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David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Agree. This should have happened long ago, when they went after Acosta. That's not where good reporting happens anyway.

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David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is blasphemy against my pal Kermit!

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David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

He has told so many damn lies, umpteen thousands, yet this one seems to be in a ring-of-hell category all to itself.

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David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The capitulation of big tech to autocracy is enraging, dangerous, and sadly predictable.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/07/2026

Tim Bakken, West Point's longest-serving law professor, says officials never tried to silence him — until Trump’s second presidency, when the military academy revised its faculty speech rules. In September, he sued West Point in federal court.

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After Trump’s order, West Point curbed faculty speech. One professor said no.

Tim Bakken argues that the Pentagon's attempt to stifle what teachers can say and write makes the military more susceptible to bad decisions.

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David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It pisses me off that so many journalists demeaned themselves by attending the Trump dinner tonight. This was not a celebration of press freedom. It was delusional.

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David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Agree 100 percent. It's Bezos. Not the pro reporters doing their best.

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Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The lack of discipline has been Bezos's - he mistook his mailman money for expertise, and now he's shifting blame for his mishandling of the paper on to ...reporters?? He has his damn nerve. He should fire himself. Go back to reading Isaac Asimov and sell to a professional publisher.

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Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

No one at the Washpost wanted Bezos' philanthropy. The staff is one of the most competitive rooms in the world. What they asked for was a winning STRATEGY, which he has been utterly ignorantly abysmally incapable of providing -- out of pure lack of applying himself and disinterest.

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David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

All of this Christian nationalism so dangerous and yet my first thought: who's that unseen creep despoiling my Brewers with that logo jersey on the edge of the photo of the odiously oily Mike Johnson?

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

"The world's richest men are crushing the world's poorest children." Plaudits to @nickkristof.bsky.social for stating plainly what's happening. We live in ugly times. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/o...

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Opinion | This Is What Happened When Trump Abandoned the World’s Poorest Children

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

There is no excuse for downplaying or eliding the insanity of Trump’s morning post. It is the most unhinged public comment by a president in US history and should be reported and remarked upon as such.

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David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Every Republican member of Congress is complicit in this demented mania.

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David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I forgot that the U.S. won the Vietnam war.

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David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

When Trump in 2016 first told the lie about once meeting Lombardi, I established then that it was bullshit. It was an apocryphal story. Though minus the usual telltale "Sir..." It was also a gross mischaracterization of Lombardi, whose ethos was the opposite of Trump's.

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Detroit Historical Society @detroithistorical.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

On March 26, 1944, twelve-time Grammy and Oscar-nominated singer, actress and producer Diana Ross was born in Detroit. Ross has had a total of 18 #1 hits in the U.S. Learn more: www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online...

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David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

As if there weren't ample evidence already, Trump's response to Robert Mueller's death is a reminder that the U.S. president is one of the most vile humans on planet Earth.

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David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Wisconsin just got outcoached and outshot. They weren't lumbering or slow at all. That's an old stereotype that no longer applies. Nick Boyd is one of the fastest guards in the country. The team scored over 90 points many times.

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UW Center for Journalism Ethics @uwethics.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

On April 20, we'll be in Washington, DC, to celebrate the winners of the 2026 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics. Join us in honoring Shadid's legacy and hear from @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social in conversation w/ @davidmaraniss.bsky.social. More info here: ethics.sjmc.wisc.edu/2026-shadid-...

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Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Data only tells you what people already read. It can’t tell you what they will read. It inevitably narrows and homogenizes your content. This killed Sports Illustrated. I’m watching the identical stupidity syndrome at the Washpost

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Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

This is a good but incomplete story. First, top editor and publisher ORDERED fewer stories -- insistently. Productivity didn't fall. Second, there is a wave of chaos, backpedaling in newsroom from absurd "data" math that is already seen as terrible miscalculation. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...

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How Jeff Bezos Upended The Washington Post

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David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The nation is run by corrupt fascists and all The Washington Post editorial editors care about is protecting the advantages of the wealthy. Boring, sloppily written odes to the "free markets" day after day. It is impossible to overstate how much I detest this.

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David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

There is nothing in this world quite like @sallyjenx.bsky.social when she is rightfully pissed. Danny Snyder learned this. The boys clubs of the NCAA and IOC learned this. The golfers of bloody LIV learned this. And now she's full on ripping the cruel and stupid ownership/management of the Post.

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David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Malpractice. But that's too kind a word for these numbskulls.

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David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

But no self respecting journalist should.

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David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

And it is what LBJ asked his war cabinet on October 17 1967 as the 2/28 Battalion of the First Infantry was marching into a brutal ambush in the jungle 44 miles northwest of Saigon. 60 soldiers died in that battle. Tens of thousands more deaths would follow.

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David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

New Washington Post editorial page motto: comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted.

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David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Is anyone -- besides Bezos and maybe scattered right-wingers -- reading Washpost editorials? They get worse by the day. Boring, predictable odes to the wealthy class, far worse than the Wall St. Journal.

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David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

As the Rev. Billy Kyles told me in 1988, "If King was Moses, Jesse is Joshua. He stands on King's shoulders. Whoever comes after Jesse will stand on his shoulders."

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David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Jesse Jackson sang the body electric. He was part Walt Whitman, part John Coltrane.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Watch this.

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David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

What a soory tenure. Good riddance. The first good thing that's happened for the (surviving) great journalists at the Post in a long time.

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David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Totally agree. It's always about race.

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David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Washington sports legend dies two days after legendary Washington sports section killed.

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David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

He loves the celebrity life and hates his staff. Odious creature.

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David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Matt Murray should have resigned. His rationalizations to Fox are specious. He acknowledges he has been working closely on all things with the utterly incompetent and corrupt publisher Will Lewis, who lierally hates the staff he is supposed to lead. That says it all.

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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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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 04/02/2026

I just learned that The Post fired Marty Weil. I wasn't in the newsroom much, but when I was, he came in for his evening shifts, he would come through and say hello to literally everyone there. A really great guy, and a true sign of what The Post is giving up.

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David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

When Bezos took over the Post I said "Bezos is a killer, but at least he's killing for us." I sensed this might happen but didn't want to focus on it then, hoping his money would protect the great institution where I worked for 48 years.How naive and shortsighted I was.

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