Mike Madden
@mikemadden.bsky.social
Washington economics editor at @WashingtonPost.com.
So in the end, the real stranger things were the friends we made along the way
January 1, 2026 at 3:49 AM
So in the end, the real stranger things were the friends we made along the way
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“Nobody is talking about this” is frequently an indictment of one’s media diet, not The Media
Unfortunately logged into Twitter/X to find my feed absolutely inundated with claims that no one has covered this at all — and an fact-check ecosystem that is so weak/non-existent that no one said 'check the clips of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, you dummies'
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December 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
“Nobody is talking about this” is frequently an indictment of one’s media diet, not The Media
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Speaking of typos, someone should direct Ms. Dhillon to U.S. v. Murphy, 406 F.3d 857, 859 n.1 (7th Cir. 2005), aka the greatest footnote in appellate court history.
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December 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Speaking of typos, someone should direct Ms. Dhillon to U.S. v. Murphy, 406 F.3d 857, 859 n.1 (7th Cir. 2005), aka the greatest footnote in appellate court history.
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Federal agencies — and the White House — have taken out new subscriptions to news sites they very publicly cut off earlier this year, including @politico.com, @bloomberg.com and @washingtonpost.com
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Despite anti-media rhetoric, the government is still reading the news
The Trump administration is spending tens of thousands of dollars on paywalled news sites, including Politico and Bloomberg, despite earlier criticism of media outlets.
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December 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Federal agencies — and the White House — have taken out new subscriptions to news sites they very publicly cut off earlier this year, including @politico.com, @bloomberg.com and @washingtonpost.com
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Wolves: actually good www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Wolves, long feared and reviled, may actually be lifesavers
A new line of research has revealed a surprising finding about how the presence of wolves helps keep people safe.
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December 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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The Trump administration is increasingly detaining immigrants in their communities, and more than 60 percent of people caught in “at-large” arrests since June have no criminal convictions or pending charges
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ICE shift in tactics leads to soaring number of at-large arrests, data shows
The agency has moved away from focusing on arresting migrants at local jails to tracking them down in communities, a Washington Post analysis found.
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December 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The Trump administration is increasingly detaining immigrants in their communities, and more than 60 percent of people caught in “at-large” arrests since June have no criminal convictions or pending charges
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This … isn’t true though? The segment wasn’t censored due to government interference, it was internal meddling. If the segment was pulled any earlier it would have been censored in Canada too.
December 28, 2025 at 2:04 AM
This … isn’t true though? The segment wasn’t censored due to government interference, it was internal meddling. If the segment was pulled any earlier it would have been censored in Canada too.
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No, that’s not even remotely close to what that means.
Lutnick: "Donald Trump's economy grew 4.3%. That means that Americans overall, all of us, are going to earn 4.3% more money. We're making a raise, it's a simple way to do it."
December 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
No, that’s not even remotely close to what that means.
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Top tier joke
December 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Top tier joke
A gut Nittel nacht, Bluesky
December 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
A gut Nittel nacht, Bluesky
Is “One Battle After Another” a Christmas movie because of the whole Christmas Adventurers Club plot line?
December 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Is “One Battle After Another” a Christmas movie because of the whole Christmas Adventurers Club plot line?
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“.. We need to get better at treating this like a business,” ICE acting director Todd M. Lyons said .. as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: “Like Prime, but with human beings.”
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December 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“.. We need to get better at treating this like a business,” ICE acting director Todd M. Lyons said .. as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: “Like Prime, but with human beings.”
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It was not surprising to learn that @hannahnatanson.bsky.social can also write an excellent personal essay in addition to breaking quick news stories and writing beautiful long features 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 7:36 PM
It was not surprising to learn that @hannahnatanson.bsky.social can also write an excellent personal essay in addition to breaking quick news stories and writing beautiful long features www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
“One day, a woman wrote to me on Signal, asking me not to respond. She lived alone, she messaged, and planned to die that weekend. Before she did, she wanted at least one person to understand: Trump had unraveled the government, and with it, her life.” @hannahnatanson.bsky.social essay:
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 2:22 PM
“One day, a woman wrote to me on Signal, asking me not to respond. She lived alone, she messaged, and planned to die that weekend. Before she did, she wanted at least one person to understand: Trump had unraveled the government, and with it, her life.” @hannahnatanson.bsky.social essay:
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To those who demand to know — on repeat — “why the media isn’t covering this” or “why reporters aren’t talking about that,” I urge you to read this from @washingtonpost.com’s @hannahnatanson.bsky.social. Reporters like her are heroes.
