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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 6d

This convo, it’s also about the decisions behind when and why we choose to write: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines

Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 09/28/2025 · 1h 9m

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 12d

Segovia on a weekday 💙

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 18d

This is what it sounds like:

"Information must be approved for public release by an appropriate authorizing official before it is released, even if it is unclassified.”

www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Pentagon imposes new restrictions on media outlets

The Department of War's new guidelines, stated in a memo to reporters on Friday, September 20, require them to pledge not to cover anything that is not formally authorized for publication and limit th...

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · 28d

“‘Writing is utter solitude,’ Kafka is said to have lamented, ‘the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.’ For students today, it may feel more like a cozy group chat with an algorithm.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/m...

An Essay Contest Winner Used A.I. Should She Return the $1,000 Award?

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · Sep 8

church, parque del oeste

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · Sep 6

Who appointed you to decide our future?

—the Q Roula Khalaf puts to this generation’s tech leaders/scientists who, as a whole, seem to be convinced that they have the truth, that they are building a better future for all of us.

Mixed Signals @semafor.com: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

How to be elite in the age of populism, with the FT’s Roula Khalaf

Podcast Episode · Mixed Signals from Semafor Media · 09/05/2025 · 44m

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · Sep 5

This FT piece from @faniaoz-salzberger.bsky.social is worth taking the time to read. Gift link: on.ft.com/41xdSYg

Fania Oz-Salzberger @faniaoz-salzberger.bsky.social · Aug 30

My new piece in FT.
“Here’s a truth to reckon with: neither Israelis nor Palestinians are going to disappear any time soon. No one can destroy their respective claims to a sovereign state in their ancestral homeland, which happens to be the same land.” www.ft.com/content/d871...

The battle for the soul of Israel

The country’s moderates are not giving up the struggle against their rogue government — and progressives elsewhere must not give up on them, writes historian Fania Oz-Salzberger

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · Aug 27

What US higher education really looks like:

- 43% of undergraduates attend community college
- 20% of undergrads are parents, 1.4 million of whom are single mothers
- 26% of students take classes exclusively online
- 25% live w/their parents
- 10.8 mil owe +$44,000
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...

The Typical College Student Is Not Who You Think

www.nytimes.com

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · Aug 26

>> The Israeli military carried out what’s called a double-tap strike: the first missile hit the hospital’s roof and killed a Reuters journalist during his livestream, followed by a second missile that hit first responders and reporters responding to the initial one.
www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...

Israel Kills 5 Palestinian Journalists, Dismissing Global Calls For Press Freedom

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the bombing of Nasser Hospital that killed journalists and medics a "tragic mishap."

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · Aug 4

Recent economics PhDs are having new and unusual trouble entering the job market. May not seem relevant for non-academics but it is —for what it says abt the link btwn education and upward mobility, the structures supporting public research, how policy is informed, and for US competitiveness.

Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · Jul 28

“I contacted our department and said, ‘Listen, I need to prepare you for the possibility that we may be graduating people without jobs.” The 50-year-long bull market for PhD economists is coming to an end, and it's not great news for everyone else. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/b...

The Bull Market for Economists Is Over. It’s an Ominous Sign for the Economy.

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · Jul 30

There’s something to be said for keeping up with basic standards. An interesting take on innovation from Janan Ganesh:

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Jul 26

Why Oasis won in the end https://on.ft.com/4miqTgh | opinion

Why Oasis won in the end

The band’s lasting appeal wasn’t foreseen by a cultural elite that overvalues innovation

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · Jul 19

perfect empty day

kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · Jul 6

So, there’s an Odyssey movie in the works.

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · Jul 1

“The last time the level of government spending was at that 8% of GDP was 1933, before the New Deal. In that year, after years of extraordinary corporate profits, the banking system had collapsed, the unemployment rate was nearly 25%, prices and productivity were plummeting, wages were cratering…”

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · Jun 28

The Guardian has a review of what’s happening in Spain, vía @mariaramirez.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New corruption scandal, same old story? Why Spanish politics keeps failing to clean up its act | María Ramírez

With the prime minister now mired in scandal, a culture shift is towards accountability is crucial, says María Ramírez, journalist and deputy managing editor of elDiario.es

www.theguardian.com

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · Jun 28

The great Marilynne Robinson putting it as clearly as possible in @nybooks.com: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Notes from an Occupation | Marilynne Robinson

America is an occupied country, ruled by partisans hostile to democracy.

www.nybooks.com

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · Jun 16

The American brain drain has arrived: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

‘No way to invest in a career here’: US academics flee overseas to avoid Trump crackdown

Budding scholars pursue overseas jobs amid attacks on education and research, prompting fears of an American brain drain

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · Jun 16

“Ten years ago…on June 16, 2015, Trump rode down the escalator at Trump Tower to a lobby filled with extras, to announce he was running for president. One reporter called his speech, in which he claimed that Mexico was sending criminals and rapists to the United States, "'eccentric.'”

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · Jun 16

June 15, 2025

Yesterday began with the horrific news that a gunman had shot two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses in what Minnesota governor Tim Walz said appeared to be a “politically motivated assassination.”...

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · Jun 14

Seems like the best day for a refresher.

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Sarah Churchwell @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social · Jun 14

Even before I heard the devastating, horrific news of political assassination in Minnesota, I woke up this morning thinking about Emily Dickinson's great poem "'Hope' is the thing with feathers -"

Lots of people know this beautiful little poem, but fewer, I think(?) realize when it was written. /1

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · Jun 4

“…the administration is acting unilaterally to nix [Fulbright] awards for both American and foreign applicants that for decades have been selected jointly, effectively telling other countries that they don’t have final say in the spending of their own funds.”

Karin Fischer @karinfischer.bsky.social · Jun 4

The U.S. Department of State has been exercising a last-minute veto of applications to the prestigious Fulbright program on ideological grounds — often rejecting grants funded in part, or largely, by foreign countries, not the U.S. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

Trump Administration’s Ideological Vetting of Fulbright Scholars Raises Alarm

The 11th-hour vetoes of grantees overrule foreign governments that jointly select and fund recipients of the prestigious scholarship.

www.chronicle.com

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · Jun 3

“…to sit with discomfort, listen deeply, and to stay soft in hard times. Because if we still believe in a shared future, let us not forget that those whom we label as enemies, they too are human.”

Yurong (Luanna) Jiang’s Harvard graduation speech is just what we all needed: youtu.be/GpR_xk-DWsQ?...

Yurong "Luanna" Jiang Delivers the Graduate English Address | Harvard Commencement 2025

YouTube video by Harvard University

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · Jun 2

New tech and automation helps workers complete tasks faster, but it can also strip autonomy, lock in rigid processes, and prevent workers from improving how work gets done. So, we also get a decrease in ownership, productivity, and well-being. www.ft.com/content/4526... by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com

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kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · May 31

“One minor tension of my life is that I can’t bring myself to hate the Post. I find its politics detestable but its voice irresistible.” — Vinson Cunningham, @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Why I Can’t Quit the New York Post

The city’s least self-conscious, Rupert Murdoch-owned daily newspaper sticks to its story, new information be damned, yet holds real clout in liberal New York.

www.newyorker.com

kerry parke @kelissa.bsky.social · May 25

I've renewed my @harpers.bsky.social subscription because of this incredible reporting and writing from @benehrenreich.bsky.social: harpers.org/archive/2025...

After Nonviolence, by Ben Ehrenreich

The end of peaceful resistance in Palestine

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