@michaelwwaters

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

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Joined August 2011
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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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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/2025/1…

American Suburbs Have a Financial Secret

Municipal bonds have become an unavoidable part of local governance—and their costs divide rich towns from poor ones.

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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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not on here so much anymore but just have to share that the Japanese edition arrived! it's a family :)
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if any, like, German or Czech publishers want in, let's keep this energy going...
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Linda Mamoun
@mamoun_linda1 Jul 2025
This should be on every major news site.
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beautiful. youtube.com/watch?v=hlVBg7_0…

MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS - SAME LOVE feat. MARY LAMBERT (OFFICIAL...

Same Love feat. Mary Lambert on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/...

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brian@brianonhere25 Jun 2025
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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election day 🤝 E•MO•TION anniversary
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Time to make sure he actually delivers on this promise.
Juanita Broaddrick
@atensnut24 Jun 2025
MAMDANI: “As Mayor I would have Netanyahu arrested if he came to New York!” WTF?
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Krystal Ball
@krystalball23 Jun 2025
Already back out protesting for Palestine. What a legend.
The People's Forum
@PeoplesForumNYC22 Jun 2025
🚨‼️BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil marches to the gates of Columbia University—just moments after a powerful welcome home rally surrounded by friends, family, and community members who stood by him and continue to stand with Palestine.
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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-o…

Where is the outrage over Skrmetti?

On the far right's campaign to create uncertainty. And the powerful institutions that helped along the way.

lawdork.com
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Tom Perkins@PomTerkins6 Jun 2025
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…

University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters

Revealed: security trailing students on and off campus as video shows investigator faking disability when confronted

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I wrote for @TheAtlantic about how archivists are contending with our digital detritus — whether we'll be able to save emails, texts, Discord chats, etc and what that means for how we tell history: theatlantic.com/culture/arch…

Archivists Aren’t Ready for the ‘Very Online’ Era

The challenge: how to catalog and derive meaning from so much digital clutter

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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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Prem Thakker@prem_thakker1 Jun 2025
Read this horrifying testimony from Israel's massacre of people just trying to get food:
MSF International
@MSF1 Jun 2025
Our teams joined the mass casualty response in Nasser hospital, Gaza, today, after another disastrous food distribution resulted in people getting shot by Israeli forces. Hear from patients: msf.org/dozens-palestinians-…

Dozens of Palestinians massacred at US-Israel backed food distribution sites | MSF

Dozens of Palestinians were killed and hundreds more injured as they waited for food at the newly-created distribution centres in Rafah, Palestine.

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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
@NewYorker21 May 2025
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/u3…
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The Other Olympians is coming out in paperback on June 3! to celebrate, @9BillionTigers, @Hugh_Ryan, Sabrina Imbler, and I are presenting on research obsessions that never made it to print come for wine and light debauchery, and maybe a photo op... RSVP: lu.ma/lnnvrmoh
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it will be a fun ride i promise
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