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Chris Daly

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Journalist, historian. Bostonian. Birder. 🦉

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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 19h
Oh, really?
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jack Smith….man of the people at the Power to the People concert hanging out on the lawn….no fancy pavilion seats or backstage laminate pass
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 19h
Well, I, for one, am outraged! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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How Trump Moved Ethical Lines With His Ads, Businesses and Summits
The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Wait a minute. Doesn't the sun shine on the moon? Why not go with solar power? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/w...
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Superpowers Race to Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon
The United States wants a reactor on the moon by 2030. A Russian-Chinese alliance is working on one for 2036. Some leading scientists say the danger is great.
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you or I did that, we’d be in federal court! OpenAI’s Systems Meddled With U.S. Government Sites After Going Rogue www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...
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OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I hate war, but I hate Putin too. At least, Ukraine picks industrial targets that support the Russian military, not intentionally trying to kill civilians.
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wait a minute: what kind of snipers? Terrorists? (Congress, please, let's not fall for this b.s.) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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Trump Says His D.C. Arch Would Be a ‘Military Complex’ Housing Drones and Snipers
The president’s announcement on Sunday echoed his justification for the White House ballroom: that the project was necessary for national security.
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sen. Cassidy says measles surge will be administration’s ‘terrible legacy’ Also, of course, a “terrible legacy” for Cassidy.
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We've been warned. Do Democrats need to plan to march on Washington on Jan. 3? newrepublic.com/article/2151...
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The Final Battle for America’s Democracy
Forget November 3. It’s January 3 when Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans might bury our democracy once and for all. Here’s how.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This should be on the front page of every newspaper tomorrow.
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
White billionaires are erasing Black history. x.com/Phil_Lewis_/...
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BET Digital has permanently removed all its digital news articles from its website to 'prioritize video content,' I'm told. Years of news articles are now gone forever. Some writers were able to sav...
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Shame.
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A very important piece about the domestic legacy of our responses to 9/11. Well worth reading. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/o...
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Opinion | Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened. (Gift Article)
The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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A TRIBUTE TO GLORIA STEINEM
Excerpted from Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation’s Journalism
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Nobody wants this. U.S. Launches Airstrikes on Iran for 2nd Time in Three Days www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
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U.S. Launches Airstrikes on Iran for 2nd Time in Three Days
U.S. Central Command did not say precisely what it was trying to destroy in Iran, but it said the attacks were aimed at Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Haha, a more fitting logo for Google.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/08/2026
Mike Rogers describes Egypt as "home" for Abdul El-Sayed (El-Sayed was in fact born in Michigan)
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hey, Google: you'll regret this. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w...
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Google Maps Changes Lake Ontario to Lake America Following Trump’s Executive Order (Gift Article)
Users in the United States will see the new label, following President Trump’s executive order last week.
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
History keeps happening. What It Took to Dismantle the Most Powerful Company in the World www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/o...
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Opinion | What It Took to Dismantle the Most Powerful Company in the World
A playbook to curb the growing power of Big Tech.
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
BFD. No sane person is going to use that name. Besides, Ontario is not even a “Canadian” name. It’s Indigenous. Trump Orders the Government to Rename Lake Ontario to Lake America www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/u...
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Trump Signs Executive Order to Rename Lake Ontario to Lake America
The president also reiterated his criticism that Canada “treats us very badly.” Trade talks between the nations collapsed last week.
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Our mad king on Dolly Parton: "She really liked me, I will tell you." www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Trump says Dolly Parton's death like losing 'a member of the family'
"She was unique. She was amazing. And to lose her, it's like you lose a member of the family," President Trump said of the late Dolly Parton.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Samuel Alito gained up to $2.9m from oil and gas assets since joining supreme court, analysis shows www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... The Supremely Corrupt Court !
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Samuel Alito gained up to $2.9m from oil and gas assets since joining supreme court, analysis shows
Critics argue US high court justice should recuse himself from upcoming fossil fuel firms’ climate accountability case
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Navy may change the name of a warship to honor a brave black man who served honorably in the Pearl Harbor attack to the name of a cowardly draft dodger who is so ignorant he didn’t even know what happened at Pearl Harbor, according to his then Chief of Staff accompanying him on the visit
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Thank you, NYT, for this accountability reporting. Will any of this appear on Fox News? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/u...
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Homeland Security Made a Big Claim About Noncitizen Voting. Now It Can’t Prove It.
The Department of Homeland Security told Nevada election officials that it identified 185 “potential” noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls, not the nearly 16,000 it claimed last month.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2026
Ossoff on why he invoked Natalie Harp during his speech: "We're in wartime. The commander in chief has mired us in this geopolitical disaster. People have lost their lives ... and he retreats into this bubble of West Wing aides who are his security blanket to make him feel good about himself"
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Take those flocken cameras down! Even MAGA hates them. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
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Americans are destroying license-plate cameras as surveillance backlash grows
Flock cameras have been shot, spray-painted and cut down as how-to videos spread online. “People are fed up,” one suspect said.
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
If these charts were medical reports, what shape would you say the patient is in? Trump’s Broken Promises, in 11 Charts www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | Trump’s Economic Record Doesn’t Come Close to His Campaign Promises
The president likes to boast about the “greatest economy we’ve ever had.” His record falls far short.
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Glenn A. Bruce @glennardenbruce.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
More lying per the usual. In this case, grifting credit for things done by others.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Family members share with MeidasTouch that women aboard the USS Boxer have been “begging” for extra pads and tampons as basic feminine hygiene supplies run out at sea.
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"They Were Begging Us to Send Them Extra Pads and Tampons." Family Member Describes Feminine Hygiene Shortage Aboard the USS Boxer
A family member with loved ones serving aboard the USS Boxer reached out to us directly to describe a supply crisis unfolding on the amphibious assault ship,
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
User of the web, have you ever asked yourself, "where is this coming from?" I have. We all know this, of course, but it is well described here by Siva Vaidhyanathan. "Having organized the web, Google now proposes to replace it." www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Uh-oh. Tucker 2028? open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Tucker 2028?
Carlson’s latest monologue sure sounded like the launch of a shadow run for president.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The so-called president of the United States is a massive money launderer and cut off by the bank that discovered it. Yet the story barely registers with the legacy media. What a disgrace.
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Where does this end? Should civilians own (and use) shoulder-fired missiles, attack drones, tanks??? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
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Federal Judge Weakens The National Firearms Act
The National Firearms Act mandated a permitting process for short-barreled rifles and shotguns, as well as suppressors. A judge ruled that the provision was unconstitutional.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
NYT desk: please be sure to note in all stories about this subject that the seashells were arranged in that pattern by someone else, NOT Comey himself. He was just passing by and took a photo. Trump Demanded Details of Agents’ Interview of Comey, New Filing Says www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u...
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Trump Demanded Details of Agents’ Interview of Comey, New Filing Says
The demand suggests the intense personal involvement of President Trump in investigating one of his longtime critics, the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey.
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We've been warned.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 26/07/2026
Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 6 weeks(!) in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave—is now getting all three.
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Call me crazy, but maybe two men who fathered 19 children with 7 different women shouldn’t be lecturing us about family values.
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
😂 Republicans see ‘scary’ lack of enthusiasm among core voters ahead of midterms
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of the press." It seems self-evident that the Constitution does not authorize Trump's lawyers to spy on reporters' mothers! www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/b...
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Trump Administration Sought Phone Records of Times Journalists and Their Relatives
The government is aggressively seeking the confidential sources of Times reporters who wrote about the president’s new Air Force One. The Times has asked a judge to quash the subpoenas.
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I hope she ate a lot of ticks!
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Sending ICE Agents to intimidate voters at polling places, declaring martial law to try to delay or cancel the election, seizing ballots-As he gets more desperate, there's nothing he won't do to try to save his pathetic orange ass. ALL states should preemptively prepare to defend Democracy! 🇺🇸 ✊
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
It's simple: When ICE agents act like goons on our streets, they should be arrested, investigated, and prosecuted by state and local authorities. Just like anybody else. If ICE agents commit federal crimes and the FBI fails to do anything, that's just negligence. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/u...
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Federal Agents Were Told FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations
Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
‘A Complete Devastation of Due Process’: What Really Happens Inside Immigration Court talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-day-a...
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‘A Complete Devastation of Due Process’: What Really Happens Inside Immigration Court
When I walked up to 290 Broadway early on a late June...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/07/2026
If the head of US intelligence isn't able to say who won the election in 2020, then maybe he shouldn't be head of US intelligence.
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Trump's National Socialism
It is centralizing ever more economic power in Trump's hands
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Donald Trump is a stone-cold liar. He lies about his height, his wealth and his golf game. He lies about his accomplishments and his failures. He lies about everything, large and small, important and insignificant. newsletters.democracydocket.com/-the-media-h...
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The media has one job Thursday night: Tell the truth about Trump's lies
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Every headline, like this one from @apnews.com, should leave no doubt that he is full of shit. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump will speak on elections in primetime address after pushing debunked conspiracies
President Donald Trump will deliver a primetime address this week that he says will include a focus on elections.
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Not again! Abolish ICE now.
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Chris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"Last year, before flying to Stockholm to receive his Nobel Prize, Dr. Yaghi . . . voiced concern about Mr. Trump’s immigration policies, saying that they endanger the nation’s system of universities, companies and governments that promote scientific excellence." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/s...
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Nobel-Winning U.S. Chemist Will Move to China to Lead A.I. Institute
Omar Yaghi of the University of California, Berkeley, will head an initiative to apply artificial intelligence to the discovery of new materials.
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