Opinion | Three Well-Tested Ways to Undermine an Autocrat

"The first is mockery and humor — preferably salacious."
You all now have your assignment. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...

Microsoft Drops Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Law Firm from a Case The tech giant instead engaged a firm that is fighting the president’s executive orders, Jenner & Block, in a sign that those firms can still attract clients.

Good
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Kristi Noem’s Bag, With Security Badge and $3,000, Is Stolen The homeland security secretary was dining at a Washington, D.C., restaurant. She also lost her passport and keys.

So glad the homeland is secure www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

Embattled Congestion Pricing Program Gets Boost From Federal Judge Judge Lewis J. Liman struck down several arguments in various lawsuits seeking to undo the New York City tolling program. Though weakened, the court cases continue.

Good. Keep your short, vulgar fingers off our congestion tolls. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/n...

If the Marshals Go Rogue, Courts Have Other Ways to Enforce their Orders Opinion | Even a rogue marshal’s service is not an insurmountable obstacle to courts enforcing the rule of law.

We may soon have to find out if this is true.
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U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez is being held even though a county judge found his birth certificate “authentic” and said there wasn’t reason to consider him an “illegal alien.”

and another oopsie. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

American doctor receives email from immigration officials telling her to leave the country immediately Dr. Lisa Anderson, 58, was born in Pennsylvania and is a U.S. citizen.

Oopsie.
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Law Firms Made Deals With Trump. Now He Wants More From Them. To avoid retribution, big firms agreed to provide free legal services for uncontroversial causes. To the White House, that could mean negotiating trade deals — or even defending the president and his ...

Law firms are now discovering the Danegeld Rule. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...

What Harvard Learned From Columbia’s Mistake If cooperation and even capitulation don’t get you anywhere, why give in to the Trump administration’s demands?

Their English Lit professors could have explained this to them a long time ago: Once you pay the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Columbia begins to toughen its language. view.info.alumdev.columbia.edu?qs=9c8c7ccdd...

Whitmer Shows How Democrats Are Playing With Fire in Cozying Up to Trump The Michigan governor’s awkward Oval Office appearance reflected how several Democratic state leaders are cultivating cordial but politically risky relationships with the president.

Scratch the Big Gretch as a candidate for higher office
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Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions and report international students who broke rules, among other steps. Harvard called the demands unlawful.

The Cantabs finally see the light. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

Opinion | James Carville: How to Turn Trump’s Economic Chaos Against Him Tie the president to the people’s pain, and make the message local.

I'm still with him. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

The AP’s win against Trump shows principles still have power in America | Margaret Sullivan Series of actions this week including at Princeton and in a tiny town, offer hope that courageous voices can make a difference

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How to leak to a journalist Planning to leak? Read these tips first.

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The University President Willing to Fight Trump Christopher L. Eisgruber of Princeton University talks about the administration’s move to freeze billions of dollars in funding to higher education institutions.

Chris Eisgruber continues to make me proud to be a Princetonian. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...

If I were Greenland I'd be a little worried right now. Agent Orange just got humiliated and he's going to want to take it out on somebody.

7 of the most interesting wine pairings you can try tonight From Girl Scout cookies to Hot Pockets to Takis, these unexpected wine pairings will delight your palate

Heh. Seems silly but most of these pairings actually make a good deal of sense.
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8 companies already adding tariff surcharges. Expect more to follow Companies across a variety of industries are adding fees explicitly tied to Trump's trade war

More of this, please. Put the blame where it belongs.
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Gulf Coast Shrimpers See Hope in Trump’s Tariffs After years struggling to compete with cheaper, farm-raised imported shrimp, shrimpers from Florida to Louisiana are optimistic that the new tariffs will help them.

Once again the NYT tells us about the Gulf of Mexico without using its name. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

Oh, Canada!

Panic selling may turn out to have been the right move, if you did it in November and can re-enter the markets at the right time in the near future.

If your 401(k) has just been vaporized, don’t worry. You can easily get a job and go back to work once they disappear all the immigrants.

The stock market fell today by the largest one-day amount since ... Trump's first term.

The problem is that Trump has almost every Republican's vertebrae in a locked box.

The claim here is, in essence, that Cory Booker spoke for 25 hours because it takes that long to catalog all the bad stuff Agent Orange and President Musk are doing. nymag.com/intelligence...

At Least 6 Dead as Storm Brings ‘Catastrophic’ Flood Risk: Live Updates Tornadoes swept across the Midwest and South, damaging homes, knocking out power and inundating Nashville. Five died in Tennessee, and a fire chief was killed in Missouri. Millions were under severe weather advisories for the next few days.

Shame FEMA got DOGEd already.

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Opinion | Lawrence Summers: Harvard Must Not Yield to Trump (Gift Article) As with most confrontations, the merits in this clash are not one-sided. But the Trump administration is acting in bad faith.

This.
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All these points are good, and in addition, Musk is too good a target for the Democrats; they won’t let him step out of the spotlight even if he wanted to.

No Tariff Exemptions for American Farmers They voted for the tariffs when they voted for Trump.

Agree 100%. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...