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Deputy Editor at The Nation (features, features), sometime journo, parental unit. Tweets my own. She/her/hers
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The Search for Special Case–Baby 1
Who was buried in the lonely grave in New York’s potter’s field? The year-long search led to a lost world in the history of AIDS.
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In 2009, I found out about a child who was buried in New York City's potters field and was described as the first child to have died of AIDS in the city. This is the story of my search to understand who the child was—and to tell a lost story about HIV/AIDS.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Please join us in congratulating the 2025 ABA Young Birders of the Year, Killian Sullivan from Gahanna, Ohio, and Elias Markee-Ratner from New York, New York!
Read more about our Young Birders of the Year and see a full list of finalists here: www.aba.org/2025-aba-you...
Read more about our Young Birders of the Year and see a full list of finalists here: www.aba.org/2025-aba-you...
May 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Please join us in congratulating the 2025 ABA Young Birders of the Year, Killian Sullivan from Gahanna, Ohio, and Elias Markee-Ratner from New York, New York!
Read more about our Young Birders of the Year and see a full list of finalists here: www.aba.org/2025-aba-you...
Read more about our Young Birders of the Year and see a full list of finalists here: www.aba.org/2025-aba-you...
JVP does it again!!
BREAKING: Hundreds of U.S. Jews and friends are taking over the Trump Tower to say: Come for one, face us all.
March 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
JVP does it again!!
My dear friend @elienyc.bsky.social has a new newsletter—“Elie v. U.S.”—going live via @thenation. It's great and you should subscribe. Elie's words are some of the only things keeping me going these days. Now you can get them in your inbox every Friday.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Introducing “Elie v. U.S.”
Politics / March 7, 2025 Introducing “Elie v. U.S.” A preview of Elie Mystal’s new weekly newsletter. Elie Mystal Share Copy Link Facebook X (Twitter) Bluesky Pocket Email Ad Policy Representative Al ...
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March 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
My dear friend @elienyc.bsky.social has a new newsletter—“Elie v. U.S.”—going live via @thenation. It's great and you should subscribe. Elie's words are some of the only things keeping me going these days. Now you can get them in your inbox every Friday.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Wherein @elienyc.bsky.social YC does a close reading of all that is wrong, misleading, unconstitutional, and deeply fucked up about Trump's executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship. Honestly, it's even worse than I thought. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
A Line-by-Line Breakdown of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order
Almost every sentence of the order is wrong, misleading, or flagrantly unconstitutional.
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January 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Wherein @elienyc.bsky.social YC does a close reading of all that is wrong, misleading, unconstitutional, and deeply fucked up about Trump's executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship. Honestly, it's even worse than I thought. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
As the great @elienyc.bsky.social predicted last week in this piece @thenation.com, the Supreme Court has ruled against TikTok. Since SCOTUS didn't offer any explanation as to why, you can read Elie's piece to get a sense of what they may have been thinking.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
TikTok’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day in Court
Most of the justices seemed unpersuaded by TikTok's arguments against the ban on the company—but that doesn’t meant TikTok is gone forever (cue Donald Trump…)
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January 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
As the great @elienyc.bsky.social predicted last week in this piece @thenation.com, the Supreme Court has ruled against TikTok. Since SCOTUS didn't offer any explanation as to why, you can read Elie's piece to get a sense of what they may have been thinking.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Profound thanks to @dr_yusefsalaam for this incredibly powerful piece appealing to Joe Biden to use his final days as president to pardon Billie Allen, a man who's been fighting to establish his innocence—and win back his freedom—for most of his adult life.. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
An Appeal to President Biden: Pardon Billie Allen
Biden's decision to commute Allen's death sentence deserves praise and gratitude, but the president should go even further—and free an innocent man.
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January 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Profound thanks to @dr_yusefsalaam for this incredibly powerful piece appealing to Joe Biden to use his final days as president to pardon Billie Allen, a man who's been fighting to establish his innocence—and win back his freedom—for most of his adult life.. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
As wildfires scorch LA, I find myself thinking a lot about this piece that the great @BenEhrenreich wrote just over 6 years ago. It haunts me in a deep and painful way—another unheeded warning that was, itself, an echo of so many other unheeded warnings.
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
The Fire This Time
California’s Camp Fire is a reckoning, an alarm shrieking that our leaders won’t save us from climate change—but perhaps we can.
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January 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
As wildfires scorch LA, I find myself thinking a lot about this piece that the great @BenEhrenreich wrote just over 6 years ago. It haunts me in a deep and painful way—another unheeded warning that was, itself, an echo of so many other unheeded warnings.
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
And so it begins: having overturned the right to an abortion, the Supreme Court has officially docketed the first case that could undermine the right to contraception, specifically for poor Americans. It's a doozy. Here, @ElieNYC explains as only he can. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Supreme Court Prepares to Take Its First Shot at Contraception
A case just added to the high court’s docket takes on the question of whether Medicaid can be used to pay for services at medical providers that also perform abortions.
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December 24, 2024 at 2:24 PM
And so it begins: having overturned the right to an abortion, the Supreme Court has officially docketed the first case that could undermine the right to contraception, specifically for poor Americans. It's a doozy. Here, @ElieNYC explains as only he can. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Today @thenation, the brilliant @lehmannchris & @elivalley team up to provide an enlightening—if somewhat nauseating—guide to some of the key influencers in Trump's orbit. These folks may not be household names, but you should definitely get to know who they are.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
A Guide to Some of the Key Movers and Influencers in Trump's Orbit
While showboats like Elon Musk and RFK Jr. get all the attention, the real power in a second Trump term is likely to be wielded by quietly effective bureaucrats and policy intellectuals like these men...
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December 18, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Today @thenation, the brilliant @lehmannchris & @elivalley team up to provide an enlightening—if somewhat nauseating—guide to some of the key influencers in Trump's orbit. These folks may not be household names, but you should definitely get to know who they are.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
This weekend, @joshuaoppenheimer.bsky.social's film THE END goes wide across the US. It's dreamy, unsettling & deep has hell—literally: it's set in a salt mine. This interview of Oppenheimer by Peter Sellars is a wild tour through the minds of two brilliant artists. www.thenation.com/article/cult...
What Comes After the Apocalypse? A Q&A With Joshua Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer’s latest film, The End, is a Golden Age, post-apocalyptic musical crying out from the depths of the earth.
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December 14, 2024 at 4:38 PM
This weekend, @joshuaoppenheimer.bsky.social's film THE END goes wide across the US. It's dreamy, unsettling & deep has hell—literally: it's set in a salt mine. This interview of Oppenheimer by Peter Sellars is a wild tour through the minds of two brilliant artists. www.thenation.com/article/cult...
For 14 months, Mahmoud Almadhoun kept hope & humanity alive in north Gaza with his soup kitchen, medical clinic, and small school. His life was proof, writes his brother, that even in the darkest moments, some rise to serve others. Rest in power, Chef Mahmoud. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
My Brother, Chef Mahmoud Almadhoun, Died Because He Fed Gaza’s Starving Citizens
His killing by Israel sent a chilling message that no one is safe, including humanitarians who stand in the way of Gaza’s erasure.
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December 13, 2024 at 4:58 PM
For 14 months, Mahmoud Almadhoun kept hope & humanity alive in north Gaza with his soup kitchen, medical clinic, and small school. His life was proof, writes his brother, that even in the darkest moments, some rise to serve others. Rest in power, Chef Mahmoud. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
In 2009, I found out about a child who was buried in New York City's potters field and was described as the first child to have died of AIDS in the city. This is the story of my search to understand who the child was—and to tell a lost story about HIV/AIDS.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Search for Special Case–Baby 1
Who was buried in the lonely grave in New York’s potter’s field? The year-long search led to a lost world in the history of AIDS.
www.thenation.com
December 3, 2024 at 5:20 PM
In 2009, I found out about a child who was buried in New York City's potters field and was described as the first child to have died of AIDS in the city. This is the story of my search to understand who the child was—and to tell a lost story about HIV/AIDS.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...