Erik Salmi
@Erik_Salmi
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Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change — all so the fossil fuel industry can
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JUST IN: A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump was convicted by a Florida jury of sexually abusing children, including an 11-year-old. Per police, Andrew Paul Johnson tried to bribe one of his victims by promising to share expected Jan. 6 restitution money from the Trump admin.
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While Republicans are refusing to lift a finger to help families across the country make ends meet, they've decided to micromanage the DC tax code & raise taxes on thousands of families in DC. What an embarrassment. I'm on the floor now, calling this out:
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We’re not taking an attack on DC sitting down. Today, we reminded Senate Republicans of that fact. The Senate is about to take food out of the mouths of DC families and children who need it most. Then, they ignore the Americans directly impacted by their interference. They even
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Really not sure folks are fully processing the fact that the President of the United States trying to arrest six Democrats in Congress is an unprecedented act of political persecution. There’s been nothing like this in U.S. history.
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Good move by DCPS. Glad to see it.
Interesting: @dcpublicschools is excusing all absences on January 29-30, the first days that schools reopened after the storm. D.C. officials say more than 50% of students were in class, but attendance varied in parts of town where parents said safe travel wasn’t possible.
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CM @charlesallen has been in direct contact with the Mayor, the City Administrator, and DPW to push for urgent fixes. Now, ~ 80 seasonal leaf collection workers are being reassigned to full-time trash collection. More 👇
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An Irish immigrant with a valid US work permit has been held in ICE detention in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record, the Irish Times reports. Seamus Culleton, who has lived in the US for over 20 years, is married to a US citizen and was in the final
Seamus Culleton was arrested on September 9th, 2025, and has been in an Ice detention facility in Texas for nearly five months, despite having no criminal record, “not even a parking ticket”
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This is absolutely insane. Monstrous. It’s also infuriating that MAGA thinks our government is owed any kind of respect or support by anyone - Olympians, U.S. citizens, foreigners. The U.S. is currently right up there with the worst human rights abusers.
‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September. Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record https://t.co/7l8p0tToWY
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To our D.C. readers: While we can still barely quantify last week's loss, just a note to say @jennygathright & I and a small but committed Metro team are still here. In such a consequential year for the city, we plan to give it everything we've got. Hope you'll stick with us.
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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
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Compare how Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post Editorial Board treated Republican redistricting in Texas and Democrat redistricting in Maryland and Virginia.
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WashPost ex-publisher Will Lewis joins Dan Snyder as unanimous, first-ballot selection for DC area’s Hall of Shame.
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It’s really important as a society that we don’t become desensitized to the sheer brutality and evilness of a “skull being broken” by “immigration officers”.
A Mexican immigrant whose skull was broken during his arrest by immigration officers last month in Minnesota says the beating was unprovoked. A judge ruled his arrest was unlawful.
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Jeff Bezos fired more than 300 people and didn’t even arrange for them to get safely home. Staffers were abandoned in foreign countries and war zones and are having to crowd source to get home. One of the richest men in the world left them behind.
Former Washington Post reporters launch GoFundMe to help repatriate international staff who was fired and now facing logistical challenges getting out of their countries and back home.
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After 8 billion doses (yes 8 BILLION, not a typo) Covid vaccines are at this point one of the most tested medical interventions in history and one of the safest ever
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You could sit that guy on the Jedi Council and I wouldn’t blink an eye
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Have been too shattered to write this but for the sake of clarity — I have also been laid off by the Post. I was one of the few journalists still working inside Russia. My last story went on the front page and featured rare testimonies from wounded soldiers criticizing the war.
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Imagine shuttering a sports section right before the Olympics and Super Bowl. No … imagine shutting it down right before your country hosts a World Cup!! And two years before it hosts the Summer Olympics!!! What an absolutely unserious thing to do.
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