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P.J. Joshi
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@washingtonpost National Weekend Editor, Wife & Mom
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Julie Z. Weil at @washingtonpost.com wants to hear from millennial & Gen Z homeowners out there about home ownership -- want to talk?

If you're interested in a Washington Post story about the youngest homebuyers, email:
[email protected]
Thanks so much!
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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My latest for @rollingstone.com, about the non-starter peace plan in which the U.S. once again punts, instead of working toward a meaningful solution to the bloody war in Ukraine. uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-ukrain...
Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan Gives Russia Nearly Everything It Wants
The White House has reverted to type, the president's administration tries to force Putin’s desired outcome on Zelensky
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November 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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NEW: Seven years after @aoc.bsky.social leapt onto the national stage as an outsider, she’s learned an inside game and is considering a run for Senate or president.

Read @lizcgoodwin.bsky.social & @yabutaleb7: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
AOC built her own political machine. Now she’s deciding her next move.
Seven years after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez leapt onto the national stage as an outsider, she’s learned an inside game and is considering a run for Senate or president.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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NEW: Trump faces resistance in MAGA movement over immigration & Epstein. By @knowleshannah.bsky.social: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump faces resistance in MAGA movement over immigration, Epstein
The rare criticism showed the limits of Trump’s authority over the “America First” agenda and raised some GOP concern about enthusiasm ahead of the midterms.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Join @ktumulty.bsky.social at 12 p.m. Eastern today for a chat with @postkranish.bsky.social about "Revolutionary Revelations," a Post series on the paradox of Thomas Jefferson's role in the American story www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Ask us about Epstein, midterms and America
Chief political correspondent Karen Tumulty will be joined by Michael Kranish, author of our series exploring Thomas Jefferson’s America, for her chat on Thursday at 12 p.m. ET.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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The Trump administration asked SCOTUS to pause an order directing it to release SNAP benefits, escalating a legal battle, via Mark Berman:
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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to block order on releasing SNAP benefits
A federal judge had directed the administration to release full benefits for November. The administration is appealing the order.
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November 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Your chest will tighten when you get to the woman crying in her car after receiving only $34 of a monthly $300 she relies on for food assistance.

In MAGA stronghold, fury over SNAP but little blame for Trump in shutdown By @CleveWootson + @SidhomLydia
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In MAGA stronghold, fury over SNAP but little blame for Trump in shutdown
People who use SNAP in Mike Johnson’s congressional district wonder why his power hasn’t protected them, but many lay the blame on Washington’s dysfunction.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Our Post poll finds 48% of American Jews rate Benjamin Netanyahu's leadership as "poor," up 20 points from a Pew survey in 2020. U.S. Jews also say Netanyahu deserves much more responsibility than Israel for the continuation of the Israel-Gaza war. Read more -> www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
October 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Democrats’ defiance on shutdown shows a new, tougher approach to Trump. After eight months of getting battered by Republicans, the party has largely abandoned efforts at conciliation or outreach, by @NaftaliBendavid @yabutaleb7 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Democrats’ defiance on shutdown shows a new, tougher approach to Trump
After eight months of getting battered by Republicans, the party has largely abandoned efforts at conciliation or outreach.
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October 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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On WhatsApp, Palestinians in the U.S. look for food for Gaza — and mourn, by @yabutaleb7 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
On WhatsApp, Palestinians in the U.S. look for food for Gaza — and mourn
The group chat provides a place for members to share their grief as tragedy after tragedy unfolds in the tiny enclave.
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August 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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EXCLUSIVE: The Pentagon has for weeks been planning a military deployment to Chicago as Trump seeks to crack down on crime, homelessness and undocumented immigration.

It's a model that could later be used in other major cities, via @danlamothe.bsky.social
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Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago as Trump eyes crackdown
President Donald Trump said Chicago is his next likely target to crack down on urban crime. Military planning has been ongoing for weeks, officials say.
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August 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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@washingtonpost.com is collecting the videos and photos of the police encounters you’ve witnessed in D.C. since President Donald Trump ordered federal agents to patrol the city.

