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Maegan Vazquez

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Political breaking news reporter for The Washington Post.

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Liam Adams @liamsadams.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Then, from @maeganvaz.bsky.social for @washingtonpost.com: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
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Nationalist AfD wins key regional election in Germany but falls short of majority
Alternative for Germany, labeled “extremist” by German authorities, polled first in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt but still might not control the government.
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Liam Adams @liamsadams.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Volkswagen's CEO elaborated recently on a previously announced restructuring, estimating about 50,000 layoffs (labor reps fear up to 100,000). From fellow Burns fellow @maeganvaz.bsky.social on this current/impending earthquake in the global auto industry. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
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Volkswagen CEO warns German workers of sweeping layoffs to come
The automaker, one of the nation’s biggest employers, could shed tens of thousands of jobs amid global market shifts driven by electrification, AI and autonomous driving.
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Liam Adams @liamsadams.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Berlin has wrestled w/ how to preserve Nazi-era architecture, with some worrying about pilgrimage sites for neo-Nazis. That question is clashing with Berlin's housing crisis...at the bunker where Hitler died. From my fellowship colleague @maeganvaz.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
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A Nazi bunker stands in the way of Berlin’s housing plans
A plan to build apartments over the bunker is igniting debate on how Germany should address its complex history under Adolf Hitler.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Feb. 10: Trump portfolio buys between $1 million and $5 million in stock in Dell. Feb. 19: Trump at rally encourages supporters to "buy a Dell computer." May 27: Pentagon awards $9.7 billion contract to Dell. @maeganvaz.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Dell inks $9.7 billion Pentagon contract after Trump acquires stock
Ethics experts say Trump’s recent investments in and public praise for the tech company create the appearance of a conflict of interest.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Justice Dept. says the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional (story w/ @jeremyrroebuck.bsky.social) wapo.st/48rDEjU
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Justice Dept. says the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional
The DOJ concluded that a law requiring presidential records preservation is unconstitutional, setting the path to potentially upend decades-old legal precedent.
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Julian Mark @julez.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
NEW: Congressional Black Caucus sued over scholarships for black students. Lawsuit says the scholarships illegally discriminate based on race. w/ @maeganvaz.bsky.social
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Black Caucus scholarships discriminate based on race, lawsuit alleges
The lawsuit, filed by an anti-affirmative action group, is part of a broader movement to dismantle programs meant to remedy the effects of past discrimination.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Join me today on @kqedforum.bsky.social. I'll discuss the vast reach of Jeffrey Epstein's network and the accountability efforts (or lackthereof) that have ensued in Washington and abroad. www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
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The Vast Reach of Jeffrey Epstein's Network | KQED
Airdate: Monday, March 2 at 10 AM Weeks after the Department of Justice released millions of pages of documents related to accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, new questions are emerging about evid...
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Azi Paybarah @therealazi.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
via @maeganvaz.bsky.social Link: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Devon Heinen @devonheinen.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
NEW via @washingtonpost.com's @maeganvaz.bsky.social: "#Bondi says Justice will investigate relationships to #Epstein suggested by #Trump" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Bondi says Justice will investigate relationships to Epstein suggested by Trump
President Donald Trump suggested the relationships between the disgraced financier and several prominent Democrats deserve more scrutiny than his own connections to Epstein.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Trump’s new health-care proposal — to give insurers’ ACA subsidy money directly to Americans — would require an act of Congress that’s wildly unlikely. (They can’t even agree on much smaller ACA changes.) But it’s his latest bid to pressure Democrats as shutdown drags. With @maeganvaz.bsky.social
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Trump urges Senate GOP to give ACA subsidies directly to Americans
Obamacare subsidies have been a sticking point for Democrats. The president wants to send the funds directly to Americans, which would require congressional action.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
New date and time! Join me on November 19 for a conversation with @jocelynbenson.bsky.social: events.nyu.edu/event/376679...
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Changemakers in Focus: A Conversation with Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson
Join Penn Washington, the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy, the NYU John Brademas Center, and the Association of Marshall Scholars...
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Trump complains about ‘really weird’ Time magazine photo wapo.st/3WInvQN
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Trump complains about ‘really weird’ Time magazine photo
The president says the publication “deserves to be called out” for using an unflattering image of him for its cover story about his efforts in the Middle East.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Please join me in DC on Sept. 22 for a conversation with Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. RSVP links below!
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Newsom said Trump’s law enforcement surge to Democratic-led cities is “blatant hypocrisy,” when, he says, there are higher crime rates in some Republican-run places. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Newsom: Crime is a larger problem in GOP-led areas than Democratic-led ones
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Trump’s law enforcement surge to Democratic-led cities is “blatant hypocrisy,” when, he says, there are higher crime rates in some Republican-run places.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
White House taps top RFK Jr. deputy as acting CDC director wapo.st/4lSXqIV
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White House taps top RFK Jr. deputy as acting CDC director
The decision comes a day after Trump fired Susan Monarez, the Senate-confirmed CDC director, prompting a series of resignations of other top officials there.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
My dispatch from the Granite State -- Gallego gives Democrats blunt advice in New Hampshire, fueling 2028 talk wapo.st/476IT91
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Gallego gives Democrats blunt advice in New Hampshire, fueling 2028 talk
The freshman Arizona senator is making the rounds on the traditional early presidential circuit with a diagnosis of his party’s problem and a pitch for winning Trump voters.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Kristi Noem is living free of charge in Coast Guard commandant’s home wapo.st/4mike5W
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Kristi Noem is living free of charge in Coast Guard commandant’s home
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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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Trump threatens federal takeover of D.C. after attack on DOGE worker wapo.st/4m4j8ec
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Trump threatens federal takeover of D.C. after attack on DOGE worker
“If D.C. doesn’t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City,” Trump wrote Tuesday on Truth Social.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge wapo.st/47d5yjT
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White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge
President Donald Trump has said he wants a “baby boom,” but critics say his administration has yet to make significant family policy changes — and that Medicaid cuts will hurt.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Former Trump prosecutor Jack Smith faces investigation by Office of Special Counsel (w/@merylkornfield.bsky.social) wapo.st/4oeBkmR
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Former Trump prosecutor Jack Smith faces investigation by Office of Special Counsel
Jack Smith, who pursued two cases against Donald Trump, is being investigated for potentially violating the Hatch Act.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Hear Robin Givhan and Marc Jacobs on creativity, vulnerability and getting older wapo.st/47834Dq
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Hear Robin Givhan and Marc Jacobs on creativity, vulnerability and getting older
The Washington Post’s Robin Givhan in conversation with designer Marc Jacobs.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Does your city have too much of one kind of tree? That can be a problem. wapo.st/45qiGkk
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Does your city have too much of one kind of tree? That can be a problem.
Many urban canopies across U.S. cities are dominated by only a handful of tree types, putting them at risk of being wiped out by an insect or disease.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
DHS is posting Americana paintings and migrant mugshots. The art world is not happy. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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DHS is posting Americana paintings and migrant mugshots. The art world is not happy.
Homeland Security is sharing images of pastoral paintings bookended by posts cheering Trump’s deportation campaign. Some artists are pushing back.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Hot Dogs for Insomnia? A Kennedy Aide’s Start-Up Can Get You a Tax Break. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/b...
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Hot Dogs for Insomnia? A Kennedy Aide’s Start-Up Can Get You a Tax Break.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Over 1 in 5 high-level Trump picks held crypto, Post analysis finds wapo.st/3IyvKLA
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Over 1 in 5 high-level Trump picks held crypto, Post analysis finds
Over 1 in 5 top Trump appointees reported investments in crypto and other digital assets, far more than previous administrations, a Post analysis found.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Texas to consider redistricting congressional map in special session wapo.st/4lRuUbn
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Texas to consider redistricting congressional map in special session
The state legislature will take the rare step of considering a mid-decade redrawing of district lines in light of concerns raised by the Justice Department.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Mexico braced for Trump’s mass deportations. They haven’t happened. wapo.st/3IbPLrg
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Mexico braced for Trump’s mass deportations. They haven’t happened.
Trump has largely shut down the southwest border by ending asylum programs and deploying troops. But those moves have shrunk the pool of easy-to-deport migrants.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Zohran Mamdani calls himself a democratic socialist. Here’s what that means. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Zohran Mamdani calls himself a democratic socialist. Here’s what that means.
The 33-year-old candidate clinched the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York on Tuesday.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
How Washington is stressing out American schools wapo.st/4dYjL5v
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The ways government is stressing out your child’s public school
Take a journey through our schoolhouse to see some of the headwinds facing K-12 education in America today.
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Arelis R. Hernández @arelisrhdz.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Trump’s team is asking federal employees to develop rationales to cut funding to California, per two officials and records reviewed by The Post, via @hannah_natanson @ELaserDavies @maeganvaz.bsky.social @iduncan www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump administration weighs broad cancellation of California funding
Trump’s team is asking federal employees to develop rationales for funding cuts to the state, including citing noncompliance with the president’s executive orders.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Chinese propaganda surges as the U.S. defunds Radio Free Asia wapo.st/4jDsqvx
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Chinese propaganda surges as the U.S. defunds Radio Free Asia
Beijing expanded its state propaganda, including to the persecuted Tibetan and Uyghur minorities, as RFA pulled back.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Trump administration reinstates and expands travel ban wapo.st/3FAhVv6
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Trump administration reinstates and expands travel ban
The effort comes as the president has pursued a series of extraordinary measures to curtail both illegal and legal immigration.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The mysterious drop in fentanyl seizures on the U.S.-Mexico border wapo.st/4kINMZi
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The mysterious drop in fentanyl seizures on the U.S.-Mexico border
The reasons behind the decrease of fentanyl seizures in the U.S. and along the Mexico-U.S. border are complex.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Is knowing how to spell still relevant? wapo.st/43jLUk4
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Opinion | Is knowing how to spell still relevant?
