similar. Leadership had everyone write down something they had been struggling with. They threw their pieces of paper into the fire, and thought about healing. + +“I will always be grateful to Invisible Children. … Hard as it was sometimes, \[it\] kind of shaped me into who I am today, and I’m always gonna be grateful for that,” Saul says. It’s a shared sentiment among everyone I spoke to (though, out of the dozens of former staff and roadies I reached out to, most didn’t reply). “It’s PTSD,” Jason explains. “Most people don’t want to talk.”  + +In late 2014, Invisible Children underwent a significant restructuring and downsizing. Lisa Dougan, who had worked with the company across the *Kony 2012* campaign, replaced Ben Keesey as CEO. In 2015, they prepared to shut down. “We worked with our Central African staff and local partners to prepare for a closure,” Lisa says. The funding spigot had been turned off, not only for Invisible Children, but she also “witnessed almost every other international organization supporting L.R.A.-affected communities shut down their operations due to lack of funding,” Lisa tells me. “In D.R.C., the number of international organizations working in L.R.A.-affected areas dropped from 19 to 2, one of which was Invisible Children.”  + +With L.R.A. violence still ongoing at that time, Invisible Children decided instead to remain open, installing a transition team that was led by Lisa, who mapped out a strategy to help sustain Invisible Children’s work in Central Africa. Between 2015 and 2016, they obtained a number of grants that would permit them to maintain a smaller-scale operation. In 2017, they secured a five-year partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development, allowing them to significantly expand their program.  + +“As a woman of color now leading Invisible Children, I am thankful for the public conversations triggered by the *Kony 2012* campaign about white saviorism and about whose perspectives are centered in storytelling,” Lisa says. “And thanks largely to the work of BIPOC women activists and organizers, these conversations and demands for concrete action to address white saviorism and other forms of structural white supremacy have advanced so much further over the last 10 years.” + +Creative storytelling continues to play an integral role in Invisible Children’s strategy, “but we use it quite differently now and in a way that I believe further embodies our values,” Lisa says. “Since 2013, we have been producing films *by, with and for* central Africans rather than for a U.S. or international audience.”  + +Jason stayed on with Invisible Children until December 2014. A month after departing, he founded a new creative agency, Broomstick Engine, which, in its eight years of operation, has strategized and launched campaigns for the likes of Toms Shoes and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Jason no longer has any involvement with Invisible Children. “My job now is to basically make white savior movies for organizations,” he tells me.  + +[ + +![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F168421d8-a7d7-44ac-b2b5-b621355382d6_2580x1720.jpeg) + +](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F168421d8-a7d7-44ac-b2b5-b621355382d6_2580x1720.jpeg) + +Peacebuilding training led by Invisible Children with a local volunteer Peace Committee in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo. (Photo courtesy Invisible Children) + +In 2017, Jason released his Kickstarter-funded book *A Little Radical: The ABC’s Of Activism*, co-authored with wife Danica. It’s a children’s book breaking down the fundamentals of humanitarian advocacy, featuring photos of their own children. Today, he works on a freelance basis, collaborating with numerous clients on script production, post-production and animation. He still appears to be friends with many people in Hollywood; this year, he watched the Oscars (his favorite event of the year) with singer-songwriter Lorde. He does yoga. While he used to work all through the night, today he sticks to a stricter routine, going to bed no later than 10:30 p.m.  + +He still thinks about Joseph Kony and the children of Uganda. “Every day I find it hard to believe Kony has not been captured,” Jason tells me — though for now, his sights are set somewhere else, toward gun reform in America. + +He sits up in his seat and begins something like a pitch. “So, my idea is controversial. My idea is too big to imagine, but I still want to try it because I think it has to be so disruptive and so strong that people can’t dismiss it.” + +Step one: Make a viral video. “But I’m not in it, it will be a child talking to the screen: ‘Please help, we need you.’”  + +Step two: Meet up in spaces across America that have been subject to mass shootings: concerts, movie theaters, schools, churches, synagogues. + +Step three: Pick a route and march from your chosen building to the freeway, and spread out. If a car tries to get past, you will be blocked, or you’ll have to run us over with your car, “which hopefully no one will do.”  + +Jason already has a name for the campaign: Do Nothing.  + +“You thought that the pandemic made you do nothing? No. How about you can’t get on the freeway? Then you’ll do nothing. Will we have routes for ambulances? Probably. Will we have a physical barricade \[preventing cars from getting on and off\]? Probably. Will Lady Gaga do a concert on the 405? Absolutely. It’s going to be historic, it’s going to feel like the French Revolution.” + +This all sounds familiar, I tell him. He smiles at me when I say part of me worries for him. Where does creativity end and madness begin? Where does God stop and mania start? If they exist on the same thread, then it’s a tightrope Jason will have to tread carefully. + +Just over a decade after attempting to alter the course of human history, Jason Russell is still determined to shape humanity’s story. Only, now that he’s in his mid-40s, on the other side of a major breakdown, the fire in his eyes has dulled to a calm flame — he’s no longer willing to lose sleep over it. This may not be the story of a boy who saved the world, but rather the story of a boy who was forced to grow up.  + +***Emma Madden** is a journalist primarily based in Brighton, England. They have written for the New York Times, GQ, The Guardian, among others.* + +***Brendan Spiegel** is the Editorial Director and Co-Founder of Narratively.* + +***Yunuen Bonaparte*** *is Narratively’s Photo Editor.* + +  +  + +--- +`$= dv.el('center', 'Source: ' + dv.current().Link + ', ' + dv.current().Date.toLocaleString("fr-FR"))` \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/00.03 News/The Inside Job A crooked cop, a dead man and an $800,000 estate fraud.md b/00.03 News/The Inside Job A crooked cop, a dead man and an $800,000 estate fraud.md index 00a9cbdc..65affeaf 100644 --- a/00.03 News/The Inside Job A crooked cop, a dead man and an $800,000 estate fraud.md +++ b/00.03 News/The Inside Job A crooked cop, a dead man and an $800,000 estate fraud.