Linda Kinstler
@lindakinstler
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Junior Fellow @Harvard / Author of COME TO THIS COURT & CRY @BloomsburyBooks @PublicAffairs / writing about oblivion / 2023 Whiting Award Winner in Non-Fiction
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Greetings from Riga, where I've just learned the verb Макронить, (loosely translated as, to make a Macron-call): To call and say absolutely nothing; to appear to be concerned about a situation and really do nothing at all.
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In September, I visited Kyiv to report on the new memorial project at Babi Yar, the place where the Holocaust "began." Everyone working on it believed that by building the memorial complex, they were building the future of Ukraine. (1/4)
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Finally, if you want to know about Russian & Ukrainian memory wars & the perversion of WWII history in this terrible moment, I hope this will help. Here's the piece:
(4/4)
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Zelenskiy’s speech makes me want to cry—all of our grandparents fought in the Soviet Army. From Kyiv, Kharkiv, Kherson—they went. Zelenskiy rose to the moment: you know our character, he said. No one wants war, hot or cold. Ukraine just wants to exist. let them. Слава героям.
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The night before my old friend Evan moved to Moscow, he messaged me: "Tell all your friends there they must hang out with me or else!” Now he is being held hostage in Moscow. I wrote about him for
@POLITICOMag
:
#FreeEvanGershkovich
@FreeGershkovich
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Babi Yar is the biggest Holocaust mass grave in Europe, a place that has been obliterated & rebuilt recursively, a place that is fertilized by human remains. It is a holy site for everyone, a place that the Soviets tied to bury. Now I fear it has once again been destroyed.
#Breaking
: Statement of Andriy Yermak, Chairman of the Presidential Office:
"Russia has launched a missile attack on the territory where the Babyn Yar memorial complex is located. These villains are killing Holocaust victims for the second time."
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I went to Stockholm to meet Lena, "The First Lady of The Internet," for
@Wired
. Her photo, "The Lenna," is one of the most controversial & most-copied images in computer history, yet Lena herself has been almost entirely occluded from its journey:
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"This is a new nation, and one that will never be crushed by evil powers, no matter what Russia is doing or plotting."
@maria_avdv
's chilling report from Kharkiv for
@IWPR
:
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It is a place that has been repeatedly obliterated, likened to the ancient river Lethe. Last week, it was obliterated once more by a Russian missile strike that killed five people. It also destroyed a building slated to be a museum to the Holocaust in Eastern Europe (2/4)
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Almost everyone who is working on the memorial has now fled Kyiv, but some have taken up arms. "Our job is to help Ukraine stand and win this war for independence, to stay a democracy, to stay a free society. To finish the work that we started," one source told me last week (3/4)
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"The question isn't if we'll survive. We'll survive. The question is how he falls." Wishing strength & safety to
@mefimus
, who spoke to
@juliaioffe
as he worked to resupply Kyiv:
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Who will remember the horrors of Ukraine? How can we save them from being swallowed up by denial?
Glad to be able to highlight the work of
@maksy_taxi
@CST_echo
@ForensicArchi
in
@nytopinion
today. Let us not turn away.
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For well over a year, I’ve been interviewing religious leaders, programmers, engineers, & believers of all faiths about how our devices are reshaping our relationships with our souls & innermost selves. I hope you will give it a read:
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Ukr. govt Youtube video addressed to Russian soldiers: "Do you want to live, or lie in a foreign land?" Says they will buy their arms, that soldiers from every abandoned tank will get amnesty & 5 mil. rubles to split.
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Some personal news: I will be spending the next three years as a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Completely honored & unspeakably grateful to my dissertation committee & everyone at
@RhetoricUCB
who helped me along the way.
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Today is an anniversary that I hoped would never come. Our friend Evan has been held hostage in a Russian prison for exactly a year. He should not spend a second longer in his cell. Wrote about this grim day for
@POLITICOMag
#FreeEvan
@FreeGershkovich
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Today marks 2 weeks since Evan was taken hostage. Inordinately grateful to everyone who has offered help, including the families of those whose loved ones are also imprisoned.
For
@1843Mag
:
@FreeGershkovich
#IStandWithEvan
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Thank you to
@jewishcurrents
for sending me there, to
@pulitzercenter
for supporting the piece, & to my incredible editors
@NCaplanBricker
&
@ArielleLAngel
.
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Utterly surreal
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Really excited to be a part of this. I'm commissioning feature stories & profiles on the people, power, & politics of tech, broadly interpreted. Pitch me: lkinstler
@protocol
.com
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"How do you justify experimenting on people over and over again?"
For
@1843mag
, I wrote about the ethical & moral dilemmas of randomized control trials and how researchers are finally trying to address them:
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regarding Putin's baseless cry for the "de-nazification" of Ukraine:
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One of the old artist dachas in the Irpin Park of Writers. What beauty.
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Praying for Kyiv and Kharkiv, for the cities of my family, for my friends, for the city where I met my husband, for everything. I hope people will not forget Ukraine if and when this is over.
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With Evan in Riga, 2019.
We are collecting stories and photos of Evan here:
#FreeEvanGershkovich
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I spent many months reporting this story on how TripAdvisor changed everything about travel—where we go, why we go, & what we expect of the wonders of the world:
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Proud to publish the great
@berdynskykh_k
's chilling report from her hometown of Kherson in
@thedialmag
.
Read her dispatch in English & Ukrainian:
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Grateful to everyone
@BowdoinCollege
for coming out to support Evan yesterday. This week marks six months since he was unlawfully detained & we miss him every day.
@WSJ
@FreeGershkovich
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On Monday, I'll be moderating this important conversation with
@bartov_omer
,
@suboticjelena
, & Raz Segal on how Holocaust memory is being mobilized in the present.
Sponsored by
@JewishCurrents
& Diaspora Alliance. Join us:
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Friend of mine in Ukraine is looking for work: can work w/ massive data, good English, Internet, social media skills, trained in investigative journalism. Anyone need part-time help?
@zoyashef
@peterpomeranzev
@POLITICOEurope
?
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Spent part of the fall interviewing Belarusians who had fled to Kyiv thinking they would be safe and free. Now they fight together with the Ukrainians who welcomed them.
#Ukraine
Belarusian volunteers take part in the war on the side of the Ukrainian army. They support Ukrainians in their fight against Russian invasion
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From a Facebook friend: "In Ukraine, the Russian army is greeted with flowers." (It is a funeral wreath with Putin's name on it.)
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Couldn't have dreamed that this would happen, very grateful to the judges for reading and buoyed by this incredible list.
We're delighted to announce the shortlist for this year's Wingate Prize. A big thank you to our judges, and congratulations to all the authors. The winner will be announced at a ceremony at
@jw3london
on 12 March
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Grateful to the team
@restofworld
for letting me take on this piece about a subtle but profound change that has been unfolding throughout the former Soviet Union.
It's about how previously secret KGB files are being published online, for all to see:
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Hello!
@protocol
is live today! And I'm delighted to have a feature up about a few of the humanists & philosophers who have been hired to "expand the moral imagination" of Silicon Valley:
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Waking up to news that my old friend & colleague
@evangershkovich
has been detained. We went to college together, I edited him at the school paper & have had the occasional privilege of editing him since. Just sick with horror at this news.
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Being edited by
@ArielleLAngel
&
@NCaplanBricker
was one of the things that provided me with some "dim light" during this very grim year--thrilled to see this thoughtful profile of the small but mighty
@jewishcurrents
.
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Got to hold the finished copy for the first time yesterday—utterly surreal. Come to This Court and Cry comes out in the UK next week! You can still pre-order your copy:
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@HayesBrown
I think
@VladDavidzon
put it best—it’s not about NATO, but about destroying the Ukrainian political project.
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Read Evan’s work at
@PressClubDC
tonight. Thank you
@mccarrennews
for hosting. His words remind us that he has so much left to write.
@FreeGershkovich
#JournalismIsNotACrime
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US galleys of my book, COME TO THIS COURT & CRY, arrived from
@public_affairs
today. It's a murder mystery, a family story, a reckoning with the long Soviet hangover.
@praddenkeefe
says it is a "completely absorbing and profound debut."
Pre-order here!
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it is so painful to read how Vindman strains to underscore his patriotism & sense of duty because he knows that in this country any whiff of otherness is suddenly suspect
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Today’s media mail feels momentous!
Congratulations to
@ChristopherJM
, I can’t wait to dig in.
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For
@1843mag
, I spent the past two years reporting on Effective Altruism & its recent turn towards longtermism. Immensely grateful to those who shared their stories & experiences with me:
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one of my first journalism assignments as an unpaid NYDN intern was delivering a fruit basket & free subscription to Alec Baldwin after he punched one of the photographers
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Grateful to
@trapmotives
@NYTmag
for indulging my affection for name day, the ageless alternative to the birthday:
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For
@NewStatesman
, I reviewed Tanja Maljartschuk's beautiful novel Forgottenness, which unearths a forgotten Ukrainian philosophy of history & asks what it means to be "forgotten." Many thanks to
@GavJacobson
!
