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Hal Espen
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Formerly at The New Yorker and Outside, currently in Santa Fe, presently in Seattle and environs. Now listening to on vinyl.
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Catastrophic nature loss is at least as serious a problem as climate breakdown, but only gets a fraction of the (woefully inadequate) attention.

THE most critical tasks of our time are:
• Protect what remains of wild ecosystems
• Mass rewilding where damaged or lost
www.earth.com/news/africas...
Africa's natural wildlife 'power' has nearly collapsed
Scientists warn that losing Africa’s large animals is draining ecosystem energy and reshaping the continent’s biodiversity.
www.earth.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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An in-depth look at the video team that helped so many people get into the Zohran Mamdani campaign: defector.com/selling-zohran
Selling Zohran | Defector
On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump’s re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read “DID YOU…
defector.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Maybe dumping poop on voters from an airplane is not a surefire electoral strategy
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Wow, no thank you. I can't begin to express how much I'm not going to watch that.
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Follow Election Night developments with real-time political and cultural analysis from Charlamagne Tha God, Ben Shapiro and more.

Watch CNN's Election Livecast starting at 8:30p ET at CNN.com/watch
November 5, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Meet our newest patient here at the Alaska Raptor Center, a Northern Pygmy Owl named King Owlbert by his rescuers. Owlbert arrived with a drooping wing, making flight difficult. We’ve given him a supportive wing wrap, plenty of tasty mice, and time to heal. #small #owls #adorable
November 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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is that good
November 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
It has proven impossible to vigorously engage with a social-media platform like Bluesky, and yet successfully avoid all Matthew Yglesias content. It was the same on Xitter. Blocking is futile. His superpower is to compel many, many exasperated people to relentlessly shove M.Y. screenshots at me.
November 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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The charge being, "Assault With A Deli Weapon."
November 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Defense tells judge they want to question Lairmore about 'gag gifts' he received from fellow officers after the alleged assault, including a Subway sandwich plush toy and a patch that (unless I misheard) said 'Felony Footlong.'

Prosecutors object. Defense argues they reflect CBP 'state of mind.'
November 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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A Shape with Lion Body and the Head of a Man, a Gaze Blank and Pitiless as the Sun Endorses Cuomo
November 4, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Kavanaugh, stop
November 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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@calfraser.bsky.social, author of MURDERLAND, joins the Living on Earth podcast. Listen to her incredible interview on serial killers and lead exposure. loe.org/shows/segmen...
Living on Earth: Serial Killers and Lead Exposure
The Pacific Northwest of the US harbored a serial killer hotspot of sorts in the 1970s, associated with the neurotoxin lead. Seattle-born author Caroline Fraser explores this link in her book Murderla...
loe.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Was and is now forever one of the Grateful Dead.

Rest in peace, Donna Jean Godchaux, shown here in her pre-Dead Muscle Shoals days, on Elvis’s left.
November 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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💔 fare thee well, deej. 💔
November 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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November 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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The New Yorker at 100 | Official Trailer | Netflix
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November 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
"The detainees were... driven to an industrial area where they were loaded into vans and spirited away. One carpenter ran when he saw the patrol. When the agents caught the man they seemed surprised that he was able to prove he was legally in the United States.

"'Why did you run?' the agent asked."
November 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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You mean we gotta spend an extra hour in the middle of all this
November 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Shout out to my favorite Halloween costume ever. Steve Silberman at a Jerry Garcia Band Halloween show. He was so overjoyed that the shirt became a meme in the Deadhead world.
October 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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New York Times editorial board has compiled "a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about.

During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.
October 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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The government lawyers appear shell shocked.
October 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Long, thoughtful LRB review of Caroline Fraser's Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
‘From the 1960s to around the turn of this century, an astonishingly large number of serial killers grew up or operated in America’s Pacific Northwest. Why there? Why then?’

James Lasdun on the age of American serial killers, online early from our next issue:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Lasdun · American Berserk: Serial Killers in Seattle
For a period beginning in the 1960s and ending around the turn of this century, the preferred form of the homicidally...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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The dooming on this site is getting out of control. Every time you post anything about politics some rando condescendingly wonders how you can't possibly know that elections are over and all hope is lost. If you've completely lost hope, I'm sorry, but shut the fuck up, OK? You're not helping.
October 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM