Europe Scrambles for Details as Trump and Putin Prepare to Meet

Europe Scrambles for Details as Trump and Putin Prepare to Meet. Worries about a new Yalta
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/w...

Netanyahu, Aiming to Capture Gaza City, Reverts to a Failed Military Strategy

Netanyahu, Aiming to Capture Gaza City, Reverts to a Failed Military Strategy. by Patrick Kingsley www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/w...

On Gaza, Germany’s Government Faces Pressure from All Sides

On Gaza, Germany’s Government Faces Pressure from All Sides. Is it still, "never again is now"? my take www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/w...

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook. You just have to do the math. by Peter Baker www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

Agency Scrutinizes Jack Smith After Republican Complaint

Agency Scrutinizes Jack Smith After Republican Complaint. Nixon used the IRS. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

Is Trump’s Turn on Putin for Real? A conversation with Anna Sauerbrey and Steve Erlanger A recording from Ivo Daalder's live video

Watch my conversation with @annakatrein.bsky.social and @stevenerlanger.bsky.social on Trump’s turn on Putin? How real is it? Who is leading the charge? And what impact will it make? open.substack.com/pub/ivodaald...

It's just a “swarm of fish" following a duck.

Anger Over Starvation in Gaza Leaves Israel at Risk of Isolation

Anger Over Starvation in Gaza Leaves Israel at Risk of Isolation. My take.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/w...

Watch a cheetah up-close as it chases its prey The fastest animal on land rarely uses its top speed to capture prey. So how do they catch their target?

just fascinating to watch
www.bbc.com/reel/video/p...

Palestinian who helped make Oscar-winning No Other Land killed in West Bank Israeli settler Yinon Levi, whom Trump removed from US sanctions list, arrested after death of Awdah Hathaleen

Terrible...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

‘We are not dogs:’ Palestinians condemn humiliation of chasing after airdropped aid in Gaza | CNN In the central Gazan town of Al-Zawayda, scores of Palestinians rushed to collect boxes of aid that were dropped from the sky on Monday. For many, the food in these boxes will be the only meal they ea...

Many say that having no choice but to chase after airdropped aid is an insult to their dignity. Others were grateful to receive food but said the method of airdropping aid only risked more violence.

edition.cnn.com/2025/07/28/w...

‘Total Failure’: Israel’s Return to War Heaped Ruin on Gaza and Did Little for Israelis

‘Total Failure’: Israel’s Return to War Heaped Ruin on Gaza and Did Little for Israelis . by Patrick Kingsley www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/w...

Trump, E.U. reach contours of trade deal with 15% tariffs The pact would set duties of 15 percent on imports of items such as wine and automobiles, or about half the 30 percent the president had recently threatened.

trump's hair
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

No Meals, Fainting Nurses, Dwindling Baby Formula: Starvation Haunts Gaza Hospitals

No Meals, Fainting Nurses, Dwindling Baby Formula: Starvation Haunts Gaza Hospitals www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/w...

How a Chinese Border Town Keeps Russia’s Economy Afloat

How a Chinese Border Town Keeps Russia’s Economy Afloat www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...

Maurene Comey, daughter of James Comey, is fired from her job as a federal prosecutor Comey, who had worked in the U.S. attorney’s office for nearly a decade, prosecuted both Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, was fired Wednesday from her job as a prosecutor in the Manhattan US Attorney’s office.

Is Trump’s Turn on Putin for Real? A conversation with Anna Sauerbrey and Steve Erlanger A recording from Ivo Daalder's live video

Is Trump’s Turn on Putin for Real? A conversation with Anna Sauerbrey and Steve Erlanger Run by Ivo Daalder
open.substack.com/pub/ivodaald...

From Science to Diversity, Trump Hits the Reverse Button on Decades of Change

From Science to Diversity, Trump Hits the Reverse Button on Decades of Change. By Peter Baker www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/u...

Trump’s Shift on Ukraine Is Good News for Europe, for Now

Trump’s Shift on Ukraine Is Good News for Europe, for Now. My take. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/w...

Trump Is Expected to Announce New Weapons Pipeline for Ukraine

Trump Is Expected to Announce New Weapons Pipeline for Ukraine. my take www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/w...

Weekend - Gulf states urge Trump to help achieve Gaza ceasefire - BBC Sounds A Gaza hospital says 24 people were killed on Saturday near an aid distribution site

This morning on BBC World Service we took time to Remember Srebrenica.
We recalled what happened&heard from survivors & relatives. David Rhode told us how he uncovered the first mass graves 30 years ago. With guests Arminka Helic and Steven Erlanger👇from min 26:30
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Opinion | Trump’s Cabinet of Incompetents

Trump’s Cabinet of Incompetents. by Maureen Dowd.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/o...

from a friend's property, here's a #cloudscape #landscape #waterscape #sunset for #scape day. I remember something from a little book called A Light on the Path about a rule of the universe - as above, so below. now I get it.
(I doubt it referred to #pond #reflections though)

#nature #EastCoastKin

Ontario, CA surgical center staff stand up and demand to see ICE warrants.

#meafordskies

Europe’s Dilemma: Build a Military Industry or Keep Relying on the U.S.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/w.... . Our take. By Steven Erlanger and Jeanna Smialek

The Lethal Risk of Seeking Food in Gaza

The Lethal Risk of Seeking Food in Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/w...

🔴 LIVE NOW | Making our Societies more Robust, Ready and Resilient #NATOsummit

- Margus Tsahkna, @tsahkna.bsky.social @mfaestonia.bsky.social
- Kęstutis Budrys, @lithuaniamfa.bsky.social

Moderator: Steven Erlanger, @stevenerlanger.bsky.social @nytimes.com

🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfPk...

Trump Asks NATO to Spend More but Is Quiet About Why

Trump Asks NATO to Spend More but Is Quiet About Why. My take
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/w...