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Science journalist specializing in aviation & technology. Feature in Netflix doc "MH370: The Plane That Disappeared." More:

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Jeff Wise
5 years
"'The Taking of MH-370' [is] an astonishing performance. Wise goes through every piece of evidence, every report, every word... Read this stunning piece of investigative journalism" -- @jpodhoretz , editor-in-chief of Commentary magazine
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I'm deeply grateful to @NormEisen , @harrylitman , @scottjshapiro , Mary McCord, Bennett Gershman, @SheilMartin , @stevel3000 , Victoria Bassetti, Jon Moses & others whose expertise helped guide me through the complexities of presidential prosecution
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1 year
Eight years ago I wrote a piece for @NYMag called "How crazy am I to think I actually know where that Malaysia Airlines plane is?" Today we still don't know whether I'm crazy or not. Here's my latest, explaning why it's still important to keep at it.
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I got lots of #MH370 Qs after the @Netflix documentary "MH370: The Plane that Disappeared"aired so I made a video to try to answer some of the most commmon ones. Big thanks to my friend and interlocutor @sarahwynter
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4 years
Before he was a politician, Donald Trump was a criminal. Here's how his lifelong crime spree will come to an end.
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6 years
Essential reading from @DavidCornDC in @MotherJones : "The Most Important Election of Our Lives" "The midterms will determine whether Donald Trump’s two-year assault on democratic norms will be repudiated—or validated. No pressure."
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3 years
It's been interesting to watch the mainstream media (me included) slowly recognize the vast & naked fraud of crypto hiding in plain sight. None of us could have dont it w/o @bitfinexed . Thx also to @casPiancey , @BennettTomlin
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Nine years ago today, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur and was never seen again. Friends and family members of the 239 passengers & crew still don't have any answers. The authorities have given up. Here's why that's not acceptable
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Jeff Wise
2 years
It hasn't gotten all that much attention, but the new COVID drug Paxlovid could mark a turning point in the pandemic, virtually eliminating the risk of death for those who can take it. The biggest problem might be that more people don't know about it
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1 year
I think that the mystery of MH370 is solvable & that the biggest obstacle right now is the authorities' unwillingness to admit that their failure so far could be because they made a faulty assumption at the start. Today I'm trying to convince Australia:
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Jeff Wise
4 years
Left, Trump's personal doctor, Harold Bornstein. Right, Didier Raoult, promoter of Trump's favorite coronavirus cure
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Jeff Wise
5 years
The deaths of more than 300 people in two 737 Max airplanes didn't come out of nowhere. They were the result of a decades-long assault against "job-killing regulations."
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I can't believe it, but next week is the 10th anniversary of the disappearance of #MH370 . I remember at the time saying, "Can you believe it's been a whole week & we still don't know where this plane is?" Then: "Can you believe it's been a month..." 1/
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@JeffreyGoldberg @lpolgreen "All Lives Matter" WWII edition
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Jeff Wise
1 year
Going live with @smerconish @CNN in about 15 minutes to talk about #MH370 and the new Netflix doc series "MH370: The Plane That Disappeared."
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1 year
9 years later....where is #MH370 ? Tweet me now and I will read some on @CNN @cnni when @ManvBrain joins me to discuss.
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4 years
@salimfurth Looking at deaths rather than cases allows you to chop off the punchline in the US chart. That spike in cases on the right-hand end? That's caused by premature reopening & anti-mask sentiment in MAGA states, and it will inevitably lead to a time-displaced spike in deaths
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Jeff Wise
4 years
We don't know what caused Kobe Bryant's crash, but the conditions were similar to those that have killed a lot of helicopter pilots in the past. Here's what happened-- & the one simple decision that could have prevented the tragedy
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2 years
If I had to sum up my thoughts on Long Covid, I'd say: If you have a debilitating condition with which there are only two therapies of demonstrated efficacy, I'd try them.
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@IwriteOK When celebrities die of overdose their toxicology report inevitably reveals that they were on like 9 different things.