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ CollapseMetaTable: true --- Parent:: [[@News|News]] -Read:: 🟥 +Read:: [[2023-10-14]] --- @@ -103,8 +103,6 @@ Consumed with thoughts of her boyfriend and their love triangle, she confided in The OPGT has a history of employees exploiting the clients under their care. In 1990, a cache of client gold and jewellery worth $40,000 disappeared from a vault in the OPGT’s Bay Street office. Police couldn’t lay charges because sloppy record-keeping obscured the trail of evidence. By 2004, the agency was handling more than $1 billion in assets for 9,000 clients. An audit by the province found that the OPGT’s fund managers were mismanaging its clients’ money, in one instance making choices so ill-informed that they frittered away nearly all of a client’s $3-million stockholding. In 2007, investigators discovered that an OPGT employee named Preadorshani Biazar had been siphoning money from 52 of her mentally ill, homeless and dead clients over 12 years, forging documents and holding fraudulent debit cards in her clients’ names. She stole a total of $1.23 million, using the funds to pay down the mortgage on her Leaside home, buy a BMW X5, and take vacations to Dubai, Las Vegas, Mont-Tremblant and across Europe with her unemployed husband and their three children. (She pleaded guilty in 2009 and was sentenced to three years in prison.) -***Related:** [The Bridle Path mansion, the missing millions and the investigation that blew open a massive mortgage scam](https://torontolife.com/city/bridle-path-mansion-missing-millions-investigation-blew-open-massive-mortgage-scam/)* - Nearly 10 years after that, in 2018, the auditor general released another damning report. The agency still wasn’t safeguarding the interests of its now 12,000 clients. Weak internal controls, especially when it came to tracking clients’ assets, allowed for the possibility that those assets could get lost or misappropriated, the audit found. The agency expected its employees to know how to identify fraudulent ID presented by people claiming to be heirs to estates but never trained them in how to do that. By 2020, a follow-up report found that less than half of the suggestions made in 2018 had been implemented. Faced with a growing client roster of aging Boomers, the OPGT’s needs are increasing, forcing its staff to do more with less and leaving more details overlooked. Seniors are among society’s most vulnerable populations, and elder abuse rates are on the rise, according to the World Health Organization. Scammers now tailor their schemes to the elderly, who are often isolated and have money in the bank. And their target base is growing: according to Statistics Canada, seniors will make up almost a quarter of Canada’s population by 2031. It’s no surprise, then, that financial abuse is one of the most common kinds of elder mistreatment. diff --git a/00.03 News/The inequality of heat.md b/00.03 News/The inequality of heat.md index 78a1ac4d..73f4c6a2 100644 --- a/00.03 News/The inequality of heat.md +++ b/00.03 News/The inequality of heat.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ CollapseMetaTable: true --- Parent:: [[@News|News]] -Read:: 🟥 +Read:: [[2023-10-14]] --- @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ Using data from a sophisticated heat sensor mounted on a backpack, The Post foun Overall, there was a big temperature gap between the city’s lower-income neighborhoods and more affluent and suburban locales. -The air temperature in Salt Lake, a planned suburban community that sits about seven miles northeast of Mumtaz’s neighborhood and was built in the 1960s, was about 5 degrees Fahrenheit lower than in was about 5 degrees Fahrenheit lower than in Kasia Bagan. The community is heavily shaded, with tree cover exceeding 30 percent in some areas, according to The Post’s analysis. By contrast, the area around Kasia Bagan has just 14 percent tree cover, extremely low for a tropical climate. +The air temperature in Salt Lake, a planned suburban community that sits about seven miles northeast of Mumtaz’s neighborhood and was built in the 1960s, was about 5 degrees Fahrenheit lower than in Kasia Bagan. The community is heavily shaded, with tree cover exceeding 30 percent in some areas, according to The Post’s analysis. By contrast, the area around Kasia Bagan has just 14 percent tree cover, extremely low for a tropical climate. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a lack of investment in Kolkata’s segregated, poor neighborhoods leaves them highly vulnerable to the city’s expected climate catastrophes, including high-intensity cyclones. The Bay of Bengal is warming, and the Sunderbans — the fragile mangrove ecosystem that long protected the city — are being lost to sea-level rise, which in turn propels hundreds of climate migrants a year to Kolkata’s slums. @@ -264,8 +264,6 @@ The plan would expand the city’s efforts to plant more trees and reduce its de “There are no short-term methods,” Kumar said. “We destroyed the environment over a long time — you can’t expect it to be fixed overnight. We are just starting the process.” -Map showing tree cover in Kolkata, India - Mittal criticized the city for doing little to protect residents in extreme heat “other than issuing alerts from time to time” and shuttering schools. The government and civil society must take better care of the elderly and vulnerable, he said, by creating shaded structures on the street, distributing umbrellas and ordering work times be shifted to cooler parts of the day. “The government should look at the Quest Mall incident with alarm, for how the law and its institutions can be challenged in future because of heat,” Mittal said. “Today they went inside the mall, tomorrow they could go inside a clinic, a showroom or a shop … Why should they not? They are desperate and they need relief.” diff --git a/00.03 News/The radical earnestness of Tony P.md b/00.03 News/The radical earnestness of Tony P.md index 84a0bb6c..ea079638 100644 --- a/00.03 News/The radical earnestness of Tony P.md +++ b/00.03 News/The radical earnestness of Tony P.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ CollapseMetaTable: true --- Parent:: [[@News|News]] -Read:: 🟥 +Read:: [[2023-10-11]] --- diff --git a/01.01 Life Orga/@Life Admin.md b/01.01 Life Orga/@Life Admin.md index 823ff8df..d733bfce 100644 --- a/01.01 Life Orga/@Life Admin.md +++ b/01.01 Life Orga/@Life Admin.md @@ -126,7 +126,8 @@ style: number   -- [ ] :scissors: [[@Life Admin|Life Admin]]: Cut hair %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months 📅 2023-10-08 +- [ ] :scissors: [[@Life Admin|Life Admin]]: Cut hair %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months 📅 2024-01-08 +- [x] :scissors: [[@Life Admin|Life Admin]]: Cut hair %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months 📅 2023-10-08 ✅ 2023-10-14 - [x] :scissors: [[@Life Admin|Life Admin]]: Cut hair %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months 📅 2023-07-08 ✅ 2023-07-08 - [x] :scissors: [[@Life Admin|Life Admin]]: Cut hair %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months 📅 2023-04-08 ✅ 2023-05-31 - [x] :scissors: [[@Life Admin|Life Admin]]: Cut hair %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months 📅 2023-01-08 ✅ 2023-01-06 diff --git a/01.02 Home/@Shopping list.md b/01.02 Home/@Shopping list.md index 531285ae..d1a8883c 100644 --- a/01.02 Home/@Shopping list.md +++ b/01.02 Home/@Shopping list.md @@ -128,8 +128,8 @@ style: number - [x] 🧅 Onions ✅ 2023-09-06 - [x] 🧅 Spring onion ✅ 2023-09-06 - [x] 🧄 Garlic ✅ 2023-01-19 -- [x] 🍋 Lemon ✅ 2023-06-12 -- [x] 🍋 Lime ✅ 2023-09-06 +- [x] 🍋 Lemon ✅ 2023-10-16 +- [x] 🍋 Lime ✅ 2023-10-16 - [x] 🫐 Pomegranate seeds ✅ 2023-10-09   @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ style: number - [x] 🧂 Cumin ✅ 2022-03-14 - [x] 🧂 Garam masala ✅ 2022-03-14 - [x] 🌰 Nutmeg ✅ 2022-03-14 -- [x] 🫚 Ginger ✅ 2022-03-14 +- [x] 🫚 Ginger ✅ 2023-10-16 - [x] 🧂 Curcuma ✅ 2022-03-14 - [x] 🧂 Cinamon sticks ✅ 2022-11-15 - [x] 🧂Ground cinamon ✅ 2023-03-11 @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ style: number - [x] 🌿 Bay leaves ✅ 2022-08-05 - [x] 🌿 Oregano ✅ 2022-03-14 - [x] 🌿 Herbes de Provence ✅ 2022-03-14 -- [x] 🌿 Coriander ✅ 2023-09-06 +- [x] 🌿 Coriander ✅ 2023-10-16 - [x] 🌿 Parsley ✅ 2023-10-08 - [x] 🌿 Fresh mint ✅ 2023-01-09 @@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ style: number - [x] 🦷 toothpaste ✅ 2023-03-26 - [x] 👂earbuds ✅ 2023-04-18 - [x] 🪒 razor blades (mach3) ✅ 2022-02-06 -- [x] 🍦 shaving cream ✅ 2022-02-06 +- [x] 🍦 shaving cream ✅ 2023-10-12 - [x] 🧻 loo rolls ✅ 2023-03-26 - [x] 🦨 deo ✅ 2022-02-06 @@ -261,6 +261,7 @@ style: number - [x] 🫧 Stain remover ✅ 2022-12-23 - [x] 🧻 Kitchen towel ✅ 2022-12-19 - [x] 🧽 Sponge ✅ 2023-01-18 +- [x] 🧴 Dish soap ✅ 2023-10-16 - [x] 🍽️ Dishwasher tablets ✅ 2023-02-26 - [x] 🧂Dishwasher salt ✅ 2023-01-18 - [x] 🚰 Dishwasher rinsing aid ✅ 2023-08-12 @@ -277,6 +278,7 @@ style: number   - [x] 🔋 Battery for weighing scale (CR2032, 3V) ✅ 2023-08-12 +- [x] 🚰 Brita filters ✅ 2023-10-17     \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/01.02 Home/Household.md b/01.02 Home/Household.md index c0761a29..0562e323 100644 --- a/01.02 Home/Household.md +++ b/01.02 Home/Household.md @@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ style: number - [ ] ♻ [[Household]]: *Paper* recycling collection %%done_del%% 🔁 every 2 weeks on Tuesday 📅 2023-10-24 - [x] ♻ [[Household]]: *Paper* recycling collection %%done_del%% 🔁 every 2 weeks on Tuesday 📅 2023-10-10 ✅ 2023-10-10 -- [ ] ♻ [[Household]]: *Cardboard* recycling collection %%done_del%% 🔁 every 2 weeks on Tuesday 📅 2023-10-17 +- [ ] ♻ [[Household]]: *Cardboard* recycling collection %%done_del%% 🔁 every 2 weeks on Tuesday 📅 2023-10-31 +- [x] ♻ [[Household]]: *Cardboard* recycling collection %%done_del%% 🔁 every 2 weeks on Tuesday 📅 2023-10-17 ✅ 2023-10-16 - [x] ♻ [[Household]]: *Cardboard* recycling collection %%done_del%% 🔁 every 2 weeks on Tuesday 📅 2023-10-03 ✅ 2023-10-02   @@ -83,16 +84,19 @@ style: number #### 🏠 House chores - [ ] 🛎️ :house: [[Household]]: Pay rent %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the last 📅 2023-10-31 -- [ ] 🛎 🧻 REMINDER [[Household]]: check need for toilet paper %%done_del%% 🔁 every week 📅 2023-10-16 +- [ ] 🛎 🧻 REMINDER [[Household]]: check need for toilet paper %%done_del%% 🔁 every week 📅 2023-10-23 +- [x] 🛎 🧻 REMINDER [[Household]]: check need for toilet paper %%done_del%% 🔁 every week 📅 2023-10-16 ✅ 2023-10-16 - [x] 🛎 🧻 REMINDER [[Household]]: check need for toilet paper %%done_del%% 🔁 every week 📅 2023-10-09 ✅ 2023-10-09 -- [ ] :bed: [[Household]] Change bedsheets %%done_del%% 🔁 every 2 weeks on Saturday 📅 2023-10-14 +- [ ] :bed: [[Household]] Change bedsheets %%done_del%% 🔁 every 2 weeks on Saturday 📅 2023-10-28 +- [x] :bed: [[Household]] Change bedsheets %%done_del%% 🔁 every 2 weeks on Saturday 📅 2023-10-14 ✅ 2023-10-13   #### 🚙 Car - [ ] :blue_car: [[Household]]: Change to Summer tyres %%done_del%% 🔁 every year 📅 2024-04-15 -- [ ] :blue_car: [[Household]]: Change to Winter tyres %%done_del%% 🔁 every year 📅 2023-10-15 +- [ ] :blue_car: [[Household]]: Change to Winter tyres %%done_del%% 🔁 every year 📅 2024-10-15 +- [x] :blue_car: [[Household]]: Change to Winter tyres %%done_del%% 🔁 every year 📅 2023-10-15 ✅ 2023-10-13     \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/01.03 Family/Evrard de Villeneuve.md b/01.03 Family/Evrard de Villeneuve.md index 2d86e473..8a726a6f 100644 --- a/01.03 Family/Evrard de Villeneuve.md +++ b/01.03 Family/Evrard de Villeneuve.md @@ -103,7 +103,8 @@ style: number   -- [w] :birthday: **[[Evrard de Villeneuve|Évrard]]** %%done_del%% 🔁 every year 📅 2023-10-14 +- [ ] :birthday: **[[Evrard de Villeneuve|Évrard]]** %%done_del%% 🔁 every year 📅 2024-10-14 +- [x] :birthday: **[[Evrard de Villeneuve|Évrard]]** %%done_del%% 🔁 every year 📅 2023-10-14 ✅ 2023-10-14 - [x] :birthday: **[[Evrard de Villeneuve|Évrard]]** 🔁 every year 📅 2022-10-14 ✅ 2022-10-14 - [x] :birthday: **Évrard** 🔁 every year 📅 2021-10-14 ✅ 2021-10-14 diff --git a/01.03 Family/Olympe Bédier.md b/01.03 Family/Olympe Bédier.md index 7296c6ad..7dad9930 100644 --- a/01.03 Family/Olympe Bédier.md +++ b/01.03 Family/Olympe Bédier.md @@ -103,7 +103,8 @@ style: number   -- [w] :birthday: **[[Olympe Bédier|Olympe]]** %%done_del%% 🔁 every year 📅 2023-10-14 +- [ ] :birthday: **[[Olympe Bédier|Olympe]]** %%done_del%% 🔁 every year 📅 2024-10-14 +- [x] :birthday: **[[Olympe Bédier|Olympe]]** %%done_del%% 🔁 every year 📅 2023-10-14 ✅ 2023-10-14 - [x] :birthday: **[[Olympe Bédier|Olympe]]** 🔁 every year 📅 2022-10-14 ✅ 2022-10-14 - [x] :birthday: **Olympe** 🔁 every year 📅 2021-10-14 ✅ 2021-10-14 diff --git a/01.08 Garden/Kolkowitzia.md b/01.08 Garden/Kolkowitzia.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..57732cfe --- /dev/null +++ b/01.08 Garden/Kolkowitzia.md @@ -0,0 +1,114 @@ +--- + +Alias: ["Kolkowitze"] +Tag: ["🪴", "🌺"] +Date: 2023-10-12 +DocType: "Plant" +Hierarchy: "NonRoot" +TimeStamp: +location: +CollapseMetaTable: true +cssclass: recipeTable +Plant: + SciName: "Kolkowitzia amabilis" + Origin: "China" + Size: "Up to 2m" + FlowerColour: ["Pink", "White"] + FlowerSeason: ["May to June"] + State: Seasonal + Exposition: Sun + Maintenance: "Water 3 times a week" + WinterTolerance: "-15C" +banner: + +--- + +Parent:: [[@Plants|Plants]] + +--- + +  + +```button +name Save +type command +action Save current file +id Save +``` +^button-KolkowitziaNSave + +# Kolkowitzia + +  + +> [!summary]+ +>Description + +  + +```toc +style: number +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### 📇 Summary + +  + +| | | +| ------------------------ | -------------------------------------- | +| 📇 **Scientific Name**: | `$=dv.current().Plant.SciName` | +| 🗺 **Origin**: | `$=dv.current().Plant.Origin` | +| 🌺 **Colour**: | `$=dv.current().Plant.FlowerColour` | +| 📆 **Flowering**: | `$=dv.current().Plant.FlowerSeason` | +| 🔄 **Plant cycle**: | `$=dv.current().Plant.State` | +| 🌻 **Exposition**: | `$=dv.current().Plant.Exposition` | +| 🚿 **Maintenance:** | `$=dv.current().Plant.Maintenance` | +| ❄️ **Winter resistance** | `$=dv.current().Plant.WinterTolerance` | +| 📏 **Growth** | `$=dv.current().Plant.Size` | + +  + +--- + +  + +### 📝 Notes + +  + + +  + +--- + +  + +### 📜 History + +  + +Delivered from Hornbach on [[2023-10-12|12 October 2023]] +Potted in a 8L pot + +  + +--- + +  + +### 📸 Pictures + +  + +```gallery +path=00.01 Admin/Pictures/Kolkowitzia +imgWidth=100 +divWidth=100 +``` + diff --git a/01.08 Garden/Viorne Tin.md b/01.08 Garden/Viorne Tin.md index cbae573d..90fd2017 100644 --- a/01.08 Garden/Viorne Tin.md +++ b/01.08 Garden/Viorne Tin.md @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ style: number   -- [ ] :potted_plant: [[Viorne Tin]]: Re-empotter dans plus grand (curr. 8L) 📅2024-03-31 +- [x] :potted_plant: [[Viorne Tin]]: Re-empotter dans plus grand (curr. 8L) 📅 2024-03-31 ✅ 2023-10-12   @@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ style: number Bought on [[2023-10-03|3rd October 2023]] Transferred into a 8L pot (from 7L) +[[2023-10-12|12th October 2023]], plant re-potted into a 10.2L pot +   --- diff --git a/02.03 Zürich/Juan Bautista Bossio.md b/02.03 Zürich/Juan Bautista Bossio.md index 9ee61482..c79d16d6 100644 --- a/02.03 Zürich/Juan Bautista Bossio.md +++ b/02.03 Zürich/Juan Bautista Bossio.md @@ -100,7 +100,8 @@ style: number   -- [ ] :horse_racing: [[Juan Bautista Bossio|Juan]]: Bring a bottle of fernet + normal coca cola %%done_del%% 🔁 every month 📅 2023-10-20 +- [ ] :horse_racing: [[Juan Bautista Bossio|Juan]]: Bring a bottle of fernet + normal coca cola %%done_del%% 🔁 every month 📅 2023-11-20 +- [x] :horse_racing: [[Juan Bautista Bossio|Juan]]: Bring a bottle of fernet + normal coca cola %%done_del%% 🔁 every month 📅 2023-10-20 ✅ 2023-10-14 - [x] :horse_racing: [[Juan Bautista Bossio|Juan]]: Bring a bottle of fernet + normal coca cola %%done_del%% 🔁 every month 📅 2023-09-20 ✅ 2023-09-23 - [x] :horse_racing: [[Juan Bautista Bossio|Juan]]: Bring a bottle of fernet + normal coca cola %%done_del%% 🔁 every month 📅 2023-08-20 ✅ 2023-08-22 diff --git a/04.01 lebv.org/lebv Research Tasks.md b/04.01 lebv.org/lebv Research Tasks.md index d0e3ddbd..7f5f4a9c 100644 --- a/04.01 lebv.org/lebv Research Tasks.md +++ b/04.01 lebv.org/lebv Research Tasks.md @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Overview of tasks & todos for lebv.org   -- [ ] :fleur_de_lis: [[lebv Research Tasks|Research]]: Lieux: que sont devenus Fleurimont & Le Pavillon aujourd'hui? 📅 2023-10-31 +- [ ] :fleur_de_lis: [[lebv Research Tasks|Research]]: Lieux: que sont devenus Fleurimont & Le Pavillon aujourd'hui? 📅 2024-02-25 - [ ] :fleur_de_lis: [[lebv Research Tasks|Research]]: membres de la famille: reprendre les citations militaires (promotion/décoration) 📅 2024-03-31 - [ ] :fleur_de_lis: [[lebv Research Tasks|Research]]: membres de la famille: éplucher les mentions du Nobiliaire de Guyenne & Gascogne 📅 2023-12-31 - [x] [[lebv Research Tasks|Research]]: Archivage: compléter les fichiers de Source diff --git a/05.01 Computer setup/Storage and Syncing.md b/05.01 Computer setup/Storage and Syncing.md index e7fa3dfd..db9148e9 100644 --- a/05.01 Computer setup/Storage and Syncing.md +++ b/05.01 Computer setup/Storage and Syncing.md @@ -175,7 +175,8 @@ The following Apps require a manual backup: - [ ] Backup [[Storage and Syncing#Instructions for Anchor|Anchor Wallet]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Thursday 📅 2024-01-04 - [x] Backup [[Storage and Syncing#Instructions for Anchor|Anchor Wallet]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Thursday 📅 2023-10-05 ✅ 2023-10-03 - [x] Backup [[Storage and Syncing#Instructions for Anchor|Anchor Wallet]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Thursday 📅 2023-07-06 ✅ 2023-07-06 -- [ ] :iphone: Backup [[Storage and Syncing#Instructions for iPhone|iPhone]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 2nd Tuesday 📅 2023-10-10 +- [ ] :iphone: Backup [[Storage and Syncing#Instructions for iPhone|iPhone]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 2nd Tuesday 📅 2024-01-09 +- [x] :iphone: Backup [[Storage and Syncing#Instructions for iPhone|iPhone]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 2nd Tuesday 📅 2023-10-10 ✅ 2023-10-10 - [x] :iphone: Backup [[Storage and Syncing#Instructions for iPhone|iPhone]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 2nd Tuesday 📅 2023-07-11 ✅ 2023-07-13 - [x] :iphone: Backup [[Storage and Syncing#Instructions for iPhone|iPhone]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 2nd Tuesday 📅 2023-04-11 ✅ 2023-04-11 - [ ] :floppy_disk: Backup [[Storage and Syncing#Instructions for FV|Folder Vault]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Friday 📅 2024-01-05 @@ -185,7 +186,8 @@ The following Apps require a manual backup: - [ ] :cloud: [[Storage and Syncing|Storage & Sync]]: Backup Volumes to [[Sync|Sync.com]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 2nd Monday 📅 2023-12-11 - [x] :cloud: [[Storage and Syncing|Storage & Sync]]: Backup Volumes to [[Sync|Sync.com]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 2nd Monday 📅 2023-09-11 ✅ 2023-09-11 - [x] :cloud: [[Storage and Syncing|Storage & Sync]]: Backup Volumes to [[Sync|Sync.com]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 2nd Monday 📅 2023-06-12 ✅ 2023-06-12 -- [ ] :camera: [[Storage and Syncing|Storage & Sync]]: Transfer pictures to ED %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 2nd Thursday 📅 2023-10-12 +- [ ] :camera: [[Storage and Syncing|Storage & Sync]]: Transfer pictures to ED %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 2nd Thursday 📅 2024-01-11 +- [x] :camera: [[Storage and Syncing|Storage & Sync]]: Transfer pictures to ED %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 2nd Thursday 📅 2023-10-12 ✅ 2023-10-12 - [x] :camera: [[Storage and Syncing|Storage & Sync]]: Transfer pictures to ED %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 2nd Thursday 📅 2023-07-13 ✅ 2023-07-13 - [x] :camera: [[Storage and Syncing|Storage & Sync]]: Transfer pictures to ED %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 2nd Thursday 📅 2023-04-13 ✅ 2023-04-13 diff --git a/05.02 Networks/Configuring UFW.md b/05.02 Networks/Configuring UFW.md index d1f7d6a6..dac4f585 100644 --- a/05.02 Networks/Configuring UFW.md +++ b/05.02 Networks/Configuring UFW.md @@ -237,7 +237,8 @@ sudo bash /etc/addip4ban/addip4ban.sh #### Ban List Tasks -- [ ] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2023-10-14 +- [ ] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2023-10-21 +- [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2023-10-14 ✅ 2023-10-13 - [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2023-10-07 ✅ 2023-10-06 - [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2023-09-30 ✅ 2023-09-29 - [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2023-09-23 ✅ 2023-09-23 @@ -276,7 +277,8 @@ sudo bash /etc/addip4ban/addip4ban.sh - [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2023-08-12 ✅ 2023-08-07 - [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2023-08-05 ✅ 2023-08-05 - [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2023-07-29 ✅ 2023-08-04 -- [ ] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]]: Update the Blocked IP list %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on Saturday 📅 2023-10-14 +- [ ] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]]: Update the Blocked IP list %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on Saturday 📅 2023-10-21 +- [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]]: Update the Blocked IP list %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on Saturday 📅 2023-10-14 ✅ 2023-10-13 - [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]]: Update the Blocked IP list %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on Saturday 📅 2023-10-07 ✅ 2023-10-06 - [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]]: Update the Blocked IP list %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on Saturday 📅 2023-09-30 ✅ 2023-09-29 - [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]]: Update the Blocked IP list %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on Saturday 📅 2023-09-23 ✅ 2023-09-23