Alexander Chee
@alexanderchee.bsky.social
Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. Agent: Jin Auh, The Wylie Agency. alexanderchee.net
My husband just came down the stairs dressed for the snow, so happy to go out and snow-blow the path from the driveway to the basement door.
December 3, 2025 at 3:09 AM
My husband just came down the stairs dressed for the snow, so happy to go out and snow-blow the path from the driveway to the basement door.
One of those nights when your Tarot cards describe what you said in therapy and then a little more. The part you only said to yourself.
December 3, 2025 at 2:56 AM
One of those nights when your Tarot cards describe what you said in therapy and then a little more. The part you only said to yourself.
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How could I have anything less than absolute trust in someone with the name "Ladislas Farago"?
December 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
How could I have anything less than absolute trust in someone with the name "Ladislas Farago"?
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Article title: The NYT wrote more about Harvard last year than all community colleges combined
I posted three main figure from the article below
www.vox.com/2014/7/23/59...
I posted three main figure from the article below
www.vox.com/2014/7/23/59...
December 3, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Article title: The NYT wrote more about Harvard last year than all community colleges combined
I posted three main figure from the article below
www.vox.com/2014/7/23/59...
I posted three main figure from the article below
www.vox.com/2014/7/23/59...
Years of this, it must end. But for now let’s help @nurseehammamingaza.myatproto.social while we can.
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We are expecting a low-pressure system the day after tomorrow, and the rain & wind will break & destroy our tent.
We are homeless😭
📍We appeal to you to donate to us so we can buy a tent cover to protect us from the rain🤲
Help⬇️⬇️
urls.fr/DzYN15
Verified✅
@alexanderchee.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Years of this, it must end. But for now let’s help @nurseehammamingaza.myatproto.social while we can.
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Sitting in snowbound NH thinking great thoughts for friends in Tennessee, where Democrat Aftyn Behn may pull off a huge upset in TN-7. That she is at all close, a friend in Nashville told me, is astonishing — it's a super-red district.
election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-12...
election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-12...
Tennessee US House 7 Special General | DDHQ
Live Election Night Results from Decision Desk HQ
election-night.decisiondeskhq.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Sitting in snowbound NH thinking great thoughts for friends in Tennessee, where Democrat Aftyn Behn may pull off a huge upset in TN-7. That she is at all close, a friend in Nashville told me, is astonishing — it's a super-red district.
election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-12...
election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-12...
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This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says
Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
Ramzi in Gaza is raising money for his family to eat and pay rent on their tent plot. chuffed.org/project/1319...
December 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Ramzi in Gaza is raising money for his family to eat and pay rent on their tent plot. chuffed.org/project/1319...
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Me calling jake tapper
December 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Me calling jake tapper
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oh my god someone made it (and kindly tipped their hat to me) bsky.app/profile/harp...
December 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
oh my god someone made it (and kindly tipped their hat to me) bsky.app/profile/harp...
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Well look at that!
The AEA has imposed a lifetime ban on Lawrence H. Summers’ membership and participation in AEA activities. See the full statement here. www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...
Statement from the American Economic Association
www.aeaweb.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Well look at that!
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this rules
Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist Sarah Conway will be the next editor in chief of the Chicago Reader
Some exciting news!
December 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
this rules
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What a sleazy defense of honest critiques, a transparent attempt at a validation of the editorial dept.'s sins. A lot of us share a view that groveling before power, sanewashing, elitism, etc. is a challenge to our values, not our views.
For my part, I would say that questioning the framing of some Times stories—for example, the highlighting of Trump’s putative emotions or the foregrounding of what he says (even when, as is often the case, what he says is false)—is not an indication that I want my “views validated.”
December 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
What a sleazy defense of honest critiques, a transparent attempt at a validation of the editorial dept.'s sins. A lot of us share a view that groveling before power, sanewashing, elitism, etc. is a challenge to our values, not our views.
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She has the moral clarity that a lot of elected Dems could use: what is happening today is evil.
You don’t need to analyze it much more closely than that
You don’t need to analyze it much more closely than that
Sabrina Carpenter slams the White House for using her song ‘Juno’ for a pro-ICE video:
“this video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.”
“this video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.”
December 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
She has the moral clarity that a lot of elected Dems could use: what is happening today is evil.
You don’t need to analyze it much more closely than that
You don’t need to analyze it much more closely than that
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I got my vaccine for shingles as soon as I could when I turned 50, because my mom had a bad bout of it a couple of decades prior and I didn't want to risk that. The amazing fringe benefit described here is even MORE of a reason to get it when the time's right.
