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Patel Under Scrutiny for Use of SWAT Teams to Protect His Girlfriend www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
Patel Under Scrutiny for Use of SWAT Teams to Protect His Girlfriend
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November 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Patel Under Scrutiny for Use of SWAT Teams to Protect His Girlfriend www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
Hegseth Assigns Deputy to Oversee U.S.S. Cole Bombing Case www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u.... Usually, the DepSecDef is very busy with other stuff, like the internal management of DoD — budgets, acquisitions, turf wars among the services..
Hegseth Assigns Deputy to Oversee U.S.S. Cole Bombing Case
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November 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Hegseth Assigns Deputy to Oversee U.S.S. Cole Bombing Case www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u.... Usually, the DepSecDef is very busy with other stuff, like the internal management of DoD — budgets, acquisitions, turf wars among the services..
Trump Administration Releases Thousands of Amelia Earhart Files www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
Trump Administration Releases Thousands of Amelia Earhart Files
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November 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Trump Administration Releases Thousands of Amelia Earhart Files www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
Israel’s Gaza Campaign Is Making It a Pariah State www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/o... Israel’s leaders are behaving like savages. They are moving their country outside the bounds of modern civilizations.
Opinion | Israel’s Gaza Campaign Is Making It a Pariah State
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August 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Israel’s Gaza Campaign Is Making It a Pariah State www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/o... Israel’s leaders are behaving like savages. They are moving their country outside the bounds of modern civilizations.
What Trump Is Really Up to in Washington www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o... Yep: all for show. But some of it hurts innocent people and none of it strengthens the country.
Opinion | What Trump Is Really Up to in Washington
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August 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
What Trump Is Really Up to in Washington www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o... Yep: all for show. But some of it hurts innocent people and none of it strengthens the country.
In Trump’s Ideal Picture of America, Diversity Is Taboo www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u... Yep: racist to the core. But that’s what his supporters like about him.
In Trump’s Ideal Picture of America, Diversity Is Taboo
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August 21, 2025 at 10:53 AM
In Trump’s Ideal Picture of America, Diversity Is Taboo www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u... Yep: racist to the core. But that’s what his supporters like about him.
Strike That Killed 5 Journalists Was Aimed at One of Them, Israel Says www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/w.... All of them could have been innocent. Still, that’s a better “oops” ratio than Israel usually achieves. It has killed 50,000 and is starving thousands more just to kill a few thousand fighters.
Strike That Killed 5 Journalists Was Aimed at One of Them, Israel Says
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August 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Strike That Killed 5 Journalists Was Aimed at One of Them, Israel Says www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/w.... All of them could have been innocent. Still, that’s a better “oops” ratio than Israel usually achieves. It has killed 50,000 and is starving thousands more just to kill a few thousand fighters.
A Fight Over a West Point Job Reveals Two Visions of America Under Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u... This country is in sorry shape when its president bends to the whims of a looney, vicious commentator whose only skill is the ability to spew venom.
A Fight Over a West Point Job Reveals Two Visions of America Under Trump
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August 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
A Fight Over a West Point Job Reveals Two Visions of America Under Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u... This country is in sorry shape when its president bends to the whims of a looney, vicious commentator whose only skill is the ability to spew venom.
Mike Huckabee, Israel’s Passionate Defender as Gaza War Drives Allies Away www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/w...
Amazing. This guy sees children starving to death just an hour’s drive from the US embassy and his response is, “Hey, it could be worse.” Shame on him!
Amazing. This guy sees children starving to death just an hour’s drive from the US embassy and his response is, “Hey, it could be worse.” Shame on him!
Mike Huckabee, Israel’s Passionate Defender as Gaza War Drives Allies Away
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August 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Mike Huckabee, Israel’s Passionate Defender as Gaza War Drives Allies Away www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/w...
Amazing. This guy sees children starving to death just an hour’s drive from the US embassy and his response is, “Hey, it could be worse.” Shame on him!
Amazing. This guy sees children starving to death just an hour’s drive from the US embassy and his response is, “Hey, it could be worse.” Shame on him!
Anger Over Starvation in Gaza Leaves Israel Increasingly Isolated www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/w...
We ought to be outraged. Israel has squandered its claims for the respect and support of decent people. Sad for Israel, tragic for the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians it has starved.
We ought to be outraged. Israel has squandered its claims for the respect and support of decent people. Sad for Israel, tragic for the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians it has starved.
Anger Over Starvation in Gaza Leaves Israel Increasingly Isolated
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July 31, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Anger Over Starvation in Gaza Leaves Israel Increasingly Isolated www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/w...
We ought to be outraged. Israel has squandered its claims for the respect and support of decent people. Sad for Israel, tragic for the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians it has starved.
We ought to be outraged. Israel has squandered its claims for the respect and support of decent people. Sad for Israel, tragic for the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians it has starved.
Trump’s Politicized F.B.I. Has Made Americans Less Safe www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Politicized F.B.I. Has Made Americans Less Safe
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July 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Trump’s Politicized F.B.I. Has Made Americans Less Safe www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/o...
University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u.... So now, Trump can fire (and presumably hire) university presidents. Just another step toward autocracy.
University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration
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June 28, 2025 at 12:47 AM
University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u.... So now, Trump can fire (and presumably hire) university presidents. Just another step toward autocracy.
Trump Justice Dept. Pressuring University of Virginia President to Resign www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u.... Wow. Does anybody really want Donald Trump, who created a make-believe university, to oversee hiring and firing at real universities?
Trump Justice Dept. Pressuring University of Virginia President to Resign
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June 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Trump Justice Dept. Pressuring University of Virginia President to Resign www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u.... Wow. Does anybody really want Donald Trump, who created a make-believe university, to oversee hiring and firing at real universities?
The Three Unknowns After the U.S. Strike on Iran www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/o.... I repeat what I wrote yesterday: You cannot bomb your way out of a f**kup. Trump tossed the 2015 JCPOA to spite President Obama, and Iran resumed enrichment. Bombing shows Iran that it needs a nuclear deterrent.
Opinion | The Three Unknowns After the U.S. Strike on Iran
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June 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The Three Unknowns After the U.S. Strike on Iran www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/o.... I repeat what I wrote yesterday: You cannot bomb your way out of a f**kup. Trump tossed the 2015 JCPOA to spite President Obama, and Iran resumed enrichment. Bombing shows Iran that it needs a nuclear deterrent.
www.cnn.com/2025/06/21/p.... Serious diplomacy requires attention to the history, culture, and sensitivities of the parties. Witkoff is a real estate mogul and friend of Trump, but he doesn’t have the diplomatic chops that the Iranians can take seriously.
Week 2 of the Iran crisis: Diplomatic off-ramp is narrowing but not closed (yet) | CNN Politics
As we approach Day 10 of the Israel-Iran crisis, the focus is on whether diplomacy can succeed and, if not, whether President Donald Trump will make the decision to use US military force to destroy wh...
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June 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
www.cnn.com/2025/06/21/p.... Serious diplomacy requires attention to the history, culture, and sensitivities of the parties. Witkoff is a real estate mogul and friend of Trump, but he doesn’t have the diplomatic chops that the Iranians can take seriously.
Trump, Iran and the Specter of Iraq: ‘We Bought All the Happy Talk’ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/u.... David Petraeus must have been misquoted. Surely his view isn’t this simple-minded.
Trump, Iran and the Specter of Iraq: ‘We Bought All the Happy Talk’
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June 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Trump, Iran and the Specter of Iraq: ‘We Bought All the Happy Talk’ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/u.... David Petraeus must have been misquoted. Surely his view isn’t this simple-minded.
What the Golden Ratio Says About Your Bellybutton www.nytimes.com/interactive/.... One question about this piece: what system of measurement did da Vinci use? Not the metric system: it wasn’t created until two-plus centuries after his death.
