Mira Kamdar
@mirakamdar.bsky.social
Paris-based author of four books, gardener, NYT Editorial Board alumna, words in New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, more.
My thoughts on the 10th anniversary of the Nov 13, 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, what it felt like to be in the city that day, what I wrote about it in the @nytimes.com and what I said about it standing in front of the Bataclan to Amy Goodman @democracynow.org
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November 13, 2025 at 7:24 AM
My thoughts on the 10th anniversary of the Nov 13, 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, what it felt like to be in the city that day, what I wrote about it in the @nytimes.com and what I said about it standing in front of the Bataclan to Amy Goodman @democracynow.org
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“We are all in transit, I thought. Life itself is a constant state of transitioning, from birth to death, from childhood to adulthood to old age, from one country to another, from one love to the next.” open.substack.com/pub/mirakamd...
The Transition
As We Move from Fall into Winter, the Good Gardener, like the Engaged Citizen, Prepares for Spring Renewal
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November 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
“We are all in transit, I thought. Life itself is a constant state of transitioning, from birth to death, from childhood to adulthood to old age, from one country to another, from one love to the next.” open.substack.com/pub/mirakamd...
Ten years ago I wrote this about the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 130 people, including someone we knew, and struck at the heart of my longtime Paris 'hood. I'll be posting tomorrow about this on Mixed Borders on Substack. www.nytimes.com/2015/11/19/o...
Opinion | The Poignancy of the Paris Targets (Published 2015)
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November 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Ten years ago I wrote this about the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 130 people, including someone we knew, and struck at the heart of my longtime Paris 'hood. I'll be posting tomorrow about this on Mixed Borders on Substack. www.nytimes.com/2015/11/19/o...
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This is the march the Polish president chose to grace with his presence today.
November 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
This is the march the Polish president chose to grace with his presence today.
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The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
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Nobody in American politics hates their own voters more than the Democratic Party
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Nobody in American politics hates their own voters more than the Democratic Party
“We are all in transit, I thought. Life itself is a constant state of transitioning, from birth to death, from childhood to adulthood to old age, from one country to another, from one love to the next.” open.substack.com/pub/mirakamd...
The Transition
As We Move from Fall into Winter, the Good Gardener, like the Engaged Citizen, Prepares for Spring Renewal
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November 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
“We are all in transit, I thought. Life itself is a constant state of transitioning, from birth to death, from childhood to adulthood to old age, from one country to another, from one love to the next.” open.substack.com/pub/mirakamd...
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Oops! The second link. I have no idea why there's an AI one as the first link, but avoiding everything AI is a good life plan, goal, and prophylactic.
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Oops! The second link. I have no idea why there's an AI one as the first link, but avoiding everything AI is a good life plan, goal, and prophylactic.
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Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.
“New Yorkers didn’t want an insider with decades of experience. They wanted Zohran Mamdani.” The Mamdani Era Begins www.newyorker.com/news/our-loc...
The Mamdani Era Begins
His opponents tried to smear him for his youth, inexperience, and leftist politics. But New Yorkers didn’t want a hardened political insider to be mayor—they wanted Zohran Mamdani.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
“New Yorkers didn’t want an insider with decades of experience. They wanted Zohran Mamdani.” The Mamdani Era Begins www.newyorker.com/news/our-loc...
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I would have voted for @zohrankmamdani if I lived in NYC (and I’d be happy to take the place of anybody fleeing NYC) but I’m in California and voted for Prop. 50 today.
November 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I would have voted for @zohrankmamdani if I lived in NYC (and I’d be happy to take the place of anybody fleeing NYC) but I’m in California and voted for Prop. 50 today.
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“It’s when you step back and take in the full list, with all of the extortionate details, that it becomes clear that Trump is moving toward something like China’s command economy.”
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Donald Trump Is a Commie
Bernie’s democratic socialism is still compatible with liberal democracy. Trump’s national socialism is not. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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November 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
“It’s when you step back and take in the full list, with all of the extortionate details, that it becomes clear that Trump is moving toward something like China’s command economy.”
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My premise, starting w Duffy being named to this job and confirmed by every utterance or action since then, is that he knows nothing about aviation.
Would be like appointing me to judge the world lumberjack championships. (At which Duffy was the speed-climbing winner, in 1994.)
Would be like appointing me to judge the world lumberjack championships. (At which Duffy was the speed-climbing winner, in 1994.)
Transportation chief Sean Duffy threatened to ground all U.S. flights amid the ongoing shutdown, warning "we'll shut the whole airspace down."
Trump official threatens to ground all flights before Thanksgiving in shutdown standoff
Transportation chief Sean Duffy threatened to ground all U.S. flights amid the ongoing shutdown, warning "we'll shut the whole airspace down." As the stalemate drags into the second month, it's adding more potential risk to the aviation system and putting a further strain on air traffic control staf...
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November 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
My premise, starting w Duffy being named to this job and confirmed by every utterance or action since then, is that he knows nothing about aviation.
Would be like appointing me to judge the world lumberjack championships. (At which Duffy was the speed-climbing winner, in 1994.)
Would be like appointing me to judge the world lumberjack championships. (At which Duffy was the speed-climbing winner, in 1994.)
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📖 Le prix Femina, l'une des grandes récompenses littéraires en France, a été décerné à Nathacha Appanah pour son roman "La nuit au cœur" (Gallimard), qui lie le destin de trois femmes prises dans la spirale des violences masculines.
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
📖 Le prix Femina, l'une des grandes récompenses littéraires en France, a été décerné à Nathacha Appanah pour son roman "La nuit au cœur" (Gallimard), qui lie le destin de trois femmes prises dans la spirale des violences masculines.
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42 million people cant buy food this month. It’s time to tax billionaires.
Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report
Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report
Oxfam warns Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights – but Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap
The collective wealth of the top 10 US billionaires has soared by $698bn in the past year, according to a new report from Oxfam America published on Monday on the growing wealth divide.
The report warns that Trump administration policies risk driving US inequality to new heights, but points out that both Republican and Democratic administrations have exacerbated the US’s growing wealth gap. Continue reading...
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November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
42 million people cant buy food this month. It’s time to tax billionaires.
"The sunflowers, still resplendent only a month ago, have turned brown and fallen over, but they are heavy now with seeds. On lonely, golden Sunday afternoons of November, I put all my faith in those seeds." @margaretrenkl.bsky.social keeping it real. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
Opinion | The Lovely Loneliness of Sunday Afternoons in Autumn
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November 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"The sunflowers, still resplendent only a month ago, have turned brown and fallen over, but they are heavy now with seeds. On lonely, golden Sunday afternoons of November, I put all my faith in those seeds." @margaretrenkl.bsky.social keeping it real. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
"The word “fall” has its origin in the Old Norse falla, which means to fall down dead, to be slain, to die, as in fallen soldiers. Empires fall. Governments fall.
We fall in love. We fall for scammers. We fall from grace. We are falling off a cliff."
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We fall in love. We fall for scammers. We fall from grace. We are falling off a cliff."
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The Fall
Can anything stop it?
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October 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"The word “fall” has its origin in the Old Norse falla, which means to fall down dead, to be slain, to die, as in fallen soldiers. Empires fall. Governments fall.
We fall in love. We fall for scammers. We fall from grace. We are falling off a cliff."
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We fall in love. We fall for scammers. We fall from grace. We are falling off a cliff."
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On the “defeat” of the far right in the Netherlands 🇳🇱
The total number of far-right seats in the Tweede Kamer:
2021: 28
2023: 41
2025: 42 👈
And I don’t even count BBB here, which has radicalized significantly in the last year.
The total number of far-right seats in the Tweede Kamer:
2021: 28
2023: 41
2025: 42 👈
And I don’t even count BBB here, which has radicalized significantly in the last year.
October 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
On the “defeat” of the far right in the Netherlands 🇳🇱
The total number of far-right seats in the Tweede Kamer:
2021: 28
2023: 41
2025: 42 👈
And I don’t even count BBB here, which has radicalized significantly in the last year.
The total number of far-right seats in the Tweede Kamer:
2021: 28
2023: 41
2025: 42 👈
And I don’t even count BBB here, which has radicalized significantly in the last year.
"Un ‘unruly garden’ est un jardin rebelle, qui échappe aux efforts de le discipliner, ce qui est bien le cas avec mon jardin, et avec tous les jardins du monde, car le jardin est par sa nature ‘unruly’. Il est de même des peuples démocratiques." mirakamdar.substack.com/p/unruly
Unruly
Anglais: indiscipliné, turbulent, rebelle
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October 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
"Un ‘unruly garden’ est un jardin rebelle, qui échappe aux efforts de le discipliner, ce qui est bien le cas avec mon jardin, et avec tous les jardins du monde, car le jardin est par sa nature ‘unruly’. Il est de même des peuples démocratiques." mirakamdar.substack.com/p/unruly
This story is jaw-dropping. "Chinese-run facilities have recently been discovered in the Philippines and the desert outside Dubai. In 2022, Chinese scammers took over the shuttered Seaview Hotel on the Isle of Man...". @alexclapp.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... @lrb.co.uk
Alexander Clapp · Pig Butchering: Scam Gangs
If it were a national economy, cybercrime would be the third largest in the world, behind only the United States and...
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October 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This story is jaw-dropping. "Chinese-run facilities have recently been discovered in the Philippines and the desert outside Dubai. In 2022, Chinese scammers took over the shuttered Seaview Hotel on the Isle of Man...". @alexclapp.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... @lrb.co.uk
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As Israel devours the West Bank, Abbas is busy rearranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-devours-west-bank-abbas-busy-rearranging-chairs-titanic
As Israel devours the West Bank, Abbas is busy rearranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic
If Marwan Barghouti, or someone like him, does not assume control of Fatah very soon, Abbas will drag his party and every Palestinian institution down with him
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October 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
As Israel devours the West Bank, Abbas is busy rearranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-devours-west-bank-abbas-busy-rearranging-chairs-titanic
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I hope someday we defeat fascism and in the far future, No Kings Day is celebrated as a federal holiday, and little children leave out dance mixtapes and cookies for the Resistance Frog, who leaves pocket Constitutions in their shoes.
October 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I hope someday we defeat fascism and in the far future, No Kings Day is celebrated as a federal holiday, and little children leave out dance mixtapes and cookies for the Resistance Frog, who leaves pocket Constitutions in their shoes.
"I did not tell Yazzan that no Palestinian had helped draft the agreement. I did not tell him that families in Gaza were still being killed in Israeli strikes. ... that the plan says nothing about investigating Israel for war crimes... " @mosababutoha.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/essay/t...
There Is No Peace in Gaza
Since President Trump announced his plan for a ceasefire, people I know have been killed. One relative described torture during a year in Israeli custody.
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October 25, 2025 at 4:58 AM
"I did not tell Yazzan that no Palestinian had helped draft the agreement. I did not tell him that families in Gaza were still being killed in Israeli strikes. ... that the plan says nothing about investigating Israel for war crimes... " @mosababutoha.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/essay/t...