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Our hour by hour account of what happened at the US Institute of Peace last week and how DOGE got in the building: A master key, a 911 call, a full-building lockdown, threats DOGE is alleged to have made to a private security firm, and a gun safe.
nytimes.com/2025/03/24/us/po…
Breaking: The administration may push to engrave Trump's name on the Institute of Peace headquarters, lawyers for the institute's ousted leadership say in a court filing.
nytimes.com/2026/09/17/us/po…
The Trump admin wants you to be able to buy a gun online & get it shipped straight to your door without verifying your identity and fitness in person.
People who sell guns and prioritize putting them in safe hands say, "It is just asking for problems."
nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/po…
Trump, speaking at the U.S. Army War College, rehashed claims that immigrant truck drivers cause crashes, saying he will announce a plan to replace those who don’t have legal status with veterans. nytimes.com/2026/07/15/us/po…
Yesterday, @SenAdamSchiff sent Blanche a five page letter outlining "serious concerns" over his close ties to the gun industry, especially Check-Mate Industries, a company run by his mother-in-law. It's likely to come up in his confirmation hearings.
More: nytimes.com/2026/07/15/us/po…
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The Trump administration is scrapping more than three dozen firearms regulations. Critics say the changes come at the expense of public safety. Some proponents say they don't go far enough. nytimes.com/2026/07/05/us/po…
Sharing a few days late, but I looked at Trump's comments about past presidents, their famed successes and failures, to figure out how he's thinking about his own legacy: nytimes.com/2026/07/03/us/po…
Trump made "YMCA" his anthem, synonymous with his own image and with his presidency. The Village People weren't always on board -- lead singer Victor Willis, who died this week, seemed to struggle over the years with Trump's use of the song. nytimes.com/2026/07/01/us/po…
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The Trump administration is suing Virginia and California over gun laws that went into effect today. Virginia banned on the sale of semiautomatic assault rifles and California banned on the sale of Glock and Glock-style handguns.
nytimes.com/2026/07/01/us/po…
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The reflecting pool seems to be rejecting Trump’s makeover.
w/ photos from @AlexKentTN nytimes.com/2026/06/19/us/po…
I wrote about a German nonprofit that wants you to buy a HTLR t-shirt.
It's part of their guerrilla effort to shut down right-wing shops that skirt German laws constricting hate speech and profit from the sale of clothing & other merch with neo-Nazi slang.
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read here: nytimes.com/2026/06/15/world…
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Between Easter Eggs and Bunny Hops, Trump Talks of War and Autopens nytimes.com/2026/04/06/us/po…
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In an uncanny splitscreen today, Trump in Miami Beach boasted of American military might at a Saudi conference, using the Middle East as a key example. But he seemed unaware that 12 US troops had just been injured in an Iranian strike on a Saudi base.
nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/po…
Christmastime in Palm Beach with President Trump: golfing, a formal Christmas Eve dinner at Mar-a-Lago, more golfing and a couple bilats. The first, over lunch with Ukraine's Zelensky, may or may not leave Russia and Ukraine closer to a peace deal. nytimes.com/2025/12/28/us/po…
After photos circulated today, WH confirms it's renamed the Institute of Peace after President Trump -- "beautifully and aptly named after a President who ended eight wars in less than a year... Congratulations, world!"
more:
nytimes.com/2025/12/03/us/po…
Spent the shutdown with DMV business that wanted federal workers to know their community would help them through — with a meal, a knitting class, a vet bill or just a quiet place to pray.
Visuals by @carolinegutman
nytimes.com/2025/11/13/us/po…
Whether by fear or force, a number of DC's homeless were uprooted week. Some went to shelters. Some ride transit back and forth, into Maryland and Virginia. Still others have just moved to another, less visible, spot on the streets.
w/@anushkapatil
nytimes.com/2025/08/18/us/po…
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The U.S. is auctioning a "very expensive, gaudy" superyacht it seized from a Russian oligarch three years ago. The question is: Who's going to buy it?nytimes.com/2025/08/14/world…
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Juneteenth went by unmarked President Trump except for a post on social media in which he griped about “non-working holidays.” nytimes.com/2025/06/19/us/po…
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A New Orleans jazz funeral for Black Americans whose skulls were sent to Germany in the 1800s for the study of a now wholly discredited racial science. "These are Black bodies that were taken and used at will" -- until now. nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/bl…
