@schwartzesque.bsky.social
legal affairs correspondent // The New York Times first dot last at n y times dot com
Not to pile on, but every 'c' in 'Pacific Ocean' is pronounced differently.
03.08.2025 18:58 — 👍 2051 🔁 316 💬 66 📌 32Sunday -- a good day to drink too much coffee in your 20s.
Not so much in your 40s, however.
Great piece on Alexandria LA as an ICE Air hub. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
31.07.2025 13:07 — 👍 12 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
This is a tragically amazing project by Wapo
60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children.
These are their names.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
Some personal news...really good personal news. THE MISSION will be #3 on next week's New York Times bestsellers list. Thanks to everyone who picked up a copy. If you haven't, please do! Watch this space for even better news to come on Monday.
25.07.2025 16:52 — 👍 35 🔁 5 💬 8 📌 0
NEW: In a sign of what could be in store for other targets of Trump & his allies, Media Matters is struggling to survive.
The Dem-aligned group has racked up $15m in legal bills, dialed back its criticism of Trump & Elon Musk, & contemplated closing.
@kateconger.com, @rmac.bsky.social & I report.
Underneath the gritty and sometimes horrifying detail, this piece hit me as a profound meditation on the corrosive nature of competition.
And maternal compassion as a kind of spiritual escape hatch.
“I hope you can limp fast.”
“If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying.”
Here's a gripping, powerful essay by a mom whose son wanted to be a SEAL, went out for BUD/S training, and wound up ringing the bell.
Part of @seth_hettena's After-Action Report.
theiceman.substack.com/p/three-thin...
Appeals court rules that Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship violated the Constitution, bringing the issue one step closer to a full constitutional review by the Supreme Court. @schwartzesque.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/u...
24.07.2025 04:33 — 👍 217 🔁 43 💬 19 📌 3
And here's a piece I wrote in 2020 that sums up everything that was out there then...
-- yes, there was a lot of dissent about the Steele dossier
-- both Brennan and Clapper tried (without success) to talk Comey out of his approach to investigating Flynn-Kislyak
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Today, DNI Tulsi Gabbard released what her office billed as new revelations re. the Obama administration's look at the 2016 election.
But is any of it actually new? Story by @julianbarnes.bsky.social ... www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/u...
New: Epstein victim urged FBI to investigate Trump and his relationship with Epstein during interviews with agency in 1996 and 2006. Records of these interviews could be in FBI files that Trump admin now refuses to release. @mikebaker.bsky.social 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/u...
20.07.2025 17:59 — 👍 578 🔁 242 💬 17 📌 5Also read a lot of docs. Not just the Mueller report.
The GOP-led Senate judiciary and intel committees surfaced a lot of interesting stuff late in Trump's first term.
Essentially this is the origin story of the Comey/Trump crisis, which still looms large today.
OLD: Looking for a tick-tock of exactly how Obama's team approached Rus interference after the 2016 election, and how that led to the Comey/Trump crisis?
I wrote one for @nytimes.com four yrs ago. Talked to Clapper (ODNI), Rogers (NSA), others.
Free gift link >>> www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
(whoops, not really adding much to Karl Popper's "falsifiability" thing here)
20.07.2025 16:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If a hypothesis can neither be proven nor disproven, it’s something closer to a myth
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Israeli soldiers opened fire near a food distribution site in southern Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 32 people, Gazan health authorities said. The UN said this past week that more than 670 Palestinians had been killed in similar episodes near aid sites.
19.07.2025 15:40 — 👍 413 🔁 305 💬 78 📌 68the terrible, unspeakable truth that no russian altering of votes took place in 2016 can be found in such places as ... the mueller report
20.07.2025 01:27 — 👍 852 🔁 99 💬 7 📌 1The Financial Times finds a "furious clarity" in THE MISSION. Review unpaywalled here:
archive.ph/AKjhi
okay, another time I got home with some friends and they were certain we’d just been dancing with Bjork for half an hour … the problem with that one (if they were right?) is that I had no idea it was her
19.07.2025 19:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0this anecdote is so weak — no idea why it’s stayed with me — I guess it has a generic NYC quality to it?
19.07.2025 19:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0maybe 2009 actually — those aughts are a blur
19.07.2025 19:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 02008 — pulled out from a parking spot on Sullivan Street near Prince and Bill Murray pulled in … then he pointed at his face like “yes indeed, it’s me”
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NEW: The Jeffrey Epstein Grand Jury Records: What Comes Next?
The records are at the center of President Trump’s effort to manage fallout from the Epstein case. But unsealing them is complex and requires a judge to sign off.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/u...
NEW: Trump has gone hard on district-court judges — the same judges who oversee grand juries and criminal trials.
But now, he appears ready to defer to them on how much Epstein-related grand jury material the public should see.
Free gift link >>>
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/u...
and there's an update bsky.app/profile/did:...
16.07.2025 21:47 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
The tiny African kingdom of Eswatini announced on Wed that it would repatriate the five migrants who had been deported there by the US, a day after US officials said the migrants’ home countries had refused to accept them.
by John Eligon and @haleaziz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/w...
Another flight of third-country deportees has now landed in Eswatini, a small country in Southern Africa. Via @haleaziz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/u...
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