Eric Lipton NYT
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Investigative reporter NYT. Helping cover President Trump and his administration and circle of friends -- without fear or favor. I write about people and power. My contact on Signal: EricNYT.08
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Eric Lipton NYT
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· Feb 12
A ‘Business-Friendly’ Lawyer’s Rise From Lobbyist to Attorney General Pick
Pam Bondi, whom President-elect Donald J. Trump intends to nominate as attorney general, received trips and donations funded by those seeking favors from her Florida office.
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How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans’ Faith in Immigration
Outstanding reporting here by @cflav.bsky.social examining how Biden (and his top aides) rejected recommendations to ease border crisis. This inaction helped return Donald Trump to the White House.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
Outstanding reporting here by @cflav.bsky.social examining how Biden (and his top aides) rejected recommendations to ease border crisis. This inaction helped return Donald Trump to the White House.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans’ Faith in Immigration
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December 8, 2025 at 2:36 AM
How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans’ Faith in Immigration
Outstanding reporting here by @cflav.bsky.social examining how Biden (and his top aides) rejected recommendations to ease border crisis. This inaction helped return Donald Trump to the White House.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
Outstanding reporting here by @cflav.bsky.social examining how Biden (and his top aides) rejected recommendations to ease border crisis. This inaction helped return Donald Trump to the White House.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
Interesting Engineering:
Understanding why America’s biggest solar thermal project is coming to an end
Why did Ivanpah fail despite massive investment, political support, and cutting-edge engineering?
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Understanding why America’s biggest solar thermal project is coming to an end
Why did Ivanpah fail despite massive investment, political support, and cutting-edge engineering?
share.google/AAfr7Rhteybi...
Why the US's biggest solar megaproject is shutting down after a decade
Discover why the $2.2B Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, once a global symbol of clean energy innovation, is shutting down after just 10 years,
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December 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Interesting Engineering:
Understanding why America’s biggest solar thermal project is coming to an end
Why did Ivanpah fail despite massive investment, political support, and cutting-edge engineering?
share.google/AAfr7Rhteybi...
Understanding why America’s biggest solar thermal project is coming to an end
Why did Ivanpah fail despite massive investment, political support, and cutting-edge engineering?
share.google/AAfr7Rhteybi...
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A raccoon entered a liquor store in Virginia and drank his fill: rum, moonshine, even peanut butter whiskey. Then it passed out on the floor of the bathroom.
Don’t worry — he’s OK. trib.al/R3wXGbV
Don’t worry — he’s OK. trib.al/R3wXGbV
December 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
A raccoon entered a liquor store in Virginia and drank his fill: rum, moonshine, even peanut butter whiskey. Then it passed out on the floor of the bathroom.
Don’t worry — he’s OK. trib.al/R3wXGbV
Don’t worry — he’s OK. trib.al/R3wXGbV
Important new piece by my colleagues Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Christina Jewett who cover Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his two-decade quest to dismantle U.S. vaccine policy--regardless of the advice from medical professionals or the health implications.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy
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December 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Important new piece by my colleagues Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Christina Jewett who cover Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his two-decade quest to dismantle U.S. vaccine policy--regardless of the advice from medical professionals or the health implications.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
Note to NYT employees from the publisher. "We will not be intimidated or deterred in this important work." Proud to be one of the worker bees here.
December 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Note to NYT employees from the publisher. "We will not be intimidated or deterred in this important work." Proud to be one of the worker bees here.
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David Sacks, one of the Trump administration’s top technology officials, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and many of his own tech investments.
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
David Sacks, the Trump administration’s A.I. and crypto czar, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and many of his own tech investments.
nyti.ms
December 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
David Sacks, one of the Trump administration’s top technology officials, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and many of his own tech investments.
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We just published a deep look into David Sacks, the White House's AI and Crypto czar. The story examines how he has been able keep hundreds of stakes in AI-related and crypto companies as he influences gov policy in those very industries.
Here's what we found:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Here's what we found:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
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November 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
We just published a deep look into David Sacks, the White House's AI and Crypto czar. The story examines how he has been able keep hundreds of stakes in AI-related and crypto companies as he influences gov policy in those very industries.
Here's what we found:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Here's what we found:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Juan Hernández, a former president of Honduras, was found guilty by a US jury last year of conspiring to import cocaine, via one of "most violent drug trafficking conspiracies in the world"
Trump intends to pardon him.
By Shawn McCreesh, Annie Correal, Jeff Ernst
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump intends to pardon him.
By Shawn McCreesh, Annie Correal, Jeff Ernst
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
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November 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Juan Hernández, a former president of Honduras, was found guilty by a US jury last year of conspiring to import cocaine, via one of "most violent drug trafficking conspiracies in the world"
Trump intends to pardon him.
By Shawn McCreesh, Annie Correal, Jeff Ernst
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump intends to pardon him.
By Shawn McCreesh, Annie Correal, Jeff Ernst
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
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The standoff over the B.Q.E. has become, more broadly, a symbol of the power that local communities wield over critical infrastructure projects around the nation.
New York’s BQE Is Falling Apart. The City Can’t Agree on How to Fix It. (Gift Article)
The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway has exceeded its life span. Clashing visions have hindered a solution.
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November 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The standoff over the B.Q.E. has become, more broadly, a symbol of the power that local communities wield over critical infrastructure projects around the nation.
WASHPOST: Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
(Vital reporting here by Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima from WashPost)
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(Vital reporting here by Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima from WashPost)
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Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
WASHPOST: Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
(Vital reporting here by Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima from WashPost)
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(Vital reporting here by Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima from WashPost)
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Trump asserts he can reverse/void hundreds of executive actions by Biden, which may include pardons.
