Tamara J. Walker

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Quoted and did a lot of background for a great piece in USA Today talking about the new US unilateralism and actions against Venezuela in historical perspective🗃️: www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°

Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"

“Nurse? We’re going to need 400 ccs of blood and a crunchwrap supreme.”

The AD100 Designer Sourcebook: Craftspeople Top Talents Swear By Here’s the list the pros never share. AD100 designers reveal the elite specialists and sources they trust with their projects, exclusively for AD PRO readers

Day 6: I love that Architectural Digest understood that behind the 100 top interior designers who made their annual list are teams of suppliers, tradespeople, and artisans whose names we should know, too.

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Best Offer Wins A Good Morning America Book Club Pick * A Good Housekeeping Book Club Pick * An ELLE Best Mystery/Thriller of 2025 * A BookRiot Best Mystery/Thriller of 2025...

Day 5: Best Offer Wins. I've been sick this week and devoured this book, which I feel like was actually AI generated for me based on some of my favorite things: real estate, interior design, unhinged women.

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#GiftLink www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...

I was told everyone was leaving.

@fortune.com #NYC
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‘A few years later, on Christmas Day 1521, some 20 enslaved Africans rebelled on the sugar plantation of Diego Columbus, the son of Christopher Columbus ... This “rebellion of the Blacks” was included in the 1547 Historia General y Natural de las Indias, by the chronicler Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, who observed, “It would be senseless that such a notorious thing was not written down”.’

The Alcázar de Colón, a building that dates back to the early 16 century. It is constructed of light stone and is rectangular, and in this photo, there is a palm tree on one side. The building has a small colonnade on the ground and first floors, and there are tourists milling about the building and the plaza in front.

Architectural detail of an iron gate, which casts an elaborate shadow on a marble floor.

Detail of sugar cane stalks.

In the run-up to the publication of my new book, The Great Resistance, on 6 Jan 2026 (link in bio), I’ll have a daily post featuring photos from two decades of research trips, along with a snippet from each of the book’s 35 chapters. Today: Santo Domingo (DR).
💙📚#booksky #thegreatresistance #history

One of the craziest things about all this is that this super breathy voice she does here and for the audiobook just... isn't how she used to speak. It's almost an Elizabeth Holmes-level fake voice.

Farah Karim-Cooper - Reduced Shakespeare Company Folger Shakespeare Library director Farah Karim-Cooper's new book All the World's Your Stage explores for readers of all ages the life and times of William Shakespeare through eight of his most popula...

Folger Shakespeare Library director Dr. Farah Karim-Cooper joined @reduced.bsky.social podcast to discuss her new book "All the World’s Your Stage, her surprising favorite Shakespeare play, Shakespearean mythbusting, and more!

www.reducedshakespeare.com/2025/11/fara...

The 100 Best TV Episodes of the Century - The Ringer Ranking the 100 best television episodes of the 21st century, from Mad Men to Succession to Game of Thrones.

Day 4: This is a very fun read that will probably also make you mad.

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As the US Slides Into Tyranny, Europe Champions Black American Artists It’s a striking contradiction: Four Black American artists get major shows in Europe while the American institutional capacity and constitutional protections collapse in tandem.

As the US Slides Into Tyranny, Europe Champions Black American Artists hyperallergic.com/as-united-st...

Putting that stolen government data to good use? 😳😱😱😱

“Critics say” Trump’s remarks on Somalis were bigoted?

JFC what are you doing?

i think the financial incentive to bait people into engaging with dogshit is a big part of how we got where we are.

Pete Hegseth Should Be Charged With Murder No matter how you look at the strikes on alleged “drug boats”—as acts of war or attacks on civilians—Hegseth has committed a crime and should be prosecuted.

If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER.
My latest in @thenation.com

What It’s Like to Grow Up With More Money Than You’ll Ever Spend Abigail Disney, heiress to the Disney fortune, on being raised with wealth.

It reminds me of something Abigail Disney said in an interview years ago, about private jets: "You don’t have to go through an airport terminal, you don’t have to interact, you don’t have to be patient, you don’t have to be uncomfortable. These are the things that remind us we’re human."

There are so many opportunities for people w/$$ to opt out of public life and inconveniences: Silicon Valley tech buses, concierge doctors, private jet shares, skip-the-line options at museums/amusement parks. There's no way it doesn't erode, bit by bit, our sense of shared humanity.

Inside the Private Dining Club Boom Changing the Way America Eats Private dining clubs are making a major comeback, echoing an era when exclusivity shaped America’s social life. Today they’re thriving in cities across the country as affluent diners look for guarante...

Day 3: "At the height of the Gilded Age in 1893, New York City abounded with nearly 120 social clubs...More than a century later, private dining clubs are flourishing again." Isn't there something unsettling about returning to ways of life embraced by robber barons?

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as much as I hate the incessant newsletters to Buy Buy Buy, giving Tuesday makes me wish I could just max out the budgets for a lot of people doing amazing work.

I don't know how billionaires exist.

Every retailer that's like, "Surprise! Cyber Monday sale EXTENDED!" is like every musical act that pretends to end a show with "Good night, we love you!", exits the stage, and then waits one minute for the obligatory call for an "Encore" before sauntering back on stage to play their biggest hit

If you've noticed that Substack has a heavy hand in promoting certain accounts (via their main page, daily digest, etc; all of which produces what @leahredmondchang.bsky.social calls a "leaderboard"), I think this is a helpful explainer:

How a Gen Xer Became Timothée Chalamet’s Biggest—and Most Divisive—Fan — The Wall Street Journal Simone Cromer started Club Chalamet to support her favorite actor. Instead, she became the story.

Day 2: This story about the woman behind Club Chalamet. Not so much because of her, but there's a throwaway bit about Substack that I think we should all pay attention to (a 🧵within a 🧵):

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Watch The Chair Company | HBO Max Watch The Chair Company on HBO Max. Plans start at $10.99/month. After an embarrassing incident at work, a man (Emmy® winner Tim Robinson) finds himself investigating a far-reaching conspiracy.

Day 1: The premiere episode of The Chair Company. I was crying laughing within minutes. Who amongst us hasn't experienced a slight or embarrassment and at least fantasized about the singular pursuit of vengeance, no matter how petty or derailing?

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I'm feeling a bit bereft of enthusiasm these days, so in my quest to nurture it I'm going to do a weird little #adventcalendarofcuriosities to find and share at least one thing, every day this month, that lights me up even a little bit (also allowed: things that get me enthusiastically annoyed).

Admiral Holsey is to this serial murder in the Caribbean as Hugh Thompson was to the butchery at My Lai --
that is to say a great American and a lone, solitary credit to its armed forces in a moment when a great and unremovable stain was put upon the honor of the entire American military.

Workshops Learn to write professional op-eds and personal essays with Elizabeth Spiers, a contributing writer for The New York Times opinion section, former columnist at Fortune and Fast Company, and opinion co...

I posted some new opinion writing workshop dates for 2026, and tried to include a few different times and one weekend slot to accommodate different time zones and schedules: www.elizabethspiers.com/workshops/

Unfortunate to hear tired cliches about the moral integrity of white abolitionists in the BBC Reith lecture, while the actual struggle of the enslaved was downplayed. This book will clear up any misconceptions, out 12 Feb: carriegibson.co.uk/books/the-gr... #reith #bbc #history #slavery

this is literally never not accurate