Ben Rhodes
@rhodesben.bsky.social
Pod Save the World. NYT opinion. MSNBC. Author: After the Fall and The World As It Is
Trump Is Falling for a Trap We Can All See Coming www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Falling for a Trap We Can All See Coming
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January 6, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Trump Is Falling for a Trap We Can All See Coming www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...
Sometimes, it can be hard to realize that the events you fear are the ones already taking place. Let us state it plainly: We have an autocratic leader seeking power and aggrandizement through the conquest of territory and resources: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Falling for a Trap We Can All See Coming
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January 6, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Sometimes, it can be hard to realize that the events you fear are the ones already taking place. Let us state it plainly: We have an autocratic leader seeking power and aggrandizement through the conquest of territory and resources: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...
On our new era of imperial wars on behalf of Trump's power and oil companies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6ey...
Obama official slams Trump’s SHOCK invasion
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January 4, 2026 at 4:07 AM
On our new era of imperial wars on behalf of Trump's power and oil companies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6ey...
"If you believe a 19-year-old Jewish college student chanting “Free Palestine” is more dangerous than the vice president of the US implying that Germans should embrace the far-right party Alternative for Germany then you’re drawing the wrong lessons from history." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...
Opinion | This Is the Story of How the Democrats Blew It on Gaza
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December 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
"If you believe a 19-year-old Jewish college student chanting “Free Palestine” is more dangerous than the vice president of the US implying that Germans should embrace the far-right party Alternative for Germany then you’re drawing the wrong lessons from history." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...
"The simplest thing to do would be the right thing": www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...
Opinion | This Is the Story of How the Democrats Blew It on Gaza
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December 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"The simplest thing to do would be the right thing": www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...
Trump's Ambassador to Israel hosts a notorious traitor at the US Embassy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_s1...
BREAKING: Spy Scandal ROCKS Trump World
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November 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Trump's Ambassador to Israel hosts a notorious traitor at the US Embassy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_s1...
Zohran Mamdani showed us that generational change, bold ideas, principled stands, and movement building must be the future of a stagnant Democratic Party
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Zohran Mamdani showed us that generational change, bold ideas, principled stands, and movement building must be the future of a stagnant Democratic Party
His is a world in which autocratic leaders make deals over the heads of the people, extrajudicial force is legitimized, conflicts simmer so long as they are kept off screens and corruption intermingles with diplomacy. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...
Opinion | The Thread Tying Together Everything Trump Does
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October 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
His is a world in which autocratic leaders make deals over the heads of the people, extrajudicial force is legitimized, conflicts simmer so long as they are kept off screens and corruption intermingles with diplomacy. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...
If Trump lies about everything else why does anyone presume he’s telling the truth about Gaza, Ukraine or Venezuela?
October 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
If Trump lies about everything else why does anyone presume he’s telling the truth about Gaza, Ukraine or Venezuela?
"From masked ICE agents to threats against an alleged conspiracy of leftist NGOs, a sense of chaos demoralizes opposition and silences critics. American institutions are sorted into those who are with or against the administration. The empire came home." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...
Opinion | Britain Offers a Warning of What America Could Become
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September 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"From masked ICE agents to threats against an alleged conspiracy of leftist NGOs, a sense of chaos demoralizes opposition and silences critics. American institutions are sorted into those who are with or against the administration. The empire came home." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...
Rodrigo Dueterte is literally in The Hague for this headline. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...
Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers
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September 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Rodrigo Dueterte is literally in The Hague for this headline. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...
Trump, Putin, the Internet, social media, democracy, AI, climate change, and basically the history of the last decade - loved this conversation with @jonfavs.bsky.social on Offline.
"I think we have to come to terms, before we can fix democracy, with the fact that it’s technology that broke it." – Ben Rhodes
August 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Trump, Putin, the Internet, social media, democracy, AI, climate change, and basically the history of the last decade - loved this conversation with @jonfavs.bsky.social on Offline.
Trump has not gotten a single concession from Putin - not one. His "deal making" is entirely about Ukrainian concessions.
August 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Trump has not gotten a single concession from Putin - not one. His "deal making" is entirely about Ukrainian concessions.
