Trump distracts by provoking fear & hatred. It might work if people were happy about the economy. But they’re not, so his tired diatribes show that the only thing he can deliver is fear itself. A presidency built on reruns is rapidly losing its audience.
My column
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/o...
Trump distracts by provoking fear & hatred. It might work if people were happy about the economy. But they’re not, so his tired diatribes show that the only thing he can deliver is fear itself. A presidency built on reruns is rapidly losing its audience.
My column
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/o...
My former colleague @glennkessler.bsky.social ran the Washington Post Fact Checker for 15 years. He pre-bunked tonight’s State of the Union Speech for @ms.now: www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
25.02.2026 01:32 — 👍 97 🔁 29 💬 4 📌 1
Trump in big trouble going into his SOTU speech. New CNN/SSRS Poll finds 68% of Americans say he hasn’t paid enough attention to the country’s most important problems while 61% say his policies will move the country in the wrong direction. His job approval rating: 36%.
www.cnn.com/2026/02/23/p...
What Trump’s immigration & tariff losses mean for his supposedly ascendant populist nationalism. “Two of that ideology’s most critical elements are driving his biggest policy fiascos and his cratering standing with the public.”
@gregsargent.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2068...
I hope conservative justices—including the Chief—who properly ruled against Trump on tariffs but gave him enormous unchecked power in the immunity case listened to his wild & unhinged screed against them & the rule of law. They should reconsider how much authority they’re willing to surrender to him
20.02.2026 19:06 — 👍 49 🔁 7 💬 4 📌 0
Oops. Tagged the great Steven Greenhiuse in this when I intended to tag (tge also great) Greg Sargent.
@gregsargent.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/1988/04/10/w...
17.02.2026 14:46 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks for this, Adam. You could feel the breakthrough and history being made in 1988. Attached a piece I wrote then below.
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Greg has been ahead of the curve on this. There is an opening for a better debate on immigration, practical and humane at the same time. An American majority wants both.
@greenhousenyt.bsky.social
Congratulations, Nicole! Your work is so important and always enlightening — about our past and our moment.
17.02.2026 14:20 — 👍 22 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Jesse Jackson RIP
Covering Jesse Jackson’s breakthrough 1988 Wisconsin presidential primary campaign was a joy and chance to see change before my eyes. He bent history for the good. My ‘88 post-primary analysis:
www.nytimes.com/1988/04/10/w...
“If you claim absolute power, then you stop surrounding yourself with people who will question you and only surround yourself with people who will say whatever you do is right.”
On Trump and his racist Obama video from my chat (below) with @nytdavidbrooks & Robert Siegel.
When it comes to Trump, we need to face that this is not just some guy doing one random thing after another. This is somebody who is setting about—in a systematic way—to destroy institutions.
From my @nytopinion.nytimes.com
chat w/Robert Siegel & David Brooks.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...
A moment!
When [Rep. Becca] Balint [D-Vt] mistakenly referred to Bondi as “Secretary” at one point, Bondi cut in and said, “I am attorney general.” Balint shot back, “Excuse me, I couldn’t tell.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...
Good for our republic!
Grand Jury rebuffs DOJ attempt to indict 6 Democrats in Congress who posted a video this fall reminding active-duty members of the military and intelligence community that they were obligated to refuse illegal orders.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
“ICE’s paramilitary war on Americans has broken all those old culture-war signifiers. Most Americans no longer see ICE as hallowed “law enforcement,” because that fundamentally isn’t what ICE is practicing. Working-class voters oppose ICE and mass deportations.”
@gregsargent.bsky.social
The #Patriots have brought me a lot of joy since they started in 1960. Many neighborhood friends stuck with the NFL teams they already rooted for (mostly the Y.A. Tittle Giants or the Bart Starr Packers) but I wanted our local guys, the Parilli-Cappelletti Pats. Still glad I did. #GoPats
08.02.2026 23:07 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Yet another reason for GOP panic & Dem hope:
“Democrat and machinist union leader Taylor Rehmet won the special election Saturday to represent a solidly red Texas Senate district that President Donald Trump carried by 17 points in 2024.”
@texastribune.org
www.texastribune.org/2026/01/30/t...
Judge Fred Biery orders release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Ramos & his father, Adrián Alexander Conejo Arias:
“Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency.”
The FBI raid on the Fulton County, Georgia elections office is about more than Trump’s 2020 election obsession. It’s a dangerous portent of how he may interfere with the 2026 election. It’s another example of his regime change ambitions I wrote about this weekend.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...
The FBI raid on the Fulton County, Georgia elections office is about more than Trump’s 2020 election obsession. It’s a dangerous portent of how he may interfere with the 2026 election. It’s another example of his regime change ambitions I wrote about this weekend.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...
Trump may “want to minimize clashes between government security services and protesters.” He doesn’t want “to stop doing the things that are causing those clashes in the first place.”
Important @gregsargent.bsky.social on not being taken in by Trump’s tactical pivot.
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
"The whole country is seized by what they have seen—the statistics suggest that 80 to 90 percent of Americans have seen these videos—and they desperately want somebody to stand up for the rule of law.”
Important @chrismurphyct.bsky.social interview with @gregsargent.bsky.social.
Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong
“No application of armed violence can make the men with guns as heroic as the people who choose to stand in their path with empty hands in defense of their neighbors.”
Powerful reporting from @adamserwer.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Democratic Senators are united in fighting Trump policies that led to the killings in Minneapolis—including nearly all who opposed the last shutdown. Why? Because they see that Trump is destroying our constitutional order. He’s engineering regime change.
My column
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...
Very good framing by @ejdionne.bsky.social capturing the urgency of the Trump threat:
"Failing to confront what’s at stake would be a generational failure. The danger now is not alarmism but complacency."
EJ marshals lots of evidence of this from many different places and presents it well here:
Something snapped. This week must be about relentless pressure by Democrats on Senate Republicans to speak up and act against the madness. With the outrages in Minneapolis & the destructiveness on Greenland, Trump has lost the country. The GOP knows it. It’s time.
My column below
The Minnesota killings laid bare that Trump’s project is regime change. The goal was described by MAGA thinkers, the pattern set on Day One. The nation let his early moves—the Jan. 6 pardons, the TikTok power grab—slip by. Denial & complacency must end. Now
My column
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...
The horrific killings in Minneapolis & Trump’s assault on the democratic alliance with Europe over Greenland are part of the same pattern of regime change: Unchecked presidential power linked to a larger project of destroying our institutions. That is the overriding issue now.
My column:
