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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸
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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · 2d
Wow. You blame him for only coming is 2nd. Say he just didn’t try. And then put the weight of the team on him. Wow. And you’re his local paper!!

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · 5d
Surely he has the money to pay for his cosmetic surgery without resorting to this
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5d
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.

Reposted by American Library Association, Sarah E. Gollust, Lori A. Brainard , and 2 more

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5d
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · 12d
I’m waiting for a Senator!(from DC)

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · 19d
Maybe you should write a book about this

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Jan 6
When you live in DC & jump out of shower because it sounds like you’re being bombed to hell (cuz it seems we need to worry about that these days) only to learn from a Google search that there is a major fireworks show & @mayorbowser.dc.gov & DC gov’t didn’t send the customary advanced text alert

Reposted by Lori A. Brainard, Henry Jones

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Jan 2
These federal workers have a message for Elon Musk: “Breaking things is not actually the road to productivity.”
Hero of 2025: Civil servants
They make America greater, but the Trump administration wants them traumatized.
www.motherjones.com

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Dec 29
You must be reading the wrong newspaper

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Dec 28
Your headline doesn’t reflect the content of the article— which doesn’t really describe the social media tiff.

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Dec 19
Stanley Tucci hosting?

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Dec 18
Given the headline, I was expecting evidence or examples about Johnson guiding *anything*!

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Dec 2
Some people think this interview is totally self serving. And some people think that this interview— the selection of the questions, their phrasing, etc— epitomize what’s often unhelpful and even misleading in NYTimes coverage. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Nov 27
Kakistocracy

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Nov 26
Has George Clooney called on him to step down yet??

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Nov 19
So.. he gave her the nuclear codes?

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Nov 18
The very people talking about an AI bubble are those actively creating an AI bubble

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Oct 27
Are you talking about him, or about the reporter asking the question?

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Oct 7
Accurate

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Sep 18
This is a year old video that @washingtonpost.com is passing off as having happened on Tuesday
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Sep 18
Erosion, rising seas and churning storms have caused the collapse of a dozen homes along a stretch of the Outer Banks in North Carolina over the past five years.

The latest incident came Tuesday, when an unoccupied, two-story, wood-shingled home crumbled into the surf. https://wapo.st/4pL86wL

Reposted by Lori A. Brainard

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Sep 18
Erosion, rising seas and churning storms have caused the collapse of a dozen homes along a stretch of the Outer Banks in North Carolina over the past five years.

The latest incident came Tuesday, when an unoccupied, two-story, wood-shingled home crumbled into the surf. https://wapo.st/4pL86wL

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Sep 5
Needs updating. The data are from 2020 and Biden is not on here.

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Aug 27
He hasn't fired her. He's trying to.

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Aug 22
when I was in grad school we used to intentionally put a typo on each page of our papers. If the prof caught it, we knew they were reading the paper.

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Aug 14
So do we all need to carry passports in dc now?

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Aug 14
The intent might be distraction but the effects surely are not.

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Aug 12
And we’re asking you to do this because DC does not have voting representation in Congress

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Aug 11
There was/is a protest happening. Y’all could come if you want

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Aug 9
Between this cat election and Somerville being the birthplace of Fluff, so proud of my hometown