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Tomconroy's JournalFor Chris Wallace Life at Fox News became unsustainable.
By Michael M. Grynbaum
March 27, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET
“I just no longer felt comfortable with the programming at Fox.”
Chris Wallace uttered those words matter-of-factly, in between bites of a Sweetgreen salad at his new desk inside the Washington bureau of CNN, the network he joined in January after nearly two decades at Fox News.
For those on the left who admired him, and those on the right who doubted him, it’s a statement that was a long time coming.
A down-the-middle outlier at Fox News who often confounded conservatives by contradicting the network’s right-wing stars, Mr. Wallace was also one of the channel’s fiercest defenders, disappointing liberals who hoped he might denounce colleagues like Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson.
But in December, Mr. Wallace, 74, issued a final verdict: He was done. In a surprise move, he declined to renew his contract as host of “Fox News Sunday” and jumped to archrival CNN. His daily interview show — “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” — starts Tuesday on the new CNN+ streaming service.
https://nyti.ms/3tIABQE
At the edge of Kyiv, Ukrainians show off their counteroffensive.
NORTHERN OUTSKIRTS OF KYIV, Ukraine — When Ukrainian forces hit a Russian tank with an American-made Javelin missile on a highway on the northern reaches of the capital, Kyiv, the explosion was so huge that it tossed the turret 10 yards down the road and shredded the rest of the vehicle and the men inside.
The charred body parts of Russian soldiers were still decomposing on the asphalt three weeks later, alongside scattered metal debris and ammunition. A single felt boot, favorite footwear for centuries in Russia’s frozen villages, lay blackened among the detritus.
“Good shot,” the Ukrainian commander said with elation, surveying the wreck. A deputy commander of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade, which controlled the area, he asked that he be identified only by his nom de guerre, Sulim. He pointed to blackened chunks of human flesh and bone on the road from Russian soldiers killed in the strike, and added, “It was all humane, it was all very quick.”
“They came four times,” Commander Sulim, 40, said. “Let them come again. I am waiting.”
At the Edge of Kyiv, Ukrainians Show Off Their Counteroffensive https://nyti.ms/3IHkGWM
I saw this video of John Sweeney and wondered what the drink was called.
https://twitter.com/scotty6090/status/1507732784571318285The Days of Wine and Roses - Andy Williams
Haunting melody by Henry Mancini
Haunting words by Johnny Mercer
Final seconds of the St. Peter's win tonight.
https://twitter.com/CBSSports/status/1507528825558642688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1507528825558642688%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2022%2F03%2F25%2Fsports%2Fncaabasketball%2Fmarch-madness-scores.htmlA concise lecture on Russian tanks from our favorite logistics guy:
https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1507465675551428608How St. Peter's became the Belle of the March Madness Ball.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — In 1872, four years before construction began on the Statue of Liberty, St. Peter’s University welcomed its first class, all male and mainly sons of Irish immigrants. Once the statue was complete, the elegant embodiment of the American dream stood with her back to Jersey City, a snub deeply ingrained in the gritty ethos of the city and the small liberal arts school that old-timers still refer to only as “the college.”
Nearly 150 years later, the coed Jesuit university continues to educate first-generation strivers. About 48 percent of its 2,134 undergraduates are Latino; 18 percent are Black; and 8 percent are Asian. Students speak nearly 40 languages and come from families with a median income of $55,300.
Most commute to and from the university every day. The others, roughly 25 percent of undergraduates, live on a two-block-square campus that is anchored by a brick-and-stone quad and straddles one of the busiest traffic arteries of the city, New Jersey’s second largest.
This is what makes the glass-slipper journey of the No. 15-seeded St. Peter’s basketball team in this year’s N.C.A.A. men’s basketball tournament particularly compelling.
How St. Peter’s Became the Belle of the March Madness Ball https://nyti.ms/3NkSgp1
UK MOD intelligence report
https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1507113449494659080There's been a lot of speculation about the sinking of the Russian LST in port this morning. Evidently the Brits are saying it wasn't an accidental detonation.
More video of the destroyed Russian ship
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1506885796128821249An LST if I remember my DDay history is a landing ship for tanks. This will have an effect not just on the ships involved but will make the Russians think that they may no longer completely dominate the sea
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