What the Golden Ratio Says About Your Bellybutton
The secret beauty in apples, stars and the center of you.
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June 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
What the Golden Ratio Says About Your Bellybutton www.nytimes.com/interactive/.... One question about this piece: what system of measurement did da Vinci use? Not the metric system: it wasn’t created until two-plus centuries after his death.
Trump Withdraws From Agreement With Tribes to Protect Salmon www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/u.... This is latest example of Trump's spoiled-child-temper-tantrum (SCTT). He is determined to break everything, reverse every bit of progress this nation has made in the past century. But why? Why so ruinous?
Trump Withdraws From Agreement With Tribes to Protect Salmon
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June 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Trump Withdraws From Agreement With Tribes to Protect Salmon www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/u.... This is latest example of Trump's spoiled-child-temper-tantrum (SCTT). He is determined to break everything, reverse every bit of progress this nation has made in the past century. But why? Why so ruinous?
Live Updates: Israeli Strikes Target Iran’s Nuclear Program www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06.... Very bad.
Live Updates: Israeli Strikes Target Iran’s Nuclear Program
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June 13, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Live Updates: Israeli Strikes Target Iran’s Nuclear Program www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06.... Very bad.
Trump Says Army Bases Will Revert to Confederate Names www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u.... Every morning when he wakes up, Trump must think, “How can I be racist today?”
Trump Says Army Bases Will Revert to Confederate Names
The move would reverse a yearslong effort to remove names and symbols honoring the Confederacy from the military.
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June 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Trump Says Army Bases Will Revert to Confederate Names www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u.... Every morning when he wakes up, Trump must think, “How can I be racist today?”
The Democrats’ Problems Are Bigger Than You Think www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o.... Yeah, OK. But while we're waiting for the a new democratic/social justice paradigm to come along, we also gotta keep the Trumpian barbarians from pillaging the country.
Opinion | The Democrats’ Problems Are Bigger Than You Think
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June 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The Democrats’ Problems Are Bigger Than You Think www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o.... Yeah, OK. But while we're waiting for the a new democratic/social justice paradigm to come along, we also gotta keep the Trumpian barbarians from pillaging the country.
8 Ways Musk and Trump Could Inflict Pain on Each Other www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u.... I say, let'em fight.
8 Ways Musk and Trump Could Inflict Pain on Each Other
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June 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
8 Ways Musk and Trump Could Inflict Pain on Each Other www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u.... I say, let'em fight.
www.cnn.com/2025/06/04/m.... So, this so-called Israeli charity lures starving Gazans to an “aide station” so that the IDF can kill them? Cruel and sick.
Videos, expert analysis and witnesses point to Israeli gunfire in deadly Gaza aid site shooting | CNN
A CNN investigation into a deadly incident near an aid distribution site in southern Gaza on Sunday points to the Israeli military opening fire on crowds of Palestinians as they tried to make their wa...
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June 5, 2025 at 1:54 AM
www.cnn.com/2025/06/04/m.... So, this so-called Israeli charity lures starving Gazans to an “aide station” so that the IDF can kill them? Cruel and sick.
MAGA senator grills ‘ignorant’ Trump adviser in brutal takedown - NJ.com. Some rich people are ignorant, meaning that they lack knowledge about some important things; and some rich people are stupid, meaning that they lack the mental capacity to acquire knowledge.
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June 5, 2025 at 12:37 AM
MAGA senator grills ‘ignorant’ Trump adviser in brutal takedown - NJ.com. Some rich people are ignorant, meaning that they lack knowledge about some important things; and some rich people are stupid, meaning that they lack the mental capacity to acquire knowledge.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/w.... Smoke from Canada. Dust from the Sahara. We’re under attack! Quick, somebody build a big, beautiful wall that’s 10,000 feet tall.
Eastern U.S. Is Shrouded in Smoke and Dust
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June 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/w.... Smoke from Canada. Dust from the Sahara. We’re under attack! Quick, somebody build a big, beautiful wall that’s 10,000 feet tall.