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Eyal Press
@epress.bsky.social
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Contributing writer at The New Yorker, Puffin fellow at Type Media Center, author (Dirty Work, Beautiful Souls), long-suffering Bills fan.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d
Our grotesque split-screen:
starving the poor / gorging the ultrarich

"With little public scrutiny, the Trump administration is handing out hundreds of billions of dollars to giant private-equity firms, crypto companies, foreign real-estate investors, and a variety of multinational corporations."
NYT headline: How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service are issuing rules that provide hundreds of billions of dollars in tax relief to big companies and the ultrarich.
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 1d
“Loyalty to Trump has helped the president elude political consequences for felony convictions…Now many of his supporters have extended similar grace during a government shutdown that is emptying the pantries and refrigerators of the most vulnerable Americans.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
In MAGA stronghold, fury over SNAP but little blame for Trump in shutdown
People who use SNAP in Mike Johnson’s congressional district wonder why his power hasn’t protected them, but many lay the blame on Washington’s dysfunction.
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 2d
Every article about Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar pay package should highlight his other major accomplishment this year — destroying USAID, which has led to 600,000 deaths thus far, more than half of them children. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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The Hill @thehill.com · 6d
#BREAKING: Senate Republicans nixed an attempt by Democrats to fully fund Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits after those monies dried up over the weekend amid the government shutdown.
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 7d
Hold on let me prepare a frivolous $1 billion lawsuit
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Jordan Barab @jbarab.bsky.social · 10d
“All I see right now is wreckage and short-term gain at the expense of long-term health.”

The destruction of CDC.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h...
Behind the Dismantling of the C.D.C.: Reform or ‘Humiliation’?
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11d
Gotta log off for a while after this one. Just too much.
shannonhale.bsky.social Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social · 11d
I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 11d
A good, heartbreaking piece from @epress.bsky.social on the human cost of Trump's gutting of civil rights enforcement at the Department of Education: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
When the Government Stops Defending Civil Rights
The Department of Education’s abandonment of traditional civil-rights litigation has effectively transported parents back in time, to the era before the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 11d
The administration’s fixation on DEI programs has been exhaustively covered. Its abandonment of civil rights law enforcement — which has effectively transported parents and students back in time, to the era before the 1964 Civil Rights Act — has not been. My piece: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
When the Government Stops Defending Civil Rights
The Department of Education’s abandonment of traditional civil-rights litigation has effectively transported parents back in time, to the era before the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 26d
To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids
Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 16d
But Trump gets a ballroom and Argentina gets a $40 billion bailout
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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 16d
The peace president who would keep us out of foreign wars!
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 17d
Shocking that Trump’s favorite ‘chainsaw capitalist’ is not complaining about the $20 billion bailout Argentina is getting & that the billionaires who stand to benefit are also not displeased. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...
Opinion | Trump Revives Foreign Aid, Helping Needy Billionaires
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 18d
This both-sides’ing would not be applied to any other country carrying out such a lawless campaign.
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 18d
“The group chat members spoke freely about… the love of Nazis within their party’s right wing.”
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 25d
Proud of my alma mater today. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · Oct 8
As a subscriber to @nybooks.com for more than a decade, it was pretty surreal to open the mail this morning and see this review of There Is No Place for Us in print.
A print copy of The New York Review of Books opened to "The Homeless We Don’t See" by Jay Neugeboren, a review of the book There Is No Place for Us.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Oct 8
“Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar”

Never forget or forgive that Trump, Rubio, & Musk *chose* to inflict this monumental level of death and suffering on the poorest & most vulnerable people.
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · Oct 8
no words
Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive
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Coffee and Fingernails @coffeenfingernails.bsky.social · Oct 7
"Bucking tradition" is wearing white after labor day, this MFer is shredding the Constitution and tearing the Union apart.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Oct 7
President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.
Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained
President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 30
pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · Sep 21
How soon before reports on poverty and unemployment are also phased out? apnews.com/article/trum...
After cuts to food stamps, Trump administration ends government's annual report on hunger in America
The Trump administration is ending the federal government’s annual report on hunger in America, saying it had become “overly politicized″ and ”rife with inaccuracies.″ The decision comes two and a hal...
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · Sep 18
“In the Fort Worth area… people post on Facebook asking for babysitters who had not had the Covid vaccine. Other new mothers commonly seek breast milk donations from women who were not vaccinated.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
In Texas, Parents Fighting Vaccinations Say Their Movement Is Winning
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Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · Sep 17
Cancel culture. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · Sep 17
“Roughly 20% of FBI agents — 2,840 out of around 13,800 — have been diverted to work on immigration enforcement, according to data obtained by the libertarian-oriented Cato Institute. That represents a significantly larger shift in FBI priorities than what happened after the 9/11 terrorism attacks”
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