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
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From a statement from faith leaders at Broadview this morning:
"God does not bless cages. God does not sanction abductions. God demands freedom."
"God does not bless cages. God does not sanction abductions. God demands freedom."
November 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
From a statement from faith leaders at Broadview this morning:
"God does not bless cages. God does not sanction abductions. God demands freedom."
"God does not bless cages. God does not sanction abductions. God demands freedom."
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Honestly love to see it and want to see it 49 more times
(Source for the screenshot within a screenshot: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...)
(Source for the screenshot within a screenshot: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...)
November 14, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Honestly love to see it and want to see it 49 more times
(Source for the screenshot within a screenshot: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...)
(Source for the screenshot within a screenshot: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...)
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WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
Any favorite flash fiction/short short stories?
November 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Any favorite flash fiction/short short stories?
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So is anyone ever going to ask these people what is wrong with being Palestinian? bsky.app/profile/atru...
After calling Schumer a "Palestinian," Leavitt refers to "Gavin Newscum." So she's just ripping off her boss's smears now.
November 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
So is anyone ever going to ask these people what is wrong with being Palestinian? bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
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It's curious that the IDF and West Bank settlers are specifically and intentionally targeting a Christian village, and US ambassador to Israel Rev Mike Huckabee has absolutely nothing to say about this. I wonder why.
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
It's curious that the IDF and West Bank settlers are specifically and intentionally targeting a Christian village, and US ambassador to Israel Rev Mike Huckabee has absolutely nothing to say about this. I wonder why.
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On a day in which every new thing I read is slimier than the last can I please persuade you to read this very odd and beautiful essay by a student of mine that knows what time it is?
If you told me there was this amazing essay about Simon & Garfunkel & a horse farm I *needed* to read, I'd--well, I wouldn't. But damn, this is it, by Cassidy Exner, latest in series of young writers approaching the Trumpocene slant rhyme. callingallsyllables.substack.com/p/eddie-wher...
Eddie, Where Are You Calling From?
Evidence of the moment from a most peculiar archive
callingallsyllables.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
On a day in which every new thing I read is slimier than the last can I please persuade you to read this very odd and beautiful essay by a student of mine that knows what time it is?
And why must they be allowed to steal what they won’t pay for?
If AI is inevitable then why does it need so much government support and why are they constantly worried
Rhetorical RHETORICAL
Rhetorical RHETORICAL
November 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
And why must they be allowed to steal what they won’t pay for?
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The response is slow 💔😥
We need $700 to buy a tent 💔
Our lives are so difficult 💔😥
I don't know what else to tell you to help me 💔😥
I'm starting to feel so discouraged 💔😥
chuffed.org/project/1426...
We need $700 to buy a tent 💔
Our lives are so difficult 💔😥
I don't know what else to tell you to help me 💔😥
I'm starting to feel so discouraged 💔😥
chuffed.org/project/1426...
November 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The response is slow 💔😥
We need $700 to buy a tent 💔
Our lives are so difficult 💔😥
I don't know what else to tell you to help me 💔😥
I'm starting to feel so discouraged 💔😥
chuffed.org/project/1426...
We need $700 to buy a tent 💔
Our lives are so difficult 💔😥
I don't know what else to tell you to help me 💔😥
I'm starting to feel so discouraged 💔😥
chuffed.org/project/1426...
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All I have to say about the Nuzzi profile is that at the end of it she jokes about how she destroyed her life. In fact she did not do that. She has a book, a magazine job, this lovely profile. People’s lives are being destroyed by this administration, however, including by -well, you know.
November 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
All I have to say about the Nuzzi profile is that at the end of it she jokes about how she destroyed her life. In fact she did not do that. She has a book, a magazine job, this lovely profile. People’s lives are being destroyed by this administration, however, including by -well, you know.
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This is the most glamorous opening to an article about a white supremacist flattering journalist who lied to her readers and editors while having an affair with narcissistic crank who eats roadkill, swims in sewer water, will cause children to die, and is 50 years her senior that I've ever read.
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This is the most glamorous opening to an article about a white supremacist flattering journalist who lied to her readers and editors while having an affair with narcissistic crank who eats roadkill, swims in sewer water, will cause children to die, and is 50 years her senior that I've ever read.
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I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.
Nurse Hammam’s account was deleted but he’s still trying to prepare for the Gaza winter. Today came rain and his tent is flooding. www.paypal.com/paypalme/nur...
November 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Nurse Hammam’s account was deleted but he’s still trying to prepare for the Gaza winter. Today came rain and his tent is flooding. www.paypal.com/paypalme/nur...
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Mafia governance in action
"the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."
"the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Mafia governance in action
"the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."
"the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."
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Absolutely bizarre that these people willingly chose to pass up the pleasures of being rich in Kokomo, Indiana
No one leaving New York City because of Mamdani, say two top real estate CEOs
No one leaving New York City because of Mamdani, say two top real estate CEOs
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's democratic socialist views spark fears companies and capital will flee, but top real estate CEOs say it's not true.
cnb.cx
November 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Absolutely bizarre that these people willingly chose to pass up the pleasures of being rich in Kokomo, Indiana
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attn fountain pen friends:
Also I got my husband this ink advent calendar a few years ago and he loved it, it took him a year to go through all the ink. cultpens.com/products/dia...
Diamine Inkvent Calendar 2025 Teal Edition
Diamine's annual Inkvent calendar has become the stuff of legend, and this year's is probably the best yet. It's filled, not with chocolate (that doesn't last anyway), but with... ink! Naturally. This...
cultpens.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
attn fountain pen friends:
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USEFUL!!
I just learned from @luriedanielfavors.bsky.social on @urbanviewradio.bsky.social that the House Oversight Epstein files are docs that were subpoenaed from the Epstein estate and the Biden admin didn’t release the criminal files because Ghislaine Maxwell’s case was still open due to appeal
I just learned from @luriedanielfavors.bsky.social on @urbanviewradio.bsky.social that the House Oversight Epstein files are docs that were subpoenaed from the Epstein estate and the Biden admin didn’t release the criminal files because Ghislaine Maxwell’s case was still open due to appeal
November 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
USEFUL!!
I just learned from @luriedanielfavors.bsky.social on @urbanviewradio.bsky.social that the House Oversight Epstein files are docs that were subpoenaed from the Epstein estate and the Biden admin didn’t release the criminal files because Ghislaine Maxwell’s case was still open due to appeal
I just learned from @luriedanielfavors.bsky.social on @urbanviewradio.bsky.social that the House Oversight Epstein files are docs that were subpoenaed from the Epstein estate and the Biden admin didn’t release the criminal files because Ghislaine Maxwell’s case was still open due to appeal
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It's unsettling how many people fell for the claim that an administration that hires open Nazi sympathizers and does a bunch of Nazi-like stuff is "fighting antisemitism."
Some want to believe, agreeing with the regime's anti-free-speech and anti-academic freedom goals. But some just fell for it.
Some want to believe, agreeing with the regime's anti-free-speech and anti-academic freedom goals. But some just fell for it.
If you thought sending horrific, racist texts was enough to get you shunned from political service, think again! trib.al/v2wPrV0
November 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
It's unsettling how many people fell for the claim that an administration that hires open Nazi sympathizers and does a bunch of Nazi-like stuff is "fighting antisemitism."
Some want to believe, agreeing with the regime's anti-free-speech and anti-academic freedom goals. But some just fell for it.
Some want to believe, agreeing with the regime's anti-free-speech and anti-academic freedom goals. But some just fell for it.
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Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force.
(Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!)
Great obit—no paywall.
(Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!)
Great obit—no paywall.
Sharon Camp, Mother of the ‘Plan B’ Contraceptive Pill, Dies at 81
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force.
(Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!)
Great obit—no paywall.
(Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!)
Great obit—no paywall.
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well, that's (another) dealbreaker for Josh Shapiro in 2028 www.eenews.net/articles/rgg...
RGGI exit ends Pennsylvania’s only major climate policy
Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) signed the deal Wednesday to leave the regional cap-and-trade system, ending a four-month budget impasse with Republicans.
www.eenews.net
November 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
well, that's (another) dealbreaker for Josh Shapiro in 2028 www.eenews.net/articles/rgg...
NH folks, call your reps.
This is starting to do numbers, so here's the link to the full story, but you won't be able to read it without a subscription to my local paper, sorry.
NH House panel passes law that would allow sales of uninspected meat
The House Environment and Agriculture Committee recommended passage of House Bill 396, 9-3.
www.keenesentinel.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
NH folks, call your reps.