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Caroline Mimbs Nyce

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newsletters at The New Yorker • based in LA • I write about wildfire, technology, and California • caroline_nyce@newyorker.com • Mimbs.22 on Signal

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 02/12/2025
The New Yorker has launched on Substack! Each week, our editors will select one essential story from our pages to send to your inbox, without a paywall. Sign up here. substack.com/home/post/p-180418927
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Michael Luo @michaelluo.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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...
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Jeffrey, Who? A Plane Ride with Donald Trump
From the daily newsletter: remembering a trip to Mar-a-Lago.
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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...
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Jeffrey, Who? A Plane Ride with Donald Trump
From the daily newsletter: remembering a trip to Mar-a-Lago.
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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.
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
had fun talking to Stephen Witt about what the data center buildout means for the planet link.newyorker.com/view/677c539...
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
"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...
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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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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 27/10/2025
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: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/qHU2_j
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
"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...
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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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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
loved this conversation between Joshua Rothman and @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social on how A.I. might change the medical profession: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
screenshot of a quote about medical students relying on A.I. from the linked article
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
"Historically, autocrats are a mirthless bunch." David Remnick on Kimmel (and Putin and Goodfellas) in tonight's newsletter: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
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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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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
a helpful legal update on tariffs from @cristianfarias.com www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
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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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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 07/08/2025
I wrote a bit about the tariff chaos in today’s @newyorker.com newsletter. www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
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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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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Jia Tolentino explains labubu!!!! www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
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What the Labubu Obsession Says About Us
From the daily newsletter: why the tiny, grinning monsters became the latest cultural craze.
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I too have really enjoyed using Opal over the past year! nice one from @chaykak.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
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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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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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...
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Cancel Amazon Prime
The subscription service is Amazon’s greatest—and most terrifying—invention.
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WIRED @wired.com · 13/06/2025
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:
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'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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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
"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...
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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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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 06/06/2025
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.
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Just How Bad Is Trump’s New Travel Ban?
“We don’t want ’em,” the President said.
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
some really helpful thoughts from @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
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Just How Bad Is Trump’s New Travel Ban?
“We don’t want ’em,” the President said.
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
can't not see this through the lens of The Rehearsal www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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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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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
the inaugural edition of How Bad Is It?, feat. @ronanfarrow.bsky.social subscribe to get these in your inbox: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/d...
an excerpt from the "How Bad Is It" section of the New Yorker's daily newsletter (linked in following tweet)
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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...
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Trump Could Really Hurt Harvard
From the daily newsletter: a reality check from a very emotional graduation day in Cambridge.
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
"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...
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Trump Could Really Hurt Harvard
From the daily newsletter: a reality check from a very emotional graduation day in Cambridge.
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
“(Javert is cordyceps)”
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
the @newyorker.com summer culture preview just dropped www.newyorker.com/culture/goin...
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Summer Culture Preview
What’s happening this season in TV, movies, music, art, theatre, and dance.
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"Let’s face it: for all that has been said and written and broadcast about Prevost—he was on the media shortlist for most of the past week—Leo XIV is a complete unknown." www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
a really nice dispatch from Rome by Paul Elie in tonight's @newyorker.com newsletter: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
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The First American Pope
Only now will Catholics—and the world—find out who Pope Leo XIV really is.
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404 Media @404media.co · 07/05/2025
'I Loved That AI:' Judge Moved by AI-Generated Avatar of Man Killed in Road Rage Incident 🔗 www.404media.co/i-loved-that...
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'I Loved That AI:' Judge Moved by AI-Generated Avatar of Man Killed in Road Rage Incident
How the sister of Christopher Pelkey made an avatar of him to testify in court.
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
so enjoyed this profile www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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A Lawyer Freed Young Thug. Now He’s Defending Diddy
Since the Young Thug trial, Brian Steel has modelled for the rapper’s fashion brand and had a Drake song named after him. Sean Combs took note.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
team @dgraham.bsky.social forever!!!!! www.amazon.com/Project-How-...
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John Hendrickson @johnhendrickson.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Happy pub day, @dgraham.bsky.social ! From all of your friends and also extremely on brand Ben Affleck
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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
My book THE PROJECT is out today, laying out how Project 2025 seeks to transform the federal government, American society, and your everyday life. I hope you'll give it a read www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/800230...
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 17/04/2025
We’re past the point of wondering whether the Trump Administration will violate court orders, Ruth Marcus writes, in today’s daily newsletter. The pressing question is how forcefully judges will respond—and whether the Supreme Court will back them up.
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The Judges Standing Up to Trump
From the daily newsletter: as the Administration flirts with contempt of court, two federal judges are trying to uphold the rule of law.
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
"I identified and scrutinized more than fifty cases of individuals who, in recent years, had starved to death, died of dehydration, or lost their lives to related medical crises in county jails." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Starved in Jail
Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?
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Rozina Ali @rozinaali.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
On the other side of Signalgate were actual people who died in Yemen from US airstrikes. I wrote about one family who lost fifteen women and children www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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The Other Side of Signalgate
The Trump Administration’s extraordinary security breach has elicited shock, amusement, and anger. An eyewitness in Yemen describes what happened when the bombs started to fall.
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Michael Luo @michaelluo.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
NEWS: We all know the story of the Signal groupchat fiasco. But we’re only now starting to understand what happened in the other end of it. Rozina Ali tracked down an eyewitness to one strike that killed a house full of women and children. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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The Other Side of Signalgate
The Trump Administration’s extraordinary security breach has elicited shock, amusement, and anger. An eyewitness in Yemen describes what happened when the bombs started to fall.
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
lotta crossword cheaters out there ... I see you
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I'm picking up a new foster later! he needs a name ... what should we call him? (the rescue tries not to duplicate names so most standard names are taken)
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
"Mr. Boynton’s decision to announce changes to the style guide in The New Yorker’s daily newsletter on Monday was noteworthy" 💌💌💌 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/s...
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The New Yorker Updates Its Style Guide for the Internet Age
An update to the magazine’s style guide did away with anachronisms like “Web site” and “in-box.” But it was limited to what the staff felt were “lasting” changes.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 13/03/2025
Wired continues to be just doing such an astoundingly good job on this. Tremendous reporting. Tremendous focus. They deserve a Pulitzer.
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Sheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Wow. Meta taking legal steps against a new book published about the company. Has anyone seen this type of legal order before? about.fb.com/wp-content/u...
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
some news in tonight's edition: @newyorker.com is downcapping Internet in its style guide. long live the internet!
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