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@bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social
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Former graphics reporter at The Washington Post. Old runner, new pickleballer. Always up to something.

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bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social @bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This has to be a joke, right? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/u...
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Hegseth Plans to Screen All Troops, Including Women, for Low Testosterone (Gift Article)
Pete Hegseth, as defense secretary, has sought to cultivate an image as a manosphere-friendly leader.
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Nancy Armour @nrarmour.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant
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bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social @bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Pulisic singing along to Country Roads — 10/10
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bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social @bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Now that was an exciting 0-0!
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bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social @bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Sometimes, people are wonderful. wapo.st/4ek3mJv
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Sanitation workers saved a dog from a trash can. Then one of them adopted him.
The dog was in dire condition when they found him, but right away accepted two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and belly rubs from the crew.
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bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social @bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Every few years I spend $300 for supplies that will ultimately yield $7 in vegetables. Today is that day.
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The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · 23/04/2026
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bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social @bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
‘Bout time
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 06/02/2026
The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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janice kai chen @janicekchen.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Don’t forget about Daniel @sadbumblebee.buzz himself, who is a brilliant and compassionate writer, climate reporter, and developer — among many other talents. Some of my faves of his work: wapo.st/4rv3WZJ wapo.st/4a1IIwS
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It took 20 years, but I granted my dad his last wish
When I found out my dad’s last wish was for his family to ride in El Tour de Tucson, I took up the challenge.
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Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · 05/02/2026
The Post was foolish enough to unleash a bevy of the world’s most talented multi-disciplinary journalists out there for their competition to scoop up. These are some of the most hard working and skilled people I know. Save this one and reshare it please! 📊
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bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social @bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Want to demonstrate beyond all doubt that you are a newspaper manager devoid of grace and humanity? Lay off Marty Weil. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
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He Was Laid Off at The Washington Post After Working There 60 Years
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bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social @bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Perfect
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
A non-journalist friend asked me — is losing 300 people from a newsroom a lot? I pointed out there are about 200 journalists at the Philadelphia Inquirer and about 100 at the Baltimore Banner. Imagine losing both those publications in a day.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The @washingtonpost, where I started in the mailroom, is the place that made me everything I am now. Skinflint billionaire and failed fashion model Jeff Bezos has decimated it. Well, fuck that guy and give to the people he screwed. www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t... www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...
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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
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/02/2026
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Marty Weil! He is the Post's institutional history. A legend for everyone who ever worked there.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
No struggling newspaper ever saved itself by becoming a worse and less essential product. But what's happening today at the @washingtonpost.com is not just the latest devastating contraction of the news industry; it's the gutting of an American institution vital for a healthy society
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Mike Madden @mikemadden.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
For what it’s worth, @washingtonpost.com broke this story www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon
Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.
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Shane Harris @shaneharris.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I spent 7 years at the @washingtonpost.com. Did some of the best work of my career. Had some of the best times of my life. The people responsible for the misery that is about to unfold will probably fail up, which is a damn shame. There will be a time for recriminations. But today...
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Sheo @sheologian.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
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Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
For nearly a century, the @washingtonpost’s foreign correspondents have been on the ground for the world’s most pressing stories. Now, our desk is facing potential steep cuts. Washington needs us. The world needs us. If you read us and need us, please watch this video and share.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L
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bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social @bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Utter stupidity from upper management. The Post’s Olympics coverage has been among the best for many decades. Now they’re killing it in the dumbest possible way. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/b...
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Washington Post Tears Up Plans to Cover Winter Olympics
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/01/2026
Can't believe I have to say this but climate change is responsible for extreme cold snaps.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 16/01/2026
Here is a gift link to the Times’ new analysis of the Good shooting. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...
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Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments
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bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social @bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Wonderful glimpses of some extraordinary ordinary people wapo.st/49aCcC5
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Remembering 10 extraordinary lives lost in 2025
They never got a Post obituary. They rarely made the news. But across the Washington area, they shaped and enhanced their communities.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 27/12/2025
Donald Trump, who disparaged Obama’s golf-playing and who said he’d be too busy to play himself, has surpassed Obama’s eight-year total in less than five years and is on pace to play twice as often — once every five days on average. www.howtoreadthisch.art/president-ho...
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bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social @bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
This is Phillip, the greyhound we adopted today. He found the game as stressful and exhausting as the rest us, but the Bears are now 1-0 with Phillip as a fan.
Sleeping greyhound wearing Chicago Bears bandana
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Sarah Kaplan @sarahkaplan48.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
This Post Reports episode featuring a doctor and patient navigating vaccine skepticism is a testament to the power of human connection and the importance of trusted voices in our misinformation era. An AI-generated "podcast" could never measure up. www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos...
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The biggest shift yet in U.S. vaccine policy - The Washington Post
An influential advisory panel has recommended dropping the hepatitis B vaccine at birth. This doctor is already seeing the consequences.
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bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social @bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
RIP Gramma wapo.st/48eTu0n
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‘Gramma,’ a tortoise who lived through 20 presidencies, dies at 141
Her life spanned a tumultuous period of U.S. and world history, from Chester Arthur to Donald Trump. To San Diegans, she was a beloved local celebrity.
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Kati Perry @katiperry.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I've wanted to work on a story using cookbook data for years. finally it happened! @bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social and I published a quiz this morning on all the weird stuff people put in your favorite recipes using data from Cookshelf/@eatyourbooks.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/food/interac...
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Ready for a food fight? Take our quiz on divisive recipe ingredients.
Should there be beans in Texas chili? Cottage cheese in lasagna? This quiz tackles some heated recipe ingredient debates.
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Emily Guskin @emgusk.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
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bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social @bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
“Potentially decisive?!” I really hope a swastika tattoo is 100 percent divisive
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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
"Things happen" sometimes, like when you walk into an embassy to apply for your marriage license while your bride-to-be waits outside, but then you get bonesawed to pieces for having exercised freedom of speech as an US-based journalist and have to be carried out in a series of suitcases.
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bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social @bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
A win for the bees (and a bee-loving kid)! www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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When the city tried to take a 10-year-old’s bees, hundreds rallied behind him
When a 10-year-old beekeeper in California learned his hives broke the law, he rallied support from his community to change it.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This right here.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
It’s our money. We already paid for it
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Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The Trump administration has billions of dollars to pay SNAP benefits, or food stamp, next month. It’s refusing to use them. Here’s why. 🎁 Learn more, gift link: wapo.st/4oK9DBH
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Scoop - Trump has fired all the sitting members on the Commission on Fine Arts, an independent agency expected to review his construction projects.
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White House fires arts commission expected to review Trump construction projects
The moves comes as President Donald Trump pursues efforts to build a White House ballroom and a triumphal arch in Washington.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 24/10/2025
Column: Yes, the pictures of the destruction of the East Wing were shocking, but not so shocking as all the things we don’t know about this project, which is being paid for by some of the wealthiest people and corporations on the planet.
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Column | Demolition is part of Trump’s master builder image
By Thursday, the White House’s East Wing was gone. The speed of destruction, and the projection of power, are part of the strongman playbook.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
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bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social @bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Excellent Kotter reference at #NoKings in Richmond
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bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social @bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Nobody on this site cares but BEARS!!!!!!
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bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social @bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Could someone please invent a button that would allow me to mute one person in the booth on any given sports broadcast?
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bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social @bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
This photo and the man in it changed U.S. history wapo.st/4nDMgcA
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Column | Erasing this indelible image of slavery is a terrifying idea
The Trump administration’s reported effort to censor one of the iconic images of American history is a five-alarm fire.
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bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social @bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Fabulous (and sometimes hilarious) ode to an editor wapo.st/4gwjuZ8
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Opinion | These editor’s notes are poison. I learned from every drop.
Working with Starling Lawrence, who died last month, was a bracing course in a vanishing art.
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bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social @bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Mondo Duplantis just set his 4th world record this year! Here’s how he does it. wapo.st/42xMMR3
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What makes Mondo fly?
A look at the unique jumping style of the world’s best pole vaulter, Armand “Mondo” Duplantis, who is favored to win his second Olympic gold medal in Paris.
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