Kristin Lewis
@kalewis.bsky.social
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Toad played the piano, and he did not miss a note.
November 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Toad played the piano, and he did not miss a note.
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Vladimir Kara-Murza (@vkaramurza.bsky.social) recalled a statement from a Tolstoy character (in "Resurrection"): "Yes, the only place befitting an honest man in Russia at the present time is a prison." Today, I conclude a freedom-conference journal. www.thenextmove.org/p/in-the-cit...
In ‘The City of Freedom,’ Part II
Notes on the Berlin Freedom Conference.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Vladimir Kara-Murza (@vkaramurza.bsky.social) recalled a statement from a Tolstoy character (in "Resurrection"): "Yes, the only place befitting an honest man in Russia at the present time is a prison." Today, I conclude a freedom-conference journal. www.thenextmove.org/p/in-the-cit...
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For @plough.bsky.social, I have written a little essay on beauty in music -- and unbeauty, too (though such things are in the eye, and the ear, of the beholder, and listener). See what you think. www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...
The Beauty of Dissonance
Music has a variety of jobs to do, as the other arts do. It can calm, soothe, and delight. It can also provoke, disturb, bite.
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November 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
For @plough.bsky.social, I have written a little essay on beauty in music -- and unbeauty, too (though such things are in the eye, and the ear, of the beholder, and listener). See what you think. www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...
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BREAKING: Roger Federer has been elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility, the Rhode Island-based Hall announced.
Roger Federer elected to International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1st year of eligibility
Roger Federer has been elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:20 AM
BREAKING: Roger Federer has been elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility, the Rhode Island-based Hall announced.
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November 18, 2025
November 18, 2025
For three hot days, from July 1 to July 3, 1863, more than 150,000 soldiers from the armies of the United States of America and the Confederate States of America slashed at each other in the hills and...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:34 AM
November 18, 2025
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"If we want a public space where you feel safe and welcome, and where you have a sense of ownership, we have to change mobility."
Major changes are taking place in cities worldwide in the areas of housing, safety, and sustainability. And women are the forefront of these initiatives: bit.ly/44jk3QR
Major changes are taking place in cities worldwide in the areas of housing, safety, and sustainability. And women are the forefront of these initiatives: bit.ly/44jk3QR
November 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
"If we want a public space where you feel safe and welcome, and where you have a sense of ownership, we have to change mobility."
Major changes are taking place in cities worldwide in the areas of housing, safety, and sustainability. And women are the forefront of these initiatives: bit.ly/44jk3QR
Major changes are taking place in cities worldwide in the areas of housing, safety, and sustainability. And women are the forefront of these initiatives: bit.ly/44jk3QR
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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I love this. She returns home and everyone is pretty pissed of that she went away. Especially the cats.
"The Lady has made an Ally from among The Heroes. He is very nice and helpful, but he still gets a lot wrong, so she’s doing her best to educate him and be patient. Also, her Ally will not shut up about his ex."
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The Lady Hero’s Journey
A woman tries to set out on The Hero’s Journey only to find that Joseph Campbell didn’t believe that women take The Hero’s Journey. She must instea...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I love this. She returns home and everyone is pretty pissed of that she went away. Especially the cats.
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November 17, 2025
November 17, 2025 (Monday)
President Donald J.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:50 AM
November 17, 2025
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Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
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With neonicotinoid pesticide ban, France’s birds make a tentative recovery - study
With neonicotinoid pesticide ban, France’s birds make a tentative recovery - study
Analysis shows small hike in populations of insect-eating species after 2018 ruling, but full recovery may take decades
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November 17, 2025 at 5:04 AM
With neonicotinoid pesticide ban, France’s birds make a tentative recovery - study
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Anne Applebaum as usual on the mark. I would add: most elected Republicans quietly fold the millisecond this happens to them. So in speaking up MTG is GOP unusual.
Just in the past 3 days, I happened to speak to an academic, a US politician and a former Biden official who had all received death threats and severe harassment from the MAGA movement. It's now a common experience. I am sorry MTG has to live through the same thing, but she can't be surprised
MTG: “.. “I am now being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world. .. The man I supported and helped get elected.”
@mediaite.com #GA14
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@mediaite.com #GA14
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November 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Anne Applebaum as usual on the mark. I would add: most elected Republicans quietly fold the millisecond this happens to them. So in speaking up MTG is GOP unusual.
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U.S. Sec'y of War Henry L. Stimson was a father of what became, after World War II, the Nuremberg war crimes trial of principal Nazi German leaders. And Stimson supported Pres. Truman’s choice of Justice Robert H. Jackson (HLS's former FDR Cabinet colleague) to be U.S. chief prosecutor.
@cfr.org
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"....move onward to a world of law and peace." "The Nuremberg Trial:
Landmark in Law" By Henry L. Stimson @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/194...
Landmark in Law" By Henry L. Stimson @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/194...
The Nuremberg Trial: Landmark in Law
The Nuremberg trials can only live and grow in meaning if its principles are rightly understood and accepted. It is therefore disturbing to find it being criticized and even challenged as lawless.
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
U.S. Sec'y of War Henry L. Stimson was a father of what became, after World War II, the Nuremberg war crimes trial of principal Nazi German leaders. And Stimson supported Pres. Truman’s choice of Justice Robert H. Jackson (HLS's former FDR Cabinet colleague) to be U.S. chief prosecutor.
@cfr.org
@cfr.org
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Will Sommer: "The Marjorie Taylor Greene thing is interesting because the thing that made Trump disown her...is the Epstein stuff. That's when he goes 'That's enough, you're out.' That's very interesting and I think that's very telling."
November 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Will Sommer: "The Marjorie Taylor Greene thing is interesting because the thing that made Trump disown her...is the Epstein stuff. That's when he goes 'That's enough, you're out.' That's very interesting and I think that's very telling."
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Turns out inflation scratches Teflon
Trump Is Falling Into the Same Trap That Ensnared Biden
Republicans learned nothing from how badly Dems bungled inflation.
www.thebulwark.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Turns out inflation scratches Teflon
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During the shutdown, many theories emerged as to what Republicans were up to. But there was one explanation that I kept hearing from House Democrats: it was all about the Epstein Files. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/it-w...
It Was the Epstein Shutdown All Along
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:26 AM
During the shutdown, many theories emerged as to what Republicans were up to. But there was one explanation that I kept hearing from House Democrats: it was all about the Epstein Files. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/it-w...
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“Don’t worry,” said Frog. “We will go back to all the places where we walked. We will soon find your button.”
November 16, 2025 at 2:37 AM
“Don’t worry,” said Frog. “We will go back to all the places where we walked. We will soon find your button.”
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Trams on grass, Rotterdam edition.
November 16, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Trams on grass, Rotterdam edition.
"....move onward to a world of law and peace." "The Nuremberg Trial:
Landmark in Law" By Henry L. Stimson @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/194...
Landmark in Law" By Henry L. Stimson @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/194...
The Nuremberg Trial: Landmark in Law
The Nuremberg trials can only live and grow in meaning if its principles are rightly understood and accepted. It is therefore disturbing to find it being criticized and even challenged as lawless.
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:57 AM
"....move onward to a world of law and peace." "The Nuremberg Trial:
Landmark in Law" By Henry L. Stimson @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/194...
Landmark in Law" By Henry L. Stimson @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/194...
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Of the two new movies in which a film-industry father seeks to reconcile with his two neglected daughters, I'm a bit surprised to find myself preferring the honest schmaltz of JAY KELLY to the coy self-satisfaction of SENTIMENTAL VALUE. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Bad Show-Biz Dads of “Sentimental Value” and “Jay Kelly”
In new films from Joachim Trier and Noah Baumbach, success in filmmaking proves depressingly incompatible with success in fatherhood.
www.newyorker.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Of the two new movies in which a film-industry father seeks to reconcile with his two neglected daughters, I'm a bit surprised to find myself preferring the honest schmaltz of JAY KELLY to the coy self-satisfaction of SENTIMENTAL VALUE. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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David Byrne, the former front man of Talking Heads, turned 73 this year, but he is still curious about what it means to be alive. “We really don’t know what it’s about,” he told Amanda Petrusich. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/tAeX9l
David Byrne’s Career of Earnest Alienation
At seventy-three, the former front man of Talking Heads is still asking questions about what it means to be alive. But now he’s also offering ideas of hopefulness and service.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
David Byrne, the former front man of Talking Heads, turned 73 this year, but he is still curious about what it means to be alive. “We really don’t know what it’s about,” he told Amanda Petrusich. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/tAeX9l
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Outside the Paramount Theater a crowd gathers to cheer the next mayor.
November 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Outside the Paramount Theater a crowd gathers to cheer the next mayor.
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While campaigning, Zohran Mamdani frequently noted that New York is the richest city in the richest country in the history of the world, and that its government could do more for the people who live here. Tonight, he was elected mayor.
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 4:03 AM
While campaigning, Zohran Mamdani frequently noted that New York is the richest city in the richest country in the history of the world, and that its government could do more for the people who live here. Tonight, he was elected mayor.
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Moquette for The Victoria Line. Pat Barrow. 1993.
November 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Moquette for The Victoria Line. Pat Barrow. 1993.
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Six charts show the gaps between AI hype and AI reality, where record capital expenditures on data centers run up against the ground truths of physical infrastructure.
When AI Hype Meets AI Reality: A Reckoning in 6 Charts
Record capital expenditures and data-center planning are running up against the ground truths of physical infrastructure.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Six charts show the gaps between AI hype and AI reality, where record capital expenditures on data centers run up against the ground truths of physical infrastructure.