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Jane Mayer

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New Yorker writer, author Dark Money, The Dark Side, Strange Justice, Landslide, wife & mom.

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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
👀https://x.com/propublica/status/2102330851732156815?s=12
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Report: Everyone but Trump wants Col. Vodka out: www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-reb...
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Pentagon Rebels Leak ‘Colonel Vodka’ Hegseth’s ‘Weird Conduct’
An insider says a “growing rear-guard rebellion” wants Pete Hegseth fired, but one big hurdle remains.
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Can’t wait to see this: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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‘Musk’ film is almost four hours long, engrossing and terrifying. What to know.
The documentary paints the tech trillionaire as a power-hungry megalomaniacal conman with a god complex. Musk accuses filmmaker Alex Gibney of compiling "hit list" against him.
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Emily Feng @emilyzfeng.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
NPR’s @quillawrence.bsky.social reporting Driscoll resigned after telling President Trump that the U.S. was losing the Iran war one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5955...
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🔊 Listen Now: Pentagon Exodus Under Hegseth, Venezuela Oil and Democracy, Clancy Trial Deadlocked
Up First From NPR on NPR One | 13:40
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
the best part of this story is the vivid illustration of who gets a seat on the MAGA life boat and who gets thrown to the sharks when push comes to shove
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
A Senate candidate talking about the Powell memo???? Pinch me, am I dreaming????
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The NY Times declares The Lost Founder “A riveting new biography.” Congrats to the great @jessewegman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/b...
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Book Review: ‘The Lost Founder,’ by Jesse Wegman
In “The Lost Founder,” the journalist Jesse Wegman looks back at a largely forgotten and singular voice that helped make the United States what it is today.
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The bulldog barks: Yale Law School Fights to Stop Trump Deal www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/u...
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Yale Law School Fights to Stop Trump Deal
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This Thursday - join us! Ticket links below. After Party should be fun, too!
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/05/2026
I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
NY friends, please come next Thursday 6/4 to a special live taping of @newyorker Political Scene podcast, 7:30 pm at 92Y... with special guest David Remnick joining our regular gang @eosnos @janemayernyer tickets here: www.92ny.org/event/a-demo...
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Visited a friend’s new puppies today:
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 21/05/2026
On June 4th, join @sbg1.bsky.social, @janemayer.bsky.social, and @eosnos.bsky.social—the hosts of the #PoliticalScene podcast—for a live conversation about the 2026 midterms at @92ndstreety.bsky.social. Get tickets here: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/fzd4pv
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Presidential immunity only covered “official” crimes, so…I.R.S. to Drop Audits of Trump and Family www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...
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I.R.S. to Drop Audits of Trump and Family
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I.R.S. Must Drop Audits of Trump and Family thanks to inside deal- that could have cost Trump $100 million www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...
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I.R.S. Must Drop Audits of Trump and Family
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Trump wants DOJ to investigate reporters for telling the truth about his war: www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Trump’s Complaints About Iran War Leaks Prompt Aggressive DOJ Investigations
The Wall Street Journal has received subpoenas for records of reporters.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 09/05/2026
“We’ve seen them overplaying their hand,” the sociologist Brooke Harrington says. “They’re pillaging American cultural institutions. They’re pillaging democracy.” www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...
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Have Billionaires Gone Too Far?
“We’ve seen them overplaying their hand,” the sociologist Brooke Harrington says. “They’re pillaging American cultural institutions. They’re pillaging democracy.”
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Billionaires Gone Wild: how our wealthy overlords bought democracy, can't get no respect & what happens next. Got to talk about it on today's @newyorker.com "Political Scene" podcast with @eosnos.bsky.social, @janemayer.bsky.social & @sbg1.bsky.social. Listen: www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...
The über-rich have enjoyed a remarkable degree of sway in Donald Trump’s Washington—but they may now be facing a backlash. The Washington Roundtable traces the signs of invigorated “pitchfork politics,” such as Zohran Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax in New York, a wealth tax on the ballot in California, and recent protests against the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s involvement in the Met Gala—and what these efforts reveal about the cultural and political limits of oligarchy. The panel is joined by Brooke Harrington, a Dartmouth professor of economic sociology who trained as a wealth manager to embed inside the world of the super-rich. Together they examine whether the “broligarchs” have overplayed their hand, what history tells us about when élites lose their grip on power, and whether the left or the right is better positioned to harness growing inequality and anger as a political weapon heading into the 2026 midterms and beyond.
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Suppressing Scientific Truth - what century is this? The F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...
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F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Congrats & Welcome Jkbjournalist@bsky to the only club where they hand you the prize under the table - the one and only Museum of Political Corruption!
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
As Vernon Jordan said in 1981, “Intent to discrminate is impossible to prove.” It took 45 years but the Supreme Court chose that impossible standard today. www.nytimes.com/1981/11/16/o...
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Opinion | DILUTING VOTING RIGHTS (Published 1981)
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Nice Timing for the White House Correspondents Dinner: F.B.I. Said to Have Investigated Times Reporter After Article on Patel’s Girlfriend www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
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F.B.I. Said to Have Investigated Times Reporter After Article on Patel’s Girlfriend
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
"Even as they debated the Obama plan’s possible burden on the power industry, in the entire chain of correspondence obtained by The Times, not a single justice … mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
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The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I ❤️ NY: Bringing the Flatiron Building’s Showpiece Door Back to Life www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/r...
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Bringing the Flatiron Building’s Showpiece Door Back to Life
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Tremendous reporting: The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
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The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The boss said he didn’t know he was paying terrorists- A Stunning New Verdict Rewrites the Rules of Corporate Morality www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/o...
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Opinion | A Stunning New Verdict Rewrites the Rules of Corporate Morality
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
🚨BREAKING: The California Supreme Court permanently disbarred John Eastman — a key architect in President Donald Trump’s failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election — delivering one of the most consequential professional penalties yet for an election denier. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Key Trump lawyer who tried to overturn 2020 election permanently disbarred
Eastman has remained active in election denial circles, continuing to push conspiracy theories about voting and elections.
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
RBG died Sept 18, 2020- Trump was president. He nominated her successor. Who does he think picked Amy Coney Barrett? Has he forgotten?
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Report: Peter Thiel is spending big against Redistricting in VA- targeting Black voters with racial messages open.substack.com/pub/graveinj...
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Billionaire Opponent of Diversity Is Underwriting Mailers Targeting Black Voters in Virginia to Aid Donald Trump
The front group trying to defeat new maps by using images of Barack Obama and MLK is fueled by Peter Thiel, the 40th richest man in the U.S.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Truth is, Orbán is just the latest in long list of authoritarians to be defeated by anti-corruption politics. A Democratic landslide is possible if they can credibly take up the anti-corruption mantle. But that can’t happen if voters see them as corrupt and beholden to wealthy donors.
This pattern holds a crucial lesson for America’s current moment. As democratic norms erode and elections become increasingly tilted, anti-corruption movements offer what partisan politics cannot: the moral authority to unite society against a rigged system. When traditional opposition fails, these movements succeed because they transcend party lines, mobilizing citizens around a cause larger than any candidate: the fundamental fairness of the system itself.
Research shows that in polarized societies, the most effective opposition doesn’t fight on the traditional left-right battlefield where positions are entrenched. Instead, it creates an entirely new axis of conflict.1 Framing the stakes as clean versus corrupt shifts debate from rigid ideological divisions to a universally resonant moral question: are you on the side of the people or a corrupt elite?
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This interaction between White House election security official Kurt Olsen and Paul Brown, the head of the FBI’s Atlanta field office, is eye-popping. Brown was pressured to retire for not going along with the plan to seize 2020 ballots from Fulton County. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
ICYMI www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump post appearing to depict himself as Jesus sparks backlash from religious right
Evangelical and Catholic allies call the post blasphemous and urge its removal in a rare public break from a base that has largely stood by Trump.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/04/2026
even the most tenacious autocrats have a difficult time denying a landslide result against them
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 10/04/2026
Some huge developments over the past 48 hours with Trump's World Liberty Financial. (If you're a reporter looking for a story idea...)
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Are those things on top the Flying Monkeys of Oz? Officials Release Design for 250-Foot Arch in Washington, as Trump Seeks Another Imprint www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/u...
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Officials Release Design for 250-Foot Arch in Washington, as Trump Seeks Another Imprint
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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥 Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Too bad the whales couldn’t give Trump’s campaign $1 billion like the oil barons. ‘God Squad’ Waives Environmental Rules for Offshore Drilling www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/c...
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The ‘God Squad’ Waives Environmental Rules for Offshore Drilling
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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President Trump’s Approval Sinks to 33% in New UMass Poll | UMass Amherst
Amidst war with Iran and deepening disapproval over his handling of inflation, immigration, jobs and tariffs, 17% of 2024 Trump voters now express reservations about their vote choice.
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The Versailles hall of mirrors must be next… www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/u...
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Trump Eyes White House Treaty Room for Latest Renovation Project
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 23/03/2026
Leon Panetta calls president ‘naive’ over strait of Hormuz closure and says ‘the chickens are coming home to roost’
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‘Nobody else is responsible’: Trump to blame for Iran crisis, ex-CIA chief says
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Robert Richards @rrichard09.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
his association with Christian nationalism is the topic of this week's Political Scene podcast from @newyorker.com , with @sbg1.bsky.social @janemayer.bsky.social and @eosnos.bsky.social : www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...
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Pete Hegseth’s Holy War
Christian nationalism was once a fringe ideology in America. The Secretary of War has ushered it into the heart of U.S. military force.
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Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Joshua Haymes & Brooks Potteiger (Pete Hegseth's pastor) pray imprecatory psalms against James Talarico: "I pray that God kills him. Ultimately, that means killing his heart and raising him up to new life in Christ ... If it would not be within God's will to do so, stop him by any means necessary."
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Finally! This has been rumored for years: Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...
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Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Oil prices are at multi-year highs. Your home electric bill is through the roof. The Strait of Hormuz is jammed up. And the Trump administration wants to ... pay $1 billion to stop renewable energy projects. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/c...
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Trump Officials Weigh New $1 Billion Deal to Stop Offshore Wind Farms
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Does Trump Want A Holy War? Author Katherine Stewart talks with us about Money, Lies, God and The Persian Gulf War- tune in: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
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Pete Hegseth’s Holy War
Podcast Episode · The Political Scene | The New Yorker · March 13 · 45m
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
www.desmog.com/2019/08/07/a...
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Announcing DeSmog's Koch Network Database
The Koch Network Database is a new resource library built by DeSmog to assist journalists, academic researchers, and the public to learn more about the backgrounds of individuals and organizations ass...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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Evan Osnos @eosnos.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
"Tell me how this ends?" In an emergency Iran-edition of the Washington Roundtable from @newyorker.com, @janemayer.bsky.social @sbg1.bsky.social and I dig into the rationales, the blind spots, the finances, and the key lessons from Vietnam to Iraq and beyond swap.fm/l/tny-tps-Awdxs
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