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Opinion | Why Can’t Trump’s Domestic Policy Be More Like His Foreign Policy?

Scratched Tooth @keencritic.bsky.social · 2d

And still more, from (of all pundits) Ross:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

Opinion | Voting for Mamdani Taught Me Why Trump Won

Scratched Tooth @keencritic.bsky.social · 2d

Mamdani:Lefties=Trump:Righties?

Maybe . . . .

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

Opinion | Who Can Stop a President Deploying Troops?

Scratched Tooth @keencritic.bsky.social · 2d

More examination of the same paradox, with emphasis on the domestic disasrers.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

Opinion | Peace in Trump’s Time — Except Here

Scratched Tooth @keencritic.bsky.social · 2d

Mo knows:

"Trump seems oblivious to the paradox of enforcing peace abroad and disrupting it badly at home, of soothing violence overseas and inflaming it here."

. . . .

"The contradiction is hard to square. It’s not going to win our president a peace prize."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

Scratched Tooth @keencritic.bsky.social · 2d

Most judges--even, as it happens, Trump-appointees--are not stupid. Most justices of the Supreme Court are. Andcthat's charitable: they might just be evil.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Ancient fish species makes historic comeback in Missouri rivers

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 4d

The lake sturgeon (a 100-year-living, 90-kg relic from the age of dinosaurs) is returning to Missouri’s rivers after near-extinction from dams and pollution. The revival of a keystone species and signalling broader recovery of the Mississippi basin’s river systems.
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The Missouri Department of Conservation reported that lake sturgeon are spawning in large numbers.

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Scratched Tooth @keencritic.bsky.social · 4d

I have no childhood Red Sox influence to explain my discomfort with Yankee fans, but there it is: if the Mets aren't around, my NY baseball loyalty is nil.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

Opinion | I Love Watching Yankees Fans Suffer

Opinion | He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.

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Scratched Tooth @keencritic.bsky.social · 4d

Wow. And not in a good way.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

Opinion | Why Are the Democrats Increasing Inequality?

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Scratched Tooth @keencritic.bsky.social · 4d

And it's not *just* screens.

Scratched Tooth @keencritic.bsky.social · 4d

I really like it when Brooks shares progressive opinions, and really hate it when he takes Dems to task.

But here he has us dead to rights: while left-wing adults are far better educated, on the whole, than right-wing ones, among the K-12 crowd, Dem states are falling well behind in education.

Opinion | Why Are the Democrats Increasing Inequality?

Scratched Tooth @keencritic.bsky.social · 4d

I really like it when Brooks shares progressive opinions, and really hate it when he takes Dems to task.

But here he has us dead to rights: while left-wing adults are far better educated, on the whole, than right-wing ones, among the K-12 crowd, Dem states are falling well behind in education.

Scratched Tooth @keencritic.bsky.social · 5d

"And getting Trump to realize what made him effective in the Middle East — governing by addition, not division — would actually make him so much better a president at home. That would be the stuff of miracles."

Scratched Tooth @keencritic.bsky.social · 5d

"[J]ust stopping this terrible Gaza war — if it holds — is worthy of praise and the stuff of wonderful headlines. But seeing this whole plan through would be the stuff of history and Nobel Prizes."

cont'd

Opinion | Give Trump the Nobel for Gaza, if He Does the Harder Parts to Come

Scratched Tooth @keencritic.bsky.social · 5d

Friedman offers what is due to Trump, for his conduct with respect to both the Middle East and America:

"[K]eep playing the uniter in the Middle East and the divider in America — and this Gaza plan will be a footnote to a failed presidency."

And let us say "Amen"!

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

Opinion | The Origin of ‘Equal Justice Under Law'

Scratched Tooth @keencritic.bsky.social · 8d

Sounds like mild criticism of the Supreme Court from former Justice Kennedy, but he permitted Kavanaugh to join the Court.

Crocodile tears.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...

Opinion | Why Left and Right Can’t Understand Each Other’s Fears

Scratched Tooth @keencritic.bsky.social · 8d

Ross tries desperately to sound impartial and objective in comparing the aspects of what he calls out-of-control left-wing progressivism and out-of-control right-wing populism that feel scary to each other. But he gives the game away by ignoring that extreme populism is unpopular with all voters.

Scratched Tooth @keencritic.bsky.social · 8d

Indeed, the roots of Israel/Palestine go back thousands of years, even if you don't count the Bible.

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Scratched Tooth @keencritic.bsky.social · 9d

וֶהֱוֵי דָן אֶת כָּל הָאָדָם לְכַף זְכוּת:

Judge all men with the scale weighted in the direction of merit.

Pirkei Avos, 1:6.

Scratched Tooth @keencritic.bsky.social · 9d

Unlike Douthat's, French's religious beliefs do not suffuse all he writes. His sociopolitical views are congenial enough to me that I am willing to wade through the faith-based stuff when it shows up.

I didn't put much stock in Erika Kirk's forgiveness speech, but I do in the Mormons' gestures.

It’s Just a Virus, the E.R. Told Him. Days Later, He Was Dead.

Scratched Tooth @keencritic.bsky.social · 9d

If only Sam Terblanche had been in a medical show episode, where nothing stops the ER docs from ultimately getting it right!

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/w...

Opinion | When A.I. Came for Hollywood

Scratched Tooth @keencritic.bsky.social · 9d

"In the immortal words of Emily Blunt, 'Good Lord, we’re screwed.' ”

Yup.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

Scratched Tooth @keencritic.bsky.social · 9d

"Losing in court" =/= losing in the Supreme Court.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 9d

The regime keeps losing in court because what they’re doing is illegal

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10d

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Saturday blocked President Donald Trump’s call-up of the National Guard for a deployment in Portland, saying Trump’s actions were based on false claims and undermined Oregon’s sovereignty. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Opinion | Who Is Donald Trump Responsible To?

Scratched Tooth @keencritic.bsky.social · 9d

President of all the MAGAts.

But, even then, only if they live in MAGA states.

Beyond vile.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...