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Some professional news: After more than a decade of columnizing at The Washington Post, I'm taking the buyout.
This is my last column. It is my advice to any other lucky pundits who land a perch like this -- with 11 principles I've aspired to, even if I haven't always achieved them:
wapo.st/3TU2fGw
This is my last column. It is my advice to any other lucky pundits who land a perch like this -- with 11 principles I've aspired to, even if I haven't always achieved them:
wapo.st/3TU2fGw
Opinion | 11 tips for becoming a columnist
Here’s my advice for handling the awesome responsibility of this job.
wapo.st
July 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Some professional news: After more than a decade of columnizing at The Washington Post, I'm taking the buyout.
This is my last column. It is my advice to any other lucky pundits who land a perch like this -- with 11 principles I've aspired to, even if I haven't always achieved them:
wapo.st/3TU2fGw
This is my last column. It is my advice to any other lucky pundits who land a perch like this -- with 11 principles I've aspired to, even if I haven't always achieved them:
wapo.st/3TU2fGw
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FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show - NYT
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
www.nytimes.com
July 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show - NYT
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
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NPR receives $2-3M/year in federal funding.
PBS receives $80-85M.
The military-themed birthday parade Trump is throwing himself will cost taxpayers $92M.
We’re told cutting news and kids programming to fund an authoritarian birthday bash somehow “makes America great again”
PBS receives $80-85M.
The military-themed birthday parade Trump is throwing himself will cost taxpayers $92M.
We’re told cutting news and kids programming to fund an authoritarian birthday bash somehow “makes America great again”
May 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
NPR receives $2-3M/year in federal funding.
PBS receives $80-85M.
The military-themed birthday parade Trump is throwing himself will cost taxpayers $92M.
We’re told cutting news and kids programming to fund an authoritarian birthday bash somehow “makes America great again”
PBS receives $80-85M.
The military-themed birthday parade Trump is throwing himself will cost taxpayers $92M.
We’re told cutting news and kids programming to fund an authoritarian birthday bash somehow “makes America great again”
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Looks like Mark Zuckerberg is censoring Heather Cox Richardson kottke.org/25/04/004655...
Historian Heather Cox Richardson says that Facebook is remov...
Historian Heather Cox Richardson says that Facebook is removing her posts. Her two most recent posts, both critical of the Trump r
kottke.org
April 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Looks like Mark Zuckerberg is censoring Heather Cox Richardson kottke.org/25/04/004655...
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Lawyers, Big Law firms--you have a choice. Will you be Paul Weiss and Skadden, or will you be Jenner and WilmerHale. Appease Trump or fight his flagrantly unconstitutional orders. Partners, what will you tell your children?
March 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Lawyers, Big Law firms--you have a choice. Will you be Paul Weiss and Skadden, or will you be Jenner and WilmerHale. Appease Trump or fight his flagrantly unconstitutional orders. Partners, what will you tell your children?
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DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America.
Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.
Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.
March 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America.
Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.
Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.
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The White House has gone after another leading law firm. This time Paul Weiss. I cannot overstate how dangerous this is—and how urgent for the private bar to respond with solidarity to this assault on the legal profession and rule of law.
March 15, 2025 at 3:33 AM
The White House has gone after another leading law firm. This time Paul Weiss. I cannot overstate how dangerous this is—and how urgent for the private bar to respond with solidarity to this assault on the legal profession and rule of law.
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The Center for BrainHealth in Dallas hosted the women’s brain health conference last week. Experts nationwide attended to discuss the pressing gender gap in neuroscience research and its implications for women’s mental and physical well-being.
Advances in women’s brain health needed to close gender gap in neuroscience, doctors say
The Center for BrainHealth in Dallas hosted a women’s brain health conference on Wednesday. Experts nationwide attended to discuss the pressing gender gap in...
www.dallasnews.com
March 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The Center for BrainHealth in Dallas hosted the women’s brain health conference last week. Experts nationwide attended to discuss the pressing gender gap in neuroscience research and its implications for women’s mental and physical well-being.
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More than anything else, Trump loves winning. Yet he has already positioned America to lose the 21st century, in three simple steps:
1. Alienate your friends.
2. Destroy your business environment.
3. Slaughter your golden goose (i.e., science and research).
wapo.st/41iUzAW
wapo.st/41iUzAW
Opinion | How to lose the 21st century, in three easy steps
Trump is throwing away what could have been the next great American century.
wapo.st
March 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
More than anything else, Trump loves winning. Yet he has already positioned America to lose the 21st century, in three simple steps:
1. Alienate your friends.
2. Destroy your business environment.
3. Slaughter your golden goose (i.e., science and research).
wapo.st/41iUzAW
wapo.st/41iUzAW
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"America at a Crossroads" returns with political scientist Robert Putnam, who has spent decades studying these divides and how we might find our way back to a more unified nation.
Robert Putnam reflects on how America became so polarized and what can unify the nation
For over two years, Judy Woodruff has traveled the country exploring the roots of America’s divisions over race, religion, culture, wealth and more for America at a Crossroads. The series returns…
buff.ly
February 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
"America at a Crossroads" returns with political scientist Robert Putnam, who has spent decades studying these divides and how we might find our way back to a more unified nation.
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How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
www.propublica.org
February 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
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A 71-year-old woman has died after her oxygen supply was cut off when Trump announced his federal funding freeze.
US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off
Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
A 71-year-old woman has died after her oxygen supply was cut off when Trump announced his federal funding freeze.
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JD Vance - If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.
February 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
JD Vance - If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.
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This. I don't see why a court order shouldn't stop this instantly.
Pres Musk has access to Medicaid and/or Medicare system - this could be a breach of HIPAA.
Having worked with both systems payment structure - CPT, ICD-10, name, DOB, ID num, etc are all included in those payment statements.
HIPAA violation complaint can be filed here
www.hhs.gov/hipaa/filing...
Having worked with both systems payment structure - CPT, ICD-10, name, DOB, ID num, etc are all included in those payment statements.
HIPAA violation complaint can be filed here
www.hhs.gov/hipaa/filing...
www.hhs.gov
February 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This. I don't see why a court order shouldn't stop this instantly.
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A 29-year-old father of three was pulled over while getting baby formula for his kid. He now faces deportation, despite the Trump admin’s claim that they are prioritizing undocumented migrants with criminal histories.
An immigrant faces deportation after a routine traffic stop in Texas, sparking more fear
Advocates worry that rapidly shifting federal and state immigration initiatives will prompt more city police to funnel migrants without criminal records to federal agents.
www.texastribune.org
January 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
A 29-year-old father of three was pulled over while getting baby formula for his kid. He now faces deportation, despite the Trump admin’s claim that they are prioritizing undocumented migrants with criminal histories.
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Here is a list of the 2,600 programs under funding freezes as they are reviewed by the Trump Administration:
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Which Federal Programs Are Under Scrutiny? The Budget Office Named 2,600 of Them. (Gift Article)
The Trump administration ordered temporary freezes in funding for programs spanning virtually every part of the government. Here’s the full list.
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Here is a list of the 2,600 programs under funding freezes as they are reviewed by the Trump Administration:
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Trump finds a new way for foreign governments to pay him off: Crypto wapo.st/4h8AGmP
Opinion | Trump finds a new way for foreign governments to pay him off: Crypto
Trump’s crypto coin is little more than a whizbang Ponzi scheme.
wapo.st
January 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Trump finds a new way for foreign governments to pay him off: Crypto wapo.st/4h8AGmP
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Dear Kristen Weller and all other press, when they say we deleted evidence, refer them to this…. It’s all the evidence:
www.govinfo.gov/collection/j...
www.govinfo.gov/collection/j...
Select January 6th Committee Final Report and Supporting Materials Collection
www.govinfo.gov
December 8, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Dear Kristen Weller and all other press, when they say we deleted evidence, refer them to this…. It’s all the evidence:
www.govinfo.gov/collection/j...
www.govinfo.gov/collection/j...
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Texas lawmakers file bills that would create new exceptions in the state’s abortion ban after @propublica.org reporting on the preventable deaths of two women whose miscarriages went untreated. www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Texas Lawmakers Push for New Exceptions to State’s Strict Abortion Ban After the Deaths of Two Women
The new legislation, prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, comes after 111 Texas doctors signed a public letter urging that the ban be changed because it “does not allow us as medical professionals to d...
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2024 at 2:16 PM
Texas lawmakers file bills that would create new exceptions in the state’s abortion ban after @propublica.org reporting on the preventable deaths of two women whose miscarriages went untreated. www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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