Reposted by Eyal PressClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is insane www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...gadgetreview.comOne of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data CenterA rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land. 13257138
Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The Supreme Court that just gutted the Voting Rights Act may find itself “uncomfortably pulled into electoral politics,” this article tells us, owing to “partisans on both sides primed for potential election challenges.” John Roberts could not have said it better. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...nytimes.comHow the Midterms Could Complicate the Supreme Court’s New TermEven before the justices start their new term on Monday, the court has spent the summer resolving fast-moving requests on election-related disputes. 020
Reposted by Eyal PressRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The world does not consent (but Sam Altman does not believe consent is required). But the world would consent to many bad things happening to Sam Altman and OpenAI. 31716156
Reposted by Eyal PressThe New Yorkerest @newyorkerest.com · 04/10/2026Weekend reading from this week's issue: "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" by Eyal Press (@epress.bsky.social). newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/10/05?u…newyorkerest.comShould I Stay or Should I Go?The quandary faced by government lawyers who think that the Trump Administration is subverting justice. 001
Reposted by Eyal PressJessica Winter @winterjessica.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I wrote about Cornellnewyorker.comHow the “Cornell Seven” Rape Case Became a National ScandalThe dismal responses from both the D.A. and the university reveal a larger pattern of institutional carelessness. 64818
Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Wrote 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...newyorker.comShould 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? 021
Reposted by Eyal PressAdam Scharpf @ascharpf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A 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 👇 154
Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Powerful 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...podcasts.apple.com'Under siege by settlers:' A Palestinian American on his month trapped in his West Bank homePodcast Episode · Haaretz Podcast · September 17 · 36m 000
Reposted by Eyal PressIsaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I 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...newyorker.comIs 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. 37014
Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 12/09/2026If 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...nytimes.comInside the Discussions at AI Companies Over a Superintelligence DoomsdayResearchers at Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google are increasingly trying to raise awareness about the risks of artificial intelligence. 000
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...nytimes.comInside the Discussions at AI Companies Over a Superintelligence DoomsdayResearchers at Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google are increasingly trying to raise awareness about the risks of artificial intelligence. 000
Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Remarkable piece. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...nytimes.com‘Don’t Let Me Disappear’: The 100-Day Scramble to Free Lue YangLue 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. 010
Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Nebraska 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...nytimes.comAs He Backs ICE Crackdown, Nebraska Governor Employs Undocumented WorkersGov. 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... 000
Reposted by Eyal PressClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This archival interview we did with Gloria Steinem is so funny and insightful and powerful: www.motherjones.com/politics/199...motherjones.comGloria Steinem's touching take on aging—and her radical vision for joyThe journalist and feminist trailblazer has died at 92. We're taking a look back at our intimate 1995 conversation with Steinem. 226784
Reposted by Eyal PressIsaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I 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...newyorker.comReporting the Big WorldNeal Ascherson found himself at the center of the great crises of Cold War Europe. Do careers like his exist anymore? 0519
Reposted by Eyal PressMy 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 0337
Reposted by Eyal PressThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 20/08/2026Michael 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...newyorker.comThe Glorious Disorder of Michael Ondaatje’s Early WorkMichael 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. 0307
Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Extraordinary 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/...haaretz.comUndoing History • How a far-right Israeli fantasy became reality in the West Bank. Watch*** 24730
Reposted by Eyal PressType Media Center @typemediacenter.org · 27/07/2026How 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...newyorker.comThe Complications of Graham Platner’s Veteran IdentityHow 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? 012
Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Beautiful 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...nytimes.comOpinion | Lionel Messi Is Walking Into HistoryMessi walks not because he’s left the game. He walks in order to enter it. 062
Reposted by Eyal PressPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Mr 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...nytimes.comThe Supreme Court Just Gave the G.O.P. a New Midterm Edge 12711
Reposted by Eyal PressClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I’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. 1020736
Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 01/07/2026A working-class hero is something to be. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...nytimes.comTrump Pulled in at Least $2 Billion After Returning to the White House 010
Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 26/06/2026No worries: she’s now being replaced by an experienced professional who is eminently qualified for the job. 031
Reposted by Eyal Pressjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2026Sam 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. 10356601599
Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Does any well-informed soccer fan actually believe this? 200
Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 19/06/2026More evidence of the striking correlation between inordinate wealth and abject sycophancy in Trump’s second term. www.wired.com/story/trump-...wired.comTrump 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. 010
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...nytimes.comScores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional 020
Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Money for the ballroom but not for this. www.propublica.org/article/snap...propublica.orgMore Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food ProgramRepublican 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... 011
Reposted by Eyal PressJay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Finally! "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-... 1015958
Reposted by Eyal PressAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/06/2026The 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... 6234931005
Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Lets 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/...washingtonpost.comGlobal aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030, study projectsThe Lancet study examines how the dismantling of international aid by the U.S. and other countries could undo decades of health gains. 020
Reposted by Eyal PressJameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Natalie 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...nytimes.comOpinion | ‘Yes’ Is a Scathing Portrait of Israeli Depravity. Why Are European Leftists Boycotting It? 14819
Reposted by Eyal PressJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 10/06/2026This 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. 13279114
Reposted by Eyal PressGremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Masterful & sickening reporting on the Tate brothers by Heidi Blake: A Web of Abuse www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comAndrew Tate’s Empire of AbuseHow the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women. 10322147
Reposted by Eyal PressClint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I'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.theatlantic.comThe Betrayal of Black PatriotsThey devoted their lives to serving the United States. Now the nation’s top military leader is sending the message that they’re not welcome. 592788926
Reposted by Eyal PressDavid A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Gordon Wood outlived his NYT obituarist by six years www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/b...nytimes.comGordon S. Wood, Pioneering Historian of Early America, Dies at 92 511315
Reposted by Eyal PressEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Full 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: 6748231709
Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Vinson 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-...newyorker.comLessons in Fanhood from the KnicksFor 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... 000
Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Very 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. 040
Reposted by Eyal PressJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 02/06/2026After 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/... 13657092318
Reposted by Eyal PressDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Great 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...prospect.orgCorporations and the Crisis of Care - The American ProspectThe 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. 45324
Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Progress 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...nytimes.comHow Lebanon’s Best Chance to Disarm Hezbollah Failed 000
Reposted by Eyal PressDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026This 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... 21963410
Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Can’t believe it took me this long to discover this remarkable book. 020
Reposted by Eyal PressJameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 23/05/2026A 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...nytimes.comTrump Is Setting His Sights on Restricting Legal Immigration 15674305
Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 23/05/2026He 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. 020
Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Wrote 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...newyorker.comIs 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. 011
Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 22/05/2026and here is a link to my article in The New Yorker, which offers some context, explaining that Sawyer is one of many Black men whose faces have been misidentified. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comDoes A.I. Lead Police to Ignore Contradictory Evidence?Too often, a facial-recognition search represents virtually the entirety of a police investigation. 000