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Peter Baker
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Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times and MSNBC analyst. Proud husband of @sbg1.bsky.social and equally proud father of @tab-delete.bsky.social. Co-author of "The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021."
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · Jan 23
As Trump opens his second term, it’s important to understand his first. “THE DIVIDER” w/@sbg1.bsky.social now in paperback or Kindle goes behind the scenes of his first four years in the White House and helps explain the next four.

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The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "The most comprehensive and detailed account of the Trump presidency yet published."—The Washington Post • A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker and Financial Times • "Th...
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 1h
Trump declares that Mayor Johnson of Chicago and Gov Pritzker of Illinois "should be in jail."
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 11h
While his father was vice president, Hunter Biden began developing relationships that led to an audacious proposal to sell the land around the US Embassy building in Romania to a group that included a Chinese company. @kenvogel.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...
Hunter Biden Pursued a Deal to Sell Land Around the U.S. Embassy in Romania
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 21h
A survey of the Washington legal establishment, evenly divided among Republicans and Democrats, captured almost universal fear and anguish over the transformation of the Justice Department into a tool of the White House. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...
‘Bow to the Emperor’: We Asked 50 Legal Experts About the Trump Presidency
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 23h
The number of international students arriving in the U.S. in August fell by 19% this year compared with last year — the largest decline on record outside of the pandemic. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August
The data shows the steepest decline in August international student arrivals since the pandemic.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 1d
"As the shutdown headed into its second workweek, there was little sense of urgency in Washington about cleaning up a mess that has thousands of federal workers facing furloughs and possible layoffs and could disrupt critical federal programs." @anniekarni.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...
Both Parties Are Resigned to Deadlock as Shutdown Takes Hold
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 2d
Four newspaper journalists in Alaska quit after the owner of their publications altered a story's description of Charlie Kirk under pressure from a state legislator. @gettinviggy.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...
Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 2d
Republicans and Democrats are busy squabbling over who will get the blame for the shutdown but this @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy poll suggests few Americans think it's worth it and they are not especially impressed with anyone involved. www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-new...
CBS News poll finds few feel shutdown is worth it; low marks for Republicans, Democrats, Trump's handling
Americans are concerned about effect of shutdown on economy, amid unease about jobs and inflation.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 3d
Netanyahu told Trump the Hamas statement was nothing to celebrate, and that it didn't mean anything, US official tells @barakravid.bsky.social Trump fired back: "I don't know why you're always so fucking negative. This is a win. Take it." www.axios.com/2025/10/05/t...
Scoop — Trump to Netanyahu on Gaza talks: "You're always so f***ing negative"
"I don't know why you're always so f***ing negative. This is a win. Take it."
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 3d
In a dramatic sign of eroding support in the US, 61% of American Jews now say that Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza and 39% say it is guilty of genocide, according to @washingtonpost.com poll. Naftali Bendavid @sfcpoll.bsky.social @emgusk.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds
Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 4d
But the race for attorney general has been roiled by the revelation of text messages sent by Democrat Jay Jones in 2022 discussing a hypothetical scenario of shooting the GOP state House speaker. He has now apologized. @teoarmus.bsky.social Erin Cox @SchneiderG www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 4d
Spanberger leads Earle-Sears for Va. governor 55% to 43% per @washingtonpost @ScharSchool poll. Her Democratic ticket mates have smaller leads of 4 points for LG and 6 points for AG. @schneidergrgory.bsky.social Erin Cox @sfcpoll.bsky.social @emgusk.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Spanberger holds wide lead in Virginia governor’s race, Post-Schar School poll finds
Democrat Abigail Spanberger is up 12 points over Republican Winsome Earle-Sears in campaign where the economy weighs heavily on voters’ minds, a Washington Post-Schar School poll found.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 4d
The Los Angeles entertainment economy is cratering. Jobs in motion pictures in LA County have fallen from 142,000 to 100,000 in two years and sound stage occupancy has plummeted from about 90% to just over 60%. @benfritz.bsky.social www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 4d
Sanae Takaichi, a conservative lawmaker, wins critical leadership vote, putting her on track to become Japan’s first female prime minister, a milestone in a country where women are vastly underrepresented in politics. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/w...
Japan Is Set for Its First Female Prime Minister
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 4d
Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, JFK and FDR are all on US coins. But none of them put themselves on the coins, that was done to honor them after death. Trump, on the other hand, now plans to put his own face on coins next year. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...
Treasury Plans to Mint $1 Commemorative Trump Coin
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 4d
Hamas agrees to release all of the Israeli hostages held in Gaza as well as the bodies of those who had died, in response to the peace proposal introduced by Trump earlier this week. Details still to be negotiated. @liamstack.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Live Updates: Hamas Says It Agrees to Release All Hostages in Gaza
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 4d
Trump wanted to give King Charles one of Ike's swords. The Eisenhower presidential library said it could not provide one because it is government property and illegal to give away. Now the library director has been fired. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...
After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 5d
As recently as five years ago, during the final months of Trump's first term, a majority of Americans still believed the political system could address the nation's problems. Today, by a 2 to 1 margin, they think it is too divided to do so. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Most Voters Think America’s Divisions Cannot Be Overcome, Poll Says
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 5d
Interviews with Palestinians in Gaza suggest widespread public support for Trump's plan to end the war that has brought immense civilian suffering. @liamstack www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/w...
‘Enough Is Enough’: Many Palestinians Say Hamas Must Accept Cease-Fire Plan
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 5d
More turmoil in the US attorney's office that brought the Comey indictment at Trump's explicit demand. Two longtime prosecutors who had risen to leadership positions in the Virginia office were fired in recent days, Salvador Rizzo reports. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Firings and resignations roil U.S. attorney’s office prosecuting Comey
Four people have been forced out of leadership roles in the U.S. attorney’s Eastern District of Virginia office that secured an indictment against James B. Comey.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 5d
Trump has sought emergency intervention by the Supreme Court 28 times in the first eight months of his new term, more than Bush, Obama and Biden did combined over 20 years. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Trump’s Flood of Emergency Appeals Is Straining the Judicial System
The administration has turned to the Supreme Court at a record pace, and the justices have issued orders that lower courts have struggled to interpret.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 5d
For Trump, the 2025 government shutdown has its roots in the 2019 government shutdown when he learned that he could lose the battle but win the war. Congress refused to give him his border wall money so he took it anyway. @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Donald Trump’s Shutdown Power Play
The President learned in 2019 how to undercut Congress in a funding fight, and he’s been making the same move ever since.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 5d
For Senate Democrats, who have lost red states and moved left over recent years, there is less incentive to cave or cut a deal to end the government shutdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...
Democrats See No Need to Capitulate, Nor Republicans to Cut a Deal
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 6d
Lally Weymouth was given much, true, but made the most of it and never coasted, writes Jon Meacham, who learned the price of resistance when he was editor of Newsweek. "One wagered against her at one's peril: Just ask Jesus, who got bumped for Kissinger." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Lally Weymouth understood power, for she came from it
Hostess and journalist, blue-blooded member of the glitterati, and student of policy and power.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 6d
The Senate votes 47-53, with all Republicans opposed, to reject a Democratic counterproposal to fund the government. The Senate is now voting on the House-passed GOP stopgap spending bill, which is also expected to fail. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Live Updates: Shutdown Grinds Many Government Services to a Halt
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 6d
Supreme Court declines to allow Trump to immediately remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board, saying it would instead review the administration’s efforts to oust her at oral arguments in January. @amarimow.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...
Supreme Court Allows Lisa Cook to Remain at Fed, for Now
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