Emily Witt and Ruby Cramer discuss the situation in Minneapolis, a city effectively under siege by militaristic federal agents on the latest episode of #NewYorkerRadio. swap.fm/l/tny-radioh...
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The New Yorker
Most nabbed in L.A. raids were men with no criminal conviction, picked up off the street
Health and Safety is available as of today in chic and portable paperback. Thank you everyone for reading!
An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza.
Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.
#NotATarget
Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...
Our new issue 47.16 is now online, featuring:
@tomstevenson.bsky.social in El Salvador
Kasia Boddy on Dorothy Parker
Seamus Perry on Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce
Ruby Hamilton on David Lynch
and Emily Witt (@embits.bsky.social) on the manosphere.
Read online at lrb.co.uk
A Times analysis found that 69% of those arrested during that period had no criminal conviction and 58% had never been charged with a crime.
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Emily Witt
Los Angeles Times
New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...
Spectacular reporting & heartbreaking writing by Emily Witt @newyorker.com
The People Being Disappeared by <em class="small">ICE</em> in Los Angeles www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Really excellent essay review by @embits.bsky.social in @lrb.co.uk on the #manosphere and Andrew Tate. It makes very disturbing reading but it is important we all understand these phenomena.
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London Review of Books
Came back to the city that raised me. www.newyorker.com/news/dispatc...
www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
R.I.P. to the Cambridge poet J.H. Prynne www.nplusonemag.com/issue-11/ess...
As communities across Southern California document and protest the escalating raids, loved ones grapple with the unimaginable.
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...
Practical criticism, as the document explained, was invented by a Cambridge professor named I. A. Richards in the 1920s, when English literature was trying to gain space for itself in the university a...