Multiple large natural experiments have documented Shingles vaccine is linked with ~20-25% reduced risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. A new report today adds to that and extends the to slowing the progression of dementia @cellcellpress.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
December 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I got my vaccine for shingles as soon as I could when I turned 50, because my mom had a bad bout of it a couple of decades prior and I didn't want to risk that. The amazing fringe benefit described here is even MORE of a reason to get it when the time's right.
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The people who are trying to destroy universities when it comes to inclusion around race and gender are also opposed to inclusion around disability. This bullshit gives them cover. Once again, legacy media laundering far right complaints because it makes elites feel smug.
The administration is extorting universities for billions of dollars and attempting to destroy free speech, academic freedom, and independent thought but the Atlantic talked to a few professors at elite universities who think the problem is that some students need a little extra time on exams
December 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The people who are trying to destroy universities when it comes to inclusion around race and gender are also opposed to inclusion around disability. This bullshit gives them cover. Once again, legacy media laundering far right complaints because it makes elites feel smug.
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While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.
December 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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This sounds a lot like Office of Faith-Based Initiatives under GW Bush. Big roll-out, lots of controversy, erroneous reports of its evaporation even as it settled in across gov't. Good reporting here.
NEW: Reports of DOGE’s death aren’t highly exaggerated, they’re wrong. Follow @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social on a voyage into the federal agencies where all your favorite young engineers are burrowed in ”like ticks.”
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This sounds a lot like Office of Faith-Based Initiatives under GW Bush. Big roll-out, lots of controversy, erroneous reports of its evaporation even as it settled in across gov't. Good reporting here.
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The signs of imminent market collapse for US equities are all around us, including this. www.ft.com/content/9d90...
UK pension funds dump US equities on fears of AI bubble
Public and private-sector funds concerned over market’s growing concentration in a small number of tech stocks
www.ft.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The signs of imminent market collapse for US equities are all around us, including this. www.ft.com/content/9d90...
The long game of getting a craft book out of the wonderful @elizmccrack.bsky.social ends in a celebration.
Hello! Today is the publication day of my new book, A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction.
To celebrate, I have already received an email from a fake book club, offering to feature it in their Saturday Showcase.
(You can order it here: bookshop.org/p/books/a-lo...)
To celebrate, I have already received an email from a fake book club, offering to feature it in their Saturday Showcase.
(You can order it here: bookshop.org/p/books/a-lo...)
A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction
Notes on Writing Fiction
bookshop.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The long game of getting a craft book out of the wonderful @elizmccrack.bsky.social ends in a celebration.
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David Dayen: Marco Rubio is selling a war of choice in Venezuela on falsehoods about narco-trafficking so he can get right-wing south Florida exiles who've been his political allies back into power. It's an incredibly parochial pretext for an imperial adventure. prospect.org/2025/12/01/m...
Marco Rubio’s Sales Pitch: War in Venezuela - The American Prospect
Right-wing exiles in South Florida want regime change. Rubio is selling it with a false narrative about drug trafficking.
prospect.org
December 2, 2025 at 5:54 AM
David Dayen: Marco Rubio is selling a war of choice in Venezuela on falsehoods about narco-trafficking so he can get right-wing south Florida exiles who've been his political allies back into power. It's an incredibly parochial pretext for an imperial adventure. prospect.org/2025/12/01/m...
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I’ve co-written a long story on the legendary female divorce lawyers of their generation, women who remade the law. The comments are… heated on.ft.com/3Mc7Lnp
Meet the women who made London the divorce capital of the world
From reluctant recruits in a male-dominated profession to stars who have defined their field
on.ft.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I’ve co-written a long story on the legendary female divorce lawyers of their generation, women who remade the law. The comments are… heated on.ft.com/3Mc7Lnp
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I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites
The Gallatin City-County Health Department has confirmed a second case of measles in Gallatin County, with the latest case identified on Dec. 1, 2025.This foll
nbcmontana.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
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after watching sen. kelly’s press conference what i most admire is how much of it was just like, get a load of this guy, hegseth. you see this dumbass? one of the dumbest guys you’ll ever meet. prize dunce.
December 2, 2025 at 5:16 AM
after watching sen. kelly’s press conference what i most admire is how much of it was just like, get a load of this guy, hegseth. you see this dumbass? one of the dumbest guys you’ll ever meet. prize dunce.