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Day by day, the norms are breaking. I keep thinking of Milosz's book The Captive Mind. Every time I see something like this, and do nothing (or tweet about it) my mind becomes less my own. The cognitive dissonance of tending to one's daily life while every day the law is broken by its keepers...

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There are many incredibly disheartening things about what is. going on in our country--beyond disheartening--but one of the worst? The cruelty. The glee at the cruelty.

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🎉🎉Come on out and join us!🎉🎉

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This is a new level of madness. I don't know how it can be stopped

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WE. ARE. SO. EXCITED. Announcing The Yale Review Festival: Where Writers and Readers meet. April 8-11 in New Haven, CT. Come join us. Schedule is here: yalereview.org/festival

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Are you trying to integrate research into a longer narrative? In this new post, I talk about sections, connective tissue, and pivoting between the “author self” and the “character self”: substack.com/home/post/…

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🎉 As the editor of @yalereview.bsky.social, I'm so proud of our team and our brilliant contributors: This year, we received two nominations to the National Magazine Awards, for criticism & fiction. Congrats to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, @dsparis.bsky.social, Ayşegül Savaş, & Anna DeForest! 🎉

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Looking forward to talking with writers about submitting, publishing, being edited, and more next week--thanks to @pw.org for hosting me with these illustrious others:

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Trying to meet the arcane demands of Spirit Week while working. How we envisioned it, how it's going:

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New interview: Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social told me U.S. may be "months" from "irreversible" destruction of democracy; "most serious moment since the Civil War.” We had a blunt talk about how Dems need to wake up and change approach fast and what you can do. the.ink/p/watch-dem-...

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Reading and rereading the great Adrienne Rich this week: But the great dark birds of history screamed and plunged into our personal weather/ They were headed somewhere else but their beaks and pinions drove/ along the shore, through the rags of fog/ where we stood, saying I

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🎉 Excited to say I'll be on @tamronhall.bsky.social today to talk about chronic illness, my book THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM, and the challenges of being in a body at the edge of medical knowledge. (I loved being with a live audience so much!) Local listings are here: tamronhallshow.com/all-channels/

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Was such a joy to chat about creativity, process, and how to make things with my old friend @itaiyanai.bsky.social and former co-fellow at @rad-institute.bsky.social. Always amazed how insight and creative work look similar across disciplines....❤️

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"If the circulating H5 viruses become more transmissible between humans, we are not going to be able to control transmission as the viruses will spread rapidly and often subclinically," says Gray. Step by step the H5N1 situation is more concerning: www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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Ethics in action. We need more of it.

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LAST CHANCE for an early bird discount to Mapping the Maze for Creative Nonfiction Writers. Let's demystify the process to publication. Presented by Kevin Larimer, @aliahanna.bsky.social, @jordankisner.bsky.social, and @meghanor.bsky.social Register: at.pw.org/nonfictionmaze

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The developments enumerated in this article are stunning -- the bizarre installation of Musk in the White House and at the forefront of so much governmental decision making. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

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but only if the president is a Democrat

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"We are in the midst of a constitutional crisis right now," said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school at the University of California, Berkeley. "There have been so many unconstitutional and illegal actions in the first 18 days of the Trump presidency. We never have seen anything like this."

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We think they should be powerful enough to afford principles. They think they have a lot to lose (and they lost their "don't be evil" motto a long time ago). Google, you coward, you quisling.

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The new administration's war on humanism: meghanorourke.substack.com/p/going-to-w...

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In order to report on the administration's changes to the arts, I was on the NEA reading about their grants this morning and now can't get to pages I was on at 10:12am; anyone else having this? The pages are disappearing I think: www.arts.gov/grants/resea...

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Loyalty tests are a classic feature of the autocratic playbook www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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this wasn't on my bingo card back in the day

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I don’t know why anyone in the media styles “the Department of Government Efficiency” as if it is like "the Department of Education." Instead, it should be: “the ‘Department’ of Government Efficiency, which is not in fact a governmental department.”

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There's a lot we can't control about what is happening, but what is very clear is that most of the media, @wired.com excepted, is failing to meet the task at hand. The headlines are not clear enough; the language is not precise enough; there is too much reluctance to call it like it is.

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💯 agree

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Here’s @lizneeley.bsky.social’s latest newsletter, documenting the ongoing attacks on science and higher ed, and figuring out what to focus on: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

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Good for Judge Engelmayer! He rightly saw the legal imperative of immediate relief to preserve and protect the evidence of executive branch abdication to a veritable Muskocracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/n...

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An important public health story; I believe there was some suspicion a cat could have been involved in the Canada teen's case that couldn't be traced back to a person or bird...

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A major new lawsuit asks a federal court to halt the Trump/Musk shutdown of USAID, reopen the building, reactivate the website, restore all grants and funding, and recall furlough notices to workers: fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...

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It's like we're living in SILICON VALLEY, the TV show.

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Not loving the bird flu news coupled with the decimation of CDC, federal government, etc etc. If this were a dystopian novel or film it would all feel a little too on the nose and foreboding; the violin-swept music would be rising: www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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And there it is: Doors are open for kleptocracy in America

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This fantastic piece answers the question many of us who watched Twin Peaks have asked ourselves: What was David Lynch like in high school??? Read on and find out!

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Anti-elitism has led this country straight into a wholesale embrace of stupidity; the bad news and nonsense this week is off the charts. As Craig Spencer noted, an ebola outbreak was just reported in Uganda. In the past we would have worked with WHO to stop it. Now? Nope. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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I missed this @nytimes.com piece about close calls at airports when it was first published, and find the figure shocking; it should be possible to minimize near collisions like this:

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Ahhhh thank you!!!! I'm glad it helped in some small way.

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I really love this @yalereview.bsky.social piece we just published about a young David Lynch and the author's father growing up in Virginia; thanks to Will Frazier for doing it: yalereview.org/article/will...

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Tonight! En route from doing a TV segment in NYC about invisible illness; exhausted but so excited to see Joshua perform and to talk with him and @putrinolab about #longcovid and more.

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For decades we've understood less about women's health because we have studied it less. That was just beginning to change. And now it's gone--the entire landing page, erased: orwh.od.nih.gov/sex-gender

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Memecoins, monologues, and sharpies: Trump's inauguration week couldn't have been any Trumpier. Read James Surowiecki's diary, new today on TYR: yalereview.org/article/trum...

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Very excited that the Yale Schwarzman center is hosting Joshua Roman performing this coming Wednesday and Thursday; on Wednesday, I'll be in conversation with him and @putrinolab.bsky.social , talking about #longcovid and #invisibleillness. Reserve tickets early! schwarzman.yale.edu/events/joshu...

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A fantastic new @yalereview.bsky.social piece: editor James Surowiecki wrote a diary of watching Trump in the lead up to the Inauguration; what he saw told us a lot about what is to come, and Trump's embrace of screwing over the suckers--that is, most Americans: yalereview.org/article/trum...

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New post about the art of integrating research into narrative! How to do it (and what not to do). With some lessons via Brian Dillon on Didion's caption writing: meghanorourke.substack.com/p/how-and-wh...

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Generally, I don't love when the kids beg for screen time or snatch my phone and secretly play games. But I just walked into the bedroom to find them collaboratively playing solitaire (on easy mode) and high-fiving each other when they "won." "We're so good at this together," the little one said.

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