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katherine hu

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checking facts @newyorker.com, fmr. assistant ed @theatlantic.com

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David Sims @davidlsims.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
DIGGER! I …liked it www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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Tom Cruise’s Return to Serious Cinema Isn’t What It Looks Like
The actor sets action filmmaking aside for a new, bizarre kind of challenge in Digger.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 01/10/2026
Playing an oil tycoon responsible for an environmental catastrophe, Tom Cruise hurls himself into a bellicose oratorical frenzy in “Digger,” Justin Chang writes. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Tom Cruise Is a Scream—and a Gas—in “Digger”
In Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s conceptually elaborate apocalyptic farce, hectoring satire and visual sublimity fight to a draw.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 28/08/2026
We will always love you. www.newyorker.com/culture/cove...
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Nicole Rifkin’s “Pure Gold”
We will always love you.
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Dexerto @dexerto.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
A Norway fan has gone viral for not taking part in their Row celebration after matches and won't do it if they win the World Cup "It’s factually wrong; they didn’t row, they sailed over the Atlantic”
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designgeekatl.bsky.social @designgeekatl.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
David Hockney. Rain, 1973
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 12/06/2026
Olivia Rodrigo’s biggest asset is her ferocity—and her new album, “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,” doubles down on those big, messy feelings, @skornhaber.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/GIHhA66T 📸: Xavi Torrent / Getty
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12/06/2026
New Yorkers unite in hope. www.newyorker.com/culture/cove...
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Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet’s “After the Comeback”
New Yorkers unite in hope.
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Propping the TV up with big cans of Roma tomatoes. Greatest city in da world
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Matteo Wong @matteowong.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
a sad, brilliant, essential essay www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 01/06/2026
Fifty years and I dream of him still, fifty years and every story, every joke, every bit of news or gossip leads back to him still. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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“The Twice-Widowed Khala Helai,” by Jamil Jan Kochai
Fifty years and I dream of him still, fifty years and every story, every joke, every bit of news or gossip leads back to him still.
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Jonathan Bernstein @jonbern.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
this is not true, and this guy doesn't speak for me! nymag.com/intelligence...
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 04/05/2026
In “The Hill,” a daughter comes of age through visits to her imprisoned mother, inheriting the afterlife of a youthful radicalism that shattered her family. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Harriet Clark’s Début Is a New Kind of Coming-of-Age Novel
In “The Hill,” a daughter comes of age through visits to her imprisoned mother, inheriting the afterlife of a youthful radicalism that shattered her family.
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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Two copy editors high-fiving so hard right now
"Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misstated which day the New York Mets suffered their 11th straight loss. It was on Sunday, not Monday. Even the Mets cannot lose on an off day."
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Caity Weaver @caity.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
MAJOR UPDATE: I found the best free restaurant bread in the United States www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America
Thirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/04/2026
This is Hank. He’s one of several baby lambs just born on writer Doug Mahoney’s New England homestead. During the six days of his life, he’s been staying extra warm (and stylish!) in our favorite winter jacket for dogs. A product-testing prodigy. nyti.ms/4cm8prU
A white lamb wearing a red dog coat.
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Mr. Juice Box @toxicjuicebox.com · 04/03/2026
Good morning! Yes, this is he
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 03/03/2026
Before 13-year-old Sara left New York, the only home she’d known, her friends recorded a message for her to listen to in Mexico. “You’re an amazing friend,” they said. “We’re gonna miss you so much.” Caitlin Dickerson on one mixed-status family’s decision to leave the U.S. behind.
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‘Suddenly America Doesn’t Want My Children or Grandchildren Anymore.’
The Cruz family spent years building a life in New York. Then the risks of staying became too great.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 17/02/2026
For aspiring writers, the rooms of literary figures—Virginia Woolf, Maya Angelou, Joan Didion—are talismanic sites. But the quest to find the ideal creative space is often self-defeating, Joshua Rothman writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/d7BMjI
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The Myth of the Perfect Writer’s Room
For aspiring writers, the rooms of literary figures—Virginia Woolf, Maya Angelou, Joan Didion—are talismanic sites. But the quest to find the ideal creative space is often self-defeating, Joshua Rothman writes.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 11/02/2026
Alfred Tennyson’s poetry reckoned with the immensities of reality, time, and grief, confronting a world upended by new truths about the earth and the heavens. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/yQJZUr
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In an Age of Science, Tennyson Grappled with an Unsettling New World
His poetry reckoned with the immensities of reality, time, and grief, confronting a world upended by new truths about the earth and the heavens.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/02/2026
Martin Weil, one of hundreds of journalists being let go at The Washington Post, has worked on local news there since 1965.
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He Was Laid Off at The Washington Post After Working There 60 Years
Martin Weil, one of hundreds being let go at The Post, has worked on local news there since 1965, witnessing the paper’s rise and now retrenchment.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 30/01/2026
Dr. Gideon Koren was one of Canada’s leading pediatricians and toxicologists—but some of his work was revealed to be deeply flawed. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/CqEdlt
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Did a Celebrated Researcher Obscure a Baby’s Poisoning?
After a newborn died of opioid poisoning, a new branch of pediatrics came into being. But the evidence doesn’t add up.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 26/01/2026
The cover of this week’s issue, “New York’s Toughest,” by Peter de Sève. Start exploring: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/qARBiP
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Michael Leibel @michaelleibel.com · 23/12/2025
“A version of the problem exists on the opposite side of the age spectrum, too: instead of a phone-based childhood, a phone-based retirement.” @cwarzel.bsky.social’s great piece in The Atlantic
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Do Your Parents Have a Screen-Time Problem?
The phone-based retirement is here.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 23/12/2025
“My parents looked so old / and small next to them. Whose life was this size? / Up close, the gold paint was scotched and chipping.” Read a new poem by Drew Rollins:
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Theft
A poem
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 18/12/2025
Jollibee began as a response to demand for American fast food in a postcolonial Philippines. Now, the chain has designs on becoming one of the top restaurant companies in the world—and is reshaping the American palate, Yasmin Tayag reports:
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Postcolonial Chicken
The U.S. introduced fast food to the Philippines. Now Jollibee is serving it back to America.
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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
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We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15/12/2025
“I uncover / orange embers, carry them / to a covered grill, and, glancing up, / see the stars’ braille / against the night’s black page.” Read a new poem by Arthur Sze:
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Inside a Flame
A poem
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 07/12/2025
“You will never tell me, / even if I could close / the broken skin of heaven / with my mouth.” Read a new poem by Imogen Cassels:
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Recall
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katherine hu @katherinehu.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Imogen Cassels' poetry is a real delight: www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
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Recall
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 04/12/2025
The Atlantic’s editors pick their favorite books of the year—10 titles that distinguish themselves as worth reading and remembering. See the full list: theatln.tc/gaJVrZ7O
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Matteo Wong @matteowong.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Amidst more and more cases of "AI psychosis," I talked to psychiatrists to figure out we do—and more importantly don't—know about how chatbots may be producing or exacerbating severe psychological distress. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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‘AI Psychosis’ Is a Medical Mystery
Researchers are scrambling to figure out why chatbots appear to lead some people to delusional thinking.
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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Thank you @theatlantic.com --editors,staff & journalists. Amazing to work with. This poem is actually for you. ( turn phone or tablet sideways to restore lines) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Eloquence
A poem by Jorie Graham
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 02/12/2025
School photos are kitschy and expensive—but parents can’t seem to stop buying them. Annie Midori Atherton on the portrait’s enduring appeal:
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What’s the Point of School Photos Anymore?
The portraits are kitschy and expensive—but parents can’t seem to stop buying them.
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 01/12/2025
You ever think the guy with the Tiny Desk just wants to get back to work?
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 24/11/2025
“Let me / be more bound to my living in each moment, be held / by this hum, that cloud, this breath, that shroud.” Read a new poem by Traci Brimhall:
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This Beautiful Confusion
A poem
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 24/11/2025
“Let me / be more bound to my living in each moment, be held / by this hum, that cloud, this breath, that shroud.” Read a new poem by Traci Brimhall:
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This Beautiful Confusion
A poem
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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Guess what? Time to preorder this book! Killing Spree. @fsgbooks.bsky.social thank you for agreeing to this beautiful cover...❤️❤️🙏
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Before women, the workplace was perfect. It was full of trees. There was no need to labor with your hands. You didn’t have to wear pants, or any form of clothes. Every kind of animal was there. Hmm I may be thinking of something else women supposedly ruined www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Women Keep Ruining the Workplace!!
Before they arrived, of course, everything was perfect.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 17/11/2025
A retrospective at MOMA puts forth a persuasive case for Ruth Asawa, an artist who saw making her work and living with others as inextricably entwined. www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/…
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Ruth Asawa’s Art of Defiant Hospitality
A retrospective at MOMA puts forth a persuasive case for an artist who saw making her work and living with others as inextricably entwined.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 17/11/2025
It’s become conventional wisdom that America’s young men are in crisis. The reality is more complicated than that. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weeke…
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What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 13/11/2025
Five people facing increasing health-care costs share their frustrations with Democrats for caving on a deal to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
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‘My Premium Will Go From $350 to $2,780 a Month’
Five people facing increasing health-care costs share their frustrations with Democrats for caving on a deal to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
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kritty krat nyahah >w< @ BLFC @spookybiscuits.com · 10/11/2025
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 09/11/2025
“Aphids toiled brittle stems as we met the dike / to rob snakehead limbs of their fruit. I gathered / persimmons, podgy maypops.” Read a new poem by Carson Colenbaugh:
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Love Song Set to a Tune of Gathering
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 05/11/2025
In the end, Andrew Cuomo’s long record was a gift to Zohran Mamdani. “What I don’t have in experience, I make up for in integrity—and what you don’t have in integrity, you could never make up for in experience,” Mamdani told Cuomo in a debate.
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The Mamdani Era Begins
His opponents tried to smear him for his youth, inexperience, and leftist politics. But New Yorkers didn’t want a hardened political insider to be mayor—they wanted Zohran Mamdani.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/10/2025
The Trump administration released a final rule on Thursday that restricted who could participate in a student loan forgiveness program for public servants. Critics say the new rule gives the government broad tools to politicize the program and target groups that do not align with its values.
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Trump Rule Could Ban Some Public Servants From Student Loan Forgiveness
A new rule could disqualify certain employers from the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program that are deemed to be engaged in “illegal activities.”
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 27/10/2025
“And think— / just think / how light the head can be, / releasing velvet-covered extensions of the past.” Read a new poem by Carolina Hotchandani:
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Casting
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 20/10/2025
“I never crossed a border—only watched the land shift like a tired animal, folding / itself around my feet until I belonged to a country I didn’t name.” Read a new poem by Darrel Alejandro Holnes:
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Mouth of the River, Tongue of No Country
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 16/10/2025
I’ve been evicted from the Pentagon, a building I’ve covered for 18 years, Nancy A. Youssef writes. I’ll keep doing my job anyway.
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The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps
I’ve been evicted from a building I’ve covered for 18 years. I’ll keep doing my job anyway.
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