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    Nov 4

    Inside this week's issue of The New Yorker:

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    Facebook has never been a neutral platform—it is a company whose business model depends on monitoring its users, modifying and manipulating their behavior, and selling their attention to the highest bidder.

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    Evan Osnos and Dorothy Wickenden discuss social media's power to shape politics and the likely effects on the 2020 Presidential campaign. Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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    It is often said that in times of crisis, people search for something to believe in. For a certain milieu of millennials, that something is astrology.

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    “The President has successfully rendered the investigation irrelevant, at least for his most fervent supporters,” writes. “There is no evidence, no testimony, no revelatory text message, that can sway them.”

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  6. 3 hours ago

    An escape artist for the 21st century.

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    “Stop crying,” Rick Rescorla told his wife on the phone, on 9/11. “I have to get these people out safely. If something should happen to me, I want you to know I’ve never been happier.” Today, he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal.

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    The whistle-blower acted in the prescribed lawful way—the President and his henchmen are the ones calling on the media to violate the point and purpose of the law.

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    Read his story here.

    In the East Room, Pres Trump is about to make a posthumous presentation of the Presidential Citizens Medal to the late Rick Rescorla. He was a retired Army Colonel who died on 9/11 while trying to lead occupants of the World Trade Center to Safety.
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    “All we can do is breathe the air of the period we live in, carry with us the special burdens of the time, and grow up within those confines. That’s just how things are,” Haruki Murakami writes.

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  11. 4 hours ago

    Katie Hill, who resigned from the House last week, said, “I am leaving because of the thousands of vile, threatening e-mails, calls, and texts that made me fear for my life.”

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  12. 5 hours ago

    Not long after Hitler came to power, in 1933, a woman in Berlin began to have a series of uncanny dreams.

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    12 hours ago

    With talk of Trump teaming up with Mark Burnett again do read 's great profile of Burnett from last year:

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  14. 6 hours ago

    Where do ideas come from? For the mathematician Dan Rockmore, it’s a lot of hard work, and a little bit of magic.

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    "All of us here realize we’re fucking the environment,” Jorge Silva, a forty-eight-year-old miner, said. “It’s not like we want to—it’s that we haven’t found any alternative means to survive.” on blood gold and the Brazilian rain forests

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  16. 6 hours ago

    You won't *believe* the twist!

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    This is one of the most interesting things I’ve ever read in the . Can’t believe I missed it. If you haven’t, read it. Then follow for writing it, and for living it.

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  18. 7 hours ago

    With Jair Bolsonaro’s election, the destruction of the Amazon rain forest has become a kind of perverse political goal. To preserve their way of life—and, potentially, the planet—indigenous-rights activists are fighting back.

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  19. 7 hours ago

    Looking back at the "fragile coalition" that formed during the Nixon impeachment hearings underscores just how much partisanship has distorted our politics in the nearly half century since Watergate.

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    Read 's dispatch from the Amazon in : "One-fifth of Brazil's Amazonian rain forest--the world's largest remaining 'green lung,' which absorbs billions of tons of carbon dioxide--has been destroyed since the nineteen-seventies."

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  21. 8 hours ago

    Nick Paumgarten on the dangers—and the joys—of New York City beer-league hockey.

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