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Mira Kamdar
@mirakamdar.bsky.social
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Paris-based author of four books, gardener, NYT Editorial Board alumna, words in New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, more.
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"The word “fall” has its origin in the Old Norse falla, which means to fall down dead, to be slain, to die, as in fallen soldiers. Empires fall. Governments fall.
We fall in love. We fall for scammers. We fall from grace. We are falling off a cliff."
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The Fall
Can anything stop it?
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📖 Le prix Femina, l'une des grandes récompenses littéraires en France, a été décerné à Nathacha Appanah pour son roman "La nuit au cœur" (Gallimard), qui lie le destin de trois femmes prises dans la spirale des violences masculines.
"The sunflowers, still resplendent only a month ago, have turned brown and fallen over, but they are heavy now with seeds. On lonely, golden Sunday afternoons of November, I put all my faith in those seeds." @margaretrenkl.bsky.social keeping it real. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
Opinion | The Lovely Loneliness of Sunday Afternoons in Autumn
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"The word “fall” has its origin in the Old Norse falla, which means to fall down dead, to be slain, to die, as in fallen soldiers. Empires fall. Governments fall.
We fall in love. We fall for scammers. We fall from grace. We are falling off a cliff."
mirakamdar.substack.com/p/the-fall
The Fall
Can anything stop it?
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On the “defeat” of the far right in the Netherlands 🇳🇱

The total number of far-right seats in the Tweede Kamer:

2021: 28
2023: 41
2025: 42 👈

And I don’t even count BBB here, which has radicalized significantly in the last year.
"Un ‘unruly garden’ est un jardin rebelle, qui échappe aux efforts de le discipliner, ce qui est bien le cas avec mon jardin, et avec tous les jardins du monde, car le jardin est par sa nature ‘unruly’. Il est de même des peuples démocratiques." mirakamdar.substack.com/p/unruly
Unruly
Anglais: indiscipliné, turbulent, rebelle
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This story is jaw-dropping. "Chinese-run facilities have recently been discovered in the Philippines and the desert outside Dubai. In 2022, Chinese scammers took over the shuttered Seaview Hotel on the Isle of Man...". @alexclapp.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... @lrb.co.uk
Alexander Clapp · Pig Butchering: Scam Gangs
If it were a national economy, cybercrime would be the third largest in the world, behind only the United States and...
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I hope someday we defeat fascism and in the far future, No Kings Day is celebrated as a federal holiday, and little children leave out dance mixtapes and cookies for the Resistance Frog, who leaves pocket Constitutions in their shoes.
"I did not tell Yazzan that no Palestinian had helped draft the agreement. I did not tell him that families in Gaza were still being killed in Israeli strikes. ... that the plan says nothing about investigating Israel for war crimes... " @mosababutoha.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/essay/t...
There Is No Peace in Gaza
Since President Trump announced his plan for a ceasefire, people I know have been killed. One relative described torture during a year in Israeli custody.
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This is so needed. Can’t wait!
"Equator is founded on our conviction that the storied titles of the Anglophone West cannot be internally reformed, nor redeemed by their periodic U-turns and belated mea culpas. The time has come to create something new."

Today we publish Equator's editorial declaration.

Join us: www.equator.org
"Brussels is also scared of conflict with Trump. As with its reliance on US security protection against Russia, the EU has become comfortable using US cloud services and put off building its own." www.ft.com/content/9e28...
Amazon outage shows EU heads are still in the cloud
Europe and others must insulate their economies from Trump weaponising US tech
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California!
As the Border Patrol heads to the Bay Area, Nancy Pelosi today said local law enforcement may arrest federal troops who break California law.

The idea comes from San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins who says she will prosecute them.

W/ @kellen.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...
Pelosi Says Police May Arrest Federal Agents Who Violate California Law
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Why is Apple, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Blackstone, Google, OpenAI, Amazon and others financing the destruction of the WH and desecration of the grounds, something that is infuriating to huge chunk of the American population? Do you hate your customers that much?
"It is as if the essential thing about “The Brothers Karamazov” is the experience of it, the feelings it generates in the reader, and this makes it difficult to write about." A beautiful essay about (re)reading a novel that illuminates life, by Karl Ove Knausgaard. www.newyorker.com/books/second...
The Light of “The Brothers Karamazov”
Although Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote with wildness and urgency, he patiently insisted on asking an essential question: What are we living for?
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Again, this is a liquidation of the union in all but letter of the law. This is reverse secessionism engineered by a central government.
NEW: White House announces it's going to pause, and potentially cancel, $11 billion in infrastructure funding (via the Army Corps of Engineers), specifically citing cities, like New York, represented or led by Democrats. More to come.
And if immunity is granted, what is already hell on earth for detainees will become something hellish beyond words.
After being sued for violating state-level human trafficking laws, GEO Group, the nation’s largest private prison company, is pushing the Supreme Court to grant private government contractors like itself blanket immunity from such lawsuits. #legal

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ICE’s Private Prison Contractor Is Hoping to Get Blanket Immunity
After being sued for violating state-level human trafficking laws, GEO Group, the nation’s largest private prison company, is pushing the Supreme Court to grant private government contractors like its...
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