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Staff writer at the New Yorker. Jes Grew Carrier.
https://www.julianlucas.com
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I dove to the wreck of Brazilâs last slave shipâand wrote about the global network of maritime archaeologists excavating the Middle Passage
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Dredging Up the Ghostly Secrets of Slave Ships
A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecksâand reconnecting Black communities to the deep.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/03/dredging-up-the-ghostly-secrets-of-slave-ships
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Adam Serwer
1 day ago
The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they donât like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie âclassic sculpture means white people are better.â They donât like art at all except for this purpose. They donât even like the nerd stuff they whine about
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Osita Nwanevu
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We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
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James Neal
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PHILADELPHIA âThe National Park Service has started dismantling exhibits about slavery at the Presidentâs House in Independence National Historical Park.
www.pennlive.com/news/2026/01...
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Better Things Are Possible
30 days ago
You used to be able to "inspect element" in this country. You used to be able to download video
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Andrea Pitzer
about 1 month ago
I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.
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Into the abyss
The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.
https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-abyss
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fred herring argument đŠâ ïžđŸâšïž
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*frantically googling* moral arc bent wrong how to fix wikihow diy moral arc fix moral arc technician near me
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Lydia Polgreen
about 1 month ago
I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
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Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/opinion/trump-minneapolis-ice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FlA.uMdS.bLHlWGLyrxIy&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Boston Review
about 1 month ago
"Strangest of all is the liberal pipe dream that local police will stand up against ICE and CBP, when police have collaborated with ICE and been deployed to protect agents from protesters, even in so-called sanctuary cities." An interview with Robin D.G. Kelley
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Renee Good's Murder and Other Acts of Terror
An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICEâand the broader history of police violence.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/renee-goods-murder-and-other-acts-of-terror/
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OlĂșfáșčÌmi O. TĂĄĂwĂČ
about 1 month ago
once again saying: our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse.
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Kashana
about 1 month ago
QR codes for ICE is hilarious, like theyâre a restaurant menu that shoots people in the face.
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Howard French
about 1 month ago
We're going full Restoration now. Trump attacks Civil Rights Act as unfair white people.
www.rawstory.com/trump-267487...
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Trump appalls with attack on Civil Rights Act: 'White people very badly treated'
Critics pounced on President Donald Trump Monday after he complained to the New York Times that the Civil Rights Act â the landmark 1964 legislation that outlawed racial discrimination â was âunfair i...
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674874410/
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Clara Jeffery
about 1 month ago
ICE and other federal agents claim they mask b/c they're at risk at being doxed and killed. Here's what they're really dying of:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Aaron Rupar
about 1 month ago
Minneapolis City Council member Jason Chavez: "Many of our immigrants neighbors are picked up simply by moving their cars. Help your neighbors take out the trash, because there are many reports of neighbors being kidnapped when they're taking their trash out."
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Weâve fallen so far from Kelloggâs chaste vision
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đłïžââ§ïžThe Milkmaid of Human Kindnessđ¶
about 1 month ago
Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears:
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Zito
about 1 month ago
This is why it annoys me when people try to make it seem as if this is how things have always been. There was a time when greater literacy and reading as a part of everyday life for people of every class was a national mission. Then it changed drastically and now weâre here.
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Nitish Pahwa
about 1 month ago
happy(?) new year everyone, for my first piece of 2026 I wrote about Grok's *still*-ongoing CSAM blitz and the troubling, embarrassing silence of lawmakers in the U.S. and U.K. who've spent the past year censoring the internet for the sake of "child safety" yet are saying and doing nothing about X:
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Something Abominable Is Happening on Elon Muskâs X. Everyone in Congress Should Be Ashamed.
An app the U.S. and U.K. governments use has devolved into a source of A.I. porn. Lawmakers are keeping dangerously mum.
https://slate.com/technology/2026/01/elon-musk-x-grok-ai-child-sexual-abuse-material.html
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Kashana
about 1 month ago
30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but itâs full steam ahead for the hereâs how to do drugs until you die machine
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Siddhartha Mitter
about 2 months ago
Now more than ever.
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leon
about 2 months ago
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. weâll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
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Dr. Mansa Keita
about 2 months ago
A lot of people forget how in 2004 the Bush regime kidnapped the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and dumped him in Africa.
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Adam Serwer
about 2 months ago
Among the many reasons you donât kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
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jon ben-menachem
about 2 months ago
Zohran has been mayor for twelve minutes and it's still cold in NYC. What the fuck. Mr mayor can you please turn on the sun.
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Hereâs some of the writing I was proudest of this year. I dove to the wreck of Brazilâs last slave ship and reported on the fraught desire, throughout the diaspora, for traces of the Middle Passage
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Dredging Up the Ghostly Secrets of Slave Ships
A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecksâand reconnecting Black communities to the deep.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/03/dredging-up-the-ghostly-secrets-of-slave-ships
about 2 months ago
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Joshua J. Friedman
about 2 months ago
Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as NYC's first Muslim mayor on a Qur'an from the personal collection of the great Afro-Boricua intellectual Arturo Schomburgâas well as Qur'ans owned by Mamdani's grandparents.
www.nypl.org/press/schomb...
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Skye
about 2 months ago
USPS quietly changed its postmark rules â mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The âofficialâ date is when it hits automated sorting â sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting â itâs a clever way to disenfranchise voters thatâs going largely overlooked
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A favorite essay on snow, by Charlie Fox, in
@cabinetmagazine.bsky.social
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/59/fo...
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A Mind of Winter | Charlie Fox
The feeling of snow
https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/59/fox.php
about 2 months ago
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josh (oldfriend99)
about 2 months ago
(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne
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Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>>
about 2 months ago
Fascinating interview about cultural restitution. Things I learned: The stolen jewels were purchased off the private market by the museum in the 1980s, and Hitler blocked the return of the Nefertiti bust from Berlin to Egypt in 1933. I need to read her books now.
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The Burgled Louvreâs Stolen-Art Expert
BĂ©nĂ©dicte Savoy is Europeâs leading advocate for the repatriation of cultural heritage. Now, in the wake of a shocking heist, sheâs bringing her ideas to the Louvre.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/the-burgled-louvres-stolen-art-expert
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Joshua McElwee
about 2 months ago
Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon on Thursday, in an unusually direct appeal during what is normally a solemn, spiritual service on the day Christians across the globe celebrate the birth of Jesus. For
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In first Christmas sermon, Pope Leo decries conditions for Palestinians in Gaza
Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon on Thursday, in an unusually direct appeal during what is normally a solemn, spiritual service on the day Christians across...
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/first-christmas-sermon-pope-leo-decries-conditions-palestinians-gaza-2025-12-25/
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âtis the season for giving (back plundered heritage), so I interviewed a champion of restitution, the art historian BĂ©nĂ©dicte Savoy. We discussed the Napoleonic origins of the âencyclopedicâ museum, Hitlerâs love for Nefertiti, and the recent heist at the LouvreâŠ
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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The Burgled Louvreâs Stolen-Art Expert
BĂ©nĂ©dicte Savoy is Europeâs leading advocate for the repatriation of cultural heritage. Now, in the wake of a shocking heist, sheâs bringing her ideas to the Louvre.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/the-burgled-louvres-stolen-art-expert
about 2 months ago
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Anna Kornbluh
about 2 months ago
âthere are only 7 full-time book critics left in the US: three at NYT ( Jacobs, Garner, Szalai), 2 at WaPo(Rothfeld, Charles), 1 each at WSJ (Sacks), NY mag (Chu), Slate (Miller) more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a livingâ
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Criticism Is Literature. Why Is It Vanishing?, by Adam Morgan
What do the best book reviews do? What is the current state of the critical ecosystem? Chicago Review of Books founder Adam Morgan takes stock of book reviewing in the US.
https://worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/september/criticism-literature-why-it-vanishing-adam-morgan?fbclid=IwZnRzaAO3p39leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEehtE3LTp2Po49LyIGyO4MBcAzP2MAukhdksnt5IFiskmfxoJN6d6WO4bfBLo_aem_wtzDa2bRCUaITLzhWy0WVQ
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Peter Sagal
about 2 months ago
Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you canât broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldnât give their side of the story.
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Got to tell Samuel Delanyâs daughter that her baby teeth were in her fatherâs âpapersâ at the Beinecke
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Anna Bower
about 2 months ago
Per NY Timesâs Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsiâs email to her â60 Minutesâ colleagues in full:
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âtis the season for giving (back plundered heritage), so I interviewed a champion of restitution, the art historian BĂ©nĂ©dicte Savoy. We discussed the Napoleonic origins of the âencyclopedicâ museum, Hitlerâs love for Nefertiti, and the recent heist at the LouvreâŠ
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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The Burgled Louvreâs Stolen-Art Expert
BĂ©nĂ©dicte Savoy is Europeâs leading advocate for the repatriation of cultural heritage. Now, in the wake of a shocking heist, sheâs bringing her ideas to the Louvre.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/the-burgled-louvres-stolen-art-expert
about 2 months ago
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The New Yorker
about 2 months ago
BĂ©nĂ©dicte Savoy has emerged as one of the art worldâs leading thinkers. In a new interview, she talks about Donald Trumpâs attacks on the Smithsonian, and the prospects for restitution amid the breakdown of the liberal international order.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Iymz65
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The Burgled Louvreâs Stolen-Art Expert
BĂ©nĂ©dicte Savoy is Europeâs leading advocate for the repatriation of cultural heritage. Now, in the wake of a shocking heist, sheâs bringing her ideas to the Louvre.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Iymz65
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Don Moynihan
2 months ago
An immigrant works a dangerous job to protect Americans. It puts him in medical debt. Now he also has to worry about being deported by ICE when he goes to work or takes his kid to a soccer tournament. Feel safer?
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Hari Kunzru
2 months ago
Iâm sorry but âheritage Americanâ makes you sound like a tomato
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molly taft
2 months ago
do leaders of the top investigative newsroom in the country not understand what makes their journalism valuable??????
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Katy Waldman
2 months ago
A âtakeâ on (or ode to) Mary McCarthy in last weekâs mag
www.newyorker.com/magazine/tak...
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Katy Waldman on Mary McCarthyâs âOne Touch of Natureâ
A reader trusts the authorâs voice instinctively, charmed by its opaline assessments and zinging aperçus. Still, one can quibble.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/takes/katy-waldman-on-mary-mccarthys-one-touch-of-nature
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Merriam-Webster
2 months ago
Merriam-Websterâs human editors have chosen âslopâ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Better Things Are Possible
2 months ago
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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Howard French
3 months ago
I've been reading Sven's book, and it is terrific and groundbreaking.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/b...
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How Capitalism Took Over the World
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/books/review/capitalism-sven-beckert.html
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sadvil đ
3 months ago
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, itâs a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and theyâre stealing it. Can you believe that? Weâre going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what theyâre up to
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Olivia Messer
3 months ago
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. Heâs been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
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Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/sanford-grandfather-born-in-refugee-camp-nabbed-by-ice-after-70-years-in-u-s/
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