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"Irena told me that in one case someone in Spain had been trying to sell two Ukrainian teenagers, aged fourteen and sixteen"
@AzadehMoaveni
reports from the Polish border. We are so far from knowing how much suffering this war has unleashed:
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This book by
@katecrawford
is incredible: approaching AI as an idea that alters land, sea, space, subject; just taught it to undergrads alongside Discipline & Punish, & have a feeling I'll be returning to it for many years to come.
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Every family has its ghosts. Thank you to
@gdnlongread
for excerpting my book, Come to This Court and Cry, out on Thursday in the UK!
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I wrote about fire & loss in Ukraine, and the combustive power of
@serhiy_zhadan
's words: “This story will have a happy ending that nobody in it will live to see.”
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"They put everyone in the same sack, those who have the blood of partisans on their hands, & those who had no idea that they were considered agents." Many thanks to
@NYRDaily
@mattseaton
for the chance to write on the long saga of Latvia's KGB files:
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A total dream to talk about this book with the great
@juliaioffe
--we've been discussing the story over drinks for so many years and got to do so with friends & colleagues last night. Thank you to everyone who came out and to
@PoliticsProse
for having us!
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"This is a tremendous feat of storytelling, propelled by numerous twists and revelations, yet anchored by a deep moral seriousness."
Thank you to
@Dorianlynskey
for reading my book with such care:
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Spent the eve at The Gualala Hotel north of Sea Ranch, which is running on a generator, serving dinner from the grill. Evacuees from Sebastopol, Healdsburg, and Santa Rosa sitting at the bar & swapping stories. One man said he drove thru “Armageddon” to get up here.
#KincadeFire
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“I just wanted it to stop." When will the nightmare end?
This story cut through me. Sasha was an 18-year-old boy who was shot dead by Russian snipers in Hostomel on Feb 25. But the ordeal for his family didn't stop there. His grandmother ended up in a hospital in Bucha, his grandfather spent 44 days in his basement in Hostomel
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relatives in Ukraine texting relatives in the US saying that they hear bombing--Berdichev, home of Joseph Conrad, where Balzac was married, home of one of the oldest & most beautiful Jewish cemeteries, under fire? could it be?
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Many thanks to
@GreenAppleBooks
for hosting us last night, to
@IChotiner
for the conversation, & to everyone who came out to join us! Feeling grateful to have such good friends in the Bay.
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Truly wild experience to meet yourself, in translation, to see that someone else spent so much time & care on your words. Greetings from Amsterdam!
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"What if returning looted art is, in fact, the most cosmopolitan option available?"
@jcljules
on the long fight for the restitution of looted African cultural treasures:
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DC! I hope you'll join me and the great
@juliaioffe
for the US launch of Come to This Court & Cry
@PoliticsProse
on Conn. Ave, Tuesday, August 23 at 7 pm!
@public_affairs
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I wrote about how we write about disaster, 33 years after Chernobyl:
"How does one recognize catastrophe, when it comes? What does it look like, how does it sound and smell? If it is an invisible catastrophe, how can you know when you are near it, and when you are far away?"
@lindakinstler
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So delighted that Come to This Court and Cry is the
@Foyles
non-fiction book of the month! The updated paperback edition is out NEXT WEEK!
From covert missions in South America to the neglected archives of contemporary Germany,
#CometoThisCourtandCry
by
@lindakinstler
investigates our changing legal & cultural relationship to the prosecution of Nazi war crimes, as decades pass & survivors pass away
@BloomsburyBooks
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I hope everyone will take a moment to read historian
@jgrabows
on the nature of the new Holocaust revisionism. Jewish survivor testimony is being assaulted & evacuated of legal standing:
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My book is now out in paperback in the UK! To mark the release I’m doing a giveaway of 10 copies. RT to enter and thank you for reading!
@BloomsburyBooks
@GeorginaCapel
@Foyles
💫💫💫
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"Everyone approached her only to talk about Borges, and she offered up her neck to them."
Don't miss this stunning piece by Alejandro Chacoff, tr.
@jess_sequeira
, about Borges's widow María Kodama, who policed and shaped his literary legacy:
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Join us for lunch on Monday at
@georgetownsfs
@EuropaSaxa
, my wonderful academic home this year -- will be talking about my current research on legal oblivion:
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"This whole thing feels like 100,000 of Anton Chekhov’s guns hanging on 100,000 walls."
terrifyingly true, from
@juliaioffe
:
"The White House and its Democratic allies have just about had it with president Zelensky. According to three sources in the administration and on the Hill, the Ukrainian president is by turns annoying, infuriating, and downright counterproductive."
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My book is out today in France, Switzerland, Belgium and Québec, the French title so beautiful I wish I could say that I thought of it myself, but alors it was the dream team at
@EDITIONSDENOEL
.
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"When you aren’t going anywhere, the danger is that you might start seeing the way things are going."
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For the
@NYTmag
tech + design issue, I went back to Ukraine to speak to the architects and urban planners working to rebuild the nation's devastated cities, even as rolling blackouts and missile strikes continue to disrupt their ability to work.
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The debate over the meaning of “genocide” is an occasion for us to reappraise the legal architecture & the history that we have inherited & to rethink how moral responsibility for the worst categories of crimes should be assigned. My latest for
@NYTmag
:
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Very honored by this acknowledgment, which would not have happened without the hard work of
@NCaplanBricker
@ArielleLAngel
@JewishCurrents
Congratulations to
@lindakinstler
, finalist for the Washington Monthly’s 2023 Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing, for her exceptional review of People Love Dead Jews and Jews Don’t Count, in
@JewishCurrents
.
#KukulaAward
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"A war never ends on a specific date in a specific year. The war continues as people continue to die from their wounds, from its consequences." -
@AKurkov
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Incredibly useful interview by
@juliaioffe
ahead of tomorrow's hearing.
Sec of State Tony Blinken called South Africa's application to the Intl Court of Justice, accusing Israel of genocide, "meritless."
Is that true? I talked to David Scheffer, a pioneer of international human rights law, about the suit.
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Overcome with joy thinking of Ella & Mikhail,
@ekaramurza
, David Whalen, & the families of all those freed today. Thank you to everyone who has championed Evan's case over the past many months & helped make this possible. So glad that our friend is finally coming home.
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A friend in Kyiv just texted me, after I checked in, "We are alone in this fight!" Earlier this week, she posted a photo smiling on Independence Square, with the caption: "Kyiv: Capital of the free world!"
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Honor of my life to be in this group of writers. Wouldn’t have happened without editors who took a chance on me back in the day. Thank you
@juliaioffe
@davidedgarwolf
@sidhubaba
@GeorginaCapel
@BloomsburyBooks
@beckman1843
@tunkuv
@KaminskiMK
@FranklinFoer
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“Nothing has been established in a way that cannot be erased.”
My report for
@JewishCurrents
on the Polish historians' case, a story of law, erasure, & burgeoning denialism, & the many dangers that accompany the accelerating juridification of history:
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Delighted to be in such good company on
@gdnlongread
’s best of 2018! Let this list be a reminder not to miss
@unkowthe
on the wonders of the squatty potty &
@jmikanowski
on all that is lost upon the English language, among many other excellent pieces:
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grateful to
@JewishCurrents
for inviting me to write about what is going on in Ukraine, a place very dear to my heart that we cannot seem to see straight.
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“we don't know how to articulate values within this form of capitalism.” A true delight to speak with
@zephoria
for
@protocol
on ethics, census privacy challenges, & the great tech reckoning still to come (ft. work by
@safiyanoble
&
@LatanyaSweeney
)
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I helped
@CJR
collect accounts from journalists who have faced harassment, assault, and in some cases, arrest for their attempts to cover the spread of Covid-19 in their countries:
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Great piece on memory laws in Lithuania & the ugly underside of the old Soviet joke, "The future is certain; it’s the past that’s unpredictable":
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The unique power of the Act of Oblivion is that it does not forgive the crimes committed on one side or the other, but rather consecrates and memorializes the profound gravity of the wrongs. Rediscover oblivion with me in
@nytopinion
today:
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@jgrabows
For the past 6 years, I've been following this unsettling phenomenon, documenting the profound dangers that emerge when survivor testimonies are dismissed & undermined.
My book, Come To This Court and Cry, is out 5/26/22 in the UK & fall 2023 in the US.
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The town that Ozempic built:
@thedialmag
's September DRUG issue launches today with a dispatch from Kalundborg, Denmark, where "pretty much everyone" is affiliated with Novo Nordisk. By
@MichaelThykier
from
@politiken
:
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Thinking of
@evangershkovich
today and every day, & hoping this slow-motion horror will soon end.
#FreeEvan
@FreeGershkovich
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Riga, 2019. (Incidentally, Herder, the man who gave us the term “nationalism,” first began thinking about it in the Latvian countryside, where he rode around collecting the local folksongs.)
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