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WaPo reporter specializing in political profiles & narratives about life, death & everything in between. A New Yorker, for better or worse

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My first cartoon in @AirMailWeekly
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The East Village isn’t playing.
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Her most cutting joke came at the end, when the 32-year-old comic took direct aim at the journalists in the room. Mr. Trump, she said, “has helped you sell your papers and your books and your TV. You helped create this monster and now you are profiting from him.”
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The Michelle Wolf Furor, by me in DC.
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NYC homicides. 1990=2262 2015=352
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Inner-city crime is reaching record levels. African-Americans will vote for Trump because they know I will stop the slaughter going on!
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Where’s the bread, where’s the salad. What about a vegetable. C’mon people
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Archive: Governor Andrew Cuomo
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Sunday dinner Cuomo style.
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She lost her job after giving Trump the finger. Now she has won political office and her district includes the president's golf course. "Isn't that sweet justice?" she says.
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Tried a new way to convince people to give names in interviews: Told 'em i didn't want readers thinking story is Fake News. Worked.
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NYC bodega
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Tremendous obit: “I never wanted them to forget Babe Ruth. I just wanted them to remember Henry Aaron.”
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Score one for Old School: the owner of the great So’s Your Mom in AdMo renews his lease for five more years #phew #dc
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Newspapers are keeping Pence in loop.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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Information is being illegally given to the failing @nytimes & @washingtonpost by the intelligence community (NSA and FBI?).Just like Russia
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A 36 year old Baltimorean, the point man for a new generation of reformers at City Hall, wins Democratic primary for mayor. After years of crises, change is afoot in Charm City.
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So many people have spent years despising Andrew Cuomo. And now the virus and this: Help, I Think I& #39 ;m In Love With Andrew Cuomo??? via @jezebel
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Even if Dodgers "lose," their fans will wake up to the sun, the Pacific & In-N-Out Burger. They won long ago.
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Overnight, Trump has made Bowser into a new face of the resistance. She has never received such sustained national exposure.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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The incompetent Mayor of Washington, D.C., @MayorBowser , who’s budget is totally out of control and is constantly coming back to us for “handouts”, is now fighting with the National Guard, who saved her from great embarrassment...
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Union Station, 4:17 pm on DC’s first day, reopening.
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On Trump, Gillespie said, "Can we go off the record?”Then:"I’m not going to talk about this.”
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Mayor Dinkins didn’t always like the questions he was asked as he presided over a polarized city plagued by violence. He would bristle and scowl. But he answered them all and without insulting anyone. #RIP
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Just another day at the office for Sen. Tim Kaine: “No, I never have,” the senator replied when asked if he’d ever dressed up in blackface. “I grew up in Kansas City and it just wasn’t something that was done.”
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Who would think that Democrats nationwide would find their first glimmer of hope since Trump's victory in a mild-mannered pediatrician named Ralph Northam (who twice voted for Bush) #VAGov
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Another PR bonanza for the mayor and NYPD.
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Ali Watkins
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"Get the fuck out of here you piece of shit," NYPD officers to clearly identified @AP reporters, as they shove media and force them to stop covering NYC protests.
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A parking dispute (what else?) pits Ivanka Trump against her DC neighbors
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Only last week he called @maggieNYT to talk about pulling health bill
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The failing @NYTimes would do much better if they were honest!
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Karen Lee, a teacher in SE DC, said she assigned 18 students to write an essay last school year. They could write about anything — their families, their ambitions, their favorite celebrities. Nine of them wrote about gun violence. ⁦ @PerryStein
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Professor who taught Gillespie at Catholic University
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Ed Gillespie is running one of the most vile campaigns I have seen in a long time. He really should be ashamed of himself.
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He undercuts the confidence he hopes to project
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The president calls on @kaitlancollins , then he abruptly tries calling on someone else as she gets to the microphone. He won't let her ask the question, turns and leaves.
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Story broken by @AmyEGardner of the @washingtonpost
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ON TAPE, TRUMP PUSHES GEORGIA TO ‘FIND’ VOTES — Monday’s banner headline in @nytimes
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Trump gives Giuliani what he craves: relevance.
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Giuliani has always defined himself thru enemies: mobsters, squeegee men, corrupt pols, crack dealers, Hillary. Same wud b true in diplomacy
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Top aides to Trump say Rudolph Giuliani is the leading contender for secretary of state.
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My latest cartoon in ⁦ @AltaJournal ⁩, inspired by ⁦ @nprscottsimon ⁩, ⁦ @NPRmelissablock ⁩ and (especially) ⁦ @CoreyFlintoff
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Shaken by the Jan. 6 attack, Capitol workers quit jobs that once made them proud
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In DC, Wilson High School newspaper counts over 50 students have tested positive for COVID while school administrators have only reported 18. “As of right now, multiple administrators were unable to provide an exact number of COVID-19 cases.” #journalism
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'69: when Norman Mailer ran for NYC mayor, got drunk and called his supporters "spoiled pigs." Jimmy Breslin was his running-mate. Their slogan, "No More Bullshit." #nyc
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Breathtaking.
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“To put it frankly, the glut of “Long Live NY” essays composed by people who aren’t bearing the brunt of its changes makes the bile rise in my gullet because they’re often more about alleviating guilt about privilege than a genuine show of solidarity.”
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From protests to yoga classes: DC's BLM Plaza evolves as Mayor Bowser moves to reclaim street she rechristened to international acclaim
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World class cities don’t operate this way
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Metro Forward
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Post game crowds have 20 min after the last pitch be in line for Metro tonight at Navy Yard! Consider the NJ Ave entrance of Navy Yard station & and spread out along the platform for the train! #wmata #FINISHTHEFIGHT
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At JFK, the furious campaign to keep Vahideh Rasekhi, a SUNY grad student, from being sent back to Iran #MuslimBan
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Gisele Fetterman, very popular with voters on the campaign trail, is taking the lead as her husband’s stroke poses a challenge for his campaign as Tuesday’s primary looms
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A college kid who asked for help from DC police during Proud Boy attack Saturday: “Instead of detaining any of the people who were beating me, they proceeded to put me into handcuffs, assuming that I had incited this incident.”
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And there she is, Joan Didion, in Central Park on a Saturday. Told her she changed my life when I read her in high school.
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DC reports 206 new Covid cases. Positivity rate now above 4 percent.
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To the public hecklers, Kellyanne Conway says: "It might make them feel better for a moment but it's not going to stop the president from appointing the next Supreme Court justice."
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“This might sting a little bit — it stung me,” the rabbi told congregants. “Those most likely to put signs on their lawns for the most progressive causes are also very likely to be the ones in community meetings saying, ‘no more development.’ ”
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Correction: assault weapons
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A Republican congressman from Buffalo changes his position on automatic weapons and other proposed reforms.
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What me worry? Rudy in his usual stadium spot in case anyone is trying to reach him. #thattown
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Another way to tell the story of a changing city: when a black-owned funeral home has no one left to bury
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The death of DC Mayor Bowser’s sister, Mercia, from Covid-19 makes NYT’s front page.
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Among the A1 stories on Friday's front page is this one from @allyson_renee7 & @julietmacur :
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"No seeds and stems."
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Capitalism is alive & well in the city the never sleeps - New York City! #NewYorkCity #NYC #marijuana @NORML @tommychong @cheechandchong
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“Charlie Watts has always been the bed that I lie on musically.”
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The @AmyEGardner edition
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Monday's A1, above the fold
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President Bannon vs. President Kushner
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"It's something I plan to consider," Evan McMullin says when asked about running against Chaffetz. Also thinking about Hatch's seat #utpol
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“I have not had contact with him since the primary,” said Sharon Brooks, chair of the Republican Party in Henderson County, N.C., where Cawthorn owns a home. “We have moved on.”
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Does it give the book more credibility that Bannon has been banished?
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What an extraordinary fall for Steve Bannon. A year ago he was the chief strategist to the incoming President of the United States. And now... ???
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Bernie Sanders for Ben Jealous #MDGov
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Probe: Mayor Muriel Bowser's top aide sexually harassed staffer, exposing his “sexual organs" and sending her graphic video. Investigator spent 13 hours reviewing accuser's evidence. Mayor's office releases report on Sat night during holiday weekend.
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A NYC original #RIP “And there was his close-up of a tea set, fully intact but encrusted in ash, in an apartment opposite where one of the Twin Towers had stood. It was among the photos that earned The Times the Pulitzer for breaking news photography.”
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No curfew in DC tonight, mayor says.
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Vince Gray on Kojo: "I can't believe it took them two years to get to Commanders"
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@SopanDeb @seanspicer this photo was taken on mall at about 11:15 am. Monument to my back
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Police commander says something “feels different” in the city: “It feels more unpredictable, it feels more violent.” Says juvenile crime is off the hook and guns are rampant.
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In Adams Morgan, huge turnout at community meeting about spate of stores that have been broken into.
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Like Trump, still focusing on Clinton
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Chaffetz seeks to charge ex-Clinton aide in email inquiry via the @FoxNews App
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@July4thPBS the Milli Vanilli of fireworks #shame
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Pulitzer worthy
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McAuliffe led Cooch by 12 in WaPo poll a week before election. Won by less than three percentage points.
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Our poll and Quinnipiac show double digit leads while others show tight race. Big difference; Few undecideds b/c we asked where people lean
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In Adams Morgan, huge turnout at community meeting about spate of stores that have been broken into.
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Update: Alison Howard McGrath has been fever free for 48 hrs & appears on the mend. She has been sick since returning from a conference in NYC 3/8. More than 50 therapists at the conference have tested positive. Many more reporting symptoms #coronavirus
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I wrote my first "gentrification" story for you in '85 -- a drug store booted at 86th and Columbus (now a bank) -- and I'm still writing 'em
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Bannon is a distraction from Charlottsville is a distraction from N Korea is a distraction from Mooch is a -- wait, where's my Adderall?
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Some close to Bannon are fuming, seeing him as the distraction used to switch topics for the day from Charlottesville. Just reporting, here.
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Freddie Gray's stepfather; "If you are not coming in peace don't come at all because this city needs to get back to work."
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On Kojo, Bowser says she learned that the Housing Authority board "couldn't get anything done." A majority of the board, including its chair, were her appointees.
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Koch had a paper mache bunny rabbit in his bedroom at Gracie #onlyinnyc
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As Trump has his royal moment, worth recalling that his mother spent “hours watching on television the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth.”
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NYC joins Baltimore in closing indoor dining, tho keeps outdoor dining open. DC, with a growing caseload, has restricted neither.
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NEW: @NYGovCuomo says indoor dining in New York City will be CLOSED as of Monday. Takeout and outdoor dining can continue.
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"Oh hey dad, Jack White is performing in the atrium at school today..." #huh ? #wilsonhs
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As Michael Cohen overtakes the national airwaves, here’s something you may have missed about who shaped him. Meet Uncle Morty, Michael’s mob-loving mentor of yore, and read about his ambition to become NYC mayor. #MichaelCohen
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“Fear can make ordinary people turn valorous or villainous or just unattractive.” @jimdwyernyt
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A voice of Trumpism struggles to find an audience in Virginia
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I have a memory of a TV reporter asking Dinkins if NYC had become the Wild West and the mayor made the mistake of answering something to the effect of, No this is not the Wild West, thereby guaranteeing it would be used. BdB was an aide at the time.
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Tuesday's @nypost front page is a throwback
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@FranktheTankpod ⁩ in DC!
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Melania in Florida without her husband
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Not to screw up the narrative but there are many DC businesses that have not boarded up, as a drive along U Street and 14th Street shows. But whatever.
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Marjorie Taylor Green declared winner over the Democrat who raised more money -- $15 million -- than any congressional challenger in the country. With 72 percent of votes counted, Green is winning by nearly two-to-one. #GA14
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Quite a turnout #InaugurationDay2017
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David Gergen, as Washington as Washington gets, says on CNN he feels like the country is in the grip of a “mad man”
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