Peter Maass
@maassp.bsky.social
Recovering foreign correspondent slash war reporter. Author of “Love Thy Neighbor” and “Crude World.” Done time at the NYT, WP, Intercept.
Lol I wrote about Judit Polgar for The Washington Post in 1992, when she was a 15-year old chess prodigy! More than three decades ago I noted that "the story of the Polgar family stretches the bounds of reality and even imagination" -- and reader, I was right! www.washingtonpost.com/archive/life...
Ben@cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 2w agoholy shit judit polgar is going to be president of hungary www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Normally you see the Statue of Liberty behind the Brooklyn Bridge. Not this evening on the Q train.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, lived all over the world, moved in 1997 to NYC, hands down the best city anywhere, anytime.
Rav@rvbdrm.com · 2mo agoNew Yorkers singing Empire State of Mind
Brooklyn market two hours before Knicks-Spurs game — me and the guy polishing apples.
Lines to get into midtown Manhattan bars to watch the Knicks game. New York locked, loaded for the game tonight.
Midtown Manhattan three hours before tipoff and everyone is wearing Knicks outfits, traffic’s a mess, helicopters overhead and the game is thousands of miles away in San Antonio! #LFGK
I submit, as relevant reading material for the thousands of you watching the scaffolding livestream at the Kennedy Center, the story I wrote about the toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad in 2003. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
The Toppling
How the media inflated a minor moment in a long war.
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Dear Knicks Fans ALL OVER THE WORLD… why should you enjoy the winning bucket by OG only in English? Anunoby would like you to enjoy it in many languages. 🧡💙
Why aren't more people talking about "Star City"? Superb mix of "Chernobyl," "Lives of Others," and "Apollo 13."
What would the original "60 Minutes" reporters think of Bari Weiss? Morley Safer's daughter has the answer in this resonant piece. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Morley Safer of 60 Minutes was my father. He would be disgusted by what Bari Weiss is doing to CBS Is doing to CBS | Sarah Safer
My father joined the program when I was eight months old and retired 46 years later. He would be encouraging journalists at CBS to speak out
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Drone deliveries in NYC, the future I don't recall asking for.
Related to the upcoming World Cup in the U.S., what should the world do when the host nation of a major sports event illegally attacks another? In 1980, the U.S. led a boycott of the Summer Olympics in Moscow over the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Su...
1980 Summer Olympics boycott - Wikipedia
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As always, @attackerman.bsky.social is a must read: "This mass murder will not be [Trump's] alone. There is an entire political, security and media apparatus that brought us to this point." www.forever-wars.com/the-many-fat...
The Many Fathers of The Murder of Iran
As Trump threatens that "a whole civilization will die tonight," remember that he didn't get here by himself
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April 7, 2003, I ran across this bridge over the Diyala River in Iraq, past the body of this civilian. Bodies of a lot more civilians were on the other side of the bridge, killed by American fire. It was 23 years ago to the day, will never forget it. Iraq then, Iran now. (Photo by Kuni Takahashi)
To the Hague, those who give and follow illegal orders. Can't happen soon enough.
Americans need to read every word written by Spencer Ackerman in this column, and act accordingly.
Spencer Ackerman@attackerman.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhether or not the war resumes by Friday — or sooner, since Israel is still bombing Iran — it’s time to talk about humiliation: What kind of military humiliation we are experiencing; and what, productively, can emerge from that humiliation.
Got my start as an overseas freelancer for CBS Radio (now gone, thanks Bari Weiss), Washington Post (diminished, due to Jeff Bezos), Baltimore Sun and Boston Globe (no longer have foreign reporters), and International Herald Tribune (poof). There are new digital outlets but it's tough out there.
Hard to believe that 23 years ago - March 19, 2003 - Bush announced the invasion of Iraq. I heard attack helicopters overhead and drove toward the war in darkness. The U.S. has learned nothing, still bombing and killing, hooked on violence. Photos: my SUV on the first and last days of the invasion.
Might be a good time to read a book titled, "Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil," which I've heard a lot about. www.amazon.com/Crude-World-...
What a flaccid Oscars that was. glad for the winners, but it shouldn’t be foreign and/or documentary filmmakers who speak to this moment. PTA a particular failure. Why make movies that confront what is happening if you can’t speak to it.
When Israel says their violence is done to protect all Jews and make the world safer for us, we can only look at incidents like this and see that is obviously not true. They’re making it more dangerous for us EVERYWHERE.
A legend of my generation of foreign reporters. I knew John and tangled with him at times, as did most everyone of that era. But as the obit notes, few of his kind have gone before, much of his work was superlative, and his raconteuring was spellbinding. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/w...
John F. Burns, Prize-winning Foreign Correspondent for The Times, Dies at 81
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Latest from @alissaquart.bsky.social ...https://www.motherjones.com/media/2026/03/academy-awards-oscars-inequality-class-marty-supreme-sinners-battle/
We are the shithole nation. We are the citizens of a rouge, murderous empire. Our leaders are butchers.
ProPublica@propublica.org · 5mo agoNEW: A recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations. But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority. By @hannahallam.bsky.social
Class struggle, but weird: The surreal politics of this year’s Oscar nominees
Class struggle, but weird: The surreal politics of this year's Oscar nominees
The Best Picture contenders reflect a mad world—and they're suitably lurid, pulpy, comic, and strange.
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One of the lessons of the Iran war is that it was a huge mistake not to even try to put any of the Iraq war architects in prison. We shouldn’t make it again.