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Sarah Archer
@sarcher.bsky.social
Pets, modernism, feminist rage, etc. Author of The Midcentury Kitchen, Midcentury Christmas, and Catland. Writing in Architectural Digest, NYT, Antiques, and elsewhere.

https://www.sarah-archer.com/
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"It took only weeks for Trump to turn the US from a biomedical & global health leader to a pariah, shattering trust while shattering lives, all the while posing fundamental threats to a law-based international order grounded in human rights & democratic governance"

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The Trump presidency: Cascading global shocks on global health
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November 28, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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There's a weird collective self-justification among reporters on this beat that their job is not to push back but to be stoic in order to observe an endlessly fascinating natural phenomenon. It's all nonsense. He is a public servant. Demand decency, and slap back hard and fast when you don't get it.
I can’t believe people in the room don’t push back. It doesn’t matter if he’s the president, part of holding him accountable is standing up to his bullying— especially if he’s doing it right in front of your face
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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I think both their absolutely unhinged cruelty and their frustration at not hitting their numbers have the same root: that in their terminally racist brains the word “immigrant” conjures something extremely specific that they’re having trouble finding in reality
November 28, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Perfect happiness 🧡
November 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Snooze-maxxing ⚪️
November 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving to my dear American friends!
Patti Warashina, Airstream Turkey, 1969. Earthenware with low-fire glaze and low-fire luster, 9 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. x 19 3/4 in (Seattle Art Museum)
November 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I can only assume they were discussing poultry tactics in preparation for today 🍗
I interrupted a meeting.
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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My cat, trying to eat my absentee ballot
November 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I interrupted a meeting.
November 27, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Real / spectacular
November 27, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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"ACT UP worked because America worked. I’m not sure we expected that, even as we hoped for it. It taught me that everything that is marginal and powerful in American life eventually becomes central...
November 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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From 18thC Moravians singing hymns on communal farms, to 20thC steelworkers laboring in blazing furnaces, to 21stC healthcare and warehouse workers cutting loose at Musikfest, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania has moved to many beats. Learn more on the #HagleyHistoryHangout!

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Steel Rhythms: The Many Phases of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania with Kimberly Andrews
From the eighteenth-century Moravians singing hymns on communal farms, to twentieth-century steelworkers laboring in blazing furnaces, to twenty-first century healthcare and warehouse workers cutting
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November 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
It’s not great.
yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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should we do a group watch of shattered glass as therapy
November 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!

gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!

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November 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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my dissertation was about the history of Catholic converts in the US and every day something makes me remember how often I was told it was too niche
My dissertation turns 10 next month and I've been dipping in to see if there's anything in there worth pulling out and working with, and each chapter is effectively about a different emotional struggle that would be familiar today.
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Harvey is resting his little chin on my shoulder [SCREAM] so naturally I can never move again as long as I live.
November 27, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Goddammit I had FINISHED shopping for the boys oh well
And last but not least, Catland: the Soft Power of Cat culture in Japan! (You know exactly who on your list needs this one.) www.sarah-archer.com/catland
November 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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dont read The Bad Thing Part Three, read @hels.bsky.social on turkey carcasses, you'll be much happier www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Best Part of Thanksgiving, Bones and All
The menu is malleable, the gratitudes negotiable, but the turkey’s second life as stock is one of the greatest gifts of the entire blessed year.
www.newyorker.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
And last but not least, Catland: the Soft Power of Cat culture in Japan! (You know exactly who on your list needs this one.) www.sarah-archer.com/catland
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM