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nytimes.comOpinion | Russia Was Losing. Enter President Trump. (Gift Article)The commander in chief is Putin’s ace in the hole.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/o... "It’s horrible to have to type these words, but the president... is throwing Vladimir Putin a lifeline. He is turning the American government against Ukraine..."

nytimes.comRussian Businessman With Putin Ties Paid for Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Party (Gift Article)The payments, totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars, represented an extraordinary flouting of ethical norms for an American president’s family member.

14 Sept

"But Hunter sold a painting!" 🤦‍♂️ Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...

nytimes.comTrump Administration Looks to Give a Swath of Yosemite Park to Developer (Gift Article)The proposed land swap would allow easy access to the crown jewel of the national park system. Democrats and former Park Service officials are incensed.

29 Aug

Everything is now for sale. Coming soon: Oil Rigs in Arlington National Cemetary Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/u...

nytimes.comHow a Counterintelligence Inquiry Into Trump’s Russia Ties Was Derailed (Gift Article)Documents released by the White House shed new light on the demise of an often-overlooked 2017 F.B.I. investigation.

10 Aug

🤦‍♂️ Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/u...

nytimes.comOpinion | Christopher Nolan’s Trojan Horse (Gift Article)The big trick of his “Odyssey” is smuggling the core of Judeo-Christian ethics into an ancient Greek epic.

10 Aug

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...

nytimes.comTreasury to Begin Minting $1 Gold Trump Coin Featuring President’s Face (Gift Article)Critics question whether the coins are legal and argue that President Trump is using the currency to celebrate himself.

16 July

Convicted felon, rapist, and probable child molester. Perfect choice to be celebrated on American gold coins. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/u...

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11 July

👇👇

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social

you know what reporters should do? have an event honoring the first amendment and invite him as the guest of honor. call it the white house correspondents dinner. he’d like that.

wapo.stWhite House appoints climate science critic to lead key climate programMatthew M. Wielicki will now oversee the nation’s flagship report on the climate.

10 July

Most Anti-Science administration EVER! wapo.st/4ymWRPl

wapo.stColumn | The only bias uncovered in the White House’s Smithsonian report is its ownA White House report alleges radical bias at the American History museum. But the assembled evidence reveals a large and vibrant institution carrying out its mission.

7 July

wapo.st/4az7lko Yes, there's "radical ideology" afoot, but it's not at the Smithsonian.

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4 July

That picture…

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com

wapo.stColumn | The story behind Rob Reiner’s posthumous cameo in Larry David’s new showThe sketch, which aired Friday on “Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness,” was presumably the filmmaker’s last performance before his death.

4 July

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wapo.stICE’s arrest of nun heading to church fuels bipartisan backlash in South TexasThe president’s deportation drive has riled border areas that supported him in 2024, and a GOP congresswoman joined Democrats calling for the sister’s release.

1 July

wapo.st/3SSUALi trump's amerika

nytimes.comTrump Pulled In at Least $2 Billion After Returning to the White House

1 July

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u... And they talk about the "Biden crime family." 🤦‍♂️

nytimes.comTrump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit.

28 June

Corruption through and through. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/w...

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25 June

Grift all the way down

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Marco Rubio on why Trump's son in law, Michael Boulos, who has no government role, was in his official meetings in Kuwait: "He was just here because his brother lives here and I'm a good friend of Michael's, so we had a chance to catch up"

wapo.stVance dismisses Watergate scandal, says ‘deep state’ went after NixonThe vice president said he admired Nixon and drew parallels between the past president, who resigned amid pressure in 1974, and Trump today.

26 June

wapo.st/4g7mmxo True! (if by "deep state" Vance means "those who respect the law.")

nytimes.comTrump Administration to Pay $765 Million to Cancel 4 More Wind Projects

17 June

Anti-science; anti-clean energy; anti-common sense. And the Carnival=Barker-in-Chief keeps barking.🤦‍♂️ Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/c...

wapo.stAlgae forms in the Reflecting Pool. It’s ‘residual,’ Trump officials say.A few days after the $14 million renovation was completed, along came the algae in the D.C. heat. It's being removed, an Interior spokeswoman said, and measures are in place to prevent it in the futur...

