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“How can I be under arrest? And in this manner?” “Now there you go again,” the guard replies. “We don’t answer such questions.” Judge Boasberg cites Kafka's 'The Trial' in his ruling that CECOT detainees must be allowed to legally challenge their detentions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Jack Whitten made it his life’s mission to give abstraction soul. I wrote about the restless experimentalism behind the artist’s magnificent retrospective at MoMA www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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Jack Whitten’s MOMA exhibit throws new light on his celebrated tesserae works—presenting them as the capstone to a lifetime of experimentation. “It’s a breathtaking, deeply researched glimpse of a career that unfolded in one long eureka,” Julian Lucas writes.

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Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search nationwide for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

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RIP Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. Namwali Serpell’s interview is a great introduction to the Kenyan literary giant www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7...

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Jack Whitten made it his life’s mission to give abstraction soul. I wrote about the restless experimentalism behind the artist’s magnificent retrospective at MoMA www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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There are uncanny parallels between the Spanish conquest of the Americas and Israel’s assault on Gaza, including the fact that each began in the wake of a communications revolution: the printing press then, social media now.

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A very sad RIP for Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, a brilliant writer who led an extraordinary life. His work is (just about) bookended by 'The River Between' and 'Wizard of the Crow,' two great works that are totally different and written in different languages! He deserved that endlessly withheld Nobel.

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I wrote about a literary profile that disillusioned me about an idol—and showed me what the form can do. On Hilton Als’s “The Islander,” a portrait of Derek Walcott @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/tak...

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Toyin Ojih Odutola Is Drawing Up Worlds www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/a... Great art piece by @siddharthamitter.bsky.social

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This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

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If there’s a free society in the future, this will be studied by historians trying to understand how consent was manufactured for genocide. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

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For @newyorker.com’s NYC centenary issue, I profiled the legendary Brooklynite Lorna Simpson—artist, photographer, painter, eBay fiend, and astronomer of the archives, who’s spent her career in search of the dark matter that “documentary” images conceal www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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George W. Bush was the worst President of the last few generations and it's really not close. what we in the US are (rightly!) up in arms about is that Trump is the worst President for us, specifically - which is a different thing

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Who I feel sorry for is America’s homegrown racists, who have worked hard for decades only to be forced to compete with Afrikaners for their jobs.

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You cannot imagine how devastating this is. Rest in Perfect Peace Koyo Kouoh🙏🏾 news.artnet.com/art-world/ko...

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Who’s going to tell her?

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Flashback to 2023 when the Biden administration sided with the private prison industry's challenge to New Jersey's state law that prohibited immigration detention contracting. newjerseymonitor.com/2023/07/19/b...

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NEW — Trump’s ICE has just arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. Alongside residents and other officials, Baraka has been protesting outside a detention facility that’s set to help Trump’s mass deportation regime.

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I'm obsessed with how much ancient history wikipedia editors managed to fit into the "yo mama" article

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For @newyorker.com’s NYC centenary issue, I profiled the legendary Brooklynite Lorna Simpson—artist, photographer, painter, eBay fiend, and astronomer of the archives, who’s spent her career in search of the dark matter that “documentary” images conceal www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Beautiful profile of Lorna Simpson, her practice and her world(s), by @jcljules.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Sovereignty beat Journalism? We really are fucked

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Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant

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Of the El Salvadoran prison, “One declarant states that ‘if the prison were to reach full supposed capacity . . . , each prisoner would have less than two feet of space in shared cells . . . [which] is less than half the space required for transporting midsized cattle under EU law.’ ”

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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

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every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

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Jim Crow redux in federal contracts www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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M. Gessen on why the fascist attack on trans people isn’t just a return to the bad old days, i’s worse. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...

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This administration illegally denied hundreds of people due process, then deported them to a country they’ve never known, run by an authoritarian infamous for cruel treatment of prisoners. They then deceived a federal judge to buy time for the planes to land so he couldn’t do anything about it.

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Trump is purging the federal web in a digital book burning of unprecedented scale. I wrote about the librarians and “data hoarders” who are backing it up as fast as they can www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website, part of an effort across the Defense Department to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.

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A “digital book burning” is under way at federal agencies. Can volunteer archivists and data hoarders save the country’s files from DOGE?

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Trump is purging the federal web in a digital book burning of unprecedented scale. I wrote about the librarians and “data hoarders” who are backing it up as fast as they can www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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Props to @michelmartinnpr.bsky.social for holding DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar's feet to the fire this morning. Powerful interviewing: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...

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"Mr. Zeldin’s move effectively ends three decades of work at the E.P.A. to try to ease the pollution that burdens poor and minority communities, which are frequently located near highways, power plants, industrial plants and other polluting facilities." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...

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Bird’s-eye view: on Rungano Nyoni’s thoroughly stunning ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL, an early standout of this young year. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration one day before ICE detained him. He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving. He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."

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Finally got into this piece from @jcljules.bsky.social and definitely will add to my assigned texts for my literary journalism course going forward. Devastating and beautiful. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... can't find a gift link BUT if you have a subscription, the audio version is wonderful.

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“Artists and audiences sometimes defend this legibility as democratic, a way to reach everyone. It is, in fact, condescending.” @namwalien.bsky.social newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/the-new-literalism-plaguing-todays-biggest-movies

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