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Aryeh @aryehcw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You can also check out my interview with @timothynoah.bsky.social on YouTube if you're into that sort of thing youtu.be/aOjhwDtyemA?...

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Will Trump Serve Out His Term? with Timothy Noah

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Lobstermen are falling out of love with Trump because of tariffs and fuel costs. Also, cuts to NOAA mean slower response times. h/t Tom Ricks. www.pressherald.com/2026/10/05/t...

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Trump tried to make an ally out of fishermen. Some have started to turn on him

High gas prices, rising inflation and escalating trade wars have taken a toll on the industry.

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

I’m very sorry to read this. He was a wonderful writer, and when I interviewed him once or twice (about patrimonial wealth—he wrote a book about it) I found him witty and thoughtful and kind. He arrives too soon at Sedgwick Pie. May his memory be a blessing. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/b...

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He Wrote the Book on the Sedgwick ‘Family Disease,’ and Succumbed to It

John Sedgwick was born into an illustrious family, but privilege was only part of the story.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is wild. Was TV invented in Dupont Circle? www.1519connecticut.com/the-true-inv...

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The True Inventor

1517-19 CONNECTICUT AVENUE

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I had a great time discussing Trump’s cognitive decline with Aryeh Cohen-Wade: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

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Will Trump Serve Out His Term? with Timothy Noah

Podcast Episode · Culturally Determined · October 2 · 53m

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I said the August job number was a fluke and I was right. In September it fell back to 29,000. newrepublic.com/article/2154...

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Don’t Knock Kevin Warsh if the Fed Doesn’t Raise Interest Rates

The case for doing nothing.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My latest selects five kleptocracy investigations for the Democrats to prioritize when they retake the House and maybe the Senate: newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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The Five Trump Scandals That Deserve Thorough Investigation

A guide for the Democrats’ coming congressional majority.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The DC government is not making public crash data on the driverless vehicles in DC’s pilot program. Why should it? It’s not as though the Washington Post gives a damn. Excellent scoop by the new Washington Sun. www.washingtonsun.com/metro/waymo-...

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Waymo Touts Its Crash Safety Data, But D.C. Won’t Release the Numbers

Autonomous vehicle companies — which could be permitted to operate in the District this fall — enjoy a blanket exemption from public records law.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.

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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe

ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wherein we discover Politico got kicked out of the White House for quoting accurately the vice president of the United States and obeying the White House press office’s condition that he not be identified by name. newrepublic.com/article/2158...

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Trump Is Punishing Reporters for Doing His Bidding

The Trump White House isn’t even trying to offer a logical rationale for exiling CNN, MS NOW, and Politico.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is priceless. One of the national security breaches Trump’s citing in removing Politico from the White House was a briefing arranged by his own goddamned press team. As James Reston observed, “the ship of state is the only vessel that leaks from the top.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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The White House banned Politico, citing anonymous sources. It provided the quotes.

In a letter defending its ban of Politico, the White House critiqued a report based on a press call it conducted, where reporters were told not to name the speaker.

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Hal Davis @haldavis3.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"It was telling that none of the reporters who covered Trump yawping inaudibly into the wind tried to find out what the absent mics failed to pick up. Nobody gave a shit."

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Michael Tomasky @mjtoma.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

From @timothynoah.bsky.social: "The dirty little secret of this prestige address has long been that very little news emanates from it." trib.al/ME9Ufn9

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Why Trump’s White House Reporter Ban Matters So Little

It’s petty and annoying, but the only one he hurts is himself.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My latest is about the near-uselessness of situating reporters inside the White House press warren. newrepublic.com/article/2157...

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Why Trump’s White House Reporter Ban Matters So Little

It’s petty and annoying, but the only one he hurts is himself.

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Jonah Blank @jonahblank.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Jodie was (briefly) a colleague of mine at USN&WR in the 90s. At that time she was a well-established journalist, yet unfailingly kind and generous to the young pups new to the profession. #RIP

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Jodie Allen, Slate's first Washington bureau chief, former Outlook editor of the Washington Post, former Labor department deputy assistant secretary for policy, RIP. May her memory be a blessing. Here's my favorite Jodie piece from Slate: slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Government and Volleyball

A mere 40 years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. Now it is not only a sport [but] in the Olympics. ... And there's a whole new world of...

