"I feel like what I saw in Cuba was definitively the end of the dream of the Cuban Revolution. For years, while Fidel was still alive, some people clung to it. ... Now it’s over."

really enjoyed talking to Jon Lee Anderson for this one:
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loved this conversation between Joshua Rothman and @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social on how A.I. might change the medical profession: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

"Historically, autocrats are a mirthless bunch."

David Remnick on Kimmel (and Putin and Goodfellas) in tonight's newsletter: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

a helpful legal update on tariffs from @cristianfarias.com www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

I wrote a bit about the tariff chaos in today’s @newyorker.com newsletter. www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

Jia Tolentino explains labubu!!!!
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I too have really enjoyed using Opal over the past year! nice one from @chaykak.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

classic @elcush.bsky.social on Prime Day:

"The holiday was invented by a corporation in honor of itself, to enrich itself. It has existed for six years and is observed by tens of millions of people worldwide. I hope you are spending it with your loved ones."

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SCOOP: Details about Saturday’s “No Kings” protest are under watch by domestic intelligence centers, where analysts regularly distribute speculative threat assessments among federal, state, and local agencies, according to an internal alert obtained by WIRED.

UNPAYWALLED:

"Kassam wore pink seersucker pants and at one point booed a passing Cybertruck. As guests filtered in and out, he developed a tagline: 'The Tea Party sold out to Koch, but Trump wouldn’t sell out to ketamine.'"

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Just how bad is Donald Trump’s travel ban? In today’s daily newsletter, @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social, who covers immigration for The New Yorker, unpacks the news.

some really helpful thoughts from @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social

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can't not see this through the lens of The Rehearsal www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

catch-up on today's: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

the inaugural edition of How Bad Is It?, feat. @ronanfarrow.bsky.social

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A commencement dispatch from Jeannie Suk Gersen:

“A faculty colleague near me spent the proceedings reading Montesquieu, the great theorist of the separation of powers, on his phone.” www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

"The school’s transformation in the public imagination, from bastion of élitism into a beacon of hope and dissent, requires a reality check. If the federal government decides it’s going to destroy—or severely diminish—you, it probably can."

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“(Javert is cordyceps)”

the @newyorker.com summer culture preview just dropped www.newyorker.com/culture/goin...

"Let’s face it: for all that has been said and written and broadcast about Prevost—he was on the media shortlist for most of the past week—Leo XIV is a complete unknown."

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