Nina Bernstein

Ex-NYT investigative reporter (immigration detention, child welfare, healthcare, metro). Drawn to cover the powerless, uncover the profits. Migrating from Twitter. Revising historical novel. Also like to laugh.

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NYT bio & articles: https://www.nytimes.com/by/nina-bernstein

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2026-01-21 13:56:47 GMT

It is time to recognize not only the brutality and lawlessness of ICE, but to see that it is the shock troops of American tyranny.
What should ordinary Germans have done in 1934? There is action we US citizens can take right now to resist. Funding for the Department of Homeland Security runs out Jan 30. Call your senators & representatives today & demand they use the appropriations bill to rein in ICE and freeze its budget, and vote no on any appropriation that doesn’t. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/opinion/ice-shooting-renee-good.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GFA.Zy6q.ULc1u59zH1a8&smid=nytcore-ios-share

2026-01-20 13:35:16 GMT

Paul Krugman:
“How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia? …The answer…lies in the straight line from Bush vs Gore & the Roberts Supreme Court, to January 6th, to the execution of Renee Good. However, what’s more important is that we realize where we are right now, that we don’t try to sugarcoat & sanewash what’s happening: A petulant, violent and deranged individual is running America.”

2026-01-15 13:09:01 GMT

Paul Krugman: “While our institutions & our elites have failed us, ordinary Americans are rising to the occasion. If Minneapolis is a laboratory of democratic destruction, it has also become a laboratory of civil resistance — organized civil resistance, of a kind we haven’t seen since the civil rights movement. When ICE is on the rampage, crowds of brave Americans, summoned by texts and whistles, quickly gather to stand against the masked men with guns.” #Resist #MLPS

2026-01-08 13:35:24 GMT

Another meticulous NYT video analysis that refutes the ICE/Trump propaganda and shows that the shooting in Minneapolis was murder as abuse of power. Note that the agents do not provide medical help and actually block a physician who wants to check for a pulse, then drive away. https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010631041/minneapolis-ice-shooting-video.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

2026-01-06 03:06:29 GMT

“John Feeley, a career diplomat and former ambassador to Panama who resigned in protest during Trump’s first term, said that to understand what’s unfolding in Venezuela, look to the mob, not traditional foreign policy doctrines. “When Donald Trump says, ‘We’re going to run the place,’ I want you to think of the Gambino family taking over the Colombo family’s business out in Queens,” he said. “They don’t actually go out and run it. They just get an envelope.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/opinion/trump-venezuela-regime-change.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

2025-11-17 12:53:18 GMT

Good reporting by the Harvard Crimson. Perhaps finally - years after his sexism was on display — the NYT will realize that Larry Summers’ baggage outweighs anything he has to say.
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/17/summers-epstein-wing-man-woman-described-as-mentee/

2025-10-25 19:00:37 GMT

“If Trump is going to be killing anyone in the Caribbean he deems a threat to the United States — without any attempt to publicly establish a legal rationale or show evidence — then these aren’t “strikes” or “interventions.” Donald Trump, under the guise of national security, is engaged in a killing spree.”
—Jamelle Bouie newsletter. #resist https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/opinion/trump-venezuela-white-house-mamdani.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-10-18 22:14:16 GMT

From the NYPD:
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/115/397/466/357/394/156/original/80e993d8fe537bd2.jpeg

2025-10-18 20:05:17 GMT

Another great sign from No Kings Day: #nokings #resist #SCOTUS
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/115/396/960/711/349/169/original/1eb96e87bd8eb759.jpeg

2025-10-12 01:50:53 GMT

Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’
The signs — nailed to trees or wrapped around electricity poles — have appeared across some of the District’s heavily immigrant neighborhoods, marking the anger in a majority-Democratic city where federal immigration arrests have escalated. “ICE kidnapped a community member here,” reads one. “Never forget/no nos olvidamos,” says another.
#Resist
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/10/10/ice-immigrants-protest-signs-dc/

2025-10-08 19:47:06 GMT

“Trump has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments.
This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021.
The man who attempted a violent coup—who fomented an actual insurrection—will invent a fantasy insurrection to justify overturning the rule of law and deploying the U.S. military against civilians.” #Tesust #ICE #Chicago https://www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-triad-the-chicago-rubicon-and-what-comes-next?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