“My advice would be to not capitulate to Trump,” Rhodes said. “He has grown all too accustomed to people he perceives as weaker bending to his will, which is something that Putin does not do… Zelenskyy needs Europe.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Zelenskyy faces daunting trip to the White House – but this time he will not be alone
Dream team of European leaders will be with the Ukrainian president, seeking to show a united front when they meet Donald Trump
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August 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
“My advice would be to not capitulate to Trump,” Rhodes said. “He has grown all too accustomed to people he perceives as weaker bending to his will, which is something that Putin does not do… Zelenskyy needs Europe.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Hawks have often weaponized "Munich" every time the U.S. doesn't go to war. But they forget the real betrayal of Munich - two big countries meeting to carve up the borders of a smaller one to give to an aggressor without that nation present.
August 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Hawks have often weaponized "Munich" every time the U.S. doesn't go to war. But they forget the real betrayal of Munich - two big countries meeting to carve up the borders of a smaller one to give to an aggressor without that nation present.
Trump wanting to concede Ukrainian territory that Russia does not even occupy (and that's not his to concede) is just about the worst case scenario. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Live Updates: Trump Backs Plan to Cede Land for Peace in Ukraine
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August 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Trump wanting to concede Ukrainian territory that Russia does not even occupy (and that's not his to concede) is just about the worst case scenario. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Trump’s interview shows just how easy it is for him to get completely played. Putin conceded nothing about Ukraine but repeats Trump conspiracy theories and he calls the meeting a 10 of 10.
August 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Trump’s interview shows just how easy it is for him to get completely played. Putin conceded nothing about Ukraine but repeats Trump conspiracy theories and he calls the meeting a 10 of 10.
So Putin gets a red carpet welcome, a ride in the presidential limo, speaks first at the presser, frames the meeting as a successful talk among equals, while making absolutely no concession on the conduct or outcome of the war.
August 16, 2025 at 12:21 AM
So Putin gets a red carpet welcome, a ride in the presidential limo, speaks first at the presser, frames the meeting as a successful talk among equals, while making absolutely no concession on the conduct or outcome of the war.
The fact that an indicted war criminal has been invited to the US to meet with the President to look at maps of the country he invaded tells you Putin has already won.
August 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The fact that an indicted war criminal has been invited to the US to meet with the President to look at maps of the country he invaded tells you Putin has already won.
""Even when presented with Zohran Mamdani’s campaign — an innovative example of fresh political tactics and policies — many party leaders recoiled. The party seems — quite literally — afraid of its own future. It is past time for Democrats to do what Mr. Mamdani did " www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
Opinion | We’re Trapped in Trump’s Reality. This Is How We Escape It.
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August 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
""Even when presented with Zohran Mamdani’s campaign — an innovative example of fresh political tactics and policies — many party leaders recoiled. The party seems — quite literally — afraid of its own future. It is past time for Democrats to do what Mr. Mamdani did " www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
Trump’s DC takeover is not about crime or a distraction it’s a preview of the authoritarian playbook he wants to use in other cities using whatever authority and justification he can find.
August 14, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Trump’s DC takeover is not about crime or a distraction it’s a preview of the authoritarian playbook he wants to use in other cities using whatever authority and justification he can find.
New Pod Save the World on Trump's potential capitulation to Putin, Israel's Gaza "takeover" and the 4th anniversary of the collapse of Afghanistan, with @yaldahakim.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwRl...
Trump’s Strongman Summit Is A Gift to Putin
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August 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
New Pod Save the World on Trump's potential capitulation to Putin, Israel's Gaza "takeover" and the 4th anniversary of the collapse of Afghanistan, with @yaldahakim.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwRl...
Trump has "embodied a culture in which money is ennobling, human beings are brands, and the capacity to be shamed is weakness." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
Opinion | How Short-Term Thinking Is Destroying America
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August 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Trump has "embodied a culture in which money is ennobling, human beings are brands, and the capacity to be shamed is weakness." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
How Short-Term Thinking Is Destroying America www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
Opinion | How Short-Term Thinking Is Destroying America
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August 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
How Short-Term Thinking Is Destroying America www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
Reposted by Ben Rhodes
On Wednesday, ICE GOONS arrested a mother in the school drop-off line at Inzunza Camarina Elementary in Chula Vista, leaving her two children in the car.
August 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
On Wednesday, ICE GOONS arrested a mother in the school drop-off line at Inzunza Camarina Elementary in Chula Vista, leaving her two children in the car.