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Why I think Trump won’t serve four years. If you think this scenario implausible, then conceive a plausible alternative. I cannot. newrepublic.com/article/2156...

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Why Trump May Not Serve Out His Presidency

He will only get crazier, and at some point Republicans will cut their losses.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My North Star on this topic is Marcel Ophuls’ 1969 documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity.” In it, one former French resistance fighter says: “I think you could only have joined the resistance if you were maladjusted.” We revere heroism because it’s rare. More here: newrepublic.com/article/1931...

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Political Courage Is Rare. But That’s What Makes It So Important.

We haven’t had much occasion to see our leaders put to the test. But the Trump administration is making strict demands that aren’t easy to meet.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The book is more explanatory than reportorial, but it contains one astonishing scoop: “According to someone who saw it,” George W. Bush has painted “a big, ugly portrait of President Donald J. Trump.” Please God may Dubya preserve it and donate it upon his death to the National Portrait Gallery.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I just finished Jacob Weisberg’s excellent “Profiles in Cowardice” and recommend it highly, especially the chapters on Paul, Weiss, Dartmouth, and the Supreme Court. (A chapter on Steve Schwartzman is entertaining but nobody would expect that raging narcissist to be righteous.) a.co/d/0i7qXKsL

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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 · 16/09/2026

My bold prediction that Fed Chair Kevin Warsh wouldn’t raise interest rates was wrong—bold predictions usually are, and I’m a fool to make them. But my argument that a hike is unnecessary right now is rock-solid. You can read it here: newrepublic.com/article/2154...

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Don’t Knock Kevin Warsh if the Fed Doesn’t Raise Interest Rates

The case for doing nothing.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Charles Trueheart, RIP. Here is my review of his book “Diplomats at War,” a superb family memoir and political history that stands beside “Fire in the Lake” and “A Bright, Shining Lie” as one of the very best American chronicles of the Vietnam War. washingtonmonthly.com/2024/06/24/h...

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How the Vietnam War Came Between Two Friends and Diplomats

Charles Trueheart’s account of his father’s battles with a once-close fellow Foreign Service officer in Saigon illuminates the American tragedy in Southeast Asia—and should be considered one of the fi...

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yes, AI urgently needs to be regulated, fast. Yes, Anthropic and Open AI need to explain why. But no, they shouldn’t get to decide how, lest regulation become regulatory capture. My latest. newrepublic.com/article/2154...

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There’s a Right Way to Regulate AI—and a Very Wrong Way

Trump is a fool to say no regulation’s needed. But don’t let’s leave the solution to Anthropic and Open AI.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Tech leaders are suddenly panicking about the superintelligence they’re creating and Trump refuses to listen. How did we get here? In April I traced the history of tech from charming garage-tinkerering to (in some cases, literal) cheerleading for the apocslypse. newrepublic.com/article/2088...

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How the Tech World Turned Evil

Once upon a time, they were counterculture idealists bringing power to the people. Today they’re greedy monopolists who’d sooner destroy our democracy than be reined in by government in any way—and th...

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“It’s harder to open a hot-dog stand than to build an artificial superintelligence.” Have a nice day! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/o...

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Opinion | This Is Really Bad

We can no longer pretend that A.I. is safe.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I experienced 9/11 as an objective correlative. My wife had just been diagnosed with terminal cancer, and our lives were in a tailspin. It took me years to stop seeing 9/11 as a projection of my own mental state. When I did so, I wrote this for Slate: slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Why No More 9/11s? (consolidated version for printout)

The introduction to and eight parts contained in "Why No More 9/11s?" are reprinted here for those who prefer to read the entire series on...

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I usually can't stand preening "story behind the story" features in the NYT and elsewhere, but in this instance I think the story behind this story is kind of interesting. Here it is: timothynoah.substack.com/p/my-further...

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My Further Adventures With AI

Wherein Claude acts like a very bright and slightly dishonest research assistant.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My latest, in the New Republic, is about how the "golden share" Trump procured from U.S. Steel as a condition of its purchase by Nippon Steel might affect this month's contract negotiations--and the potential political consequences should those negotiations fail. newrepublic.com/article/2153...

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How Steelworkers Might Shape the Midterm Elections

Trump’s “golden share” in U.S. Steel puts him in a bind.

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