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curious religion reporter. cockapoo-obsessed. I have questions.
The Washington Post Got 21,000 Emails After It Didn’t Endorse. I Read Them All. Reading and editing letters gave me a theory about what is wrong with America — and how it could be fixed.
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The Washington Post Got 21,000 Emails After It Didn't Endorse. I Read Them All.
Reading and editing letters gave me a theory about what is wrong with America — and how it could be fixed.
https://www.notus.org/perspectives/the-washington-post-got-21-000-emails-after-it-didnt-endorse-i-read-them-all
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Traditional media never took the Christian Right seriously, argues longtime investigative religion reporter Sarah Posner Trump has been propelled to power by a radical religious movement that is a minority in America
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Traditional Media Never Took the Christian Right Seriously
Back in the early 2000s, when we were outraged by the excesses...
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EXCLUSIVE: The secretive donor circle that lifted Vance is now re-writing MAGA’s future: Chris Buskirk put tech elites at the power center of Trump’s DC. His efforts are grounded in the belief that an “aristocracy” is needed to move the country forward.
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The secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now re-writing MAGA’s future
Chris Buskirk put tech elites in power in Trump’s Washington. His efforts are grounded in a controversial theory — an ‘aristocracy’ is needed to move the country forward.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/11/04/chris-buskirk-maga-vance-post-trump/
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NEW POLL: Majorities of Americans say Trump is not committed to protecting freedom of speech, ensuring a fair criminal justice system or preserving free and fair elections. They rank Democrats higher than Trump on protecting the freedom of religion
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Poll finds most Americans doubt Trump’s commitment to free speech, fair justice
The American people also don’t seem to know quite what to make of the criminal cases against two of Trump’s perceived opponents.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/03/poll-trump-free-speech-justice/
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Michelle Boorstein
The Washington Post
10 days ago
Forty-two million people — roughly 1 in 8 Americans — could see cuts or delays to food assistance as soon as Saturday if the government shutdown continues. Many SNAP recipients are children, elderly or adults with disabilities.
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Who receives SNAP? Food aid for 1 in 8 Americans is threatened in November.
A look into the Americans who could be affected by the delay of SNAP food assistance during the government shutdown.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2025/snap-food-assistance-shutdown/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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I am “appalled, offended and disgusted that he and Heritage would stand with Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes as somehow being acceptable spokespeople within the conservative movement" - leader of the GOP Jewish Coalition, on close White House ally, Heritage
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Heritage Foundation head defends Tucker Carlson for hosting white nationalist with antisemitic views
The president of a prominent Republican-aligned think tank defended conservative media personality Tucker Carlson after he hosted a conversation with a far-right activist known for pushing white natio...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/31/heritage-foundation-roberts-tucker-carlson-nick-fuentes/aa81f3f4-b629-11f0-88c1-4e2f98984a34_story.html
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Head of DC's Catholic cathedral, where most are young adults, says his congregants are really in fear over the govt shutdown and many lost paychecks. "It's not their problem, it's our problem...we have to look beyond the spiritual" to help them
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DC-Area Churches Walk with Congregants Hit by the Shutdown as Financial Uncertainty Hits Home
More than half a million federal furloughed employees will miss their first full paychecks this week due to the governme
https://cbn.com/news/politics/dc-area-churches-walk-congregants-hit-shutdown-financial-uncertainty-hits-home
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Michelle Boorstein
The Jewish Chronicle
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Jewish family sues NYC’s Met Museum over ‘secretly trafficked’ Nazi-looted van Gogh
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Jewish family sues NYC’s Met Museum over ‘secretly trafficked’ Nazi-looted van Gogh - The Jewish Chronicle
The oil painting, called ‘Olive Picking’, was left behind when the Stern family fled Germany in the 1930s
https://www.thejc.com/news/usa/jewish-family-sues-nycs-met-museum-over-secretly-trafficked-nazi-looted-van-gogh-ibbbl6e8
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Michelle Boorstein
The Washington Post
18 days ago
As AI videos and images spread across the internet, tech companies have developed a plan to prevent mass confusion. But tests by The Post on eight major social platforms found that only one of them added a warning to an uploaded AI video.
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Analysis | We uploaded a fake video to 8 social apps. Only one told users it wasn’t real.
Facebook, TikTok and other major platforms do not use a tech industry standard touted as a way to flag fake content, tests using AI-generated videos found.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/22/ai-deepfake-sora-platforms-c2pa/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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report on misconduct charges against two leaders in a key part of conservative Protestantism: the Anglican Church in North America 1/3
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U.S. Anglican Church archbishop accused of sexual misconduct, abuse of power
An attempted kiss, cash payments and other allegations roil the Anglican Church in North America.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/10/23/anglican-church-archbishop-misconduct/
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Michelle Boorstein
Opinion Today
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Most Jewish Americans feel at least "somewhat safe" in the U.S., but fewer than 1 in 5 feel "very safe." (
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@sfcpoll.bsky.social
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, Washington Post) More, via Opinion Today:
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Michelle Boorstein
Opinion Today
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About 7 in 10 U.S. Jews disapprove of President Trump's job performance. (
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, Washington Post) More, via Opinion Today:
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RFK falsely states that infant boys who are circumcised have double the rate of autism because, he says, they are given Tylenol
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Kennedy reups unproven Tylenol-autism link during Cabinet meeting as Trump repeats 'don't take it'
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has reasserted the unproven link between the pain reliever Tylenol and autism, and suggested people who opposed the theory were motivated by hatred for Preside...
https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-tylenol-autism-circumcision-trump-f92078ebc210677dadaa0d315472742c
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He’s spent 5 years asking people if they’re happy. This is what he learned. Atdhe Trepca’s videos reach millions of people — and the answers still manage to surprise him.
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He’s spent 5 years asking people if they’re happy. This is what he learned.
Atdhe Trepca’s videos reach millions of people — and the answers still manage to surprise him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2025/10/10/hes-spent-five-years-asking-people-if-theyre-happy-this-is-what-he-learned/
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At a time of rising Christian nationalism, Peter Thiel is framing his pro-technology views in the most dramatic religious language, calling efforts to regulate AI the "Antichrist." The
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got leaked audiotapes of Thiel's sold-out lectures
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Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction
In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/10/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-leaked/
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"Do you know they have the same moon in Gaza? Maybe Dad is looking at the moon right now, too." Each night the wife and two small daughters of one of the Israeli hostages look up and say goodnight to him. This and more rituals of hostage families
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Opinion | They Have Waited Two Years for the Hostages. These Are Their Rituals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/opinion/israel-gaza-hostages-october-7-anniversary.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&fbclid=IwY2xjawNUzWJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHnbXGDkKtydwvMwQPV3Zx_4Ex_jWq01fOL7ggoXmLjjCWneErIOn_lXksXTa_aem_Q0JBIl3su5reJALjkGAeyQ
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Police say the man who attacked Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur proclaimed allegiance to ISIS. Officials say there is no evidence the man, whose attack left two dead and three seriously wounded, was affiliated with any organized group.
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Man who attacked synagogue on Yom Kippur proclaimed allegiance to ISIS
The man called police and declared his Islamic State allegiance, but officials said there was no evidence that he was affiliated with any organized group.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/09/synagogue-attacker-allegiance-isis-manchester/
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Pope Leo is riling some conservatives, who hoped the first U.S.-born pope would be more of a traditionalist. Instead, they're hearing echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements
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As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’
Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/09/pope-leo-riles-conservatives-vatican/
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The Supreme Court last term deferred to Tennessee's judgment that it could ban gender transition care for minors, but now, many on the court are questioning Colorado’s decision to regulate conversion therapy. Lots of debate at the Supreme Court today
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Supreme Court sharply questions law banning conversion therapy
Supreme Court sharpy questions Colorado law that bans efforts to changing minors’ sexual identity, suggesting it violates free speech rights of therapists.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/07/supreme-court-gay-conversion-therapy-ban/
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Kinship. Apathy. Disgust. This weekend we ran our first story on a news-breaking poll of US Jews. Today we dig deeper with profiles of individual US Jews and their range of emotions and thoughts on their connections to Israel
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add a skeleton here at some point
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Michelle Boorstein
James Martin, SJ
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Today, on the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Pope Leo XIV signed his first apostolic exhortation, "Dilexit te" (He loved you), which will be released on Oct. 9. According to reports, this document was begun under the pontificate of Pope Francis and focuses on the poor.
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NEWS: It’s rare to get a deep dive into small religious community but the
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has it today: Many US Jews are sharply critical of Israel’s war in Gaza. Details ⬇️ in thread 1/x
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Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds
Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.
https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/06/jewish-americans-israel-poll-gaza/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f002
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Michelle Boorstein
Scott Clement
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NEW: What American Jews think about the Israel-Gaza war, according to a Washington Post poll Story with Naftali Bendavid &
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, a project also led by The Post's sage religion reporter
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Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds
Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/06/jewish-americans-israel-poll-gaza/
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WOW. LDS church member launches GoFundMe for the family of the Michigan Mormon church attacker. So far they've raised $100,000. Comments include: "Praying for your family" "You and your family are loved," "We forgive him"
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Help the Sanford Family
My name is Dave. Like all of you, I was shocked by the murders at the LDS chapel in Grand Blanc, Michigan, on September 28. Multiple families were left griev...
https://www.givesendgo.com/helptheSanfordfamily
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DC's Catholic leader lambasts Trump's deportations, says the effort “embraces as collateral damage the horrific emotional suffering that is being thrust on children..As citizens, we must not be silent as this profound injustice is carried out in our name"
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As deportation terror mounts, Cardinal McElroy asks U.S. Catholics, ‘Who is your neighbor?’
