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Amy Argetsinger

@amyargetsinger.bsky.social
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Editor and occasional writer on the features staff of The Washington Post, author of “There She Was: The Secret History of Miss America” (S&S, 2021)

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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Elahe’s story on the Louis CK comeback is another stand out I would have missed without this grimy bag of print I carry around. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
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Analysis | How Louis C.K. went from being an ‘outcast’ to landing a new Netflix special
The comic was dropped by mainstream Hollywood after admitting to sexual misconduct. But he’s been working stages and gaining fans in the years since.
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This morning working through my print newspaper backlog, I learned from @ethanbeck2003.bsky.social that Phylicia Rashad was once married to the cop from the Village People. THIS is why I keep that stack of unread print copies. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
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Victor Willis, who fronted the Village People and co-wrote ‘Y.M.C.A.,’ dies at 74
The singer was a mainstay of the disco group, dressing as a policeman or naval officer while performing hits such as “In the Navy” and “Macho Man.”
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Incredible reporting by @maurajudkis.bsky.social. Please read through to the end. wapo.st/4u296gY
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My job was to cover the correspondents’ dinner parties. Then came the gunshots.
I was seated with my back to the stage, facing the doors — the worst seat at the table, but the right spot to get a small glimpse of what would unfold.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16/04/2026
Not only did the sons probably call ICE on her, the day after her husband died they took their dad's cars, leaving her housebound. Then they rerouted mail, causing her to miss a visa appointment & the utilities to be turned off. Tony and Gary Ross are going to hell. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...
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ICE Arrests 85-Year-Old French Widow Who Married Her G.I. Sweetheart
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
shampoo for my real friends ...
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Karen Tumulty @ktumulty.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Such a fun story from @amyargetsinger.bsky.social -- How Keri Russell’s suede Coach boots ended up in my closet www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
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Column | How Keri Russell’s suede Coach boots ended up in my closet
Hollywood memorabilia auctions can “extend the ride” for nostalgic fans of bygone TV shows -- and enhance their wardrobes at bargain prices.
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Oh yeah, well, sure.
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Also, I lost interest in "True Detective" the minute Season One ended, uh... 12 years ago? "Keep exploring" seems to presume a lot.
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I cannot even emphasize how far from my algorithm this is. I don't think I've ever even googled Foreigner.
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Never change, AI-enhanced Google search. Never change.
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Last fall, reporters on the Kennedy Center beat were confused when the opera director dropped a bombshell in the Guardian but then wouldn’t repeat it to anyone else. They assumed she had spoken out of turn. But she knew what she was doing. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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Inside the Kennedy Center’s scorched-earth Washington National Opera split
How the Washington National Opera’s Francesca Zambello forced a confrontation to leave the Kennedy Center after the Trump takeover threatened its future.
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Travis M Andrews @travismandrews.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
lol
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I regret to inform you that it is snowing again.
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Oh my god. Never saw that one before.
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
My biggest fear about watching this guy climb this skyscraper is that it might be really boring.
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Still pretty funny but hits a little different after this week at Davos. youtu.be/3coxrP3wbd4?...
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The Marx Brothers - This Country's Going To War
YouTube video by 1234567890tgb
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
It is too emotionally intense for people under 12 and owners for black cats of any age.
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Epic thread.
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
obviously, this is a timely subtweet but it is sincere, not snark, and it's a revelation I had nine months ago -- timestamped and everything. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Anyone writing a memoir should consult with a therapist. Even more important than an editor.
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Watched the 2021 remake the other night. It was shockingly good.
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (mostly for that one transcendent scene) Goodfellas (it’s actually a comedy) Jackass: The Movie (possibly the hardest I have laughed in a room by myself)
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Buried lede: Olbermann says the dogs he adopted with Nuzzi looked sad whenever they saw her on CNN after she moved out. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/s...
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In This Scandal, the Journalists Are the Story
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Not just the usual cancer memoir. An absolute must-read. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
You may have other questions. I just want to know how they could afford a three-story house in Georgetown with a courtyard -- bamboo or not.
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Not nearly enough Baby Ruth minis this year.
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
“Seventeen of his pre-written obituaries are still waiting to be published.” www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
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Bart Barnes, a Washington Post journalist for five decades, dies at 87
He helped cover the March on Washington, contributed to the paper’s first Watergate story and became a mainstay of the obituaries desk.
