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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is your periodic reminder that Palantir CEO Alex Karp and Professor Irwin Corey were separated at birth.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Paying respects to the great American hero Frances Perkins.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Welcome to Donald Trump’s garrison state. Lafayette Park is sealed off by black fencing, denying visitors more than a glimpse of the White House. The ostensible reason is to allow the National Park Service to perform repairs, but, peeking through, none seems underway or particularly necessary.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I miss the days when they ran their recruitment quietly out of Yale.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I miss the days when they ran their recruitment quietly out of Yale.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D.-CA) enters my NLRB piece into the record at a House Education and Workforce hearing.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

From the archives, a photo of me in 1999 explaining to Cspan viewers what exactly Slate is.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

“It’s supposed to be me as a doctor.”—Donald Trump.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Will any conservative religious leaders denounce this image, posted on Trump’s Truth Social account, as blasphemous? Of course they won’t.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

The day the Iran war started I was in Cairo touring the Al Raifa’i Mosque in stockinged feet when who should I run into but the Shah of Iran. As you can see, he is tanned, rested, and ready.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

If Egypt (GDP: $400 billion) can afford to preserve this 3,165 year-old mural inside the tomb of Ramses V-VI in Luxor, then surely the United States (GDP $30 trillion) can afford to preserve an 85 year-old Ben Shahn mural inside the Wilbur J. Cohen Building in Washington, DC.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The Washington Post’s dead-tree “The World” section today consists in its entirety of features taken from the Associated Press. They should rename this paper the Podunk Advertiser.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Unbelievable. Aaaand now the Justice Department goons are going after Jerome Powell. This is I believe the first time anybody ever thought to criminalize a difference of opinion over interest rates.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I didn’t know before today that in July 1980 Jeffrey Epstein was Cosmopolitan’s “Bachelor of the Month.” Helen Gurly Brown’s got a lot to answer for.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

This month's 11th Hour column in the print New Republic is about Trump's threatened sale of the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, the "Sistine Chapel of the New Deal." We have since learned Trump is preparing to bypass the GSA and demolish it before sale. Please spread the word.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

The December print issue of The New Republic begins with an unbylined "11th Hour" column whose author I am not free to divulge. Suffice it to say I have admired him since birth. It's not online so I attach it here. If you can't make it out you'll just have to buy a paper copy.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

It's driving me batty that nobody except Heather Cox Richardson, the Washington Monthly, and myself is covering Trump's race to sell off (for likely demolition) "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal," w/ murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, etc. I've furnish links below to help reporters get started.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Violation of the Hatch Act at top of the SNAP web page: "Senate Democrats are withholding services to the American people in exchange for healthcare for illegals, gender mutilation, and other unknown 'leverage' points."

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

The NYC lunchtime pecking order, late 1990s, sketched for The NY Times by a waiter at the Four Seasons. I sensed it would be of historic interest so I framed it and hung it on the wall at Slate.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Open house today in the former Bronx Post Office on the Grand Concourse to see Ben Shahn murals not on public view for a decade. I still can’t get into the Wilbur J. Cohen building ti see the Shahns there, which are endangered by the building’s imminent sale.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

New t-shirt. I don’t want them to have to look too hard.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I had to go to NYC to find out something I never heard about during the 45 years I've lived in DC: There's a gigantic Ben Shahn mural inside the government building that houses the Voice of America.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Labor parade passes you-know-who Tower.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

The Ben Shahn exhibit at the Jewish Museum in NYC hadn’t gotten a lot of ink, but it’s quite wonderful, and offers a bit of inspiration for these difficult times. It’s there through October 26.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I joined the LA County Museum of Art so I could see the new David Geffen Pavilion. It does not yet have art in it, which makes a museum visit more brisk than usual, but the two smaller pavilions do, including Magritte’s “Ce n’est pas un pipe,” which I’d forgotten was here.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I bought a sandwich on this gorgeous day in DC and thought I might eat it in Dupont Circle. But I can’t because it’s barricaded against Gay Pride marchers. I hate what my country is becoming.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Your faithful correspondent in 1987, chortling at the absurd notion that Patrick Buchanan would ever be a presidential candidate. The following year I predicted on C-SPAN that George H.W. Bush would choose Alan Simpson as his running mate. www.c-span.org/program/call...

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

We interrupt this fight to restore constitutional government and the rule of law to note that spring has arrived. Life still sucks, but now it will suck and be somewhat less cold.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Huge turnout for Politics & Prose teach-in on rule of law, civil rights, and civil liberties on featuring Jamie Raskin, David Cole, Skye Perryman, and Kelley Robinson. Starts at 7, live-streamed here: politics-prose.com/event/2025-0...

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

AARP Magazine is a genius at making me feel very, very old. Its latest cover features that adorable little girl from "ET," who will become--can this possibly be true?--AARP-eligible later (i.e., 50) this month. Say it ain't so.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Celebrating publication of my friend and former neighbor Juan Williams’s new book on today’s civil rights movement, “New Prizes for These Eyes.”

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Remembering my mentor Charlie Peters (that’s him with JFK) on what would have been his 98th birthday. Charlie was founding editor of the Washington Monthly, still one of the very best political magazines. Russell Baker called Charlie “a great editor in an age that’s not creating great editors.”

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Of much greater interest than the Mona Lisa, which you can’t get close enough to really see, would be a painterly rendering in the style of Leonardo of what the world must look like to that poor woman: A mob holding iPhones aloft to snap a pic. This is a job for AI. Post submissions here.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Here’s that good news you asked for out of our nation’s capital: A late-afternoon December sunset. It’s all I got, but pretty spectacular, no?

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

Last call to see me interview Joe Stiglitz about his new book, "The Road to Freedom," in DC. Tix here: www.eventbrite.com/e/joseph-e-s...

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

Come see me interview Joe Stiglitz about his new book on April 25 at Sixth and I. If you aren't in Washington, DC, you can stream it. Tix for both live and virtual experiences here: www.sixthandi.org/event/joseph...

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