The Scripps National Spelling Bee starts this week. Do you have what it takes?
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Who chose the chairs?
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Emily Guskin @emgusk.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Love to see an Emily Yahr/ @maeganvaz.bsky.social politics byline
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Trump to pardon reality stars Todd and Julie Chrisley
The former stars of USA Network’s “Chrisley Knows Best” were sentenced to 12 and seven years, respectively, in 2022 for fraud and tax evasion.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Judge says Trump administration violated court order with South Sudan deportations wapo.st/4k7T6FS
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Judge says Trump administration violated court order with South Sudan deportations
U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy said the removals violated his prior order that migrants be given time to challenge their deportations to countries where they are not citizens
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Inside the conclave: A visual guide on how the next pope will be elected wapo.st/42W7B9L
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Inside the conclave: A visual guide on how the next pope will be elected
The conclave process to elect the next pope is shrouded in secrecy. Here’s a visual guide to the ancient tradition.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
From prosperity to austerity: Trump’s tone shifts ahead of tariff impacts wapo.st/4k4vxx4
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From prosperity to austerity: Trump’s tone shifts ahead of tariff impacts
Trump has long promised to unleash a “golden age.” Now he is warning that Americans may have to cut back.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I made this Tatte-inspired Halloumi salad for my work lunches this week. The sesame-almond topping truly takes it over the top! wapo.st/4cWQOXe
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Halloumi Salad With Almond Crunch and Tahini Dressing
Seared halloumi stars in this crunchy, Mediterranean-inspired salad that’s a riff on a menu item at Tatte Bakery & Cafe.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Is Trump waging a war on dolls? wapo.st/4iKLHLe
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Is Trump waging a war on dolls?
It remains unclear how Trump’s tariff forecast that “maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls” will play out politically.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
She tried to expose Russia’s brutal detention system — and ended up dead wapo.st/3YNw5PF
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She tried to expose Russia’s brutal detention system — and ended up dead
A consortium of international journalists continued the work of Viktoriia Roshchyna, who was investigating reports of torture and detention of Ukrainian civilians in occupied Ukraine.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Trump’s first 100 days, in 10 charts wapo.st/4lRmktN
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Trump’s first 100 days, in 10 charts
Trump’s second term has seen a significant increase in executive orders, with more than 140 signed in his first 100 days, and a decline in his approval rating.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Meet the top donors to Trump’s $239 million inauguration fund wapo.st/42EDQKt
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Meet the top donors to Trump’s $239 million inauguration fund
The donors who gave at least $1 million to President Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration fund include crypto companies and people appointed to his administration.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Next week I'll be participating in an event in conversation with Kenneth Roth, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch, at NYU's Washington, D.C., campus. It will be a great discussion -- I hope you'll join us! www.nyu.edu/community/go...
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Changemakers in Focus: A Conversation with Kenneth Roth, former executive director of the Human Rights Watch
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
As Trump tariffs sink in, conservatives challenge whether they’re legal wapo.st/3XPzRrA
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As Trump tariffs sink in, conservatives challenge whether they’re legal
The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a legal nonprofit, has filed a complaint on behalf of a small stationery company in Florida.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Inspector general to scrutinize Trump team’s Signal chat wapo.st/3Rwd1Bt
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Inspector general to scrutinize Trump team’s Signal chat
The inspector general review follows revelations that top Trump officials used the unclassified platform Signal to coordinate military strikes in Yemen.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
See all the tariffs Trump has enacted, threatened and canceled www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
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See all the tariffs Trump has enacted, threatened and canceled
Get a day-by-day look at how Trump’s trade war has unfolded and where it stands now.
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Maegan Vazquez @maeganvaz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Internal White House document details layoff plans across U.S. agencies wapo.st/4l334sO
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Internal White House document details layoff plans across U.S. agencies
While officials stressed the estimates were subject to change, the snapshot suggests how agencies are meeting President Trump’s mandate to shrink government.
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Arelis R. Hernández @arelisrhdz.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Judge temporarily blocks DOGE from accessing sensitive Social Security data. Via @maeganvaz.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Judge temporarily blocks DOGE from accessing sensitive Social Security data
In a scathing ruling on Thursday, a federal judge wrote that DOGE “essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA, in search of a fraud epidemic, based on little more than suspicion.”
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