@ericnalder.bsky.social
Writer and retired investigative reporter. Grateful for my wife, my daughter, creativity, dogs, animals, and nature. Pacific Northwest native plus overseas adolescence. Pulitzer winner. Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Nalder
OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...
Can we trust OpenAI on this? Excuse the pun, but this is an open question. The Trump administration is determined to use AI for mass domestic surveillance, including for the midterm elections.
How a Call From Trump Ignited a Bitter Feud Between Two U.S. Allies www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/w...
Okay, the Trump family is doing business with UAE and Saudi royals. $Billions worth. Stupid makes a phone call, nearly foments war. American foreign policy in a nutshell. See a problem here, MAGA?
We have known for a long time that we can't give the nation's credit card to Republicans. Every time we do it, they blow the budget and spend it all on themselves and their rich buddies. It is truly an amazing mystery, why working folks fall for this and vote for them.
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'Psychological' Trump wall on WA's border has repelled a million trips
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Canadians see the U.S. as a threat. Visits here have plummeted. Two opinions among them: Pissed off and scared. Meanwhile, MAGA’s and RW Christians in U.S. say “hate thy neighbor”, plunder.
Epstein Built Ties to U.S. Customs Officers, Prompting Criminal Investigation www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/u...
The border patrol shows up in Epstein's network. Payoffs perhaps and allowing him to import foreign females to his island. NYT finds previous investigation and smoking guns.
Crypto Takes a Deep Slide Despite Trump’s Support www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/t...
Crypto in trouble. Just a cough, or the flu? Folks in the know have been talking about this more urgently of late.
Amazon outbids WA utility for one of nation's largest solar projects
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Jeff Bezos needs a solar farm for power-gobbling AI data centers. A utility must heat homes. Bezos outbids the utility, screwing the public. Then he guts the Washington Post. Greed=our loss.
Trump, in an Escalation, Calls for Republicans to ‘Nationalize’ Elections www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
In plain view, like a robber at a coffee shop frequented by cops, the President is planning a coup. He’s dumb, but his accomplices are well placed. We’ve got nine months to stop him. Get busy.
Democratic Upset in Deep Red Texas District Rattles Republicans www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
In deeply red Tarrant County, Texas, a Democrat wins 57 percent to 43 against a Trump-endorsed Republican. Trump won there last year by 17 points. The Republicans are in big trouble.
Seattle's 'prosperity bomb' may finally be fizzling. So now what?
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A Microsoft study gives us a doomsday list of jobs terminated by AI, language translators at the top, followed by everything else except hard labor. In the end? A few trillionaires and slaves.
Trump wants to build a 250-foot-tall arch, dwarfing the Lincoln Memorial
The country is in chaos and he wants an arch? Promise him an erector set, quiet him with a pacifier, and send him to bed. When the sun rises, let’s go march with the sane people. Save America from egomaniacs and fools.
Sell America Is the New Trade on Wall Street www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/b...
“Sell America” is the headline from Wall Street. One man and a party of fools have done this. Will the last Trump voter please turn out the lights, if he can figure out how to do it.
For Minneapolis’s Native Americans, a New Fight Echoes a Bitter History www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
Donald Trump will never understand that Native Americans are the first citizens. It’s about racism, his rage and the Republican Party’s 2026 campaign. Teach ‘em a lesson in Alaska’s Senate race.
Minnesota Live Updates: Trump’s Border Chief Says Crackdown Could Ease With More Access to Jails www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
After killing innocent citizens and terrorizing a city, Trump’s border czar says not everything done here has been perfect. Republicans equal bullshit, and nothing more.
Amazon cuts thousands of workers amid record profits and costly AI race
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Workers lose, you lose. Amazon builds data centers for AI, fires workers to pay for it, uses AI to replace workers, drives up electricity prices, uses up your water, pollutes, profits.
ICE agents wear masks to intimidate citizens, and to show they don't answer to us. A MAGA sheriff in Washington State put it succinctly to the legislature about an effort to ban such masks: “I don’t recognize your authority to impose these controls over me.”
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Trump aides declared 16 DHS shootings since July justified before probes completed
Numerous times, immigration agents have lied about their assaults on citizens and immigrants, 3 of them fatal. Videos and testimony have exposed these fabrications, including from local police. No consequences yet.
Record Debt in the World’s Richest Nations Threatens Global Growth www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/b...
Republicans today are big spenders without revenue, adding to a world of debt, literally a world. Trump’s erratic ways are endangering us even more, our kids, and our grandkids. Read this sitting down
Lindsey Halligan out as U.S. attorney following pressure from judges
She should be disbarred.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/o...
New York Times column quotes an expert suggesting ICE agents are misusing of anabolic steroids. Also stirring violence are illegal orders, poor training & supervision.
Terror is spreading. Two Seattle schools ordered children to shelter in place to protect them from ICE agents reportedly in the area. Doors were locked, etc. Some feared the agents were using a tactic; luring parents to the school to protect their scared kids.
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A Declaration of Independence From The Mad King
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This is well worth reading; a well-crafted, cleverly written, and comprehensive outline for articles of impeachment against Donald Trump. It is also a do-able call to action for us to remove him from office.
Leading Prediction Firms Share a Commonality: Donald Trump Jr. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
So, gamblers bet on political outcomes using online platforms. Someone anonymous made a fortune recently betting on Maduro’s ouster. Donald Trump Jr. is involved in both platforms. No connection?
This is our chasm in a nutshell:
The Republican Party believes in billionaires, autocracy, and the concept of “better and lesser” people. Democrats believe in diversity and democracy as America’s greatest strengths, and that billionaires represent some of our worst tendencies.
My best retirement advice: Buy a vacation house on the water, pay off the mortgage, and don’t travel much. But getting there isn’t easy, given today’s real cost of living. A financier explains why that's so difficult for young folks.
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It is no surprise that our nation's health research is now being guided by an irresponsible, egotistical, and disgruntled insider who has steered grant money toward his own work, according to the Atlantic Magazine.
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Born Deaf and Blind, She’s Caught in Trump’s Anti-Diversity Crusade www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
Republicans cut federal aid to the deaf and blind because it entails diversity. Cruel, as usual, but we also know from his remarks that Donald Trump is a schoolyard bully towards all differences.
In collective sorrow, we can say this much:
It doesn’t matter who gave the order to “kill them all”, or whether it was worded that way. Prima facie, what happened in the Caribbean was a war crime ordered by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on behalf of the Republican Party.
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Donald Trump has great affinity with a rich fraudster who robbed farmers, small business owners, nurses, veterans, and ten thousand other folks of a billion and a half. His kind of hero.
The latest Gallup Poll says it all, Americans are done with this clown show. Take away Republicans, and this dude couldn't get a friendly invite to his own going away party. Which begs a suggestion. Let's vote out the Rs and snuff out the oligarchy.
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