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Former graphics reporter at The Washington Post. Old runner, new pickleballer. Always up to something.
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This right here.
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This right here.
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It’s our money. We already paid for it
$5 billion has been allotted to keep Americans from starving. Trump would rather starve them.
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Trump administration won't tap contingency fund to keep food aid flowing, memo says
The Trump administration says it won’t use a roughly $5 billion contingency fund to keep food aid flowing in November amid the government shutdown
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October 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
It’s our money. We already paid for it
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The Trump administration has billions of dollars to pay SNAP benefits, or food stamp, next month.
It’s refusing to use them.
Here’s why.
🎁 Learn more, gift link: wapo.st/4oK9DBH
It’s refusing to use them.
Here’s why.
🎁 Learn more, gift link: wapo.st/4oK9DBH
October 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The Trump administration has billions of dollars to pay SNAP benefits, or food stamp, next month.
It’s refusing to use them.
Here’s why.
🎁 Learn more, gift link: wapo.st/4oK9DBH
It’s refusing to use them.
Here’s why.
🎁 Learn more, gift link: wapo.st/4oK9DBH
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Scoop - Trump has fired all the sitting members on the Commission on Fine Arts, an independent agency expected to review his construction projects.
White House fires arts commission expected to review Trump construction projects
The moves comes as President Donald Trump pursues efforts to build a White House ballroom and a triumphal arch in Washington.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Scoop - Trump has fired all the sitting members on the Commission on Fine Arts, an independent agency expected to review his construction projects.
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Column: Yes, the pictures of the destruction of the East Wing were shocking, but not so shocking as all the things we don’t know about this project, which is being paid for by some of the wealthiest people and corporations on the planet.
Column | Demolition is part of Trump’s master builder image
By Thursday, the White House’s East Wing was gone. The speed of destruction, and the projection of power, are part of the strongman playbook.
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October 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Column: Yes, the pictures of the destruction of the East Wing were shocking, but not so shocking as all the things we don’t know about this project, which is being paid for by some of the wealthiest people and corporations on the planet.
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This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
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Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
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October 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
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Nobody on this site cares but BEARS!!!!!!
October 14, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Nobody on this site cares but BEARS!!!!!!
Could someone please invent a button that would allow me to mute one person in the booth on any given sports broadcast?
October 14, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Could someone please invent a button that would allow me to mute one person in the booth on any given sports broadcast?
This photo and the man in it changed U.S. history wapo.st/4nDMgcA
Column | Erasing this indelible image of slavery is a terrifying idea
The Trump administration’s reported effort to censor one of the iconic images of American history is a five-alarm fire.
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September 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This photo and the man in it changed U.S. history wapo.st/4nDMgcA
Fabulous (and sometimes hilarious) ode to an editor wapo.st/4gwjuZ8
Opinion | These editor’s notes are poison. I learned from every drop.
Working with Starling Lawrence, who died last month, was a bracing course in a vanishing art.
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September 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Fabulous (and sometimes hilarious) ode to an editor wapo.st/4gwjuZ8
Mondo Duplantis just set his 4th world record this year! Here’s how he does it. wapo.st/42xMMR3
What makes Mondo fly?
A look at the unique jumping style of the world’s best pole vaulter, Armand “Mondo” Duplantis, who is favored to win his second Olympic gold medal in Paris.
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September 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Mondo Duplantis just set his 4th world record this year! Here’s how he does it. wapo.st/42xMMR3
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The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...
At least 2 students shot at a Denver-area high school, authorities say | CNN
At least two students have been shot at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.
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September 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...
Excellent graphic story explaining the low-tech, DIY solutions to a high-tech aspect of modern warfare — and they’re evolving in real time www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How the Ukraine-Russia War Is Transforming the Tank
They’ve been a mainstay in battle since the early 20th century. But in just three years of war in Ukraine, tanks have evolved.
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September 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Excellent graphic story explaining the low-tech, DIY solutions to a high-tech aspect of modern warfare — and they’re evolving in real time www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Trump administration is canceling the DOT’s rule to get passengers compensation for extreme airline delays - just the latest example of them siding with corporations and against customers.
