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In 1946, while studying at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Flannery O’Connor began keeping a journal, charting her thoughts on the subject of faith and prayer, and her hopes for her fiction. https://t.co/slX7IbClZi — PolitiTweet.org

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“Of all the meals my dad made, the one that we loved the most, the one that helped us forgive him the fastest, was sausage pasta.” A new Personal History by Helen Longstreth. https://t.co/McHV3DwdyP — PolitiTweet.org

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Shoes vs. cars, pigeons vs. palm trees, bodega sandwiches vs. avocado toast, and more. https://t.co/8fHdqaG8lP — PolitiTweet.org

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.@dstfelix reviews the new documentary “The Janes,” on HBO Max, about a clandestine organization that provided more than 11,000 illegal abortions to clients in Chicago, from 1969 to 1973. https://t.co/u3iskmV0wQ — PolitiTweet.org

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Evan Puschak, posting as the Nerdwriter, helped pioneer the form of the video essay. His YouTube channel, he says, is his way “of expressing understanding and working out the things that I believe.” Listen here. https://t.co/gjg35MN9dN — PolitiTweet.org

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From “A Little Life” to “Ted Lasso,” the trauma plot has taken over our pages and our screens. “Characters are now created in order to be dispatched into the past, to truffle for trauma,” Parul Sehgal writes. https://t.co/Ad3UDtAw6c — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @michaelluo: That’s a wrap on ⁦@NewYorker⁩’s second digital-only issue. Read all of the pieces here. Loved the variety, depth, and whims… — PolitiTweet.org

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“We’re reconsidering who we are, what we care about, what we want to do with our time”: how the phenomenon now known as the COVID midlife crisis is affecting professional women. https://t.co/wnkjsdhKyl — PolitiTweet.org

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In a new interview with @frynaomifry, the director-actor-writer-producer Jay Duplass talks about the first time he saw “Raising Arizona,” venturing out on his own, and his midlife desire to do something “bigger.” https://t.co/s7yvIqOKKl — PolitiTweet.org

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“That my parents have held onto so many things over the decades suggests sentimentality, though it rarely gets expressed out loud.” @huahsu writes about one family heirloom saved from his parents’ wedding. https://t.co/AbcdM6exyR — PolitiTweet.org

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“Abortion is often talked about as a grave act that requires justification,” @jiatolentino writes, “but bringing a new life into the world felt, to me, like the decision that more clearly risked being a moral mistake.” https://t.co/R7StnXmBEf — PolitiTweet.org

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@sbg1 @benwallacewells If there’s one thing that the January 6th hearings demonstrate, @JohnCassidy writes, “it’s that Trump will represent a mortal threat to American democracy until the day he retires from politics.” https://t.co/XkCx7LhJg4 — PolitiTweet.org

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In the photo book “Restraint and Desire,” which collects the work of the married photographers Ken Graves and Eva Lipman, fond, funny, and surprising photographs highlight the moments before a ceremony begins—or when cracks appear on its surface. https://t.co/y3jAUB2nXQ — PolitiTweet.org

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Why did a local official, at the turn of the 20th century, maintain a ledger tracking Chinese residents? https://t.co/s4SxorvXlP — PolitiTweet.org

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In “Weighing In on the Watergate Tapes,” from 1974, various contributors offer their reactions to the release of startling evidence about the Nixon White House. https://t.co/BsjNKFUZD5 — PolitiTweet.org

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@sbg1 .@benwallacewells examines how, as Donald Trump attempted to sell his story of a stolen election, Republican leaders considered their moral and political options. https://t.co/SXItpmEQfh — PolitiTweet.org

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In this week’s cryptic crossword: Use muddled lime to improve whiskey, in a way (seven letters). https://t.co/TsvaUzWF56 — PolitiTweet.org

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.@sbg1 comments on the first House select committee prime-time hearing, in which Representative Liz Cheney delivered some searing words to her G.O.P. colleagues: “There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.” https://t.co/jl7RtLO3ho — PolitiTweet.org

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In a new comic, Zoé Gillette illustrates the challenges of taking a good selfie. https://t.co/sKHJJtA3ax https://t.co/1xz7gFPX02 — PolitiTweet.org

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Luke Mogelson takes us behind the scenes of the Capitol riots, including inside the Senate chamber, where some of the extremists rummaged through legislators’ desks and brandished weapons. https://t.co/AihBqL48lY — PolitiTweet.org

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This week, we’re bringing you a selection of pieces about the catastrophe of the Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021, and the events that have since unfolded in Washington. https://t.co/RndrMHBZ4v — PolitiTweet.org

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President Biden’s actions in the Middle East this week may have unwanted consequences. “Shaking the hand of a murderer is bad,” a former C.I.A. staffer said, “but going to war with Iran is insanity.” https://t.co/eDn5E9msJ4 — PolitiTweet.org

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“Sausage pasta was for Sundays or birthdays,” Helen Longstreth writes, in a new Personal History. “It was for after a relapse, when he wanted to win us back.” https://t.co/p2PyQQi6EQ — PolitiTweet.org

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How Herschel Walker came to be a Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate is a clear example of the warping effect that Donald Trump has had on the Party nationally, @jelani9 writes. https://t.co/weIDcRAZOb — PolitiTweet.org

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If overtly L.G.B.T.Q. books continue to be banished from library shelves, then it may be left to older works like “Ferdinand the Bull” and “Frog and Toad” to smuggle in queer-friendly themes. https://t.co/2JNbfvOpdN — PolitiTweet.org

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The fictional short “Birds,” which takes place in Austin, combines the dreamy extremes of a summer day with the equally dreamy extremes of teen-age life. Watch here. https://t.co/oquL0Ceh9k — PolitiTweet.org

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Democrats could, in theory, amend the filibuster and expand the Supreme Court, @JohnCassidy writes. But they “appear to be stuck—with an unrepresentative political system, a stacked Court, and their own divisions conspiring against them.” https://t.co/b0aRKZuD4D — PolitiTweet.org

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An ode to Tove Jansson, an artist and writer best known for creating strange and enthralling fictional worlds. https://t.co/6y41U5UcSO — PolitiTweet.org

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“Thor: Love and Thunder” is filled with stars, including Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth, but it treats them like cardboard cutouts of themselves. https://t.co/ECVWmAD1JI — PolitiTweet.org

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“We have a long and, I think, still highly ingrained view that prenups are bad,” a law professor said. But protecting your spouse from the ravages of debt can be romantic in its own way. https://t.co/Iy8CxoT704 — PolitiTweet.org