Writer: @TheAtlantic. Faculty: @BardCollege. Trustee: @AmericanAcademy. Fellow: @GuggFellows, @AEI. Repped by: @APBspeakers, Wylie. 📕 Summer of Our Discontent
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Hey everyone, SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT is out today from @aaknopf! I appreciate the love, expect the criticism, and hope this book will reach all the open-minded readers who genuinely care about achieving a healthy and robust multiethnic society once and for all. 🙏🏽
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BREAKING: Binance has been hacked with wallets across the Ethereum, Bitcoin, and TRON networks seeing outflows of -$5.7 billion.
The hack includes $1.45 billion worth of Bitcoin and $875 million worth of ETH.
If confirmed, this would mark the biggest hack in crypto history.
We expect more information shortly.
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What’s Wrong with France? | Interview: Thomas Chatterton Williams youtu.be/N2vXRWEk2rg?si=W62T…
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#France is deploying 70,000 police officers and gendarmes again this Saturday, 31 October. Gatherings planned for 8 pm on Halloween remain banned, following social media calls for “revolution” and “resurrection”, Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez says, warning of serious public disorder.
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We were concerned that the SAT has become a less reliable measure of student preparedness for a rigorous college curriculum.
So, we commissioned a study from Johns Hopkins University. What does this study tell us about the state of higher education?
The results are shocking. thaq.co/4iLThZ0
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Fox: Why are you here this morning?
Trump rally attendee: Well, in the late 70s, I was a little too young to go to South America for the Jonestown Massacre. But this is as close as I'll ever get, so that's why I'm here. There's nothing like seeing a cult right up front.
Really enjoyed speaking with @tonydokoupil for his new podcast Great Question 🙏🏽
Author @thomaschattwill says his 13-year-old daughter hasn’t been to school in Paris all October because of multiple attempts to burn her school down.
Watch Great Question with @tonydokoupil on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts: cbsn.ws/4e7CXPO
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Author @thomaschattwill says his 13-year-old daughter hasn’t been to school in Paris all October because of multiple attempts to burn her school down.
Watch Great Question with @tonydokoupil on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts: cbsn.ws/4e7CXPO
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Yesterday, Putin revealed that Russian authorities are "in close touch" with Elon Musk about the technology Ukraine needs to defend itself.
Our new report @TheAtlantic investigates how @elonmusk went from supporting Ukraine to coordinating with Moscow.
theatlantic.com/national-sec…
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“Federal agents in Minnesota… found evidence suggesting that Mr. Elmi and Ms. Omar were siblings (meaning Rep Omar married her brother), according to the six former and current officials familiar with the case. But, because prosecutors did not pursue the matter, the agents had limited investigative tools, the officials said. nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/im…
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Trump was briefed about the intelligence findings and chose not to do anything
He has been wary of disrupting Nvidia’s chip sales, which are helping to drive the economy and the stock market, and of complicating the trading relationship with China nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/po…
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“It’s 1,000 times worse than [what] Hunter Biden did.” The extraordinary reach of the Trump family’s foreign business deals during Trump’s 2nd term so far. FT big read from my colleagues @peterjandringa @arogDC & George Steer
ft.com/content/a89fa128-8fcb…
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Wow. Dartmouth College Provost Santiago Schnell “has resigned as provost and is leaving the university” over his use of AI.
After Semafor and The Dartmouth reported on suspected AI-generated content in his writing, a faculty panel determined he had violated College policies.
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This is such a clear distillation of why, despite everything, the French must be protected at all costs
Regular small drip coffee to go at Blue Bottle in Union Station, Washington, DC:
$6.05 ($7.05 with tip 🥹)
This is such a clear distillation of why, despite everything, the French must be protected at all costs
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Sadly this is completely unsurprising. Meta has executed a “merchants of doubt” campaign against the reputation of people calling out the toxicity of their products for a long time.
@JonHaidt is a true hero who has done more than almost anyone else to affect global norms and policy to protect children’s developing minds from social media and screens with #TheAnxiousGeneration
Meta had an internal PR plan to try and discredit Jon Haidt because he was a critic of social media.
Meta was going to recruit academics, like Andrew Gelman, to write take down pieces. They were trying to turn academics against one another through a "whisper strategy".
This is a very serious problem for open academic debate. If academics who share negative evidence about a platform are targeted by campaigns to smear our credibility, we are in deep, deep trouble.
This creates a very serious conflict of interest for anyone who is paid to do this.
law360.com/articles/2542517/…
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If you would like to save the media, please pre-order my book
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Michael Pollan reveals how the introduction of caffeine completely changed human history and consciousness.
"Before caffeine, it was a very different world and a very different consciousness. People were drunk a lot of the time, buzzed almost all of the time because it was safer than water"
"Water was really how you got diseases. If you fermented things, even low alcohol, it killed a lot of the microbes. So people, even kids, drank hard cider for breakfast"
"Tea, chocolate, and coffee all arrive in the same decade in England, and things start to change... no one ate or drank boiling water or hot beverages before"
"Boiling it made it much safer. This gave this incredible public health boost to these places, and then you have the drug that fosters a kind of more linear, rational, focused way of thinking"
"People in the 1600s started writing about it saying, 'Wow, we have this new civil and sober drink that we can use.' And that, I think, makes possible things like the Industrial Revolution"
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The clip repeats the myth that pre-caffeine people were mostly drunk because water was unsafe. Historians and medieval sources show water was commonly drunk from wells/springs while weak ale provided nutrition/calories, not a substitute for bad water.
leslefts.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-gr…
slate.com/human-interest…
fakehistoryhunter.net/2026/02/02/dri…
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French Senate passes bill to make protesters pay for unrest damage.
Interior Minister Laurent Nunez stressed the urgency of responding to the damage and scenes of chaos seen on October 17. "We can no longer allow the vast majority of our fellow citizens to pay for a minority of vandals"
u.afp.com/Sycq
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I have a new piece on the Ohio Senate race that was just published by @NewYorker. Deepest thanks to the magazine's stellar editorial staff for all their help and to the great people of the Mahoning Valley who shared their time and insights with me.
newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…