November 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Trump asserts he can reverse/void hundreds of executive actions by Biden, which may include pardons.
Read here the language Trump is using to describe whole classes of people based on the action of one disturbed/violent person.
Thanks for our colleague, Shawn McCreesh, for writing this piece and documenting the words of POTUS.
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Thanks for our colleague, Shawn McCreesh, for writing this piece and documenting the words of POTUS.
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Trump’s Response to Shooting Shows Intensified Anti-Migrant Stance
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November 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Read here the language Trump is using to describe whole classes of people based on the action of one disturbed/violent person.
Thanks for our colleague, Shawn McCreesh, for writing this piece and documenting the words of POTUS.
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Thanks for our colleague, Shawn McCreesh, for writing this piece and documenting the words of POTUS.
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Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham, who as Louisiana’s surgeon general ordered the state health department to stop promoting vaccinations and who has called Covid vaccines “dangerous,” has been named the second in command at the CDC.
(Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
(Gift article)
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C.D.C. Quietly Appoints Doctor Critical of Vaccines as Second in Command
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November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham, who as Louisiana’s surgeon general ordered the state health department to stop promoting vaccinations and who has called Covid vaccines “dangerous,” has been named the second in command at the CDC.
(Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
(Gift article)
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Tremendous and important reporting by NYT Visual Investigations team shows that Trump administration made false or misleading statements to US Supreme Court as it attempted to federal justify intervention in Chicago. Accountability matters. (Free link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Times Analysis Finds Errors in Trump’s Supreme Court Filing That Calls for National Guard in Chicago
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November 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Tremendous and important reporting by NYT Visual Investigations team shows that Trump administration made false or misleading statements to US Supreme Court as it attempted to federal justify intervention in Chicago. Accountability matters. (Free link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Tom Friedman NYT column offers to Trump the “Neville Chamberlain Peace Prize” — awarded by history to the leader of the country that most flagrantly sells out its allies and its values to an aggressive dictator.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Neville Chamberlain Prize
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November 23, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Tom Friedman NYT column offers to Trump the “Neville Chamberlain Peace Prize” — awarded by history to the leader of the country that most flagrantly sells out its allies and its values to an aggressive dictator.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
Just not that into Pluribus. Have tried for a few weeks now. Severance far better constructed. Sort of a dead end of a construct. And really only one human character. How can you have character development? There you go. Armchair critic.
November 22, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Just not that into Pluribus. Have tried for a few weeks now. Severance far better constructed. Sort of a dead end of a construct. And really only one human character. How can you have character development? There you go. Armchair critic.
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If you want to keep track of some of investigative reporting we at The NYT are doing--abt Trump, Musk, AG Bondi, EPA, Interior, etc, you can follow this account. Our coverage is not perfect. Nothing is. But we are digging every day to bring transparency/accountability www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/u...
A ‘Business-Friendly’ Lawyer’s Rise From Lobbyist to Attorney General Pick
Pam Bondi, whom President-elect Donald J. Trump intends to nominate as attorney general, received trips and donations funded by those seeking favors from her Florida office.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
If you want to keep track of some of investigative reporting we at The NYT are doing--abt Trump, Musk, AG Bondi, EPA, Interior, etc, you can follow this account. Our coverage is not perfect. Nothing is. But we are digging every day to bring transparency/accountability www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/u...
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November 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
All three of my school-age daughters are determined to see ‘Wicked: For Good’ this weekend. I asked at breakfast what that was. Clearly not up to date. But seems like a good indicator that Universal Pictures/Comcast has a hit on their hands.
November 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
All three of my school-age daughters are determined to see ‘Wicked: For Good’ this weekend. I asked at breakfast what that was. Clearly not up to date. But seems like a good indicator that Universal Pictures/Comcast has a hit on their hands.
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NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy
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November 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
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The commerce secretary Howard Lutnick is helping push data center projects. His family’s companies are profiting from them.
Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy
Howard Lutnick is helping push data center projects. His family companies are profiting from them.
nyti.ms
November 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The commerce secretary Howard Lutnick is helping push data center projects. His family’s companies are profiting from them.
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Howard Lutnick has reportedly promoted projects as commerce secretary that his kids are benefitting from in business.
Strong story by @ericlipton.nytimes.com, @mrothfeld.bsky.social, David Yaffe-Bellany and @anaswanson.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Strong story by @ericlipton.nytimes.com, @mrothfeld.bsky.social, David Yaffe-Bellany and @anaswanson.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy
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November 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Howard Lutnick has reportedly promoted projects as commerce secretary that his kids are benefitting from in business.
Strong story by @ericlipton.nytimes.com, @mrothfeld.bsky.social, David Yaffe-Bellany and @anaswanson.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Strong story by @ericlipton.nytimes.com, @mrothfeld.bsky.social, David Yaffe-Bellany and @anaswanson.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
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NEW: Sean Duffy frequently calls safety his “top priority” as transportation secretary. But I spent months wading through regulatory notices and found something far different: that USDOT has been delaying, weakening and killing dozens of safety rules, many opposed by the transportation industry.🧵
November 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
NEW: Sean Duffy frequently calls safety his “top priority” as transportation secretary. But I spent months wading through regulatory notices and found something far different: that USDOT has been delaying, weakening and killing dozens of safety rules, many opposed by the transportation industry.🧵
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Good morning from Camp Justice at Guantánamo Bay, where the flags are at half-mast across the installation for Dick Cheney. At the war court today we expect testimony related to prosecution efforts to use double hearsay at the eventual USS Cole trial.
November 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Good morning from Camp Justice at Guantánamo Bay, where the flags are at half-mast across the installation for Dick Cheney. At the war court today we expect testimony related to prosecution efforts to use double hearsay at the eventual USS Cole trial.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM