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Kevin Ng
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I write about science, music, and culture.
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the further you get into the epstein emails, the more it feels like global elites were actually kicked in the head by a mule
November 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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It's eight years since the untimely death of baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Here's an early (1990) recital where he is in simply glorious voice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-15...
Подарок меломану. Дмитрий Хворостовский (1990)
YouTube video by Советское телевидение. ГОСТЕЛЕРАДИОФОНД
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November 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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The music I’ve been listening to this week, from Adès to FKA twigs
New music of the week - Nov 21 — Kevin Ng
Orville Peck tries on some new voices, FKA twigs leaves the club, and Jean Rondeau gets me to actually care about Couperin
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November 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.

Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
November 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The music I’ve been listening to this week, from Adès to FKA twigs
New music of the week - Nov 21 — Kevin Ng
Orville Peck tries on some new voices, FKA twigs leaves the club, and Jean Rondeau gets me to actually care about Couperin
www.kevinwng.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy

A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation

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Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy
The project, which will include some 50,000 songs from private record collections, is a collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.
laist.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 AM
this is correct
while we are discussing the relative merits of pasta shapes: make carbonara with bucatini and you will never go back. 100% upgrade, no trade-offs, dish-elevating and arguably life-changing, depending on how much you enjoy carbonara
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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We'll have a lot more to say about this one tomorrow, but I'm so proud of this update and our tireless all-volunteer timeline-building and sensemaking crews.
This week, we updated our pages on data security and surveillance, immigration, the federal workforce, and medical research funding. Our brisk, rigorously cited weekly briefing is live at Unbreaking:

unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
Unbreaking.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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This week, we updated our pages on data security and surveillance, immigration, the federal workforce, and medical research funding. Our brisk, rigorously cited weekly briefing is live at Unbreaking:

unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
Unbreaking.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Tbh this feels absolutely like something Charlotte Church would do
Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
November 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Court cases! NIH hiring! University settlements!
Read our latest update on the state of medical research funding at @unbreaking.org
Medical Research Funding: Explainer — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
i'll never shut up about barbara hannigan in warlikowski's lulu
I'm still thinking about Krzysztof Warlikowski's Lulu - Parterre Box
Barbara Hannigan's Lulu is the greatest live performance I've seen.
parterre.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
caaaaasta diva
Insanity
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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When it comes to my fight On Here, @publichealthguy1.bsky.social and I said everything I have to say months ago: decisions like this incite violence. RFK Jr. and his acolytes have and will continue to do so, because that is their aim: inciting violence.

www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...
The CDC shooting was public health’s Jan. 6
“In RFK Jr.’s America, it will never be safe to practice public health or medicine," write an epidemiologist and a former CDC staffer.
www.statnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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“Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.

“His co-teachers will complete the remaining three class sessions of the courses he has been teaching”
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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‘Some victims are thought to lie under the concrete pilings of the dams and motorways that changed the Spanish landscape from the late 1950s onwards.’

Stephen Phelan on the ‘disappeared’ of Spain’s civil war.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Stephen Phelan · Diary: Spain’s Disappeared
Emilio Silva set up the Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica to improve and formalise the process...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Thoughtful piece on the importance of "DEI" in health research, published in Time Magazine.

time.com/7333975/dei-...

This presents the case in the context of lupus.
DEI Isn’t Wasteful. It’s Necessary for Good Medicine
Lupus patients pay the price when we erase inclusion from medical research.
time.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Earlier this month, @propublica.org published a fascinating (and frankly horrifying) investigation into the Trump administration’s failure to inspect overseas facilities that process food for US consumers.

You can read their report in full here: www.propublica.org/article/fore...
Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts
The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh fru...
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Methodology
November 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Last Wednesday marked the end of the longest government shutdown in US history, and Unbreaking will continue to update our resources as its effects become clear. In the meantime, our most recent briefing explores Medicaid and the loss of federal food safety oversight: unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
This week at Unbreaking, November 13 — Unbreaking
As of yesterday, the longest-ever shutdown of the federal government has ended. We’ll be updating our timelines and explainers as the implications of this resolution become clear for all the issues we...
unbreaking.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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