Danica R. Starks
@danicarachele.bsky.social
Europe&Eurasia/Economics&Nat Sec Specialist, Tudor Enthusiast, Rabid DC Sports Fan,Space/Sci-Fi/Fantasy Geek🖖🏾, AKA Sorority 🩷💚
🙌🏾 #RaiseHail
Walter Payton Man of the Year: Bobby Wagner.
Walter Payton Man of the Year: Bobby Wagner
The Commanders linebacker was a finalist for the NFL's highest honor for the fourth time.
www.nbcsports.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:35 AM
🙌🏾 #RaiseHail
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Scenes outside of the Washington Post headquarters right now:
February 5, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Scenes outside of the Washington Post headquarters right now:
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My NBA trade deadline analysis
February 5, 2026 at 7:50 PM
My NBA trade deadline analysis
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Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963.
The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today
Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.
mississippitoday.org
February 5, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963.
The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
On other fronts my egg-fried rice skills continue to improve. So that’s something.
February 5, 2026 at 12:29 AM
On other fronts my egg-fried rice skills continue to improve. So that’s something.
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We are seeing the convergence of all of these tactics across media, and the absolute purge at the @washingtonpost.com of some 300 staff and entire news divisions at one of this nation’s greatest newspapers while an open ideologue has been handed CBS’s reins are signs of a democracy in deep decline.
February 4, 2026 at 9:06 PM
We are seeing the convergence of all of these tactics across media, and the absolute purge at the @washingtonpost.com of some 300 staff and entire news divisions at one of this nation’s greatest newspapers while an open ideologue has been handed CBS’s reins are signs of a democracy in deep decline.
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I am part of the mass layoffs at the Washington Post.
I am sad and angry. We all want to keep doing the work.
But for now I want to document a reality of being in journalism today.
I am sad and angry. We all want to keep doing the work.
But for now I want to document a reality of being in journalism today.
February 4, 2026 at 6:02 PM
I am part of the mass layoffs at the Washington Post.
I am sad and angry. We all want to keep doing the work.
But for now I want to document a reality of being in journalism today.
I am sad and angry. We all want to keep doing the work.
But for now I want to document a reality of being in journalism today.
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Washington Post —the paper of the nation's capital — cutting its sports section right before America hosts the World Cup is... just...
February 4, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Washington Post —the paper of the nation's capital — cutting its sports section right before America hosts the World Cup is... just...
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I don't even know what to say anymore.
What is happening to @washingtonpost.com is equal parts heartbreaking and infuriating.
What is happening to @washingtonpost.com is equal parts heartbreaking and infuriating.
February 4, 2026 at 5:19 PM
I don't even know what to say anymore.
What is happening to @washingtonpost.com is equal parts heartbreaking and infuriating.
What is happening to @washingtonpost.com is equal parts heartbreaking and infuriating.
The Sunday paper was the BEST- so many sections, a good cup of coffee…chef’s kiss
Growing up (especially in the pre-internet 80s/90s) the best part of my morning= digging into the Washington Post sports section before school. It was everything. Then there was the Sunday paper with a big breakfast, the best combo. So many talented people let go because of another evil Billionaire.
February 4, 2026 at 5:23 PM
The Sunday paper was the BEST- so many sections, a good cup of coffee…chef’s kiss
Said the same thing earlier- it’s heartbreaking…
I'm a DC area native. People forget that we exist. That this place isn't a weigh station on a career path for many of us. The systematic destruction of my home town institutions is demoralizing to an extreme degree.
Growing up (especially in the pre-internet 80s/90s) the best part of my morning= digging into the Washington Post sports section before school. It was everything. Then there was the Sunday paper with a big breakfast, the best combo. So many talented people let go because of another evil Billionaire.
February 4, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Said the same thing earlier- it’s heartbreaking…
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If you are able, The Post's union has started a layoff fund for those fired by the world's fourth-richest man today. gofund.me/a310d0286
Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel
On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund
gofund.me
February 4, 2026 at 4:35 PM
If you are able, The Post's union has started a layoff fund for those fired by the world's fourth-richest man today. gofund.me/a310d0286
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This is awful. Joe did real reporting on disinfo and the privacy beat.
Most of the Washington Post’s tech reporters were laid off today, including me. I have loved my time at the paper, which is where I wanted to work from age 15. I take some consolation in not being among the survivors who will have to work harder with less for fewer readers. On to better things.
February 4, 2026 at 4:58 PM
This is awful. Joe did real reporting on disinfo and the privacy beat.
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If the plan was just to put WaPo to work for Bezos's other business interests, I'm pretty sure they could have done that in a less shambolic fashion. So while Bezos's attempts to cozy up to the regime are for sure part of the problem, don't discount his hubris, myopia, and petulance.
February 4, 2026 at 4:49 PM
If the plan was just to put WaPo to work for Bezos's other business interests, I'm pretty sure they could have done that in a less shambolic fashion. So while Bezos's attempts to cozy up to the regime are for sure part of the problem, don't discount his hubris, myopia, and petulance.
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This right here is theeeee thing preventing me and so many others from reporting out … oh, at least a dozen stories that I can think of offhand. Even folks who have managed to make a good living as solo outfits can’t afford to get lawyered at scale
individual newsletters also don’t have the infrastructure for the more investigative journalism that risks lawsuits so we lose that when we tell people essentially to start a blog instead of having a robust newsroom with resources!!!
February 4, 2026 at 4:45 PM
This right here is theeeee thing preventing me and so many others from reporting out … oh, at least a dozen stories that I can think of offhand. Even folks who have managed to make a good living as solo outfits can’t afford to get lawyered at scale
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Among everything else stupid about Bezos running the Washington Post into the ground, a publication he could sustain and expand without ever feeling the cost, is that he's killing sports coverage right before the Olympics. Being a billionaire is an impairment on normal human thinking.
February 4, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Among everything else stupid about Bezos running the Washington Post into the ground, a publication he could sustain and expand without ever feeling the cost, is that he's killing sports coverage right before the Olympics. Being a billionaire is an impairment on normal human thinking.
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As someone who has subscribed, consumed, competed against, admired, and interned at the Washington Post sports section, I’m still in shock that the powers that be are *walking away* from a known, rabid, paying audience. Thinking foremost of all those affected today, even those who survived. But also
February 4, 2026 at 3:02 PM
As someone who has subscribed, consumed, competed against, admired, and interned at the Washington Post sports section, I’m still in shock that the powers that be are *walking away* from a known, rabid, paying audience. Thinking foremost of all those affected today, even those who survived. But also
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My position at The Post was eliminated, along with many other journalists of color hired after the 2020 racial reckoning.
February 4, 2026 at 3:31 PM
My position at The Post was eliminated, along with many other journalists of color hired after the 2020 racial reckoning.
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The Washington City Paper lives! It's one of the only places in the DC area where you can find local news and arts coverage that The Post just decimated.
Follow @wcp.bsky.social nerds.
Follow @wcp.bsky.social nerds.
We need to find a way to tell the youths about alt-weeklies so they restart them
February 4, 2026 at 3:27 PM
The Washington City Paper lives! It's one of the only places in the DC area where you can find local news and arts coverage that The Post just decimated.
Follow @wcp.bsky.social nerds.
Follow @wcp.bsky.social nerds.
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Simply crushed today for so many amazing and talented people at @postsports.bsky.social. Felt really fortunate to even be a part-time/occasional teammate there for the last decade.
February 4, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Simply crushed today for so many amazing and talented people at @postsports.bsky.social. Felt really fortunate to even be a part-time/occasional teammate there for the last decade.
Exactly- the stupidity of this is unreal. DC is a major sports town- we literally have EVERYTHING and most teams are heavily supported. It’s not all politicians and transients- there are a bunch of us for whom this is home.
Washington DC: famously a town with no major league sports to cover
February 4, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Exactly- the stupidity of this is unreal. DC is a major sports town- we literally have EVERYTHING and most teams are heavily supported. It’s not all politicians and transients- there are a bunch of us for whom this is home.
It’s unreal to see DC institutions like the Kennedy Center and WaPo gutted-part of the fabric of the city but more importantly the people that held these places up are MY people.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.
February 4, 2026 at 3:29 PM
It’s unreal to see DC institutions like the Kennedy Center and WaPo gutted-part of the fabric of the city but more importantly the people that held these places up are MY people.
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NBA trades are like Game of Thrones deaths. It can happen to anyone and you're not really surprised when it does.
BREAKING: The Clippers are trading James Harden to the Cavaliers for Darius Garland and a second-round pick, multiple sources confirm to The Athletic.
February 4, 2026 at 1:17 AM
NBA trades are like Game of Thrones deaths. It can happen to anyone and you're not really surprised when it does.
Dang how many teams does this make???
BREAKING: The Clippers are trading James Harden to the Cavaliers for Darius Garland and a second-round pick, multiple sources confirm to The Athletic.
February 4, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Dang how many teams does this make???