Upload your footage via this link:
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We want your videos of law enforcement interactions in D.C. - Formstack
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August 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Harris to embark on tour to promote memoir about presidential campaign, via @amyBwang www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Harris to embark on tour to promote memoir about presidential campaign
The 15-city book tour will be Harris’s first series of planned public appearances around the country since she lost the election in November.
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August 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Trump and the GOP portray cities as chaotic dystopias in need of occupation. The president describes cities as “blood-soaked” and “cesspools,” while military incursions in D.C. and L.A. show growing anti-urban sentiment on the right, by @NaftaliBendavid www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump, GOP portray cities as chaotic dystopias in need of occupation
The president describes cities as “blood-soaked” and “cesspools.” His military incursions into D.C. and L.A. culminate growing anti-urban sentiment on the right.
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August 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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BIG SCOOP by @marianne_levine, @lizcgoodwin.bsky.social & @danlamothe.bsky.social:
Kristi Noem is living free in Coast Guard commandant’s home on a US military base. No DHS secretary has done this, even in the years after 9/11 when the US was at war.
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Kristi Noem is living rent free in home used by Coast Guard commandant
A DHS spokesman said Noem must live on the military base because she had been “so horribly doxxed and targeted that she is no longer able to safely live in her own apartment.”
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August 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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WaPo asked me to pen an essay about K-POP DEMON HUNTERS and I wrote about why hybrid identities and respectful cultural crossovers fueled KPDH's explosive success—and are the superpower that made Hollywood the biggest force in global pop culture.
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Opinion | How ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ became a global phenomenon
The hit film shows how remixing South Korean culture with an American eye can have universal appeal.
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July 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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The Trump administration claims sites tracking immigration officers are putting law enforcement at risk. The creators say they’re helping shield people from a modern-day “Gestapo.”
Robert Klemko reports for @washingtonpost.com
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The online activists trying to stop ICE from making arrests
The Trump administration claims sites tracking immigration officers are putting law enforcement at risk. The creators say they’re helping shield people from a modern-day “Gestapo.”
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July 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Musk says he wants a new political party, and many agree. Can he pull it off? Would-be independent candidates have been searching for what they say is a sensible center of the electorate for a long time. No one has found it, by @danbalz www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Analysis | Musk says he wants a new political party, and many agree. Can he pull it off?
Would-be independent candidates have been searching for what they say is a sensible center of the electorate for a long time. No one has found it.
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July 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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The divide between Democratic voters and elected leaders over Israel isn’t just happening in New York.

@patrickdmarley on why it’s also rattling a moderate swing state

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Democratic fissure over Israel hits a moderate swing state
An anti-Israel resolution in North Carolina points to a growing rift between the party’s voters and its leaders.
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July 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings:
-Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove)
-Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%)

news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
July 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Wow this story www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
In India’s deportation drive, Muslim men recount being tossed into the sea
India’s recent deportation drive targeting its Muslim minority was marked by home demolitions, arbitrary detentions, allegations of torture and a lack of due process.
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July 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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He's used to trash talk but Grok's changes have made it way worse, like "we're on a roller coaster and he decided to take the seatbelts off."

"Who wants to be known as a person who got sexually threatened by a robot?" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Grok’s Nazi tirade sparks debate: Who’s to blame when AI spews hate?
Antisemitic outbursts from the chatbot promoted by Elon Musk shows how AI companies often face minimal consequences when their projects go rogue.
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July 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Trump officials who felt sidelined on liberal campuses are spearheading a federal crackdown on DEI at their alma maters. A deep dive into the people and power behind the push to change Harvard and U-Va. & others, via @emilydavies.bsky.social & @DanRosZiff
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The Trump staffers who set out to reshape their alma maters
Architects of pressure campaigns targeting U-Va. and Harvard were shaped by experiences as ideological minorities in liberal campus communities.
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July 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Miami postponed its 2025 elections.

The move would schedule city elections to coincide with even-year midterms and presidential elections, but is opposed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and others, by @sabrod123.bsky.social
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/06/miami-election-2026-desantis/
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July 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Camp Mystic, which has been attended by the daughters of LBJ as well as former first lady Laura Bush, gave many girls space to forge an identity. That idyll was shattered this week, via @jjouvenal.bsky.social, @EvaRuth & @bradydennis.bsky.social
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The floods have devastated a touchstone of Texas culture: Summer camp
Summer camp in the flood-prone Hill Country has long been a rite of passage for young people from Texas and beyond.
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July 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM