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Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

This is fairly emblematic of the thinking of the sector of Trump apologists who argue that the culture itself *forced* conservatives to hold their noses and watch Trump deliver the crackdown McCarthy started.

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Opinion | The Cerebral, Bach-Loving Patrician Who Wrote Trump’s Playbook

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Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

This is not only the oldest surviving ice cream shop in NYC, it's also the best ice cream I've ever eaten. Around here, summer 2025 is known as hot fudge sundae summer.

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An Ice-Cream Parlor Where Time Stands Still (Published 2021)

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

me, starting Lonesome Dove on wednesday: can’t wait to settle in and slowly read this gigantic book all summer long me, emerging 96 hours later, wild-eyed, weeping, twigs in my hair: hey cowboy you ever think about how everyone you’ve ever met carries with them some enormous unspeakable loss

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Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

“He moved me around like a rag doll, twisted me like a flex toy. I handled him like I was taking revenge on everyone who’d ever wronged me.” —excerpt from “Conversations You Have at Twenty” by Maud Newton Join us in celebrating Narrative Prize winner Maud Newton’s @maudnewton.bsky.social birthday!

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Conversations You Have at Twenty | Narrative Magazine

Conversations You Have at Twenty by Maud Newton — Jake and I w...

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Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I'm looking forward to talking with Lee Hawkins, author of I AM NOBODY'S SLAVE: HOW UNCOVERING MY FAMILY'S HISTORY SET ME FREE, for the @mcnallyjackson.bsky.social festival! Tuesday 6/3, 6:30 pm, South St Seaport. Would love to see you fellow family historians! www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/resear...

Image reads Researching Your Family History, McNally Jackson Festival, Lee Hawkins & Maud Newton, June 3, 6:30 PM, South Street Sea Port, Preservation of Record. Image also shows the authors Lee Hawkins and Maud Newton, a black man and white woman.

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Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

"Adult children seem increasingly likely to publicly, even righteously, cut off contact with a parent, sometimes citing emotional, physical or sexual abuse they experienced in childhood... This cultural shift has contributed to a new, nearly impossible standard for parenting." Yeah how unreasonable.

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Opinion | There’s a Link Between Therapy Culture and Childlessness

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Cari Luna @cariluna.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Are you struggling with your novel? It's okay. It happens to ALL of us. My 3-week course, Getting Your Novel Unstuck, returns next month. It's designed to get your novel draft moving again with a fresh charge of energy and a solid plan to carry you forward to the end. cariluna.com/getting-your...

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Getting Your Novel Unstuck – Cari Luna

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Unboxing FINISHED COPIES of Misbehaving at the Crossroads! I can’t believe it’s here! PS Shameless plug: Have you pre-ordered your copy? 😊

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Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I recently read @iamlisako.bsky.social's MEMORY PIECE. A good companion read to PARABLE OF THE SOWER, with Y2K era art, tech, and activism storylines that extend to the future. Recommended.

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Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Last year I removed the rest of the English ivy and Japanese honeysuckle from this slope in front of my house to plant natives. The ivy roots were intense. The slope is kinda treacherous when wet.

Image shows a lot of English ivy on a slope, with a huge root in the center. Also shown: butterfly milkweed, late purple aster, common yarrow, heuchera, a non-native climbing rose. and a lilac.

Image shows a lot of English ivy on a slope, with roots visible in the center. Also shown: butterfly milkweed, late purple aster, common yarrow, a rose and a lilac.

Image shows a lot of English ivy on a slope. Also shown: butterfly milkweed, late purple aster, common yarrow, a rose and a lilac.

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Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

NYC park and nature lovers: you can submit written testimony here for the city budget hearing on parks, to ask the mayor to restore funding for our wild and green spaces. There's a script if you're pressed for time. www.ny4p.org/general/test...

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NY4P | Testify at the May 13 Executive Budget Hearing

Testify at the 5/13 NYC Parks Executive Budget Hearing with the Play Fair coalition.

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Pantheon Books @pantheonbooks.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Hey NYC, get ready to Get Lit! @lailalalami.com will be joining @allofitwnyc.bsky.social and @nypl.bsky.social on Tuesday, May 6, for a fantastic book club event celebrating The Dream Hotel. Get your tickets here: bit.ly/42OHGiY

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Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Ordinarily I would be anxiously ruminating over X but am distracted by the implosion of Y.

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StoneScrubber @stonescrubber.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I've been reading "Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation" by @maudnewton.bsky.social & listening to @adeemtheartist.bsky.social's "Heritage of Arrogance" on repeat this week. Powerful stuff.

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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 02/05/2025

It’s hard to keep up with all the evil stuff this administration is doing, but if I stay online and keep doomscrolling, I just might do it.

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Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Some other native plants that survived last summer's drought and the winter road salt in my NYC roadside tree bed: New England aster, wild columbine, and I think smooth blue aster.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 21/04/2025

US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts reut.rs/4cHdnz3

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Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I cannot believe discourse has fallen so low that I am almost tempted to quote David Brooks with approval.

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

WOW. One of the Venezuelans whom Kristi Noem tried to render to El Salvador's slave prison managed to avoid removal and was able to make it to immigration court, and you'll never guess what happened: THE GOVERNMENT GAVE NO EVIDENCE OF HIS GANG MEMBERSHIP. Due process ftw

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Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Spring restoration efforts are picking up in the wild spaces of NYC parks, if you're looking for a way to feel grounded and connected, and to tend something meaningful. www.nycgovparks.org/events/volun...

Image shows an American Hornbeam sapling in a pot and the handles of a shovel and other garden tools in front of a wooded area.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

"On the rooftop patio of the General Services Administration headquarters, an agency staffer recently discovered something strange: a rectangular device attached to a wire that snaked across the roof... a transceiver that communicates with Elon Musk’s vast and private Starlink satellite network."

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Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The chokecherry I planted by the curb last fall has officially survived last summer's drought and the winter onslaught of road salt. Finally, a solid NYC hellstrip planting.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the government may not use federal benefits or funds to coerce parties to surrender their constitutional rights. This is what the Administration is doing ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

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Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Seeing the authoritarian principles of my conservative Christian childhood imposed on our society is something I've always feared, but the years of worrying don't lessen the blow of watching it happen.

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

If you're in the NYC/NJ/Brooklyn area, I'm going to be in conversation with Jacqueline Woodson to celebrate ZEAL's release on Saturday, April 26th 💗 Register here! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-free-b...

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Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

"The world’s most famous university has done the right thing, and this is major news. It shouldn’t be. But less than three months into the second Trump administration, we are surprised by simple dignity. Capitulation would have garnered smaller headlines." — M Gessen

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Opinion | Harvard’s Strength and How Far We’ve Fallen So Quickly

The thrill over its response to the Trump administration is a measure of how low, and how fast, our expectations have fallen.

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Nicole Micheroni @nicolemicheroni.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

Email from DHS revoking parole, unnamed recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 1

Email from DHS revoking parole, unknown recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 2

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 11/04/2025

the man literally bought one of the most influential social media companies in the country for $44 billion and converted it into a right wing propaganda platform

Elon on twitter looking at a chart showing is immense unpopularity and calling it "the inevitable outcome of having a political propaganda war wages against me while j have almost no countervailing campaign"

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/04/2025

Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not. An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.

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Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?

An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.

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Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I'm still wrapping my mind around the fact that our world has turned into a game of "choose your billionaire fighter." I guess it's always been that way, but now it's overt—and practically celebrated by a significant part of the population

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

"Like Amazon, but with human beings."

diagram of a nineteenth century slave ship with humans packed in to achieve maximum economic efficiency

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Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I've had a copy for years but somehow hadn't read PARABLE OF THE SOWER until now. Depending on your perspective, this was either a perfect or crucial or terrible time for it. Probably all three. In any case, I devoured it and am on to the sequel.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Researchers in Texas have developed a system that transforms common biomass into water-harvesting materials. The system requires minimal energy while being scalable for off-grid communities, and produces 14.19 litres of water daily per kilogram of material. buff.ly/LjuAsM7 #ShareGoodNewsToo

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From Scraps to Sips: Everyday Biomass Produces Drinking Water from Thin Air

Discarded food scraps, stray branches, seashells and many other natural materials are key ingredients in a new system that can pull drinkable water out of thin air developed by researchers from The…

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Leah Becerra @leahbecerra.com · 08/04/2025

A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events: “The Constitution requires no less.”

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AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists

A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.

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Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

"It is entirely unclear where migrants who have already been deported to El Salvador must now file their petitions... The Trump administration has taken the position that these individuals can’t file habeas petitions at all; they are simply stuck in [the megaprison] indefinitely with no recourse."

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The Supreme Court’s New 5–4 Bailout for Trump Couldn’t Be More Ominous

The Supreme Court handed Trump a major victory, lifting a restraining order that had prevented the mass deportation of migrants to an El Salvador prison.

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Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The government's position, Sotomayor says in her dissent, is that even “United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal.”

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The Supreme Court’s New 5–4 Bailout for Trump Couldn’t Be More Ominous

The Supreme Court handed Trump a major victory, lifting a restraining order that had prevented the mass deportation of migrants to an El Salvador prison.

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Bryan Anderson @bryanranderson.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

BREAKING: NC Supreme Court has temporarily blocked appeals court decision that would've disqualified roughly 267 ballots and required more than 61,000 voters to cure registration/ballot deficiencies within 15 business days in order for their votes to count. Story to come. #ncpol

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

I lament that the Court appears to have embarked on a
new era of procedural variability, and that it has done so in
such a casual, inequitable, and, in my view, inappropriate
manner. See Department of Education v. California, 604
U. S. ___ , ___ (2025) (JACKSON, J., dissenting) (slip op., at
1–2). At least when the Court went off base in the past, it
left a record so posterity could see how it went wrong. See,
e.g., Korematsu v. United States, 323 U. S. 214 (1944). With
more and more of our most significant rulings taking place
in the shadows of our emergency docket, today’s Court
leaves less and less of a trace. But make no mistake: We
are just as wrong now as we have been in the past, with
similarly devastating consequences. It just seems we are
now less willing to face it.

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Closed for 20 years, NYC's historic Metro Theater will finally return as a 5-screen cinema — with "classics, foreign films and first-run independent projects." Many plans to save the 1933 theater have failed, including a resurrection as an Alamo Drafthouse. variety.com/2025/film/ne... #FilmSky

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New York’s Metro Theater Gets New Lease on Life as Ira Deutchman-Led Non-Profit Buys Historic Cinema

The Upper West Cinema Center has completed the purchase of the former Metro Theater for $6.9 million.

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