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Harrison Smith
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I edit and write obituaries for @washingtonpost.com. More interested in life than death. Get in touch at [email protected]
"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...
25 ways travel has changed this century
Our staff discusses the biggest moments and advancements that took place between 2000 and 2025. Then we asked travel industry stalwarts for theirs.
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January 15, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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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)
January 14, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Reposted by Harrison Smith
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
January 14, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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...
Claudette Colvin, civil rights pioneer on a Montgomery bus, dies at 86
Nine months before Rosa Parks made history, Ms. Colvin refused to give up her seat on a segregated city bus. She became a star witness in a civil rights case.
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January 13, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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...
Scott Adams, ‘Dilbert’ creator who poked fun at bad bosses, dies at 68
His three-panel comic strip was published in more than 2,000 newspapers, only to fade from view after Mr. Adams made racist comments on a YouTube live stream.
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January 13, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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...
Aldrich Ames, most damaging CIA traitor in agency history, dies at 84
He reportedly caused the deaths of at least 10 recruited CIA or allied intelligence agents.
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January 6, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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."
January 5, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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...
January 5, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Frannie says it feels good to have never lost to Michigan. Hook ‘em
January 1, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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
December 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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.
December 30, 2025 at 11:21 PM