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Posts by James Gleick

U.S. and Israeli weapons are precise enough to enable the assassination of Iranian leaders—yet they are targeting hospitals and schools, This is the beginning of what will surely be extensive documentation of war crimes.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Corrected headline: Trump Threatens Genocide as Hormuz Deadline Draws Closer

Corrected headline: Trump Threatens Genocide as Hormuz Deadline Draws Closer

Call it what it is.

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In a lengthy post on X, which came after the US president again threatened Iran's infrastructure if the strait of Hormuz remains closed, the former congresswoman wrote:
14 I know all of you and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit. I'm not defending Iran but let's be honest about all of this.
The Strait is closed because the US and Israel started the unprovoked war against Iran based on the same nuclear lies they've been telling for decades, that any moment Iran would develop a nuclear weapon.
You know who has nuclear weapons? Israel. They are more than capable of' defending themselves without the US having to fight their wars, kill innocent people and children, and pay for it. Trump threatening to bomb power plants and bridges hurts the Iranian people, the very people Trump claimed he was freeing.

In a lengthy post on X, which came after the US president again threatened Iran's infrastructure if the strait of Hormuz remains closed, the former congresswoman wrote: 14 I know all of you and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit. I'm not defending Iran but let's be honest about all of this. The Strait is closed because the US and Israel started the unprovoked war against Iran based on the same nuclear lies they've been telling for decades, that any moment Iran would develop a nuclear weapon. You know who has nuclear weapons? Israel. They are more than capable of' defending themselves without the US having to fight their wars, kill innocent people and children, and pay for it. Trump threatening to bomb power plants and bridges hurts the Iranian people, the very people Trump claimed he was freeing.

When even Marjorie Taylor Greene can see the truth, who does Trump have left?

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"Experts are dubious."

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The NY Times has a blockbuster story here: Epstein got valuable inside information from the first Trump administration and fed it to a wealthy foreign customer of his sex-trafficking racket.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/w...

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Placing U.S. Troops in Middle East Hotels May Violate Laws of War

Think about this. Having started a war with no planning, the US has discovered that it can't defend its own bases in the Middle East. So it is shifting troops to hotels and other residences where they are shielded by civilians. That's a war crime.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/u...

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You say missiles "untested in combat."
I say missiles "designed to shred humans."

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Writers should get paid.

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Trump’s Ballroom Design Has Barely Been Scrutinized (Gift Article) A stairway to nowhere: Three months that could change the White House for generations.

Is there an equivalent of disbarment for architects? If this monstrosity gets built, let's make sure the next Congress will raze it to the ground.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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According to several major news organizations, Trump's signature is now "going to appear" on U.S. currency, and the signature of the Treasurer is going to disappear.

It's like magic. No one ordered that to happen, apparently. It just will.

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Headline: Rubio Meets Today With Countries That Haven't Sent Warships to Strait

Headline: Rubio Meets Today With Countries That Haven't Sent Warships to Strait

In other words, Every Country in the World?

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Trump Moves Up Forbes Billionaire Rankings Crypto cash and court rulings have combined to make America’s billionaire-in-chief much, much richer over the past year.

Forbes providing a handy metric for how much the grifter-in-chief has stolen from the American people.

www.forbes.com/sites/luisak...

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The NY Times knows this, but they can't help themselves. They accept the transparently bogus framing: that this is a "settlement"; that it "puts to rest a lawsuit"; that it provides "legal relief."

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Justice Dept. Settles Flynn’s Wrongful Prosecution Suit for $1.25 Million

Here is a shameless handout of taxpayer cash to Mike Flynn, Trump's crony and co-conspirator. Flynn was GUILTY. He pled guilty. Trump pardoned him.

Imagine if Biden had shifted $1.25 million to some crony of his.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/u...

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I can't think of two people less qualified to conduct peace negotiations with Iran than Donald Trump's gormless son-in-law Jared and billionaire crony Steve, who tricked him into starting this war in the first place, but then I remind myself that the "negotiations" are fictional anyway.

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WITCH!

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Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.

The trail of misery left by this one monstrous person.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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I don't like the expression "boots on the ground.” When did that start? There will be men and women in those boots, and some will die.

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March 18, 2026 I was intending to take tonight off, but there’s big news—I mean, aside from all the other big news—that I want to make sure gets attention.

A DEA task force was running a massive investigation of Epstein and 14 co-conspirators for drug trafficking and prostitution. That is, until Trump took office in 2016.

The investigation was shut down. Now the second Trump administration continues the cover-up.

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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up...

Goodbye, science. Hello, plagues.

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Judge Ejects Federal Prosecutor From Court and Orders Bosses to Testify

“You have lost the confidence and the trust of this court. You have lost the confidence and the trust of the New Jersey legal community, and you are losing the trust and confidence of the public.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/n...

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Which the courts have done, again and again. But the Trump regime simply ignores the courts and the law. All the work of these US Attorneys' offices is at risk.

Here's a judge throwing one of these Trump prosecutors out of his courtroom.

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Underappreciated story: Trump and Bondi have decided to disregard the constitutional requirement that US Attorneys require Senate confirmation. In state after state they install apparatchiks as federal prosecutors, and it's up to the courts to discover that these stooges are serving illegally.

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What’s in the Voter ID Bill Trump and Republicans Are Pushing?

Be clear about this outrage: Trump is attempting in broad daylight to disenfranchise 21 million American voters.

If they want to require a certain kind of ID for voting, they must first provide all eligible voters with that ID. It's a Voter Disenfranchisement bill.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/u...

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Wall Street Bankers Offered Lucrative Access to Join the Pentagon

Today in the Kleptocracy.

This matter-of-fact article describes a shameless and spectacular bribery mill at the Pentagon, enough to bring down any previous administration. Want to line your pockets? Walk right in.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

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"a sensitive task"! You've found the Epstein cover-up in action and you call it "a sensitive task"?

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The word is "cover up." The Times has found email proof that Kash Patel's FBI combed the Epstein files to protect Trump and 14 others.

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U.S. Eases Limits on Russian Energy as Oil Prices Soar

Putin's Russia is supporting Iran and helping it target U.S. forces. Our response? A gift to Putin: remove sanctions and relieve pressure on the Russian economy.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/w...

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On this day 150 years ago, a young Scotsman, Alexander Graham Bell, shouted into a metal cone attached to a wire that ran to the next room, “Mr. Watson — come here — I want you.” His colleague, Thomas Watson, heard and came running.

He had no name for this contraption, but we call it a #telephone.

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President Trump just announced he would be holding a news conference at his golf property in Miami at "approximately" 5:30
p.m. He did not specify its focus.President Trump just announced he would be holding a news conference at his golf property in Miami at "approximately" 5:30
p.m. He did not specify its focus.

President Trump just announced he would be holding a news conference at his golf property in Miami at "approximately" 5:30 p.m. He did not specify its focus.President Trump just announced he would be holding a news conference at his golf property in Miami at "approximately" 5:30 p.m. He did not specify its focus.

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Launched an unprovoked war that is murdering civilians, throwing the world economy into chaos, wreaking destruction with no limits and no known purpose, and ... he's at his private golf course.

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