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I've profiled women for
@washingtonpost
about the challenges of being in politics today. None were as open as Lauren Underwood, on the reality of life in Congress at 36 as a single Black woman, and on trying to sort out who you are vs. what you do
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On a Saturday in July, a man with a pistol showed up outside Pramila Jayapal’s house in Seattle. Those 47 minutes, detailed in police reports and video footage, continue to alter her life.
As threats of political violence rise, what they leave behind:
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As governor, she is leading the abortion fight in Michigan. For the last 15 days, Gretchen Whitmer has also been navigating that same crisis inside her own family, and the difficult conversations that come with it, as the mother of two young daughters:
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In a time when more Americans are being diagnosed with depression than ever before, there are people looking around for families like their own, and here are the Fettermans, in view and within reach.
Gisele Fetterman navigates her family’s recovery:
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As Ron DeSantis pursues the presidency, his wife's role is limitless. Why does that inspire so much fear? Her rise in TV and insular marriage tell the story.
On the life and power of Casey DeSantis, in
@washingtonpost
:
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Loving books was not enough. A Florida librarian wanted to encourage students’ reading, not police it. So she quit.
@washingtonpost
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“I have gone through all the stages of grief around having made the active choice to do this,” she said... “I doubt that I will physically have a child, like birth a child, but I don’t know."
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what a massive night it was for Gretchen Whitmer
BREAKING: Michigan Democrats win back full control of the Legislature for the first time since 1983.
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The impenetrable armor of Elise Stefanik.
Behind the “moderate to MAGA” shorthand that has defined her rise in the GOP, a human transformation has taken place, and at a personal cost.
A profile, new in
@washingtonpost
:
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Blake Hounshell was bursting with ideas. He was kind, irreverent, and so, so smart. He made the writers he worked with believe in themselves. I am thinking of his family and his many, many cherished friends and colleagues.
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A month into the Israel-Gaza war, a chance encounter in Brooklyn resulted in hate crime charges, an online mob, a wrongly identified assailant and a young father left with questions about justice, mercy and what anger can turn into:
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This story, part of the
@washingtonpost
's Deep Reads series, also comes with a beautifully produced audio piece from
@BishopSand
.
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... and for Mallory McMorrow, a Democratic state senator who parlayed a viral video last year into a campaign to flip the Michigan senate. Lot of fundraising, lot of call time, lot of asking people to give to races that aren't considered glamorous. McMorrow raised more than $2m.
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From a free-spirited weather anchor, to the face of TV news in Ariz., to a G.O.P. phenom who relishes embarrassing reporters, Kari Lake can do Trump, but with polish. The journey here, bewildering ex-colleagues, makes her unlike any other Trump candidate.
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"Lake has become a 'phenomenon' among Trump voters by portraying election victories and immigration alike as dire, even existential threats, while using her skills as a former TV anchor to make voters comfortable with her political & ideological presence."
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Not a story of victory or catharsis. A sad, humane portrait by
@Olivianuzzi
of Stormy Daniels on the eve of Trump's arraignment. "It doesn’t feel like I thought it would. It just doesn’t feel like anything."
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Beto has spent 1,175 of the last 2,048 days of his life running for office. On the trail, O’Rourke is looking for something he may not find, repeating a mantra to his supporters, and to himself: "We’re gonna win. We have to win. There is no alternative."
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This is not the first time Kathy Hochul has been asked asked to prove her place in NY politics. "They don’t understand me," she says of her doubters.
On the trail with NY's first woman governor, as she tries to become NY's first elected woman governor:
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“Of course Jim knew. Everybody knew.”
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From dawn to dusk today, the scene outside the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse was an exercise in watching the Trump spectacle feed on itself:
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As top Dems flew in to help Hochul, they seemed unprepared to present a unified message: WJC riffed on the 1994 crime bill. Harris talked about democracy on the worldstage, mentioning Hochul by name just four times, to the confusion of aides backstage.
