some of my favorite snippets from newly released court docs in the Anthropic copyright book case. eye-opening stuff on Project Panama, their plan to "destructively scan all the books in the world" in order to train AI

It's called Project Panama. The goal? "Destructively scan all the books in the world." The kind of deep reporting with @willoremus.com and @nitasha.bsky.social that I love doing at @washingtonpost.com. wapo.st/4rjXAMQ

Cutting the reporters, photographers, researchers and editors who bring you vital information amid a sea of slop, propaganda and lies is not a winning strategy. #SaveThePost

As @washingtonpost.com international & local correspondents, we have risked our lives, side by side, because we believe reporting from the ground serves the public good. To choke that engine of brave, committed colleagues would be devastating. If you value our work, tell Jeff Bezos to #SaveThePost.

If nothing else, I’ve always hoped our work in the Washington Post’s sports section could give readers a meaningful connection to (and understanding of) something bigger than themselves. I’ve seen today: It has. Forever grateful to be a part of this team. #SaveThePost

Proud to work with the @washingtonpost.com's fearless international reporters. They're the heart of this newsroom, and we'd understand our world less without them. #SaveThePost

It has never been more important to understand what is happening in our world, and @washingtonpost.com's foreign reporters regularly sacrifice their own wellbeing and safety to bring us those vital stories. I'm so proud to share a newsroom with them. We need them more than ever. #SavethePost

"Eleanor Holmes Norton’s campaign filed a termination report with the Federal Election Commission on Sunday, signaling that the 88-year-old will not seek an 19th term as D.C.’s nonvoting delegate in the House." www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Breaking news: An employee of El Paso County’s Office of the Medical Examiner said it is likely to classify the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at an ICE detention center as a homicide. A detainee says he witnessed Campos being choked to death by guards.

This is an outrage. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... Read @hannahnatanson.bsky.social's work: * www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int... * www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... * www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

it's Christmas Eve but it's also the 16 year anniversary of the time an art historian for the Hungarian National Gallery spotted a long lost painting while watching Stuart Little with his 3-year-old daughter, recognizing it in the movie set

NEW: We downloaded a new batch of around 11,000 Epstein documents that were briefly on the DOJ website today. They include wide-ranging references to President Trump. wapo.st/4b3ycG6

@klong.bsky.social's surrogacy story (www.wsj.com/us-news/chin...) and this piece are two of the best things I read this month. wow wow wow

Months ago, when I was looking into Pete Marocco, the Trump official who helped dismantle USAID, I noticed that he was involved in a long-running lawsuit with his interior designers. I told @curiouskurz.bsky.social about it and she dug in. Here's the crazy tale (gift link). wapo.st/4pNVV1L

At least 20 people who have received clemency from President Trump so far this year were also forgiven of financial penalties totaling tens of millions of dollars. Some of these offenders owed money to real-life victims of fraud.

Michael Flynn, once probed over foreign payments, lobbied for Bosnian Serbs. He's the second person pardoned by President Trump to work on behalf of the Bosnian Serb republic. wapo.st/4qjyZHu

HHS "terminated seven grants totaling millions of dollars to the American Academy of Pediatrics, including for research on reducing sudden infant deaths, improving adolescent health, preventing fetal alcohol syndrome and identifying autism early" www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

‘You see this news?’: What Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer told friends after the attack wapo.st/4q7QLx8

“Rob Reiner, the director behind beloved films like “When Harry Met Sally…” and “The Princess Bride,” and his wife, photographer Michele Singer Reiner, were killed Sunday afternoon at their Brentwood home, their family confirmed” www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

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While previous administrations have included the ultrarich, the wealth held by this group is larger than even the first Trump administration, previously the wealthiest in U.S. history. Here’s who they are.

BREAKING: Judge in Florida grants DOJ request to unseal Jeffrey Epstein grand jury transcripts, rules that Congress's Epstein law "trumps Rule 6’s prohibition on disclosure" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.

Photos from a witness show the attack on two National Guard troops in Washington, D.C.

it's monday night, it's blossoms shanghai night www.criterionchannel.com/blossoms-sha...

“Bluntly, the taxpayers of D.C. are being screwed by this,” said Kirk McClure, a professor emeritus for the public affairs school at the University of Kansas and a former loan underwriter for the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/int...

Nursing home magnate Joseph Schwartz was sentenced in April to three years for defrauding the government of $38 million. Seven months later, President Trump pardoned him, but the White House denies a lobbying tie.

Nursing home magnate Joseph Schwartz paid nearly $1 million to right-wing provocateurs Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl — who noted on their lobbying filing that they were “seeking a federal pardon” — per lobbying disclosures. Trump ultimately granted Schwartz a pardon. wapo.st/4igndux

In an era defined by political divisions and massive wealth accumulation for the richest Americans, billionaires are spending unprecedented amounts on U.S. politics. As a result, politicians are more dependent on their donations than ever before.

GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announces she is resigning from House www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Fox announced a massive new podcast on the life of Jesus starring Kristen Bell as the voice of Mary Magdalene. Bell was blindsided by the announcement saying she recorded the audio for a separate project 15 years ago.

Coast Guard "will no longer classify the swastika, an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews and that more than 400,000 U.S. troops died fighting against in World War II, as a hate symbol," per new policy taking effect next month wapo.st/3Mbd9a6

Jeffrey Epstein appeared to text with Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) during Michael Cohen's 2019 congressional hearing and may have influenced her questions. Text message time-stamp match up with hearing video reviewed by The Washington Post. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

NEW: Epstein appeared to text with House member during Cohen hearing, documents show. Gift link: wapo.st/4nVTnfY

In a rare group statement, U.S. Catholic bishops voted nearly unanimously to condemn the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants as an attack on “God-given human dignity” and advocated for “meaningful reform of our nation’s immigration laws” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

NSO Group says investor group led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds has taken controlling stake of company, and Trump’s first-term ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, named executive chairman www.wsj.com/tech/israeli...

Timeline cleanse: The full story of how A-ha emerged from the Norwegian tundra with the ultimate ’80s pop song, and its unexpected afterlife @gedge1.bsky.social wapo.st/4oobhco

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field. In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront. By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

D.C. ‘sandwich guy’ goes on trial, says prosecution is half-baked www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

👀 The NRA is furloughing dozens of staff and restructuring operations www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

BREAKING: "Federal officials have charged Maryland state Sen. Dalya Attar, a Democrat from Baltimore, on extortion and conspiracy charges, according to public court filings." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The Jerskin Fendrix is a late(ish, I guess) album of the year shout. I think an album about the profoundest grief, by someone who is genuinely very very funny, is exactly what the doctor ordered

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

Exclusive: The Indian government allegedly directed $3.9 billion from the state-owned Life Insurance Corporation to India’s second richest man Gautam Adani’s businesses amid the mogul’s legal and financial challenges, a Post investigation reveals.

Turned in the badge today. My colleagues and I will stay on the beat, but in a new way. The work continues. Danlamothe.30

At ASPR, analysts with top-secret clearances who work with intelligence agencies on biodefense, emerging CBRN threats, were fired. They focused on threats from “state actors, any type of threat, whether it it’s intentional or accidental,” said a former HHS official. 4/4.

omg @this.peculiar.day did a simit photoshoot www.ft.com/content/d413...

👀 A new FARA filing lays out strategy by a firm hired by Israel's foreign ministry to geofence US churches and Christian colleges to deliver "targeted pro-Israel content and sympathetic anti-Hamas messaging to engaged audiences" in the "largest Christian Church Geofencing Campaign in US History"