Miriam Elder
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Outstanding reporting today from the New Media at the Pentagon.
December 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Outstanding reporting today from the New Media at the Pentagon.
Good story on Hegseth’s decades long love of war crimes www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Hegseth’s Decadeslong Quest to Rewrite the Rules of Engagement
The former Army National Guard major and TV personality endeared himself to Trump by defending troops accused of war crimes.
www.wsj.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Good story on Hegseth’s decades long love of war crimes www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
The only novel I’ve read on this list is The Director, which i found to be like a fine airport book www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/b...
The 10 Best Books of 2025
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM
The only novel I’ve read on this list is The Director, which i found to be like a fine airport book www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/b...
Minorly obsessed with Ted Danson’s journey from Boston bar scumbag to America’s grandpa. A Man on the Inside is the wholesome TV we need 😭
December 2, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Minorly obsessed with Ted Danson’s journey from Boston bar scumbag to America’s grandpa. A Man on the Inside is the wholesome TV we need 😭
Maybe media reporters are working on this but it’s shocking there’s not been a story looking into Ryan Lizza’s character, history, and reliability because if the gender roles were reversed there already would be
December 1, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Maybe media reporters are working on this but it’s shocking there’s not been a story looking into Ryan Lizza’s character, history, and reliability because if the gender roles were reversed there already would be
Not the worst thing here obviously but Laura Loomer named her dog…Loomer? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Laura Loomer’s Endless Payback
The President’s self-appointed loyalty enforcer inspires fear and vexation across Washington. What’s behind her vetting crusades?
www.newyorker.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Not the worst thing here obviously but Laura Loomer named her dog…Loomer? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Hate to be posting this on a holiday, but there's been renewed interest in the CIA-backed Zero Units in Afghanistan. Here's a good summary of @propublica.org's 2022 reporting on the units and just some of the civilian casualties they were responsible for:
What We Know About U.S.-Backed Zero Units in Afghanistan
Deadly night raids. Faulty U.S. intelligence. A “classified” war loophole. Reporter Lynzy Billing’s investigation offers an unprecedented insight into the civilian casualties of Afghanistan’s Zero Uni...
www.propublica.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Hate to be posting this on a holiday, but there's been renewed interest in the CIA-backed Zero Units in Afghanistan. Here's a good summary of @propublica.org's 2022 reporting on the units and just some of the civilian casualties they were responsible for:
We don’t talk enough about Zohran’s anti-parade stance. This Thanksgiving mishigas ruins the whole neighborhood!Finally a mayor who represents the silent anti-parade majority
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
We don’t talk enough about Zohran’s anti-parade stance. This Thanksgiving mishigas ruins the whole neighborhood!Finally a mayor who represents the silent anti-parade majority
Some personal/professional news miriamelder.substack.com/p/we-had-fun...
We Had Fun, Didn't We?
Some personal news.
miriamelder.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Some personal/professional news miriamelder.substack.com/p/we-had-fun...
Thank you to Politico for writing this specifically for me, someone who grew up in Queens and now lives on the Upper West Side www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Mamdani’s New York Rejected Trump — and He Never Forgot
Zohran Mamdani and Donald Trump are the two most prominent populist politicians in America. They grew up on two sides of elite New York City society.
www.politico.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Thank you to Politico for writing this specifically for me, someone who grew up in Queens and now lives on the Upper West Side www.politico.com/news/magazin...
In what cases are swastikas and nooses not divisive? Oh.
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
In what cases are swastikas and nooses not divisive? Oh.
The only unbelievable part of Pluribus so far is Carol choosing to sit in coach
November 19, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The only unbelievable part of Pluribus so far is Carol choosing to sit in coach
Read Things in Nature Merely Grow this weekend and thought I'd had it bad when a friend said she knew what I was going thru after losing my mom bc she once had a bad breakup, but the person who told Yiyun Li she could relate to the death of her two boys because her two kids were OFF AT COLLEGE?!
November 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Read Things in Nature Merely Grow this weekend and thought I'd had it bad when a friend said she knew what I was going thru after losing my mom bc she once had a bad breakup, but the person who told Yiyun Li she could relate to the death of her two boys because her two kids were OFF AT COLLEGE?!
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NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
Rrrrrrrrosalia miriamelder.substack.com/p/a-win-for-...
A Win For Art Over AI
Let’s call it: orchestral maneuvers in the light.
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November 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Rrrrrrrrosalia miriamelder.substack.com/p/a-win-for-...
I wonder more often than is healthy if the Joan Didion girlies realize she was a Barry Goldwater supporter for her entire life and the innate conservatism of much of her writing. But anyway!
November 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I wonder more often than is healthy if the Joan Didion girlies realize she was a Barry Goldwater supporter for her entire life and the innate conservatism of much of her writing. But anyway!
He had billionaires on the dais when he was inaugurated but yes let’s read about this new trend!
November 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
He had billionaires on the dais when he was inaugurated but yes let’s read about this new trend!
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Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
First we get "please don’t do in the news nothing about me" and now "DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT"?? What a year
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
First we get "please don’t do in the news nothing about me" and now "DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT"?? What a year
Impressive to come out looking the worst amid the cast of characters in this story, congrats to Michael Wolff www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Impressive to come out looking the worst amid the cast of characters in this story, congrats to Michael Wolff www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Pro tip: if you listen to the transition from Mio Cristo Piange Diamanti to Berghain while walking through this wind/flurry storm, it feels like you’re doing something very theatrical and dramatic rather than just suffering through the cold
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Pro tip: if you listen to the transition from Mio Cristo Piange Diamanti to Berghain while walking through this wind/flurry storm, it feels like you’re doing something very theatrical and dramatic rather than just suffering through the cold
I wonder if this would be treated so cutesy if it were about a male senator and their son
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I wonder if this would be treated so cutesy if it were about a male senator and their son
Damn, this Rosalia album actually is perfect. The drama we need.
November 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Damn, this Rosalia album actually is perfect. The drama we need.