September 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The Trump administration is canceling the DOT’s rule to get passengers compensation for extreme airline delays - just the latest example of them siding with corporations and against customers.
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Florida’s surgeon general said state officials did not analyze the risk of infectious disease resurgence before pushing to end all school vaccine mandates.
@douglasmac.bsky.social watched the interview
@douglasmac.bsky.social watched the interview
September 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Florida’s surgeon general said state officials did not analyze the risk of infectious disease resurgence before pushing to end all school vaccine mandates.
@douglasmac.bsky.social watched the interview
@douglasmac.bsky.social watched the interview
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Backstory here on the moped delivery driver violently detained by federal agents in D.C.
We benefit from having so many Post local reporters including Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff on the ground during a time like this
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
We benefit from having so many Post local reporters including Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff on the ground during a time like this
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
August 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Backstory here on the moped delivery driver violently detained by federal agents in D.C.
We benefit from having so many Post local reporters including Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff on the ground during a time like this
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
We benefit from having so many Post local reporters including Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff on the ground during a time like this
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump announces he will issue an unconstitutional and illegal executive order purporting to ban mail-in voting and certain voting equipment for the 2026 midterm election.
Such an effort would violate the Constitution and is a major step to prevent free and fair elections.
Such an effort would violate the Constitution and is a major step to prevent free and fair elections.
August 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM
🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump announces he will issue an unconstitutional and illegal executive order purporting to ban mail-in voting and certain voting equipment for the 2026 midterm election.
Such an effort would violate the Constitution and is a major step to prevent free and fair elections.
Such an effort would violate the Constitution and is a major step to prevent free and fair elections.
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"If you have a chance to help others and fail to do so you are wasting your time on this earth."
Roberto Clemente, born on this date, lived by his motto and died by it, trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Nicaragua after the December 1972 earthquake.
Roberto Clemente, born on this date, lived by his motto and died by it, trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Nicaragua after the December 1972 earthquake.
Ninety-one years ago today, The Great One was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico. Eighteen seasons with the @pirates.com proved without a doubt that Roberto Clemente was worthy of the name.
August 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"If you have a chance to help others and fail to do so you are wasting your time on this earth."
Roberto Clemente, born on this date, lived by his motto and died by it, trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Nicaragua after the December 1972 earthquake.
Roberto Clemente, born on this date, lived by his motto and died by it, trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Nicaragua after the December 1972 earthquake.
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I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.
August 18, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.
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Trump himself has been convicted of 34 felonies and is the first criminal elected president.
The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.
Citing a nonexistent crime crisis, Trump plans to take over the Washington DC police and put troops in the streets of the nation's capital. Contrary to his claims, violent crime in DC is at a 30-year low. @katierogersnyt.bsky.social Campbell Robertson Chris Cameron www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
August 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Trump himself has been convicted of 34 felonies and is the first criminal elected president.
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Israeli strike kills five journalists, including four from Al Jazeera. Israel says it targeted one of the journalists whom it accused of being a Hamas fighter, an allegation the journalist and Al Jazeera had previously denied. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/w...
Israeli Strike Kills 4 Al Jazeera Journalists, Network Says
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August 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Israeli strike kills five journalists, including four from Al Jazeera. Israel says it targeted one of the journalists whom it accused of being a Hamas fighter, an allegation the journalist and Al Jazeera had previously denied. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/w...
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This makes me so mad...
August 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This makes me so mad...
Cheers to Ed the Zebra, Inky the Octopus, Diesel the Donkey and Pink Floyd the flamingo wapo.st/45jpi2G
Analysis | What humans can learn from some of history’s greatest zoo escapes
When we looked for life lessons in some of the most successful zoo escapes, we found out why we’re so fascinated by these scaly, furry, feathery fugitives.
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August 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Cheers to Ed the Zebra, Inky the Octopus, Diesel the Donkey and Pink Floyd the flamingo wapo.st/45jpi2G