Emily Witt
@embits.bsky.social
Staff writer at The New Yorker, author of Health and Safety and Future Sex.
R.I.P. to the Cambridge poet J.H. Prynne www.nplusonemag.com/issue-11/ess...
That Room in Cambridge | Emily Witt
Practical criticism, as the document explained, was invented by a Cambridge professor named I. A. Richards in the 1920s, when English literature was trying to gain space for itself in the university a...
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Health and Safety is available as of today in chic and portable paperback. Thank you everyone for reading!
Emily Witt and Ruby Cramer discuss the situation in Minneapolis, a city effectively under siege by militaristic federal agents on the latest episode of #NewYorkerRadio. swap.fm/l/tny-radioh...
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Really excellent essay review by @embits.bsky.social in @lrb.co.uk on the #manosphere and Andrew Tate. It makes very disturbing reading but it is important we all understand these phenomena. 🧵1/3 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Our new issue 47.16 is now online, featuring: @tomstevenson.bsky.social in El Salvador Kasia Boddy on Dorothy Parker Seamus Perry on Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce Ruby Hamilton on David Lynch and Emily Witt (@embits.bsky.social) on the manosphere. Read online at lrb.co.uk
An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza. Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF. #NotATarget Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...
Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...
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ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...
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Most nabbed in L.A. raids were men with no criminal conviction, picked up off the street
Most nabbed in L.A. raids were men with no criminal conviction, picked up off the street
A Times analysis found that 69% of those arrested during that period had no criminal conviction and 58% had never been charged with a crime.
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Spectacular reporting & heartbreaking writing by Emily Witt @newyorker.com The People Being Disappeared by <em class="small">ICE</em> in Los Angeles www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
The People Being Disappeared by ICE in Los Angeles
As communities across Southern California document and protest the escalating raids, loved ones grapple with the unimaginable.
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There are now more military stationed in L.A. than in Iraq and Syria. Emily Witt reports on the anti-ICE demonstrations and federal presence in the city.
Looking for the National Guard in Los Angeles
President Trump’s assertions that federal troops have saved the city from destruction did not appear to reflect reality.
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I wrote about Bernie and AOC's visit to Tucson for @newyorker.com
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · last yr.At the “Fight Oligarchy” tour stop in Arizona, Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hammered home a single message: the government has been taken hostage by a cabal of billionaires, and the only way to wrest it back is by unifying the working class.
I wrote about Trump's executive order targeting gender care for children and the fallout in New York and other cities. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Where Do Trans Kids Go from Here?
In the wake of Donald Trump’s executive order banning transition-related care for minors, hospitals in blue states began cancelling appointments—forcing families in New York and beyond to consider whe...
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Yesterday many thousands of federal employees were terminated. This is a Reddit thread for federal employees that got laid off.
From the fednews community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the fednews community
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I went on @TalkEasyPod with Sam Fragoso to talk about what it was like in Los Angeles these past couple of weeks. talkeasypod.com/emily-witt/
Emily Witt – Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Writer Emily Witt (The New Yorker) on the impact of the Los Angeles fires, the prophetic work of Octavia Butler, and the power of community.
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I wrote about a multigenerational family in Altadena who lost their homes in the Eaton Fire. search.app/kqjW9okx2oAj...
Will L.A.’s Fires Permanently Disperse the Black Families of Altadena?
In a Los Angeles suburb, multigenerational families like the Benns found affordable housing and a deep sense of connection. After the devastating fires, many wonder whether they’ll be able to rebuild ...
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