Jane Mayer

The New Yorker magazine.

Here’s the great Glasser column:

Blech. Just tried. Will try again.

Has hell frozen over in Washington? Read my great colleague Susan Glasser’s account of the unthinkable social tableau at Dick Cheney’s Long, Strange Goodbye

Let’s hear it for the poets!🎉

Opinion | The Comey Case Is a Comedy of Errors The incompetence of the Trump administration is interfering with some of its worst excesses.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“I was a litigator for 21 years, and it’s safe to say that I never witnessed the level of legal incompetence that we are witnessing from the Trump administration,” our columnist David French writes.

Excited to do a live taping of our @newyorker.com podcast with great colleagues @janemayer.bsky.social @eosnos.bsky.social soon @harvardiop.bsky.social

So excited to watch The Political Scene taping their weekly show live at @harvardiop.bsky.social with the amazing @sbg1.bsky.social @janemayer.bsky.social and @eosnos.bsky.social talking about one year since Trump's election.

Feature, Not Bug Dept.

Is the Epstein Scandal Trump’s Kryptonite? Podcast Episode · The Political Scene | The New Yorker · 11/15/2025 · 39m

Just the person to talk to this week for our @newyorker.com pod w/ @janemayer.bsky.social @eosnos.bsky.social about Trump, Epstein, and the changing Washington scandal — the legendary @misikoff.bsky.social

Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Mafia governance in action

"the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."

NEW: DHS launched a $200mln+ ad campaign, featuring, Kristi Noem, aimed at stemming illegal immigration.

We found the firm secretly hired for the work has ties to Noem.

@justinelliott.bsky.social, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social & @amierjeski.bsky.social:

www.propublica.org/article/kris...

Hey lawyers out there- what do you think?

WLS: Judge orders release of hundreds arrested in Illinois immigration crackdown | CNN A federal judge ordered the release of hundreds of people arrested as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Illinois, according to CNN affiliate WLS, dealing a blow to federal ef...

JUST IN: Federal judge orders release of hundreds of people arrested in Trump's immigration crackdown in Illinois, according to CNN affiliate WLS.
https://cnn.it/3LzqUPL

Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct

When Prince Andrew was caught in a lie about this, he was stripped of his titles. Will Americans care less than the royal family? Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

Kash Patel’s ‘Effin Wild’ Ride as FBI Director In just one week in October, he ticked off his bosses with premature comments about a terror investigation squeezed in a trip to the ‘Boondoggle Ranch’ on the bureau jet.

The FBI Director’s been staying at “The Boondoggle Ranch.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Sean Davis Delivers Stunning Condemnation of Trump On X Sean Davis posted a scathing takedown of President Donald Trump and warned Republicans to they "had better wake up" before the 2026 midterms.

👀https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/federalist-chief-delivers-stunning-condemnation-of-trump-in-scorched-earth-x-post-he-looks-weak-and-rudderless/

Two-faced seems somewhat appropriate.

Down to $1.18: How Families Are Coping With SNAP Cuts

Down to $1.18: How Families Are Coping With SNAP Cuts www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy

“How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy” - hmm. Guess it’s hard to get by on Trillion $ pay packages www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

There was too much assault and pepper for the jury to swallow.

Mourning and Honoring Peter Weiss The Center for Constitutional Rights mourns the passing of Peter Weiss, the visionary human rights lawyer, our beloved mentor and friend, and our long-time vice president, who served on our board for

R.I.P.Peter Weiss, a holocaust escapee who worked for justice and accountability, from Nuremberg to Guantanamo. ccrjustice.org/home/blog/20...

Trump Administration Now Holds Stakes In 5 Public Companies: Here's A List—INTC, MP, LAC And More In a significant shift in U.S. industrial policy, the Donald Trump administration has acquired direct ownership stakes in five major publicly traded companies. This series of interventions, framed as ...

Wait- which one is the communist? finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-a...

How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor

Here’s a gift copy: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...

How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor

Great reporting, great story-telling: How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...

The secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now rewriting MAGA’s future Chris Buskirk put tech elites in power in Trump’s Washington. His efforts are grounded in a controversial theory: An “aristocracy” is needed to move the country forward.

They think America needs an aristocracy: themselves www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Poll: Frustration with Trump gives Democrats an opening a year before the midterms Around two-thirds of voters say Trump has not lived up to their expectations on the economy and the cost of living, according to the new NBC News poll.

Beltway wisdom was that voters don’t care about democracy as an issue- wrong! www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

Ask us anything: the New Yorker’s Political Scene podcast wants listeners’ questions this week for an episode on the 2026 midterms. What issues, candidates, causes are on your mind? Send questions to themail@newyorker.com with the subject line “midterms.” Thanks!

Post editorials advance Bezos’ financial interests, omit conflicts A report by NPR revealed that “[o]n at least three occasions in the past two weeks, an official [Washington] Post editorial has taken on matters in which Bezos has a financial or corporate interest wi...

ICYMI: Post editorials advance Bezos’ financial interests, omit conflicts
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