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Remarkable reporting and storytelling by
@CAKitchener
, tracing the movement of abortion pills from a mountainside home in Guanajuato to volunteers along the U.S. border, to suburban “packing parties,” to the mailbox of a 25-year-old woman named Monica
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A victory party for Anna Paulina Luna, who is 33, headed to Congress and tells us something about how young Republicans are crafting their political identities.
"It's more than just politics — it’s a lifestyle."
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“You really become that character when you are in costume,” Kari Lake once said. “Every role we play has a uniform.”
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“He had scrawled a note to himself on a napkin: I’m tired of politics, I just want me back.” Read
@adamwren
on Mike Pence:
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Whitmer in August: “Does anyone think these kidnappers wanted to keep me or ransom me?” she asked. “No. They were going to put me on a trial and then execute me. It was an assassination plot, but no one talks about it that way.”
Breaking news: Three men convicted of aiding 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Whitmer (D), a case that deepened fears about right-wing extremism
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Incredible feat of storytelling, reporting and visual journalism.
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“I’ve been in the mix, to be honest,” he said. A stunner of a story, and delightful til the last word, by
@Olivianuzzi
:
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What a perfect
@anniekarni
essay on the beauty and sadness and confusion of covering the losers
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“Across the country, Americans responded to two years of attacks on the public’s faith in the democratic process in the most mundane of ways on Tuesday: They voted.”
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The most wonderful news for
@washingtonpost
I'm thrilled and honored to lead The Post's exceptional National staff at such a consequential time for the country. There is no more talented group of journalists in America. I can't wait to get to work!
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“I’m not bored. I’m very busy with everything actually. Amazingly busy,” Donald Trump tells
@Olivianuzzi
.
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For $500, you too can have "10 min to chat about whatever you want: business, politics, guns, crypto, you name it," with Blake Masters.
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Stephanie McCrummen's political writing is always soothing to read precisely because it is so humane, no matter the subject, person, or place
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.
@katherinemiller
is a supreme talent and a wonderful colleague. The next newsroom she joins will be very lucky to have her.
Hey: After eight great, I plan to take the voluntary buyout from BuzzFeed News this summer. Quick thought or two on that below.
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A subject-author pairing FOR THE AGES.
@RosieGray
on the "chilling dystopia of pop-pop-pop," a.k.a. Big Pickleball
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Today I am standing with more than 750 of my Washington Post colleagues to fight for a fair contract that values the groundbreaking journalism that comes daily from this creative, brilliant newsroom.
Our 24-hour strike has begun.
For the first time in 50 years,
@washingtonpost
workers are walking off the job because our company is refusing to bargain in good faith and breaking the law.
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This is great news for readers everywhere and for the NYT
Some news: I'm joining
@nytopinion
next week to write/edit about this rough political time, democratic issues, & the bigger underlying problems and questions.
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The definitive account of Turning Point USA’s effective takeover of a Republican state party, by
@yvonnewingett
and
@isaacstanbecker
How a pro-Trump youth group remade the Arizona GOP, testing democracy,
@yvonnewingett
@isaacstanbecker
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Sanders will “campaign on behalf of Senate candidates who aren’t planning on appearing alongside him.”
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The absolute best
So, I'm taking the buyout from BuzzFeed News and this is my last week. I'll miss my time there and my brilliant colleagues, but I'm super excited to work on some upcoming projects. I'm all ears for interesting opportunities: rosiegraywriter
@gmail
.com :)
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"But this is a book more notable for the quality of its observations about Trump’s character than for its newsbreaks. It will be a primary source about the most vexing president in American history for years to come." so so proud of
@maggieNYT
.
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A definitive and deeply reported account of the Biden presidency so far, by
@AshleyRParker
@tylerpager
@michaelscherer
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Counting the dead is no longer possible, officials say.
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.
@jdelreal
is writing a series about masculinity in America. His latest is beautifully told, on a single mother raising her young son:
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"By evening, Trump emerges for dinner, surrounded most nights by adoring club members who stand and applaud at his appearance; they stand and applaud again after he finishes his meal and retires for the night."
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“If there is anything that Donald Trump has accomplished in the last several years, it is turning Arizona from a reliably red state to a purple state. That is his legacy in Arizona.”
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@ArtByAlida
@washingtonpost
@BishopSand
Hi Alida, thank you for reading the story. The case is still pending and could be for quite some time. It will either end in a plea deal of some kind, or it will proceed to a trial.
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“She is apparently willing to continually give up power without it appearing like much of a sacrifice, so much so that you can almost forget it’s happening.”
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On Twitter, 14 percent of accounts discussing the term “stolen elections” in the past week were fake accounts, according to analysis shared with
@isaacstanbecker
, an increase of four percentage points from last month.
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Link to this incredible reporting on Jim Jordan by David Maraniss and
@sallyjenkinswa1
is here:
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Florida's Anna Paulina Luna is a prime example of a Republican who stands at the intersection of Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, staying loyal to both for now. Last night at her victory party, she was constantly praising both men (never just one).
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You can also hear Schjeldahl read this piece himself, which is marvelous, on Audm
The longtime New Yorker writer Peter Schjeldahl has died, at age 80. Read Schjeldahl’s 2019 reflection on the art of dying, which he wrote after receiving a devastating diagnosis of rampant lung cancer:
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Wow
The incredible video featured in the Jan 6 hearing of
@SpeakerPelosi
and other leaders on January 6 was shot by the Speaker’s daughter, filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi.
An amazing window on history unfolding and the terror of the day.
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Hear the story behind the story of
@shaneharris
and
@samueloakford
’s reporting today (including audio from the teen inside the Discord chat!), from the Post Reports team:
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“It is striking how much of Mr. Ryan’s argument for himself can feel tethered to male bravado.”
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“‘People wanted to run away,’ Jose said. But when they looked at the map in the red folder, he said, they realized, ‘we were surrounded by pure water.’”
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Remarkable level of detail in this story, from audio recordings to private messages, all charting how Turning Point USA became a new kind of stand-in for a political party: “If the Republican Party doesn’t do its job, then the Republican Party has to go.”
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Capitol Police cameras caught break-in at Pelosi home, but no one was watching, via
@byaaroncdavis
@CarolLeonnig
@MariannaReports
&
@pkcapitol
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Children Risk Their Lives Building America’s Roofs
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The class of 2022.
@iarnsdorf
and
@MariannaReports
on the MAGA candidates poised to enter the House.
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He’s 14. He’s been to five funerals. Read
@ELaserDavies
on the story of Rashad Bates and rising juvenile crime in D.C., where the age of kids both injured and arrested is growing younger.
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Another exceptional colleague and editor.
@Mr_Berman
💙
Hello, a brief personal thread: After a fascinating, expansive, scary-but-professionally-good five years, I will soon be taking the voluntary buyout and leaving BuzzFeed News.
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So much reporting and texture in this
@PostRoz
@jdawsey1
@ashleyrparker
@JaxAlemany
piece on Trump's post-presidency
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"Their political careers would probably not exist without Mr. Trump, but their appeal to Republicans rests on a post-Trump political foundation."
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"From former president Bill Clinton to Vice President Harris to former nominee Hillary Clinton, few Democratic heavyweights are in demand in the political climate today."
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“Doubt can be difficult to overcome once it’s in the air.”
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a tale of instagram stalking
(and a politician who is closing rather than opening more windows into her life)
Amazing lede, down to the kicker at the end of the first section
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"Monica couldn’t go to the hospital — surely, she thought, the doctors would know what she’d done and report her... She leapt from the bath and collapsed in her boyfriend’s arms. Desperate for some guidance, soaking wet and crying, she took out her phone."
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