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NPR's veteran Pentagon reporter warns new media policy stifles journalism

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Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...
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by Robert N. Stavins

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Must-read essay by Paul Krugman open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
China Has Overtaken America
And Trump’s policies guarantee that we will never catch up
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by Robert N. Stavins

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Excellent! Decision-making Disarray at the DOJ
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Decision-making Disarray at the DOJ
Blanche, Bondi, Halligan, Martin—and a White House in charge
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by Robert N. Stavins

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Important www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/u...
Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials
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Reposted by Robert N. Stavins, Kim L. Scheppele, Michael Jones‐Correa , and 1 more

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Home of the Brave launched a $1 million national ad campaign in support of the peaceful No Kings rallies on Oct. 18th.

The ads will run in over 185 local papers and The New York Times, USA Today and The Washington Post calling on Americans to “peacefully protest our false king."
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Daily reports from Portland, Ore., police in the month leading up to Trump’s decision to send in federal troops paint a picture that’s different from what his public statements portrayed

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What’s Really Going On in Portland, According to Police Reports
Protests outside an ICE facility were dwindling in size and at times ”low energy” in the days and weeks before President Trump called in troops, according to official law-enforcement logs.
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Reposted by Robert N. Stavins, Sanford F. Schram, Henry Jones

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RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol
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by Robert N. Stavins

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How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State
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by Robert N. Stavins

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Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
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Trump Takes Aim at Illinois Governor and Chicago Mayor
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by Robert N. Stavins

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Worth reading: "State Terror, American Style" open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
State Terror, American Style
Forget about “soft autocracy”
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by Robert N. Stavins

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If only half of this were happening, it would still be very frightening.
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October 5, 2025
On Friday the Minnesota Star Tribune reported a conversation on the messaging app Signal between one of Stephen Miller’s top deputies, Anthony Salisbury, and a senior advisor to Secretary of Defense P...
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by Robert N. Stavins

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An Autocracy of Dunces
How stone-faced generals, Wall Street pushback, and a government shutdown may save America’s quickly declining democracy
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by Robert N. Stavins

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A wonderful person has passed: Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91
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by Robert N. Stavins

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Read this …

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Bulging Biceps Don’t Win Modern Wars
Hegseth’s speech was vile. It was also stupid.
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by Robert N. Stavins

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A must-read column today:

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September 30, 2025
Last Thursday, September 25, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suddenly announced he was calling about 800 of the nation’s top military generals and admirals, along with their top enlisted advisors, to m...
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Not new, but a helpful review and reminder…

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Fossil Fuels and Fossilized Minds
What’s driving the doomed attempt to revive coal?
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by Robert N. Stavins

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Excellent Discussion re the Comey Indictment www.execfunctions.org/p/the-comey-...
The Comey Indictment
Lindsey Halligan's case
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Crazy hsph.harvard.edu/news/slashin...
Slashing of funding for mRNA vaccine development raises concern | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
In August, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) cancelled nearly $500 million in contracts that funded mRNA vaccine development. The mRNA
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by Robert N. Stavins

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Worth reading, imho … open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
September 27, 2025
Yesterday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released items from a third batch of documents associated with the criminal investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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by Robert N. Stavins

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Excellent re European economy open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Notes on Europe’s Economy
Reports of its death are greatly exaggerated
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Reposted by Robert N. Stavins, Anne Applebaum, Michael Wagner , and 14 more

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Worth reading, imho www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Why the White House is abandoning solar
President Trump and Energy Secretary Chris Wright insist that solar power will never be a reliable source of energy.
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by Robert N. Stavins

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Why Is Trump Bailing Out Argentina?
This is about ideology and Trumpian fealty, not America’s interests
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by Robert N. Stavins

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Very much worth seeing, reviewing, and reading ... histecon.fas.harvard.edu/landscapes-o...
LANDSCAPES OF METHANE
Photographs from Southwestern Pennsylvania by JULIAN GIORDANO
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by Robert N. Stavins

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Please watch and listen to this video podcast conversation of Ezra Klein and Spencer Cox, Republican Governor of Utah!
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Spencer Cox Wants to Pull Our Politics Back From the Brink | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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Reposted by Robert N. Stavins, Richard S.J. Tol, Gerald Friedman

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So what happened to the $50K in cash Tom Homan got in the Cava bag?

Was it deposited in his bank account and reported as income that he paid taxes on?

Is it under his mattress?
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Nobel Prize winner for his work on mRNA vaccines says that ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist in the body is absolutely impossible. Dr. Drew Weissman says that the vast literature shows that the Covid vaccines are safe.
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Winner of mRNA Nobel Prize says ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist is “absolutely impossible”
In a Q&A with STAT, Nobel winner Drew Weissman addressed concerns raised about Covid shots at a recent meeting of federal vaccine advisers.
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Reposted by Robert N. Stavins, Jan W. Mueller, Richard S.J. Tol , and 43 more

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There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
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by Justin Wolfers — Reposted by Robert N. Stavins, Jonathan Portes, Richard S.J. Tol , and 39 more

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Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.

Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
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