The Great Satan
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I wrote about Cormac McCarthy (including the new biography) for @Harpers harpers.org/archive/2026/11/…
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This is playing with fire.
Minks and ferrets have such humanlike lung cells that they’re the standard for testing human flu transmission. (Cows aren’t!)
An H5N1 epidemic raging in a mink farm is basically the plot for Dr. Evil tries to spark a pandemic. Luck isn’t a plan.
Here’s something you should know about minks:
They have lungs and airways remarkably similar on a cellular level to those of people.
They’ve spread flus and infected humans before with COVID-19.
Right now, bird flu is spreading on a Utah farm filled with thousands of them… 🧵
ALT A close-up view of a white mink with red eyes and a pink nose baring its teeth and hissing, emerging from under a dark enclosure.
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Kushner clearly needs to be charged.
Kushner also failed to disclose himself as an agent of a foreign government, having been paid nearly $2 billion in total by foreign leaders. trib.al/OTkGEv6
I don’t have anything clever to say about the Islamophobia that by now pervades the GOP (& isn’t at all unknown among the Democrats) but it remains amazing to me in its viciousness & indecency
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Over the five years from 2020-2025, there were 430,365 heat-related deaths in Europe.
And currently we’re just sailing right over 1.5°C of heating with no end in sight.
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Delighted and honored to see my translation of Di Benedetto's THE SUICIDES amid very impressive company on the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize longlist. With many thanks to @NYRB_Imprints for making it all possible!
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The next president should normalize diplomatic relations with Iran, undo the sanctions and engage in trade and cultural exchange. Making believe that Iran is an “existential threat” to us is not only pathetic, it is an elite “luxury belief” that we now struggle to afford
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Hard to overstate how much is at stake in this election. And not just for Brazil.
Brazil registered the lowest Amazon deforestation rate on record over the past year, allowing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to claim success on a key issue that’s been at the center of his platform bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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I'll be teaching this course at BISR beginning November 18. We'll be reading Aimé Césaire, Ghassan Kanafani, Lorraine Hansberry and thinking about "the entry of the chorus, of the ex- slaves themselves, as the arbiters of their own fate" (C.L.R. James).
thebrooklyninstitute.com/ite…
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Arizona's "Land of Standing-Up Rocks" is poised to become America's 64th national park. The bill designating Chiricahua protects tribal access for traditional ceremonies, on homelands the Chiricahua Apache were forced from in 1886.
ictnews.org/news/a-rocky-won…
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As I said in an interview recently, it’s become necessary to prove that Islamophobia does exist in this country.
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Nauseating
The US holds another secret meeting with Myanmar's military government, which continues to bomb and kill its own people. Washington's support of democracy in Myanmar has been abandoned in favour of a "transactionalist" approach, @hmarston4 told us. reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…
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Chuck Schumer has yet to say a word in defense of Omar.
Me and Ilhan Omar are far apart policy wise. I’m pro life, she’s pro abortion. I’m pro 2A, she’s pro gun control. And on and on.
But can someone tell me how pretending to get ready to deport Ilhan Omar is going to bring gas down under $2, make health insurance freaking affordable, make a family’s weekly grocery bill make sense, and stop sending our beloved military off to fight for another fucking foreign war???
People are so sick and tired of the bullshit.
When you dumb mf’ers at the WH actually release the Epstein files and lock up the pedophiles and rapists you all hang out with, then we will start paying attention.
Until then 🖕.
