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A critically important warning: “The earlier the intervention, the earlier the mobilization, the earlier the forthright exercise of countervailing power, the better the prospect of saving democracy”. @sbg1.bsky.social @eosnos.bsky.social et al via @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...

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Let's be very clear: Journalists need to stand with @AP The effort to bar an outlet to make it obey will not stop with one. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...

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New: That post-election IPO wave everyone predicted is on hold. Uncertainty over tariffs and geopolitical risk, unpredictable regulatory changes, inflation + interest rates, coupled with the DeepSeek selloff has made companies hesitant to take the plunge. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/t...

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Nice to remember this: Here is the United States in the Security Council in 1976, condemning human rights abuses by the government of South Africa. www.britishpathe.com/asset/159229/

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Very sorry to hear of the passing of Rutherford Chang, highly original conceptual artist, familiar to Asia hands, e.g. in 2008, he cut out 4,000 ink-dot sketches from the WSJ and reassembled them into a yearbook-like piece of art. A study of priorities and power. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/a...

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The Musk era was foretold: In 1915, Louis Brandeis, future Supreme Court Justice, warned of business fortunes so big that they could gain near-sovereignty "so powerful that the ordinary social and industrial forces existing are insufficient to cope with it." He called this the "curse of bigness.”

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The amazing Atul Gawande joins us this week to talk about Trump/Musk’s execution of USAID, even though inviting someone so smart to talk about things so stupid felt indecent. swap.fm/l/tny-tps-ex...

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Exactly 100 years ago, F. Scott Fitzgerald saw it coming: "They were careless people...they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."

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Flashback: As Trump and Musk blunder into ceding the globe to China’s aid and investment, remember the catastrophic fact that this was telegraphed years ago. Here’s our 2018 piece on how the Chinese government rejoiced and exploited it the first time: www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

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As Chairman Mao said: 天下大乱形势大好 Everything under heaven is chaos, the situation is excellent

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I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

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For no reason at all I thought to mention that, in 1908, Jack London published a novel called “The Iron Heel,” imagining an America under a fascist oligarchy in which “nine-tenths of 1 percent” hold “70 percent of the total wealth.”

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Wildland review: @eosnos.bsky.social on the America Trump exploited. From 2012, but relevant now as Donald Trump is back in the White House. www.theguardian.com/books/2021/s...

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Living in Pacific Palisades, the longtime staff writer Dana Goodyear had to evacuate early this month when the Palisades Fire broke out. She documented her return days later to a scene of devastation. Listen here.

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The new season of The Focus Group pod kicks off with @eosnos.bsky.social, who’s studied Biden for years. He says Biden sees politics as personal, and was blinded by his own contempt for Trump when he opted to run again. Full episode with @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4akelAh

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Useful thread, reminding us that this is not the first time Mark Zuckerberg has strained to get into the good graces of a the new strong man in town. That was Xi Jinping. It went poorly.

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What are some patterns we learn from studying leaders who make catastrophic decisions? Hubris, insecurity, partisan maneuvering? At 5pm @politicsprose.bsky.social this Sunday 1/12, hear @peterosnosplatform.bsky.social on Vietnam and beyond. (In convo with me).

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This is an incredible testament to the loss of local news coverage. A congresswoman disappeared for six months and no one noticed.

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Terrific list

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Quite a list www.newyorker.com/culture/2024...

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This country is ready for a big debate about clean drinking water, indoor plumbing, germ theory, the shape of the planet, the wheel, levers...

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Yes to this

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“There’s an old adage in the news business that journalists only cover the planes that crash. But in this case, we need to cover the planes that are taking off,” @sarabethb.bsky.social says.

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Amazing reporting. From triad to jail to US campaign finance and VIP status in Beijing. Gangs of New York rebooted for the 21st century, per @pekingmikenyt.bsky.social and colleagues

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I'm once again asking for a show where a librarian, a bookseller, and a carpenter travel around helping people manage their out-of-control book collections. Discuss their sentimental value, their rarity, their histories, then build amazing book nooks and shelves and little libraries to organize them

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The Washington Roundtable—Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos—in their final episode of 2024, discusses Donald Trump’s return, the year in politics, and what to make of President Joe Biden’s legacy. Listen here.

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🚨NEW on CNN: Audio and video we uncovered show Vivek Ramaswamy spent years attacking his DOGE partner Elon Musk as a puppet of China. Calling him “in China’s pocket,” “bending the knee to Xi Jinping,” and jumping “like a circus monkey” to get favors for business in China. www.cnn.com/2024/12/03/p...

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".. By one count, he’s already picked eight billionaires for top positions." @gregsargent.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1889...

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How an aspiring actor raised $690 million by deceiving hundreds of investors—beginning with his closest friends.

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After Bongino vanished from Fox News and YouTube, I wondered if this @newyorker profile of his world (including his volcanic rage at the author, and a cameo by fellow pro-Trump “information warrior” Hegseth) had lost its relevance. It seems it has not. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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In 2009, I wrote a long feature in @newyorker.com about a deployment in Iraq that would help shape Pete Hegseth's view of the rules of engagement, a core military issue. He makes a cameo in it, if you're curious to see where his views were then: www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...

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My favorite podcast… and welcome to Bluesky @sbg1.bsky.social @janemayer.bsky.social @eosnos.bsky.social @newyorker.com

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It’s so rare that a show is just as good as the book that inspired it. “Say Nothing” was worth the wait.

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All in one place, the writers and editors of The New Yorker bsky.app/starter-pack...

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#books #booklist #bookstagram #booktalk #booktok #greatbooks #greatbooksguide #recommendedreading #Universalchildrensday #children #childrensday @eosnos.bsky.social #gunviolence #guns #firearms #gundeaths

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Out of roughly 153 million votes cast in this election, the presidency was decided by 230k across the three states of Wisconsin (30k), Michigan (80k) and Pennsylvania (120k). That's 00.15%. This remains an extremely closely divided nation. Any agenda viewed as extreme is likely to face backlash.

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As a time-capsule of America since 9/11, I don't think you'll find a set of images more evocative and encompassing than Peter van Agtmael's in “Look at the U.S.A." www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

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A small but revealing measure of the mood among people with money and mobility in China: The emigration of middle-class Chinese under Xi (especially since Covid) has created a new market overseas for Chinese bookstores outside the country. apnews.com/article/chin...

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1. McConnell will not be Senate GOP Leader soon, but he is saying this based on talks with colleagues. The idea that the Senate will give up its authority on this matter with the flip of a switch is foolish.

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Since buying The Onion, Lawson has restored its print edition and bought InfoWars in order to mock it. How to be a media owner with some vertebrae. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/b...

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