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
... Is that they are great actors *because* they are great listeners. They are unusually present in the moment, observant, taking in all the stimuli around them. This level of focus and absorption allows them to act and react naturally. Not coincidentally, it makes them extraordinarily charming.
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Bob Woodward's observation about Redford ("the most careful and intense listener I have ever encountered") does not surprise me at all. In my many interactions with celebrities, I found that the best actors were all great listeners. My theory... 🧵 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
"it’s okay for a pundit to vow revenge on supposed political enemies. But not okay for one to point out that, in a polarized environment, hateful words can lead to hateful actions" @sulliview.bsky.social As the US right gets brazen, others go craven. margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/what-gets-...
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What gets you fired — or celebrated — on cable news?
An answer in four parts: Matthew Dowd, Scott Jennings, Jesse Watters, and Brian Kilmeade
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Thank you for being the only person on BlueSky talking about this, @sarambsimon.bsky.social. And you know? I knew it would be you!
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Can't stop thinking about this: “I keep seeing these memes where Indians are bragging about taking our tech jobs. So I said, ‘Oh yeah? Well I’m going to work with these guys that are going to arrest you, slam your face on the pavement and send you home.’” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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At an ICE career expo, thousands line up to ‘defend the homeland’
An ex-Marine, a former professional MMA fighter, a retired officer: Meet the people angling to join ICE and carry out President Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Please don’t tell me I have to actually see the movie if I want to continue alluding to it in learned fashion.
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
It only got 75 shares!
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
What a time to be in media... www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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First report of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s romance is gone from the web
The disappearance of a prescient 2023 item on the Messenger’s news site highlights the broader problem of digital decay.
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
regret to inform you that no matter how exquisite your taste is now, your children will one day love Stomp Clap Hey music. You hate it as a corny remnant of your own childhood, and you will cringe when they enjoy it unironically. This is the way of the world. I went through this with Yacht Rock.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 19/08/2025
This is so fucked up I cannot even explain the depths to which it is fucked. I know this metaphor for LLMs is not quite right but this is like rewarding an autocorrect for fixing typos, rewarding your GPS; rewarding Siri. There is no there there to receive the “treat.” It has no wants or needs.
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Simon Owens @simonowens.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
This is a pretty interesting deep dive into why newspapers owned by Advance Local punch far above their weight in terms of online traffic. The company kind of floats below the radar despite owning a lot of newspapers because it's privately held. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/how-...
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How did newspapers in places like Harrisburg, Birmingham, and Syracuse become some of America’s most-read online?
They share an owner that sometimes gets forgotten — but which dominates much larger peers in web traffic. Here's our first monthly ranking of the top 25 local newspaper websites in the United States.
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I hoped I could stay out of this one but @solomonmissouri.bsky.social had to go draw me in.
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Do one this summer and the other next summer?
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Nice choice to have to consider. Which country?
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Darrow Montgomery @darrow-m.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Giant privilege question: At my late age I have a choice between driving cross-country and back or getting on a plane to the country I spent 7 years growing up in in the 1970s. I really have no clue what the move should be
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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Yes - but parallel you have kids who get into hero's journey, slaying-the-dragon, redemption-arc stuff & are never encouraged to read anything else. It persists to adulthood & you get functionally literate people with a cartoonish idea of humanity, which is just as bad.
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
"Lovely irony that Washington — a city full of swaggering mercenaries, political theater kids, walking LinkedIn profiles — becomes, for three months out of the year, an open-air sauna that is liable to transform them, under a full sun, into a pack of sweat werewolves."
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Oh no, I'm about to do the thing where I feel helplessly compelled to post literally every other line of a Judkis take. Must resist. But here's one more, okay?....
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
"When it’s very, very bad — like it is this week — you might see someone get up from their Metro seat and leave behind a dank, glistening imprint of their thighs." -- @maurajudkis.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/style/of-int...
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Sweaty Season has returned to the damp seat of government
Washington summers are a rite of passage for every young striver who aspires not to be seen as a hot mess.
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
clearly!
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
True. It's still an industry that needs to pay its employees, so we're all in favor of readers clicking on the headlines that our reporting created -- ad impressions and all.
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Amy Argetsinger @amyargetsinger.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I’m with you on the unfortunate rise of clickbait. But I define it as headlines that manipulate you into a click that wasn’t worth your time. But jaded readers might have skipped over a quieter headline. Why not lean into the emotional aspects of an important story if it encourages them to tune in?
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