Lydia Polgreen
@polgreen.bsky.social
New York Times Opinion Columnist. The world, especially the global south, migration, inequality, the human future, queer stuff.
Timeline cleanse: Grizzle wrestling with her friend Hugo.
November 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Timeline cleanse: Grizzle wrestling with her friend Hugo.
I’m a novice at this video podcasting thing but I really loved talking to @mollyjongfast.bsky.social about Epstein and the long arc of #MeToo. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
Opinion | Epstein and the #MeToo of It All
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November 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I’m a novice at this video podcasting thing but I really loved talking to @mollyjongfast.bsky.social about Epstein and the long arc of #MeToo. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
No thumbs up from Zohran.
Trump also just posted these photos to Truth Social, including the one with Mamdani standing next to a portrait of FDR. Trump mentioned Mamdani asked if he could have his picture taken there.
"It's an amazing portrait in the cabinet room," Trump said. "So he's a big fan of the New Deal, I guess..."
"It's an amazing portrait in the cabinet room," Trump said. "So he's a big fan of the New Deal, I guess..."
November 22, 2025 at 1:25 AM
No thumbs up from Zohran.
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An important contrast from @polgreen.bsky.social, calling into question basic assumptions driving the US foreign policy establishment.
But instead of self-reflection, we’ve mostly seen denial, defensiveness, and compensatory fantasies of geopolitical bloc formation.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
But instead of self-reflection, we’ve mostly seen denial, defensiveness, and compensatory fantasies of geopolitical bloc formation.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
November 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
An important contrast from @polgreen.bsky.social, calling into question basic assumptions driving the US foreign policy establishment.
But instead of self-reflection, we’ve mostly seen denial, defensiveness, and compensatory fantasies of geopolitical bloc formation.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
But instead of self-reflection, we’ve mostly seen denial, defensiveness, and compensatory fantasies of geopolitical bloc formation.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Like a hot knife through butter, Cuomo said. Only Mamdani was the knife and Trump was the butter.
November 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Like a hot knife through butter, Cuomo said. Only Mamdani was the knife and Trump was the butter.
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Incredible investigative journalism. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrdp17Vg/
In 1992, a Japanese TV show followed a dog named Sacchan in Osaka after his owner wondered why he had become so chubby. They discovered that the dog spent his days visiting neighbors, train stations a...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Incredible investigative journalism. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrdp17Vg/
The stuff Trump and Mamdani agree on is basically the median voter agenda.
November 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The stuff Trump and Mamdani agree on is basically the median voter agenda.
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Who can really say which approach is most effective
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Who can really say which approach is most effective
Impressive smile control from Mamdani here - seems quite determined not to flash his trademark grin. Respectful, but not gonna give the chummy photo op despite Trump's lavish praise.
November 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Impressive smile control from Mamdani here - seems quite determined not to flash his trademark grin. Respectful, but not gonna give the chummy photo op despite Trump's lavish praise.
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This is conspiracy theory stuff. China doesn’t need to spy on baby monitors to know what Americans are doing. They can just open Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, or one of the many apps that Americans use to share the kind of information that two generations ago couldn’t be waterboarded out of them.
HINSON: As a mom, I think about watching a baby monitor. That's a very intimate moment with your baby and to think the Chinese could be spying on your morning routine
BARTIROMO: Why are they spying on moms?
HINSON: They just want to know what Americans are up to to undermine our way of life
BARTIROMO: Why are they spying on moms?
HINSON: They just want to know what Americans are up to to undermine our way of life
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
This is conspiracy theory stuff. China doesn’t need to spy on baby monitors to know what Americans are doing. They can just open Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, or one of the many apps that Americans use to share the kind of information that two generations ago couldn’t be waterboarded out of them.
Loved this conversation about Epstein, MeToo and the pernicious ubiquity of sexual predation of teenage girls.
November 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Loved this conversation about Epstein, MeToo and the pernicious ubiquity of sexual predation of teenage girls.
