Tina Amirtha
@tinamirtha.bsky.social
Business and tech writer with a bent towards women in STEM. Came back to social media after seven years. Still on X https://x.com/tinamirtha
podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/a... This week in foreign policy
News - WFP Out of Food in Gaza, US-Rwanda Migrant Deal, National Security Advisor Waltz Reassigned
Podcastaflevering · American Prestige · 02-05-2025 · 58 min.
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May 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/a... This week in foreign policy
Now seems like a good time as any to reread The Shock Doctrine from the very sage @naomiaklein.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Now seems like a good time as any to reread The Shock Doctrine from the very sage @naomiaklein.bsky.social
New favorite podcast: American Prestige podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/a...
American Prestige
Politiek podcast · Maandelijks bijgewerkt · A podcast from Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison that provides listeners with everything they need to know about what’s going on in the world.
americanprest...
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April 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
New favorite podcast: American Prestige podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/a...
Teacher quality is the most important school-related factor influencing student achievement. www.epi.org/publication/...
Teacher pay rises in 2023—but not enough to shrink pay gap with other college graduates
Despite a small improvement of 1.7% in teachers’ average weekly wages, the relative pay penalty between public school teachers and college graduates in other professions remains large.
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April 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Teacher quality is the most important school-related factor influencing student achievement. www.epi.org/publication/...
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The last 20 seconds of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite has one of the most transcendent chord structures of all time. Every time I hear it my soul leaves my body. I can't think of anything that comes close except the ending of Pictures at an Exhibition.
April 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The last 20 seconds of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite has one of the most transcendent chord structures of all time. Every time I hear it my soul leaves my body. I can't think of anything that comes close except the ending of Pictures at an Exhibition.
www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/d... it’s always good to go classic and learn about Spanish history along the way
For a Sweeter Passover, Old and New Sephardic Delights (Published 2007)
Holiday ideas from Ana Benarroch de Bensadón, whose book, “Dulce lo Vivas,” contains Sephardic dessert recipes from Morocco and Spain.
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April 13, 2025 at 9:58 AM
www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/d... it’s always good to go classic and learn about Spanish history along the way
A tower topped with a pangolin! The Oxford university building inspired by Tolkien … and the pandemic
April 8, 2025 at 12:28 PM
A tower topped with a pangolin! The Oxford university building inspired by Tolkien … and the pandemic
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0Donald Trump’s tariffs will fix a broken system” - Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro writes in the @financialtimes.com - “Next we must tackle the barrage of non-tariff weapons used to strangle American exports”
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Donald Trump’s tariffs will fix a broken system
Next we must tackle the barrage of non-tariff weapons used to strangle American exports
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April 8, 2025 at 6:24 AM
0Donald Trump’s tariffs will fix a broken system” - Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro writes in the @financialtimes.com - “Next we must tackle the barrage of non-tariff weapons used to strangle American exports”
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The Ultimate Millennial Multihyphenate www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/s...
Paige DeSorbo of ‘Summer House’ Adds Author to Her Resume With ‘How to Giggle’
Paige DeSorbo chose her own path, conquering reality television, becoming an influencer and starting a hit podcast. Now she’s written a book.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The Ultimate Millennial Multihyphenate www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/s...
E.U. is finally enforcing the Digital Services Act www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/t...
E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against Elon Musk’s X
European regulators are considering fining X more than $1 billion, after weighing the risks of further antagonizing Mr. Musk and President Trump.
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April 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
E.U. is finally enforcing the Digital Services Act www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/t...
David Hockney invited Harry Styles and other people he found interesting to sit for portraits at any of his three ateliers, in London, Los Angeles and Normany www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/art...
David Hockney, l’art du portrait entre amis
Le chanteur Harry Styles, la maire d’un village du Calvados, des écrivains, des galeristes… Complices de longue date ou proches plus récents, ils ont reçu un jour un appel du peintre britannique les i...
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April 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
David Hockney invited Harry Styles and other people he found interesting to sit for portraits at any of his three ateliers, in London, Los Angeles and Normany www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/art...
Live Updates: China and Europe Vow to Respond to Trump’s Tariffs www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
Trump Tariffs Live Updates: Global Powers Warn of Trade War Over New Tariffs
Investors’ shock at the size of the levies sent markets in Asia sharply lower. Experts warned that the global economy could be upended.
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April 3, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Live Updates: China and Europe Vow to Respond to Trump’s Tariffs www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
In your face: The brutal aesthetics of MAGA www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
In your face: The brutal aesthetics of MAGA
Does proximity to power rely on a specific look?
www.motherjones.com
April 2, 2025 at 6:58 AM
In your face: The brutal aesthetics of MAGA www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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EPP SecGen Thanasis Bakolas tells @financialtimes.com "the EU has become a monster of hyper-institutionalism” that can't tackle Trump.
Bakolas, who will step down from the EU's biggest party this month to found a consultancy, wants a more “pragmatic political approach”
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Bakolas, who will step down from the EU's biggest party this month to found a consultancy, wants a more “pragmatic political approach”
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How Marine Le Pen’s guilty verdict split Europe
Also in this newsletter: Has the EU become an institutional ‘monster’?
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April 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM
EPP SecGen Thanasis Bakolas tells @financialtimes.com "the EU has become a monster of hyper-institutionalism” that can't tackle Trump.
Bakolas, who will step down from the EU's biggest party this month to found a consultancy, wants a more “pragmatic political approach”
www.ft.com/content/8a57...
Bakolas, who will step down from the EU's biggest party this month to found a consultancy, wants a more “pragmatic political approach”
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Meet Emma Jogoz, a farmer in Maryland.
Her goal: Provide healthy, fresh food to schoolchildren.
Now, she might have to throw away 400,000 pounds of food -- worth $750,000 -- because the Trump admin ended the program schools use to buy from her
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/culture/food...
Her goal: Provide healthy, fresh food to schoolchildren.
Now, she might have to throw away 400,000 pounds of food -- worth $750,000 -- because the Trump admin ended the program schools use to buy from her
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/culture/food...
March 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Meet Emma Jogoz, a farmer in Maryland.
Her goal: Provide healthy, fresh food to schoolchildren.
Now, she might have to throw away 400,000 pounds of food -- worth $750,000 -- because the Trump admin ended the program schools use to buy from her
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/culture/food...
Her goal: Provide healthy, fresh food to schoolchildren.
Now, she might have to throw away 400,000 pounds of food -- worth $750,000 -- because the Trump admin ended the program schools use to buy from her
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/culture/food...
This time, Trump has made it clear that he intends to govern with loyalists. He now dominates the Republican Party, which, purged of its anti-Trump forces, now acquiesces to his authoritarian behavior. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The Path to American Authoritarianism
What comes after democratic breakdown.
www.foreignaffairs.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:21 AM
This time, Trump has made it clear that he intends to govern with loyalists. He now dominates the Republican Party, which, purged of its anti-Trump forces, now acquiesces to his authoritarian behavior. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
It's notable that non-Americans have gotten in on the back-up effort. That the author's record-digitizing dad also took data preservation seriously was a brilliant touch.
A coalition of archivists and librarians are working to digitally preserve the information at risk from Donald Trump and Elon Musk's war on the US government's perceived 'wokeness'.
Good piece from The New Yorker...
Good piece from The New Yorker...
The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge
Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?
www.newyorker.com
March 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
It's notable that non-Americans have gotten in on the back-up effort. That the author's record-digitizing dad also took data preservation seriously was a brilliant touch.
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RFK JR. tells the anti-vaxx nonprofit that he founded to take down a fake CDC page that mimicked the design of the agency's website but laid out the case that vaccines cause autism
Kennedy Instructs Anti-Vaccine Group to Remove Fake C.D.C. Page
Children’s Health Defense, founded by the health secretary, had published online a vaccine-safety page that looked like the agency’s but that suggested links to autism.
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March 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
RFK JR. tells the anti-vaxx nonprofit that he founded to take down a fake CDC page that mimicked the design of the agency's website but laid out the case that vaccines cause autism
Migration is not a crime, the Venezuelan official says. Also says they will rescue kidnapped Venezuelans from El Salvador, but how? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/u...
Venezuela Accepts Flight Carrying Deportees From U.S. for First Time in Weeks
The Department of Homeland Security said that a deportation flight to Venezuela carrying 199 people had landed.
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March 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Migration is not a crime, the Venezuelan official says. Also says they will rescue kidnapped Venezuelans from El Salvador, but how? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/u...
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1026... The NYTimes Cooking section’s younger writers own Americana food, take this one from Eric Kim
Sizzled Bratwurst With Mashed Potatoes Recipe
Spiced and savory German sausages, bratwurst are a juicy secret weapon for busy workdays When served at home, they can be pan-fried or grilled and served with mashed potatoes, warmed sauerkraut and ho...
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March 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1026... The NYTimes Cooking section’s younger writers own Americana food, take this one from Eric Kim
I spent seven years tucked away in the corporate world, where my everyday news source was LinkedIn. Now, I’m revisiting the trusted news sources from my journalist years, circa 2012-2017. What I’ve found is a transformed media landscape, where newsletters rule. www.tinaamirtha.com/blog/new-blo...
New blog post series: It’s all newsletters – Tina Amirtha
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March 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I spent seven years tucked away in the corporate world, where my everyday news source was LinkedIn. Now, I’m revisiting the trusted news sources from my journalist years, circa 2012-2017. What I’ve found is a transformed media landscape, where newsletters rule. www.tinaamirtha.com/blog/new-blo...
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Happy Vernal (March) #equinox! The Sun crossed the celestial equator and moved into the sky's northern hemisphere this morning at 09:01 UTC.
March 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Happy Vernal (March) #equinox! The Sun crossed the celestial equator and moved into the sky's northern hemisphere this morning at 09:01 UTC.
Margrethe Vesteger’s legacy lives on
Brussels is taking new steps against Apple and Google as it pushes ahead with competition probes despite tensions with Donald Trump over the EU’s tough regulation of US big tech companies.
@bmoens.bsky.social has it all covered here for @financialtimes.com
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@bmoens.bsky.social has it all covered here for @financialtimes.com
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Brussels takes action against Google and Apple despite Trump threat
EU continues Big Tech crackdown under landmark Digital Markets Act
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March 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Margrethe Vesteger’s legacy lives on
the first step is documentation
This week’s GOOD JOB column starts with advice for people with racist coworkers & unfortunately it’s relevant for a lot of people right now slate.com/advice/2025/... on @slate.bsky.social
The School I Work at Is Full of Loud and Proud Racists. Faking Niceties Is Making Me Sick.
How can I stand up for what I believe in?
slate.com
March 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
the first step is documentation