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Clay Risen

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Reporter, The New York Times; author of “Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America”

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 21h
Miller Lite stats o' the day 463,561 461,974 -BYD sales in China <in September only> -TSLA global sales estimate <for the entire third quarter>
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
1 October 1936 | Dutch Jew, Andries Jacob Stad, was born in Enschede. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Westerbork in January 1943. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection. --- A video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
A vintage sepia-toned portrait of a young boy with short hair, smiling and sitting with one arm resting on their knee.
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Robert Gould Shaw on the Road and In a Bookstore Near You #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/robert-gou...
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Robert Gould Shaw on the Road and In a Bookstore Near You
This has been an exciting week.
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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 23h
Flying through Washington National is wild. Half the ads are for either advanced weapons systems or lobbying groups you can’t believe exist. The American Bakers Association?
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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the world you grew up in no longer exists
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 23h
This is incredibly hard to hear—grateful for those who bear witness.
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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Having grown up in Brentwood this surprises the heck out of me.
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
CBS NEWS PARTNERS WITH KALSHI CBS News is partnering with Kalshi to integrate prediction-market data into its 2026 midterm coverage. CBS joins CNN, Fox News and NBC News in highlighting prediction markets as part of their coverage
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Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happiest of Happy Book Days to @civilwarmemory.bsky.social! I read this book and blurbed it, and HIGHLY recommend it.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
But also this heroine: "Cereese Qusba, 22, a senior and reporter for The Sun, couldn’t shake her concerned curiosity about the case. This month...Ms. Qusba was ready to hit publish on her investigation, which was 23 months in the making."
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The saving rate falls to 4.1%. “.. the biggest driver of strong US growth over the last 2.5yrs has come from household's spending growing much faster than their incomes.” @bobeunlimited.bsky.social
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A good summary of how @washingtonpost continues to do kick-ass journalism. Rumors of its demise were greatly exaggerated. It is recovering from the cutbacks and continuing to produce important stories. www.washingtonpost.com/impact?itid=...
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Okay I looked it up. “hawk tuah” is a bigoted slur against Scientologist folks.
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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He’s running.
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He’s running.
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Patrick Sauer @pjsauer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Help, I think I assembled my Ikea cat wrong
A tuxedo cat curled up with his head  almost upside down and his paws at weird angles
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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I forgot my Facebook password. To “protect my privacy,” they want a photo of my driver’s license. Interesting…
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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“When he was young.” Isn’t he like 30 years old?
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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That’s super cool. I lived in Wicker Park when they were shooting that movie. And later when The Real World was filming.Those were the days … Which store was yours?
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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The boys are back indeed.
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Patrick Sauer @pjsauer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ireland’s greatest monument
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
unfucking believable
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
elifesciences.org/articles/08347
Dengue
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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m sure they would have all been great but this is a movie where the cast is the key. I can’t imagine it without MTM. She was perfect.
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Josh Wright🌹🌹🌹🌹 @joshwri.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not surprising given all the monkey business that's been going on there recently.
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Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Matt Labash is funny. But even better than that, he is great. mattlabash.substack.com/p/you-can-ge...
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You Can Get Away, But You Can’t Truly Escape
On Cape May, storm winds, bad news, and the things that follow us wherever we go
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David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
State of the Martini, 1952 (according to the Los Angeles Times):
"the Martini is by far the most popular of mixed drinks, and Martini addicts are the biggest cranks in the world. Their fussiness knows no bounds.
     Bartenders cater to their foibles as an attendant in a high-class lunatic asylum to the hallucinations of his charges."
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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have a lot of friends here in the Northeast sending their kids to southern colleges, and they are SHOCKED at how much Greek life dominates, even at Vandy. My dude it’s the South.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m dying over here
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
gotta say there’s something almost poetic about Trump incentivizing less fuel efficient vehicles as the Iran war keeps pushing up the price of gas
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
People are not ready for Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop (1841).
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 25/09/2026
when somebody orders a shot of malört
Erica, 40, Republican, Latino, customer service Bad.
Pam, 66, Republican, white, retired Amoral.
Becky, 51, Democrat, white, retail Disgusting.
Robert S., 52, Republican, Latino, human resources Two words: morally corrupt.
Hitesh, 57, Republican, Asian, looking for work Disgusting.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Todd Achilles, a veteran running for U.S. Senate in Idaho as an independent, has a new ad about starting wars.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23/09/2026
The owner of a top BBQ joint in Texas decided to cut brisket, the top-selling item, from the menu rather than institute a $10 markup for customers. The decision was fueled not just by the skyrocketing price of brisket but by inflation.
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A top Texas smokehouse is cutting brisket from its menu amid soaring beef prices
Butter’s BBQ in Sinton, Texas, says brisket is eating up 70 percent of its total grocery costs.
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Seems to me that this public relations disaster could have been deflected with a little self-defecating humor. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/s...
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Hyrox Athlete Apologizes and Forfeits Win After Soiling Herself in Race (Gift Article)
The athlete kept going after the incident at a global fitness event in Beijing, leading to an uproar.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Dan Dennett tells a story of how he was at a seminar and the guy speaking was just ragging on another paper and how terrible it was. And so he very reasonably asked “if it’s so bad, why are you wasting our time on it.” And that’s how I feel about dunking on people
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
on the other hand, the Mountain Goats, at it since 1991, still dropping bangers once a year on average and torching stages around the globe with ever-increasing intensity
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 21/09/2026
fuck it, i’m in
Dear Zack Evereson. 

I hope this message finds you in well. My name is Shaikh Nawaf S. Al-Sabah, and I am the Deputy Chairman & CEO of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), one of the leading national oil companies in the world, KPC is continually seeking to enhance our operations through partnerships with top-tier suppliers.

After reviewing your impressive portfolio, I am confident this partnership will be mutually beneficial. I want the possibility of engaging you as a key supplier of oil and gas mining equipment to KPC, covering both offshore and onshore operations. Specifically, we are looking for suppliers of Centrifugal Pumps, Heat Exchangers, Compressors, Onshore and Offshore Rigs, Control Systems, Valves, Storage Tanks, Filters and Strainers, Safety Equipment, and more.

Given your expertise and deep industry knowledge
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Terry Bouton @terrybouton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The article is brutal. Great student reporting. The chef's kiss is that the reporters found that the provost's letter defending his use of AI for witting op-eds and academic papers was 100% written by AI.
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Alex Acquisto @aacquisto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's been a little over a week since McClatchy's mass layoffs. I wrote about what's at stake when communities lose local journalists. www.poynter.org/commentary/2...
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McClatchy laid me off. The need for local journalism didn’t go with me. - Poynter
I was hired to fill a gap in local news coverage. Seven years later, that gap is widening again.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 20/09/2026
All US embassies in the Middle East have issued security alerts for their citizens, including Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and Oman (Sep 19)
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
DO NOT EAT
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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 19/09/2026
I did not have “psychosexual obsessions of a mediocre news personality destroy the U.S. military” on my “Exit from Hegemony” bingo card.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Thrilled to announce this ground-breaking new book, Area X: The Southern Reach Files! The Central agent in question is, of course, Hargraves from Absolution. The book includes some new ways of approaching storytelling, and also I hope will be satisfying in lots of other ways. More in a thread. 1/?
Text from Publishers Marketplace, above: Area X by Jeff VanderMeer Imprint: Abrams. Jeff VanderMeer's Area X: The Southern Reach Files, an expansion of the Area X story by way of a hidden metal box full of secret images and documents, purporting to be the last report of a Central agent; a full-color book spanning the 30 years of Southern Reach expeditions, reaching into the past and the future, pitched for Area X completists while adding to the narrative begun with the first four novels, to Michael Sands at Abrams in an exclusive submission, by Joseph Veltre at Gersh Agency and attorney Alex Kohner (world).

Text submitted to Publishers Marketplace: An epic and mind-blowing expansion of the Area X story by way of a hidden metal box full of secret images and documents purporting to be the last report of the Central agent Karen Hargraves. Spanning the 30 years of Southern Reach expeditions, reaching into the past and the future, this full-color book will satisfy Area X completists while adding to the narrative begun with the first four novels, to Michael Sand at Abrams, in an exclusive submission, by Joseph Veltre at Gersh Agency and attorney Alex Kohner (world).
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"A small price to pay for freedom, Mandrake. A necessary sacrifice to preserve our precious bodily fluids from communist infiltration."
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