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Michael Waters

@michaelwwaters

historian // copywriter by day // author of THE OTHER OLYMPIANS (out now from @fsgbooks!)

Brooklyn เข้าร่วม Ağustos 2011
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Michael Waters@michaelwwaters·
I love these 1936 newsreel clips of Zdeněk Koubek, a Czech track star who publicly transitioned gender after his transition, he came to New York to perform on Broadway. this seems to be the only surviving video Koubek is the center of my book, THE OTHER OLYMPIANS — out June 4!
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and this debt impacts pretty much everything—once you glimpse how municipal debt shapes inequality, it's really hard to unsee
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American cities and towns regularly turn to private investors to raise funds for schools and basic infrastructure and on the private bond market, the rich ones win and the poor inevitably lose wrote about the long arc of municipal debt for @TheAtlantic: theatlantic.com/books/2025/11/…
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if any, like, German or Czech publishers want in, let's keep this energy going...
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not on here so much anymore but just have to share that the Japanese edition arrived! it's a family :)
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Linda Mamoun@mamoun_linda·
This should be on every major news site.
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brian
brian@brianonhere·
DSA chapters across the nation need to instantly be reviewing their core cadre and sorting by hotness in advance of an all out nationwide electoral push
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Christina Casillo@chrisrosecas·
election day 🤝 E•MO•TION anniversary
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Chris “Law Dork” Geidner
Chris “Law Dork” Geidner@chrisgeidner·
NEW: "Where is the outrage over Skrmetti?" On the far right's campaign to create uncertainty over gender-affirming medical care for minors — and the powerful institutions that helped along the way. Tonight, at Law Dork. lawdork.com/p/where-is-the…
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Tom Perkins@PomTerkins·
I wrote abt u-mich hiring undercover investigators to spy on pro-Palestinian campus groups. Investigators drove a car at a student, pretended to be disabled, accused a student of robbing them, etc. Incl jaw dropping video theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
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archivists are all waiting for the really big challenge—what happens when they're tasked with processing a person's entire cellphone?
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i will always love Edmund White for being such an iconic gossip throughout CITY BOY but the thing I will never forget is his description of the perfect day job in the early 1970s
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in one week: to celebrate the paperback of The Other Olympians, @9BillionTigers, @Hugh_Ryan, Sabrina Imbler, and I are presenting on our research obsessions hear about historical love affairs, sexually active popes, and much more June 3 @ 7 pm! lu.ma/lnnvrmoh
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you unfortunately just know the party is going to be filled with gay boys the moment you walk in and see this
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker@NewYorker·
Noor Abdalla was eight months pregnant when her husband, Mahmoud Khalil, was arrested, in March. She hasn’t seen him since, and now has a one-month-old son. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/u3dZ7c
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