@peterbakernyt.bsky.social
Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times and MS NOW analyst. Proud husband of @sbg1.bsky.social and equally proud father of @tab-delete.bsky.social. Co-author of "The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021."
Patel’s heavy use of taxpayer resources has contributed to growing questions inside the administration about whether it exceeds standard practice, including deploying SWAT teams to guard his girlfriend. @alanfeuer.bsky.social Adam Goldman @glennthrush.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
23.11.2025 20:19 — 👍 138 🔁 40 💬 17 📌 3
Rubio told senators that the so-called Ukraine peace plan, which reads like a list of Russian demands. was actually given to the Trump team by Moscow, according to a Republican senator. Now Rubio's denying it and insisting it really is a US plan. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
23.11.2025 18:47 — 👍 183 🔁 77 💬 45 📌 10
Congratulations to @juliaioffe.bsky.social ("Motherland") and Rick Atkinson ("The Fate of the Day") whose new volumes were named among the five best non-fiction books of the year by the @washingtonpost.com! Both of these are absolute must-reads. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
23.11.2025 16:56 — 👍 31 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Since 2000, political donations by the richest 100 Americans has shot up nearly 140 times. Together they spent more than $1 billion last year, crossing that threshold for the first time. @bethreinhard.bsky.social Naftali Bendavid Clara Ence Morse Aaron Schaffer www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
23.11.2025 15:57 — 👍 96 🔁 46 💬 9 📌 1
Congratulations to the great David McCraw on winning CPJ's Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award. Can't think of anyone doing more today to defend the First Amendment. Read his eloquent speech here on the need for an independent media: www.nytco.com/press/david-...
22.11.2025 21:50 — 👍 100 🔁 18 💬 4 📌 1
Greene's departure represents another political notch in Trump’s belt, the retreat of another would-be Republican rebel. But the defiant nature of her video announcement hinted at the fissures now dividing the president’s movement. Lisa Lerer @reidepstein.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...
22.11.2025 21:08 — 👍 176 🔁 37 💬 17 📌 10
Trump's ambassador to Canada says he doesn't understand why Canadians aren't happy about Trump's threats to take over their country. @matinastevis.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/w...
22.11.2025 19:34 — 👍 109 🔁 25 💬 42 📌 4
Marjorie Taylor Greene says she will resign from Congress in January, just days after Trump branded her a “traitor” for breaking with him and helping to force a vote to compel the Justice Department to release its Epstein files. @anniekarni.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
22.11.2025 01:52 — 👍 83 🔁 9 💬 23 📌 0
Supreme Court, in a victory for Trump, temporarily allows Texas to use its newly redrawn, Republican-friendly congressional voting map for the 2026 midterm elections. @abbievansickle.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
22.11.2025 01:39 — 👍 39 🔁 16 💬 17 📌 8
RFK Jr. tells @sherylnyt.bsky.social that he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its longstanding position that vaccines do not cause autism — a move that underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy and bend the health department to his will. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
21.11.2025 20:48 — 👍 70 🔁 28 💬 24 📌 4
Trump pardoned him in 2021. Now he has been convicted again, this time for a $44 million Ponzi scheme, and sentenced to 37 years, the latest criminal to be charged with new crimes after receiving clemency from Trump. @traceytully.bsky.social @jonesieman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...
21.11.2025 18:58 — 👍 164 🔁 53 💬 12 📌 3
Displaying swastikas or other hate symbols in private spaces is allowed under new Coast Guard rules and barred in public only if they affect “good order and discipline, unit cohesion, command climate, morale or mission effectiveness” @johnismay.bsky.social Minho Kim
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It was a memorial service much like the man, restrained and proper yet charged with quiet energy. But as Washington honored Dick Cheney for his service and devotion to country, it underscored how much politics has turned topsy in this country. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
21.11.2025 04:23 — 👍 121 🔁 17 💬 113 📌 45
"I got a hug from Rachel Maddow at Dick Cheney’s funeral," writes @sbg1.bsky.social. "Cue the pigs flying. Hell may not yet have frozen over but on an overcast November morning in Donald Trump’s besieged capital there were moments when it seemed like it might have." www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
21.11.2025 01:49 — 👍 606 🔁 96 💬 21 📌 5If anybody needed more evidence of how politics have changed in America: Rachel Maddow is at Dick Cheney's funeral
20.11.2025 15:28 — 👍 1574 🔁 204 💬 83 📌 17
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.
19.11.2025 23:14 — 👍 50 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
The reported peace plan developed by envoys for Trump and Putin sounds more like a list of Moscow's demands than a compromise between two combatants.
It's not clear what if anything Russia is willing to concede even as it insists that Ukraine give up a lot. www.ft.com/content/2353...
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
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About one-third of noncitizen immigrants say they avoid aspects of everyday life like talking to the police, applying for a job or traveling so as not to draw attention to their immigration status, per @nytimes.com @kff.org poll. @mirjordan.bsky.social Ruth Igielnik www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
19.11.2025 13:50 — 👍 96 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 3
"Really good friends": Trump embraces Saudi crown prince determined by US intelligence to have ordered the murder of a US resident, hosting a lavish White House visit even as his own family business negotiates lucrative deal with the Saudis @katierogersnyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
19.11.2025 12:36 — 👍 128 🔁 48 💬 25 📌 7
Senate Republicans were so eager to dispense with the Epstein measure that they agreed with Schumer to declare it passed by unanimous consent--even though it has not formally been sent over by the House yet. It may land on Trump's desk tonight.
@anniekarni.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
It may be repeating the obvious, but Mary Bruce is a first-rate reporter. In the face of a presidential tirade aimed at silencing her, she calmly and professionally demonstrated why a free and independent media remains essential, asking questions that people in power don't want to answer
18.11.2025 22:45 — 👍 2411 🔁 387 💬 89 📌 15Hosting a man who (per the CIA) ordered the murder of a journalist, Trump berates a journalist who dares to "embarrass our guest" by asking about it and later threatens to take away her network's license for asking about Epstein files.
18.11.2025 21:15 — 👍 484 🔁 159 💬 35 📌 7
Trump defends MBS, dismissing the murder/dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi by the prince's agents: "A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about, whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen." @katierogersnyt.bsky.social Vivian Nereim www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
18.11.2025 20:56 — 👍 76 🔁 29 💬 27 📌 3
The House votes 427-1 to direct the Justice Department to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, a stunning turn of events that Trump's Republican allies had tried for months to avoid. @anniekarni.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
18.11.2025 19:59 — 👍 86 🔁 20 💬 12 📌 3
Trump's handpicked, inexperienced prosecutor made at least two “fundamental and highly prejudicial” misstatements of the law to the grand jury in the Comey case, according to magistrate judge, who says the case may have to be thrown out. @alanfeuer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
17.11.2025 20:44 — 👍 190 🔁 48 💬 21 📌 3"They described being asked to drop cases for political reasons, to find evidence for flimsy investigations and to take positions in court they thought had no legitimate basis. They also talked about the work they...were told to abandon—investigations of terrorist plots, corruption and...fraud."
17.11.2025 14:26 — 👍 112 🔁 44 💬 2 📌 1
To understand how dramatically Trump has transformed federal law enforcement into his own personal political instrument of power, Emily Bazelon and @rachelposer.bsky.social interviewed 60 of the hundreds of Justice Department lawyers who have resigned or been fired. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
17.11.2025 14:24 — 👍 101 🔁 30 💬 2 📌 1
In a dramatic reversal, Trump now says House Republicans should vote for a measure calling for the release of the Epstein files, essentially a concession that he cannot stop the resolution from being passed. @ashleyahn88.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
17.11.2025 04:06 — 👍 246 🔁 56 💬 63 📌 15
As Trump focuses on hunting down undocumented immigrants, DHS agents have been diverted from investigating sex crimes against children, human smuggling and Iranian black market oil sales used to fund terrorism, @nytimes.com investigation finds. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
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