Trump has ended all the worry about China destroying the American-led order by destroying American primacy all on his own. My latest: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Opinion | The Thucydides Trap Is Coming for America
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November 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Trump has ended all the worry about China destroying the American-led order by destroying American primacy all on his own. My latest: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
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Epstein and the #MeToo of It All
Podcast Episode · The Opinions · 11/21/2025 · 26m
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November 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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A podcast conversation with Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social of the Times about my new book, The Second Emancipation, and about Africa's place in the world of today and tomorrow. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
Opinion | Africa Is Rising. The World Shouldn’t Turn Its Back.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
A podcast conversation with Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social of the Times about my new book, The Second Emancipation, and about Africa's place in the world of today and tomorrow. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
I loved having this conversation with @hofrench.bsky.social about Africa's past, present and future, as well as Howard's brilliant new book about Kwame Nkrumah. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
Opinion | Africa Is Rising. The World Shouldn’t Turn Its Back.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I loved having this conversation with @hofrench.bsky.social about Africa's past, present and future, as well as Howard's brilliant new book about Kwame Nkrumah. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
Honestly my favorite thing is the classic boomer Sent from my iPad
November 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Honestly my favorite thing is the classic boomer Sent from my iPad
Freud abandoned the seduction theory because it was simply too hard to confront the reality that childhood sexual abuse was endemic in Vienna society. Thinking about that today amid the flood of Epstein emails, and the silence among the MAGA child sex abuse conspiracy theorists.
November 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Freud abandoned the seduction theory because it was simply too hard to confront the reality that childhood sexual abuse was endemic in Vienna society. Thinking about that today amid the flood of Epstein emails, and the silence among the MAGA child sex abuse conspiracy theorists.
Greatest city in the world, etc. hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...
A Final Indignity: Cuomo's White Ford Bronco Got a Parking Ticket
Thanks to an eagle-eyed New Yorker, who saw the car illegally parked outside of the ex-gov's Sutton Place apartment on Wednesday, and reported it to 311.
hellgatenyc.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Greatest city in the world, etc. hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...
Great @mashagessen.bsky.social on the true purpose of Trump's cruel passport gender marker rules: exerting social control. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...
Opinion | The Ruling About Passports Isn’t About ID. It’s About Social Control.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Great @mashagessen.bsky.social on the true purpose of Trump's cruel passport gender marker rules: exerting social control. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...
New York has become difficult for even people making what are unquestionably good professional salaries, and Mamdani offered a politics of solidarity to make life better for everyone - working, middle & upper middle class. This great piece captures that vibe well. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/n...
Zohran Mamdani and the Revenge of the Struggling Yuppie
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November 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
New York has become difficult for even people making what are unquestionably good professional salaries, and Mamdani offered a politics of solidarity to make life better for everyone - working, middle & upper middle class. This great piece captures that vibe well. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/n...
Elise Stefanik will be a fascinating test case for the post-Trump era. She was a fairly normie Republican who went hard on MAGA, and could have easily, quietly transitioned back to being a MAGA-friendly but normie Republican after the UN job went away, biding her time for what's next.
November 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Elise Stefanik will be a fascinating test case for the post-Trump era. She was a fairly normie Republican who went hard on MAGA, and could have easily, quietly transitioned back to being a MAGA-friendly but normie Republican after the UN job went away, biding her time for what's next.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
For all the anger at the pitiful Democratic leadership, rank and file Democrats seem to be demonstrating that they are actually in charge of the party and will set its direction. That is a good thing. The GOP belongs to one man; the future of the Democrats is up to every Democrat.
November 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
For all the anger at the pitiful Democratic leadership, rank and file Democrats seem to be demonstrating that they are actually in charge of the party and will set its direction. That is a good thing. The GOP belongs to one man; the future of the Democrats is up to every Democrat.
Agree. Mamdani is a powerful example of this. He did not make his support for Palestine central to his campaign, but his insistence on sticking to his core beliefs when asked to repudiate them, but also reassuring those who were fearful, actually helped demonstrate his sincerity and values.
i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”
I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Agree. Mamdani is a powerful example of this. He did not make his support for Palestine central to his campaign, but his insistence on sticking to his core beliefs when asked to repudiate them, but also reassuring those who were fearful, actually helped demonstrate his sincerity and values.
I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.