Karen Tumulty
@ktumulty.bsky.social
Trying to adapt. Also, Chief Political Correspondent for the Washington Post. You can follow what I write here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/newsletters/follow-karen-tumulty/
We texted 1,000 Americans about U.S. actions in Venezuela. Here’s what they said. @sfcpoll.bsky.social and Eric Lau www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We texted 1,000 Americans about U.S. actions in Venezuela. Here’s what they said.
A Washington Post poll shows Americans are split on sending military forces to Venezuela to capture Maduro. Most say it should have required Congress’s approval.
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January 5, 2026 at 2:07 PM
We texted 1,000 Americans about U.S. actions in Venezuela. Here’s what they said. @sfcpoll.bsky.social and Eric Lau www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
Best news I’ve had in 2026 so far:
January 5, 2026 at 2:25 AM
Best news I’ve had in 2026 so far:
Rubio takes on most challenging role yet: Viceroy of Venezuela
@John_Hudson @mradamtaylor
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@John_Hudson @mradamtaylor
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Rubio takes on most challenging role yet: Viceroy of Venezuela
The top U.S. diplomat has pushed for regime change for over a decade. Now the hard part begins.
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January 4, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Rubio takes on most challenging role yet: Viceroy of Venezuela
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@John_Hudson @mradamtaylor
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Wild story: She Tried to Kill a President. He Loved Her Anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/s...
She Tried to Kill a President. He Loved Her Anyway.
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January 4, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Wild story: She Tried to Kill a President. He Loved Her Anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/s...
Now comes the hard part: wapo.st/4aJlBI2
Analysis | Toppling Maduro is likely to be the easy part for Trump
Trump allies point to the capture of Panama’s Noriega in 1990 as a precedent. But Venezuela could turn out to be much more difficult.
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January 3, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Now comes the hard part: wapo.st/4aJlBI2
Texans can relate: apple.news/A8qrhyhFJSNW...
USC coach Rob Ryan picks his 3,050-calorie Whataburger meal over a steak dinner — San Antonio Express-News
For USC assistant head coach Rob Ryan, his love for Whataburger is probably bigger than the state of Texas, so much so that he chooses his personalized burger order over a steak dinner.
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January 2, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Texans can relate: apple.news/A8qrhyhFJSNW...
"Mr. Trump has set out to dominate our collective consciousness unlike any of his predecessors." 329 Days of Trump, Trump, Trump www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
329 Days of Trump, Trump, Trump
President Trump dominates our collective consciousness. The Times broke down how he has relentlessly pursued attention in the first 329 days of his second term.
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January 2, 2026 at 10:34 AM
"Mr. Trump has set out to dominate our collective consciousness unlike any of his predecessors." 329 Days of Trump, Trump, Trump www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
My annual reminder from the @washingtonpost Style Section that I'm impossibly out of touch. The List, compiled this year by Maura Judkis -- www.washingtonpost.com/style/intera...
The List
What’s in and what’s out for 2026
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December 31, 2025 at 6:34 PM
My annual reminder from the @washingtonpost Style Section that I'm impossibly out of touch. The List, compiled this year by Maura Judkis -- www.washingtonpost.com/style/intera...
A short life spent making a difference: Tatiana Schlossberg, journalist and granddaughter of JFK, dies at 35 @scottnover.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Tatiana Schlossberg, journalist and granddaughter of JFK, dies at 35
In November, she announced her terminal cancer diagnosis in a New Yorker essay that took aim at one of her cousins, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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December 30, 2025 at 11:49 PM
A short life spent making a difference: Tatiana Schlossberg, journalist and granddaughter of JFK, dies at 35 @scottnover.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
How Social Security has gotten worse under Trump. Customer service has deteriorated by key measures as the agency enacted sweeping cuts in Trump’s second term, internal data and interviews show, by @FedGirlWaPo @MerylKornfield @hannah_natanson www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
How Social Security has gotten worse under Trump
Customer service has deteriorated by key measures as the agency enacted sweeping cuts in Trump’s second term, internal data and interviews show.
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December 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
How Social Security has gotten worse under Trump. Customer service has deteriorated by key measures as the agency enacted sweeping cuts in Trump’s second term, internal data and interviews show, by @FedGirlWaPo @MerylKornfield @hannah_natanson www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
With a bit of hilarious poetic license from @karavoght.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
’Twas the night before Christmas at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. Here’s what happened.
Visions of “clean, beautiful coal” danced in the president’s head as he took calls from children curious about Santa’s location.
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December 25, 2025 at 10:52 PM
With a bit of hilarious poetic license from @karavoght.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Why what @hannahnatanson.bsky.social does — and what the @washingtonpost.com does is so important. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
I am The Post’s ‘federal government whisperer.’ It’s been brutal.
One reporter’s effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources — and nearly broke her.
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December 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Why what @hannahnatanson.bsky.social does — and what the @washingtonpost.com does is so important. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
December 22, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Some amazing stats here from our friends at @cspan static.c-spanvideo.org/files/pressC...
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December 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Some amazing stats here from our friends at @cspan static.c-spanvideo.org/files/pressC...
Love this Wendell Berry quote sent my way by Anne Lamont. Perfect for the holidays — “Be joyful, though you have considered all the facts.”
December 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Love this Wendell Berry quote sent my way by Anne Lamont. Perfect for the holidays — “Be joyful, though you have considered all the facts.”
Terrific investigative reporting and some serious safety questions raised by @faizsays.bsky.social @arturgalocha.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
They survived a Cybertruck crash. An inferno led to a race against time.
In at least a dozen cases since 2019, people have struggled to access or exit Teslas during life-threatening emergencies, fueling lawsuits alleging the company’s futuristic features have caused injuri...
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December 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Terrific investigative reporting and some serious safety questions raised by @faizsays.bsky.social @arturgalocha.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
My latest -- @alsobrooks.senate.gov reflects on her first year in the Senate: The mission was 'crystal clear.’ wapo.st/48YqLyN
Alsobrooks on her first Senate year: The mission was 'crystal clear.’
Maryland Sen. Angela Alsobrooks profile rose after her grilling of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his appointment hearing went viral.
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December 21, 2025 at 11:29 AM
My latest -- @alsobrooks.senate.gov reflects on her first year in the Senate: The mission was 'crystal clear.’ wapo.st/48YqLyN
The government’s historic role as a trusted information source is under threat. The U.S. government for decades has been the world’s leading provider of reliable data. Many researchers wonder if that is still the case under Trump, by @NaftaliBendavid www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Government’s historic role as trusted information source is under threat
The U.S. government for decades has been the world’s leading provider of reliable data. Many researchers wonder if that is still the case.
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December 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The government’s historic role as a trusted information source is under threat. The U.S. government for decades has been the world’s leading provider of reliable data. Many researchers wonder if that is still the case under Trump, by @NaftaliBendavid www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Sad news. He was a great and fair journalist, and a truly lovely person. I borrowed a quote from one of his books as the first words of the preface of mine. -- Lou Cannon, Post reporter and preeminent Reagan biographer, dies at 92 www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Lou Cannon, Post reporter and preeminent Reagan biographer, dies at 92
His books on Reagan “have never been transcended,” said presidential historian Douglas Brinkley.
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December 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Sad news. He was a great and fair journalist, and a truly lovely person. I borrowed a quote from one of his books as the first words of the preface of mine. -- Lou Cannon, Post reporter and preeminent Reagan biographer, dies at 92 www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
I'm no history expert but am always curious about it. Spent time today digging into the Congressional Record from over 60 years ago. The history behind the naming of the Kennedy Center is especially poignant, so I wanted to share it with our readers. wapo.st/48OyZtb
Analysis | Trump’s predecessors would be unsettled by his naming obsession
The nation’s past chief executives, with rare exceptions, have refrained from slapping their names on things while in office.
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December 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I'm no history expert but am always curious about it. Spent time today digging into the Congressional Record from over 60 years ago. The history behind the naming of the Kennedy Center is especially poignant, so I wanted to share it with our readers. wapo.st/48OyZtb
The nation's past chief executives, with rare exceptions, have refrained from slapping their names on things while in office. It is becoming increasingly clear that Donald Trump and his most ardent supporters view the U.S. presidency as a golden opportunity for branding. (gift link) wapo.st/48OyZtb
Analysis | Trump’s predecessors would be unsettled by his naming obsession
The nation’s past chief executives, with rare exceptions, have refrained from slapping their names on things while in office.
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December 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The nation's past chief executives, with rare exceptions, have refrained from slapping their names on things while in office. It is becoming increasingly clear that Donald Trump and his most ardent supporters view the U.S. presidency as a golden opportunity for branding. (gift link) wapo.st/48OyZtb
It is becoming increasingly clear that Donald Trump and his most ardent supporters view the U.S. presidency as a golden opportunity for branding. (gift link) wapo.st/48OyZtb
Analysis | Trump’s predecessors would be unsettled by his naming obsession
The nation’s past chief executives, with rare exceptions, have refrained from slapping their names on things while in office.
wapo.st
December 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
It is becoming increasingly clear that Donald Trump and his most ardent supporters view the U.S. presidency as a golden opportunity for branding. (gift link) wapo.st/48OyZtb
Trump is not mentioned in Reagan's diaries.
President Donald Trump has added partisan and subjective plaques to a refashioned West Wing walkway he calls the Presidential Walk of Fame. The plaques include bombastic language, from “Sleepy Joe” Biden references to painting Republican icon Ronald Reagan as a fan of a young Trump.
Trump writes partisan plaques for predecessors in his newly installed Presidential Walk of Fame
President Donald Trump has added partisan and subjective plaques to a refashioned West Wing walkway he calls the Presidential Walk of Fame.
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December 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Trump is not mentioned in Reagan's diaries.
Thank you for paying attention to this entertaining story by Elahe Izadi -- www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
The year in ‘Thank you for your attention to this matter’
In 2025, President Donald Trump made a habit of thanking anyone paying attention to his gripes, demands and pronouncements.
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December 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Thank you for paying attention to this entertaining story by Elahe Izadi -- www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...