• Donald Trump Jr — pulling the strings to reward Maga faithful https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/donald-trump-jr-maga-team-white-house-nvw3r2p7x 11 comments 15/11/2024 politics
• This is a String Drive bicycle. There is no chain and it has 19 different gears. When you pedal, the two levers pull on the ropes to drive you forward. Weird but cool! https://youtu.be/doKhd8kE0Ow 21 comments 21/11/2023 bicycling
• These Ultraconservative Brothers Pulled Strings in Reagan's Washington. Then One of Them Was Outed as Gay https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/gay-politicians-washington-secret-city-book-james-kirchick-dolan-1387755/ 6 comments 28/7/2022 politics
• Trump’s Ego Makes Him an Easy Mark -- How a Ukrainian oligarch pulled the president’s strings in service of his own agenda. https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/12/18/trumps-ego-makes-him-an-easy-mark/ 8 comments 19/12/2019 politics
• Emails Show DeVos Aides Pulled Strings for Failing For-Profit Colleges https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/us/politics/dream-center.html 37 comments 23/7/2019 politics
• Trump’s Family Pulled Strings To Get Him Into ‘Hardest School To Get Into’ https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-family-pulled-strings-wharton-school-acceptance 15 comments 8/7/2019 politics
• Even Donald Trump’s Draft-Dodging May Have Required His Father to Pull Strings https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/12/donald-trump-draft-dodging-doctor-report#~o 22 comments 26/12/2018 politics
• RegEx help, pull string between last two instances of a character https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/a3qtht/regex_help_pull_string_between_last_two_instances/ 13 comments 6/12/2018 javascript
• Astros 3rd Baseman JD Davis pulls the string and strikes out Choo http://mediadownloads.mlb.com/mlbam/mp4/2017/08/30/1787160483/1504060504637/asset_2500k.mp4 13 comments 30/8/2017 baseball
• Bannon pulls Trump’s strings, with dangerous results https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/03/06/bannon-pulls-trumps-strings-with-dangerous-results/?utm_term=.5554fa21a5d7 3 comments 6/3/2017 politics
• Jared Kushner, a shadow diplomat, pulls the strings on U.S.-Mexico talks https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/jared-kushner-a-shadow-diplomat-pulls-the-strings-on-us-mexico-talks/2017/02/09/aed2cf80-ef0b-11e6-9973-c5efb7ccfb0d_story.html?utm_term=.211937cd0bd5 21 comments 10/2/2017 politics
• Mike Pence Pulls President Trump’s Strings https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/opinion/mike-pence-pulls-president-trumps-strings.html?action=click&pgtype=homepage&clicksource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region&region=opinion-c-col-right-region&wt.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0 7 comments 26/1/2017 politics
• Mike Pence Pulls President Trump’s Strings https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/opinion/mike-pence-pulls-president-trumps-strings.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fgail-collins&action=click&contentcollection=opinion&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentplacement=1&pgtype=collection 20 comments 26/1/2017 politics
• Evidence that the universe is made of strings has been elusive for 30 years, but string theory's mathematical insights continue to have an alluring pull. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/string-theory-about-unravel-180953637/ 4 comments 22/12/2014 technology
• David Miranda's detention: a chilling attack on journalism | When the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald was detained at Heathrow airport last August under the Terrorism Act, MI5 were pulling the strings and knew full well that he wasn't a terrorist http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/02/david-miranda-detention-chilling-attack-journalism 396 comments 2/2/2014 worldnews
• Ross Barkley pulling the strings. http://i.minus.com/iufn4chm115bc.gif 212 comments 9/12/2013 soccer
• Interactive: Who’s Pulling the Strings? http://billmoyers.com/content/whos-pulling-the-strings/ 4 comments 13/10/2013 politics
• The Ten Hardline Conservatives Pulling the Strings of the GOP Shutdown http://billmoyers.com/2013/10/11/the-ten-hardline-conservatives-pulling-the-strings-of-the-gop-shutdown/ 68 comments 13/10/2013 politics
• Terror in North Africa: are Westerners pulling the strings? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/terror-in-north-africa-are-westerners-pulling-the-strings-8460832.html 5 comments 22/1/2013 worldnews
• Two Billionaires Are Pulling Grover Norquist's Strings http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/two-billionaires-0are-pulling-grover-nor 4 comments 28/11/2012 politics
• Who pulls the strings? A brilliant Guardian piece on the workings of the Bilderberg Group, and the man who has dedicated 30 years of his life tracking them down. A must read. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2001/mar/10/features.weekend 39 comments 14/5/2009 politics
• Disney power broker is part of a ‘cabal’ pulling the strings in Anaheim, FBI records show https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-24/disney-power-broker-anaheim-cabal-fbi-records-shows 19 comments 25/5/2022 baseball
• Whitmire: Hubbard still pulling strings from prison, tapes reveal https://www.al.com/news/2021/11/whitmire-hubbard-still-pulling-strings-from-prison-tapes-reveal.html 4 comments 16/11/2021 politics
• Inspector General’s Report Finds DOT Staff Pulled Strings for Elaine Chao’s Family and Personal Associates https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/inspector-generals-report-finds-dot-staff-pulled-strings-for-elaine-chaos-family-and-personal-associates/ 13 comments 4/3/2021 politics
• Ignoring search warrants and pulling strings: How Tesla avoided a full OSHA inspection. "Tesla denies entry despite full-inspection search warrant" https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2020/03/03/osha-tesla-gigafactory-nevada-full-safety-inspection-avoided/4931563002/ 15 comments 5/3/2020 law
• Russian meddling abroad: Does Putin pull all the strings? https://abcnews.go.com/international/wirestory/russian-meddling-abroad-putin-pull-strings-57842714? 5 comments 16/9/2018 politics
• Scott Pruitt’s Daughter Got Into An Elite Law School After Her Dad Pulled Some Strings https://abovethelaw.com/2018/06/scott-pruitts-daughter-got-into-an-elite-law-school-after-her-dad-pulled-some-strings/ 41 comments 15/6/2018 politics
• Brexit, the ministers, the professor and the spy: how Russia pulls strings in UK https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/04/brexit-ministers-spy-russia-uk-brexit 4 comments 5/11/2017 politics
• Russia Pulling Strings on Both Sides of the Atlantic https://www.thecipherbrief.com/article/exclusive/europe/russia-pulling-strings-on-both-sides-of-the-atlantic 36 comments 27/9/2017 geopolitics
• Unelected Steve Bannon really might be pulling the strings http://www.redstate.com/diary/jdrucker/2017/02/06/unelected-steve-bannon-really-might-pulling-strings/ 303 comments 6/2/2017 politics
• To pull your strings, the puppet master must be in the room http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/01/29/us/politics/ap-us-trump-national-security-council.html 8 comments 29/1/2017 politics
• Bumblebees can learn by example: Researchers created a test where bees could access sugar water if they pulled on a string. 60% of bumblebees that watched another bee pull the string figured out they could do it too. http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002564&mwhe=1 17 comments 9/10/2016 science
• Cambridge Analytica Secrets Allegedly Covered Up by Trump Campaign Veterans: The High Court in London heard that former insiders, including Rebekah Mercer, were pulling the strings of “biased” officials responsible for the fate of the company. https://www.thedailybeast.com/cambridge-analytica-secrets-covered-up-by-emerdata-rebekah-mercer-jennifer-mercer-alexander-nix-julian-wheatland?ref=wrap 5 comments 20/3/2019 privacy
• Right-wing personalities pulling Trump's strings? https://edition.cnn.com/videos/media/2018/12/23/right-wing-personalities-pulling-trumps-strings-rs.cnn 13 comments 24/12/2018 politics
• Kimmel: Notion that Dems ‘were pulling my strings’ was ‘created by right-wing media outlets’ http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/355769-kimmel-notion-that-dems-were-pulling-my-strings-was-created-by-right-wing 250 comments 17/10/2017 politics
• Trump Aides and Russian Mobsters Pulled Strings in Putin’s Massive Ukraine Gas Scheme https://warisboring.com/trump-aides-and-russian-mobsters-pulled-strings-in-putins-massive-ukraine-gas-scheme-2ec3e6cef803 3 comments 30/3/2017 politics
• NY gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino (R) called out Andrew Cuomo (D) -- he said in an open letter, "for the first time in your life be a man. Don't hide behind daddy's coattails even though he pulled strings to advance your career every step of your way. Come out and debate like a man." http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/paladino-to-cuomo-come-out-and-debate-like-a-man.php?ref=fpc 6 comments 20/9/2010 politics
• "Why in tarnation are we allowing corporations to pull the strings? Why is corporate welfare being valued over human rights? Why are we allowing the continued trashing and degradation of our planet? We need to be in the street, we need to reclaim the body politic and we need to do it now." http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/28-4 3 comments 28/12/2009 politics
• Meet Olaf Scholz’s shadow foreign minister - Wolfgang Schmidt pulls the strings on all big German government decisions, and sidelines the foreign ministry when necessary https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-olaf-scholz-wolfgang-schmidt-foreign-minister/ 3 comments 18/2/2023 germany
• The files of George Soros’s Open Society Institute have been hacked over a period of years, with 2,576 just published on the mysterious DCLeaks site. Soros, the master manipulator of governments who pulls the strings at the State Department, will face unprecedented scrutiny. http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/08/massive_hack_of_soros_files_released.html 4 comments 15/8/2016 worldnews