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What the Labubu Obsession Says About Us From the daily newsletter: why the tiny, grinning monsters became the latest cultural craze.

Jia Tolentino explains labubu!!!!
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Gentle Parenting My Smartphone Addiction An app called Opal finally succeeded at curbing my time spent on social media through a combination of mild friction, encouragement, and guilt.

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Cancel Amazon Prime The subscription service is Amazon’s greatest—and most terrifying—invention.

classic @elcush.bsky.social on Prime Day:

"The holiday was invented by a corporation in honor of itself, to enrich itself. It has existed for six years and is observed by tens of millions of people worldwide. I hope you are spending it with your loved ones."

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'No Kings' Protests, Citizen-Run ICE Trackers Trigger Intelligence Warnings Army intelligence analysts are monitoring civilian-made ICE tracking tools, treating them as potential threats, as immigration protests spread nationwide.

SCOOP: Details about Saturday’s “No Kings” protest are under watch by domestic intelligence centers, where analysts regularly distribute speculative threat assessments among federal, state, and local agencies, according to an internal alert obtained by WIRED.

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The Trump-Musk Feud as Seen From D.C.’s MAGA Hotspot From the daily newsletter: a report from Butterworth’s. Plus: Miley Cyrus finds her voice.

"Kassam wore pink seersucker pants and at one point booed a passing Cybertruck. As guests filtered in and out, he developed a tagline: 'The Tea Party sold out to Koch, but Trump wouldn’t sell out to ketamine.'"

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While working on this piece, I learned there are more "private security" guards than regular police. They do quite a lot of "policing," however. It's a shadow economy that is so under-studied, no one could tell me how big it was.

Just How Bad Is Trump’s New Travel Ban? “We don’t want ’em,” the President said.

Just how bad is Donald Trump’s travel ban? In today’s daily newsletter, @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social, who covers immigration for The New Yorker, unpacks the news.

Just How Bad Is Trump’s New Travel Ban? “We don’t want ’em,” the President said.

some really helpful thoughts from @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social

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Amelia Earhart’s Reckless Final Flights The aviator’s publicity-mad husband, George Palmer Putnam, kept pushing her to risk her life for the sake of fame.

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Trumpworld’s Court Philosopher Curtis Yarvin plots against America. Plus: Ronan Farrow on what Elon Musk’s alleged drug use means for DOGE—and for the rest of us.

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an excerpt from the "How Bad Is It" section of the New Yorker's daily newsletter (linked in following tweet)

the inaugural edition of How Bad Is It?, feat. @ronanfarrow.bsky.social

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Trump Could Really Hurt Harvard From the daily newsletter: a reality check from a very emotional graduation day in Cambridge.

A commencement dispatch from Jeannie Suk Gersen:

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Trump Could Really Hurt Harvard From the daily newsletter: a reality check from a very emotional graduation day in Cambridge.

"The school’s transformation in the public imagination, from bastion of élitism into a beacon of hope and dissent, requires a reality check. If the federal government decides it’s going to destroy—or severely diminish—you, it probably can."

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“(Javert is cordyceps)”

Summer Culture Preview What’s happening this season in TV, movies, music, art, theatre, and dance.

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"Let’s face it: for all that has been said and written and broadcast about Prevost—he was on the media shortlist for most of the past week—Leo XIV is a complete unknown."

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The First American Pope Only now will Catholics—and the world—find out who Pope Leo XIV really is.

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'I Loved That AI:' Judge Moved by AI-Generated Avatar of Man Killed in Road Rage Incident How the sister of Christopher Pelkey made an avatar of him to testify in court.

'I Loved That AI:' Judge Moved by AI-Generated Avatar of Man Killed in Road Rage Incident

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A Lawyer Freed Young Thug. Now He’s Defending Diddy Since the Young Thug trial, Brian Steel has modelled for the rapper’s fashion brand and had a Drake song named after him. Sean Combs took note.

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On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is

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The Judges Standing Up to Trump From the daily newsletter: as the Administration flirts with contempt of court, two federal judges are trying to uphold the rule of law.

We’re past the point of wondering whether the Trump Administration will violate court orders, Ruth Marcus writes, in today’s daily newsletter. The pressing question is how forcefully judges will respond—and whether the Supreme Court will back them up.

Starved in Jail Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?

"I identified and scrutinized more than fifty cases of individuals who, in recent years, had starved to death, died of dehydration, or lost their lives to related medical crises in county jails." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...