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Caroline Mimbs Nyce
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This is a pretty remarkable recollection by Mark Singer about a plane ride he took in 1997 with Trump and Ghislaine to Palm Beach. When they were about to land, they got on the phone w/ their mutual friend, "Jeffrey." www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
Jeffrey, Who? A Plane Ride with Donald Trump
From the daily newsletter: remembering a trip to Mar-a-Lago.
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Mark Singer, who profiled the President for the @newyorker.com in the nineties, recalls a plane ride he took with Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell in 1997 www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
Jeffrey, Who? A Plane Ride with Donald Trump
From the daily newsletter: remembering a trip to Mar-a-Lago.
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people are beginning to publish their holiday gift guides, and I feel as though I have a duty, as a noted Good Gift Giver, to remind you that the best gifts are *useful.* not special! useful. not rare! useful.
had fun talking to Stephen Witt about what the data center buildout means for the planet link.newyorker.com/view/677c539...
"The noise was unholy, as if I’d opened a broom closet and found an active jet engine inside. I watched the blinking lights and the spinning of the fans." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Inside the Data Centers That Train A.I. and Drain the Electrical Grid
A data center, which can use as much electricity as Philadelphia, is the new American factory, creating the future and propping up the economy. How long can this last?
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Jennifer Lawrence has been cast in maternal roles since her teens. Now, in “Die My Love,” she is playing a mother for the first time since becoming one. Read Jia Tolentino’s new Profile of the actress: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/qHU2_j
"I feel like what I saw in Cuba was definitively the end of the dream of the Cuban Revolution. For years, while Fidel was still alive, some people clung to it. ... Now it’s over." really enjoyed talking to Jon Lee Anderson for this one: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
The Cuban Exodus to Trump’s America
From the daily newsletter: Jon Lee Anderson on his reporting in Havana and Miami.
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loved this conversation between Joshua Rothman and @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social on how A.I. might change the medical profession: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
"Historically, autocrats are a mirthless bunch." David Remnick on Kimmel (and Putin and Goodfellas) in tonight's newsletter: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
Trump Presses Mute on Free Speech
From the daily newsletter: the Trump Administration, led by its endlessly aggrieved boss, turned against the First Amendment.
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Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work
onion person@junlper.beer · 11mo agothe entire media ecosystem is just not built or ready for events like this and far right billionaires like larry ellison buying news orgs will only make this worse
I wrote a bit about the tariff chaos in today’s @newyorker.com newsletter. www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
Can the Courts Stop Trump’s Tariffs?
From the daily newsletter: a ruling is expected in the case of whether the taxes have caused harm.
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I too have really enjoyed using Opal over the past year! nice one from @chaykak.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
Gentle Parenting My Smartphone Addiction
An app called Opal finally succeeded at curbing my time spent on social media through a combination of mild friction, encouragement, and guilt.
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classic @elcush.bsky.social on Prime Day: "The holiday was invented by a corporation in honor of itself, to enrich itself. It has existed for six years and is observed by tens of millions of people worldwide. I hope you are spending it with your loved ones." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Cancel Amazon Prime
The subscription service is Amazon’s greatest—and most terrifying—invention.
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SCOOP: Details about Saturday’s “No Kings” protest are under watch by domestic intelligence centers, where analysts regularly distribute speculative threat assessments among federal, state, and local agencies, according to an internal alert obtained by WIRED. UNPAYWALLED:
'No Kings' Protests, Citizen-Run ICE Trackers Trigger Intelligence Warnings
Army intelligence analysts are monitoring civilian-made ICE tracking tools, treating them as potential threats, as immigration protests spread nationwide.
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"Kassam wore pink seersucker pants and at one point booed a passing Cybertruck. As guests filtered in and out, he developed a tagline: 'The Tea Party sold out to Koch, but Trump wouldn’t sell out to ketamine.'" www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
The Trump-Musk Feud as Seen From D.C.’s MAGA Hotspot
From the daily newsletter: a report from Butterworth’s. Plus: Miley Cyrus finds her voice.
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Just how bad is Donald Trump’s travel ban? In today’s daily newsletter, @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social, who covers immigration for The New Yorker, unpacks the news.
Just How Bad Is Trump’s New Travel Ban?
“We don’t want ’em,” the President said.
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can't not see this through the lens of The Rehearsal www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Amelia Earhart’s Reckless Final Flights
The aviator’s publicity-mad husband, George Palmer Putnam, kept pushing her to risk her life for the sake of fame.
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the inaugural edition of How Bad Is It?, feat. @ronanfarrow.bsky.social subscribe to get these in your inbox: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/d...
A commencement dispatch from Jeannie Suk Gersen: “A faculty colleague near me spent the proceedings reading Montesquieu, the great theorist of the separation of powers, on his phone.” www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
Trump Could Really Hurt Harvard
From the daily newsletter: a reality check from a very emotional graduation day in Cambridge.
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"The school’s transformation in the public imagination, from bastion of élitism into a beacon of hope and dissent, requires a reality check. If the federal government decides it’s going to destroy—or severely diminish—you, it probably can." www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
Trump Could Really Hurt Harvard
From the daily newsletter: a reality check from a very emotional graduation day in Cambridge.
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