Jesús Rodríguez
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Journalist
@washingtonpost.com
, writing political features. Immigrant, nosy, big-nosed.
This whole paragraph in
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's amazing story about SWEAT and THE SWAMP
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The Washington Post
3 months ago
“Never did I imagine hands on me, and let alone being put on the ground,” said Alex Padilla, California’s first Latino senator, in an interview this week.
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What did Sen. Alex Padilla get handcuffed for?
The California Democrat was muscled to the ground after interrupting a Homeland Security news conference. He wondered if it was worth it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/06/19/alex-padilla-handcuffed/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source={SOCIAL_NETWORK}&utm_medium=social
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The DC Homos
4 months ago
He’s throwing WorldPride in Trump’s backyard. Who’s with him?
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He’s throwing WorldPride in Trump’s backyard. Who’s with him?
Ryan Bos is trying to pull off a huge LGBTQ+ event in Washington during a time when not everybody is feeling comfortable showing their colors.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/05/26/hes-throwing-global-pride-trumps-backyard-whos-with-him/
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Edward Russell
4 months ago
Capital Pride is throwing a massive pride event on Trump’s doorstep as the administration advances decidedly anti-LGBTQ policies. ED Ryan Bos says “this is not the time to retreat.”
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He’s throwing WorldPride in Trump’s backyard. Who’s with him?
Ryan Bos is trying to pull off a huge LGBTQ+ event in Washington during a time when not everybody is feeling comfortable showing their colors.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/05/26/hes-throwing-global-pride-trumps-backyard-whos-with-him/
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Manuel Roig-Franzia
6 months ago
“You feel like you’re closer to the moon.” You won’t want to miss this great
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meander along the Gulf of America or is it still the Gulf of Mexico?
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Trump wants it known as the Gulf of America. How American is the gulf?
Oil! Rockets! Migrants! Margaritavilles! Meet us at the edge of a nation on the brink.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/03/12/gulf-of-america/
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Mr. Dan Zak
7 months ago
This gulf story has everything: a map-maker debating the name change, an oceanographer listening to whales, a Venezuelan mom on a gulf-side bus ride to an immigration appt — all bookended by Margaritavilles (Key West & S. Padre Island) and, of course, SpaceX.
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Trump wants it known as the Gulf of America. How American is the gulf?
Oil! Rockets! Migrants! Margaritavilles! Meet us at the edge of a nation on the brink.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/03/12/gulf-of-america/
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On the Gulf Coast, no one’s really calling it “Gulf of America.” Is there anything American about it? I went to Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, the border and the Margaritaville in South Padre Island, Texas to figure it out.
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Trump wants it known as the Gulf of America. How American is the gulf?
Oil! Rockets! Migrants! Margaritavilles! Meet us at the edge of a nation on the brink.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/03/12/gulf-of-america/
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“My history will not be defined by this case,” Bob Menendez told me last January, choking back tears.
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Bob Menendez’s golden rule
The federally indicted New Jersey senator says he’s a man of his word. And he says he can still win.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2024/01/23/bob-menendez-reelection-bid-amid-federal-charges/
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Beckylicious201
8 months ago
Latinos like the Ramirez family were an essential part of the coalition that helped Trump retake the White House. But any future loyalty to the GOP depends on whether he can deliver on his promises.“Now, I’m like Arizona. I’m the pendulum.”
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Michael Kruse
9 months ago
“Call me Sarah.”
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Actually, Sarah McBride does have an agenda
Sarah McBride, the first out transgender member of Congress, represents Delaware in the House, and has fielded attacks from fellow members such as Rep. Nancy Mace.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/01/10/sarah-mcbride-congress-delaware-house/
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emptywheel
9 months ago
In her first week as a Member of Congress, Sarah McBride introduced a bill with Republican Young Kim.
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Actually, Sarah McBride does have an agenda. I spent part of her first week — a week of many firsts — trying to figure out what it is. Don’t miss the *insane* takeout order that got her to Congress.
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Karen Tumulty
9 months ago
Don’t miss this profile by
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Actually, Sarah McBride does have an agenda
Sarah McBride, the first out transgender member of Congress, represents Delaware in the House, and has fielded attacks from fellow members such as Rep. Nancy Mace.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/01/10/sarah-mcbride-congress-delaware-house/
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How a Bernie to Trump voter in Michigan thought about the election: the billionaire knew more about what it’s like for regular people than Harris
10 months ago
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Waleed Shahid
10 months ago
“Numerous Harris organizers believed it was failing to invest in mobilizing Black and Latino voters in the nation’s sixth-largest city, the biggest prize in the election’s most populous battleground state.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/u...