12 June

wapo.st/4orMcyb There's ALWAYS an excuse.

nytimes.comOpinion | Trump’s Assaults on Scientific Research Just Got Worse

10 June

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/o...

nytimes.comReflecting Pool Contract Has ‘Inflated’ Profit Margin, Government Analysis Finds

28 May

www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u... Well, yes, it's excessive, but when you subtract the president's cut it's like working for peanuts!

nytimes.comIn West Bank, Latest Victim of Israeli Settler Violence Shocks in a New Way

22 May

www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/w... Just one more thing.

nytimes.comOpinion | There Has Never Been an Example of Presidential Corruption Like This

20 May

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/o... AMEN

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Lawfare

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8 May

On Lawfare Daily, @klonick.bsky.social and @stevevladeck.bsky.social discussed the impact of the New York Times’ “shadow papers” story, the continued omnipresence of the shadow docket, and the courts v. Court in this administration. youtu.be/wJUEO4LgJjI

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The Tennessee Holler

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7 May

Question: Why would the Super Bowl ever come to a Jim Crow state that intentionally strips representation from Black people? cc: NFL

wapo.stColumn | Trump demands gratitude in D.C. So he put up banners thanking himself.Signs appearing around the capital twist appreciation and patriotism into an authoritarian knot.

8 May

🤦‍♂️ wapo.st/4nbEIP2

nytimes.comAfter Criticizing Pope, Trump Posts Image of Himself as a Jesus-Like Figure

13 Apr

Attacking Popes but Never Putin. 🤷‍♂️ Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...

nytimes.comTrump Seeks $152 Million to Begin to Turn Alcatraz Back Into a Prison

3 Apr

What a clown show we've become. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

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ACLU

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BREAKING: President Trump has issued an unlawful executive order attempting to severely restrict mail-in voting. The Constitution is clear: Only the states or Congress can change election laws.

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derek guy

@dieworkwear.bsky.social

"trans ideology is a sickness." [reads the news] "people's personal affairs are none of our business and we should talk about immigration"

wapo.stTrump administration lawsuit says women’s retreat discriminates against menThe lawsuit signals a historic shift for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, whose chair issued an appeal asking White men to report discrimination.

Every headline is like The Onion without The Onion. wapo.st/4m9rJgw

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸

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nytimes.comOpinion | The People Trump Pardoned Are on a Crime Spree

Emblematic of the administration at large. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/o...

wapo.stTrump officials cite white supremacists in bid to end birthright citizenshipAn argument heading to the Supreme Court is built in part on a post-Civil War campaign that scholars say was steeped in anti-Black and anti-Chinese racism.

30 Mar

Of course. wapo.st/41ynLnZ

nytimes.comEverything With Trump’s Signature, Name and Likeness: Currency, Buildings and More (Gift Article)Since the start of his second term, there have been more than a dozen instances of his name, image or signature emblazoned on a variety of American initiatives and institutions.

29 Mar

And to think, republicans called Obama a "narcissist." 🤦‍♂️ Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸

@gtconway.bsky.social

25 Mar

wapo.stTrump showed classified map to passengers on his plane in 2022, memo saysThe document offers a snapshot of an early moment in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation and adds new shading to the public understanding of Smith’s probes.

25 Mar

Treasonous president. wapo.st/3PHZoBA

nytimes.comOpinion | Trump Is Hiding the Truth About the War in Iran

22 Mar

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derek guy

@dieworkwear.bsky.social

21 Mar

It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...

wapo.stColumn | The message on Trump’s coin is clear. And it’s chilling.Julius Caesar also broke with tradition by putting himself on a coin. It didn’t go over so well.

21 Mar

As he hovers over "In God We Trust" I wonder what God would trust a country that elevates a pedophile to president. wapo.st/4cUJpdb

wapo.stTrump’s hand-picked panel votes to put his face on a U.S. gold coinThe proposal had been rejected by members of a separate federal coin committee — and panned by former member Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

19 Mar

malignant narcissist; malignant moron wapo.st/4by5sE9

nytimes.comDozens of Medical Workers Killed as Israel Hits Lebanon

15 Mar

sadly, maddeningly typical Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/w...

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13 Mar

And lies. Don’t forget the lies

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Hegseth this morning, now this rant from Jeanine. These people come unglued when you point out their obvious incompetence and demonstrable failures. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

nytimes.comTrump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle Renowned Science Lab

13 Mar

Moronic Administration continues the War On Science. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/c...

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Wolf Hour

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10 Mar

(cartoon Steve Sack)

nytimes.comU.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows

9 Mar

He lies about everything else, so why not lie about killing schoolgirls on day 1 of his war? Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...

wapo.stRussia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials sayThe targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

7 Mar

wapo.st/40BqWep Perfect time to ease sanctions AND commit TREASON!

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Amber Woods

@amberspeaks.bsky.social

4 Mar

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret)

@portlandken.bsky.social

3 Mar

Once again, a single cartoon tells more truth that the entire US Congress. Thanks to Rick McKee for making our current situation easy to understand.

nytimes.comOpinion | Trump’s Attack on Iran Is Reckless

28 Feb

"His appetite for military intervention grows with the eating." Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/o...

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