Emily Tamkin

@emilyctamkin.bsky.social

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Writer, reporter, editor, all-around delight. Work lots of places. Author of THE INFLUENCE OF SOROS and BAD JEWS. Working on new book on Holocaust remembrance. Don’t yell at me. [email protected]. emilyctamkin.substack.com.

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Cheer up, Tories. You may have lost in devastating fashion but you are also the subject of this week's ET Write Home open.substack.com/pub/emilycta...

To the Toriesopen.substack.com This is about the UK election

Wrote about movies about/on the 4th of July, which share a theme: self-delusion in the face of crisis (I drafted this before the last week, I promise) newlinesmag.com/argument/the...

The Stories Hollywood Tells About Americanewlinesmag.com How three movies set on the Fourth of July reproduce popular myth, but reveal even more through what they leave unsaid

Is this "good" or

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

Wrote about existential dread/elections www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...

America’s existential electionwww.prospectmagazine.co.uk As last week’s debate showed, both Trump and Biden want voters to believe they alone can save the country

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many things make me angry about the supreme court but one of the biggest things is just that none of those cowards in the gang of six will ever take real questions from the public

Some of our worst guys are on SCOTUS.

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what a match. Crushing for Slovakia

Wrote about the minimum of what we should expect from Democrats in speaking about reproductive choice open.substack.com/pub/emilycta...

How to talk about reproductive choiceopen.substack.com This is about last night's debate

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Chair of the AZ delegation to the RNC says she could work with an elections official who is “a good Christian man that believes what we believe” but that she would “lynch” a current election official in Maricopa County (who is a Republican and Jewish). www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Arizona RNC delegation chair: ‘I would lynch’ county election officialwww.washingtonpost.com Shelby Busch has framed her quest to unearth election fraud in the battleground state in the language of a religious holy war.

For the Forward, I wrote about justice, patience, reproductive rights, and our esteemed Supreme Court justices forward.com/opinion/6279...

Jewish law says we must wait for justice. For abortion rights, the cost of that wait is too highforward.com In this week's ruling, the Supreme Court did not make it even more dangerous to be pregnant in this country. The relief is fleeting.

This week on the pod, it was our pleasure to discuss the French elections with Art Goldhammer podfollow.com/1727411880/e...

The Election Tricycle: Between a Rock and un Endroit Dur: is Macron under siege from both Left and Right?podfollow.com On this week's episode of The Election Tricycle we're talking to Art Goldhammer to talk about what's going on in France's parliamentary elections. Was Macron "totally insane" to call this surprise ...

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"Two months after Dobbs, 22 percent of adults said they were uncertain whether eggs inside a woman’s ovaries have shells (they do not)." *rubs temples*

Abortion Debate Shifts as Election Nears: ‘Now It’s About Pregnancy’www.nytimes.com Two years after Roe was struck down, the conversation has focused on the complications that can come with pregnancy and fertility, helping to drive more support for abortion rights.

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"Since Texas’ ban on abortion went into effect, infant deaths in the state increased by nearly 13%, according to a new analysis published on Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. In the rest of the country, infant mortality increased less than 2% over the same period."

Infant deaths increased after Texas banned abortion in early pregnancywww.statnews.com Since Texas’ ban on abortion went into effect, infant deaths in the state increased by nearly 13%, according to a new analysis published on Monday in JAMA Pediatrics.

Learning languages provides rich insight into cultural differences

Slovakia!!!!!!!!!

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I'm gonna live forever (compared to people who don't drink coffee AND sit around all day)

Sedentary coffee drinkers had a 24 percent reduced risk of mortality compared with those who sat for more than six hours and didn’t drink coffee, according to the lead author of a study published recently in the journal BMC Public Health.

More good news for coffee drinkers from a study of sitting and sippingwww.washingtonpost.com Sedentary coffee drinkers had a 24 percent reduced risk of mortality compared with sedentary non-coffee-drinkers, a researcher found.

What a joke! (I wrote about The Joke for this month's ET Watch Home) open.substack.com/pub/emilycta...

ET Watch Home, a monthly movie essayopen.substack.com For June, Jaromil Jireš’s The Joke

My dog had a great day today (she met a cat on a leash)

I wrote about who I, an American, am rooting for in the Euros open.substack.com/pub/emilycta...

Goal!open.substack.com This is about Europeans and soccer and my rooting interests

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We gotta get people from “listen to marginalized people (who are pure and have no flaws)” to “listen to marginalized people (who are people, flaws and all)” about Jews, historic and present

For the Forward, I wrote about calls to erase or paint over Jewish history because of antisemitism—and how doing so does not fight and indeed misunderstands antisemitism forward.com/opinion/6225...

Honesty about the flaws of Hollywood's Jewish founders isn't the same as antisemitismforward.com New criticism that an Academy Museum exhibit about Hollywood's Jewish founders contains antisemitism is misdirected.

For the Forward, I wrote about calls to erase or paint over Jewish history because of antisemitism—and how doing so does not fight and indeed misunderstands antisemitism forward.com/opinion/6225...

"It also points to a divide in Jewish organizations, w/ pro-Israel organizations evidently increasingly comfortable w/ politicians, regardless of background, speaking on questions of identity & antisemitism—provided they're staunch defenders of the Israel" newrepublic.com/article/1823...

Ritchie Torres vs. the Leftnewrepublic.com Why the New York Democrat chose Israel over his progressive colleagues

For @tnr.bsky.social, I wrote about Ritchie Torres, Israel, and the future of American Jewish politics newrepublic.com/article/1823...

Ritchie Torres vs. the Leftnewrepublic.com Why the New York Democrat chose Israel over his progressive colleagues

The tricycle went to Europe this week to unpack EU election results podfollow.com/1727411880/e...

The Election Tricycle: Europe's Move to the Right: have the EU elections exposed a new fault-line in European politics?podfollow.com The Trike makes a brief detour this week, over to mainland Europe where EU elections have rocked the continent. A strong showing from the far and hard right has led President Macron to call a snap ...

Happy is maybe not the right word given the subject but I'm something like happy to share that I'm working on my next book, on Holocaust remembrance in pop culture, politics, and foreign policy and on how it impacts them and is in turn impacted by them, for Bloomsbury Academic.

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“Chutzpah” and “cynical” are not strong enough words to describe the gall of Elise Stefanik’s rebrand. New @emilyctamkin.bsky.social: slate.com/news-and-pol...

Congress Has a Self-Appointed Protector of Jews. There’s Just One Problem.slate.com This rebrand has been quite the exercise in chutzpah.

"though she presents herself as a champion against antisemitism, in reality, Stefanik is spreading it." By me for @slate.bsky.social slate.com/news-and-pol...

Congress Has a Self-Appointed Protector of Jews. There’s Just One Problem.slate.com This rebrand has been quite the exercise in chutzpah.

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It is bleakly hilarious how much of Westminster has convinced itself that Rishi Sunak’s platform of soft scepticism towards net zero, £12bn of cuts to welfare, bringing back national service, etc. is closer to the “centre” than Johnson’s “no cuts, more police, 40 hospitals” shtick.

Of course the titanic mind of Lord Frost got in first

I thought this essay was extraordinary www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

A ‘Life of Contradictions’ | Gyan Prakashwww.nybooks.com As Indian democracy comes under increasing threat from Hindu nationalists, the Dalit politician B.R. Ambedkar’s fight against caste inequality acquires a new significance.

Seems legit