NEW: The Trump administration aims to use the tools of counterterrorism to go after what it calls antifa and leftist groups. It lists antifa as a priority in an internal intelligence document. Some US officials worry this means more domestic surveillance. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...
Our reporting is based on internal U.S. documents & interviews with current & former U.S. officials, as well as foreign officials asked to aid the effort.
w/ Alan Feuer, @matinastevis.bsky.social, @ewong.bsky.social, @jimtankersley.bsky.social & others.
A lot more here. No paywall: nyti.ms/422iIfH
The State Department said it is working to counter "antifa-aligned terrorism" with foreign allies.
In a December speech, a senior U.S. official made clear that dismantling antifa is a U.S. counterterrorism priority: "Antifa is fascism."
His full remarks: www.state.gov/opening-rema...
Over the past decade, right-wing extremists killed 112 people across 152 terrorist attacks in the U.S., versus 13 people killed in 35 attacks by left-wing extremists, according to years of tracking by CSIS. Jihadists killed 82 in the U.S. over same period. www.csis.org/analysis/lef...
The strategy reflects a clear shift in U.S. counterterrorism strategy.
The Biden administration identified right-wing extremists like white supremacists as the chief threat. The Trump administration has now largely redirected those resources toward far-left groups like antifa.
Helping lead the push is Sebastian Gorka, Trump’s counterterrorism adviser.
He has pressed to designate more far-left groups abroad as terrorist organizations, to pressure foreign allies to investigate the groups and to search for connections between them and Americans.
According to State Department documents we reviewed, the U.S. has broadly defined “antifa and far-left terrorism” to include threats from communists, Marxists, anarchists, anticapitalists and those with “eco-extremist” and “other self-identified antifascist ideologies.”
NEW: The Trump administration is deploying its counterterrorism machine against far-left groups like antifa.
Current & former U.S. officials worry the strategy could target political opponents and distract from more pressing terrorism threats.
Free link: nyti.ms/422iIfH
After 10 weeks of a U.S. oil blockade, Cuba's grid is near collapse. Russia may be sending a lifeline: a state-owned tanker full of crude. But a Chinese-owned tanker, spooked by U.S. threats, abandoned its Cuba delivery and is now looking for a buyer elsewhere. w/ @jacknicas.bsky.social
Trump has pledged to halt any oil headed to Cuba, but his administration won't call it a blockade. But it's functioning as one — pushing 10 million people toward a humanitarian crisis and its government to the brink. My latest w/ @jacknicas.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/w...
Thursday’s @nytimes.com front page
Delcy Rodríguez on Saturday: “What is being done to Venezuela is a barbarity.”
Delcy Rodríguez on Sunday: “We extend an invitation to the U.S. government to work together on a cooperative agenda."
What a difference a day makes.
Gift link: nyti.ms/4jmMYdc
The U.S. attack on Venezuela shook Latin America more than any event this century — but its meaning depends on whom you ask.
Yet one thing everyone can agree on: The U.S. is once again the center of gravity in Latin America, for better or worse.
My NYT analysis — free to read: nyti.ms/3Luzz6k
Free link: nyti.ms/49YQF6b
The Western Hemisphere has become the United States’ central theater abroad.
My analysis on the "Donroe Doctrine" and how it has upended politics up and down the Americas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/w...
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@juliavargasjones.bsky.social, @julianadalpiva.bsky.social and @jacknicas.bsky.social spoke with @mina-kim.bsky.social about what the U.S. can learn from Brazil’s effort to hold its leaders accountable.
🔗: buff.ly/IedLBfq
It’s one more example of the essay I wrote in the New York Times yesterday:
Brazil Keeps Telling Trump to Get Lost
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/w...
“I decided to write this essay to establish an open and frank dialogue with the president of the United States.”
President Lula’s message to Trump in the New York Times today.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...
🙂 We all make mistakes.
“.. The U.S. needs to know it’s not dealing with a banana republic.”
@nytimes.com 🇧🇷
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/w...
Congratulations to the Guardian team on this important new podcast about the murder of a British journalist and Brazilian environmentalist in the Amazon rainforest.
This mine in Brazil backed by American investors produces some of the world's hardest-to-find rare earths. It could be the West's best hedge against China's rare-earth dominance.
There's one problem: It is contracted to sell all its rare earths to China.
nyti.ms/3Y25EWg
This is a very impressive package of reporting from
@infoamazonia.org on the new race for oil in the Amazon rainforest: infoamazonia.org/en/project/e...
Shortly after 3 a.m., a battering ram burst open the door to a 14th-floor apartment and three men dressed in the black tactical gear of the Chilean police rushed in.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/w... via @nytimes.com @jacknicas.bsky.social Pascale Bonnefoy @jwbartlett92.bsky.social
Milei just pulled Argentina out of the World Health Organization, following Trump.
It reflects Milei’s effort to align his nation with Trump’s scorched-earth approach to the international order, even if it comes at the expense of Argentina’s partners.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/w...
Aborted takeoffs, sweltering heat, emergency exits and shackled deportees on a wing.
Inside the chaotic deportation flight to Brazil:
w/ @juhfaddul.bsky.social
nyti.ms/4ggT0ZS
New bluesky users: The Brazilians beat you here.
After Brazil blocked X because Elon broke the law there, millions of Brazilians took refuge here.
That's great news for you; the Brazilians are very good at the internet.
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"Follow all" is a good button.
