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Lindsey Tramuta
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Journo & non-fic author of THE NEW PARIS & THE NEW PARISIENNE (Abrams)! ✍🏼 NYT, CNTraveler, Bloomberg, Eater, & more. 🎙️The New Paris Podcast. 📍Paris
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She’s magnificent
October 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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‘Debate’ is another one of those very commonly used words everybody thinks they have the same definition for, and clearly, they do not.
September 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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a thing i simply cannot get over, as The Media collapses for i think the 5th time in my adult life, is what the fuck business the people who own these publications think they are in. shouldn’t the point be to just make enough money making the articles to make more articles
August 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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"The task of imams in the US is markedly different: to guide their congregants through civic life in a country whose dominant culture is secularizing, pluralistic, and systematically Islamophobic." Excellent piece by @aidaalami.bsky.social @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
The New Imams | Aida Alami
For years I have been working on a documentary film about young Muslims in France, centered on the 2017 trial that convicted a police officer of killing a
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July 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Man. What do we do against this.
Christ. Just came downstairs to find my dad watching an entirely AI-generated YouTube video about an event that didn't happen involving the Pope. Had to convince him the whole think was fake. "How can you tell?" he asked. He has five degrees including a PhD.
May 27, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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A (rare) thread on arts funding:
Friends know that I’m proud to serve on the board of
@hiartsnyc.bsky.social, a NYC nonprofit, led by Aaron L. McKinney, that empowers artists of the global majority to develop new work while creating a lasting impact on their communities. (1/10)
May 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
“The U.S. is no longer a reliable country.” Sounds about right. French economist Thomas Piketty in his column for @lemonde-en.bsky.social
April 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.

Good trade.
April 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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If this story didn't have today's date, I would've thought it was a Depression-era headline.
April 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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The world we've built is not adapted to the world we've created
More than 150 ‘unprecedented’ climate disasters struck world in 2024, says UN
Floods, heatwaves and supercharged hurricanes occurred in hottest climate human society has ever experienced
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Chuck Schumer right now:
March 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Depressing reminder. Related: 45 million Americans are functionally illiterate and cannot read above a fifth-grade level literacyproj.org
March 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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It's worth noting that at present, 17 European countries, as well as Canada and Israel, regard Holocaust denial as a crime.
March 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Vox published this reported essay I wrote on my first immigration visa a little over six years ago. I still meet people who refer to it and share it because there are so few resources (not written by law firms) which explain how hard the system is to navigate: www.vox.com/the-goods/20...
March 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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I’ve been trying to capture what I feel looking back with sadness, despondency, frustration, and fury at the country I left (and which left me), and this is what came out. Thanks @lindseytramuta.bsky.social for publishing it :)

open.substack.com/pub/lindseyt...
Saudade for America
Leaving America guest essay by Alexander Hurst
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March 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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A heads up to a new book coming out from @lindseytramuta.bsky.social 😋
March 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
“By self-deporting, I ended my American life to save what remained of my actual life.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/o...
Opinion | After I Self-Deported From the U.S., My Life Improved (Gift Article)
My decision to leave the U.S. seemed crazy. I believed then that America was exceptional, the only nation capable of caring for its people.
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March 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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excuse me while I let the fame go to my head 👩‍🍳

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March 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Aux États-Unis, @berniesanders.bsky.social en tournée pour organiser la résistance. Face aux milliardaires qui se sont emparés du pouvoir outre-Atlantique, l’icône de la gauche a pour ambition de monter une armée de gens ordinaires. @mediapart.fr
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Aux États-Unis, Bernie Sanders en tournée pour organiser la résistance
Le sénateur arpente les États-Unis pour lutter contre « l’oligarchie » et présenter une alternative crédible à Donald Trump. Face aux milliardaires qui se sont emparés du pouvoir outre-Atlantique, l’…
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March 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Straight out of @theonion.com. Unbelievable.
Proposed sequel to “Crash” a little too on the nose:

A Jewish man in Miami Beach is accused of opening fire on two men he believed were Palestinians but turned out to be Israeli visitors.

After the shooting, one of the injured reportedly posted ‘death to the Arabs’ on social media.
Jewish man mistakes two Israeli tourists for Palestinians and opens fire on them in Miami
Victims reportedly posted ‘death to Arabs’ on social media after shooting while suspect held on attempted murder charges
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February 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.
Wokeness Is Not to Blame for Trump
How a misdiagnosis of the 2024 election has calcified into self-defeating conventional wisdom.
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February 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.

The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
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February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Where are the Democrats?

Geolocationally and morally?

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Where are the Democrats?
A feckless minority party can write all the letters it wants, but an opposition has to make meaning for people
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January 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I’m happy to see Macron making statements urging for European strength and unity in the face of Trump but will the other EU countries have the courage this moment requires ?
January 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM