David Maraniss
@davidmaraniss.bsky.social
Biographer, historian, journalist, professor, grandfather, Detroit born, DC and Madison based. Believer in Smokey Robinson, George Orwell, democracy, freedom of the press,Jim Thorpe, Roberto Clemente. and the Green Bay Packers.
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David Maraniss
@davidmaraniss.bsky.social
· Feb 26
One pernicious step after another, Bezos encroached on the Post editorial policy. Today he seized it fully. The old Washington Post is gone. I'll never write for it again as long as he's the owner.
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Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.
January 27, 2026 at 5:36 AM
Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.
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Proud to work with the @washingtonpost.com's fearless international reporters. They're the heart of this newsroom, and we'd understand our world less without them. #SaveThePost
January 26, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Proud to work with the @washingtonpost.com's fearless international reporters. They're the heart of this newsroom, and we'd understand our world less without them. #SaveThePost
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Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
January 26, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
He seems more repellant by the day. The Post staff is working its butt off and he's planning to axe half of them while hobnobbing in Europe. Hard to overstate how despicable he is and how much everyone stll there misses Don Graham.
So glad he’s having a nice time.
Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos turn heads in the front row at Paris Haute Couture Week pagesix.com/2026/01/26/s...
January 26, 2026 at 9:45 PM
He seems more repellant by the day. The Post staff is working its butt off and he's planning to axe half of them while hobnobbing in Europe. Hard to overstate how despicable he is and how much everyone stll there misses Don Graham.
Agree. Outrageous what he has done to a once great newspaper.
The bar for "worst British disaster in America" is very high but Will Lewis is practicing his vault.
From Paul Farhi at the other site. Former media reporter there.
January 26, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Agree. Outrageous what he has done to a once great newspaper.
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I'm daily amazed at the integrity of the efforts of @washingtonpost reporters in the middle of internal and external storms and stiff headwinds. #savethepost
My @washingtonpost.com colleagues worked round the clock this weekend to expose the truth of what's happening in Minneapolis and bring urgent weather news to millions facing dangerous cold and snow.
If you value this work, tell Jeff Bezos to #SaveThePost
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
If you value this work, tell Jeff Bezos to #SaveThePost
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Federal agent secured gun from Minn. man before fatal shooting, videos show
A Washington Post analysis of videos sheds light on the encounter that left 37-year-old Alex Pretti dead.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 26, 2026 at 7:03 PM
I'm daily amazed at the integrity of the efforts of @washingtonpost reporters in the middle of internal and external storms and stiff headwinds. #savethepost
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The rest of the world should absolutely boycott the World Cup and boycott the Olympics. At minimum.
January 24, 2026 at 8:16 PM
The rest of the world should absolutely boycott the World Cup and boycott the Olympics. At minimum.
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Agree.
No one outside the US, who has a choice, should be enabling a lawless and lying regime. Which has become a threat to its own people and the entire world.
(Speaking as an American patriot.)
No one outside the US, who has a choice, should be enabling a lawless and lying regime. Which has become a threat to its own people and the entire world.
(Speaking as an American patriot.)
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
January 24, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Agree.
No one outside the US, who has a choice, should be enabling a lawless and lying regime. Which has become a threat to its own people and the entire world.
(Speaking as an American patriot.)
No one outside the US, who has a choice, should be enabling a lawless and lying regime. Which has become a threat to its own people and the entire world.
(Speaking as an American patriot.)
Agree.
Saw the movie Nuremberg last night.
Very much worth seeing. IMO especially at this moment, especially for Americans.
(Aware that reviews are positive though mixed. For me, what is strong about it outweighs what isn't.)
Very much worth seeing. IMO especially at this moment, especially for Americans.
(Aware that reviews are positive though mixed. For me, what is strong about it outweighs what isn't.)
January 21, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Agree.
The single most embarrassing speech in American history.
January 21, 2026 at 2:14 PM
The single most embarrassing speech in American history.
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This is *the* thing no author can abide: An editor inserting a change **after** writer has seen "final proof" etc.
A late update in a breaking news story? Sure. But columns, reviews, features, magazine pieces... No.
Happened to me once. Refused to work with that editor ever again.
A late update in a breaking news story? Sure. But columns, reviews, features, magazine pieces... No.
Happened to me once. Refused to work with that editor ever again.
I wrote book reviews for a while for the WSJ well over a decade ago, and Bari Weis was my editor. One of her special tricks was to try to insert a sharp rightward slant into my essays *after* it had been copy edited, as a way of slipping her viewpoint in at the last minute.
January 13, 2026 at 4:21 PM
This is *the* thing no author can abide: An editor inserting a change **after** writer has seen "final proof" etc.
