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Refugees/econ/tech: @USCIS , @asylumadvocacy , IRC, @UNmigration • Crosswords: @newyorker @nytimes • Soon: nonfic for @PantheonBooks • Poet • Rep: @kategarrick
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I have a piece in this week's New Yorker mag on two of my favorite things: word games and immigration. It's the story of Mangesh Ghogre, a crossword writer who got an "extraordinary ability" visa from India to the U.S.
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I have a Sisyphus joke but—wait, I botched the set-up, lemme start over. I have a Sisyphus joke but—ha, sorry, that's still not it. I have a Sisyphus jo
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i admit, i love kicking the hornet's nest of old dude crossword solvers
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i have a short piece in this collection on the war on gaza. grateful to
@thedrift_mag
for convening these perspectives.
Out now: seven short essays from
@shaabiranks
,
@sopgood
, Hadas Binyamini, Nasreen Abd Elal,
@MariamBarghouti
,
@bobuqsayed
, and
@natanlast
.
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I’m writing a book! It’s a study of the influx of attention on the crossword puzzle, and the staggering new talents — from computer scientists to film critics to comedians — attempting to remake this curious cultural object in their image.
@kategarrick
@DeniseOswald
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I have a piece up at
@TheAtlantic
on the fight to make
#crosswords
more inclusive, and the leading lights of that fight like
@rebeccafalcon18
,
@e_a_rly
,
@Lizzymaynes
,
@datageneral
,
@dsteinberg49
, and many more!
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Good to remember what
@Econ_Marshall
& others constantly say, that economists "supply"—dream up, misrepresent, contort—data & models for the powerful, themselves supplicants to a "science" primed for post-hoc apologias for hating the poor. The cruelty invents its data points.
“almost a third of all student debt is owed by the wealthiest 20 percent of households and only 8 percent by the bottom 20 percent.”
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i wrote my master's thesis on climate migration, and one thing that's constantly ignored, which jake's great piece foregrounds, is that people *do not want to leave their homes*. as much as we need migration pathways, we need global investments in mitigation more!
Stunning story from Jake Bittle, who was the first journalist to obtain the Marshall Islands’ climate adaptation plan. Without billions in aid to curb sea level rise, the government calls for a total migration of the islands by 2100—full abandonment.
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i wrote today's Times crossword! pleased with the literary family gathered in this grid.
#NYTXW
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personal news! i’ve started a new role as the director of development of
@asylumadvocacy
. couldn’t be more thrilled to join an amazing team and fight alongside our members for a saner and more just asylum system.
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For
@LAReviewofBooks
, I wrote about care work, arts labor, and the history of the job guarantee.
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i wrote today’s across-and-down wordle for the
@NewYorker
😉
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⬛️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬛️
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For the first time, the
@NewYorker
print edition will feature an American crossword—constructed by me!
It's in this week's Anniversary issue, a tribute to TNY writers through history.
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a "complete siege" on 2 million people, half of them children.
Israel Defense Minister Yoav Gallant:
"I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we will act accordingly."
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ah yes, saturday, the day i have 100 texts, half of them about my and hannah's names appearing in an NYT game, the other half from my right-wing Israeli family calling me a traitor.
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glad to have signed this
"Jewish identity is not a weapon to wield in a fight for statist power but a fount of generational wisdom that says justice, justice, you shall pursue. Tzedek, tzedek, tirdof."
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you think you're a bad jew? autocorrect just let my parents know i can't make it this year for "rosh hahahaha"
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step 1: solve my puzzle in today’s times
step 2: come to wash sq park for gaza, where we’ve begun setting up!
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you solve a crossword you cross a picket line, i don’t make the rules. solidarity and love to the
@newyorkerunion
and the incredible organizing they’ve been doing.
BREAKING: The New Yorker Union has voted 98% in favor of authorizing a strike. We stand with our
@condenast
colleagues in
@pk4union
and
@ars_union
, which have also overwhelmingly authorized a strike. Our statement:
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one nuremberg prosecutor called the trials "the greatest history seminar ever held in the history of the world."
i'm skeptical of the icj, but there's immense power in starting to build an unassailable collective narrative of israel's horrors.
"The first genocide in history where its victims are broadcasting their own destruction in real time in the desperate, so far vain hope that the world might do something."
Blinne Ni Ghralaigh at the ICJ in the Hague
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crossword puzzles be like "i know a spot" then hit you with a cross-reference clue to the other side of the grid
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yo! please take 30 seconds to send an email to the
@NewYorker
bosses showing you support
@newyorkerunion
!
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been cooking nothing but stews and soups for weeks and my fiancee just told me i have "stock ho syndrome"
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i mean it's one crossword, michael. how many words could it have, 10?
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today’s the launch of the inaugural Puzzles & Cartoons special issue of
@NewYorker
! i have a puzzle online today but do check out the entire, wonderful issue
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v proud of this
@NewYorker
crossword but prouder of the
@newyorkerunion
's recent efforts, pls follow them!
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Disgraceful that Columbia is participating in this new McCarthyism.
NEWS: Columbia University is suspending Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) as official student groups through the end of the fall term.
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i wrote today’s
@NewYorker
crossword! shoutout at 14-Across to
@newyorkerunion
& this glorious hot union summer.
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utter depravity
Israeli TV running a counter of fatalities in Gaza – most of whom are civilians and many of whom are children – under the heading “terrorists we eliminated”. And for those too lazy to drive to Sderot to watch the genocide, they’ve got you covered with a livestream of the bombing
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walking the streets of prospect heights overhearing so many dudes in their tooze era — beanie, mustache, air pods in, intoning "no yeah right like, obviously other banks were exposed"
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I wrote today’s
@NewYorker
crossword!
Crosswords are always a game of “here’s some stuff I love I hope you love it too” but today really dials it to 11. 😙
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i had monday's
@NewYorker
crossword! in the throes of the job hunt so forgot to post it, but i'm really fond of this one—do be warned, it's hella hard. 😇
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me, a legal assistant, frantically searching through zoom settings so my boss can stop being a cat at his trial
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kam on the dusty “cultural gradualism” of this crossword site not only has his best linguistic tics—a felt moral momentum, unsparing generosity meets visionary side eye—it’s that rare specific analysis (one site’s racist gatekeeping, in one niche field) that applies to much more.
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OK, something that isn’t about the dick cunting.
OK, something that isn't about the d*** c*******. Obituaries have acknowledged his brilliance and huge influence, all of which is true. But I think it's important to realize that his project to reform macroeconomics was a failure 1/
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been a while since i had a Strong Crossword Opinion on here but
@gpaolopasco
’s sunday
#NYTXW
is absolutely perfect
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finally getting to
@tobihaslett
’s interview with gary indiana and involuntarily chortled “of course” when i read this amazing fact:
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jack white at fenway looking like snape muttering the counter curse at harry's first quidditch match
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It was such a pleasure to talk puzzles, drums, and rep the Job Guarantee in this
@NewYorker
interview! Featuring Liz fixing my puns and a lovely intro from the inimitable
@hels
!
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i’ve got the
@NewYorker
holiday crossword today recapping the mostly bad, occasionally hopeful, and often obstructive politics and news of 2021.
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i wrote today's
@NewYorker
crossword — it's one of my favorites, hope you like solving it as much as i liked making it
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this guy disgusts me
“Were there no Israel, there wouldn’t be a Jew in the world that is safe,” Biden says at the White House Hanukkah party as he reaffirms support for Israel against its war against Hamas.
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"what do you guys do in this room?"
"oh, you know, we exist, we live, we ding."
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another day, another wonderfully lucid, urgent, and comprehensive explanation from
@AOC
on how the economy actually works
About inflation: the price increases we're seeing are due to supply chain issues worsened by COVID. They are not permanent.
We need to understand this. If we panic & raise interest rates, rather than strengthening infrastructure to help the supply chain, unemployment will go up.
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This is a tour de force of an interview — ranging, funny, and personal. And nothing makes me happier than learning Will has fallen for another lover of table tennis!!
“Life is sweet”: For the
@NewYorker
interviews issue, I talked to Will Shortz about crosswords, The Simpsons, and finding love at 70.
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at long last a final jeopardy question for people like me whose only skill is knowing how many letters are in a word
This shockingly wasn’t teen or celebrity jeopardy….and no one got it right!
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the ever-vigilant
@mattydasilva
pointed out that this at-bat — AARON NOLA pitching to NOLAN ARENADO —featured only 7 total letters, LADRONE.
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i'm really partial to today's
@NewYorker
puzzle, one of the hardest and hopefully most fun i've written — give it a whirl here or in this week's magazine
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bringing an enormous black square to my first in-person meeting so when i’m tired i can just “go off video”
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for
@bethejuggernaut
, i wrote about the architectural conventions in crosswords that mean you’re likelier to see NAAN, HAJJ, ROTI, and RAGA in the grid—often with inaccurate clues—than IDLI or ZAKAT.
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two old russian dudes just sat next to me on the brighton beach boardwalk and pulled a fifth of vodka out of a rolly backpack, new york is back baby
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as a 2020s leftist (what?) i love to get strategic advice from idiots like this:
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thrilled to have a new poem up at
@CincinnReview
on home & holy days of 10-mile runs. thanks
@lilyjmeyer
for picking it!
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why is every
#xword
review written by that uncle who keeps interrupting everyone at thanksgiving to ask what a lizzo is
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janet yellen and bernie lookin like parents forced to go to biden’s little league game
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coworker just asked me to explain that word i keep using and the word, dear reader, was “futz”
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We’re officially striking. Join us on the picket line—in-person or virtually—this week!
Picketing schedules for our first week of strike are up
#CUonStrike
Digital schedule for the week:
Sign-up for in-person picketing: ; digital picketing:
Strike fund request form:
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