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Jeff Wise
2 years
@TuesdayMotley @christogrozev It's a currency exchange. The exchange rate is given for various currencies, except for the Russian ruble, which is instead the slang word for penis
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Jeff Wise
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People who only follow #MH370 casually often have the impression that investigators have the mystery well in hand & would have found the wreckage on the seabed were it not for bad luck. That's not the case. In fact, many basic facts of the case don't make sense 1/
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Excited by the news that Trump expects to be arrested on Tuesday. This will be a big step toward the return of the rule of law, and one that I've been anticipating for a long time. I wrote about it for @NYMag almost three years ago:
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It’s the 10th anniversary of the disappearance of MH370, & the day of our big reveal at Deep Dive: MH370. The first reveal has to do with the debris that washed ashore in the western Indian Ocean starting 16 months after the plane’s disappearance. At first, scientists assumed 1/8
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Jeff Wise
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Friday will mark 5 years since the disappearance of #MH370 . I’ve spent that time doing deep-dive research into every aspect of the case. Over the next few days, I’ll be laying out a case for what I think happened to the plane. Not just why it went missing… 1/
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Jeff Wise
5 years
Boeing made a gamble when it decided to upgrade an ageing workhorse instead of starting anew with a fresh design. Today that's looking like looking like a very bad call. #737MAX #Ethiopian
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Jeff Wise
6 years
France is reopening its investigation into MH370 due to suspicions over the validity of the Inmarsat data. Good! There have been compelling reasons to doubt the data for years, but Malaysian & Australian officials have resolutely ignored them …
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Excellent podcast
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Unfound Podcast
1 year
Are you watching the #netflix #mh370 series? Here is Unfound's 2017 interview with @ManvBrain Jeff Wise.
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Looking forward to the debut on Wednesday of Netflix's three-part docuseries on #MH370 . It's far and away the most insightful documentary about the missing plane so far.
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Jeff Wise
1 year
@drvolts I think the way you pronounce it is correct for the mathematical term, the opposite of the derivative; the other way is for the adjective meaning essential
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Jeff Wise
3 years
The fact that Tether has grown to a $60B+ fraud without pushback from the crypto industry or the mainstream financial press (until recently) is a stain on both. Props to the truthtellers who've been on the case for years: @CasPiancey , @BennettTomlin , & the king: @Bitfinexed
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Jeff Wise
3 years
Is crypto on the brink of Armageddon? In recent weeks officials around the world have expressed growing alarm over the so-called stablecoins that could bring it all down @CasPiancey
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If #MH370 flew north after its disappearance, it would have wound up in central Kazakhstan, a windswept semi-desert best known as home to the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Something interesting happened there just before the plane disappeared... 1/3
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Jeff Wise
5 years
@JoeDelmonaco @johnlk_80 @YAppelbaum @TheAtlantic You are daft. Trump confessed to obstruction on live TV. He's an unindicted co-conspirator in the Stormy Daniels case. His campaign colluded w Russia. He's a friggin one-man crime wave. He could be justifiably impeached a dozen times over. He's a case study in impeachability
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Seven years ago MH370 vanished. Six years ago I pointed out that searchers had overlooked a key piece of evidence that suggested that their search of the seabed in the southern ocean might be in vain (1/7)
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@chrislhayes I loved it too but had to laugh when, after all the amazing real in-jet cockpit footage (real g's!) Maverick parachutes into a snow field & the snow all looks like spray-on foam insulation
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Jeff Wise
2 years
@charlesbethea This purported example of voter fraud doesn't meet an essential criterion: it wasn't committed by a black person trying to vote Democratic. White people breaking the law to vote R isn't what we mean by "voter fraud."
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Jeff Wise
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@betacuck4lyfe @IwriteOK That used to be true, but following a 2017 court decision the space between individuals in the United States is legally the property of BlackRock Capital Partners LLC. Thanking you in advance for your compliance.
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Jeff Wise
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Discussing the #MH370 seabed search in 2015, Australia's Deputy PM Warren Truss said “The experts are telling us that there is a 97 percent possibility that it is in that area." It wasn't. Were the experts unlucky, or had they misunderstood the problem?
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Jeff Wise
1 year
Excited to announce that the first documentary to ever deal with the disappearance of MH370 in a serious way is going to drop in 3 weeks. I'm happy I was invited to take part MH370: The Plane That Disappeared | Official Trailer | via @NetflixTudum
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Jeff Wise
5 years
If #MH370 is still seen as an unsolvable mystery, it’s because something that happened in the course of its vanishing is discussed as if it were unremarkable when in fact it is ridiculously unprecedented & basically impossible Call it the MH370 miracle
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Jeff Wise
10 years
MH370 passengers' families have released their own analysis of gaps & errors in prelim report http://t.co/Q0HZSaLn72 Fascinating stuff
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Jeff Wise
5 years
@mattmfm the redaction due to "ongoing matter" would seem to imply that there are further prosecutions pending in relation to the dissemination of hacked materials, no?
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Jeff Wise
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@chrislhayes It's widely known in the private jet biz that if you show up at an airport and someone's got a seat open on a Gulfstream or Falcon they'll totally let you take it, just 'cuz. It's like when people leave old cookware on their stoop
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Jeff Wise
7 years
We've now established definitively that prayers are not effective against hails of rifle bullets. What is: legislation.
