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gazelle emami @gazelleemami.bsky.social · 1d

No director working today understands our vigilante-justice fueled moment better than Jafar Panahi, who is captured beautifully by @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social in this profile www.vulture.com/article/jafa...

Jafar Panahi’s Game of Chicken With the Iranian Regime

In his most defiant film yet, a group of Iranians consider killing the man who tortured them in prison.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 5

What I like about this review is Chu very clearly gets bored with Williams and uses his bad book as an opportunity to think through Toqueville and engage with the question of “speech” in material terms.

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Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social · Jul 3

I wrote about how Brad Pitt has effectively albeit transparently used F1: The Movie and its press tour to rehabilitate his image, in order to obscure the violent allegations about abuse toward Angelina Jolie & his current estrangement from his six kids, @vulture.com. www.vulture.com/article/brad...

Brad Pitt Is Fooling You

The F1 press tour has been a carefully attuned charm offensive meant to obscure Pitt’s alleged violent behavior toward ex-wife Angelina Jolie.

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gazelle emami @gazelleemami.bsky.social · Jun 28

"‘Why you blocking my sun right now? I’m trying to bask in a Zohran win.’” nymag.com/intelligence...

‘It’s Nice to Be Right!’

The New Yorkers riding the high of Zohran Mamdani’s win. (And the ones who had no idea there was an election.)

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jun 27

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza.

Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid
IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes

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Michael Macher @michael-macher.bsky.social · Jun 16

NYT Editorial Board:

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Megh Wright @megh.bsky.social · May 30

three days after I got this assigned (about a musician I love, done by a writer I admire), I experienced a sudden, unexpected, and very close death in my life, so having this piece to work on was kind of like having a grief guide to hang out with :) www.vulture.com/article/ben-...

Since Dorian Died

Two years after the death of his son, Ben Kweller doesn’t want to waste any more time.

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gazelle emami @gazelleemami.bsky.social · May 20

He’s transformed the race with memorable policy proposals and a winning social-media presence. Critics argue he’s drawn to attention-grabbing stunts and that his free bus program may not be the unqualified success he claims it was. E. Alex Jung on Zohran nymag.com/intelligence...

Zohran Mamdani Crashes the Party

The mayoral candidate is selling the dream of a socialist New York. The picture inside the Democratic Party is more complicated.

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Michael Macher @michael-macher.bsky.social · May 20

Incredible Eric Adams anecdote from @nymag.com's Zohran piece. nymag.com/intelligence...

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gazelle emami @gazelleemami.bsky.social · May 6

"That is the peril faced by every marginalized writer: He may become so accustomed to the margins he cannot recognize the center even when he is standing in it" @andrealongchu.bsky.social on Ocean Vuong www.vulture.com/article/ocea...

The Romance of Being Unreadable

In his debut novel, Ocean Vuong took pains to be illegible, then blamed the reader for reading. In his new book, he is finally ready to talk.

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gazelle emami @gazelleemami.bsky.social · Apr 30

"The lowest moment of my life, killing someone, replays several times throughout the 45-minute episode. I can no longer separate these images from my actual memories of what I did that night." a devastating piece, deftly edited by @tomiobaro.bsky.social www.vulture.com/article/how-...

Is True Crime Keeping Me in Prison?

TV producers exploited the worst mistake of my life. I’m not the only one.

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gazelle emami @gazelleemami.bsky.social · Apr 21

no one does it like diane warren www.vulture.com/article/dian...

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gazelle emami @gazelleemami.bsky.social · Apr 11

"the US immigration system runs not on the enforcement of immigration laws, but on their selective nonenforcement" — fascinating dive into the contradictions of immigration and labor policy by @michael-macher.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/wag...

Wages of Citizenship | Michael Macher

US immigration enforcement and the cannibalization of labor law

www.phenomenalworld.org

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · Mar 18

I wrote about my kind, funny childhood friend Michelle Trachtenberg, and the group of friends that saved my life when I was a kid.

www.vulture.com/article/mara...

My Cool Friend Michelle

Other kids called Trachtenberg a bitch, but in our group of child stars, we all wanted to be like her.

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gazelle emami @gazelleemami.bsky.social · Mar 5

"If there is one idea that has unified my thinking as a trans person since I embarked on a career as a writer, it is that we must give up the dream of explaining ourselves"

alc @andrealongchu.bsky.social · Mar 5

hi so the second edition of FEMALES is now available to buy, you can read the new afterword here www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Our Reasons | Andrea Long Chu

Like any candid analysis of a sexual subculture, this material was seized upon by some readers as lurid and inappropriate, especially given my openness. The gender-critical feminists, in particular, h...

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gazelle emami @gazelleemami.bsky.social · Mar 4

“We can never tell a guest what they want. It's a matter of listening to them and giving them the illusion of choice.” www.vulture.com/article/whit...

At Thailand’s Real White Lotus Hotel, Where the Ultrarich Get Coddled

“Sometimes they’ll ask us to bring the sun.”

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gazelle emami @gazelleemami.bsky.social · Feb 10

"We are living in a city that assumes, requires, and depends on the idea that every salary be augmented by a secret stash of funds" @madelesque.bsky.social on how parents money keeps NYC afloat nymag.com/intelligence...

How Many Adult New Yorkers Are Secretly Subsidized by Their Parents?

Parents are slowly transferring trillions of dollars to their New York City children, one down payment and Via Carota tab at a time.

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gazelle emami @gazelleemami.bsky.social · Feb 7

goodbye to all that nymag.com/intelligence...

Goodbye, Pamela Paul

The contrarian columnist showed us the intolerable side of liberalism.

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lila pearl @lilashapiro.bsky.social · Feb 3

Scarlett Pavlovich just filed charges in federal court accusing Neil Gaiman of human trafficking -- and sexual abuse, assault, coercion, and rape. Amanda Palmer is named in the complaint as well, for exploiting Scarlett's unpaid labor, and neglecting to warn her about Gaiman.

Neil Gaiman Accused of Human Trafficking, Sexual Abuse in New Lawsuit

The author’s estranged wife Amanda Palmer is also named.

www.vulture.com

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gazelle emami @gazelleemami.bsky.social · Jan 14

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gazelle emami @gazelleemami.bsky.social · Jan 13

kathryn!! 💗💗💗

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gazelle emami @gazelleemami.bsky.social · Jan 13

For our latest cover, a harrowing piece by @lilashapiro.bsky.social on the sexual assault allegations against Neil Gaiman www.vulture.com/article/neil...

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alc @andrealongchu.bsky.social · Dec 30

wrote about dnd www.vulture.com/article/is-d...

Why Is ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ So Misunderstood?

At 50, the game is more popular than ever, but its core appeal is still a great secret.

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gazelle emami @gazelleemami.bsky.social · Dec 17

In Brian Jordan Alvarez’s beloved YouTube series 'The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo,' he cast his friends in roles based on their real-life romantic entanglements. While reenacting those scenes, one of them alleges he assaulted him.
www.vulture.com/article/bria...

‘Are We Really Friends? Or Are You Just Using Me?’

When Brian Jordan Alvarez made it big with English Teacher, he brought his friends along with him, just like they’d always dreamed. Except one.

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