Brent Staples
@bstaples.bsky.social
Garden guy. Fellow, Society of American Historians. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for writing on the legacies of slavery “with extraordinary moral clarity.”
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“it is illegal for you not to like me”
This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.
December 28, 2025 at 1:54 AM
“it is illegal for you not to like me”
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Once again, the whiplash I’m getting from finishing a book about the 1960s Civil Rights Division *fighting* discriminatory measures designed to suppress the vote and then reading its current leader defending those same kinds of measures today.
December 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Once again, the whiplash I’m getting from finishing a book about the 1960s Civil Rights Division *fighting* discriminatory measures designed to suppress the vote and then reading its current leader defending those same kinds of measures today.
Yellow tigers/
Crouched in jungles/
In her dark eyes/
Crouched in jungles/
In her dark eyes/
December 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Yellow tigers/
Crouched in jungles/
In her dark eyes/
Crouched in jungles/
In her dark eyes/
The New Yorker 12/22
December 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The New Yorker 12/22
If you snooze you lose, ya’ll.
December 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
If you snooze you lose, ya’ll.
But I said, “Look here, brother. Who you jivin’ with that cosmic debris”
December 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
But I said, “Look here, brother. Who you jivin’ with that cosmic debris”
Carroll Gardens
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December 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Carroll Gardens
10:48 AM
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The Garden:
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December 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The Garden:
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Kick high - but only as high as your eye: The Rockette Alumnae meet for cocktails in Manhattan. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Once a Rockette, Always a Rockette
As the group celebrates its hundredth year, former dancers gather to reminisce about the good old days—bingeing Advil, marrying Yalies—and what came after.
www.newyorker.com
December 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Kick high - but only as high as your eye: The Rockette Alumnae meet for cocktails in Manhattan. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Carroll Gardens
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December 27, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Carroll Gardens
12:29 AM
12:29 AM
“Good Rockin’ at Midnight”’https://youtu.be/PByYthYTa20
Rockin' At Midnight
YouTube video by Roy Brown - Topic
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December 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
“Good Rockin’ at Midnight”’https://youtu.be/PByYthYTa20
Cradle of civilization
December 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Cradle of civilization
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This from @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social @newyorker.com is brilliant and necessary. I'm grateful for it.
What Kind of New World Is Being Born?
www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...
What Kind of New World Is Being Born?
www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...
What Kind of New World Is Being Born?
A Christmas essay.
www.newyorker.com
December 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This from @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social @newyorker.com is brilliant and necessary. I'm grateful for it.
What Kind of New World Is Being Born?
www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...
What Kind of New World Is Being Born?
www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...
Rockefeller Center
December 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Rockefeller Center
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Read this. Merry Christmas indeed
December 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Read this. Merry Christmas indeed
The coverup reeks of incompetence.
December 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The coverup reeks of incompetence.
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NYT shows how Bari Weiss really screwed this up.
She didn't attend any of the 5 screenings of the story, which began on Dec. 12.
She only first weighed in on Thursday, and the show incorporated her suggestions.
She then waited until weekend to ask for more edits.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/b...
She didn't attend any of the 5 screenings of the story, which began on Dec. 12.
She only first weighed in on Thursday, and the show incorporated her suggestions.
She then waited until weekend to ask for more edits.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/b...
Turmoil at CBS News After Bari Weiss Pulls a ‘60 Minutes’ Segment
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
NYT shows how Bari Weiss really screwed this up.
She didn't attend any of the 5 screenings of the story, which began on Dec. 12.
She only first weighed in on Thursday, and the show incorporated her suggestions.
She then waited until weekend to ask for more edits.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/b...
She didn't attend any of the 5 screenings of the story, which began on Dec. 12.
She only first weighed in on Thursday, and the show incorporated her suggestions.
She then waited until weekend to ask for more edits.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/b...
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Trump: "Anybody that disagrees with me will never be the Fed Chairman!"
December 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Trump: "Anybody that disagrees with me will never be the Fed Chairman!"
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Breaking News: The Trump administration said it would soon begin to garnish pay from federal student loan borrowers who are in default, stepping up a repayment enforcement effort that began this year. trib.al/9KWd6Iw
December 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Breaking News: The Trump administration said it would soon begin to garnish pay from federal student loan borrowers who are in default, stepping up a repayment enforcement effort that began this year. trib.al/9KWd6Iw
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Trump’s new envoy admits his goal is to steal territory from a NATO ally.
December 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Trump’s new envoy admits his goal is to steal territory from a NATO ally.
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From now on, every video representation is to be greeted with suspicion.
December 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
From now on, every video representation is to be greeted with suspicion.