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Washington Post op-ed columnist, CNN commentator, PBS NewsHour special correspondent. Econ, politics, immigration, tax, etc. Former theater critic, current theater enthusiast.

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Published: February 19, 2025 02:22

“I feel so stupid, guilty, regretful—embarrassed is a huge one. I am absolutely embarrassed that I voted for Trump,” said Anderson, 30. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-voter-regrets-presidential-election-7b4fc43d

Published: February 19, 2025 01:34

Trump claims he's working to reduce federal spending, including by indiscriminately canceling govt contracts. Over the last decade, Musk's companies SpaceX and Tesla were awarded at least $18 billion in federal contracts…

Published: February 18, 2025 21:10

Steady State, a group of 200+ senior veterans from the U.S. nat security, Homeland Security, intel, diplomatic communities, sent a letter to top Senate/House leadership warning of risks of confirming Kash Patel to FBI director

Published: February 18, 2025 19:08

DHS has ordered its entire investigations division - composed of 6,000 agents - to divert focus on drug dealers, terrorists, and human traffickers and shift priority to the Trump administration’s mission of deporting immigrants …

Published: February 18, 2025 17:24

“With 32% of appliances and 30% of softwood lumber coming from international trade, uncertainty over the scale and scope of tariffs has builders further concerned about costs,” said NAHB chief economist Robert Dietz. [contains quote post or other embedded…

Published: February 18, 2025 16:41

In Dec '24, murders were down 16.4% from a year earlier, per Real Time Crime Index. Every category of crime measured by the RTCI is showing a decline throughout 2024 ranging from a 2.7% decline in rape to a 22.2% decline in motor vehicle thefts. …

Published: February 18, 2025 16:29

"Native-born Americans consume, on an average per capita basis, more welfare and entitlement benefits than all immigrants, and this pattern has held for several years across data from multiple datasets analyzed with different methods"…

Published: February 18, 2025 13:17

Trump & Musk have somehow managed to frame recent events as a binary: Either you want to burn it all down, or you support the status quo It’s a false choice, obviously. But Dems/Trump critics have done a poor job articulating that failure in logic and…

Published: February 18, 2025 12:06

“A lot of these contracts have data deletion clauses,” a researcher told me. “The fact is that they won’t be able to reopen them if they change their mind. They’re not just paused. They’re terminated and we’re losing the information.”…

Published: February 17, 2025 18:15

"For all the emphasis he placed on American workers, Biden was the first Democratic president in a century who did not permanently expand the social safety net" https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/post-neoliberal-delusion

Published: February 17, 2025 17:25

FT columnist: "It is clear that the US can no longer be regarded as a reliable ally for the Europeans. But the Trump administration’s political ambitions for Europe mean that, for now, America is also an adversary"…

Published: February 17, 2025 14:43

This is why I always tells young data journalists: if you’re using a data series/variable you’re not familiar with, make sure you talk to someone who can explain what it does and does not measure Although in this case if the results obviously make no…

Published: February 17, 2025 00:28

Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/16/doge-irs-access-taxpayer-data/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert

Published: February 16, 2025 22:06

What Trump has done for US farmers so far: -frozen their foreign aid program (and left their food to rot) -encouraged EU to ban their products -frozen legally-owed reimbursements for their energy efficiency upgrades etc. -threatened to deport half their…

Published: February 16, 2025 20:10

On @facethenation.bsky.social, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was asked about VP Vance's decision to meet with Germany's far-right AfD party and speech scolding European countries for cracking down on Nazis. Rubio's response: "I thought it was actually a…

Published: February 16, 2025 19:38

Yesterday ~68 people employed in HHS's Administration for Children & Families early childhood offices were terminated. I'm told Office of Head Start lost ~20% of staff; Office of Child Care lost ~25% These workers process grants for preschools/childcare…

Published: February 16, 2025 18:42

Some groups are working to archive and save government websites and data right now. Among them: WayBack Machine (my screengrab below is from) End of Term Crawl Harvard Law Library Innovation Lab ICPSR 19th News PolicyMap Public Environmental Data Partners…

Published: February 16, 2025 17:30

On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image…

Published: February 16, 2025 11:30

$500 million worth of food intended for relief efforts is at risk of spoiling, given Trump’s freeze on shipping food assistance “They get the one starving kid in Sudan that isn’t going to have a USAID bottle, and they make everything DOGE has done about…

Published: February 15, 2025 16:32

"You wouldn’t think it possible that a Federalist Society member and former clerk for the archconservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia would show more grit in the face of Trumpism than the entire leadership of the national Democratic Party, but…

Published: February 15, 2025 16:15

Harriet Tubman posters, origami paper cranes and rainbows have been disappearing from the halls of the American schools at NATO headquarters in Belgium, a response to the Trump administration’s rollbacks of diversity, equity and inclusion programs.…

Published: February 15, 2025 15:08

USAID has been paying for removal of Vietnam-era land mines in Cambodia. Trump's funding freeze has compromised those efforts. Almost immediately, China stepped in to aid Cambodia instead. Besides humanitarian costs here, how does any of this serve US…

Published: February 15, 2025 14:44

Leaked internal memo warns USAID employees not to communicate with the press or other outsiders about disruptions in humanitarian assistance being caused by the Trump-Musk gutting of the agency. The memo said this transgression might be met with…

Published: February 14, 2025 23:57

The New Mexico Department of Health declared a measles outbreak in a southeastern New Mexico county. Cases had previously been detected in a neighboring Texas county. https://nmpoliticalreport.com/2025/02/14/doh-declares-measles-outbreak-in-lea-county/

Published: February 14, 2025 23:34

ICE's Latest Detention Data Shows Growth of Immigrants Targeted With No Criminal Histories – Exactly as Predicted (from @austinkocher.com) https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/ices-latest-detention-data-shows?publication_id=80027

Published: February 14, 2025 20:18

VP JD Vance meets with leader of far-right German party, delivers scolding speech advocating that Europe’s centrist old-guard politicians move over to accommodate the rising anti-migration, nationalist voices they have at times sought to block from power.…

Published: February 14, 2025 15:20

Over the years, when I've had the opportunity to interview Fed leaders, Cabinet members, etc., I've often asked, "what keeps you up at night?" The most common answer has always been: a cyberattack on US systems [contains quote post or other embedded…

Published: February 13, 2025 23:38

The Trump administration has directed agency heads to fire most trial period and probationary staff within two days, taking aim at many of the roughly 200,000 people hired by the federal government within the last two years…

Published: February 13, 2025 03:50

Farmers who signed contracts w USDA under IRA programs paid upfront to build fencing, plant new crops, install renewable energy systems w guarantees that feds would issue grants/loan guarantees to cover at least part of their costs. Trump has frozen that…

Published: February 13, 2025 00:12

In Nigeria toddlers are starving because emergency feeding centers have run out of nutrient-rich paste used to save lives of severely malnourished children Ebola outbreak in Uganda has spread to 3 cities. @nickkristof.bsky.social on consequences of USAID…

Published: February 12, 2025 22:38

What will happen to the Kennedy Center after Trump’s takeover? A conversation with my colleagues @marcfisher.bsky.social and @cmonstah.bsky.social https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/12/prompt-trump-kennedy-center/

Published: February 12, 2025 18:40

The National Endowment for the Arts is telling arts groups not to use federal funds to promote “diversity, equity and inclusion” or “gender ideology” in ways that run afoul of President Trump’s executive orders — causing confusion and concern.…

Published: February 11, 2025 20:11

Thank you to the many faith leaders who spoke to me for this column about Trump’s decision to allow ICE raids at churches, part of the administration’s larger assault on religious liberty. The work these faith groups do was truly inspiring to learn about.…