2025-09-30 20:15:53 GMT

Masked government agents assaulting journalists. No, not Russia. NYC.
ICE agents assault amNewYork reporter at Federal Plaza immigration court; another journalist seriously injured after shove | amNewYork
https://www.amny.com/immigration/ice-agents-assault-amnewyork-reporter-journalists-09302025/

2025-09-29 17:45:16 GMT

Waiting for the NYT and WP to mention that the Michigan church killer and arsonist was apparently a Christian Trump supporter, fanatically anti-Mormon/ Latter-Day-Saints, at least per this informative story from the Detroit Free Press. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/09/29/thomas-jacob-sanford-michigan-shooting-suspect-anti-lds-tirade/86415139007/#

2025-09-27 00:10:15 GMT

“As despots have done for centuries, he is persecuting people he considers his enemies, with little justification other than raw political power. It is reminiscent of the old royal notion “L’état, c’est moi”: I am the state.
“This country’s founders recognized precisely this danger. In the Declaration of Independence, they excoriated the British king for prosecuting Americans for “pretended offenses.” #NoKingsDay Oct18 #resist https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/opinion/comey-indictment-justice-department.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-09-26 13:25:33 GMT

A federal agent shoved a woman and pushed her to the floor in front of her two young children on Thursday during a confrontation at an immigration courthouse in Manhattan.
Videos show a wrenching encounter in a hallway of 26 Federal Plaza in which the woman and a girl are desperately clinging to the woman’s husband, who is being detained. Agents pull the hair of the woman and the girl to get them away from the man. No warrant. Masked agents. Despicable. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/nyregion/ice-push-woman-nyc.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-09-18 12:42:04 GMT

#jimmykimmel #unions #resist
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2025-08-13 13:16:18 GMT

“The underlying issue remains: Police still shut down protests with mass arrests for minor infractions where protesters are removed from the scene for enough hours to ensure the protest ends,” said Elena Cohen, one of 10 lawyers to sign the complaint. “The standard is now to tackle anyone to the ground, no matter how calm the situation is and how minor any alleged violation is.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/nyregion/nypd-gaza-protest-suit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-07-12 11:58:06 GMT

Good news.
“While it does not take a federal judge to recognize that marauding bands of masked, rifle-toting goons have been violating ordinary people’s rights throughout Southern California,” he said, “we are hopeful that today’s ruling will be a step toward accountability for the federal government’s flagrant lawlessness that we have all been witnessing.” #Gift #Resist #ICE https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/us/immigration-raids-judge-injunction.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V08._vUp.Dehy8cnOg4sa&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-06-22 20:21:59 GMT

Khalil: “I’m free,” he said, “but those who made me go through hell are still free outside and actually emboldened.”
He intends to immediately resume his advocacy for Palestinian rights, as well as immigrant rights.
“I don’t think what happened to me would stop me,” he said. “If anything, it’s actually reinforced my belief that what we’re doing is right.”

2025-06-18 15:29:51 GMT

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“It’s impossible to ignore…that he pardoned people who attacked the Capitol & assaulted police officers because he believes that they did it in his name.
And I can’t ignore…that he is pardoning nearly two dozen anti-abortion activists who were convicted under the FACE Act. I feel like we’re at a real tipping point, and the question is, are we going to keep on tipping forward into more chaos & more violence, or are people & leaders in this country going to pull us back from the precipice?”

2025-06-18 15:24:55 GMT

“The uptick in political violence and people being willing to use violence as a means to achieve their political ends,” she said. “I believe that it is fueled by the president’s willingness to use violent rhetoric and to cheer on the people that are doing violence on his behalf.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/politics/tina-smith-mike-lee-minnesota.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-06-07 14:10:46 GMT

Herman Melville in 1854:
“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.”

