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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
My writing, writing on writing, and thoughts on writing—and on music, culture popular and unpopular, etc.—can now be found on Substack. Check it out. michaelchabon.substack.com?r=oy2er&utm_...
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Michael Chabon | Substack
Field Notes of a Serial Enthusiast. Click to read Michael Chabon, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Only an ignorant, draft-dodging, tinpot showboat weakling would ever consider bringing the military into this situation. www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/p...
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About 700 Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests | CNN Politics
More than 700 Marines based out of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in California have been mobilized to respond to the protests in Los Angeles, and the troops will join the thousands of Nati...
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
#itsclobberintime
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
A little was enough.
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
2017 piece. Imaging tech & other modern methods unavailable to Freud have begun to find at least some evidence for some of Freud’s hypotheses—the pleasure principle, for example. Freud was a neuroscientist whose ambition far outstripped his technological means.
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
If you’ve ever wondered what lives in spineless’s basement. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
nytimes.com
After Muscling Their Bill Through the House, Some Republicans Have Regrets
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
“Hegseth” is actually an old Norwegian word meaning “internalized homophobia.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Hegseth moves to rename Navy ship honoring gay rights icon Harvey Milk
The directive could be expanded to include other military vessels named for prominent American civil rights figures, said people familiar with internal discussions.
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Paul Waldman*, writing about the unedifying perma-squirm that was once Marco Rubio, puts it precisely. *My brother-in-law.
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
“…because we don’t want the world to be drawn to us. We’re just one more ruthless competitor in an international viper pit, and whatever we gain will be only at others’ expense, because we’re bigger and stronger than they are.”
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
tinyurl.com/37kvth5u “But the essence of the Trump foreign policy is that this isn’t a special country, not really. We have no admirable values that lift us up, no particular principles, no desire to foment the spread of liberty. We are not trying to be a beacon to the world…”
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What Happened to Marco Rubio?
Ambition is a helluva drug.
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Exploitation of mass media to spread disinformation, state orchestration of xenophobia, unholy alliance of nationalist regime and ultra-right (Catholic, in this instance) religion, taking revenge on a scapegoat population for a past degradation/humiliation… our times were born in poor Dreyfus’s.
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Found this unexpectedly moving. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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France finally acts to deliver justice in infamous Dreyfus case
More than century on, wronged officer is in line for posthumous promotion
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Perhaps, judging from the current state of things, we were the VHS to the Neanderthals’ Betamax. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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World’s oldest fingerprint may be a clue that Neanderthals created art
A man 43,000 years ago dipped a finger in red pigment and made a nose on a face-like pebble in Spain, scientists say
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Until recently I was totally unfamiliar with the splendidly-named Hyacinthe Jadin (1776-1800) and his (even more splendid) Sonatas for Piano with Violin. This is my favorite of the performances I’ve discovered so far. album.link/i/1733259207
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Jadin: Sonatas for Piano with Violin by Marek Toporowski & Zofia Wojniakiewicz
Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
An ad agency for McDonald’s France, calling it like they see it, is using graphics and design elements of a fictional meth-smuggling front company to sell “McDo”’s reformulated “McCrispy” fried chicken.
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
#unintimidated www.billboard.com/music/music-...
billboard.com
Bruce Springsteen Drops ‘Land of Hope & Dreams’ EP Featuring Speech That Set Off President Trump
Bruce Springsteen's speech about President Donald Trump's "corrupt" administration is featured on a new live EP titled 'Land of Hope & Dreams.'
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you/Forget the dead you’ve left, they will not follow you/The vagabond who’s rapping at your door/Is standing in the clothes that you once wore/Strike another match, go start anew www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/w...
nytimes.com
In Attacks on Harvard, Chinese See Yet Another Reason to Write Off the U.S.
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
25 on 9/19/25. Hard to believe.
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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money. This is murder. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Cost-cutting tactics

The secret bonuses were just one of many maneuvers UnitedHealth devised to track and cut expenses in its nursing home initiative.

Internal emails show, for example, that UnitedHealth supervisors gave their teams “budgets” showing how many hospital admissions they had “left” to use up on nursing home patients.

The company also monitored nursing homes that had smaller numbers of patients with “do not resuscitate” – or DNR – and “do not intubate” orders in their files. Without such orders, patients are in line for certain life-saving treatments that might lead to costly hospital stays.

