Please take the time to read this superb @jamellebouie.net column. It establishes a baseline of truth for anyone who wants to think, talk, and write honestly about Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...

This man deserves as much heat as Bezos.

I left The Washington Post last year, but wrote my love letter in the middle of my time there, in 2015. Everything changed, over my 1st decade there. Then everything changed again, in the decade after this was written. But there were 2 constants: the work & the people. www.mrdanzak.com/blog/10years

Here's who the Washington Post just laid off.

Chris Richards is of the greatest Post writers of all time, & the best music critic in the country. You want Chris’s words in your life, & I am going to keep them in mine. I have never before recommended a Substack. His brand new one has my immense endorsement: thefutureisourstomake.substack.com

A paper is always defined more by its staff than its management. The hundreds of journalists who lost their jobs today covered every subject imaginable, at times risking their safety and well-being to get out the news. Please consider donating: www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

starting to think more people should have cancelled their amazon prime accounts instead of their post subscriptions.

If you ever want to feel like you live in “the ruins of a once great civilization,” then read a local daily paper from the middle of last century — our predecessors had more and better knowledge of their neighbors, their societies, and their local democracies than we do about our own.

Style section matriarch Myra MacPherson has died. “When I sought my first newspaper job, there were no women covering anything but society news, fashion. I fought my way out of that niche..." www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

A version of what’s happening in Fulton Co. happened in Maricopa Co. five years ago. Back then, it was a private company breaking the chain of vote custody, at the behest of Trump. Now Trump is making the FBI & DNI do it. We called it an “adminsurrection” back then: wapo.st/4rsjY6H

Amid all that’s going on, our nuke treaty with Russia expires Thursday, and both countries will be free to begin a new arms race — “a needless competition that both nations have managed to avert for decades.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

NEW: In January, the White House promised to crack down on fraud. Weeks later, it has become weaponized, as President Trump uses claims of taxpayer theft to penalize Democrats, all the while he pardons his allies connected to the loss of millions in federal benefits www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

A man sent an email to a prosecutor, arguing for mercy for a defendant. Then the government went after him, with Google’s participation. “You don’t have to lock somebody up to make them reticent to make their voice heard.” Spooky as heck: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Quite the contrast: In one part of the Epstein files, DOJ published unredacted nude images of women and potentially minors. In another part, officials redacted President Trump’s face from a news image that was shared in a text exchange. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...

Kennedy Center staffer: “This is a self-inflicted crisis created by Trump and Ric Grenell, for which they bear full responsibility.” www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

"Rather than going to senior department or F.B.I. officials, Mr. Trump spoke directly to the frontline agents doing the granular work of a politically sensitive investigation in which he has a large personal stake." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Under Musk's lead, "...xAI embraced making sexualized material, publicly releasing sexy AI companions, rolling back guardrails on sexual material and ignoring internal warnings about the potentially serious legal and ethical risks of producing such content..." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

An intel community whistleblower is being gagged by the very person they’re trying to expose. Under current rules, IC whistleblowers can’t go to Congress until the DNI tells them how. The problem? Gabbard is the subject of the complaint and is slow-walking the process.

There are reports of at least two measles cases at the DIlley Detention Center, an ICE facility that holds children and parents. This thread is to provide some important context. First, how many people are in there right now…

Bad Bunny going after ICE at the Grammies is getting its attention. But Coach Muffet McGraw calling Trump a “fascist” who “needs to be removed from office” is a thing. In the part of the country where Coach McGraw is revered, this is a big deal. www.southbendtribune.com/story/news/2...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Frozen dog shit everywhere, standing on end, like a thousand mini-Stonehenges.

“…our poor scheduler was getting calls at two o’clock in the morning to come bring her bottles of tequila…” When they weren’t buying booze for her, they were doing her housework, according to former staffers. nymag.com/intelligence...

In three straight elections, more Americans voted for someone else. 53.91% for Clinton or other 53.15% for Biden or other 50.2% for Harris or other

There’s a highly classified whistleblower complaint about Tulsi Gabbard that’s been held up and not sent to Congress for 8(!) months And a former aide to Gabbard runs her agency’s watchdog office & she got rid of the top attorney in that watchdog office www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

“…immigration authorities are increasingly ensnaring the youngest and most vulnerable…” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

When the world outside THE GRAMMYS is too loud to ignore: wapo.st/4qcNw7q

A reminder that the Kennedy Center is the literal and legal and congressional designated presidential memorial to JFK. This would be like Trump tearing down the Lincoln Memorial to build something “better.”

Such is the outrage in Denmark over both Trump’s desire for Greenland and disparaging remarks about NATO that one of the country’s leading newspapers devoted their Saturday front and plenty of room inside to the bios of all 44 Danes slain during NATO missions in support of the US

In the last 48 hours, Musk's reactions to the Epstein release show exactly why he bought Twitter. He's used the platform to call coverage of his emails with Epstein as "lies," elevated his fans who have defended him, and gotten positive reinforcement from his AI chatbot.

How do you not give it to Candi Staton.

"Malinin’s confidence would be insolent if his acrobatics weren’t so astonishing. 'I broke physics,' he told me recently..." @sallyjenx.bsky.social's first feature for The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Melania the documentary subject: not an onion to be peeled but a potato to be put aside. "Yes, there’s a thin protective skin. But after you breach that, no matter how many times you go after it with a peeler, you’re dealing with pretty much the same pulp." www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

Trump wants disharmony with the environment, to show dominance over it. When building Trump Tower, he doubled the size of the name—behind the architect’s back—to dwarf Tiffany’s next door: www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/st...

The kids use this phrase a lot, but it means something more actual to those of us born in the early 1980s: She was mother.

"Retired Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, who led both the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency and is a former senior ODNI leader, called Gabbard’s appearance in Georgia 'unbelievable.' “'She has no responsibility for that, at all,' Hayden said." wapo.st/4t9kfNq

Every president and major party nominee over the last half-century has voluntarily released their tax returns, except for the most singularly corrupt president in US history, who not only used taxpayer resources to fight their release, but now he wants us to give him billions bc they were leaked

“I truly never anticipated how much of my adult life would include the casual existence of, and debate over, videos of people being killed.” An excellent Monica Hesse column on the handheld screens that act as both magnifying glass and protective filter: www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

Republican support for Trump’s policies has dropped 11 points since last February. www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

Hillary Clinton in The Atlantic: “You’d think good Christians would see the irony of throwing their lot in with a wannabe Roman emperor, but the whole point of a cult of personality is to leave you blind and afraid.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away You’d think the inner dome of heaven had fallen. "Birches," by Robert Frost, published in The Atlantic in 1915. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The charges against protestors announced today by Bondi were very clearly done with producing #content as the first priority and law enforcement a distant second. The decision to wave mugshots around is already harming DOJ's credibility in court www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

#SaveThePost, Jeff Bezos.

Challenger at 40: "The O-ring failure proved the aphorism that nothing is stronger than its weakest link." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"These agents, and the president who sent them, are no one’s heroes, no one’s saviors—just men with guns who have to hide their faces to shoot a mom in the face, and a nurse in the back." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Lede of the week: “The moderator of r/catbongos, an 800,000-member subreddit devoted to videos of people playing their cats like drums, never posted about politics before Saturday. But after watching clips showing Border Patrol agents killing...” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

My @washingtonpost.com colleagues worked round the clock this weekend to expose the truth of what's happening in Minneapolis and bring urgent weather news to millions facing dangerous cold and snow. If you value this work, tell Jeff Bezos to #SaveThePost www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

These paragraphs in Robert Worth's dispatch from the Battle of Minneapolis, "a meticulous urban choreography of civic protest" that nevertheless "lacks the sort of central direction that Vance and other administration officials seem to imagine." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

This exchange in Ben Terris’s story on Trump’s health, his view on mortality and legacy, and his Cabinet’s contest to say the most over-the-top thing about his physical prowess. nymag.com/intelligence...