"Cruise ships used to be about sailing and the sea. If you wanted to rent a room, you went to a hotel. People wore hard pants on planes.

"Those were such quaint times."

www.washingtonpost.com/travel/inter...

The Washington Post Guild is alarmed and appalled by federal law enforcement’s search and seizure of reporter Hannah Natanson’s property and personal devices. Hannah is a valued member of our union whose work covering the federal workforce has been essential (1/3)

Investigators told the reporter that she is not the focus of the probe.

The warrant said law enforcement was investigating a system administrator in Maryland who has been accused of taking home classified intelligence reports. https://wapo.st/4qULbi9

Before Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus. "Claudette gave all of us the moral courage to do what we did," said Fred Gray.

My latest for @washingtonpost.com, on the death of a civil rights pioneer: www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Scott Adams, "Dilbert" creator turned digital provocateur, dies at 68. "The universal thread” uniting the comic strip’s readers "is powerlessness," he said. "Dilbert has no power over anything." My obit for @washingtonpost.com: www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Confirmed by BOP: Aldrich Ames, the deadliest traitor in CIA history, dies in prison at 84. Walter Pincus with the @washingtonpost.com byline.

www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

One more reason to subscribe to the SERIOUSLY? newsletter from @shaneisland.bsky.social: You get his 24-word obit for Spanish fresco restorer Cecilia Giménez. "She taught us that done is better than perfect, that forgiveness is better than permission and that Jesus looks better with his mouth open."

Nobody does it like the Brits. The lede from @thetimes.com obit for Justin Toper, whom Piers Morgan once called "the best astrologer in the galaxy”:
www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...

Frannie says it feels good to have never lost to Michigan. Hook ‘em

On A1 today: Our obit for gospel star Richard Smallwood, whose song “Total Praise” became a church choir staple and was covered by Stevie Wonder and Destiny’s Child. By @ethanbeck2003.bsky.social

🎁🔗 wapo.st/4q11s5d

Parachuting in on Bluesky to share a couple recent end-of-year projects I'm proud of — one something new, the other a bit of a throwback.