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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Working on this new oral history of the weekend Bear Stearns over the past weeks has underscored to me — cough cough — how incredibly important it is to have competent, smart, thoughtful people in the key roles of government in a crisis: wapo.st/3Y3zWIn
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Opinion | The weekend that shook the world
Seventeen years ago, Bear Stearns collapsed over a weekend — what lessons remain today?
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
My new oral history for @postopinions.bsky.social of the weekend that Bear Stearns collapsed, the opening act of the 2008 financial crisis that upended our world and launched the populist wing of the GOP that we're now reckoning with today. Based on 20 interviews with insiders: wapo.st/3Y3zWIn
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Opinion | The weekend that shook the world
Seventeen years ago, Bear Stearns collapsed over a weekend — what lessons remain today?
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Someone needs to take away all the psychedelics from Silicon Valley. It is irresponsible to use them without proper training in the humanities
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Chris Suellentrop @suellentrop.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Exceptional first column in her debut as a Post Opinions columnist by @monicahesse.bsky.social. Gift link. wapo.st/43hxEZr
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Opinion | All the splinters we cannot see
Regardless of the thorns in any of our feet, we all just have to carry on.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Gene Hackman has died at 95. I recently wrote about his performance in Night Moves for a Criterion release that will arrive in a few weeks. Like anyone who writes about Hackman's acting, I had to come up with novel ways to avoid the word "perfect." It wasn't easy. >
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Justin Glawe @justinglawe.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
RIP to Gene Hackman, the everyman with humble roots who made it big—the exact type of American that we need now more than ever. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...
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Skeltonia @skeltonia.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
RIP King
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 26/02/2025
Why not create a newsroom rooted in egalitarianism and service? If we're building a thing, that means we can create a place that *starts* class and race and gender inclusive instead of trying to retrofit and save calcifying legacies that don't wanna be saved. How do we do that? Seriously asking.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 26/02/2025
What if we built a new major news and opinion journalism outlet from scratch and used it as a news lab to reform and rethink how we do things, starting first with billionaire-proofing it. And what if we honestly audited our flaws and came together to make the news orgs we want to see?
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Bezos’ Directive for Washington Post Opinion Pages Leads to Editor David Shipley’s Exit (Gift Article)
Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Post, said that the newspaper’s opinion section would focus on “personal liberties and free markets.”
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marklotto.bsky.social @marklotto.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
SNL doing "One Day More" has a real "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" vibe.
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marklotto.bsky.social @marklotto.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Holy fucking shit Jack Nicholson
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marklotto.bsky.social @marklotto.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I was starting to feel like watching #snl50 was a dumb way to spend my Sunday night but now Eddie Murphy’s onscreen doing a Tracy Morgan impression, talking about lasagna.
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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Evil and stupid is the worst combination tbh.
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Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Reposting for the just-waking-up crowd
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Chris Suellentrop @suellentrop.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Gorgeous Jenny Boylan essay, adapted from her new book wapo.st/4aKhDNa
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Opinion | On cleavage: Mind the gap
It’s what linguists call a “contronym,” a word with two opposite meanings. It also describes my life.
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E.A. Hanks @eahanks.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
In 1996 my mother and I drove from California to Florida, via interstate 10. Years after her death, I found her journal, and read in its pages something that sent me back to explore 2,460 miles. "The 10" is almost here. Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-10...
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 29/01/2025
"But there’s something sinister about the way brands keep finding bigger, flashier ways to repurpose great moments in art to sell products" is a thing I wrote about a mayonnaise ad because I am in a normal and cool state of mind www.eater.com/24354679/whe...
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Of Course the ‘When Harry Met Sally’ Cast Reunited at Katz’s for a Super Bowl Commercial
It’s a Hellmann’s mayonnaise ad
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E.A. Hanks @eahanks.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I was asked by @marklotto.bsky.social if I would like to write about the fires in our town. I love LA.
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Opinion | Things we lost in the fire
The Pacific Palisades was a village, my village — and now it’s gone.
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E.A. Hanks @eahanks.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Oh no! It finally happened!
My first post on Substack offers a look at the works that helped me write my forthcoming nonfiction book, "The 10" out April 8th from Gallery Books at Simon & Schuster
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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
& wrote about ambition & danger & Kathy Acker & being Korean thank you to editors @marklotto.bsky.social & Chris Hanna, here’s the rest of the piece: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
It feels dangerous, still, to admit to being an ambitious woman. Those two words, joined — ambitious, woman — can already seem to describe a person who’ll be disliked, perhaps reviled, for wanting as she does. I’ve often thought of something writer Chris Kraus said about postmodern artist Kathy Acker, that what really scandalized people about her work wasn’t how overtly sexual it could be, but instead how open Acker was about the depths and heights of her ambition.

What a gift, then, to have friends with whom I can talk openly about art and ambition, and to be able to support one another along the way. And group chats can be, among their other virtues, a place to get very honest: What gets said in the group chat stays in the group chat, and so on. Accordingly, a group chat that I especially prize is the one I have going with a couple of fellow Korean American writers, Nicole Chung and Crystal Hana Kim. We first got close when we published our first books the same year, back in 2018. In 2020
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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
wrote this a little while ago, an ode to a group chat I have with a couple of dear friends, @nicolechung.bsky.social & @crystalhanak.bsky.social <3 & glad to see it up today as part of a joint essay in the @washingtonpost.com
Dangerous Women by R. O. Kwon
author of THE INCENDIARIES and EXHIBIT

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Is there anything we can do to support you this week other than amplifying book-related things?

Rest up love

am trying to remind myself that all will be well, but obviously if anything happens, you must avenge me
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Christina Newland @christinalefou.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
In an enjoyably Christina-coded mixture of high and low-brow, I got my first byline at @washingtonpost.com.... by writing about my film girls group chat: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
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Opinion | The secret lives of group chats
Everyone has at least one overactive group chat. So we asked seven writers to describe theirs.
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marklotto.bsky.social @marklotto.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
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marklotto.bsky.social @marklotto.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
I have made such absolute shit horror choices this spooky season and I need to fix this asap.
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marklotto.bsky.social @marklotto.bsky.social · 06/09/2023
I’m having a watch “Lost in Translation” followed by “Before Sunset” kind of night, which is a totally normal kind of night.
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marklotto.bsky.social @marklotto.bsky.social · 25/08/2023
Show me better opening credits
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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 27/07/2023
Terrific op Ed by Joseph Gordon Levitt (is he here?) In the @washingtonpost.com about AI. And making movies. And residuals. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202…
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marklotto.bsky.social @marklotto.bsky.social · 16/07/2023
Twenty four hours later and I’m still mad about Mission Imposible Seven Dead Reckoning Part One.
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marklotto.bsky.social @marklotto.bsky.social · 09/07/2023
“Saying sweetheart is just part of our Italian heritage.”
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marklotto.bsky.social @marklotto.bsky.social · 09/07/2023
Just skeet it (skeet it), skeet it (skeet it) No one wants to be defeated Showin' how funky and strong is your fight It doesn't matter who's wrong or right Just skeet it (skeet it) Just skeet it (skeet it) Just skeet it (skeet it) Just skeet it (skeet it, uh)
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marklotto.bsky.social @marklotto.bsky.social · 09/07/2023
I genuinely don’t know what I’m supposed to do here.
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