David Firestone
@fstonenyc.bsky.social
New York Times opinion writer. Possibly retired. Brooklyn; ex-K.C. https://www.nytimes.com/by/david-firestone
“It doesn’t really matter to us what the data shows,” says the union president. But it should matter to Gov. Hochul, who will need every spare MTA dollar.
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Does the Subway Still Need Train Conductors?
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November 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“It doesn’t really matter to us what the data shows,” says the union president. But it should matter to Gov. Hochul, who will need every spare MTA dollar.
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Urgent issues like New York City’s worsening housing crisis “have gotten far less attention than they deserve in the New York mayoral race,” Mara Gay writes. “Addressing the crisis will require every big idea and drop of political capital the next mayor can muster.”
Opinion | Mamdani and Cuomo Debated Housing Policy, but Both Need to Think Bigger
New York has urgent housing needs. Mamdani is leading the race for mayor because of his awareness of this. But all the candidates should have bigger plans.
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October 23, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Urgent issues like New York City’s worsening housing crisis “have gotten far less attention than they deserve in the New York mayoral race,” Mara Gay writes. “Addressing the crisis will require every big idea and drop of political capital the next mayor can muster.”
How appropriate that one of the worst mayors we’ve ever had should endorse one of the worst governors.
October 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
How appropriate that one of the worst mayors we’ve ever had should endorse one of the worst governors.
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These teams consistently did some of the best reporting at the network. 💔
NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams
NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams
The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...
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October 16, 2025 at 1:39 AM
These teams consistently did some of the best reporting at the network. 💔
One of the most baldly racist statements ever written by a modern U.S. government official: "The sharp increase in diversity has reduced the level of social trust” essential for democracy. Only refugees who can "fully and appropriately assimilate" should be let in. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People
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October 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
One of the most baldly racist statements ever written by a modern U.S. government official: "The sharp increase in diversity has reduced the level of social trust” essential for democracy. Only refugees who can "fully and appropriately assimilate" should be let in. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
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Just watched David Firestone’s chilling interview w @nicollewallace.bsky.social. This whole piece is a must read. 🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/o...
August 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Just watched David Firestone’s chilling interview w @nicollewallace.bsky.social. This whole piece is a must read. 🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/o...
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For President Trump, “denying entire chapters of American history is as easy as denying last month’s jobs numbers, and it is no less dangerous to the nation’s understanding of itself,” David Firestone writes.
Opinion | Trump’s Cultural Revolution Is Just Getting Started
Art can be effective at illuminating and healing only if it is unconstrained by authority.
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August 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
For President Trump, “denying entire chapters of American history is as easy as denying last month’s jobs numbers, and it is no less dangerous to the nation’s understanding of itself,” David Firestone writes.
New op-ed: The Trump administration has made an aggressive effort to rewrite not only its own history but also that of the United States, especially as it is documented in its official museums and cultural artifacts. No shameful narratives are allowed. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Cultural Revolution Is Just Getting Started
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August 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
New op-ed: The Trump administration has made an aggressive effort to rewrite not only its own history but also that of the United States, especially as it is documented in its official museums and cultural artifacts. No shameful narratives are allowed. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/o...
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We put together a very visual and mobile-friendly look at how videos shot by people on smarthpones have become a defining way that the public is seeing Trump's immigration crack down.
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July 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
We put together a very visual and mobile-friendly look at how videos shot by people on smarthpones have become a defining way that the public is seeing Trump's immigration crack down.
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Scene from a low-tax state:
July 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Scene from a low-tax state:
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There is no one post or piece that can capture the force that was @tommyrobb.bsky.social, but my colleagues and I at @thecity.nyc did our best. Thank you, Tom, for your relentless focus on leaving the world better than you found it, knowing It’s not only possible to change things, but imperative.
Remembering Tom Robbins, Journalist Who Crusaded for New Yorkers in Need
A stint on THE CITY’s investigations team capped a career exposing the corrupt and the criminal on behalf of tenants, workers and incarcerated people.
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May 28, 2025 at 11:45 PM
There is no one post or piece that can capture the force that was @tommyrobb.bsky.social, but my colleagues and I at @thecity.nyc did our best. Thank you, Tom, for your relentless focus on leaving the world better than you found it, knowing It’s not only possible to change things, but imperative.
New post: As much as Trump's lawyer tried to change the subject, the brazen unconstitutionality of the birthright citizenship order was impossible to ignore at the Supreme Court on Thursday. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...
Opinion | The Justices Can’t Avoid Trump’s Blow Against the Constitution
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May 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
New post: As much as Trump's lawyer tried to change the subject, the brazen unconstitutionality of the birthright citizenship order was impossible to ignore at the Supreme Court on Thursday. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...
Desperate to deport more immigrants without hearings, the White House is furious that federal judges have blocked all their flimsy legal justifications. Now Trump and Miller want to up the ante by suspending habeas corpus, but that's likely to fail, too. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...
Opinion | Behind Miller’s Threat to Suspend Habeas Corpus Is the Fact That They’re Losing
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May 11, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Desperate to deport more immigrants without hearings, the White House is furious that federal judges have blocked all their flimsy legal justifications. Now Trump and Miller want to up the ante by suspending habeas corpus, but that's likely to fail, too. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...
New post: Stephen Miller thought he found a way to deport immigrants by claiming Venezuela had invaded the U.S. A federal judge -- Trump's first Latino judicial appointment, back in 2017 -- ruled that there's no invasion going on, demolishing this flimsy pretext. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
Opinion | The Texas Alien Enemies Act Ruling Is Important
A Trump appointee in Texas cares more about the history of what Trump is trying to do with the Alien Enemies Act than the president does.
