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For six years, online sleuths tried and failed to identify an animated character who appeared on TV in the background of an old photo. “There is something about the little guy that burrows his way into the brain,” @WillSloanEsq writes. https://t.co/4s4J7s3vFF — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022
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“Employee morale at the Times is at a nadir,” @ClareMalone writes. After two years of union negotiations, 77 per cent of the bargaining unit signed on for a walkout—the newspaper’s longest work stoppage since 1978. https://t.co/FQgUn120qa — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022
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Fiona Apple describes the feeling of finding the right lyrics for a song as having the words “glide down the back of my throat.” She writes the alphabet above her drafts, searching, with puzzle-solver focus, for puns, rhymes, and accidental insights. https://t.co/AFGH21O06E — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022
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“ ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ feels timeless, or perhaps newly relevant again and again,” @parabasis writes. It’s the only book of the Argentinean writer Manuel Puig’s that remains steadily in print in English. https://t.co/Keg3SMkHOj — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022
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“May 7: [At the ballet with Louise.] Is it my imagination, or does the audience seem less gay than it did back in the late 70s? Are that many of us dead already?” Read the novelist Thomas Mallon’s diaries from the 1980s. https://t.co/M6w04VHfmd — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022
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Local, single-issue protests are not unusual in China, but large decentralized outbreaks that cross boundaries of class and geography almost always end up becoming referendums on the government. https://t.co/r4k8hP3LXY — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022
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James Acaster isn’t afraid of vulnerability. His work engages the audience’s sympathy but never relies upon it. In a new interview, he opens up about returning to standup, making music, and listening to his audience. https://t.co/cgu47A1Rv4 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022
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Donald Trump is doing more damage with his self-sabotage than any opponents could hope to inflict on him right now, @sbg1 writes. “Has there ever been a more awful start to a campaign?” https://t.co/bYxgsKU95B — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022
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The musical “KPOP” showcases a variety of modern music—emo meditations, house-inflected bangers, rap arias that transition quickly into dance music and reggaetón—but the through line is a certain audience-courting intensity. https://t.co/r1VKt6MZsz — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022
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In 2003, David Sedaris wrote about the childish delight (and parental despair) of an unexpected snow day. #NewYorkerArchive https://t.co/sDszz6994w — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022
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In this week’s cryptic crossword: Stooge ultimately enjoys cannabis (five letters). https://t.co/DT5vyYvSuY — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022
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“Do you play the violin or just the glockenspiel?” For @newyorkerhumor, Alex Baia imagines what Europeans might say to Americans exploring the Continent. https://t.co/hmqiEtOHEe — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022
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“Then they entered the city and, as night fell, found themselves at the dawn of time, and in the midst of the chaos that is the first condition of all new universes.” New fiction by Salman Rushdie. https://t.co/Zh6aKTRRwc — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022
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The Supreme Court case Moore v. Harper, which turns on what is called the independent state-legislature theory, has been referred to as “the gravest threat to American democracy today.” https://t.co/Xlt5CKXr4G — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022
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RT @michaelluo: The same Libyan operative identified in this 2015 @praddenkeefe @newyorker story about the Lockerbie bombing and the dogged… — PolitiTweet.org

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A cartoon by Roz Chast. #NewYorkerCartoons https://t.co/CSWulH3kEB — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022
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On Grace Paley’s birthday, revisit Alexandra Schwartz on the activist, whose fiction is peopled with the politically minded but never preaches. https://t.co/BCI2DQUH3F — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022
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“When we design a computer that treats its user or owner as its adversary, we lay the groundwork for unimaginable acts of oppression and terror,” the writer and activist Cory Doctorow says, in a new interview. https://t.co/KcX4ythrml — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022
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On this day in 1936, King Edward VIII abdicated the throne in order to marry his lover, Wallis Simpson. Revisit Robert Benchley on the public anticipation and the press’s chase for the “greatest news story of our time.” https://t.co/S0fi20xwIw — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022
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From 2017: There is a hidden system by which guardians can seize control of the lives of senior citizens—without the consent of the elders or their families—and reap a significant profit. https://t.co/67IuXjPSbs — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022
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It takes a village to raise a child. It also takes a village to move the big rocks to Easter Island, to satisfy Oglo the Hungry Giant, and to host the Olympics. https://t.co/cd0EGbAvT6 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022
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See some of the best TV shows of 2022, including “Hacks,” “My Brilliant Friend,” “This Fool,” and “This is Going to Hurt.” https://t.co/YUjGzYhSPY — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022
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Can you name this auteur who danced onscreen for multiple film roles? https://t.co/dtaOJ0bcso — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022
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Most nursing homes devote themselves to the narrow and perfectly reasonable goal of keeping residents safe and healthy. The Village Landais contemplates a broader question: What might a good life with Alzheimer’s look like? https://t.co/pPYTR7S7qm — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022
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Marion Ettlinger—who took author photos for writers such as Truman Capote, Cormac McCarthy, and Patricia Highsmith—has gathered enough great stories on assignment to fill a book of her own. https://t.co/14Pj6jVJfu — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022
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Even before John le Carré died, about two years ago, people had started calling Mick Herron his heir. But in crafting his characters, Herron draws as much from P. G. Wodehouse as from le Carré. https://t.co/naG0vinJtF — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022
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David Sedaris on smoking and non-smoking. #NewYorkerArchive https://t.co/Mmd74iH4zu — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022
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Listen to @samknightwrites report on his experience at Qatar’s World Cup, on this week’s episode of #NewYorkerRadio. https://t.co/aiyYiOtv1q — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022
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The challenging circumstances of Hidetaka Miyazaki’s early life, and his hard-won achievements, provide the template for the emotional trajectory that many players experience in his video games. https://t.co/9oApFh35Wb — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022
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In a comic by @Julia_Wertz, a toddler poses some existential questions. https://t.co/tr7sD7b7Xp — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 11, 2022