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Absolute fucking infants, every last one of them.

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Finally the Verizon building is good for something

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He was my favorite actor of all time. Every one of these 10 performances is a marvel; please watch them if you haven’t yet. The Conversation The French Connection The Royal Tenenbaums I Never Sang for My Father Night Moves Scarecrow Hoosiers Unforgiven Mississippi Burning Bonnie and Clyde

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Thanks to the great Joe Pompeo for talking to me about PARIS UNDERCOVER — and the challenging research process that led to it. A fun talk!

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One way for news outlets to respond would be an immediate TV ban on airtime for all administration officials.

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During the Spanish Civil War, the Americans who went there to fight against Franco, Mussolini, and Hitler were dismissed by the US government as "premature antifascists." History is not precise and clean, but it is never premature to oppose fascism.

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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NYC folks! On 3/13 I'll be doing a discussion with @pagankennedy.bsky.social, author of the amazing SECRET HISTORY OF THE RAPE KIT. We'll be talking about our recently published books, but also the whole enterprise of telling nonfiction stories. And Urbane Arts is a really cool venue. Check it out!

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oh you have a machine that can consider a string of words and place the expected next word following it? that's cool. personally i'm a writer so i like to follow up a string of words with an unexpected one, but you do you

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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as allude to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

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Every Valentine's Day, I recall the time my friend Katrina heard two guys arguing about parking a moving truck in Brooklyn, when one of them shouted: “I’m telling you, Love is not one way! It’s never been one way! Love is a fucking two-way street!”

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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I had a delightful time talking (and drinking a cocktail) with Rick and Chris on this episode of their great podcast “History Happy Hour.” Give it a listen!

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In this week’s book news: celebrated the new book by @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social! Can’t wait to dig into this true story of WW2 era history.

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Many thanks!

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Friends: My new book, PARIS UNDERCOVER, is now on sale! "One of the best books I've read in ages." -- Sonia Purnell, A Woman of No Importance "A true original ... a heart-pounding tale of betrayal that is impossible to put down." -- Lynne Olson, Madame Fourcade's Secret War #booksky #nonfiction

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If you're wondering whether you should promote your book or your latest publication now with all the chaos, the answer is yes. We need your words. We need to flood the channels with art and literature. So go for it, friends.

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Many thanks to The Washington Post for including PARIS UNDERCOVER among their noteworthy books for February! “Goodman’s gripping account chronicles the events — both courageous and horrifying — and illustrates how loyalty and betrayal can coincide in wartime and its aftermath.” Out Tuesday, 2/4!

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Just discovered one of my favorite authors @mgoodmanbooks.bsky.social is on #bluesky AND he has a new book coming out next week! PARIS UNDERCOVER is a story of two women in Nazi-occupied Paris who created a daring escape line that rescued dozens of Allied servicemen. Check it out: shorturl.at/furTQ

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Happy birthday to what is still the greatest correction in the history of the New York Times!

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To note: I'm here today because two generations ago the US let in my grandparents, who arrived from oppressive, poverty-stricken, disease-ridden, war-torn countries , with religious beliefs (Jewish) and political beliefs (Communist) that most Americans would have found strange and frightening. 1/

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In honor of the inauguration, the ADL has lowered its knees to half mast.

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As Kurt Vonnegut once wrote, “I could carve a better man out of a banana.”

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Thomas Mann

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Is there anything as beautiful as Paris cobblestones in the rain?

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AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re- BEASTIES: MORSE AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of Beasties: COURSE MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy BEASTIES: MOOCHER MCA: We’re Christmas Past MIKE D: Christmas Present BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE

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I love the Book Cougars and I’m so jazzed that they gave a shoutout to my forthcoming book!

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Isaac Asimov was born on this day in 1920. This quotation from 1980 holds up: “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States…. [It is] nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”

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“And that night at Chez Lucienne, my sequinned skirt was like a thousand pieces of light, gathering all the pieces of me, guiding me home. I fucking love you, New York City.” What a gorgeous, moving piece. So pleased for @monaeltahawy.bsky.social, and so proud of my hometown.

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Hey, Bluesky friends: The good folks at Penguin Random House and GoodReads are giving away 25 copies of my new book, PARIS UNDERCOVER, forthcoming in February. Check it out! #booksky #nonfiction "A true original ... a heart-pounding tale of betrayal that is impossible to put down." -- Lynne Olson

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The fact that Trump and Republicans jumped on the name and face of the New Orleans attacker and declared he was an "illegal immigrant" despite his being born and raised in America is a pretty good sign of how the mass deportations are going to go.

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Historians, put down what you're doing. The successor to "This came to me in a dream" as best footnote has arrived.🗃️ David B. Allison "Engaging Communities in Museums: Sharing Vision, Creation, and Development" 2020.

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Israeli border police officers reportedly found a bag of pot in a Palestinian man's house in Shuafaat refugee camp, put a bag over his head, shackled him, beat him in front of his wife & kids, and branded his face with a Star of David. Then, they destroyed body cam evidence.

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Here’s another way of saying “a pro-vaccine doctor.” A doctor.

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