May 2025
Fight Like Our Democracy Depends on It – New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/opinion/trump-100-days-opposition.html
How the Internet Left 4Chan Behind – The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/how-the-internet-left-4chan-behind
Trump’s 48-hour scramble to fly migrants to a Salvadoran prison – Washington Post
Inside the life of a 24/7 streamer: ‘What more do you want?’ – Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/04/longest-marathon-streamer-emilycc/
The Destruction of the Department of Justice – The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/trump-destroying-doj/682681/
A Tidal Wave of Change Is headed For the US Economy – New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/business/economy/trump-trade-economy.html
The Story of the ‘Mistakenly Deported Maryland Man’ – New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/us/abrego-garcia-mistakenly-deported.html
The U.S. Threat Looming Over Canada – The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/05/canadians-fear-war-trump/682674/
There Is A Way Forward: How to Defeat Trump’s Power Grab – NY Times Editorial Board
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/opinion/trump-100-days-opposition.html
America’s Least American President – Philip Bump, The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/05/american-democracy-under-trump/
Trump Sons’ Deals on Three Continents Directly Benefit the President – New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/us/politics/eric-donald-jr-trump-family-deals.html
The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked – 404 Media
https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/
The Legal Theory Behind Trump’s Power Grabs – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/donald-trump-unitary-executive-theory/
Catholic Leaders Recoil From Trump’s Pope Post – Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/04/trump-pope-social-media-post/
It Must Be Nice to Be a West Village Girl – New York Magazine
https://www.thecut.com/article/nyc-west-village-neighborhood-new-generation-women-girls.html
The Sagging Dollar Will Usher in a World of Pain – New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/opinion/weak-us-dollar.html
The Blogger Who Hates America – Persuasion
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-blogger-who-hates-america
Related: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/02/curtis-yarvin-harvard
A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse – New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/technology/ai-hallucinations-chatgpt-google.html
Is This The End of the Separation of Church and State? – New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/is-this-the-end-of-the-separation-of-church-and-state
The Likes of Warren Buffett We Will Never See Again – Roger Lowenstein, New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/opinion/taking-the-measure-of-warren-buffett.html
Barry and Diane - Barry Diller, New York Magazine
The Missing Branch – The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/05/missing-branch-congress/682701/
She Called a 5-Year-Old the N-Word. And the online right rallied to her side – The Bulwark
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/she-called-a-five-year-old-the-n-word-crowdfunding
Death is the policy – The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/health/661362/rfk-jr-measles-autism
How Trump is Covertly Strangling Billions in Disease Cure Research – Talking Points Memo
Everyone is cheating their way through college – New York Magazine
The Canonization of Patrick Bateman – New York Magazine
https://www.vulture.com/article/why-is-american-psycho-patrick-bateman-popular-now.html
WE HAVE AN AMERICAN POPE!!!!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/08/pope-prevost-american-vatican/
West Point Is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate – New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/opinion/west-point-trump-military.html
Sergeant Hunter Was in Danger – New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/magazine/police-officer-suicides-ptsd.html
Pope Leo XIV, the First American Pontiff, Took a Global Route to the Top Post – New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/world/europe/pope-leo-xiv-robert-francis-prevost.html
David H. Souter Dies at 85 – New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/david-souter-dead.html
They Don’t Need a Warrant – Luke O’Neil, Welcome to Hell World
https://www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-need-a-warrant/
A Day in the Live-Streamed Life of Donald Trump – The New Yorker
A Trumped Up Police State Is Coming – The Intercept
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/08/trump-police-crime-radley-balko/
55 Things You Need to Know About the New Pope, Leo XIV - Politico
How a Quiet American Cardinal Became Pope – New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/world/europe/conclave-vote-pope-leo-robert-prevost.html
The Status Cheats – Forking Paths
https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-status-cheats?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
30 years ago, ‘Hackers’ and ‘The Net’ predicted the possibilities—and horrors—of internet life – Fast Company
Auction to Dine With Trump Creates Foreign Influence Opportunity – New York Times
Kennedy Is Right About the Chemicals in Our Food – New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/opinion/kennedy-ultraprocessed-food-dyes.html
The Effects of Congestion Pricing in New York City – NY Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/11/upshot/congestion-pricing.html
Does Trumpism Have A Future? – John Ganz, Unpopular Front –
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/does-trumpism-have-a-future
Is Jeff Bezos Selling Out the Washington Post – The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05/26/is-jeff-bezos-selling-out-the-washington-post
RIP American Innovation – Washington Post Op/Ed
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/12/invention-government-funding-trump-musk/
China Called Trump’s Bluff – The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/05/china-tariffs-trump/682776/
The rise of end times fascism – Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, The Guardian
Is that guy with a gun an ICE officer – or is it just a guy with a gun? – Philip Bump, Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/12/ice-masked-federal-agents-accountability-ozturk
I Figured Out How Donald Trump Thinks Trade Should Work – Brian Beutler, Off Message
https://www.offmessage.net/p/i-figured-out-how-donald-trump-thinks
25 Years of Dining in New York City – New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/06/dining/25-years-nyc-restaurants.html
How We Are Using AI – Columbia Journalism Review
Why Trump Suddenly Declared Victory Over the Houthi Militia – New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/politics/trump-houthis-bombing.html
Trump’s Plan to Take Jet From Qatar Heightens Corruption Concerns – New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/trump-qatar-jet-plane.html
As Foreign Tourists Stay Away, U.S. Could Lose $12.5 Billion This Year – New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/travel/united-states-international-visitors-decline.html
I Came to Study Aging. Now I’m Trapped in ICE Detention. – New York Times Op/Ed
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/opinion/ice-detention-russian-scientist.html
Bill Belichick, Jordon Hudson and the making of a PR disaster -
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/05/13/bill-belichick-girlfriend-jordon-hudson/
Wall Street Gutted Steward Health Care. Patients Paid the Price. – Mother Jones
How Joe Biden Handed the Presidency to Donald Trump – Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson in The New Yorker
What’s in Trump and Republicans’ giant tax and immigration bill? – Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/13/republican-trump-tax-immigration-plan/
Silicon Valley Braces For Chaos – The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/silicon-valley-reacts-to-trump/682799/
Trump’s Effort to become the Supreme Leader Has Roots in a Nazi Philosopher – The Unpopulist
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-effort-to-become-the-supreme
AirBnBs Midlife Crisis
https://www.wired.com/story/airbnb-is-in-midlife-crisis-mode-reinvention-app-services/
Multiple Trump WH Officials Have Ties to Antisemitic Extremists – NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/14/nx-s1-5387299/trump-white-house-antisemitism
The anti-woke right won in 2024. Now they’re turning on each other - Vox
Martin’s Out. Pirro’s In. Incompetence Reigns. – Liz Dye Public Notice
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/jeanine-pirro-us-attorney-dc-explained
We Study Fascism and We're Leaving the US. - New York Times op/ed
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/opinion/yale-canada-fascism.html
Live by the Loomer, Die by the Loomer
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/opinion/laura-loomer-trump.html
Can She Keep PBS on the Air?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/business/pbs-paula-kerger-trump-congress.html
Long Drives and Short Homilies: How Father Bob Became Pope Leo - New York TImes
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/world/europe/robert-prevost-pope-leo-xiv.html
The Opinon That Ate the Paper - New York Magazine
This Is Why Trump is Always Talking About Corruption - NYT op/ed
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/opinion/trump-corruption-politics.html
Trump's Real Secretary of State - The Atlantic
The mother who never stopped believing her son was there - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/06/brain-injury-consciousness-science/682579/
Above The Law - Law website criticizing big law firms for being a bunch of bitches when dealing with the Trump administration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/us/politics/law-firms-trump-above-the-law.html
Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer That has spread to his bones.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/us/politics/biden-prostate-cancer.html
Europe Built Trains. America Built Highways and Regret.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/opinion/europe-train-travel.html
The Talented Mr. Vance - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/07/jd-vance-reinvention-power/682828/
Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras - Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/19/live-facial-recognition-police-new-orleans/
We're Definitely Going to Build a Bunker Before We Release AGI - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/karen-hao-empire-of-ai-excerpt/682798/
How A Salvadoran Prison Became A Political Human Zoo - Washington Post
A Terrible Idea - Just Security
https://www.justsecurity.org/113529/terrible-idea-contempt-court/
The Trump Memecoin Dinner Winners Are Getting Rid of Their Coins - Wired
https://www.wired.com/story/the-trump-memecoin-dinner-winners-are-getting-rid-of-their-coins/
The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement - New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/us/project-esther-heritage-foundation-palestine.html
Rutger Bregman Interview
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/magazine/rutger-bregman-interview.html
The MAHA Crowd Is Already Questioning Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/05/biden-cancer-vaccine-maha/682846/
Into the Dark: Fascist Capture of Information and the Unwinding of the Enlightenment - Jared Yates Sexton
https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/into-the-dark-fascist-capture-of
Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takwover of the Social Internet - Wired
https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-jay-graber-bluesky/
He Documented the History of New York’s Lower East Side. Where Will His Archives Go? - New York Times
My Shipwreck Story - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/06/commercial-fisherman-shipwreck/682580/
Picture This: A Tectonic Revolution - Pioneer Works
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/picture-this-tectonic-plates-marie-tharp-elise-cutts
I can Never Own My Perfect Home - Electric Lit
https://electricliterature.com/that-old-house-by-lydia-c-buchanan/
We are now alone on climate change - NY times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/climate/trump-climate-denial.html
The Inside Story of Trump’s Search for a New Air Force One - NY Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/us/politics/trump-air-force-one-qatar-jet.html
Pizzagate at the Vatican - New York Magazine
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/maga-catholics-vs-pope-leo-xiv.html
Bill Belichick Was Always in Control. Then He Met His Gen Z Girlfriend. - NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/sports/bill-belichick-age-girlfriend-jordon-hudson.html
The Real Reason Trump World Just Can’t Quit Conspiracy Theories
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/real-reason-trump-world-conspiracy-theories-patel-bongino-maga
When William F. Buckley Jr. Met James Baldwin - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/06/when-buckley-met-baldwin/682586/
How Trump Defeated Columbia - New York Magazine
Can Sam Altman Be Trusted With the Future - New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/can-sam-altman-be-trusted-with-the-future
My Father Prosecuted History’s Crimes. Then He Died in One. - New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/magazine/lockerbie-bombing-justice-father.html
Why Trump Is Threatening to Investigate Bruce Springsteen - Rolling Stone
Legacy media drives the final nail in its own coffin - Brian Tyler Cohen
https://plus.briantylercohen.com/p/legacy-media-drives-the-final-nail
The Story About Biden Getting Old Is Getting Old - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/05/biden-aging-cancer-election/682849/
Trump Is Waging War on the Future - New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/opinion/trump-maga-movement-future.html
How My Father's 'girlfriends' Scammed Him Out of $45k - New York Magazine
https://www.thecut.com/article/romance-scams-online-dating-site-fraud-targets-victims.html
The Offloading of Elon Musk - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/05/elon-musk-doge-opponents-dc/682866/
The Built This City - New York Magazine
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-city-mcnally-diller-and-carter-built.html
Donald Trump and the power of the big (fake) number - Public Notice
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-fake-numbers-middle-east-business-deals
Diseases are spreading and the CDC isn't warning the public - NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/21/nx-s1-5387723/cdc-communications-cuts-social-media-public-health