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Jeff Wise
7 years
That Trump is completely comfortable shutting down Fifth Ave for his own convenience is not a good sign to start with
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Jeff Wise
7 years
Invaluable, courageous-- @Bellingcat deserves the support of everyone who values a free & open society
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Eliot Higgins
7 years
Remember all those times @Bellingcat debunked Russian propaganda? Help us keep doing it by donating here
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Jeff Wise
6 years
The President Is Acting Like Saudi Arabia’s Lawyer in the Khashoggi Affair @sbg1
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Jeff Wise
6 years
The search for MH370 experienced a major turning point this week—arguably the biggest in 4 years—but no major media outlet has picked it up. Here’s some background on what happened & why it was so significant 1/10
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Jeff Wise
4 years
Slated to go on @MSNBC at 3pm with @AliVelshi to take about the crash of PS752
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Jeff Wise
2 years
@tribelaw Would love to see a serious discussion about how the authorities decide when someone needs to be arrested before trial. I'd imagine that to be engaged in continual illegal behavior -- here, sedition -- would increase the urgency of detention
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Jeff Wise
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@MollyMcKew Is anyone addressing the fact that POTUS/Repubs benefitted from this interference, & are blocking attempts to thwart it? E.g., that there are big Qs as to where their loyalties lie?
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Jeff Wise
10 years
I Was Wrong, the Missing Plane Definitely Went South: my new piece for @Slate http://t.co/YiwP7WPcGj
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Jeff Wise
3 years
Is crypto on the brink of Armageddon? In recent weeks officials around the world have expressed growing alarm over the so-called stablecoins that could bring it all down @CasPiancey
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Jeff Wise
4 years
@TheStallisHoff @NYMag Actually though the scenario is fictional the science is absolutely real. If you're horrified, you should be, because reality is horrific.
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Jeff Wise
8 years
And now, yet another probable piece of #MH370 , this one found in Mauritius. Could be most revealing so far
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Jeff Wise
10 years
Could passengers of missing Malaysian Airliners still be alive? New evidence suggests they may well be http://t.co/whQLIESvHK #MH370
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Jeff Wise
4 years
We spent the last decade shoveling so many billions of dollars to investors and corporations that now they're all broke.
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Jeff Wise
1 year
As Republicans take back control of the House, it's worth remembering that conservatives' policy priorities -- stopping immigration, thwarting universal health care, boosting income inequality -- all undermine the country's healthy population growth
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7 years
It's chilling what a big share of the citizenry will gladly hand their country to an overt liar & social deviant. They bear responsibility
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Jeff Wise
10 years
Newly emerged #MH370 evidence points to sophisticated hijack, suggests flight crew not at fault. http://t.co/wVt26NqboP
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Jeff Wise
6 years
They don't come right out and say it, but this "third party" could really only be Russia. After today's report, which effectively torpedoes the consensus view that the pilot took the plane, authorities need to finally take seriously the evidence for a spoofing attack
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The Guardian
6 years
Flight MH370 report: 'unlawful interference by third party' not ruled out
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Jeff Wise
7 years
This is the time when we all have to decide on what side of history we want to stand.
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Jeff Wise
10 years
Why the all-crucial Inmarsat report on MH370 was in fact a smokescreen: my latest for http://t.co/90wnNX2Lxl http://t.co/z4rVORTyt3
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Jeff Wise
7 years
To be clear, it wasn't "pro-Russian fighters" who shot down MH17. It was Russia. There is no independent separatist movement in the Donbass
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Jeff Wise
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@chrislhayes No. What happened was Dean Basquet let some History Channel types come play in the NYT and now everyone is taking it seriously.
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Jeff Wise
9 years
My Crazy Theory About MH370 Went Viral Around the World. Here’s What I’ve Learned Since http://t.co/Ji6F5dUv8M
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Jeff Wise
9 years
Expert analysis of the barnacles on the MH370 flaperon indicate it was tethered underwater for approx 4 months http://t.co/0rJ7WIlEYl
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Jeff Wise
8 years
Leaked at last: secret Malaysian police report confirming that #MH370 copilot's cell phone connected over Penang
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Jeff Wise
11 months
For the last few days, the world has watched and waited as rescuers raced against time to save passengers on the missing submersible #Titan . Today's discovery suggest their fate was sealed before the drama even became public
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Now up on Gizmodo: My profile of John McAfee, tech guru holed up in the jungle with heavily armed drug-gang members. http://t.co/1KpFPuw0
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Jeff Wise
5 years
My latest for @NYmag : a look at how homocidal bath-salt addict @officialmcafee became head cheerleader for the world's dumbest investment bubble
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Jeff Wise
8 years
The threat to Western civilization posed by Islam is tiny compared to the threat posed by US Trump voters #ifyouseesomethingsaysomething
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Jeff Wise
8 years
It's amazing to me that some people really don't want to hear stunning new info about #MH370 investigation
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Jeff Wise
1 year
Seeing lots of headlines about how Fox has to pay $ for telling lies, not so much about how the goal of those lies was to overthrow the government & that it's continuing to tell those lies with the support of half the government
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Jeff Wise
8 years
New photo suggests I was wrong in asserting MH370 debris was "ineptly planted"
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Jeff Wise
8 years
THIS IS HUGE. Independent Group now acknowledging that undersea search for MH370 has failed; need to look elsewhere.
