It’s our money. We already paid for it

The Trump administration has billions of dollars to pay SNAP benefits, or food stamp, next month. It’s refusing to use them. Here’s why. 🎁 Learn more, gift link: wapo.st/4oK9DBH

Scoop - Trump has fired all the sitting members on the Commission on Fine Arts, an independent agency expected to review his construction projects.

Column: Yes, the pictures of the destruction of the East Wing were shocking, but not so shocking as all the things we don’t know about this project, which is being paid for by some of the wealthiest people and corporations on the planet.

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Excellent Kotter reference at #NoKings in Richmond

Nobody on this site cares but BEARS!!!!!!

Could someone please invent a button that would allow me to mute one person in the booth on any given sports broadcast?

This photo and the man in it changed U.S. history wapo.st/4nDMgcA

Fabulous (and sometimes hilarious) ode to an editor wapo.st/4gwjuZ8

Mondo Duplantis just set his 4th world record this year! Here’s how he does it. wapo.st/42xMMR3

Why????

The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...

Excellent graphic story explaining the low-tech, DIY solutions to a high-tech aspect of modern warfare — and they’re evolving in real time www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Trump administration is canceling the DOT’s rule to get passengers compensation for extreme airline delays - just the latest example of them siding with corporations and against customers.

Florida’s surgeon general said state officials did not analyze the risk of infectious disease resurgence before pushing to end all school vaccine mandates. @douglasmac.bsky.social watched the interview

Backstory here on the moped delivery driver violently detained by federal agents in D.C. We benefit from having so many Post local reporters including Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff on the ground during a time like this www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump announces he will issue an unconstitutional and illegal executive order purporting to ban mail-in voting and certain voting equipment for the 2026 midterm election. Such an effort would violate the Constitution and is a major step to prevent free and fair elections.

"If you have a chance to help others and fail to do so you are wasting your time on this earth." Roberto Clemente, born on this date, lived by his motto and died by it, trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Nicaragua after the December 1972 earthquake.

I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.

Trump himself has been convicted of 34 felonies and is the first criminal elected president.

Israeli strike kills five journalists, including four from Al Jazeera. Israel says it targeted one of the journalists whom it accused of being a Hamas fighter, an allegation the journalist and Al Jazeera had previously denied. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/w...

This makes me so mad...

Cheers to Ed the Zebra, Inky the Octopus, Diesel the Donkey and Pink Floyd the flamingo wapo.st/45jpi2G

Yet another Post scoop www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Another EXCLUSIVE from @washingtonpost.com reporters @danlamothe.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Well this is horrifying www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/u...

US seeks one-day sentence for police officer convicted in Breonna Taylor case reut.rs/40rt1tv

How have the @nationals.com been so bad?! @emilygiam.bsky.social & @andrewgolden.bsky.social delve into the team's terrible drafts. Since 2012, all the team's drafted position players combined have an oWAR of 1. (you read that right: ONE) www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

What USAID really does and what those cuts really mean www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Bad things happen when cities aren't prepared for extreme heat (such as what is out there today) wapo.st/3G9JATS

"Gaines has publicly lobbied for Biles and Caitlin Clark to support her in her hate which, again, is a laughable idea to anyone who has followed Biles’ illustrious career." Great piece by the always fantastic @nrarmour.bsky.social. www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

It's already paid for. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

💁🏻‍♀️ Don’t forget Walter Payton.

The adorable gull family that was dining on the roof when the white smoke came pouring out is just not getting enough attention

Receipts www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Number of migrants to be held at Gitmo per Trump plan at any given time: 30,000 Actual number held there on Monday: 32 Number of guards and other personnel: 725 Average guards and personnel per detainee: 22 @carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...

Since Trump took office, the National Park Service — an agency charged with preserving American history — has changed how its websites describe key moments from slavery to Jim Crow. By @jonswaine.bsky.social & @jeremybmerrill.com:

Let's let the people who can save lives continue to save lives www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

I work on the Post's Graphics team. Exactly zero of the innovative visual stories we produce could be done without these folks.

I followed Trump to his golf courses as he putted and the markets burned.

Retirees and disabled people are facing chronic website outages and other access problems as they attempt to log in to their online Social Security accounts, even as they are being directed to do more of their business with the agency online.

The hearing on final approval of the proposed NCAA-House settlement is today. Here's a look at what's happening and how today's events could transform college sports: www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Not that anybody asked, but if Elon Musk’s wealth as of today ($330B) were entirely hundred-dollar bills, then laid end-to-end, they'd circle Earth three times, and with what’s left over, if taped end-to-end, would make a ribbon long enough to ascend into space and reach the Moon. Just sayin'.

Richmond, Va.

Who lost their jobs at the FDA? The people who determine if a costly drug is ready to be a generic The people who test food and drugs for contaminants and deadly bacteria in several labs were let go The people talking to overseas drug safety regulators to get ahead of foodborne illness & deaths

Fiji Water is produced, imported, marketed and sold by an American company. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji_Wa...

Fact Checker by Glenn Kessler: Trump’s speech announcing a huge increase in tariffs on American trading partners was riddled with falsehoods and misleading statements on trade that he has made for years. Here’s a quick sampling, in the order in which he made them.

This column by @monicahesse.bsky.social is stirring, thought-provoking and absolutely brilliant, and here's a gift link so everyone can read it wapo.st/4jzexz5

Now second and still going at nearly 23 hours. Approaching Strom Thurmond's 24 hours 18 minutes from 1957.