James Steward

Opinion | One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can.

One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

A Storied Art Collection at Princeton Gets a New Home

A Storied Art Collection at Princeton Gets a New Home www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/a...

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Removes Lisa Cook From Federal Reserve Board

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says He Is Removing Lisa Cook From Federal Reserve Board www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08... To call this legally dubious is an understatement!

Entirely of its own making?

As Trump Targets the Smithsonian, Museums Across the U.S. Feel a Chill

As Trump Targets the Smithsonian, Museums Across the U.S. Feel a Chill www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/a...

F.C.C. Approves Skydance’s Merger With Paramount

Criticism of Trump will not be tolerated. Thus pre canceling Colbert. Be afraid.

F.C.C. Approves Skydance’s Merger With Paramount www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...

On June 14 Donald Trump wants tanks in the street for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. It rises up everywhere. No Kings is a nationwide day of defiance. Take action to reject authoritarianism: show the world what democracy looks like.

Protest time.

If true this is horrifying.

I joined here to have a Meta alternative. I’ve only been here a week, but today EVERY SINGLE POST in my feed is political. By all means resist, post, inform. But I can’t live in that headspace 24/7. Leaven the fear/rage with humanity or humor—one story of kindness, one sweet pet moment. I’ll start.

Trump Fires 17 Inspectors General in Late-Night Purge The internal government watchdogs were believed to have been dismissed at several major agencies, though the Justice Department’s was not said to have been among them.

This purge is bone-chilling and unprecedented. It’s straight out of the authoritarian’s playbook. Inspectors General are a vital, independent check on misconduct and abuse within the executive branch. Trump is ousting them so he can break the law with zero oversight.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...

Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in recorded history Kansas public health officials say the state's ongoing tuberculosis outbreak is the largest since the CDC started reporting TB cases in the 1950s.

Don't worry. Raw milk will fix it. Also, we're closing your borders. www.cjonline.com/story/news/p...

A few days of wandering in the Dordogne, the Charente, and the Lot in January with beautifully empty medieval streets.