Brazil's president speaks for the first time since losing the election 2 days ago. Bolsonaro does not mention election at all. Doesn't concede, much less congratulates Lula da Silva. Spoke for less than 2 minutes. His ally Ciro Nogueira, however, says transition will take place.

The lungs of the Earth will breathe easier tonight 🌳 🌳 🌳

Lula officially wins the Brazil presidential election promising to stop deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, after four years of surging destruction under Bolsonaro. 🧵 1/

Always remember, the antecedent is the proper noun that is closest to the pronoun

BREAKING 🇧🇷: Reports of federal police (PF) and federal highway police (PRF) blocking roads and conducting unwarranted vehicle searches in Lula voting areas across Brazil. The Workers Party (PT) has filed a formal complaint with the electoral authorities.

NEW INVESTIGATION: Churches routinely break the law by endorsing candidates, an investigation by Jeremy Schwartz Jessica Priest for Texas Tribune ProPublica found. The IRS has largely abdicated enforcement of a 1954 law prohibiting such campaigning.
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Really enjoyed this discussion about the endlessly depressing Kanye news, the mechanics of online radicalization, and why free-speech absolutism doesn't make any sense

Apropos of...everything that's going on, I talked to Andrew Marantz about the radicalization of Kanye West and other alt-right internet trolls: crooked.com/podcast/kanye-…

My most exhilarating profile subject ever, hands down, was Mike Davis. linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9709/davis.html

Heartbroken about the great Peter Schjeldahl. What beauty and brilliance he gave us, including here. newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…

Part of what’s so pathetic about the diminished Kanye West we’ve come to know in the Trump and post-Trump years is how predictable his shtick has become, Andrew Marantz writes. nyer.cm/bEeVhbo

Remember sitting next to strangers in the dark and laughing? It's the best!
This weekend, for the New Yorker Festival, I'll be talking to Jerrod Carmichael on Oct. 8 and Kumail Nanjiani on Oct. 9. They are both very funny and smart! come one come all: newyorker.com/festival.

On our Politics and More podcast, Andrew Marantz discusses the practical challenges of enacting centrist Democrats’ watered-down progressive reforms. Listen here. nyer.cm/bIoH7cL

I'm very excited to be a part of the New Yorker Festival! I will be talking to the super smart Andrew Marantz on October 9th at 8 pm. It'll be fun to be in front of a crowd again. It has been... a while.

Buy tickets here:

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In this week's issue of The New Yorker, I profile the rise of El Salvador's authoritarian president, Nayib Bukele.

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Jazz, but Make It YouTubey (Andrew Marantz - The New Yorker) redef.com/item/6317449b9…

Very excited to interview Jerrod Carmichael live on Oct 8. Tickets below, and tell me if there's something I should ask him (he doesn't have Twitter so he actually might not see it!)

festival.newyorker.com

Biden is expected to cancel (some) student debt tomorrow. Here's a piece I wrote last year about how the idea of debt forgiveness moved from the fringe to the mainstream:

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Say hello to our first Gen Z congressmember, Maxwell Frost. politico.com/amp/news/magaz…