Josh Lederman
@thejoshlederman
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Emmy Award-winning journalist • @PrincetonSPIA fellow • Former foreign correspondent @NBCNews, White House reporter @AP • Lover of fountain soda & rainy weather
Joined March 2009
Bloomberg says it has reviewed a transcript of a phone call between presidential envoy Steve Witkoff and a senior Kremlin official last month. @gardnerakayla and @thejoshlederman joins @AnaCabrera to discuss. https://t.co/t4KG4LpQJB
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Bloomberg says it has reviewed a transcript of a phone call between presidential envoy Steve Witkoff and a senior Kremlin official last month. On the call, Witkoff appears to coach the Kremlin on how...
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As the US designates Maduro-linked Cartel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organization, Republicans are wrestling with the spector of a new US military intervention in #Venezuela. Breaking it down on @MSNOWNews
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Kuleba says Ukraine must have a “serious contingency plan” in case US suspends support to Kyiv
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I asked former Ukrainian FM @DmytroKuleba here at @PrincetonSPIA how Ukraine should deal with US unpredictability. His approach: “Please President Trump, and kick Europe to do more”
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Not to be overlooked in Asia power politics: Thailand's king is set to visit China this week, the first such visit in half a century -
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Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn will pay a visit to China from November 13 to 17, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Thursday, the first by a Thai monarch since diplomatic relations were...
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Anytime you can get "Sandwich Hurler" into an NYT headline is a win
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Jurors found Sean Dunn not guilty of a misdemeanor after seven hours of deliberation, and after prosecutors had previously failed to secure a felony indictment.
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This week I had the chance to interview Thailand’s opposition leader, Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut @teng_pple, for a conversation at @PrincetonSPIA. A fascinating look at Thailand’s changing politics
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At Princeton’s U.S. premiere of “Breaking the Cycle,” Thai leaders traced Future Forward/Move Forward’s rise and court-ordered dissolution, urging youth participation while warning that “lawfare”...
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This week I had the chance to interview Thailand’s opposition leader, Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut, for a conversation at @PrincetonSPIA. A fascinating look at Thailand’s changing politics
dailyprincetonian.com
At Princeton’s U.S. premiere of “Breaking the Cycle,” Thai leaders traced Future Forward/Move Forward’s rise and court-ordered dissolution, urging youth participation while warning that “lawfare”...
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You can't negotiate with nature. And that's kind of the point. This week on Mindfulness in Politics, we look at how reconnecting with nature — even briefly — restores calm, focus, and perspective. https://t.co/23jwAACeZF
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That bad mood? It’s got a 90-second shelf life. After that, it’s just you hitting replay, but you can stop pressing the button. This week, @igorvolsky shares how it worked for him during a stressful cross-country move: https://t.co/t6HEQ82PKH
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Princeton Student Held by Iran-Backed Militia Is Released, Trump Says https://t.co/doUEymbSkB via @NYTimes
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Israel and Iraq confirmed the release of Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Russian-Israeli graduate student at Princeton who was kidnapped in Iraq in 2023 by the militant group Kataib Hezbollah.
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In the latest installment of our @MindfulProject, @igorvolsky and I dive into the catastrophizing cycle familiar to so many of us in media & politics - and what you can do about it. https://t.co/00SFdufPFi
"You become what you think about all day long." - Emerson Years of "predicting the worst" rewires our neural pathways to overreact to stress. New post with @thejoshlederman: How to break catastrophic thinking loops + why we get stuck:
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France Will Recognize Palestinian Statehood, Macron Says https://t.co/MkSU2g2l1n via @NYTimes
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The announcement sets France apart from the United States and most of its close allies, and could cause friction with President Trump.
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Maddie, a Coonhound Who Awed Instagram by Balancing on Things, Dies at 14
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In thousands of photos, Maddie stood tall and seemingly unbothered atop fences, cars, road signs and tires, garnering 1.2 million Instagram followers along the way.
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The people working to strengthen our democracy are burning out. Staffers, advocates, journalists – leaving because the pace isn't sustainable. We're changing that. Practical mindfulness tools designed for high-pressure political and media work. Join us:
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me: I got this also me: completely fried by 9:17am So @igorvolsky and I built something to help: The Mindfulness in Politics Project — practical tools for high-pressure political + media work. Because public service shouldn’t be a personal liability. 👉
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A foreign policy story not getting enough attention: The PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) in Turkey says it's disarming & will pursue peaceful negotiations over its long-running conflict with the Turkish government https://t.co/OzxCmAs0oc
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The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) could start handing over its weapons within days, a spokesman for Turkey's ruling AK Party said on Tuesday, the clearest sign yet that efforts to secure the outlawed...
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There’s a bitter irony in war: When missiles start falling, they often have a way of breathing new life into loathed leaders, rather than ushering them out the door. My latest on #Iran, #Israel, and the Rally 'Round the Flag effect, for @DefenseOne: https://t.co/iRuY98KxQO
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External threats tend to heal internal divisions—and shatter dreams of “regime change.”
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Estonia’s Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur describing NATO’s burden-sharing: “In the family, you have different roles—one is cooking, the other one is cleaning the kitchen, one is heating the sauna, and the other one is bringing the wood.” (h/t @ForeignPolicy)
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