Jane Mayer
@JaneMayerNYer
Staff writer at the @newyorker | Author of Dark Money | Twitter neophyte
Some call it Bastille Day, but to others today is World Chimpanzee Day! 🍌🎉🍌 worldchimpanzeeday.org
Ashes, Again - can’t wait to read the new book on the CIA by the amazing @TimWeinerAuthor : open.substack.com/pub/theiceman/…
Just want to take a minute to mark a huge moment in DC. The legendary @danbalz is retiring from full-time work at the @washingtonpost after 47 remarkable years. I had the great privilege of sitting next to Dan in the Post newsroom and working with him for years. He is the last of…
I can’t believe Aaron Parsley @FreshParsley of @TexasMonthly had the strength to write this story about what his family endured in the #GuadalupeRiver flood. It will leave you frozen. texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…
How do you prevent "once in a lifetime" flood events like the one in Texas - and beyond - in the past week? @BillNye says the answer is clear: "Stop burning fossil fuels. When you're in a hole, stop digging... but the fossil fuel industry has been very successful in getting…
New: SecDef Hegseth did not inform the White House before he authorized a pause on weapons shipments to Ukraine last week, 5 sources tell @NatashaBertrand & me, setting off a scramble inside the administration to understand why the halt was implemented. cnn.com/2025/07/08/pol…
This opens a huge loophole for even more money in politics- and gives donors tax breaks for supporting political candidates: I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/… via @NYTimes
JUST IN: Trump admin now again calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia deportation "a one off mistake...an administrative error." Didn't they fire a lawyer and suspend another for saying this? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
As these political and personal purges continue, important agencies will become unable to perform their basic functions, and at some point will only be able to spread the purges into the larger society. lawfaremedia.org/article/goodby…
Thanks to Trump’s Weather Service cuts, their 2 flood zone offices now lack a chief meteorologist, warning coordination meteorologist, senior hydrologist & staff forecaster. And the top elected official in Kerr County, where the camp is, on their lack of a local warning system.
“A former F.B.I. agent who was charged with encouraging the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to kill police officers has been named as an adviser to the Justice Department task force that President Trump established to seek retribution against his political enemies.”…
The president of Aix-Marseille University is welcoming US scientific refugees.He "likened the situation to that of European academics who fled persecution by Nazi Germany both before and during World War II" politico.eu/article/meet-f…
Want a Rolex watch? Pro-Noem donors secretly paid a dark money group that paid her: Kristi Noem Secretly Took Personal Cut of Political Donations — ProPublica propublica.org/article/kristi…
Chief UN nuclear inspector says the damage wrought by the US strike on Iran's nuclear facilities was "severe" but, contrary to Trump, not "total" and declared that Tehran could be enriching uranium again in "a matter of months." @SangerNYT @tylerpager nytimes.com/2025/06/29/us/…
“Preliminary intelligence assessments provided to European governments indicate that Iran’s highly enriched uranium stockpile remains largely intact following US strikes on its main nuclear sites, two officials have said. The people said the intelligence suggested that Iran’s…
Early intelligence suggests Iran’s uranium largely intact, European officials say on.ft.com/4kSoxUW
Even as he screamed at reporters about their loyalty to troops Hegseth become the first known Secretary of Defense to approve the idea of allowing enemy forces (Iran) strike a US base (Al Udeid)
Hegseth: So if you want to make an assessment of what happened.. you better get a big shovel and go really deep because Iran's nuclear program is obliterated
This is a travesty and a nightmare. The US was a founder of @Gavi. It lowers vaccine costs for the world, has vaccinated 1B children, and averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year -- and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort ow.ly/auRQ106cRf4
"A day after President Trump declared that Iran’s nuclear program had been 'completely and totally obliterated' by American bunker-busting bombs and a barrage of missiles, the actual state of the program seemed far more murky, with senior officials conceding they did not know the…
"We’re right back to another Watergate, except worse": Trump has systematically dismantled many of the structural reforms put in place a half century ago to prevent a repeat of what was the biggest scandal of modern times until now. @NaftaliBendavid washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…