@bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social
Former graphics reporter at The Washington Post. Old runner, new pickleballer. Always up to something.
RIP Gramma wapo.st/48eTu0n
‘Gramma,’ a tortoise who lived through 20 presidencies, dies at 141
Her life spanned a tumultuous period of U.S. and world history, from Chester Arthur to Donald Trump. To San Diegans, she was a beloved local celebrity.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
RIP Gramma wapo.st/48eTu0n
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I've wanted to work on a story using cookbook data for years. finally it happened! @bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social and I published a quiz this morning on all the weird stuff people put in your favorite recipes using data from Cookshelf/@eatyourbooks.bsky.social
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Ready for a food fight? Take our quiz on divisive recipe ingredients.
Should there be beans in Texas chili? Cottage cheese in lasagna? This quiz tackles some heated recipe ingredient debates.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I've wanted to work on a story using cookbook data for years. finally it happened! @bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social and I published a quiz this morning on all the weird stuff people put in your favorite recipes using data from Cookshelf/@eatyourbooks.bsky.social
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
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November 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“Potentially decisive?!” I really hope a swastika tattoo is 100 percent divisive
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“Potentially decisive?!” I really hope a swastika tattoo is 100 percent divisive
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"Things happen" sometimes, like when you walk into an embassy to apply for your marriage license while your bride-to-be waits outside, but then you get bonesawed to pieces for having exercised freedom of speech as an US-based journalist and have to be carried out in a series of suitcases.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
"Things happen" sometimes, like when you walk into an embassy to apply for your marriage license while your bride-to-be waits outside, but then you get bonesawed to pieces for having exercised freedom of speech as an US-based journalist and have to be carried out in a series of suitcases.
A win for the bees (and a bee-loving kid)! www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
When the city tried to take a 10-year-old’s bees, hundreds rallied behind him
When a 10-year-old beekeeper in California learned his hives broke the law, he rallied support from his community to change it.
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November 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
A win for the bees (and a bee-loving kid)! www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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This right here.
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This right here.
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It’s our money. We already paid for it
$5 billion has been allotted to keep Americans from starving. Trump would rather starve them.
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Trump administration won't tap contingency fund to keep food aid flowing, memo says
The Trump administration says it won’t use a roughly $5 billion contingency fund to keep food aid flowing in November amid the government shutdown
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October 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
It’s our money. We already paid for it
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The Trump administration has billions of dollars to pay SNAP benefits, or food stamp, next month.
It’s refusing to use them.
Here’s why.
🎁 Learn more, gift link: wapo.st/4oK9DBH
It’s refusing to use them.
Here’s why.
🎁 Learn more, gift link: wapo.st/4oK9DBH
October 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The Trump administration has billions of dollars to pay SNAP benefits, or food stamp, next month.
It’s refusing to use them.
Here’s why.
🎁 Learn more, gift link: wapo.st/4oK9DBH
It’s refusing to use them.
Here’s why.
🎁 Learn more, gift link: wapo.st/4oK9DBH
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Scoop - Trump has fired all the sitting members on the Commission on Fine Arts, an independent agency expected to review his construction projects.
White House fires arts commission expected to review Trump construction projects
The moves comes as President Donald Trump pursues efforts to build a White House ballroom and a triumphal arch in Washington.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Scoop - Trump has fired all the sitting members on the Commission on Fine Arts, an independent agency expected to review his construction projects.
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Column: Yes, the pictures of the destruction of the East Wing were shocking, but not so shocking as all the things we don’t know about this project, which is being paid for by some of the wealthiest people and corporations on the planet.
Column | Demolition is part of Trump’s master builder image
By Thursday, the White House’s East Wing was gone. The speed of destruction, and the projection of power, are part of the strongman playbook.
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October 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Column: Yes, the pictures of the destruction of the East Wing were shocking, but not so shocking as all the things we don’t know about this project, which is being paid for by some of the wealthiest people and corporations on the planet.
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This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
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Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
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October 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
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Nobody on this site cares but BEARS!!!!!!
October 14, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Nobody on this site cares but BEARS!!!!!!
Could someone please invent a button that would allow me to mute one person in the booth on any given sports broadcast?
October 14, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Could someone please invent a button that would allow me to mute one person in the booth on any given sports broadcast?
This photo and the man in it changed U.S. history wapo.st/4nDMgcA
Column | Erasing this indelible image of slavery is a terrifying idea
The Trump administration’s reported effort to censor one of the iconic images of American history is a five-alarm fire.
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September 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This photo and the man in it changed U.S. history wapo.st/4nDMgcA
Fabulous (and sometimes hilarious) ode to an editor wapo.st/4gwjuZ8
Opinion | These editor’s notes are poison. I learned from every drop.
Working with Starling Lawrence, who died last month, was a bracing course in a vanishing art.
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September 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Fabulous (and sometimes hilarious) ode to an editor wapo.st/4gwjuZ8
Mondo Duplantis just set his 4th world record this year! Here’s how he does it. wapo.st/42xMMR3
What makes Mondo fly?
A look at the unique jumping style of the world’s best pole vaulter, Armand “Mondo” Duplantis, who is favored to win his second Olympic gold medal in Paris.
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September 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Mondo Duplantis just set his 4th world record this year! Here’s how he does it. wapo.st/42xMMR3
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The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...
At least 2 students shot at a Denver-area high school, authorities say | CNN
At least two students have been shot at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.
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September 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...
Excellent graphic story explaining the low-tech, DIY solutions to a high-tech aspect of modern warfare — and they’re evolving in real time www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How the Ukraine-Russia War Is Transforming the Tank
They’ve been a mainstay in battle since the early 20th century. But in just three years of war in Ukraine, tanks have evolved.
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September 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Excellent graphic story explaining the low-tech, DIY solutions to a high-tech aspect of modern warfare — and they’re evolving in real time www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Trump administration is canceling the DOT’s rule to get passengers compensation for extreme airline delays - just the latest example of them siding with corporations and against customers.
September 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The Trump administration is canceling the DOT’s rule to get passengers compensation for extreme airline delays - just the latest example of them siding with corporations and against customers.
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Florida’s surgeon general said state officials did not analyze the risk of infectious disease resurgence before pushing to end all school vaccine mandates.
@douglasmac.bsky.social watched the interview
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September 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Florida’s surgeon general said state officials did not analyze the risk of infectious disease resurgence before pushing to end all school vaccine mandates.
@douglasmac.bsky.social watched the interview
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Backstory here on the moped delivery driver violently detained by federal agents in D.C.
We benefit from having so many Post local reporters including Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff on the ground during a time like this
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We benefit from having so many Post local reporters including Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff on the ground during a time like this
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August 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Backstory here on the moped delivery driver violently detained by federal agents in D.C.
We benefit from having so many Post local reporters including Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff on the ground during a time like this
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
We benefit from having so many Post local reporters including Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff on the ground during a time like this
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump announces he will issue an unconstitutional and illegal executive order purporting to ban mail-in voting and certain voting equipment for the 2026 midterm election.
Such an effort would violate the Constitution and is a major step to prevent free and fair elections.
Such an effort would violate the Constitution and is a major step to prevent free and fair elections.
August 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM
🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump announces he will issue an unconstitutional and illegal executive order purporting to ban mail-in voting and certain voting equipment for the 2026 midterm election.
Such an effort would violate the Constitution and is a major step to prevent free and fair elections.
Such an effort would violate the Constitution and is a major step to prevent free and fair elections.