I don’t think I’ve enjoyed anything quite as much as this clip of the President of Guyana Dr Irfaan Ali being interviewed by the pompous Beeb @BBCHARDtalk@OTPGY
“Let me stop you right there…”
Caribbean nation Guyana is booming after discovering oil. BBC’s Stephen Sackur puts it to President @presidentaligy; lobbyists say oil is bad for the climate.
Dude wasn’t having it. Mans was ready!
We are honored to publish Hisham Matar's new introduction to the re-issue of “Out of Place,” Edward Said’s beloved and enduring autobiography
(including previously unpublished family photos of Said, shared with The Key by his family)
https://t.co/cRtfqEbGLp
A must-read on PEN America: "This Tumblresque spreadsheet and an unsubmitted novel, we're told, belong in a conversation about free expression alongside rampant book banning and the arrest, detention, and deportation of people for their political beliefs"
https://t.co/UFlSU2Scel
“New York summer” I wheeze through my Legionnaires disease induced pneumonia. The sky is orange, my building is about to collapse, I have diarrhea from salad.
Mamdani deputy mayor for housing Leila Bozorg is announcing a new affordable housing project in the Bronx that'll be the first-ever use of the Expedited Land-Use Review Procedure, a sped-up, 90-day review created by the housing ballot questions
https://t.co/BVcxldf0EV
Bu sabah Andras Riedlmayer’i kaybettik. Uzun yıllar Aga Khan (İslam Sanatı ve Mimarisi Programı) Kütüphanecisi olarak görev yaptığı Harvard Üniversitesi’nden yeni emekli olmuştu. Görevi boyunca Osmanlı ve İslam tarihiyle ilgili –hiç abartmadan—yüzlerce ögrencinin meslekdaşın+
"America is being led by men whom senior brass do not respect. Trump's message is that laws are for wimps. Eisenhower said plans are worthless but planning is everything. If Trump goes for regime change, it will be on the basis of Hegseth’s planning." Me. https://t.co/0I3lwLTCK2
Superb. What a dude. Fantastic piece in the @FT too, Eddie - particularly liked Breuer’s distinction of artists and architects (nothing bugs me more than the ‘designer artists’ brigade).
“A painter does something and then sells it. An architect sells it and then does it.” Boom!
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
@moorehn@npfandos Reminds me of when I checked “Caucasian” and “Asian” on Columbia forms because I thought well as a South Asian I come from next door to the Caucasus and the “Asian and Pacific Islander” category always threw me
This map is incredible for several reasons, one that it suggests that people who actually take the subway aren’t nearly as scared of it as those who don’t.
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani and his thousands of grassroots supporters for their extraordinary campaign. You took on the political, economic and media Establishment- and you beat them. Now it’s on to victory in the general election.
One official who believes government can do things to help people and it earned her widespread acclaim and respect from normal people (and the relentless contempt of billionaires and the Wall Street Journal editorial page).