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“They’re like a kid in a nuclear power plant running around hitting buttons.” ... “They have no sense of the cascade of consequences they’re causing.”
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Opinion | How DOGE is making government almost comically inefficient
It’s as though “efficiency” isn’t the actual goal.
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March 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
“They’re like a kid in a nuclear power plant running around hitting buttons.” ... “They have no sense of the cascade of consequences they’re causing.”
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Zelensky came to Washington prepared to sign away anything he could offer Trump except his nation’s freedom, security and common sense. He was rewarded with a lecture on manners from the most mendacious vulgarian and ungracious host ever to inhabit the White House.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
Opinion | A Day of American Infamy (Gift Article)
A dreadful moment for Ukraine, for the free world, for the legacy of an America that once stood for the principles of the Atlantic Charter.
www.nytimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Zelensky came to Washington prepared to sign away anything he could offer Trump except his nation’s freedom, security and common sense. He was rewarded with a lecture on manners from the most mendacious vulgarian and ungracious host ever to inhabit the White House.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
“For Trump, Putin is an exemplary autocrat, endowed with unfettered authority, the obedience of a cowed nation and a palace that make Mar-a-Lago look like a peasant’s hut. For Putin, Trump is an easy mark…”
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Opinion | Europe, appalled, watches as Trump becomes Putin’s poodle
Macron and other European leaders scramble as Trump, siding with Putin, sells out Ukraine.
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February 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
“For Trump, Putin is an exemplary autocrat, endowed with unfettered authority, the obedience of a cowed nation and a palace that make Mar-a-Lago look like a peasant’s hut. For Putin, Trump is an easy mark…”
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“The whole thing is just shameful. Trump, in effect, is looking to make a profit off Ukrainians as a result of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine while making no demand on Putin for reparations or promising any future U.S. protection for Kyiv.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...
Opinion | The Disturbing Question at the Heart of the Trump-Putin Drama (Gift Article)
For the next four years, at least, the America we knew is over.
www.nytimes.com
February 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
“The whole thing is just shameful. Trump, in effect, is looking to make a profit off Ukrainians as a result of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine while making no demand on Putin for reparations or promising any future U.S. protection for Kyiv.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...
“It’s hard to exaggerate how jarring the U.S. policy reversal over past few days has been.”
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Opinion | Abandoning Ukraine would damage U.S. credibility
Ukraine security guarantees are more important than business opportunities with Moscow.
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February 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
“It’s hard to exaggerate how jarring the U.S. policy reversal over past few days has been.”
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Dumbfounded…the only possible POLITE reaction when facing the profound arrogance, ignorance and audacity of the US delegation to insult you and all allies! So this is now Trump Co’s American diplomacy…appease Putin/Russia, berate and belittle Zelensky/Ukraine and all of Europe!🤬
February 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Dumbfounded…the only possible POLITE reaction when facing the profound arrogance, ignorance and audacity of the US delegation to insult you and all allies! So this is now Trump Co’s American diplomacy…appease Putin/Russia, berate and belittle Zelensky/Ukraine and all of Europe!🤬
“Democrats cannot pretend that business-as-usual behavior is appropriate to this moment. They cannot “choose their battles” because what’s at stake is not just this or that policy but whether we will endure as a free republic in which presidents recognize they are not monarchs.”
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Opinion | Democrats, Trump has given you a mission. Accept all of it.
The republic is under siege. What can be done?
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February 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
“Democrats cannot pretend that business-as-usual behavior is appropriate to this moment. They cannot “choose their battles” because what’s at stake is not just this or that policy but whether we will endure as a free republic in which presidents recognize they are not monarchs.”
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“Even if anyone had elected Elon Musk to anything, the past week would still be one of the most serious examples of executive branch malfeasance in American history.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Opinion | There Is No Going Back (Gift Article)
The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
“Even if anyone had elected Elon Musk to anything, the past week would still be one of the most serious examples of executive branch malfeasance in American history.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
“No president in history has caused more damage to the nation more quickly.
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None of this is normal. Little of it is legal. All of it is misguided, and that’s a mild term.”
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None of this is normal. Little of it is legal. All of it is misguided, and that’s a mild term.”
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Opinion | Trump 2.0: The most damaging first two weeks in presidential history
Trump’s second term is all about curtailing government’s power and reach.
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February 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
“No president in history has caused more damage to the nation more quickly.
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None of this is normal. Little of it is legal. All of it is misguided, and that’s a mild term.”
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None of this is normal. Little of it is legal. All of it is misguided, and that’s a mild term.”
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“Sheinbaum, 62, was elected president in June by a 30-point margin. She is in many ways Trump’s opposite: a leftist, an academic with a PhD in environmental engineering, a longtime proponent of green energy.”
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‘Cool-headed’ Claudia Sheinbaum tries to steer Mexico through the Trump era
Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s first female president, has made concessions to President Donald Trump on immigration and fentanyl. But she’s also firing back.
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February 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
“Sheinbaum, 62, was elected president in June by a 30-point margin. She is in many ways Trump’s opposite: a leftist, an academic with a PhD in environmental engineering, a longtime proponent of green energy.”
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“It is staggering to see how much damage Trump has done to U.S. soft power in just two weeks…
Far from making America great again, this erosion of soft power will undermine the United States’ economic and national security for years to come.”
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Far from making America great again, this erosion of soft power will undermine the United States’ economic and national security for years to come.”
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Opinion | U.S. soft power took decades to build. Trump is dismantling it in weeks.
With tariffs and an aid freeze, the president is eroding the United States’ standing in the world.
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February 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
“It is staggering to see how much damage Trump has done to U.S. soft power in just two weeks…
Far from making America great again, this erosion of soft power will undermine the United States’ economic and national security for years to come.”
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Far from making America great again, this erosion of soft power will undermine the United States’ economic and national security for years to come.”
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“His use of models of all races became the label's calling card and popularised the ‘United Colours of Benetton’ logo - but his provocative photos stoked controversy.”
Oliviero Toscani, Benetton's shock photographer, dies aged 82
Toscani was the creative force behind shock ad campaigns of the 1990s including a priest and nun kissing.
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January 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
“His use of models of all races became the label's calling card and popularised the ‘United Colours of Benetton’ logo - but his provocative photos stoked controversy.”
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"Obviously, if someone pulls a gun, you run for cover," said singer Alex Rice. "But the thing that struck me about it was the resignation. The people around us weren't very panicked at all. It seemed like a very everyday occurrence.”
"Obviously, if someone pulls a gun, you run for cover," said singer Alex Rice. "But the thing that struck me about it was the resignation. The people around us weren't very panicked at all. It seemed like a very everyday occurrence.”
British band Sports Team robbed at gunpoint on US tour
The band had just arrived in California when their tour van was looted by an unidentified gunman.
www.bbc.com
December 4, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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"Obviously, if someone pulls a gun, you run for cover," said singer Alex Rice. "But the thing that struck me about it was the resignation. The people around us weren't very panicked at all. It seemed like a very everyday occurrence.”
"Obviously, if someone pulls a gun, you run for cover," said singer Alex Rice. "But the thing that struck me about it was the resignation. The people around us weren't very panicked at all. It seemed like a very everyday occurrence.”