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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12/06/2026

Next week’s cover, “After the Comeback,” by Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet, captures the joy on the streets of New York City after the Knicks’ historic win in Game Four of the N.B.A. Finals. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/PiB0E9

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Peter B. Kaufman @pbkauf.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Put the DNA of Brezhnev, Jaruzelski, Husák, and Ceaușescu in a Cuisinart with the stem cells of four toads and hornet urine, purée, serve on some Zwieback toast topped with fresh lettuce and a cow patty — you still wouldn’t come close. Madness on a cracker.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The funeral march for CBS News continues. I worked as outside counsel for CBS News for six years, defending CBS journalists who got in trouble with tyrannical regimes in the Middle East. Now it looks like the same tyrannical attitudes run the network. Very sad.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

In the footsteps of justice Kennedy’s son who was Trump’s corrupt banker at Deutschebank.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Stephen Colbert and David Letterman throwing things off the Ed Sullivan Theater. Colbert: “Anything you’d like to say, Dave?” Letterman: “In the words of the great Edward R. Murrow to CBS: ‘Good night and good luck, motherfuckers.’”

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The world’s top 100 oil and gas companies banked more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran, according to exclusive analysis for the Guardian.

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$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds

Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

"We’ve been developing forgeries and fakes for years – in hieroglyphs and runes, letters and telegrams, faxes, emails, drawings, paintings, pictures, and tweets and posts. We’re attached to all of that, charlatans that we are." — @pbkauf.bsky.social Read on: mailchi.mp/mit/mitp-rea...

A banner (a black rectangle with the MITP colophon and "In Brief" in the bottom left corner) for "In Brief," a new Q&A series by the MIT Press. Below that, the jacket cover for Peter Kaufman's book "The Moving Image: A User's Manual" alongside a photo of the author.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

One day, if we are lucky, the erasure of American history will itself be remembered as a shameful chapter in American history

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Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web @ffdweb.org · 19/01/2026

DWeb Digest Issue 2: "The Architecture of Resilience" is live. With @pbkauf.bsky.social as guest editor. 8 essays on building decentralized infrastructure that lasts. Read it: ffdweb.org/digest/issue-2

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The Architecture of Resilience | FFDW

Issue 2 of the DWeb Digest - Architecture of Resilience

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who is also a former Danish prime minister, said that Trump was using Greenland “as a weapon of mass distraction from the real threats” such as Russia’s war in Ukraine. “For me, it’s been a painful process. Since childhood, I have considered the United States as the natural

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Former Nato chief attacks Trump’s ‘gangster’ talk on Greenland

Anders Fogh Rasmussen says US president is using island as a ‘weapon of mass distraction’ from real threats such as Russia’s war in Ukraine

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 17/01/2026

Passing along this idea I'll never get around to pulling off— Create an index of Trump-connected stocks and compare how it performs to traditional indices. Would include Trump Media, American Bitcoin, Alt5 and firms that have Jr. or Eric as advisors (Dominari, Grab a Gun, Unusual Machines, etc.).

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ALT: a s&p 500 chart with a pink duck on the bottom

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/12/2025

GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered? GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now THOMPSON: What does that mean?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/12/2025

Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."

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IWM Vienna @iwm.at · 26/11/2025

Could footnotes soon point to videos instead of books? Read IWM Visiting Fellow @pbkauf.bsky.social's conversation with Russell Harper from the @chicagomanual.bsky.social about Peter B. Kaufman's new book, The Moving Image: cmosshoptalk.com/2025/11/25/p...

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Peter B. Kaufman talks about The Moving Image

Peter B. Kaufman is Associate Director of Development at MIT Open Learning. He is the author of The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge (Seven Stories Press, 2021) and founder of Intelli...

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 25/11/2025

Must be nice to have a real supreme court

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Peter B. Kaufman @pbkauf.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

A conversation with the unflappable Russell Harper @uchicagopress.bsky.social

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:

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Sanjay Sipahimalani @sansip.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Chekhov’s earliest stories were “childishly comical”. During the translation process, says Rosamund Bartlett, “we would just collapse in fits of giggles”. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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‘He was just trying to earn a few kopecks’: how newly translated stories reveal Chekhov’s silly side

With daft jokes and experimental wordplay, the first comprehensive translations of his lesser-known stories show Anton Chekhov in a new light

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 18/11/2025

Stephen Fry has had a lifelong bond with Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Now, he is starring in the new West End production of the play. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Zx81Zq

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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College journalism exposes the rot of ‘grown-ups’ | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus a history lesson on the real ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ and fascism,

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Had a great time consulting with the “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” team over the past couple months, and they kindly gave my book a shoutout during the episode.

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Peter B. Kaufman @pbkauf.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Thanks to the support of @iwm.at in 2025-2026, I'm writing a new book, and between meetings in Europe I'll have the good fortune to workshop it at Central European University next week: events.ceu.edu/2025-11-12/f... It's about why people think the zany things they do, and why open access matters!

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

"Capping his ascent"? What a fucking weird headline.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Yes but not astonishing

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Just going to keep reposting this, because it is the way & the truth

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

COATES: “Trump’s saying, ‘Y’all, I’m just gonna kill people.’ And the Greatest Deliberative Body has nothing to say about it. Y’all are punk, y’all are cowards.”

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