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Mike Exner
8 years
#MH370 @atsbinfo The following Duncan Steel link has some new "IG food for thought" about the 7th arc search area:
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Jeff Wise
5 years
Slated to go on @MSNBC at the top of the 1pm EDT hour with @AliVelshi @lesabend & @tomcostellonbc to talk about Ethiopian Airlines & Boeing's 737 MAX problem
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Jeff Wise
9 years
Maybe I shouldn't tweet when mad, but: Najib lied. They haven't confirmed yet. Inexcusable. 16 mo.s of this...
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Jeff Wise
4 years
What's worse, the media also treats every day as a TV episode--in particular, as one of those series you can view in any order where nothing that happens in any episode has any impact on any other. Trump tells a lie in ep. 39 & they're back to taking him at face value in ep 40
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Karrie Jacobs
4 years
"Crises are treated as day-to-day public relations problems by Mr. Trump, who thinks ahead in short increments of time and early on in his presidency told aides to consider each day as an episode in a television show."
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@JoeDelmonaco @johnlk_80 @YAppelbaum @TheAtlantic I'm legitimately curious, do you not think that this guy is criminal to the core? Politics aside, he just has a rap sheet as long as your arm. It's just crime after crime after crime. I can't imagine a political worldview in which it's desirable to have the Hamburglar as leader
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Jeff Wise
7 years
Were MH370 Searchers Unlucky, or Duped?
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Jeff Wise
9 years
Now that the southern Indian Ocean search has failed, only 3 options remain for MH370’s fate -- & all have problems http://t.co/fcThb6cStq
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Jeff Wise
4 years
Prediction: Trump will turn out to have been dangerously full of shit when it comes to hydroxychloroquine, but no one will make a big deal about it because he's been dangerously full of shit about everything else, too, and anyway what are you gonna do?
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Jeff Wise
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We're all stuck on the deathsub. We're all trapped in a sinking, jerry-rigged contraption at the whim of rich, careless idiots.
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Jeff Wise
3 years
We're less than 2 weeks from the 7th (!) anniversary of the disappearance of #MH370 . One enduring mystery has centered around 2 Ukrainian men who were sitting directly under the satellite box. Why were they on board? I took a deep dive to find out:
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Jeff Wise
8 years
I asked marine biologists how long they thought new-found MH370 debris had been in the water. You'll never guess...
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Jeff Wise
11 months
Wishing some nice friendly billionaire would have offered some conservative justices a free seat on a leaky sub
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Jeff Wise
2 months
If #MH370 was hijacked north, the plan would hinge on finding somewhere in the expanses of Kazakhstan to land--& the runway would have to lie close to the 7th arc. Do any such places exist? In today's episode of "Deep Dive MH370" we go hunting 1/2
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Jeff Wise
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It's fun to laugh abt libtard's tears until you realize the man you elected is an active agent of a hostile state & that makes you a traitor
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Jeff Wise
8 years
Documents containing the results of a Malaysian police investigation into MH370's captain have been widely leaked
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Jeff Wise
5 years
My latest on @nymag : For all Boeing's and the FAA's efforts to get the 737 MAX back flying again, is it even worth it? I take a look at the case that the plane should just be scrapped
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Jeff Wise
8 years
New @cnegroni #MH370 story suggests "the time has come to create an independent team of professional investigators"
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Jeff Wise
6 years
Lance Armstrong won 7 Tours de France, caught cheating, stripped of titles. Ben Johnson won Gold at '88 Olympics, caught cheating, stripped of title. Donald Trump won 2016 election, caught cheating. Is there any question as to whether he should continue to be called "President"?
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Jeff Wise
8 years
Some thoughts on the 60 Minutes #MH370 doc, & more data from the secret Malaysian report
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Jeff Wise
4 years
If you like this story, please consider subscribing--in these precarious times journalism is more dependent than ever on support from readers:
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New York Magazine
4 years
The criminal case against Donald Trump is already in the works. @ManvBrain reports on how Trump could become the first former president in American history to find himself on trial — and perhaps even behind bars
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