If the price of gold rises any higher we may have to melt down the Oval Office. My latest: newrepublic.com/article/2015...

Your good news for today. www.facebook.com/share/p/17NU...

This is totally normal behavior. thehill.com/homenews/edu...

My latest: How Trump successfully provoked, over 10 years, an uptick in left-wing violence; how he’s now trying to provoke more (thus far, thank God, unsuccessfully); and how he’s using it to justify a crackdown on political dissent more sweeping than COINTELPRO. newrepublic.com/article/2014...

The good news is that Schwarzman got Trump to back off on saddling Harvard with a government monitor. The bad news is that Harvard is changing its name to Schwarzman University. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

The WPA murals are a vital part of our nation’s artistic history, and to the extent that they can remain public, they should!

Great reporting from @washingtonmonthly.com Contributing Editor @timothynoah.bsky.social.

Stellar reporting from @timothynoah.bsky.social Attention New Deal historians @rauchway.bsky.social

New t-shirt. I don’t want them to have to look too hard.

Hanging in my office is a framed display of various WPA murals from Post Offices that were built during the Great Depression. Truly treasures that should be preserved. I desperately hope that if an iconoclastic Federal government is happy to let this art decay that we can find some way to save it.

@timothynoah.bsky.social Excellent reporting about the potential loss of these new deal masterpieces that represent the struggles of the American people.

This weekend is a good time to catch up on my stories about Trump’s imminent sale and likely destruction of a 1940 government building that one expert calls “the Sistine Chapel of New Deal art.” Part one: newrepublic.com/article/2010... Part two: newrepublic.com/article/2012...

My latest: Why job creation is likely worse than what the unofficial data say. newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Nobody else is writing about this, so please re-post my two-part series about the imminent sale of what one expert calls “the Sistine Chapel of New Deal art.” Preservationists need to move fast. Part one: newrepublic.com/article/2010... Part two: newrepublic.com/article/2010...

The Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building is, one expert told me, “the Sistine Chapel of New Deal art.” GSA had a plan earlier this year to save it. Now Trump is rushing to sell it. Save the Cohen, part 2, explains how we got here. Please share widely! newrepublic.com/article/2012...

Even during the federal government shutdown, my office will always be here for you. We’ve posted Government Shutdown Resources to help constituents navigate federal, health, VA services, and more. Check it out and reach out—I’m here fighting for you. www.markey.senate.gov/shutdown

This seems important. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1027...

Love this. Epstein got a short jail sentence because he hired high-priced lawyers to intimidate prosecutor Alex Acosta by putting a tail on him and engaging in other rich-asshole tactics. But if Lutnick wants to spread Trump-hurting rumors, God bless him. www.threads.com/@thebriefing...

Supreme irony.

Re-posting my Tuesday story on the imminent sale and likely destruction of government-owned murals by Ben Shahn and Philip Guston. The Trump administration is a cascade of emergencies; this one requires rapid mobilization by preservationists. Followup tomorrow. newrepublic.com/article/2010...

There’s some danger I will never tire of Diaper Diplomacy.

NEW: Even before Trump stepped in to help them, private equity has been destabilizing our economy — including by worsening the housing crisis, as IPS scholar @chuck77.bsky.social shows in his new book, Burned by Billionaires. @timothynoah.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com:

In honor of Donald Trump's speech today to the military, I just designed and ordered online for myself a very attractive black t-shirt with white lettering that says the enemy within Can't wait till it arrives. Let's all get one!

Had enough, America? This is reason enough to impeach Trump.

Heartbreaking: The New Deal Masterpieces Threatened by Trump’s D.C. Downsizing newrepublic.com/article/2010... via @timothynoah.bsky.social

My latest is a scoop. The Trump administration is rushing to sell a New Deal-era federal building two blocks from the Capitol that contains gorgeous WPA murals by Ben Shahn and Philip Guston. Shahn called it “the best work I’ve done.” Next year it could be rubble. newrepublic.com/article/2010...

Um, wow. www.threads.com/@yasharali/p...

Is this some sort of Red Wedding? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Claire Parker on Israel’s de facto annexation of the West Bank. US Israel ambassador Mike Huckabee: “We will not tell Israel what to do.” That sentence should end: “with the $12 billion in military aid we gave them this year.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

A shonda fur die goyim. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

In other news, it seems unlikely 2025 will bring us a better American film than “One Battle After Another.” Satirical, dark, hilarious, suspenseful, and very much of our dystopian political moment. Fantastic performances all around, brilliantly shot and edited. Bravo.

The Trump gang has been busy trying to help herd grandma into private equity, an insane move that reflects the desperation Trump’s private equity pals are feeling these days. @timothynoah.bsky.social @chuck77.bsky.social #inequality newrepublic.com/article/2009...

Oh. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Here’s the Comey indictment. It wasn’t released until today because the original was in crayon. www.washingtonpost.com/documents/3d...

Trump’s nominee to head the State Department’s Bureau of International Organization Affairs says “the great replacement is real.” If he’s representative of what’s being replaced it can’t happen too fast for me. web.archive.org/web/20211029...

You fire enough prosecutors, I guess, you eventually find one willing at least to pretend to take you seriously. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

“Welcome to the private cell phone of FEMA acting director David Richardson, whom Kristi Noem requires to run all emergency spending exceeding $100k by her. Your phone call is important to us. Please listen carefully as our menu options have changed.” www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

This may be the most important thing you read today: a hair-raiding oral history of what DOGE did to your federal government. www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

My latest explains that even without Trump playing havoc with the Fed, tariffs, the deficit, etc., private equity is wholly capable of crashing the economy all by its lonesome. newrepublic.com/article/2009...

Diaper Diplomacy does Trump’s UN speech. You’re welcome. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRRE...

Excellent Bill McKibben piece on Trump’s UN rant. open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

Richard Kahlenberg, who’s argued to realign affirmative action away from race and towards social class, helped devise a race-blind College Board tool to identify prospects in low-income, high-crime neighborhoods. But the Trumpies shut that down, too. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/24/t...

Good. Now open one into World Liberty Finsncial/UAE. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Instead of the regulations and taxes they hate, the oligarchs are getting a rickety, ad hoc, and highly personalized structure of government control. And whaddya know: they don’t like it. newrepublic.com/article/2007...

The way you can tell these are diplomats is they didn’t break into applause when he said, “In closing.”

“We’ve used tariffs as a defense mechanism.” I’d call that a Freudian slip if I thought he actually knew what “defense mechanism” means.

“I call it ‘clean, beautiful coal.’”

“The global warming hoax.”