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Hank Stuever
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Ex-Washington Post. Writer, critic, editor. “Closed for repairs” while I rethink the menu. Open to the universe. hankstuever.com
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Whatcha doing today besides not-shopping? Decorating? Wishing like crazy it was 2006 again? (2007? 2008?) Come with me, I have just the thing. www.goodreads.com/book/show/67...
Tinsel: A Search for America's Christmas Present
In Tinsel, Hank Stuever turns his unerring eye for the …
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November 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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ddiamond.bsky.social
Trump has wanted to go ever-bigger with his planned White House ballroom.

One person who disagrees: Trump’s handpicked architect

James McCrery is worried about the size of Trump’s addition overshadowing the main White House mansion, per people we’ve spoken to.

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Trump wants a bigger White House ballroom. His architect disagrees.
The president and James McCrery had argued in recent weeks over the project’s size, with Trump pushing him to expand the ballroom.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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jonfischer.bsky.social
Design professionals very politely diss the president's font choice www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
What’s going on with Trump’s gold ‘Oval Office’ sign?
We asked design experts to read the writing on the White House wall and tell us what they see
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November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Kara Voght was there first, in terms of understanding who Jack Schlossberg is and what he's doing. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2024/1...
Analysis | We don’t know Jack
Jack Schlossberg, John F. Kennedy’s grandson, made himself a progressive social media star this year, even as Donald Trump drafted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. into the MAGA movement.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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jonfischer.bsky.social
An empathetic, beautifully written @monicahesse.bsky.social profile of a weight loss influencer (and what a kicker) www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
Column | He shared his weight loss online. Then a million strangers chimed in.
Ethan Benard hit 660 pounds and decided to share his weight loss on social media. It got him sponsorships and fame — and unkind comments from strangers.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Trump said he was going to make the Kennedy Center “hot."

Occupied seats are down 36% since last fall. Sales are the worst they’ve been in years.

Trump's "actions have been worse for business at the Kennedy Center than the aftermath of a global pandemic." www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
October 31, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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karavoght.bsky.social
Does Chris Murphy deserve our attention? He certainly wants it.

A scholar of Democrats’ failures, Murphy embodies his party’s quest to rebuild its brand. The question is whether an insider like him is up to the task.

Six months with @chrismurphyct:
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Chris Murphy needs blue America to wake up
The Connecticut senator once looked like the future of Democratic politics. These days, he worries whether democracy has a future.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Emma for president.
noethematt.bsky.social Matthew Noe 🔜 MICE @noethematt.bsky.social · Oct 28
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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October 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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kairyssdal.bsky.social
Here's the thing I don't understand. You can't as much as sneeze near a historic site in Washington without like 14 commissions, councils, and advisory boards giving you the okay. And everybody now is like...yup, fine with us? wtf?
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Oct 21
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House. Monday's photo from the Washington Post
October 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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jonfischer.bsky.social
Much of the East Wing of the White House has now been destroyed www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
White House continues East Wing demolition amid cries of Trump overreach
More of the structure was torn down Tuesday to make way for President Donald Trump’s planned ballroom, despite complaints about the project’s lack of transparency,
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October 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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jonfischer.bsky.social
Eye-opening, complicated tale about the classical music world -- and the BSO oboist calling out alleged bad behavior www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
She spurned the concertmaster’s advance. Now she’s classical music’s #MeToo vigilante.
Baltimore Symphony oboist Katherine Needleman’s online shaming campaign has sidelined several musicians. But her tactics have drawn criticism.
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October 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Monica Hesse is back. wapo.st/47c9rFe
Column | I finally figured out why we stream so much true crime
The mysterious death of Ellen Greenberg, chronicled in Hulu’s “Death in Apartment 603,” helps columnist Monica Hesse understand the true-crime documentary boom.
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October 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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jonfischer.bsky.social
Also! @janaykingsberry.bsky.social and @kelseyables.bsky.social recently became arts reporters in the section, covering prominent institutions as they face changes and pressure from the Trump administration — joining @travismandrews.bsky.social (Kennedy Center and much more) and our arts critics
October 2, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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jonfischer.bsky.social
Some @washingtonpost.com news: Monica Hesse returns to Style as our first SCREENS critic, writing widely and with her usual smarts and verve across the culture, from TV to film to the little device you’re reading this on.
October 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Update: The Smithsonian is staying open "at least through Monday, October 6, 2025."
fritzhahn.bsky.social Fritz Hahn @fritzhahn.bsky.social · Sep 30
I have covered multiple government shutdowns (and near-shutdowns) for The Post since 2013. This is the first time I can remember that the Smithsonian and National Gallery have declined to say whether they can stay open using unspent funds.

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September 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Lindsey Halligan — the new acting U.S. attorney who signed Comey’s indictment — was profiled by @maurajudkis.bsky.social back in April, when she prompted Trump’s executive order on the Smithsonian. Background on her: wapo.st/46m4WaY
She told Trump the Smithsonian needs changing. He’s ordered her to do it.
Who is Lindsey Halligan, the attorney assigned to help remove “improper ideology” from Washington’s most important cultural institution?
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September 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
hankstuever.bsky.social
I can't remember how long ago this project launched, but little could we have known then how perfectly timed it would be. Quibble away, but know this: Washington DC is loved, and worth loving. Congrats to @jonfischer.bsky.social and staff @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
The 101 greatest movies, songs, books, artworks (and more!) about Washington, D.C.
Introducing the D.C. Canon, starring Chuck Brown, Olivia Pope, George Washington, Leonardo da Vinci, Duke Ellington, Rites of Spring and — who could forget? — Gort.
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September 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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The meanings of Las Culturistas www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
The Las Culturistas awards started as a joke. Now stars show up for it.
Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers’s Las Culturistas awards was just a podcast spoof on the Oscars. It has since taken on a life of its own.
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August 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Rs also having their cake and eating it here. They 1) cut $1 billion from DC budget, 2) are not confirming judges who could move cases, 3) and are saying the feds must take over DC bc it can't handle crime.
mcauliff.bsky.social Michael McAuliff @mcauliff.bsky.social · Aug 7
There were 274 homicides in DC in 2023, which appears to be when this data was culled. In 2024, there were 187 homicides in DC, down 32%. This year, there have been 99, compared to 112 at this time last year.
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August 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Four more WaPo departures: Hank Stuever, Ann Hornaday, Craig Timberg, Joel Achenbach. Source says it feels like the Hunger Games: “My inbox has literally dozens of announcements of departures or newsroom wide goodbye notes.”

—via @benmullin.bsky.social on X
Email screenshot Sandra Ballentine 5:42 PM From Hank Stuever tl;dr I only ever wanted to work at The Washington Post, and boy, I got to. Two things, before I go: 1. Before you read, listen or click on anything else, please read, listen and click on the work of your colleagues. Deeply, thoughtfully, always. Talk about it. Examine it. Enjoy it. THEN go doomscroll the competition, not the other way around. Originality will always be the answer. 2. If you create something (words, clips, visuals) and you happen to think, you know who would really get a kick out of this? Hank Stuever. Then please send it to him! Email screenshot: Sandra Ballentine 5:47 PM SB Staff News: Ann Hornaday Dim the lights. After 22 years, Ann Hornaday is stepping down as The Post's chief film critic. Ann is a proud native of Des Moines, lowa (home to her beloved Varsity Theatre), who just as proudly began her career at Ms. magazine as an assistant to Gloria Steinem. She went from freelancing for magazines and the New York Times to staff film critic positions at the Austin American-Statesman and the Baltimore Sun before joining The Post in 2002. In 2008, she was a Pulitzer finalist for criticism. Her first book, "Talking Pictures: How to Watch Movies," was published in 2017. More recently, she's delighted Post readers with a steady stream of memorable reviews, from the four-star heights of "Oppenheimer" to the .5-star lows of "Lisa Frankenstein." She's also regularly churned out an array of columns, appreciations, lists and profiles (see: Nate Parker, Bruce Springsteen, George Clooney), among so many other things. Email screenshot: Matt Murray 5:48 PM Craig Timberg Dear All, I'm sad to share the news that Craig Timberg, a Deputy Managing Editor since 2023 and a longtime leader in the newsroom, has decided to take the buyout and move on to a new opportunity. Craig joined the Metro staff in 1998, first covering Virginia politics and government from Richmond and then writing about D.C. politics, the mayor and city council. He was Johannesburg bureau chief from 2004 to 2008, after which he co-authored a book, "Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It." He returned to Washington and served stints as education editor and deputy national security editor. From 2012 to 2021 he was a technology reporter, and wrote award-winning stories on privacy, surveillance, cybersecurity and disinformation. His work on the role of social media and @Anon in the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks was part of the package that received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Email screenshot: Sandra Ballentine 4:39 PM SB Staff news: Joel Achenbach Joel Achenbach is retiring from The Post after 35 years as a staff writer, columnist, blogger, lede-all anchor and explainer of complicated stuff. Joel arrived in October 1990 as a feature writer in the Style section. He also wrote the weekly column "Why Things Are," answering questions like "Why doesn't a black hole somewhere get so big and powerful that it eventually goes sklurrp! and sucks the entire galaxy, including planet earth, into its dreadful maw?" and "Why is dryer lint gray if my clothes aren't gray?" The column was syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group to more than 50 newspapers. In 1999, he started the traditional newsroom's first online column, "Rough Draft," for washingtonpost.com, and then became The Post's first blogger with "Achenblog" in 2005. That year he joined the Post Magazine, writing features and a weekly humor column. In 2007, he joined the National Desk and has since worked primarily for the health and science team. He has covered presidential campaigns, NASA space missions, mass shootings, hurricanes, the BP oil spill, America's
August 1, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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jonfischer.bsky.social
Spaceways, here we come: Why the Silver Surfer is the superhero for our galactically alienating times. Great @chrisrichards.bsky.social essay: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Column | Why the Silver Surfer is the superhero for our cosmically fraught times
The Silver Surfer is back. But long before “The Fantastic Four: First Steps,” the most intriguing hero in comics history was predicting the doomscroll.
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July 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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jonfischer.bsky.social
Sharp column from Lili Loufbourow on the implications of CBS canceling the Late Show www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Column | The end of Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ has implications beyond late-night TV
Stephen Colbert announced at the Thursday evening taping of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” that his show would be canceled at the end of the season.
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July 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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"Superman": It's good, but we're not out here caping for it. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Review | ‘Superman’: The original superhero is back, with a brisk new attitude
David Corenswet brings sincerity and strength to the latest mixed-bag adaptation of the timeless comic book.
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July 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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jonfischer.bsky.social
Our coverage of the bad AI band is the only one that quotes a member of Creedence Clearwater Revival www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
A ’60s-flavored band blew up on Spotify. They’re AI.
The Velvet Sundown confirmed Saturday that its viral success is powered by artificial intelligence.
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July 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM