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"Nostalgia tells you that your personal history wasn’t just scary or tragic; it helped make you who you are." Great read from @olgakhazan.bsky.social:

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The dismantling of USAID has brought immense harm to its beneficiaries, writes Peter Wehner. "Patients have been told to leave refugee hospitals in Thailand. Soup kitchens that feed hundreds of thousands of people in Sudan have been closed."

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From Elizabeth Bruenig: "The tendency of humankind to be self-serving and deceitful is part of what makes me believe that Christianity is at its purest and most beautiful when it is counterintuitive and unwieldy—that is, when it is least amenable to human convenience."

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"First they reviled him. Then they supported and enabled him. Then they regretted it." A must-read by the historian Timothy Ryback: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Why you probably need a better stereo:

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Exclusive: Catholic Relief Services is bracing for massive cuts — as much as 50% this year — because of draconian reductions in U.S. foreign assistance ordered by the Trump administration, according to an internal email from the chief executive of the international relief organization.

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"The fact that Musk, in his most recent tirade against Wikipedia, didn’t point to any specific errors in the entry about his inauguration gesture is telling. As he gripes about injustice, the fundamental issue he and others in his circle have with Wikipedia seems to be more about control."

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Even if USAID’s work is allowed to resume in a few months, the intricate global-health ecosystem being torn apart by the Trump administration will not be easily repaired, @hana-kiros.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/9JhIRJq1

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"I would like to propose an experiment: If you find yourself moved to say you don’t like kids, swap in another group of people and see whether that feels like an acceptable thing to say." From Stephanie Murray:

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“It’s hard to leave a delusion behind.” @andreapitzer.bsky.social on Amway's decades-long influence on her mother—and American politics:

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The end of free Starbucks bathrooms highlights something sad about American life, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

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"We need Saint Francis. Now that kindness is countercultural, we need his extremes of wild charity to pull us back toward it. And we need his asceticism...his merry disdain of health and comfort and security, is a rebuke to our self-care...the only stability is the bottomlessness of divine love."

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Me: What's a good movie to watch with Brownie Girl Scouts? AI overview: May I suggest a movie about three Girl Scouts being murdered during a camping trip?

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Not to say I told ya so, but… 🎁 Gift Link: Retailers Locked Up Their Products—and Broke Shopping in America www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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"Trotta asked what the police had found in the car. His lawyer, a seasoned defense attorney, replied, 'Everything but Jimmy Hoffa.'”

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This sincerely brightened my day. 🥹

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Memento mori. How accepting your mortality can make you feel more alive, from Arthur C. Brooks:

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"I want Lola to know that art can save her life, that it can be glue when you feel you will fall apart. That someone else’s art about love—vulnerable, honest, transcendent—can, like love itself, be a lifeline."

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"You can try to micromanage your child’s care—whether they eat sugar, whether they get screen time, whether someone insists that a child apologize after snatching another kid’s toy—or you can have reliable community help with child care. But you can’t have both."

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New Yorkers haven’t stopped complaining about dogs for centuries, Kate Cray writes in Time-Travel Thursdays. “Sharing public places with dogs might seem easy enough, but in a city so densely packed, space can feel zero sum.”

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Spend your Sunday browsing our list of don't-miss stories of 2024: a disastrous cruise vacation, why Americans stopped hanging out, a medical breakthrough, and more in The Atlantic Daily.

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Check out our don't-miss stories of 2024:

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"We are sort of not valuing young people reading, even if we kind of think that we do. And we lament the loss of it. We aren’t actually setting up schooling and admissions in a way that shows that we actually do value just reading for reading’s sake." @rosehorowitch.bsky.social

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What does it mean to let go of productivity in a culture obsessed with it? In "Best of How To," co-hosts Becca Rashid and @ibogost.bsky.social explore our relationship with time and how to reclaim it.

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Love this Space Telescope Advent Calendar from @kokogiak.bsky.social. Just gorgeous.

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Robbie Parker and Scarlett Lewis, two Sandy Hook parents, explain how they made sense of what happened, John Hendrickson writes: "12 years after the worst day of their lives, they both refuse to let themselves be casualties of this tragedy."

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I’ve been thinking about this story for a long, long time. I hope you will read it. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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The famous Irish poet Seamus Heaney was a father figure to Caitlin Flanagan. As she grew up, his words and his kindness helped her find hope in her darkest moments.

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🚨The Atlantic 10 is out today! 🚨 I can't wait to read so many of these. www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

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@kokogiak.bsky.social makes a Space Telescope Advent Calendar every year. These images are just gorgeous. Follow along every day until Dec. 25:

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Go ahead, buy that starter guitar off Marketplace!

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@theatlantic.com’s writers and editors are on Bluesky. Follow us for ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling: go.bsky.app/NVbMa2Y

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What an incredible piece from Patrick Fealey, an award-winning journalist and writer, who became homeless last year. I often think about how wide the gaps are in Britain's social security net compared with Germany's. But America is truly in a different league. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

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How to find the free time you crave, and stop overscheduling:

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Anyone remember "Return to Oz"? So wild that Disney made a movie with Aunt Em sending Dorothy to an asylum for electroshock therapy. The 80s really were a different time.😅

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"You can sometimes identify a bad leader by how few questions they ask; they think they already know everything they need to. In contrast, history’s great achievers tend to have an insatiable desire to learn." David Brooks' cover story on the broken meritocracy: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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This is so great, from @annielowrey.bsky.social: "The best path forward might be for men and women to applaud messy, normal, mismatched, lived-in spaces...We should acknowledge that being welcomed into someone’s house is a gift of connection, not an invitation to judge."

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Wow, the BlueSky effect is real! Hi to everyone who's followed me over the last few days. 👋 I'm Mary, and I'm an audience editor at @theatlantic.bsky.social. I work on the homepage, social media, app, and elsewhere to get eyes and ears on the Atlantic's journalism, particularly podcasts.

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Iwao Hakamada was the world’s longest-held death-row inmate. He was also innocent. Robert F. Worth on what it’s like to wake up every day for 50 years unsure if it would be your last:

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Something pretty for a Monday morning

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