BREAKING: (Gift) New Epstein emails reveal that Epstein claimed he had kompromat on President Trump. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Twenty years after her assault, a victim’s fear resurfaced when her attacker was arrested for a 1999 cold-case murder. Police say DNA links him to the rape and killing of another woman — who lived just blocks from the 2004 attack.

BACKBEATS is out today! Come see me & @andreapitzer.bsky.social at Kramers in DC tonight at 7: kramers.com/events/36367... DM me a receipt if you’d like a signed book plate in the mail. And read an excerpt in @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Breaking news: Democrat Abigail Spanberger, a former three-term congresswoman and CIA agent will become Virginia’s first female governor, the AP projects. https://wapo.st/3LqdiWU

BREAKING: After ICE refuses to allow detained migrants to receive the Eucharist, Pope Leo calls on Trump and Vance to respect migrants‘ dignity and religious liberty. “They must allow ministers to assist with their needs. They've been separated from their families and no one knows what happens.”

Breaking news: Former vice president Dick Cheney, who became chief architect of a post-9/11 war on terrorism that involved bypassing restrictions against torture and domestic espionage, died Monday night. He was 84.

In 2010, Sue Marcum's life was chaos. A popular American U. prof, she was facing IRS penalties, dwindling funds thanks to a series of investments made with a lover/yoga instructor. She may then have realized it had all been a scam (1/3) www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Peppa Pig has a lot to answer for by teaching toddlers that splashing in muddy puddles is the height of fun activity

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It's grim out there this week. Treat yourself to an uplifting story about a search for 150 lost panda statues scattered across DC . . . and beyond. From me via @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Update: Kai Trump's brand tells me her clothing line's fabrics are made in Bangladesh

I spent some time wandering around SF with some kids who read minds, raise millions, and subsist on Celsius nymag.com/intelligence...

If you snag a copy of today's @washingtonpost.com check out me and @marissajae.bsky.social diving into the results of Trump's push to get the homeless out of DC, on the paper's A1. Spoiler: they're still in DC and homeless.

My close personal friend Thomas Pynchon has asked me to pass along that he’s thrilled to see his new book listed alongside mine in this fall preview.

President Trump's crusade against D.C.’s homelessness fails to solve some of its deepest struggles: There are not enough services, subsidies or beds to house the thousands of adults and children in the District without permanent housing. https://wapo.st/4mP0xTF

‘Nowhere to go’: What happened after Trump ordered homeless encampments cleared. For @washingtonpost.com @marissajae.bsky.social and I dove into what Trump's DC enforcement push has meant for DC's most unfortunate and vulnerable living on the street www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

The Mayor of the United States:

New Washington Post-Schar School poll: Most D.C. residents strongly oppose Trump’s city police takeover, with crime concerns continue a sharp decline and statehood support reaches a record high. Story w/ @joeheim.bsky.social @emgusk.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

“Violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people,” President Trump said of D.C. Post reporters retraced some of the president’s routes with the goal of seeing his view of Washington firsthand. wapo.st/4fPz3dV

If you want to understand Trump's push on D.C.'s homeless population, and how the Right has weaponized the response to homelessness, please read this story of mine from a few years ago www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

You probably have seen a spotted lanternfly lately, the gross invasive bug hopping around everywhere in the mid-Atlantic these days. You probably don't realize they are an existential threat to the American wine business, especially in Virginia. My latest www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

The Trump administration is set to destroy a large stockpile of U.S.-funded contraceptives stored at a warehouse in Belgium. Belgium, the United Nations and aid groups say they have offered to save $9.7 million in supplies.

A Chuck E. Cheese employee in full costume was arrested by Tallahassee officers for credit card fraud www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

Ozzy had great melodic lines. Black Sabbath was better than Led Zeppelin.

Cleveland's name transitions was pretty seamless. Weird thing to haul up years after the fact. Seems like an attempted narrative shift

It’s thermostatic but that doesn’t mean it’s meaningless. Unless you’re willing to both retroactively and preemptively concede that it’s meaningless when polling moves in a hawkish direction when Dems are in office.