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May 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
New post: Stephen Miller thought he found a way to deport immigrants by claiming Venezuela had invaded the U.S. A federal judge -- Trump's first Latino judicial appointment, back in 2017 -- ruled that there's no invasion going on, demolishing this flimsy pretext. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
New blog post: Which is more astonishing, the rank incompetence of the Trump administration, or the dishonesty revealed by its many mistakes? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
Opinion | A Mistake in a New York Court Exposes the Truth About Trump’s Legal Strategy
The episode of the inadvertent court filings in the New York congestion-pricing case embodies the full range of the Trump administration’s incompetence.
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April 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
New blog post: Which is more astonishing, the rank incompetence of the Trump administration, or the dishonesty revealed by its many mistakes? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
In a single day, Wisconsin voters showed how to beat Trumpism (and Muskism) on a practical level, and Cory Booker showed how on an emotional and moral level. That's the combination Democrats will have to repeat many times over as they begin to take on this fight.
April 2, 2025 at 2:06 AM
In a single day, Wisconsin voters showed how to beat Trumpism (and Muskism) on a practical level, and Cory Booker showed how on an emotional and moral level. That's the combination Democrats will have to repeat many times over as they begin to take on this fight.
New post at NYT Opinion: Musk has given Wisconsin voters precisely the caricature of a clueless, cheesy billionaire that Democrats could have wished. But tonight we'll find out whether that's enough. Is the mass of voters angry yet about Trump's first 70 days? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/o...
Opinion | Wisconsin Voters Have a Huge Opportunity to Brush Back Trump and Musk
Are the mass of voters really worked up about this administration’s actions? Tuesday night may provide some answers.
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April 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
New post at NYT Opinion: Musk has given Wisconsin voters precisely the caricature of a clueless, cheesy billionaire that Democrats could have wished. But tonight we'll find out whether that's enough. Is the mass of voters angry yet about Trump's first 70 days? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/o...
New blog post: Her years of sycophancy discarded in an instant, Elise Stefanik is now paying the price for her dear leader's excesses and incompetence. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
Opinion | Elise Stefanik Is the First Casualty of the Great Trump Disillusionment
Republicans may seem oblivious to voter discomfort with the administration’s excesses, but Elise Stefanik’s pulled nomination shows they see trouble ahead.
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March 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
New blog post: Her years of sycophancy discarded in an instant, Elise Stefanik is now paying the price for her dear leader's excesses and incompetence. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
New blog post: The administration's definition of "operational security" means lying, sneering, and stonewalling to change the clear nature of reality. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
Opinion | Those Are Definitely ‘War Plans’ in The Atlantic’s Group Chat Story
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March 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
New blog post: The administration's definition of "operational security" means lying, sneering, and stonewalling to change the clear nature of reality. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
The Trump White House doesn't care about free speech, the NYT editorial board writes. It prioritizes far-right ideology — celebrating lies and hate speech — "while simultaneously trying to silence independent thought, inconvenient truths and voices of dissent."
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Opinion | The MAGA War on Speech
If only the powerful are free to speak their minds, it’s not free speech.
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February 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The Trump White House doesn't care about free speech, the NYT editorial board writes. It prioritizes far-right ideology — celebrating lies and hate speech — "while simultaneously trying to silence independent thought, inconvenient truths and voices of dissent."
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The corrupt Adams deal "is the clearest example yet of this administration’s efforts to bake quid-pro-quo dealmaking, coercive tactics, loyalty tests and other dishonorable practices into American government," the NYT editorial board writes. Adams must go. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/o...
Opinion | Refusing to Carry Out Trump’s Flagrantly Dishonest Orders
The Trump administration is trying to bake quid pro quo deal making, coercive tactics, loyalty tests and other dishonorable practices into American government.
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February 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The corrupt Adams deal "is the clearest example yet of this administration’s efforts to bake quid-pro-quo dealmaking, coercive tactics, loyalty tests and other dishonorable practices into American government," the NYT editorial board writes. Adams must go. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/o...
Scholars can argue about a constitutional crisis, the NYT editorial board writes, but what's clear is that Trump's actions "are a frontal assault on the laws and norms that underpin American government — by the very people who are meant to execute the law." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...
Opinion | Trump Dares the Courts to Stop Him
The president is challenging the constitutional order.
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February 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Scholars can argue about a constitutional crisis, the NYT editorial board writes, but what's clear is that Trump's actions "are a frontal assault on the laws and norms that underpin American government — by the very people who are meant to execute the law." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...
NYT editorial on Trump's arrogation of power: He "is testing Washington and the American people to see how far he can go in accumulating authority and in marginalizing anyone in a position to question his actions. It is a test the Constitution cannot afford to lose." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Test of the Constitution
Two weeks in, the president is quickly moving to eliminate tools of accountability.
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February 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
NYT editorial on Trump's arrogation of power: He "is testing Washington and the American people to see how far he can go in accumulating authority and in marginalizing anyone in a position to question his actions. It is a test the Constitution cannot afford to lose." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/o...
It was the worst thing that Donald Trump did on an awful day, and only one major newspaper condemned it in an editorial.
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Opinion | Trump’s Opening Act of Contempt
To open his term with such an act of contempt toward the legal system is audacious, even for Mr. Trump.
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January 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
It was the worst thing that Donald Trump did on an awful day, and only one major newspaper condemned it in an editorial.
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By granting clemency to every rioter, Trump is proclaiming that violence is a perfectly legitimate form of political expression and that no price need be paid by those who seek to disrupt a sacred constitutional transfer of power. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Opening Act of Contempt
To open his term with such an act of contempt toward the legal system is audacious, even for Mr. Trump.
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2025 at 3:41 AM
By granting clemency to every rioter, Trump is proclaiming that violence is a perfectly legitimate form of political expression and that no price need be paid by those who seek to disrupt a sacred constitutional transfer of power. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/o...