Cardinal McElroy charged that the nation has been experiencing “a comprehensive governmental assault designed to produce fear and terror among millions of men and women” and to make life unbearable fo...
https://www.americamagazine.org/dispatches/2025/09/28/deportation-terror-cardinal-robert-mcelroy-good-samaritan-neighbor-immigrant/
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Michelle Boorstein
The Washington Post
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Local authorities said a 40-year-old man rammed a vehicle through the front doors of a Mormon church in Grand Blanc, Michigan, on Sunday, before opening fire, killing at least one person and injuring several others.
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At least one dead, nine injured in Michigan church shooting, police say
Authorities said they expect to find more victims after they search the portion of the church in Grand Blanc, Michigan, that was set on fire.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/28/shooting-church-michigan/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has died
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Russell M. Nelson, oldest-ever president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, dies
Russell M. Nelson, the oldest-ever president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has died at the age of 101.
https://apnews.com/article/mormon-president-russell-m-nelson-obituary-d23fed7544364adf8453613fa761981d
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“'War-ravaged' Portland was having an unseasonably sunny September day..a long line at the homemade bread stand, cherry trees still blooming..It was the kind of day [that] called for rosé, not federal force."
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on Trump's latest crusade
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Is Portland ‘War-ravaged’ as Trump claims? Here’s what residents say.
President Donald Trump had said living in Portland, Oregon, was like “living in hell.” Portlanders mostly met the news with confusion.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/28/trump-portland-residents/
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She's a veteran of the Marine Corps and the Navy, the caregiver to three Trump-loving relatives, and a transgender woman.
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interviewed Cassandra Williamson about her satirical blog: “A Day in the Life of a Transgender Terrorist"
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A transgender woman uses humor to try to change minds in coal country
Cassandra Williamson is a transgender woman, and a military veteran, who writes a satirical blog hoping to change attitudes about the trans community.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/28/transgender-blog-kentucky-charlie-kirk/
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The Catholic archdiocese of DC and Jesuit Refugee Services are hosting the first "Reflection Procession" Sunday in observance of the World Day of Migrants and Refugees. There will be seven stops where parishioners, migrants, clergy and others will speak
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Media Advisory: DC Procession and Mass planned in support of migrants and refugees - Archdiocese of Washington
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 12, 2025 CONTACT: Georgina Wilkinson,
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https://adw.org/news/media-advisory-dc-wdmr-25/
about 1 month ago
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Michelle Boorstein
Andy Kaczynski
about 2 months ago
NEW: Jeremy Carl, a top Trump nominee, deleted 1000s of social media posts, many w/inflammatory commentary — including incendiary posts about race, claiming “peaceful coexistence” w/Democrats is impossible - even a call for a political opponent to face the death penalty.
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KFile: Trump nominee for key State Department position attempted to erase years of inflammatory social media posts | CNN Politics
Jeremy Carl, a top Trump State Department nominee, deleted thousands of social media posts, many demonstrating a history of inflammatory commentary— including incendiary posts about race, claims that ...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/politics/kfile-jeremy-carl-state-department-deleted-tweets
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Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals
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Michelle Boorstein
Samuel Perry
about 2 months ago
🧵 Who's the most informed about American politics? Very lefty seculars. My new FREE study
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finds atheists/agnostics, especially if they are politically sorted, score higher on knowledge of basic civics & current politics than other groups. 1/
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“It feels like a little rebellion to just sit and be" The
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on the growth across religious traditions of silent retreats
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Silent retreats are surging in popularity. Religion is optional.
Leaders from several faiths said they’re seeing more demand for silent retreats, in many cases from people who don’t identify as religious.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2025/09/20/silent-retreat-meditation-religion/
about 2 months ago
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“I think that their allegiance to their political association trumps their connection to the cross,..This is really a critical moment for race relations in the nation.” Black Christian leaders speak out on the martyrizing of Charlie Kirk
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Black Christians confront Charlie Kirk’s religious legacy
Conservative evangelicals’ embrace of Charlie Kirk’s legacy is forcing some Black Christians to reconcile the activist’s divisive comments on race with the Christian values of tolerance and empathy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/22/charlie-kirk-black-christians/
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
Just published a story on how Black pastors have been talking about Charlie Kirk in their congregations. With
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Black Christians confront Charlie Kirk’s religious legacy
Conservative evangelicals’ embrace of Charlie Kirk’s legacy is forcing some Black Christians to reconcile the activist’s divisive comments on race with the Christian values of tolerance and empathy.
https://wapo.st/46xXBnq
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“They didn’t point fingers. And they certainly didn’t speak with any certainty about who did it, let alone their motive..I think all of them recognized that the country was terribly wounded." Historians on Erika Kirk
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Erika Kirk emerges as vocal public figure, redefining role of political widow
Vocal and stridently determined to advance her late husband’s work as a conservative activist, she has embraced her public role.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/20/erika-kirk-political-widow-turning-point/
about 2 months ago
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Michelle Boorstein
The Washington Post
about 2 months ago
The U.S. has implemented additional scrutiny for Palestinian asylum seekers, requiring their applications to undergo a secondary review. This policy, unprecedented for an entire identity group, affects Palestinians with various travel documents.
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Under Trump, Palestinians seeking U.S. asylum face new hurdle, documents show
Palestinian asylum applicants must pass a secondary review that lawyers say has not been used before as a blanket requirement for an ethnonational group.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/09/20/palestinian-asylum-united-states-trump/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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Teachers are losing jobs as conservatives target lessons, speech they dislike
about 2 months ago
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Powerful new reporting, by
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His wife was dying, his federal job crumbling. It tested his faith — in God and Trump.
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His wife was dying, his federal job crumbling. It tested his faith — in God and Trump.
One federal worker was rejected three times from the administration’s early resignation offer. Would he blame the president he voted for?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/20/trump-administration-resignation-offer-supporter/
about 2 months ago
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Michelle Boorstein
Washington Post Opinions
about 2 months ago
"Spending a little on vaccination avoids spending a lot on treatment," Donald G. McNeil Jr. writes.
https://wapo.st/41MxtUp
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Opinion | Not vaccinating comes at an exorbitant cost
Agony and death are not all that shots prevent.
https://wapo.st/41MxtUp
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Michelle Boorstein
Frederick Clarkson
about 2 months ago
Ms. Magazine has a timely article on anti-abortion violence coming out in the print magazine laterthis month. It appears in four parts online:
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Murder, Pardons and Impunity: How Antiabortion Violence Escalated Under Trump
Murder, Pardons, Impunity: Antiabortion Violence Under Trump in the Age of Political Assassinations of Charlie Kirk and Melissa Hortman
https://msmagazine.com/2025/09/16/anti-abortion-violence-trump-melissa-hortman/
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Erika Kirk is a very modern type of political widow.
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and I look at how she is taking on this role.
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Erika Kirk is a very modern type of political widow
Vocal and stridently determined to advance her late husband’s work as a conservative activist, she has embraced her public role.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/20/erika-kirk-political-widow-turning-point/
about 2 months ago
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Kirk says America is in a "spiritual battle." On one side are people who want low crime, to get married, buy a house. On the other side are LGBTQ people, Muslims playing the call to prayer. "The American way of life..is Christendom"
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Alexander Duncan on X: "Charlie Kirk is absolutely correct: “The spiritual battle is coming to the West and the enemies are woke-ism or Marxism combining with Islamism to go after what we call the American way of life." https://t.co/PzusbJBHwH" / X
Charlie Kirk is absolutely correct: “The spiritual battle is coming to the West and the enemies are woke-ism or Marxism combining with Islamism to go after what we call the American way of life." https://t.co/PzusbJBHwH
https://x.com/AlexDuncanTX/status/1969069507512619335
about 2 months ago
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Michelle Boorstein
Right Wing Watch
about 2 months ago
While decrying the alleged vilification of conservatives, far-right commentator Jesse Kelly says Democrats are communists and demons who must be snuffed out and purged from the country.
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investigation: Migrants locked up in a new Texas facility were subject to conditions that violated at least 60 federal standards. Violations including those to do with inmates' medical, safety and legal rights.
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60 violations in 50 days: Inside ICE’s giant tent facility at Ft. Bliss
As the Trump Administration rushes to open massive makeshift holding centers nationwide, one former official called the list of violations at Fort Bliss among the worst she’s ever seen.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/09/16/ice-detention-center-immigration-violations/
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NEW: The Trump administration has ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks. The removals are in line with Trump's directive to eliminate information that disparages historic Americans.
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National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars
The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/09/15/national-parks-slavery-information-removal/
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Daniel Malmer
about 2 months ago
This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.
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What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism
Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic...
https://web.archive.org/web/20250911012550/https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/what-nij-research-tells-us-about-domestic-terrorism
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Will my dog be in heaven? Grieving pet owners are finding more religious and spiritual support. Americans are reexamining the relationship between humans and the natural world. It’s changing their religious and spiritual beliefs and practices.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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Will my dog be in heaven? Why grieving pet owners turn to religious groups.
Americans are reexamining humans’ relationship to the natural world. It’s changing their spiritual beliefs and practices, including when their pets die.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/14/pet-grief-religious-chaplains-support/
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Fox News host on mentally ill people who commit crimes: “Just kill them”
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