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Eric Lau
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journalism, computer science, currently @washingtonpost.com

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And a "who's who" of the top 20 billionaires influencing American politics from @ence.bsky.social & @erxclau.me www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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On A1 for @washingtonpost.com election coverage. With @erxclau.me, Ence Morse, @nickmourtoupalas.bsky.social, Patrick Marley, @azipaybarah.bsky.social, Lydia Sidhom
November 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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ence.bsky.social
Spanberger ran up wild margins in the DC/Richmond suburbs, flipped 6 Trump counties, and cut her losses in the rest of the state — some SWVA counties moved 15-20 points to her compared to 2021 gov's race. My first election results for @washingtonpost.com ! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
November 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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ence.bsky.social
The top 3 individual donors to Trump’s inaugural committee were also nominated for positions in his administration. with @cqzakrz.bsky.social @aaronschaffer.com @lmelgar.bsky.social & Nick Mourtoupalas

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April 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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ence.bsky.social
The Post identified several instances of Trump or DOGE implementing policy ideas proposed to Musk by users on X. Some proposals went from Musk's X feed to the White House Briefing Room in just hours. with @erxclau.me @azipaybarah.bsky.social & Talia Trackim

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Elon Musk gets government policy ideas from X. Here’s how.
A look at which accounts — big and small — have Musk’s ear and how some appear to have sparked action from Musk and the Trump administration.
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April 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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We did a text message poll!!!! Gift link: wapo.st/3F9mmMU
We texted 1,000 Americans about Trump’s tariffs. This is how they responded.
A majority of Americans disapprove of Trump's tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China.
wapo.st
March 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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🔬🧪🧬 @sadbumblebee.buzz and I are collecting stories from scientists whose research funding has been halted by the Trump admin. Feel free to share this form with anyone who has been impacted and as always you can reach me on signal at caitlingilbert.24

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Are you a scientist who has lost funding or grants in recent weeks? - Formstack
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February 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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A Post review of 8,000+ federal webpages changed since Inauguration Day found 662 examples of deletions and additions that reflect policy changes at the heart of Trump’s campaign. By @jeremybmerrill.com @azipaybarah.bsky.social & @erxclau.me
How federal agencies have already changed their websites under Trump
“Diversity” has been deleted. “Climate resilience” is now a popular substitute for “climate change.” And “pregnant people” has been replaced by “pregnant women.”
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February 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Four members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet have been confirmed by the Senate so far: Marco Rubio as secretary of state, John Ratcliffe as CIA director, Pete Hegseth as defense secretary and Kristi L. Noem as homeland security secretary. wapo.st/4hwPThh
Grid of people President Trump's cabinet nominees. The text reads, “Status of Senate-confirmable cabinet positions.” Nominated people are circled in purple and Confirmed people are circled in green with names and positions listed below each photo.
January 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Here's what some of the people we asked to watch the inauguration say they are watching for in today's speech from Trump www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
What Americans think about Trump’s inaugural address
Two dozen Americans share their thoughts on Trump’s second presidential inauguration with The Post.
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January 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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baffling to me that i'm in the top 2% given i wasn't even in dc for 5 months thinking emoji
My #MetroRewind 2024 Report. Top 6% metro customer, top 2% rail customer, top 59% bus customer, 262 trips taken, 1082 miles traveled, 333.4 kilograms of carbon dioxide captured, 24 stations visited, Brookland-CUA was my top station, E2 was my top bus route.
January 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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postgraphics.bsky.social
Landlords have been accused of price fixing.
See where it may be happening.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
Screenhot of a web tool with a search field reading "Search for your country" labelled as "Share of multifamily units managed by companies named in rent-setting lawsuits" and a color ramp taht goes from 0 to >40%. It also has a black square icon labeled "Building managed by company named in lawsuits". In the map you can see DC and it suburbs. DC is at 20-30%, Maryland suburbs around 10%, Arlington at 30-40 and teh rest of the Virginia suburbs at 20-30. There are more than 100 black square icons visible.
January 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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postgraphics.bsky.social
President-elect Donald Trump has the ability to fill roughly 4,000 positions, including more than 1,300 that require Senate confirmation.
The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service are tracking nominees for roughly 800 of those positions.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
Tracking who Trump is appointing to fill key administration roles
Follow President-elect Trump’s progress filling over 800 positions, among about 1,300 that require Senate confirmation, in this tracker from The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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postguild.bsky.social
A statement from the Washington Post Guild on today's unconscionable layoffs.
A statement from The Washington Post Guild: We vehemently condemn The Washington Post’s firing of dozens of valued employees today, just days into the new year and at a time when the company is actively growing. It is especially disturbing that Post CEO, Will Lewis, has not directly addressed his employees in a whopping 230 days — during which tumult and turnover have driven many of our highest-profile colleagues to other companies and new policies have been implemented with little explanation. The diligent, talented workers that make The Post every day should not bear the consequences of poor decisions made by Post executives. They deserve better. The Post deserves better. We demand leaders do the right thing: address workers during this time of upheaval and stop punishing hardworking Post employees for the decisions made far above their heads.
January 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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white christmas in new york?? i could CRY we’re so back
December 24, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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How every House member voted on the bill to avoid a shutdown
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How every House member voted on the bill to avoid a shutdown
See how your lawmaker voted to extend funding until mid-March and avoid a government shutdown.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 21, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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www.detroit-neighborhoods.com made it as an honorable mention in the @puddingviz.bsky.social cup (pudding.cool/pudding-cup/)!

had a lot of fun working on this with @alexbhill.bsky.social
Help us map Detroit's neighborhoods.
No neighborhood names or boundaries are here to start with. You make the map. Real or imagined, within the city, or crossing municipal borders.
www.detroit-neighborhoods.com
December 11, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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postgraphics.bsky.social
Permanent daylight saving time, no daylight saving time, or the current system?
See how each option would affect earliest and latest sunsets and sunrises where you live.
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Analysis | No daylight saving time? See how early or late you would be in the dark.
Would you be okay if the sun rose before 4 a.m., or after 10? Not changing clocks is a popular idea, but we’d have to live with the extremes.
wapo.st
December 11, 2024 at 12:39 PM
erxclau.me
someone should make a feed that only shows posts in this format
erxclau.me Eric Lau @erxclau.me · Dec 6
if i had a nickel for every time i got a cold going from dc to ny, i would have 2 nickels
December 6, 2024 at 3:34 AM
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if i had a nickel for every time i got a cold going from dc to ny, i would have 2 nickels
December 6, 2024 at 3:02 AM
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debugged for an hour only to realize the fix was to bump a package version 👍🏼👍🏼
December 5, 2024 at 10:21 PM
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today’s nyt crossword is brought to you by a michigan daily games alum 🥹
The Crossword Crack the clues in today’s puzzle. Tuesday, Nov 26 By Killian Olson
November 26, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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when the research paper comes with a scrollytelling graphic 📽️
naitian.org naitian @naitian.org · Nov 19
🎬 Coming soon to a theater near you!🍿

Film is a semiotically rich medium: meaning is conveyed through the music, visuals, language, and more. A new paper from me and @dbamman.bsky.social explores what it means to computationally study performance in film.

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Screenshot of the abstract for the paper, "Once More, With Feeling: Measuring Emotion of Acting Performances in Contemporary American Film". The abstract reads: "Narrative film is a composition of writing, cinematography, editing, and performance. While much computational work has focused on the writing or visual style in film, we conduct in this paper a computational exploration of acting performance. Applying speech emotion recognition modes and a variationist sociolinguistic analytical framework to a corpus of popular, contemporary American film, we find narrative structure, diachronic shifts, and genre- and dialogue-based constraints located in spoken performances.
November 19, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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see a lot of messaging around subdomains for organizational use but am enamored with the idea of personal use like photos.erxclau.me or alt.erxclau.me (if private accounts become a thing). feels nicer than doing different accounts on twitter or ig since the root domain persists across accounts
November 16, 2024 at 4:24 AM
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December 21, 2023 at 6:28 AM