2025-05-27 11:57:35 GMT

A Letter to Europe - Paul Krugman
“The message for Europe is to stand up for yourself. In trade, in GDP, even in everything but the most advanced technology, you are no more dependent on the United States than the US is on you. There is nothing compelling you to cater to the delusions of America’s mad king. » #EU #Germany #France #resist
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-letter-to-europe?publication_id=277517&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&r=ad

2025-05-24 10:06:01 GMT

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“A majority of our elected representatives have failed to protect the American people from the abuses of an unfit president and a rogue government,” Mr. Springsteen said. “They have no concern or idea for what it means to be deeply American.”
Trump threatens to “investigate” him. #Springsteen #resist #music https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/arts/music/bruce-springsteen-e-street-band-ep-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-05-24 10:02:12 GMT

Trump told Springsteen to shut up. He didn’t.
His new album includes his Manchester, UK intro to “My City in Ruins,” telling the audience that in the United States the authorities were “persecuting people for using their right to free speech and voicing their dissent.” He said that the nation was cutting aid to the poor, abandoning allies, rolling back civil rights protections, defunding universities and deporting people without due process. #Springsteen #resist #music https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/arts/music/bruce-springsteen-e-street-band-ep-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-05-14 11:06:17 GMT

Paul Krugman:
“Why does MAGA hate renewables? They consider them woke because they help fight climate change, which they insist is a hoax. And they’re cleaner than burning fossil fuels, which means that they aren’t manly.
It’s all kind of funny — or would be if it weren’t so tragic.”
#climate #resist

2025-05-10 11:13:26 GMT

“Deputize” 20,000 more guys who get to wear masks and camouflage and arrest anybody. Demand that people they demonize leave the country, or that beyond being arrested and deported, face “the confiscation of savings and personal property, including homes and vehicles.”
Folks, we’ve seen this movie before — under the Nazis.
#resist
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/us/politics/dhs-deportation-extra-officers.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-05-01 02:27:12 GMT

“Lawyers are rallying across the United States on Law Day (May 1), which was established by President Eisenhower in 1958 as a national day to celebrate the rule of law, We are taking to the streets because the rule of law is under threat as never before in our lifetimes. This is not about politics or which party or individual is in the White House. It’s not about left or right. It’s about right or wrong.”
#Resist
https://www.amny.com/law/op-ed-nyc-lawyers-rally-rule-of-law-may-1/

2025-04-30 12:29:04 GMT

“This is what we were always scared of,” said Kevin Bankston, a longtime civil liberties lawyer and a senior adviser on A.I. governance at the Center for Democracy & Technology, a policy and civil rights organization. “The infrastructure for turnkey totalitarianism is there for an administration willing to break the law.”
#resist #A.I. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/opinion/musk-doge-data-ai.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-04-17 01:56:36 GMT

Wow.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/science/astronomy-exoplanets-habitable-k218b.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-04-16 10:44:27 GMT

One questioner was criticizing the Trump stance toward refugees when a man shouted: “ Are you going to bring that guy back from El Salvador?”
That brought enthusiastic claps from many in the crowd.
« I’m not going to,” Grassley said. Pressed to explain his stance, he added, “Because that’s not a power of Congress.”The man replied that the Supreme Court had ordered the administration to facilitate his release. Others noted that Grassley chairs the Judiciary Committee. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/us/politics/chuck-grassley-town-hall-iowa.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-04-11 12:56:10 GMT

Paul Krugman:
“Did I see this coming? No, not really. Unlike the sanewashers, I knew that Trump’s policies would be irresponsible & destructive. However, even I didn’t expect him to destroy credibility accumulated over 80 years in less than three months. But he has. And even if Trump were to backtrack on everything he’s done, we wouldn’t get the lost credibility back. The whole world…now knows that America is run by a mad king, surrounded by enablers, who can’t be trusted to behave rationally.”

2025-04-09 15:03:25 GMT

The Other Side of Signalgate
“They were scattered and torn into pieces,” he said. Rescuers recovered mangled bodies. Among them were two faces Hassan recognized well: the five-year-old boy, Hamad, and a three-year-old girl, Dareen, who was rushed to a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital. Hamad was dead.” https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-other-side-of-signalgate

2025-04-03 13:50:20 GMT

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How is it possible, Didier Fassin asks, that with rare exceptions, “for political leaders and intellectual personalities of the principal Western countries…the lives of Palestinian civilians are worth several hundred times less than the lives of Israeli civilians”? How do we explain why “demonstrations and meetings demanding a just peace are banned”? https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/04/24/infinite-license-the-world-after-gaza/

2025-04-03 13:44:36 GMT

Omer Bartov: “How was it possible, well into the twenty-first century, eighty years after the end of the Holocaust & the creation of an international legal regime meant to prevent such crimes from ever happening again, that the state of Israel—seen and self-described as the answer to the genocide of the Jews—could have carried out a genocide of Palestinians with near-total impunity?”https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/04/24/infinite-license-the-world-after-gaza/

2025-04-02 13:25:06 GMT

Must-read column by M.Gessen. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/opinion/trump-ice-immigrants.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-04-01 22:43:03 GMT

“Lawyers and big firms: For God’s sake, stand up for the legal profession, and for the Constitution. Defend the oath you took when you became officers of the court. If we stand together and fight, we will win.” #law #RESIST
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/opinion/perkins-coie-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-04-01 17:48:58 GMT

Good for Corey Booker! https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/booker-senate-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-04-01 02:29:07 GMT

“The truth is that a tattoo identifying Tren de Aragua does not exist,” she told me. “Tren de Aragua does not use any tattoos as a form of gang identification; no Venezuelan gang does.” In Rísquez’s view, tattoos are a completely unreliable indicator of someone’s criminal proclivities; rather, they reflect contemporary fashions and socioeconomic class. “Most young people in Latin America these days have tattoos,” she said. https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-immigration/the-makeup-artist-donald-trump-deported-under-the-alien-enemies-act

2025-03-31 17:51:21 GMT

“It’s long been a badge of honor on the right not to subscribe to The New York Times or The Washington Post. Liberals have lately followed suit. That’s just foolish. These national newspapers, along with The Wall Street Journal, are imperfect but indispensable sources of reliable information. So is your local newspaper, if you’re still lucky enough to have one.” Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/193193/citizen-guide-trump-resistance-fighting-back?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tnr_daily

2025-03-26 12:24:39 GMT

“In Denmark, people are starting to see this as a kind of hybrid warfare,” he added, pointing to comparisons with Crimea, the region annexed by Russia in 2014, where lines between diplomacy and provocation were deliberately blurred. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/world/americas/jd-vance-greenland-visit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-03-22 19:29:38 GMT

They were arrested during routine ICE check-ins. Then they disappeared.
“This looks like the kinds of things we thought only happened in other countries, and it’s happening to people who come from those places and came here to get away from it,” said Michelle Brané, a former Biden appointee who is among a group of lawyers working to identify detainees who may have been sent to El Salvador. “You’re not supposed to have people disappear in the United States.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/22/trump-venezuela-migrants-el-salvador/

2025-03-21 23:09:49 GMT

Adam Liptak has covered courts for decades. Yes, we’re in a constitutional crisis, he says in this video, but that’s the wrong question. Trump is amassing power that fundamentally and perhaps irrevocably changes the U.S. system
My post script: donate to the ACLU & join the protests April 5.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010063017/are-we-in-a-constitutional-crisis.html?smid=url-share

2025-03-14 19:31:44 GMT

The Guerrilla-Librarian Resistance
“My dad’s from Bosnia, and that’s informed my outlook on what can be irretrievably lost,” he said, citing the destruction of nearly two million books when Sarajevo’s National Library was shelled in 1992. Now he’s teaching dozens of Americans to save data from their own rogue government
#libraries #DOGE #RESIST
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-data-hoarders-resisting-trumps-purge

2025-03-11 12:28:01 GMT

“Any Jew who thinks this is going to start and stop with a few Palestinian activists is fooling themselves,” Amy Spitalnick, who runs the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and identifies as a progressive Zionist, said on social media on Monday morning. “Our community should not be used as an excuse to upend democracy & the rule of law.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/nyregion/palestinian-activist-arrest-jewish-community.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-03-11 00:04:15 GMT

“If someone legally in the US can be grabbed from his home for engaging in constitutionally protected political activity, we are in a drastically different country from the one we inhabited before Trump’s inauguration.
‘This seems like one of the biggest threats, if not the biggest threats to First Amendment freedoms in 50 years,’said Brian Hauss, a senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union.”https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/opinion/mahmoud-khalil-free-speech.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3E4.YwRc.hQSiXOOlfkO9&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-03-07 16:48:47 GMT

Russia launches huge strikes across Ukraine after US halts intelligence-sharing | Ukraine | The Guardian
Russia has carried out massive strikes across Ukraine, using drones and ballistic missiles, a day after the US stopped sharing intelligence with Kyiv that had previously given advance warnings of attacks.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/07/russia-launches-huge-strikes-across-ukraine-as-us-halts-intelligence-sharing

2025-03-05 12:45:14 GMT

Krugman: “Imagine how a private business would react if it hired a supposed efficiency expert who quickly fired crucial employees while making grandiose claims about the money he’s saving, but kept releasing progress reports that were full of ludicrous errors. You wouldn’t keep him on; you’d have security escort him out of the building and immediately change all the locks. But Trump went out of his way to praise Musk.” https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/america-is-trapped-in-a-burning-tesla?r=ad0yf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

2025-03-01 03:56:12 GMT

NYT reader comment on Trump & Vance Putin-inspired bullying of Zelensky: “Never has a political party shown cowardice as the Republicans have….Democrats need to get over their post-election shock, take off their gloves, and call 75 million voters to the streets. The difference in the popular vote was 1.5%. It’s time to start hosing down the dark grime that’s covered our country in a short but agonizing four weeks.” #RESIST #Ukraine https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/45mle6?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=commentShare

2025-02-27 14:22:16 GMT

This is the kind of real, priceless reporting that the NYT is doing in the face of despotism. Those dumping it are self-defeating.
The New York Times identified 45 people within the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a group formed by Elon Musk that in a short few weeks has radically upended federal agencies. Few members have formal Washington experience. Many are software engineers. All seem to have a clear mandate: Shrink and disrupt the federal government https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-02-26 19:43:52 GMT

Just cancelled my Amazon Prime membership, and will do my best to avoid ever buying anything from the Jeff Bezos octopus, now strangling dissenting opinion at the Washington Post.
Remember, consumers strike on Feb 28! Buy nothing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/business/media/washington-post-bezos-shipley.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-02-25 23:46:06 GMT

The nightmare keeps getting worse.
Trump allies circulate mass deportation plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and a private citizen ‘army’ - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/documents-military-contractors-mass-deportations-022648

2025-02-23 13:51:07 GMT

Chris Murphy, a rare Democrat who isn’t hedging:
“Nothing matters other than the question of whether or not we let the billionaires destroy our democracy,” he said. “There’s a ticking time bomb inside our body politic right now. It’s very possible this thing could be completely rigged by the summer or fall of this year.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/us/politics/chris-murphy-democrats-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-02-11 13:50:12 GMT

“Under the new standards, diversity is taboo, and racism is not. This stark reversal of values is a signature of the Trump restoration.” — Michelle Goldberg. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/opinion/musk-vance-racist-education.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-02-08 13:53:03 GMT

“The flurry of attacks also underscored once again how much Republican views have increasingly converged with propaganda emanating from the Kremlin or with narratives aligned with its international goals, especially on Musk’s platform. The false video about the celebrities appeared to be the work of an influence campaign that has produced dozens of similar fakes about Russia’s war in Ukraine.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/business/usaid-conspiracy-theories-disinformation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-01-31 15:06:56 GMT

Great column in the Guardian
Capitulating to Trump: why people are warning about ‘Vichy’ America
#Vichy #Democrats #opposition
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/31/vichy-france-trump-democrats?CMP=share_btn_url

2025-01-30 12:52:51 GMT

5 things Paul Krugman wants you to know about the Trump resign-& get-paid email to fed workers.
1. It’s illegal
2. It’s almost surely a scam: workers who take the offer probably won’t see the money they’ve been promised
3. To the extent that workers actually take up the offer, they’ll be the workers we can least afford to lose
4. The move will cost, not save money
5. What this really amounts to is a purge, replacing professional civil servants with political loyalists https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/its-a-scam-its-a-purge-its-a-scam?r=ad0yf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

2025-01-29 13:17:44 GMT

The NYT in a public service lists every program frozen by Trump. I hope local media — what’s left of it — will find individual examples of people affected, from retired railroad workers and farmers and the winner of a Mo Udall fellowship to babies whose W.I.C. milk is paused while the toadies hunt for « gender ideology » in the nutrition program. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/01/28/upshot/federal-programs-funding-trump-omb.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-01-12 00:39:43 GMT

A beautiful, amazing story in which art, hope, talent and luck triumph. #artists #museums #immigration https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/nyregion/egyptian-artist-metropolitan-museum-exhibit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&tgrp=off&pvid=C0F33366-CD81-4480-BD13-FDA27B98A938

2024-12-18 12:41:25 GMT

To me this lawsuit against the Des Moines Register signals the end of a free press in the US. It’s not about winning. It’s about bleeding and chilling. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/us/politics/trump-sues-des-moines-register.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2024-12-08 19:37:53 GMT

“For people who do not have money or social connections at hospitals or the ability to spend weeks at a time on the phone, a denied health-insurance claim can instantly bend the trajectory of a life toward bankruptcy & misery & death. Maybe everyone knows this, anyway, and structural violence—another term for it is “social injustice”—is simply, at this point, the structure of American life, and it is treated as normal, whether we attach that particular name to it or not.” https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-the-murder-of-the-unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompson-means-to-america

2024-11-09 19:19:18 GMT

“Trump, after all, does not have access to the A team, or the B or C teams. He has access to a group of true believers & grifters, some of them deeply cynical & some fanatical. In some situations, the Senate may withhold confirmation, though a Republican Senate likely won’t do that very often. And Trump, in any case, has the ability to place such people in positions of power either on an acting basis or as powers behind the various agency thrones.” https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/no-recriminations--just-democratic-survival

2024-10-31 12:38:54 GMT

If you needed anything more to stoke your anger and resolve: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/31/us/politics/trump-women-like-it-or-not.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2024-10-27 03:48:24 GMT

Terrific.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/26/us/politics/harris-michelle-obama-michigan.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2024-10-27 03:42:48 GMT

Good to see the NYT re-up their 9/30 editorial endorsing Harris. Take that, LAT & WaPo!
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/opinion/editorials/kamala-harris-2024-endorsement.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2024-10-18 15:13:38 GMT

Superb Bouie. Don’t miss this one. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/opinion/trump-woodward-milley-mass-deportation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&tgrp=bth&pvid=AB8DCE16-21DC-4294-9650-1E85CEF64724

2024-10-15 12:56:08 GMT

Terrific column. Note how Jennifer Rubin calls out headlines in her own paper and the NYT that normalize/tip-toe around Trump’s Nazi incitements and racism. E.g. “obsession with genes.”
“Why Trump is doubling down on racism”
https://wapo.st/3Yzs16h

2024-10-11 01:54:46 GMT

Under Maine law that should be copied, mobile home residents got to buy the land under their homes, rather than seeing it go to corporate investors.
Investors have increasingly been buying up mobile home parks, driving rents up and residents out. Between 2015 and 2022, around 800,000 manufactured housing communities were sold to private equity investors. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/10/realestate/brunswick-mobile-home-sale-maine.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

2024-10-08 13:20:17 GMT

Fascinating and hopeful piece on the amazing healing properties of placentas for burns, wounds, eye injuries. #medicine #healthcare https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/well/placenta-donations-burns-wounds.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

2024-10-03 12:05:03 GMT

Struck by photos of hurricane devastation and heartbreak? Read how the Republican supermajority in NC, which gets lots of $ from the builders association, stripped safety regulations from home building before the hurricane, overriding the Dem governor’s veto. This is a rare kind of reporting that we need more than ever. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/climate/north-carolina-homes-helene-building-codes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

2024-09-27 03:36:20 GMT

The mayor who cut libraries and shelters sold out for cheap flights and $10 million in public matching funds. Great Slate take on this pathetic record.
Eric Adams indictment: There’s one big takeaway. It's incredibly ironic.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/09/eric-adams-indictment-turkey-hotels-airplanes-crime.html

2024-09-06 17:26:50 GMT

This was murder, in pursuit of an illegal land grab. So far 600 Palestinians killed in the West Bank. Now one American woman. Perhaps her death will finally force Biden to be tough with Netanyahu. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/09/06/world/israel-hamas-gaza-war?unlocked_article_code=1.Ik4.KR67.VKohuFfN8Tt9&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

2024-08-15 03:09:42 GMT

Kamala Harris’ ridiculous problem with the political press.
“persuadable voters are not going to sit down at the kitchen table, eyeglasses perched on the ends of their noses, to compare the Harris and Trump plans for America….The “Trump plan” does not really exist, and to the extent it does, it’s so wildly different from what any Democrat would do as to make the details of Harris’ ideas immaterial.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/08/kamala-harris-tim-walz-press-conference-campaign-trump-vance.html