Sligo Creek in Silver Spring near Colesville Rd. Never seen it this high.

It's my last day at The Post. Allow me to commemorate my tenure there by noting that, at different points, I irritated Donald Trump¹, James Comer², and the Russian government. ¹ From Marty Baron's book. ² From Comer's. 99% of this is false, true to form.

I read Trump + Senate Republicans' "One Big Beautiful Bill" so you don't have to. It came out at *midnight* & we're still getting numbers in from Congress's bookkeepers. Early returns: Nearly $1 TRILLION in Medicaid cuts. Happy Saturday. Follow for more. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

A self-help method called “tapping” has elicited eye-rolls from some mental health professionals. But proponents say that manually stimulating acupressure points can ease a variety of maladies.

Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"

Fucking hell: “Minnesota state senator John Hoffman in Champlin and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman in Brooklyn Park were reportedly shot in their homes by a gunman impersonating a police officer.”

Elon Musk used to be a political force on X. Now he’s back to business. The shift mirrors Musk’s effort to revive his companies, which suffered reputational damage and, in Tesla’s case, steep declines in stock price. wapo.st/3FnIq6P

Executioners in Nashville will kill Oscar Smith on Thursday morning with an injection of pentobarbital. Smith was convicted for the 1989 killing of his estranged wife, Judy Smith, and her two sons Chad and Jason. He has maintained his innocence. More on the case: nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/21/o...

In the D.C. region, cuts made by the Trump admin left food banks without 1.4 million meals they had already ordered. No warning or explanation -- food banks learned by logging into the gov system, seeing the orders had been cancelled. This comes as more and more ppl are turning to food banks to eat

The acting head of ICE couldn't believe that I would question his agency's use of masked, unidentified agents to sweep up student immigrants during *police week*. Have I no sense of patriotism???? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

D.C.-area households that experienced fed gov or contractor layoffs this year: 90% feel more stress 81% have cut back entertainment spending or eating out 79% changed what groceries they bought to stay under budget 44% can’t pay all bills on time www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

27 years ago today, on Tuesday the 5th of May 1998, Fugazi played Agora Theater, Cleveland, OH, USA with Blonde Redhead and Quixotic. www.dischord.com/fugazi_live_... #fugazi #fugaziband #fugaziliveseries

Pretty sure Paw Patrol is copaganda

Bluey kind of lives up in on hype huh

SCOOP: Trump admin overrode objections from Social Security staff to label ~6,000 living immigrants dead. A senior exec who objected was escorted out of the building, and earlier warnings were ignored. The immigrants include 13, 14 & 16yos who staff didn't find criminal records for: wapo.st/3RKSQQt

I'm late to The Ex, the Dutch art-punk band with like 30 albums, but oh my oh my, they are awesome. Fugazi/classic Wire-ish but also totally their own thing. This track, produced by Albini, is one of the best album opener bangers I've heard

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

Are you a federal worker? Working, on leave, or fired, the @oah.org's Emergency Federal Workers Oral History Project wants to talk! My interview with the project's creators on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: newbooksnetwork.com/postscript-h...

We talked about their conversations with @kyletalking.bsky.social about attacks on historical artifacts for @washingtonpost.com. Article is worth your time -- and this is a gift link. wapo.st/4cdjRFQ

We are honored that @washingtonpost.com has highlighted the OAH's new oral history initiative documenting the experiences of federal employees. This project aims to preserve the invaluable stories of those who have dedicated their careers to public service. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Does it feel like we're in a historical pivot point? A moment historians 100 years from now will be writing about? Yes (provided we exists in 100 years!) As the fed government is gutted, a group of historians want to capture the voices of impacted federal works in a new oral history project.

Inspector Robbie Lewis of the the Oxford CIB, the last of the "good guys"

Feels like the world could really use a new Fugazi album right about now