Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
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Author of THE COSMOPOLITES & THE HIDDEN GLOBE (Oct 2024) @NAFellows '24 @umwallacehouse '23 @whitingfdn '22 first dot last at gmail
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Some news: I’m writing another book! So excited to work with the amazing team at
@riverheadbooks
on a project I’ve been thinking about for years.
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Can you imagine a bunch of white guys in a rock reggae band called the Police releasing a song telling a sex worker to get off the streets in 2020
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Every time I learn a new fact about how US government agencies treat hungry babies and their parents I feel like tearing my hair out. (via
@JessGrose
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It is so infuriating to hear people say there wasn’t or isn’t time to process enough special visas for people leaving Afghanistan under duress. Visas and processing times are a choice.
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Love Bernie’s author photo for the Guardian’s opinion page
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This looks like the preamble to an ISIS beheading
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Since I wrote a whole damn book on the subject, I thought I’d share some informed observations on here about wealthy Russians avoiding sanctions or disappearing behind second and third citizenships 🧵
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Someone please tell this Williamsburg boutique who Martin Heidegger is
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Internationalist Bernie is the best Bernie
BREAKING:
@BernieSanders
just told the
#PeoplesVaccine
rally that he's writing to President Biden to call for the United States to support waving intellectual property on Covid-19 vaccines at the World Trade Organization.
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NEW:
@kenklippenstein
reporting that everyone's worst border nightmare looks like it's coming true
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In short, the sale of citizenship is unlikely to go away forever because of this crisis. That’s because countries make their own rules about who belongs. If you don’t like it, maybe time to rethink countries ;) You can also read my book!
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Anecdotally, all the people who matter in Russia acquired second citizenships years ago (and not necessarily through one of these investment programs). Any new measures to curb passport sales will trap small fish, not the sharks.
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New executive order “makes clear that the US doesn’t view space as a ‘global commons’, opening the way for the mining of the moon without any sort of international treaty.”
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Posting this to reassure, not sound glib, but toddler and I both have it and covid logistics aside it’s by far the *least* unpleasant bug he’s brought home since starting daycare
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I read loads of novels this year and without naming names the general trend was that the new ones were mostly pretty bad and the old ones were much better
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The EU is gonna have a really hard time pulling off this ban. My prediction is states may voluntarily & temporarily stop doing biz with Russians (like they have w. Syrians, Iranians, Iraqis) & beef up background checks - but nothing permanent or binding.
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c-c-c-c-c-cocaaiinne
how… how did zizek write about book about covid-19 already
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The passport industry will resist meaningful regulation. It will find new countries willing to break rank with the EU to sell their papers and capitalize off of the general malaise and uncertainty to find new clients in the region - esp. Baltics but easily worldwide.
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They simply can’t claim to be democratic EU states while discriminating, via entry bans or other restrictions, against citizens they enthusiastically naturalized, simply because they also happen to be Russian. They’ll have to find other pretexts or prove fraud à la Emma Goldman.
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Countries that have sold oligarchs passports may be tempted or pressured to take them away, but this is a huge can of worms that causes more problems than it solves.
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Some important background on the Portland abductions from scoopmaster
@kenklippenstein
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We are in the Italian part of Switzerland and my husband keeps pointing to young women asking “who is Lila and who is Lenu” … and this, my friends, is why men should not be allowed to read Elena Ferrante.
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This will happen not every generation or two but every micro-generation until there’s systemic change in how the world economy is organized.
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The shkreli girl is our punishment for complaining about there being no gossip for 9 months
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IMO instead of "de-globalization" we'll wind up w. a nasty combo: the worst parts of nationalism (closed borders, fascist/authoritarian leaders, hierarchies based on race and gender) + the worst parts of globalization (austerity, inequality, monopoly etc)
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Just one depressing detail from this 2015 column
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“THAT WAS PRESIDENTIAL” - Americans each time a guy on tv strings together a coherent sentence
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“I survived Coronavirus and all I got was...”
Do you still remember the patient who was reading
#FrancisFukuyama
’s The Origins of Political Order in a module hospital in
#Wuhan
? Not only was the patient discharged from hospital but also received a signed copy of the book from Francis Fukuyama himself!
@FukuyamaFrancis
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Beyond thrilled to receive this grant, and in such great company, too!
Congratulations to Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
@atossaaraxia
, recipient of a 2022 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant for her book THE HIDDEN GLOBE! Read more about her work here:
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I can't stop thinking about this news. It's almost like insurance companies don't understand that assuming risk is the foundation of their business.
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Everything about this—not least the timing—is bonkers.
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My earliest memory is the sound of Iraqi scuds falling on Tehran so our editorial this week hits pretty close to home. Please read it.
"We are not on the brink of war; we are already at war. What matters now is ending it—as quickly as possible." — The Nation Editors
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Private equity-backed, $40,000/year daycare chains donated to Manchin’s campaign when he killed the childcare subsidies that would have created more competition for them 🤬🤬🤬
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THE US MAKES YOU GET A SYPHILIS TEST BEFORE LETTING YOU APPLY FOR A GREEN CARD
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Lots of people are yelling at me for not being a US citizen after 17 years here. My dudes: I agree that the law is preposterous! Now call your representatives!
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Curbed is absolutely killing it these days (I suspect because they hired a bunch of great non-real estate writers and let them have fun) This is a story I’ve wanted to read for a year
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Baby was born the next day so I’m gonna go with
#1
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Can’t tell if my compulsive organizing is nesting instinct, being Swiss or going fucking insane on lockdown
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I wrote some fiction
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as a trilingual reporter raised by a sexalingual (?) UN interpreter i can confirm that the multilingual king is extremely fucking impressive
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For
@nytopinion
I wrote about how the U.S should let aliens (the friendly human kind) vote 👽🇺🇸
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Why Glenn Greenwald’s Prosecution Is An Outrage
@kenklippenstein
's first
@thenation
byline!
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If I’m extremely online this month it’s because baby Adlai arrived yesterday and there’s not much else you can do with one hand while nursing an infant 🐣
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I have another chance to name my son Bernie but my mean husband still won’t let me
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guess what, not everyone thinks that migration is a “problem”
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I sadly won’t be returning to
@thenation
this winter but I urge you to read the mag, pitch the best editors in the business (
@ChrisBurkeShay
@EmilySDouglas
@lizzyratner
@shujaxhaider
@anastasiakeeley
@miguelxsalazar
@rosedamora
@fareynolds
) & send
@kenklippenstein
all your tips!
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Bonkers
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The only good one
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One of the reasons having a baby during peak Covid was manageable for us was because we both got and took paid time off *at the same time*. I can’t emphasize how much this helped make things more egalitarian, less lonely, and (shocker) fun! We should not be the exception!
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“I heard Dissent and Commentary had merged and formed Dysentery”
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This book is as good as everyone is saying. Just mind-bending.
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Trump says COVID-19 was unforeseen—but the military knew years ago than a coronavirus was coming scoop by
@kenklippenstein
@thenation
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We beat the hell out of this thing. Piñata credit: Park Slope Piñatas
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Sad about Warren. She deserves more and better.
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A funny, pitch-perfect and entirely fair-minded critique of Applebaum’s centrism by
@DavidKlion
. Especially love the cheeky disclosure and his masterful mining of the book’s “acknowledgments” section...you must read this!
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can't count how many times i've had a vague hunch about something only to find a
@davidgraeber
article articulating it perfectly. rip :(
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The Hidden Globe has a cover and a 10/8 pub date! The best & nicest thing you can do to support me and books in general is to pre-order it
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smart edit tho!
Hey
@wsj
, the story on Buttigieg staff leaving due to lack of inclusivity went to press w a significant editorial note in it. May want to fix it stat!
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So happy and lucky to be part of
@NAFellows
program
@NewAmerica
this year. (Fitting because I myself am a new American!)
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Everyone’s posting cookies so I must take the opportunity to publicly call out my husband who has decided to *stop* baking at this difficult time to avoid getting “covid bod”
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Tired: deport them!
Wired: nudge them back to whence they came!
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millennially obligated to brag about this on here
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It was a real treat to inform a fellow passenger on our flight about the news
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I complain about the sucky food in Ann Arbor but I do not miss NYC restaurant culture at all. Knife-fighting to get a 530pm reservation to have the privilege of paying way too much money to eat at a place called “lazer wolf” is in fact as absurd as it sounds
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I have so many questions. Are they gonna turn away US citizens coming back from Europe? Is preventing their return legal?
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Around the world, nationalists are deporting people to random countries they have no ties to. Trump’s “safe” third country agreement is just the latest example of this trend. My
@thenation
editorial:
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So weird that there’s a clothing store called Banana Republic
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geography is lowkey the most interesting academic discipline
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because having a baby in the middle of a pandemic was not enough, i shall now endeavor to fly internationally with a baby during the pandemic!
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I wrote about
@MiraSiegelberg
and
@ProfKochenov
’s fascinating new books on statelessness and citizenship for
@nybooks
!
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This article is right that quality of life in Switzerland is excellent. But it ignores how the national business model relies largely on the fact that there can only be one country like it.
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Rt shamelessly if you’ve been that editor 😎
no one talks about the secret shame of your editor inserting a really good line into your piece and then everyone quoting that line so you and your editor are just sitting there like
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So I watched Tenet...
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So happy about the waiver, so mad it’s six months late
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I can’t read about Q Anon. I try, get a couple of paragraphs in, then my eyes glaze over and my head hurts and I have to stop. Feels like sitting in on a multilevel marketing meeting or being stuck in the train with a proselytizer.
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(There is zero drama or gossip behind this decision, it’s a book/baby/pandemic thing! I will stick around as a writer and contributing editor ❤️)
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I deeply respect that
#mintthecoin
has become
#mintwocoins
Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Pramila Jayapal, along with several co-sponsors, including AOC, are out with a new proposal to mint two $1 trillion coins and provide $2000/month for every person in America during the crisis.
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My commitment to not going camping is so strong that not even Covid-19 can shake it
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In progress 😎
The Robert B. Silvers Foundation warmly congratulates the recipients of the 2021 Silvers Grants for Work in Progress:
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What exactly does it mean to be a climate refugee when so many push factors in migration—from low wages to inadequate housing and health care—are intertwined and interdependent with the state of the natural world? New
@thenation
column
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