A late update in a breaking news story? Sure. But columns, reviews, features, magazine pieces... No.
Happened to me once. Refused to work with that editor ever again.
A late update in a breaking news story? Sure. But columns, reviews, features, magazine pieces... No.
Happened to me once. Refused to work with that editor ever again.
This makes me ill -- and furious. American Gestapo. Good God.
Its not that the media is not covering what is happening, but it does feel like the military occupation of an American city should be treated as a national crisis.
A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
January 12, 2026 at 11:10 PM
This makes me ill -- and furious. American Gestapo. Good God.
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In case you haven't seen the Jesse Ventura video, see it now:
www.youtube.com/shorts/cnF-D...
These Minnesota people — Frey, Walz, Sens Smith + Klobuchar, Keith Ellison, now Ventura — are not fooling around.
www.youtube.com/shorts/cnF-D...
These Minnesota people — Frey, Walz, Sens Smith + Klobuchar, Keith Ellison, now Ventura — are not fooling around.
Jesse Ventura reacts to Minneapolis ICE shooting
YouTube video by FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul
www.youtube.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:35 AM
In case you haven't seen the Jesse Ventura video, see it now:
www.youtube.com/shorts/cnF-D...
These Minnesota people — Frey, Walz, Sens Smith + Klobuchar, Keith Ellison, now Ventura — are not fooling around.
www.youtube.com/shorts/cnF-D...
These Minnesota people — Frey, Walz, Sens Smith + Klobuchar, Keith Ellison, now Ventura — are not fooling around.
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Cartoon by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune
January 8, 2026 at 3:55 AM
Cartoon by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune
Perfect on both counts @jfallows.bsky.social . Kelly brilliant retort echoing the ad that inspired me to write a book.
This is superb, from Sen. Kelly.
Please watch.
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Insider note: First sentence of Kelly's presentation is uncannily powerful echo of my favorite TV ad ever. "Imported from Detroit," 15 yrs ago
Serendipity? Embedded memory by Kelly people? Perfect for both.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNIQ...
Please watch.
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Insider note: First sentence of Kelly's presentation is uncannily powerful echo of my favorite TV ad ever. "Imported from Detroit," 15 yrs ago
Serendipity? Embedded memory by Kelly people? Perfect for both.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNIQ...
January 5, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Perfect on both counts @jfallows.bsky.social . Kelly brilliant retort echoing the ad that inspired me to write a book.
For no good reason but I think it's the team they have the best chance against.
Bring on the Bears.
January 5, 2026 at 2:00 AM
For no good reason but I think it's the team they have the best chance against.
Terrific analysis.
The most disturbing presidential press conference I have ever seen.
fallows.substack.com/p/blind-into...
(First 3/4ths before paywall.)
fallows.substack.com/p/blind-into...
(First 3/4ths before paywall.)
‘Blind Into Caracas’
Less than 24 hours in, members of the Trump team are celebrating victory. None of them seem to have wondered what happens a day, a month, a decade from now.
fallows.substack.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Terrific analysis.
Such resonant historical truth in this one sentence.
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 2, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Such resonant historical truth in this one sentence.
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Pretty much sums up America today.
December 20, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Pretty much sums up America today.
I wanna watch Army Navy but from Booz Allen to the US Secret Service to Arcfield the jingoistic ads are repellant, to say nothing of the sight of Trump.
December 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I wanna watch Army Navy but from Booz Allen to the US Secret Service to Arcfield the jingoistic ads are repellant, to say nothing of the sight of Trump.
So Trump is a Somali pirate?
December 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
So Trump is a Somali pirate?
Someone explain to me how the "Guns don't kill people, people do" crowd rationalizes the boat strikes. Shouldn't they believe that "drugs don't kill people, people do."?
December 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Someone explain to me how the "Guns don't kill people, people do" crowd rationalizes the boat strikes. Shouldn't they believe that "drugs don't kill people, people do."?
The wayfarer
Perceiving the path to truth,
Was struck with astonishment.
It was thickly grown with weeds
Perceiving the path to truth,
Was struck with astonishment.
It was thickly grown with weeds
December 6, 2025 at 3:49 AM
The wayfarer
Perceiving the path to truth,
Was struck with astonishment.
It was thickly grown with weeds
Perceiving the path to truth,
Was struck with astonishment.
It was thickly grown with weeds
Why are MS Now and CNN giving Trump all this free air time to lie and lie at his cabinet meeting? I don't get it. If there's news jump on it. So disappointing.
December 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Why are MS Now and CNN giving Trump all this free air time to lie and lie at his cabinet meeting? I don't get it. If there's news jump on it. So disappointing.