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Washington Post journalist; lurking is my passion
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"The message, consistent and unrelenting, is that trans people are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation."
Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing (Gift Article)
The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.
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March 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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You'd think folks who care about equity in youth sports would talk a lot more about money:

projectplay.org/news/low-inc...
Survey: Low-income kids are 6 times more likely to quit sports due to costs - Project Play
In this post, we break down the data by family income. Youth sports have become an estimated $17 billion industry, often leaving behind families who cannot afford to keep up with the escalating arms r...
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March 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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WaPo's Ron Charles, in his Book Club newsletter, on Meta's repeated questions about his plans to review Sarah Wynn-Williams's "Careless People":

"In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me."
Last Friday afternoon, I got my first message from Ryan Daniels, public affairs manager of strategic response at Meta. When I declined his invitation to talk by phone, he wrote back again: “I was wondering if the Washington Post was going to write a review about a book that’s coming out this upcoming week on Meta. Do you have a couple minutes to chat?” So, I called. Daniels said, “We don’t have the book,” but the company had prepared “preliminary statements” about it. Although he didn’t share those with me, he wrote to me again on Saturday and again on Monday trying to get information about our review plans. (In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me.) Yesterday, when I reached out to Daniels for a response from Meta, he wrote back: “Do you plan to write something about it, or are you just curious how we’re responding?” It’s always about controlling the narrative. But apparently, that’s not going so well. This morning, “Careless People” is No. 3 on Amazon. I know this is a long item, the longest I’ve ever written for the Book Club newsletter. But when one of the world’s most powerful media companies tries to snuff out a book — amid other alarming attacks on free speech in America like this — it’s time to pull out all the stops.
March 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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"Call it a 'culture war' if you like. Only consider how the underlying mechanism dovetails with actual war, murder and annihilation."

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Review | The Nazis loathed modern art. They launched a war against it.
“Degenerate Art,” an exhibition at the Musée Picasso in Paris on the Nazis’ persecution of modern artists, is about culture wars and where they can lead.
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March 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Some thoughts on power, prestige, and social media open.substack.com/pub/autonomy...
Let’s imagine, just for a second, that you have institutional power. Specifically, let’s imagine you have influence and sway from within a media company, corporation, or political party. Now let’s imagine a group without that power is critical of how you are wielding your power or concerned that you are doing so without due consideration of its impact on their lives. But along with your institutional power, you have status—wealth, relationships, and means of exerting influence from within and perhaps even beyond the institution itself. When others challenge your credibility, that prestige acts as an immune system against their calls for accountability. You can define the terms of the debate—they cannot. You can define the language of the debate—they cannot. You can reduce them in the public eye to a formless cloud of irrational dissent online—they can only make the cloud grow louder and, thus, less intelligible. This kicks off a cycle where your status and their lack of it becomes self-evident. Why should you have to listen to this mob and their shouting, these nonbinary campus activists, these uncompromising ideologues, these brainrotted online trolls? You, in contrast, are so much more intelligible and rational, gifted as you are with the ability to make a living off rhetoric. They do not just appear to you as irrational because you only encounter them through Twitter—they are irrational and thus are only heard on Twitter. QED.
March 7, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published

I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know
February 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Personal liberties:
* Women making their own health care decisions
* Children reading the books they want in school
* Freedom of identity
* Freedom of opinion
benmullin.bsky.social Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · Feb 26
SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."
February 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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going to exercise my personal liberty or whatever that means and say what the fuckity fucking fuck
February 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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My latest.

As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.

I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.

Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation.
The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything
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February 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM