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Dan Keating
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Data reporter at Washington Post
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Autistic people and their loved ones have swiftly and publicly rejected statements by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, that people with autism will never play baseball, date, pay taxes or have a job.
RFK Jr. said autistic people don’t work or play sports. They say he’s wrong.
The health and human services secretary on Wednesday suggested that autistic children would never play baseball or pay taxes, enraging those in the community.
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April 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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The United States is “heading for a self-induced, economic nuclear winter, and we should start hunkering down,” Bill Ackman, a hedge fund billionaire who endorsed Donald Trump’s 2024 candidacy, wrote on the social media site X on Sunday.
Bill Ackman, hedge fund billionaire and key Trump ally, slams tariffs
The Wall Street mogul warned of “economic nuclear winter” as the threat of an all-out trade war triggers a global market meltdown.
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April 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Great story on an overlooked angle to the gutting of the federal workforce: The public sector has been a key driver of Black wealth and refuge from the discrimination of the private sector. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Fed work helped build Black wealth in this suburb. Now families worry.
Prince George’s was until recently the nation’s wealthiest majority-Black county. That standing has been fueled by workers who gravitated to the federal sector.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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As a candidate last year, Trump promised “to unleash the power of American innovation” to super-charge U.S. scientific research.

He’s instead unleashed cuts and chaos, researchers and scientists warn.

Our look at the abrupt changes — and the consequences. With @dtkeating.bsky.social
Trump promised scientific breakthroughs. Researchers say he’s breaking science.
NIH funding for biomedical research has abruptly fallen by billions of dollars, with many grant decisions on hold. Trump officials say they’re reviewing the agency.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Today, hundreds of our colleagues on the technology side of the company announced the formation of @wapotechguild.bsky.social (1)
April 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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AND THE COUNTRY THAT HAS INSPIRED THE MOST U.S. PLACE NAMES — and it's not particularly close — is ...

Turkey.

No, @moriartymaps.com and @andrewvandam.bsky.social argue, really

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Column | It’s not just the Gulf of Mexico. Why is so much of America named after foreign countries?
Our exhaustive search of American place names discovered that one country has been a shockingly dominant source of inspiration. You’ll never guess which one.
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March 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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A federal lawsuit filed by a Social Security Administration chief of staff, until they were forced out in February, is the first in-depth public account from a high-ranking government executive of how Musk’s team is operating as it leads a downsizing of the federal government under President Trump.
Former Social Security official describes hostile takeover by Musk team
DOGE officials also put millions of taxpayers’ private data at risk and refused to say why they needed access to it, the official says.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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FDA announces Jim Traficant as agency's new chief of staff, per agency email obtained by The Post.
March 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
DOGE brings U.S. Marshals to small federal agency that denied them access, sparking a federal lawsuit from the aid organization’s leader claiming DOGE officials are unauthorized to represent the agency. Via @briannatucker.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
DOGE staffers bring U.S. Marshals to small federal agency that denied them access
The show of force by Trump administration officials and federal law enforcement resulted in a frantic and “traumatizing” scene, several officials of the aid agency said, and sparked a lawsuit from its...
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March 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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“We’re not going to harm our children or [risk] the potential to harm our children so that we can save yours,” says the mother of an unvaccinated Texas child who contracted measles.

Her 7-year-old son recovered.

But an otherwise healthy unvaccinated 6-year-old died of measles 80 miles away.
Amid West Texas measles outbreak, vaccine resistance hardens
A child has died in an outbreak that has grown to 146 cases.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 3, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Elon Musk's businesses have received at least $38 billion in government funding, helping seed the growth that has made Musk the world’s richest person.
From data reporters Emmanuel Martinez & @dtkeating.bsky.social and a great team: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
Elon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding
Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s wealth.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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The men said they were denied calls to loved ones, subjected to humiliating searches and left in isolation for prolonged periods.
Invasive frisks, suicide attempts: Three migrants describe Guantánamo detention
Three migrants sent to Guantánamo said they were denied calls to loved ones, subjected to humiliating strip searches and left in isolation for prolonged periods.
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February 26, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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New Washington Post supercut:

Trump officials once said Russia invaded Ukraine. Now they won't.

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Trump team once said Russia invaded Ukraine. Now they won't.
YouTube video by Washington Post
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February 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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As a hard-news journalist at The Washington Post, there's no shortage of important news to cover. I will keep digging in.

As I've stated before:

Nothing changes. We ask hard questions and hold those in power to account. That's the job, whether those in power like it or not.
February 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Someone got $38 billion in government funding.
February 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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A child in Texas has died of measles, the first confirmed fatality in the state’s worst outbreak in three decades, state health officials said Wednesday.
Texas child is first confirmed death in growing measles outbreak
The unvaccinated school-age child is the first confirmed fatality in Texas’s worst measles outbreak in three decades.
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February 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Exclusive: Over the years, Elon Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits, often at critical moments, helping seed the growth that has made him the world’s richest person.
Elon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding
Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s wealth.
wapo.st
February 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Elon Musk, who has said the beneficiaries of federal spending are a "parasite class," runs businesses that have pocketed $38 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies, loans and contracts www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
February 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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My colleagues and I have been working to break news + write stories holding powerful people accountable.

These are the top stories on our homepage right now, one of which I worked on.

Our newsroom work is continuing.

No one has ever told me what to write. If that changes, I’d speak out and leave.
February 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Using my “personal liberties” to repost this
Here’s why some billionaires are going soft on Trump
February 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I stand by my work and that of my amazing Post News colleagues. I work to uncover the truth in service of the public. If that ever changes, you will hear from me.

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February 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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This is on the opinion side. On the news side, we will continue rigorous reporting.

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Breaking News: The Washington Post’s opinion editor is leaving as the newspaper's owner, Jeff Bezos, focuses the section on “personal liberties and free markets.”
Washington Post Opinion Editor Exits as Bezos Steers Pages in New Direction
Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Post, said that the newspaper’s opinion section would focus on “personal liberties and free markets.”
www.nytimes.com
February 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published

I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know
February 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM