Anna Pivovarchuk
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"Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, for when the time comes." — Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale" (1985)
I first encountered Tom Stoppard’s work in high school, incredulous at the wit and fun of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; then, decades later, found myself silenced by the ending of Leopoldstadt in a London theatre gone eerily quiet with pathos. Goodbye, one of literature’s true greats.
November 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I first encountered Tom Stoppard’s work in high school, incredulous at the wit and fun of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; then, decades later, found myself silenced by the ending of Leopoldstadt in a London theatre gone eerily quiet with pathos. Goodbye, one of literature’s true greats.
November 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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SCOOP: CDC officials on Monday linked for the first time the measles outbreak that began in Texas with another in Utah and Arizona, a finding that could end America’s status as a nation that has eliminated measles.
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C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time
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November 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
SCOOP: CDC officials on Monday linked for the first time the measles outbreak that began in Texas with another in Utah and Arizona, a finding that could end America’s status as a nation that has eliminated measles.
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The CDC website now disseminates disinformation about vaccines, claiming erroneously that infant vaccines might cause autism, when we know conclusively that they do not. It is difficult to overstate just how dangerous this is. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
November 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The CDC website now disseminates disinformation about vaccines, claiming erroneously that infant vaccines might cause autism, when we know conclusively that they do not. It is difficult to overstate just how dangerous this is. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
Nearly 1 in 3 women—about 840 million—have experienced intimate partner or sexual violence in their lifetimes according to the WHO, 316 million in the past year alone. Yet just 0.2% of global aid went to programmes focused on preventing violence against women in 2022. Absolutely insane numbers.
Nearly one-third of women worldwide faced partner or sexual violence: WHO
Despite stark findings, World Health Organization says violence against women and girls is 'a deeply neglected crisis'.
www.aljazeera.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Nearly 1 in 3 women—about 840 million—have experienced intimate partner or sexual violence in their lifetimes according to the WHO, 316 million in the past year alone. Yet just 0.2% of global aid went to programmes focused on preventing violence against women in 2022. Absolutely insane numbers.
The Germans, of course, have a word for this — Ostalgie — the rose-tinted memories of life under communism in the DDR.
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 10:04 AM
The Germans, of course, have a word for this — Ostalgie — the rose-tinted memories of life under communism in the DDR.
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TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
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Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
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November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
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Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
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“The American naturalisation system REQUIRES any alignments with communism or terrorist activities to be disclosed. I’m doubtful he disclosed them. If this is confirmed, put him on the first flight back to Uganda.”
The system only dreams in total darkness.
The system only dreams in total darkness.
GOP seeks to revoke NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani’s citizenship; experts say they must prove false claims in his application.
Republicans push to strip Zohran Mamdani of US citizenship. Is it possible?
GOP seeks to revoke NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani’s citizenship; experts say they must prove false claims in his application.
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November 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
“The American naturalisation system REQUIRES any alignments with communism or terrorist activities to be disclosed. I’m doubtful he disclosed them. If this is confirmed, put him on the first flight back to Uganda.”
The system only dreams in total darkness.
The system only dreams in total darkness.
USAID contributions cost Americans just $24 a year in taxes, having saved an estimated 92 million lives over the last two decades. Now, another estimate suggests 600,000 have already died since the Trump administration’s gutting of the agency, two-thirds of them children. This is just the start.
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:06 AM
USAID contributions cost Americans just $24 a year in taxes, having saved an estimated 92 million lives over the last two decades. Now, another estimate suggests 600,000 have already died since the Trump administration’s gutting of the agency, two-thirds of them children. This is just the start.
Well, this critic does say some excellently delicious things about a very important issue plaguing the media.
Excellent read 🔥
“Climate change is increasingly lethal, though critics say… it is not.” Or, “Israel is murdering journalists in Gaza at historically unprecedented rates, though critics say… it is not.” Or, “Trans people claim to be real, though critics say…”
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“Climate change is increasingly lethal, though critics say… it is not.” Or, “Israel is murdering journalists in Gaza at historically unprecedented rates, though critics say… it is not.” Or, “Trans people claim to be real, though critics say…”
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Well, this critic does say some excellently delicious things about a very important issue plaguing the media.
“But, you know, people don’t want to be made to feel bad about things that they like. (Understanding this would help the left win a lot more elections.)” Funny and insightful, and probably (and unfortunately) @helenlewis.bsky.social last report from Saudi Arabia for the foreseeable future.
"Sometimes you have to ask yourself: How did I get here—sitting in Saudi Arabia, listening to Louis C.K. do jokes about Barely Legal magazine?"
I went to Riyadh to see the transformation of a country with the world's biggest cultural chequebook. Gift link:
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I went to Riyadh to see the transformation of a country with the world's biggest cultural chequebook. Gift link:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
How Many Comedians Does It Take to Change a Country?
What it’s like to watch Louis C.K. do stand-up in Saudi Arabia
www.theatlantic.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
“But, you know, people don’t want to be made to feel bad about things that they like. (Understanding this would help the left win a lot more elections.)” Funny and insightful, and probably (and unfortunately) @helenlewis.bsky.social last report from Saudi Arabia for the foreseeable future.
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
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Community action works.
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October 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
Jane Goodall, the most extraordinary human, is gone. I so hope we don’t let her down, going forward, but I fear we will.
Jane's interview - FRANCE - #HUMAN
YouTube video by HUMAN the movie
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October 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Jane Goodall, the most extraordinary human, is gone. I so hope we don’t let her down, going forward, but I fear we will.
"Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, for when the time comes." — Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale" (1985)
October 1, 2025 at 9:25 AM
"Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, for when the time comes." — Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale" (1985)
Well, Trump did promise to cut drug prices...
The Trump-Miller administration's single-minded focus on migration is starting to impact the availability of drugs in the US, according to this detail from a very good investigation @wsj.com published today.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Well, Trump did promise to cut drug prices...
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New, from me:
It was a terrible week, one that inspired some truly awful takes. The worst was the effort by Bari Weiss and The Free Press to smear universities as "the biggest culprits" to blame American political violence, with faculty training "jihadis."
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-worst-...
It was a terrible week, one that inspired some truly awful takes. The worst was the effort by Bari Weiss and The Free Press to smear universities as "the biggest culprits" to blame American political violence, with faculty training "jihadis."
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-worst-...
The worst takes from a bad week
The Free Press, about to take over CBS News, blames universities for American political violence
donmoynihan.substack.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
New, from me:
It was a terrible week, one that inspired some truly awful takes. The worst was the effort by Bari Weiss and The Free Press to smear universities as "the biggest culprits" to blame American political violence, with faculty training "jihadis."
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-worst-...
It was a terrible week, one that inspired some truly awful takes. The worst was the effort by Bari Weiss and The Free Press to smear universities as "the biggest culprits" to blame American political violence, with faculty training "jihadis."
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-worst-...
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“.. I can’t remember anyone ever telling me we can’t say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything,” the officer said.
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September 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
“.. I can’t remember anyone ever telling me we can’t say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything,” the officer said.
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As the world unravels, somewhere out there, far beyond the remainder of common sense and meagreness of knowledge, a Guardian columnist decides to boil his wooden spoons and tell us all about it.
I boiled my wooden spoons – and what emerged from them will haunt me for ever | Adrian Chiles
A sleepless night of doomscrolling led me to dunk my cherished kitchen utensils in bubbling water. The murky results were horrifying, writes Adrian Chiles
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September 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
As the world unravels, somewhere out there, far beyond the remainder of common sense and meagreness of knowledge, a Guardian columnist decides to boil his wooden spoons and tell us all about it.
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I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.
You Really Need to See Epstein’s Birthday Book for Yourself
This time, the conspiracy theorists were right.
www.theatlantic.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.
In 19th-century Vienna, it was customary for women to receive a gift upon entering a ballroom. So far, so good, right? Well, because this was the age of industry and progress, and this was Austria, not Italy with its flowers and perfumed soaps...
September 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
In 19th-century Vienna, it was customary for women to receive a gift upon entering a ballroom. So far, so good, right? Well, because this was the age of industry and progress, and this was Austria, not Italy with its flowers and perfumed soaps...
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This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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August 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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“…the chatbot told the Guardian.”
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“…the chatbot told the Guardian.”
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BREAKING: The Trump administration says it's reviewing all 55 million people with U.S. visas for potential deportable violations.
Trump administration reviewing all 55M people with US visas for potential deportable violations
The Trump administration says it’s reviewing all the more than 55 million people with U.S. visas for potential deportable violations.
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August 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
BREAKING: The Trump administration says it's reviewing all 55 million people with U.S. visas for potential deportable violations.
Amazing, this thing
Some incredibly good news:
One year ago this week, The Onion returned to print.
In that one year, we’ve grown to the 13th largest print newspaper in the United States, just ahead of the Boston Globe, and growing fast.
In short, it’s working.
So… thank you. Thank you for helping save this thing.
One year ago this week, The Onion returned to print.
In that one year, we’ve grown to the 13th largest print newspaper in the United States, just ahead of the Boston Globe, and growing fast.
In short, it’s working.
So… thank you. Thank you for helping save this thing.
Exclusive | The Onion Brought Back Its Print Edition. The Gamble Is Paying Off.
Publications turn to the old-style products to appeal to nostalgic readers and stand out in a crowded digital-media landscape.
www.wsj.com
August 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Amazing, this thing