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Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times and MSNBC analyst. Proud husband of @sbg1.bsky.social and equally proud father of @tab-delete.bsky.social. Co-author of "The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021."
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The Trump Justice Department is pushing U-Va. to fire its president because he has not in its view adequately dismantled DEI programs, the latest effort by the new administration to dictate how universities run their campuses. Mike Schmidt @michaelcbender.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...

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RIP Bill Moyers, an LBJ confidant who went on to become one of the most esteemed journalists of his era. "In an age of broadcast blowhards," writes Janny Scott, the soft-spoken Baptist minister examined power and money in America, winning 30 Emmys. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/b...

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Democrats blamed Harris's defeat on low turnout. But new data suggest that Trump would have done even better if everyone had voted. Instead, Democrats lost because young, nonwhite and irregular voters defected by the millions to Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not been seen publicly or heard from in nearly a week, an absence that has surprised and unnerved everyone from political insiders to the general public. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/w...

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Mamdani wins the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City as Cuomo concedes in a race that was widely watched nationally for lessons about the future of the Democratic Party in the Trump era. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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Preliminary US report says bombing sealed off entrances to two Iranian sites but did not collapse underground buildings, meaning nuclear program set back only a few months. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...

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Top Trump lawyer nominated to be a federal judge privately suggested defying court orders, whistleblower says. "Bove stated that D.O.J. would need to consider telling the courts 'fuck you' and ignore any such order." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...

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Trump's announcement of a ceasefire caught even some of his own top officials by surprise. Israel has not yet confirmed the cease-fire and within hours of the announcement there were fresh Israeli attacks against Iran. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/w...

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Trump indicates that he will not retaliate against Iran for its unsuccessful missile attack on a US base and claims that a ceasefire agreement has been reached between Israel and Iran. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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RIP Rod Nordland, one of our generation's most extraordinary foreign correspondents. For 40 years, if there was a war or conflict or crisis anywhere around the world, Rod was likely to be there reporting the hell out of it. An inspiration to so many of us. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/b...

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A sad day for @washingtonpost readers as the standalone Metro section in print is eliminated and folded behind Style. As a lifelong Washingtonian and veteran of the Metro staff, I always admired the Post's commitment to covering Washington as a community not just a capital.

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Judge issues scathing ruling against Trump administration's prosecution of Abrego Garcia, saying that the evidence is suspect since it comes from cooperating witnesses seeking deferral of their own deportations in exchange for testimony. @alanfeuer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

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Trump wants to punish Harvard by cutting off federal grants but the result is cutting research into cancer, mental health, opioid addiction, sleep deprivation and hundreds of other projects that benefit Americans. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Vance, Sunday morning: "We don’t want to achieve regime change." Trump, Sunday afternoon: "Why wouldn’t there be a Regime change?"

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Trump sends Kellogg to Belarus for talks Lukashenko, Russia’s closest ally and a central figure in a decades long struggle between East and West in the former Soviet Union. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/w...

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"We’re right back to another Watergate, except worse": Trump has systematically dismantled many of the structural reforms put in place a half century ago to prevent a repeat of what was the biggest scandal of modern times until now. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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The US strikes on nuclear sites in Iran are an extraordinary turn for a military that was supposed to be moving on from two decades of forever wars in the Middle East, write Helene Cooper Eric Schmitt and @julianbarnes.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

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Trump threatens further action if Iran does not negotiate: "Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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Trump announces that US bombers have hit three nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordo, and have left Iranian airspace, inserting the United States directly into Israel's offensive campaign against the Islamic state. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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Putin: "Wherever a Russian soldier steps foot, that’s ours." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/w...

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Microsoft, responding to a Trump order, helped turn off the email account of the ICC prosecutor freezing his communications just months after the court issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu for Israeli actions in Gaza @satariano.bsky.social @jeannasmialek.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/t...

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A powerful encapsulation by Erica Green of the various ways that the Trump administration, fighting what it calls reverse discrimination against white people, is trying to rewrite or in some cases even erase Black history in America. www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

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Several US Air Force B-2 bombers, the delivery vehicles for buster bunking bombs, appear to have taken off from a base in the US and are headed across the Pacific as speculation of an attack on Iran grows. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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Witkoff, March 21: "Why would they want to absorb Ukraine? For what purpose, exactly? They don’t need to absorb Ukraine." Putin, June 20: "Russians and Ukrainians are one people and in that sense the whole of Ukraine is ours."

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"Two weeks" is Trump's favorite unit of time, @shawnmccreesh.bsky.social notes. Tax plans, health care policies, evidence of conspiracy theories, the ISIS fight, new coal mines, infrastructure plans—all were at one point riddles he promised to solve in about two weeks www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...

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Appeals court clears the way for Trump to keep using the National Guard to respond to protests in Los Angeles, declaring that a district judge erred last week when he ordered control of the troops returned to Newsom. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/u...

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President Trump's Promise To Black America Over 4 Years, Sept. 25, 2020: "Make Juneteenth a National Holiday." Trump, Juneteenth 2025: "Too many non-working holidays in America. ... It must change if we are going to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" cdn.donaldjtrump.com/public-files...

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Trump hits the pause button on joining the Israeli war against Iran as the White House says he will decide "within the next two weeks" and adds that "there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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This week's primary guaranteed that Virginia will have its first woman governor and that no statewide office next year will be held by a straight white male as both parties picked barrier-breaking nominees for every post. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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The Fed holds interest rates steady, defying pressure from Trump who excoriated Powell once again earlier today. @colbylsmith.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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Supreme Court upholds a state ban prohibiting some medical treatments for transgender youths in a 6-3 ruling that will undergird similar laws in more than 20 other states. @adamliptak.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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Obama urges law firms, universities and businesses not to remain silent and instead speak out against Trump demands, but audio and video recordings of his remarks were forbidden so they were not widely distributed. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...

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The Age of Trump enters its second decade. Ten years ago today, Trump descended that escalator to kick off his campaign and in the decade since has dominated our time like no other political figure, transforming America for good or ill in fundamental ways. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

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Meanwhile, huge crowds flooded the streets of cities from coast to coast protesting Trump as part of the "No Kings" demonstrations. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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"The energy level at the military parade here is a bit desultory. The crowds are calm and light, a bit sapped after waiting in the oppressive DC humidity for hours to make it to this point, and it’s now spitting rain," reports @shawnmccreesh.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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The suspect in the Minnesota attacks worked at a funeral home, owned firearms and voted for Trump but never mentioned either of the lawmakers who were shot and generally avoided talking about politics, according to a longtime friend. @londonoe.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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Trump turns 79 today. He is not only the oldest person ever inaugurated as president, but older today than three of our four living former presidents -- older than Obama (out of office for 8 years), Bush (out of office for 16 years, and Clinton (out of office for 24 years).

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Two Minnesota state legislators were targeted for assassination by a man in body armor posing as a police officer. One has died along with her husband and the other is hospitalized along with his wife. Follow the latest here: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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Eleanor Holes Norton was a towering figure in civil rights and DC city politics. But as she turns 88, the oldest member of the House has experienced a notable decline that has left her struggling to fulfill her duties. @anniekarni.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

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A contradictory commander in chief: Trump seems more willing at the moment to use the military against Americans than against Iranians. He celebrates a show of force on U.S. soil even as he denounces “endless wars” outside its borders. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

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Trump administration abruptly shifts focus of its mass deportation campaign, telling ICE officials to largely pause raids and arrests in the agricultural industry, hotels and restaurants. @haleaziz.bsky.social Zolan Kanno-Youngs www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...

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Israel launches what it calls a "preemptive strike" against Iran, targeting elements of its nuclear program and long-range missile capabilities. Follow our live coverage here: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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Troops in DC and LA: "This is Trump unfettered, erasing the lingering frustrations from his first term and no longer constrained by any dissenting voices on his own staff," writes @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

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"Crisis is Trump's brand," writes @adamliptak.bsky.social, and the president certainly sees a lot of it out there as he declares one national emergency after another to expand his powers, testing the limits of the law and Constitution. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

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Inflation came in at 2.4% last month, defying predictions of more significant price increases so far as Americans brace for the effects of Trump's on-again-off-again trade war. @colbylsmith.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/b...

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Trump announces he will restore the names of military bases named after Confederate figures even as his Pentagon strips the names of civil rights icons from navy ships. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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Trying to remember the last chief of US intelligence agencies who publicly advanced a conspiracy theory that the nation's "elite" are plotting to start a nuclear war because they have shelters.

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Tulsi Gabbard: "Political elite warmongers are carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers. Perhaps it’s because they are confident that they will have access to nuclear shelters for themselves and their families that regular people won’t have access to." x.com/tulsigabbard...

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Life in Crimea, vacation resort/war zone: When fragments from a missile killed five beachgoers and wounded 100 last summer, people went to the beach the next day anyway, but wore name tags in case ambulance crews needed to identify them. @nmacfarquhar.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/w...

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