Two current and three former UnitedHealth nurse practitioners told the Guardian that UnitedHealth managers pressed nurse practitioners to persuade Medicare Advantage members to change their “code status” to DNR even when patients had clearly expressed a desire that all available treatments be used to keep them alive.
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Wait, Robert "Blank Generation Blue Mask Girlfriend" Quine was Willard "To Be Is To Be The Value Of A Bound Variable" Quine's nephew?
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Fair point.
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
When your power depends on persuading the populace that everyone hates them and is their enemy, logic demands that you behave hatefully and make enemies of everyone. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
theguardian.com
Israeli troops fire ‘warning shots’ at 25 diplomats visiting occupied West Bank
Shots force delegation representing 31 countries, including Italy, Canada, Egypt and UK, to run for cover
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I love Calling All Destroyers even more!
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
They were so good!
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
If you love indie-alt-Americana-country-rock-whatever, right now is a great time to be alive. #Wednesday open.spotify.com/track/1FZXwh...
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Elderberry Wine
Wednesday · Elderberry Wine · Song · 2025
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Am I the only one who hears “I could drink a case of you/And I would still be on my feet” as more of a defiant put down than as sweet talk?
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
I could write a book.
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
This is the leap into the abyss. Israel will have committed suicide by genocide. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Israel says ‘extensive’ ground operations underway in Gaza Strip
The Israeli military said the ground maneuvers were part of Operation Gideon’s Chariots, an offensive that could include the occupation of Gaza.
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Chipped in to help the great Nelson George make this film a reality. igg.me/at/AGREATDAY...
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A GREAT DAY IN HIP HOP THE FILM
A documentary about one of the most iconic photographs in hip hop history, taken by Gordon Parks. | Check out 'A GREAT DAY IN HIP HOP THE FILM' on Indiegogo.
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I was digging Kwame Anthony Appiah’s answer *before* I got to the shoutout! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/m...
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Is It Ethical to Buy Used Books and Music?
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The clarity is mine, not his. I am clear who is the most amoral idiot.
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
It can be hard to discern, at times, which of the amoral idiots presently in power is the most idiotic and amoral, but this depraved bonehead keeps bringing the clarity. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
usatoday.com
RFK Jr.: 'I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me'
Rep. Mark Pocan asked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about a divisive issue. His response? Americans should not take medical advice from him.
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
My junk text life is so rich with poignant memories.
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Truest NYT headline in 25 years. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
nytimes.com
Kennedy Swims in Washington Creek That Flows With Sewage and Bacteria
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Thought of Tlön, too.
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Fascinating meditation by a philosopher of language. Bonus points for the “Darmok” discussion. aeon.co/essays/why-a... (h/t @johncoulthart.com)
aeon.co
Why alien languages could be far stranger than we imagine | Aeon Essays
Imagining how aliens might communicate prepares us for first contact and illuminates the nature of our own languages
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
There is no “quiet part.” It’s all out loud. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
washingtonpost.com
Trump shut out refugees but is making White South Africans an exception
About 60 Afrikaners are set to be routed through Virginia next week, documents show, in a notable exception to President Donald Trump’s suspension of refugee admissions.
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Disgraceful, disgusting, abominable, cowardly. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
washingtonpost.com
Trump fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
Hayden, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2016, was the first woman and the first African American to hold the position.
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Like any creation of the Cold War at its peak, RFE has a complicated history, and an ambiguous legacy (esp in Hungary)*, but damn, when I was 8 years old, this dude seemed like the coolest human imaginable. Best DJ talk-up ever. youtu.be/8hXg8XOITpM?... *See failed 1956 uprising
youtu.be
Radio Free Europe PSA
YouTube video by In16mm
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Way
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Or Moe Berg, major league catcher, graduate of Princeton and Columbia Law, quiz show champion, and OSS spy who was, at his discretion, literally licensed to kill Werner Heisenberg?
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
No? How about Zeppo Marx, who played straight-man foil to his three older brothers in vaudeville and the first five Marx Bros. films (can’t have been that easy) AND invented the heating pad?#InternationalSurprisinglyVersatileHumansDay
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
#goals
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Today is International Surprisingly Versatile Humans Day! Repost with a favorite Surprisingly Versatile Human. Mine is UK illustrator Chris Foss (b. 1946), known both for his eye-popping 1970s sf paperback-cover starships AND the nitty-gritty pencil illustrations for the original THE JOY OF SEX.
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
So it turns out the whole “shithole countries” thing was *aspirational*.
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Trump’s corruption is without limit. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
newyorker.com
The Terrorism Suspect Trump Sent Back to Bukele
An MS-13 leader knew key details of a secret deal that his gang allegedly made with the Salvadoran President—then the White House put him on a flight to El Salvador.
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Current fave music for writing: *Galactic Furnace*, Radio Music International, 2024. Sails effortlessly from Tangerine Dream to achingly lyrical Garcia guitar leads to the Eno-Jarrespace to modernesque electronic jams. Working great for the word count. cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/galact...
cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com
Galactic Furnace, by Radio Massacre International
4 track album
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I have no intention of making light of what is clearly a serious matter, but I can’t be the only one worried about the fate of young Nigel. www.aol.co.uk/news/mps-rec...
aol.co.uk
MPs to be recalled to Parliament to discuss future of British Steel
The PA news agency understands the rare weekend sitting will take place to discuss the uncertain future of British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant.
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Geoffrey O’Brien on the heyday of CinemaScope films? Yes, please. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
nybooks.com
Living Wide | Geoffrey O’Brien
Foster Hirsch’s Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties is an implicit memoir, revisiting his experience of a staggering array of films and the world in which they emerged.
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
We’re doomed.
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