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Harris Staffers Went Rogue to Reach Black and Latino Voters in Philadelphia
Worried that the campaign was neglecting voters of color in Philadelphia and other battleground cities, organizers secretly gathered at a Dunkin’ Donuts and elsewhere to get out the vote.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/us/politics/harris-philadelphia-black-latino-voters.html
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Casey Parks
10 months ago
Wondering what it’s like to go to the Supreme Court? I sat with trans teen L.W. during the historic oral arguments:
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L.W., a trans teen from Tennessee, has her day in the Supreme Court
The 16-year-old is among the plaintiffs in a highly anticipated case argued Wednesday. At issue is their state’s ban on gender transition care for minors.
https://wapo.st/4fjKpFn
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This just isn't true. All of these are from months before the election, plus many, many examples from other outlets. And it wasn't just curiosity! It was accountability, skepticism, informing the public.
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10 months ago
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Sheeny, shiny, glossy Jack Schlossberg.
@karavoght.bsky.social
spent months talking to him and thinking about what to make of him. The result is this great piece capturing him in print amber like few others could.
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yes. we need twitter levels of humor here
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10 months ago
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Usha Vance: an ex-Democrat who taught JD the ways of the elite and helped propel him into political prominence — but who doesn't say much about herself. From
@karavoght.bsky.social
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Usha Vance is a ‘powerful’ voice in JD’s ear. What will she say?
Usha Vance, incoming Second Lady, once guided JD into high society at Yale, where they first met. Now, just over a decade later, he will become vice president.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2024/12/03/who-is-usha-vance-jd-trump-second-lady/
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we used to be a proper country
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Jazmine Ulloa
10 months ago
On election night, Donald Trump flipped Cameron County, and I knew I had to go back to the place where I spent my first days as a reporter: Brownsville. We traveled through the marshlands into Elon Musk’s Starbase to look at how he helped transform the region and its politics.
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How the Border County Where Elon Musk Is a Local Flipped for Trump
Mr. Musk’s rockets and presence have helped shape, and reshape, the culture and politics of Cameron County in South Texas.
https://nyti.ms/3B4IjuQ
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The New Yorker
10 months ago
On her first day canvassing for Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania, “I began to sense a dissonance between the celebrity-inflected exuberance of the Harris campaign and the bleak mood and raw divisions I encountered in the streets,” Julia Preston writes.
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A Kamala Harris Canvasser’s Education
Even on my first day, I sensed dissonance between the campaign’s celebrity-inflected exuberance and the raw divisions I saw in the streets.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/a-kamala-harris-canvassers-education?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
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You must must must read this
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My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a62875397/homelessness-in-america/
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sean.
10 months ago
Drake just signed a legal document acknowledging "Not Like Us" did him great harm. Is this not the biggest defeat in hip-hop history?
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Haven't been here in forever, but so glad I'm finding the same great follows I had on X. For those I haven't met: I'm a journalist for The Washington Post. I write profiles and features on politics — from Bob Menendez to the dream of Blue Texas to culinary workers in Vegas. And Bad Bunny. Hello.
10 months ago
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10 months ago
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10 months ago
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This was an interesting distillation of why Harris lost through the lens of today’s (badly broken) information ecosystem. “Trump has maximized his influence over networks [and] filled them with information that, true or not, seems all of a coherent piece.”
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Patrick Chovanec
10 months ago
President Biden assures Americans that, this time, the T-Rex containment unit is completely reliable.
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Jeff Stein
10 months ago
🚨🚨🚨Washington Post exclusive: "As Gaza’s hunger crisis worsens, organized gangs are stealing much of the aid Israel allows into the enclave, operating freely in areas controlled by the Israeli military"
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Gangs looting Gaza aid operate in areas under Israeli control, aid groups say
A U.N. memo obtained by The Post concluded that gangs “may be benefiting from a passive if not active benevolence” or “protection” from Israel’s military.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/18/gaza-looting-aid-convoys-israel-famine/
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Haven't been here in forever, but so glad I'm finding the same great follows I had on X. For those I haven't met: I'm a journalist for The Washington Post. I write profiles and features on politics — from Bob Menendez to the dream of Blue Texas to culinary workers in Vegas. And Bad Bunny. Hello.
10 months ago
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I wrote about the lapsed sportswriter and Capitol Hill scoopster Jake Sherman — and what his lucrative ascent tells us about the state of U.S. political media. “It’s like, okay, depending on what’s in Punchbowl, can I go back to bed? Can I go work out? Or am I working?”
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Jake Sherman’s shining Hill on a city
He’s feeding Official Washington’s bottomless appetite for fresh intel, hot drama and chewy news nuggets from Congress. What does it all amount to?
https://wapo.st/49frhX1
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One year ago today:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/trump-administration-family-separation-policy-immigration/670604/
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An American Catastrophe
The secret history of the U.S. government’s family-separation policy
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/trump-administration-family-separation-policy-immigration/670604/
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