@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social
NYT Columnist, visiting professor at Lipscomb University, Chautauqua Perry Fellow in Democracy. Married to @nancyfrench.bsky.social. Iraq vet, Grizzlies fan, born in War Eagle Country and raised in Big Blue Nation.
For many years, @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social has countered the spin of Trumpers — and, even more, “anti-anti-Trumpers” — concerning Trump, Russia, and 2016. Whether he makes a dent, I don’t know. People seem immovable. But I appreciate him a great deal. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/o...
31.07.2025 22:07 — 👍 56 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 0
"So, yes, I consider myself a friend of Israel. But now its friends need to stage an intervention. The Israeli government has gone too far. It has engineered a staggering humanitarian crisis, and that crisis is both a moral atrocity and a long-term threat to Israel itself."
03.08.2025 15:36 — 👍 149 🔁 20 💬 11 📌 3
@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social explores the ins and outs of the true "Russia hoax"--the lies of Trump and his minions designed to distract from "Epstein, Epstein, Epstein".
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/o...
"President Trump isn’t just trying to change the subject; he’s also trying to rewrite history — or maybe I should say reality." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/o...
31.07.2025 14:36 — 👍 97 🔁 19 💬 3 📌 2
Great essay on regret vs repentence via "The Bear" @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social
Regret is the sorrow we feel for the pain we cause or the consequences we experience. Repentance is active. It happens when we turn away from the behaviors that caused our regret.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
Heresy!
28.07.2025 02:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
At a time of extraordinary fury, we all live in a degree of pain. We all live with regrets. But hope can come from unexpected places — and perhaps a show that features scallops, pastries and Chicago beef can also teach us that only repentance can heal our broken hearts.
27.07.2025 13:19 — 👍 55 🔁 6 💬 5 📌 1Wow. Thank you Bryce.
24.07.2025 23:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0On today's #DalyExpress podcast, @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social and I talk about all kinds of things, including the Epstein Files fallout.
Full episode: www.bernardgoldberg.com/p/david-fren...
The application of the Golden Rule should be clear in this case. If Christians want the freedom to participate in the American marketplace without facing reprisals for their faith or their beliefs about God’s design for the family, shouldn’t they extend that same courtesy to those who disagree?
24.07.2025 14:29 — 👍 130 🔁 20 💬 13 📌 0"It’s hard to describe how thoroughly Trump is disrupting and corrupting our system of justice. At every turn, the pattern is the same. His friends catch a break, and his foes get the boot."
20.07.2025 22:46 — 👍 1147 🔁 312 💬 32 📌 4
"Donald Trump is determined to transform America’s system of justice into his personal political weapon, and now Breonna Taylor’s family bears the fresh pain of a new and terrible miscarriage of justice." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/o...
20.07.2025 17:28 — 👍 658 🔁 155 💬 12 📌 6
"He’s disrupting the very reason that a lot of people supported him."
Why so many in MAGA are so mad about Epstein: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/o...
Woke Superman?
When I watched it, and the credits rolled, I had a single dominant thought: “Superman” is a movie about adoption, and if adoption is woke, then consider me woke. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
David French succinctly explains why the Epstein issue is non-negotiable to large parts of Trump's base, starting around 5:55. We are living through a slow-burn satanic panic where a large percentage of evangelicals believe that child traffickers run the United States of America.
16.07.2025 21:07 — 👍 351 🔁 116 💬 26 📌 25
Want to understand the MAGA crackup over Epstein?
After stoking years of speculation, some of MAGA’s most trusted voices — including Patel, Bondi, Bongino and Trump himself — are telling their movement: Move along, there’s nothing to see here. But MAGA does not want to hear what they have to say.
"Limiting access to pornography doesn’t simply provide a legal barrier; it helps grant parents and teachers breathing space to replace the depravity of pornography with a different and far superior moral message: a woman is a person to be loved, not an object of gratification."
06.07.2025 14:43 — 👍 90 🔁 15 💬 10 📌 0it looks like the entire city of Chicago is shooting fireworks tonight. You love to see it. Happy Fourth!
05.07.2025 02:55 — 👍 230 🔁 16 💬 10 📌 4
Happy Fourth! I love these words from Washington Square in Philadelphia: "Freedom is a light, for which many men have died in darkness."
04.07.2025 15:27 — 👍 124 🔁 25 💬 4 📌 1
"Just as he wants sycophants and yes men staffing his administration, he’s now moving toward staffing the judiciary with the same kind of person: judges who will do whatever it takes to curry favor with a president who values fealty above all." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...
29.06.2025 16:29 — 👍 139 🔁 36 💬 7 📌 2
"The collapse of Iran’s power is what’s fundamentally different now."
My conversation with @kschake.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/o...
Christian churches should be a source of healing, but powerful Christians with millions of followers choose to fuel the fires of hatred instead.
Given that reality, it's no surprise that some Christians will put down their Bibles, pick up their guns, and kill the people they're taught to hate:
This gap between approval for Trump’s goals and disapproval of Trump’s methods helps explain why he’s been elected twice and why his approval sagged so quickly at the beginning of both terms. It also demonstrates why Democrats haven’t built an enduring majority, even when Trump goes too far.
15.06.2025 14:50 — 👍 143 🔁 28 💬 28 📌 5
"The combination of Iran’s weakness and the catastrophic consequences of an Iranian bomb mean that Israel’s strikes are both more justifiable — and more likely to succeed — than at any time in the recent past." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/o...
14.06.2025 14:52 — 👍 37 🔁 2 💬 12 📌 0Thank you!
09.06.2025 05:19 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s too early to declare a constitutional crisis, and debating the label we attach to any new event can distract us from focusing on the event itself. But each day brings us fresh evidence of a deeply troubling trend: America is no longer a stable country, and it is growing less stable by the day.
09.06.2025 05:18 — 👍 439 🔁 113 💬 75 📌 26
Politicians are weather vanes (as we’re all tempted to be), and there’s a foul wind blowing out of parts of American Christianity.
When Joni Ernst's filmed her bizarre "apology" video, she was saying what too many Republicans want to hear: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...
Thank you Mario!
29.05.2025 16:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The answer to the manosphere’s dark turn is rooted in embracing men with sincere affection, shunning the zero-sum calculus of the gender wars and offering a vision of masculine virtue that inspires men to heroic acts of compassion rather than vicious acts of aggression.
29.05.2025 16:24 — 👍 115 🔁 15 💬 22 📌 2
The years pass, but the memories never fade. I think of these men every day, but especially this day.
Rest in Peace.