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.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
To those who demand to know — on repeat — “why the media isn’t covering this” or “why reporters aren’t talking about that,” I urge you to read this from @washingtonpost.com’s @hannahnatanson.bsky.social. Reporters like her are heroes.
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New: They survived a Cybertruck crash. Then a fire killed them. Tesla has marketed its trucks as seemingly impenetrable — bulletproof, with shatter-resistant glass and able to contain blasts. What happens if those same features trap people inside? 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 2:06 PM
New: They survived a Cybertruck crash. Then a fire killed them. Tesla has marketed its trucks as seemingly impenetrable — bulletproof, with shatter-resistant glass and able to contain blasts. What happens if those same features trap people inside? www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
Inside the federal government as Trump and DOGE pushed it past its breaking point in 2025, as told by some of the more than 1,200 federal workers @hannahnatanson.bsky.social and @merylkornfield.bsky.social have spoken to this year
The year Trump broke the federal government
How DOGE and the White House carried out a once-unthinkable transformation of the nation’s sprawling bureaucracy.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Inside the federal government as Trump and DOGE pushed it past its breaking point in 2025, as told by some of the more than 1,200 federal workers @hannahnatanson.bsky.social and @merylkornfield.bsky.social have spoken to this year
"congratulations to President Kennedy"
Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center —Karoline Leavitt x.com/PressSec/sta...
December 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
"congratulations to President Kennedy"
The Trump administration's strikes on boats off the coast of Venezuela emerged from Stephen Miller's early inquiries about missile strikes on drug cartels in Mexico -- after Mexican authorities curbed drug activity there www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Stephen Miller’s hard-line Mexico strategy morphed into deadly boat strikes
President Donald Trump’s homeland security adviser, Stephen Miller, had a plan to target Mexican drug cartels. That strategy morphed into lethal boat strikes.
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December 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The Trump administration's strikes on boats off the coast of Venezuela emerged from Stephen Miller's early inquiries about missile strikes on drug cartels in Mexico -- after Mexican authorities curbed drug activity there www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Spend your lunch break with this extraordinary journalism from
the @washingtonpost.com Metro staff: An intimate look at the effects of Trump's federal surge on one community that illuminates its larger implications for D.C. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/int...
the @washingtonpost.com Metro staff: An intimate look at the effects of Trump's federal surge on one community that illuminates its larger implications for D.C. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/int...
The lasting impact of Trump’s federal surge on one D.C. neighborhood
Those at the 10th Place apartments in Southeast Washington said the president’s crime strategy deepened their distrust of police and made them feel no safer.
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December 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Spend your lunch break with this extraordinary journalism from
the @washingtonpost.com Metro staff: An intimate look at the effects of Trump's federal surge on one community that illuminates its larger implications for D.C. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/int...
the @washingtonpost.com Metro staff: An intimate look at the effects of Trump's federal surge on one community that illuminates its larger implications for D.C. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/int...
“Trump is speaking so fast he seems panicked,” supporter Trisha Hope posted online. “I’ve never seen him like this, and I have attended 42 of his rallies.”
Fast, harsh, alone: Trump beams into prime time with uncertain results
Supporters said they’d never seen Trump like this before and wondered if he’d achieved his purpose of assuaging concerns about the economy.
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December 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
“Trump is speaking so fast he seems panicked,” supporter Trisha Hope posted online. “I’ve never seen him like this, and I have attended 42 of his rallies.”
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Lazy Sunday left such a gargantuan footprint, few remember that the same episode featured this absolute banger from Robert Smigel and friends:
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December 18, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Lazy Sunday left such a gargantuan footprint, few remember that the same episode featured this absolute banger from Robert Smigel and friends:
All I wanted for Chanukah was C-SPAN on YouTubeTV and now I have it
December 18, 2025 at 1:46 AM
All I wanted for Chanukah was C-SPAN on YouTubeTV and now I have it
Son just finished watching "Stranger Things" season 4 last night, but he agreed to hold off on season 5 (which I haven't seen any of yet) so I can edit live coverage of Trump speech tonight — truly an amazing sacrifice on his part so I can bring you the news
December 18, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Son just finished watching "Stranger Things" season 4 last night, but he agreed to hold off on season 5 (which I haven't seen any of yet) so I can edit live coverage of Trump speech tonight — truly an amazing sacrifice on his part so I can bring you the news
Stadium-Armory was not even always ideal for D.C. United game-day crowds at RFK, I think this is an understatement
On the existing Stadium-Armory station, Clarke says it's not ideal for the possible game day crowds. It would need another elevator, likely another entrance, and an extended mezzanine.
December 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Stadium-Armory was not even always ideal for D.C. United game-day crowds at RFK, I think this is an understatement