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Emily Nussbaum
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Writer for The New Yorker, social media addict
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Heartbreaking story
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Midsummer shot of woman crying surrounded by other women
November 3, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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November 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Baseball flipping me out
November 2, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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People kvetch about the chaos-inducing serial comma, but you can also do a lot with a colon! Beware, biographers!!
NYPost headline reading “Prince Andrew had a network of staff, pals to ‘arrange girls’ for sex – and he had a type: biographer”
October 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Keeps getting bigger
Big crowd at Northfield No Kings
October 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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No Kings Chickens
October 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Northfield, MN NO KINGS!!
October 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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New cartoonish tech CEO just dropped www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/s...
"We have a cat and a dog and a child and an adult in the same room," he said. "Why not an A.I.? In preparation for the campaign's Aug. 25 launch in New York, Mr. Schiffmann headed to Burning Man, without an internet connection. The overlap was intentional. "I wanted to do the coolest thing I could possibly do and the biggest thing I could possibly do at the same time," he said. "In the spirit of life-maxing."
October 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Supernormally became teary-eyed during a raucous singalong of “All You Fascists Bound To Lose” at the Brooklyn Americana Music Festival, under the Manhattan Bridge
Cole Quest and The City Pickers singing Put Your Foot Down and All You Fascists Bound To Lose at the Brooklyn Americana Music Festival
September 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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The Kimmel cancellation reminded me of the final paragraphs of the essay I wrote about Trump, TV and humor back in 2017:
When Vai, in Pudin me dected ), one of his hrst acts was to kill "Kukly," a sketch puppet show that portrayed him as Little Tsaches, a sinister baby who uses a "magic TV comb" to bewitch a city. Putin threatened to wreck the channel, NTV, unless it removed the puppet. NTV refused. Within months, it was under state control. According to Newsweek, "Putin jokes quickly vanished from Russia's television screens." Soon after Trump was elected, he, too, began complaining about a sketch show: "Saturday Night Live," which portrayed him as a preening fool, Putin's puppet. His tweets lost the shape of jokes, unless you count "Not!" as a kicker. He was no longer the blue bear. Instead, he was reportedly meeting with Rupert Murdoch about who should head the F.C.C. Soon, Trump would be able to shape deals like the A.T. & T. and Time Warner merger, to strike back at those who made fun of him or criticized him, which often amounted to the same thing. Fox would likely be Trump TV. Last week, at his first press conference as President-elect, Trump made no jokes. He was fuming over the BuzzFeed dossier and all those lurid allegations worthy of "South Park," the pee jokes lighting up Twitter. Only when he reminisced about his rallies did he relax, recalling their size, the thrill of the call and response. He almost smiled. But when CNN's Jim Acosta tried to ask a question about Russia, Trump snapped back, furiously, "Fake news!" —and the incoming White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, told Acosta that if he tried that again he'd be thrown out. Now, it seems, is when Trump gets serious. A President pushes buttons in a different sense. As Putin once remarked to a child, "Russia's borders don't end anywhere" — before adding, "That's a joke."
September 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Cast of Huge
September 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Excited to read
August 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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My marriage is now drinking age!
August 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Dr. Seuss’s pale green pants with nobody inside them
August 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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I had a wonderful time at the Borscht Belt Festival this weekend, interviewing a bunch of cool New Yorker cartoonists
New Yorker cartoonists & Emily Nussbaum at the Borscht Belt Festival
July 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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July 11, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Another chill-inducing scene from the apocalypse belowground:
An adorable puppy sitting on a man’s lap on the F train
July 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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On the terrifying NY subway, watching a father smile and tickle his baby’s foot
July 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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June 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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June 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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June 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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you may not like it but this is what 2 high agency males look like
Ice Miser and Heat Miser
June 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM