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Eyal Press

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Contributing writer at The New Yorker, Puffin fellow at Type Media Center, author (Dirty Work, Beautiful Souls), long-suffering Bills fan.

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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wrote about whether lawyers at the Justice Department should resign on principle or stay at their jobs to preserve what’s left of the agency’s mission, a quandary that is playing out across the federal government these days. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Government lawyers who think that the Trump Administration is subverting justice are facing a quandary: Should they stay or should they go?
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Adam Scharpf @ascharpf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A federal prosecutor draws a striking parallel between the career-pressure logic we document in Making a Career in Dictatorship and what's unfolding in the U.S. Department of Justice under the Trump administration - he even mentions our book! As reported by @epress.bsky.social in @newyorker.com 👇
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Powerful interview with Louie Ridi, a Palestinian American from Ohio whose house in the West Bank has been under siege by settlers for a month. US officials have condemned the settlers, but the order to remove and prosecute them has not been enforced. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
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'Under siege by settlers:' A Palestinian American on his month trapped in his West Bank home
Podcast Episode · Haaretz Podcast · September 17 · 36m
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I reviewed Benjamin Moser’s ‘Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History,’ and Omer Bartov’s ‘Israel: What Went Wrong?’ for this week’s issue of The New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Is Zionism’s Moral Crisis About Roads Not Taken—or Original Sin?
Where Benjamin Moser replaces one story of Jewish exceptionalism with another, Omer Bartov shows what’s lost when polemic takes the place of history.
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If they actually believe there is a better than 10% chance the technology they are developing will “kill all humans” in the next decade, how can any of the employees in these companies continue working? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/t...
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Inside the Discussions at AI Companies Over a Superintelligence Doomsday
Researchers at Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google are increasingly trying to raise awareness about the risks of artificial intelligence.
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“The sober researchers inside the labs who have prided themselves on being evenhanded are now sounding terrified.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/t...
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Inside the Discussions at AI Companies Over a Superintelligence Doomsday
Researchers at Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google are increasingly trying to raise awareness about the risks of artificial intelligence.
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Remarkable piece. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...
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‘Don’t Let Me Disappear’: The 100-Day Scramble to Free Lue Yang
Lue Yang, who was convicted in a home invasion as a teenager, was facing deportation to Laos. With a plane on the tarmac, he wondered whether an appeal would be heard.
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Nebraska Governor favors removing “criminal illegal aliens” from America— except the ones who do the dirty work on his hog farm, a story this is by no means exceptional. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...
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As He Backs ICE Crackdown, Nebraska Governor Employs Undocumented Workers
Gov. Jim Pillen’s family business is one of the nation’s largest pork producers. As he seeks re-election, he has aligned himself with President Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda even though his farms have...
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This archival interview we did with Gloria Steinem is so funny and insightful and powerful: www.motherjones.com/politics/199...
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Gloria Steinem's touching take on aging—and her radical vision for joy
The journalist and feminist trailblazer has died at 92. We're taking a look back at our intimate 1995 conversation with Steinem.
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I profiled the writer Neal Ascherson for The New Yorker, and talked with him about his career reporting on so many of the great events of the 20th century. www.newyorker.com/culture/life...
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Reporting the Big World
Neal Ascherson found himself at the center of the great crises of Cold War Europe. Do careers like his exist anymore?
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My Father’s Daughter @aninsggirb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“If…insurgent candidates are able to avoid the rancor that comes w/the defund slogan, while still advocating for alternatives to policing—incl public services that are both popular & drive down crime rates—then, instead of calling “Woke 1” crazy, you might call it successful.”- @keeanga.bsky.social
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 20/08/2026
Michael Ondaatje, the author of “The English Patient,” pushed at and past the formal limits of expression with his poetic, expert, insouciant books, Amitava Kumar writes. www.newyorker.com/books/second...
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The Glorious Disorder of Michael Ondaatje’s Early Work
Michael Ondaatje had been experimenting across forms for decades before the publication of “The English Patient,” teaching writers who had crossed borders to arrive in the West to spell out their own liberation.
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Extraordinary Haaretz expose, with detailed maps and images, showing how settlers and the IDF are “displacing residents, demolishing hundreds of buildings, destroying infrastructure and using bulldozers to carve wide roads for military use” in the northern West Bank. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Undoing History • How a far-right Israeli fantasy became reality in the West Bank. Watch
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Type Media Center @typemediacenter.org · 27/07/2026
How much of the former Senate candidate’s behavior should be read through the lens of what combat did to him, and how much of it is simply who he is, independent of war? Type Media Center fellow Jasper Craven for the New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...
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The Complications of Graham Platner’s Veteran Identity
How much of Graham Platner’s behavior should be read through the lens of what combat did to him, and how much of it is simply who he is, independent of war?
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Beautiful piece by the poet and essayist Rowan Ricardo Phillips on the genius Argentina misused and misunderstood until it finally built a team around him. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/o...
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Opinion | Lionel Messi Is Walking Into History
Messi walks not because he’s left the game. He walks in order to enter it.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Mr Dollar - no kidding. ‘The lawsuit was the brainchild of Ryan Dollar, then the general counsel of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. … “We had our eyes on SCOTUS from Day 1,” Mr. Dollar said in an interview.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...
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The Supreme Court Just Gave the G.O.P. a New Midterm Edge
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I’m in Sweden rn, where a vast, clean, and speedy public transit system traverses a vast archipelago and a couple gets 2 years of combined new child care per kid, and in-home elder care is guaranteed.
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A working-class hero is something to be. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...
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Trump Pulled in at Least $2 Billion After Returning to the White House
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
No worries: she’s now being replaced by an experienced professional who is eminently qualified for the job.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2026
Sam Alito: It is the worst kind of discrimination to create majority-minority congressional districts and so we are going to kill the Voting Rights Act. Also Sam Alito: There is nothing we can do if the president cancels legal status because he thinks the United States is a white country.
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Does any well-informed soccer fan actually believe this?
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
More evidence of the striking correlation between inordinate wealth and abject sycophancy in Trump’s second term. www.wired.com/story/trump-...
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Trump Mocked Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos by Showing Off Fawning Texts
“You would not believe the texts I got from these tech guys,” NYT reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan quote Donald Trump as telling associates in an upcoming book.
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
“A trainee in his sixth week of basic training died after falling ill on Friday and being taken to Brooke Army Medical Center, the Air Force said in a news release.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
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Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Money for the ballroom but not for this. www.propublica.org/article/snap...
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More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show ch...
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Finally! "Not the odds, but the stakes" is consenus thinking. Columbia Journalism Review: "The larger consensus among everyone I talked to here is that many of the conventions that shape US political reporting are outdated or should never have been employed at all." www.cjr.org/feature/out-...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The mifespristone case shows that the abortion federalism promised by Dobbs was a lie—the goal is to ban abortion everywhere, even if that means forcing pro choice states like New York to enforce abortion bans passed by anti-choice states. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Shield laws are not directly at issue in Louisiana’s case. But Alito’s reference to those laws as part of a “scheme” to undermine Dobbs is a tell that he believes that New York should be compelled to help enforce Louisiana’s ban on abortion. Although the justices who overturned Roe blamed it for fomenting partisan rancor and division, the Dobbs ruling was always going to be worse in that regard, precisely because abortion cannot truly be banned as long as you can cross state lines to get one.
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Lets not overlook the biggest achievement of the world’s first trillionaire: putting USAID in the shredder, which will lead to more than 9 million preventable deaths by 2030, according to this study by The Lancet. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
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Global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030, study projects
The Lancet study examines how the dismantling of international aid by the U.S. and other countries could undo decades of health gains.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Natalie Portman is right, “Russian, Israeli and Iranian filmmakers should not be threatened with erasure to atone for crimes committed by governments they often fiercely oppose.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...
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Opinion | ‘Yes’ Is a Scathing Portrait of Israeli Depravity. Why Are European Leftists Boycotting It?
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This really is an astonishing piece, both as incredible reporting and as portrait of the depths of "masculinism" and its full merger with MAGA. I thought I knew what the Tates are; it's even worse, and worse in ways that are important to understand.
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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Masterful & sickening reporting on the Tate brothers by Heidi Blake: A Web of Abuse www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse
How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I've spent months speaking to current & retired Black service members about being part of the military in this political moment. What I found were officers and soldiers despondent at the resurgence of racism, yet often insistent that they were fighting for what this country could be, not what it is.
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The Betrayal of Black Patriots
They devoted their lives to serving the United States. Now the nation’s top military leader is sending the message that they’re not welcome.
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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Gordon Wood outlived his NYT obituarist by six years www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/b...
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Gordon S. Wood, Pioneering Historian of Early America, Dies at 92
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:
New statement from Scott Pelley:
 
There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.
 
The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS. 
 
“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.
 
The waste is heartbreaking.
 
Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all. 
 
At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.
 
I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.
 
Scott Pelley
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Vinson Cunningham drops a beauty on the eve of a certain series. “Part of the fun of rooting for a team is that, like a friend, they can tightrope across your last nerve, but, in this case, you can curse them out however you please and never need to apologize…” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Lessons in Fanhood from the Knicks
For the first time since 1999, the New York Knicks are eagerly awaiting the N.B.A. Finals. Vinson Cunningham appreciates the artfulness of the game, but “when the Knicks are on, playing prettily or no...
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Very excited to see the fearless, hard-hitting reporting Bari Weiss & co will be airing on 60 Minutes now that they’ve gotten rid of the correspondent who has won 48 Emmy’s.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 02/06/2026
After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Because the service had been arranged last minute, the funeral home on a busy street in Atlanta could only offer them one hour.
Orlin wore a long-sleeved shirt and a tan vest with a striped bow tie and matching pants.
The clothes concealed his injuries. A new teddy bear was tucked beside him.
Embroidered into the satin lining of his casket was "Principito," or "Little Prince."
His full name was embossed on the coffin:
Orlin Josue Hernandez Reyes.
McCaffrey and Hernandez's sister had to hold Hernandez up as she walked trembling toward her son. Once she regained the strength to stand, she stood over him and stroked his face and chest.
"I never wanted to leave you," she whispered repeatedly. "I wanted to bring you with me.
My son."
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Great lineup at @prospect.org today. First: a feature by Bob Kuttner on the exodus of primary care doctors, whose conditions of practice have become intolerable. A recent paper finds that to meet all their obligations, primary care doctors need to work 26.7 hours a day. prospect.org/2026/06/01/c...
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Corporations and the Crisis of Care - The American Prospect
The U.S. suffers from a mass exodus of primary care doctors, as medical practice is dictated by corporate masters at the expense of physicians and patients.
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Progress now elusive on progress that was happening but came to a complete stop “on Feb. 28, when Israel and the United States attacked Iran.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/w...
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How Lebanon’s Best Chance to Disarm Hezbollah Failed
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This is an extraordinary story, and like a lot of extraordinary stories about wrongdoing and corruption, will become much harder to report if the Trump administration succeeds in requiring NDAs of all federal employees. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-want...
If it were up to the Trump administration you would never read these stories. And the new NDAs are designed to stop these stories from being told. Because their goal is to kill oversight and accountability. They know that principled public servants are not revealing confidential information that creates national security risks, but will expose wrongdoing that is running rampant in this administration. So they want to gag them.
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Can’t believe it took me this long to discover this remarkable book.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
A striking, clarifying fact not noted here is that, per Reuters yesterday, all but 3 of the 6069 refugees admitted to the US under Trump have been white South Africans. Trump isn't focused on whether immigrants are "legal" but whether they're white. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/u...
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Trump Is Setting His Sights on Restricting Legal Immigration
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
He wasn’t pushed out, he reluctantly stepped aside after stubbornly refusing to acknowledge what was obvious to everyone, with disastrous consequences for his party and the country.
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Wrote about whether working-class voters are finally abandoning Trump — and whether Democrats can take advantage of their growing discontent. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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Is the Working Class Finally Turning on Trump?
In 2016, a retired Pennsylvania steelworker voted for Hillary Clinton. In 2020 and 2024, he voted for Donald Trump. Here’s where he stands now.
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This striking photo, "Misidentified by Artificial Intelligence," by Jared Soares, accompanied an article I published in 2023 about Alonzo Sawyer, a Maryland resident arrested on the basis of facial recognition technology for a crime he did not commit. It is now on display at the Smithsonian, but
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I wrote about the man Tennessee plans to kill today. There is so much more to this story than one article can capture and it’s going to bother me for a long time. For @theintercept.com
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False Testimony Sent Tony Carruthers to Death Row. Tennessee Is About to Kill Him.
Carruthers’s murder conviction hinged on the claims of paid informant, who has repeatedly recanted his testimony.
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Union-busting tax dodger weighs in. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/b...
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Jeff Bezos Praises Trump’s Second Term as ‘More Mature’
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Oh come on.
Headline "Trump's $1.8 Billion Fund Tests Constitutional Limits."
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
As we all thought, the idea was regime change to install someone we can control who will make the lives of Iranians even more insufferable. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...
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Early War Goal Was to Install Hard Line Former President as Iran’s Leader
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Just what the founders dreamed about, a slush fund to disburse reparations to members of the mob who assaulted police officers and stormed the Capitol in order to overturn the results of an election.
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