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“Home, Before and After,” Regina Spektor’s first album in six years, will be released this month. On #NewYorkerRadio, she performs songs from the new record. Listen here. https://t.co/7J4G1kIq3h — PolitiTweet.org

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In the process of making “No Crying at the Dinner Table,” a short documentary featuring intimate interviews with her father, mother, and sister, @_CarolNguyen_ uncovered tragic family secrets she never knew. Watch here. https://t.co/1Hp3wYns7w — PolitiTweet.org

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Today’s entertainment marketplace is defined by its faith in the limitless potential of preëxisting intellectual property. Viewers get exactly what they expect, because they’ve got it before: in sequels, spinoffs, live-action retellings, and merch. https://t.co/O7LI3TMh8w — PolitiTweet.org

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“They are firing at you for days on end—it’s exhausting, and starts to eat at you,” one soldier said, of the Russian military. “It feels as if they are trying to smash into atoms every Ukrainian soldier and every inch of Ukrainian land.” https://t.co/gWoEzx7tju — PolitiTweet.org

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“We are never finished with grief. It is part of the fabric of living,” V. S. Naipaul writes, in a Personal History. “Love makes memories and life precious; the grief that comes to us is proportionate to that love and is inescapable.” https://t.co/Cek99kzQHf — PolitiTweet.org

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“As the bright day goes around the sun, why do our days grow more aggressive and difficult? Why do the world’s shadows come so close as its wonders beckon?” A poem by @ColeHenri. https://t.co/MXjNyD0oKe — PolitiTweet.org

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Saying goodbye to your excess stuff is easy; finding it a new home is the challenge. Here’s how to sell, donate, and give away that which no longer sparks joy. https://t.co/XWG3nvDmm1 — PolitiTweet.org

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Mark Meadows “would lie to people’s faces,” a White House official said. Stephanie Grisham, whom Meadows ousted from her position as White House press secretary, called him “one of the worst people ever to enter the Trump White House.” https://t.co/8bfgUHZPCk — PolitiTweet.org

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On Louisa May Alcott’s birthday, revisit Joan Acocella on the feminist legacy of “Little Women”: “The book’s fans didn’t merely like it; it gave them a life.” https://t.co/0c3tpH7zkp — PolitiTweet.org

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When what you see on the other side is just annoying. https://t.co/2ClQW1xcfn — PolitiTweet.org

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Four critics discuss erotic thrillers, prosthetic penises, and the state of desire onscreen. https://t.co/0IJrDHqiOH — PolitiTweet.org

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Vladimir Putin is “out of options,” the investigative journalist @andreisoldatov said. “He got himself in a big war, and right now the military is finally quite convinced that they are fighting a really big war, not just some limited conflict.” https://t.co/mYymAHVbNP — PolitiTweet.org

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Samuel Colt invented a system of myths, symbols, stagecraft, and distribution. Last year, versions of these 19th-century messages persuaded Americans to buy nearly 20 million guns. https://t.co/96wXrAPf0g — PolitiTweet.org

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The second January 6th hearing produced evidence that many of Trump’s advisers knew that he lost the 2020 election, told him so directly, and recommended against pursuing the bogus lawsuits and disinformation campaign that he chose to wage anyway. https://t.co/XRcWVMPnmn — PolitiTweet.org

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“The ultimate appeal of operagoing in Germany is to see a venerable art form experiencing continuous rebirth.” @alexrossmusic tours the celebrated opera companies in Germany, which are supported by the state. https://t.co/mvRRdLB1q0 — PolitiTweet.org

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“Man, do I have stories to tell,” James Patterson writes in his new autobiography. But these stories—a cavalcade of mostly trivial tales—come across as a screen he hides behind, @magiciansbook writes. https://t.co/2KeAnIM91A — PolitiTweet.org

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On June 21st, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author @Egangoonsquad will join our fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, to discuss her latest book, in a conversation exclusively for New Yorker subscribers. R.S.V.P. here: https://t.co/dgfrJpGLL7 — PolitiTweet.org

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Robert and Michelle King have produced, in the past 13 years, some of the most iconoclastic shows on television—joyful, cracked visions of moral chaos full of rude wit and formal experimentation. https://t.co/lvWpIHvqYy — PolitiTweet.org

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Like any artist, Yoko Ono wanted recognition, but she was never driven by a desire for wealth and fame. She ended up with both. What impact has that had on her legacy? https://t.co/3d8Kz1OGpH — PolitiTweet.org

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Across centuries, land that was collectively worked by the landless was claimed, and the age of private property was born. “We can learn from the time before enclosure, but we can’t go back there,” Eula Biss writes. https://t.co/YhXv6O3mWy — PolitiTweet.org

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In 2003, Shane Yellowbird (1979-2022) had just finished a turn at a karaoke bar when someone in the audience who had a connection to a connection in the record business made a call. “He was a natural,” his manager said recently. https://t.co/jHb6CIkOYP — PolitiTweet.org

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An Ellen Tracy ankle-length wool skirt, a paisley Liz Claiborne scarf, a clock shaped like a cat, and more stuff that Mom would like you to have. https://t.co/Tfsj5SmZ8f — PolitiTweet.org

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Will the January 6th hearings contribute to a criminal case against the former President? If he is charged, what exactly would the charges be, and how tough would the case be to prosecute? https://t.co/seRioNuiZC — PolitiTweet.org

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In a world that is increasingly multilingual, becoming a hyperpolyglot—a speaker of more than 11 languages—remains a rare, herculean feat. https://t.co/Jq9cHAomee — PolitiTweet.org

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Judis Anderson, a 24-year-old trans woman in Kyiv, tried to leave Ukraine in the first month of the Russian invasion. Now she wants to enlist. “I want to go fight,” she said. “But as a woman.” https://t.co/9m7uIzHlY9 — PolitiTweet.org

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“Bill Barr’s testimony was no less powerful, I suppose, for the incredible hypocrisy he and many other leading Republicans continue to show by picking and choosing which of Trump’s many transgressions they care about,” @sbg1 writes. https://t.co/Qs5adNUVlI — PolitiTweet.org

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Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was born on this day in 1811, knew something that we, thanks in part to her, will never be forced to confront: American slavery as it was. https://t.co/kd4TtsEaoG — PolitiTweet.org

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Pornhub is one of the most visited Web sites in the world. Critics say it has been rampant with nonconsensual content—and that there was little recourse for those featured in it. https://t.co/WjTW0HoBxq — PolitiTweet.org

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The Turnaway Study recruited 1,132 women from the waiting rooms of abortion clinics, some of whom would go on to have the procedure, and some of whom would be turned away. Over-all, the results show that abortion helps most women in measurable ways. https://t.co/ULmCHRJSYx — PolitiTweet.org

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From Adam and Eve to Jonas and Captain Gunther, group projects have always been a pain. https://t.co/Pj5GvYaKkR — PolitiTweet.org