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Eyal Press

@epress.bsky.social

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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Type Media Center@typemediacenter.org · last wk.

How much of the former Senate candidate’s behavior should be read through the lens of what combat did to him, and how much of it is simply who he is, independent of war? Type Media Center fellow Jasper Craven for the New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

The Complications of Graham Platner’s Veteran Identity

How much of Graham Platner’s behavior should be read through the lens of what combat did to him, and how much of it is simply who he is, independent of war?

newyorker.com

Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · last mo.

I’m in Sweden rn, where a vast, clean, and speedy public transit system traverses a vast archipelago and a couple gets 2 years of combined new child care per kid, and in-home elder care is guaranteed.

Eyal Press@epress.bsky.social · last mo.

No worries: she’s now being replaced by an experienced professional who is eminently qualified for the job.

Prof. Carl LeVan@democracyprofdc.bsky.social · last mo.

Looks like a director of national intelligence was raised in a cult, while serving as a member of Congress received and repeated policy advice from its leader, and Senate Intelligence Committee missed all this during confirmation hearings. All her judgments as DNI now in question. wapo.st/4g2Z3ok

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last mo.

Sam Alito: It is the worst kind of discrimination to create majority-minority congressional districts and so we are going to kill the Voting Rights Act. Also Sam Alito: There is nothing we can do if the president cancels legal status because he thinks the United States is a white country.

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · last mo.

Fourth (and *last*) ruling from #SCOTUS is in TPS. For the usual 6-3 majority, Justice Alito holds that federal law forecloses judicial review of statutory challenges to the executive branch's termination of temporary protected status for Haiti, Syria, etc.: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Jay Rosen@jayrosen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Finally! "Not the odds, but the stakes" is consenus thinking. Columbia Journalism Review: "The larger consensus among everyone I talked to here is that many of the conventions that shape US political reporting are outdated or should never have been employed at all." www.cjr.org/feature/out-...

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Eyal Press@epress.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Lets not overlook the biggest achievement of the world’s first trillionaire: putting USAID in the shredder, which will lead to more than 9 million preventable deaths by 2030, according to this study by The Lancet. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030, study projects

The Lancet study examines how the dismantling of international aid by the U.S. and other countries could undo decades of health gains.

washingtonpost.com

Clint Smith@clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I've spent months speaking to current & retired Black service members about being part of the military in this political moment. What I found were officers and soldiers despondent at the resurgence of racism, yet often insistent that they were fighting for what this country could be, not what it is.

The Betrayal of Black Patriots

They devoted their lives to serving the United States. Now the nation’s top military leader is sending the message that they’re not welcome.

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Eyal Press@epress.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Vinson Cunningham drops a beauty on the eve of a certain series. “Part of the fun of rooting for a team is that, like a friend, they can tightrope across your last nerve, but, in this case, you can curse them out however you please and never need to apologize…” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Lessons in Fanhood from the Knicks

For the first time since 1999, the New York Knicks are eagerly awaiting the N.B.A. Finals. Vinson Cunningham appreciates the artfulness of the game, but “when the Knicks are on, playing prettily or no...

newyorker.com

Eyal Press@epress.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Very excited to see the fearless, hard-hitting reporting Bari Weiss & co will be airing on 60 Minutes now that they’ve gotten rid of the correspondent who has won 48 Emmy’s.

David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Great lineup at @prospect.org today. First: a feature by Bob Kuttner on the exodus of primary care doctors, whose conditions of practice have become intolerable. A recent paper finds that to meet all their obligations, primary care doctors need to work 26.7 hours a day. prospect.org/2026/06/01/c...

Corporations and the Crisis of Care - The American Prospect

The U.S. suffers from a mass exodus of primary care doctors, as medical practice is dictated by corporate masters at the expense of physicians and patients.

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Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is an extraordinary story, and like a lot of extraordinary stories about wrongdoing and corruption, will become much harder to report if the Trump administration succeeds in requiring NDAs of all federal employees. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-want...

If it were up to the Trump administration you would never read these stories. And the new NDAs are designed to stop these stories from being told. Because their goal is to kill oversight and accountability. They know that principled public servants are not revealing confidential information that creates national security risks, but will expose wrongdoing that is running rampant in this administration. So they want to gag them.
Charles Ornstein@charlesornstein.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” the person said.  About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company. @robert-faturechi.bsky.social