“If Trump wants to save the lives of Nigerian Christians… all Trump has to do is restore the American aid that was estimated to be saving the lives of more than a quarter-million Nigerians each year.” Bang-on (as usual) from @nickkristof.bsky.social

President Trump threatens a military attack on Nigeria because of jihadi attacks on Christians — which are indeed a real problem. But Trump’s aid cuts are killing far, far more Nigerian Christians than jihadis are. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...

If SNAP math is hurting your brain today, this is shows why USDA's 50% cut to maximum SNAP benefits translates into a much deeper cut to average benefits. Only households receiving the maximum benefit will see a 50% cut under USDA's plan – and everyone else gets cut more deeply.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

A sobering and important read from @nickkristof.bsky.social. Why Do We Allow Child Marriage in America? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...

Did you know that we allow child marriage in the US? We do, in 34 states, and four or five children are being married every day on average. I once met a Floridian married at 11 to her rapist. And California has no minimum age at all for marriage: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...

We have no ghosts or goblins on Kristof Farms -- they're scared away because our Pinot Noir is divine -- but we have do have some scary inhabitants. This mountain lion, caught on our wildlife camera, haunts our deer. Happy Halloween.

My take on the UAE-backed slaughter now unfolding in Sudan, and the refusal of the US and others to call out the UAE for its role. This was preventable, but neither Biden nor Trump cared enough to try: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/o... Thank God some members of Congress are speaking up.

So eight U.S. citizen children have had their lives upended, because ICE rushed to deport their mom -- after she alleged that an agent had demanded sexual favors from her. We would be a better country if we instead deported ICE agents who exploit detainees.

My column argues that Trump bungled his trade war with China, leaving Xi Jinping in a stronger position. I worry that Xi, sensing our weakness and vulnerability on rare earths, will push the US and others to compromise on Taiwan, human rights and other issues. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

Thanks, Senator @booker.senate.gov, for speaking up about the UAE-backed atrocities in Sudan.

The UAE owns the slaughter now unfolding in El Fasher, Sudan, because it has armed the RSF militia committing the atrocities. Both the Biden and Trump administrations refused to hold the UAE accountable; bravo to the members of Congress who have stepped up.

Washington Post edit board: There’s a name for attacks on civilian ships on the high seas: Piracy. That’s also an unfortunately plausible description of the Trump administration’s bombings of vessels around South America that it says are carrying drugs. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

If you know anyone who was exploited on Backpage before it was closed down for human trafficking, tell them that there is a pool of money available for survivors and free legal help in applying for it: www.backpageremissionnetwork.org

Terrific reporting about the grim realities of sex trafficking of minors by Emily Baumgaertner Nunn: mes.com/2025/10/26/m... And a reminder that our foster care system is a national disgrace, driving kids not to college but to traffickers.

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Want to see how far right the Republican Party has gone? Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate. They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.

“It turns out Trump likes some aid, and he’s good with white refugees.” @nickkristof.bsky.social is a real one www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...

Trump slashed USAID so that children die for want of $2 mosquito nets or 12-cent-a-day medicines--but he now is backing a $20 billion bailout of Argentina that will also pour money into the pockets of billionaire hedge fund investors. My take: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...

Colorado has the lowest obesity rate in the US, and there has been slight improvement in the number of states with obesity rates of more than 35 percent. Oregon has increased obesity the most. www.axios.com/local/denver...

President Trump has talked about invoking the Insurrection Act, allowing him broad powers to dispatch military troops to engage in law enforcement. This is an excellent piece by @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social and Bob Bauer in @nytopinion.nytimes.com about that path: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/o...

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"That’s the quiet corruption corroding modern philanthropy: the ability to give as a license to impose one’s will. It’s a kind of moral laundering." -- Laurene Powell Jobs www.wsj.com/us-news/laur...

Karoline Leavitt sounds like a Red Guard in Mao's China during the Cultural Revolution.

"Orvis president Simon Perkins told USA TODAY in an Oct. 10 statement the company plans on reducing the products it sells as well as shuttering 31 stores and five outlets due to the 'unprecedented tariff landscape.' "

A call for the wine industry to be less snobbish, less focused on trying to educate people about acids and tannins and terroir, and more emphatic about making wine drinking fun and a good value, from @ericasimov.bsky.social, wine critic of the @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/d...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com For lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians, it may help to think of the conflict in terms of right vs. right, @nickkristof.bsky.social writes. “The Middle East, as I see it, reflects a contest between two national yearnings with a measure of right on each side.”

We need a new paradigm for thinking about Israelis and Palestinians. So many Americans think in terms of right vs. wrong (while disagreeing about who the labels apply to), while I argue we should see them as right vs. right. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o... I welcome your thoughts.

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

King tides coming to the Oregon coast next month: thatoregonlife.com/2025/10/king...

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.” Among those RIFd: —leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases; —leadership of global health center —leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

Why is President Trump targeting Portland? Likely because he watched a misleading Fox News report that included video of 2020 riots and presented it as happening now. We asked our intrepid photographer to brave the war zone, and here's what he captured: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

It's striking that while some Republicans around the country support deploying troops in Portland, Republicans here in Oregon are mostly mum: www.opb.org/article/2025... That's because they know that Trump's claims that Portland is burning to the ground or a war zone are ludicrous.

Portland Mayor @mayorkwilson.bsky.social has a from-the-heart message in Time Magazine to those who would inflict troops on the city and magnify divisions here and nationwide: time.com/7322337/port...

Thanks, New Yorker

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

Just so.

Portland is a “war-ravaged” city that is “on fire,” President Trump warns. But I braved the artillery fire and militia checkpoints to bring you this video report from the front lines.

"Cycling in the buff is a Portland specialty, and one organization has announced a naked ride “in response to the militarization of our city.” Such is the war zone here." Spot on from @nickkristof.bsky.social GIFT LINK: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

Pres. Trump presents Portland as a "war-ravaged" "hell" that must be crushed by armed troops, but it's actually a city that protests his plan with a naked bike ride -- that's the kind of "war zone" this is. So I call on Trump to join the naked bike ride: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

Trump aides discussed sending the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division to Portland!!! Trump needs a geography lesson. Oregon is an American state, not a province of Afghanistan.

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

On Kristof Farms, we’ve been playing with Sora, the new AI video app.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “A new American from Congo whose grandmother wanted to kill her at birth and who was an elementary school dropout may be a better role model than our secretary of state,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes.

My columns can be depressing, I know -- so today I wrote about someone who is pure uplift and utter inspiration. She's a reminder of the power of educating girls: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o... Chantale Zuzi, you go, girl!

Honored to give a book talk in Cincinnati's Aronoff Ctr about my memoir, "Chasing Hope." Such a beautiful space, and organized together with the great city library (libraries rock!), so I took this selfie with the audience. And my heart melted at the standing ovation at the end. Thanks, Cincinnati!

President Trump says the US military should use some American cities as "training grounds for our military." So that's what Portland and Chicago are? Places for troops to get combat experience by provoking civilians, who become collateral damage? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

NEW: Sec. Rubio is leading a push to try to oust Maduro. The Pentagon has put 6,500 troops in the region and is drawing up possible operations against crime gangs in Venezuela. Opposition figures say they're talking to the US about plans. Gift link to our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...