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Robyn Dixon

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Washington Post. These days following Russia's war on Ukraine. I'm hoping I won't need to explain "Never been to Potomac" here.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Pakistan Army Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif has confirmed to CNN that two Indian fighter jets have been shot down.
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Robyn Dixon @robyndixon.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
A sliver of hope with US officials announcing a meeting this week with China on tariffs. One thing is for sure even if there is progress. Xi is never going to agree to sit in the Oval Office next to Trump and risk being contradicted the way Carney was today.
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Megan Cassella @megancnbc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
News just now: Treasury and USTR simultaneously announce that Sec. Bessent and Amb. Greer will both travel to Switzerland this week to meet with Chinese officials to talk trade. Comes after Bessent said today trade talks with China had not yet begun.
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Robyn Dixon @robyndixon.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Pakistan responds to India's earlier attack according to Sky news.sky.com/story/pakist...
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Pakistan 'shoots down two Indian jets' - after India fires missiles on 'terrorist camps'
India said it had carried out a "precision strike" on "terrorist camps" - but Pakistan's defence minister said all the targets hit were civilian places, not militant camps.
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Robyn Dixon @robyndixon.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
China, being hammered by Trump's trade war, was swift to congratulate Labor over its victory in Australia. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
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China congratulated Albanese on election night. That tells us a lot
Xi Jinping sees Australia as a strategic partner — a relatively stable player amid the turbulence of Beijing's deteriorating relationship with the United States.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Reporter: I was watching your face during the meeting.. what was going through your mind when the President talked about erasing the border.. Carney: I’m glad that you couldn’t tell what was going through my mind Reporter: Oh I could
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/05/2025
Trump: "I could announce 50 to 100 deals right now because I'm the shopkeeper and I keep the store. I know what countries are looking for and I know what we're looking for and I can just set those terms and they can go shopping or they don't have to go shopping, because everybody wants to shop here"
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Ellen Nakashima @ellenwapo.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
SCOOP by @mradamtaylor.bsky.social: Trump team urged Ukraine to take U.S. deportees, documents show --an extraordinary request of a nation at war & dependent on U.S. military & financial support. w/ Sarah Blaskey and @siobhanogrady.bsky.social wapo.st/430jcmO
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Trump team urged Ukraine to take U.S. deportees amid war, documents show
The extraordinary request illustrates the administration’s aggressive bid to identify willing partners who will accept people expelled by the U.S.
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NPR @npr.org · 06/05/2025
India has launched strikes in several parts of Pakistan and Pakistan-controlled territory, in a dramatic escalation of tensions between the two nuclear-armed rivals.
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India launches missile attacks on Pakistan
India has launched strikes in several parts of Pakistan and Pakistan-controlled territory, in a dramatic escalation of tensions between the two nuclear-armed rivals.
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YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 06/05/2025
What do Europeans see as the biggest threats to peace on the continent? Russia 72%-85% of countries polled say tensions with it are a major or moderate threat Islamic terrorism 65%-78% Tensions with U.S. 38%-58% Intra-Europe tensions 26%-37% today.yougov.com/internationa...
Survey results in a chart titled, What do Americans and Europeans see as being the biggest threats to peace in Europe?
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YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 06/05/2025
Economist/YouGov Poll May 2-5 41% of U.S. adult citizens have a favorable view of Elon Musk 52% have an unfavorable view At the start of Trump's second term, 44% were favorable toward Musk and 48% unfavorable d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec... d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...
A line chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Favorable and unfavorable views of Elon Musk."

The chart's sub-headline is: "Do you have a favorable or an unfavorable opinion of the following people? [Elon Musk] (% of U.S. adult citizens)"
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
"If there is a prolonged trade war, China will fight to the end, and there won’t be a winner — only two losers." From Henry M. Paulson Jr., who was treasury secretary from July 2006 to January 2009: wapo.st/4jHUqij
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Opinion | China won’t back down. Is all-out trade war inevitable?
There are only losers in a trade war between the United States and China.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/04/2025
key point from @pkrugman.bsky.social: it's literally impossible for foreign governments to negotiate with Trump because he and his people can't/won't even articulate a consistent set of demands paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-is-t...
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Trump is the Godfather in Reverse
He’s making offers countries can’t accept
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Equally, trying to parse what the President is saying is pretty close to impossible. There are many interpretations: 1. He's not making deals, but rather dictating tariff rates 2. He's looking to make deals, but if you don't like his terms you can walk away 3. He still hasn't figured any of this out
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Megan Cassella @megancnbc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
In a long monologue in the Oval Office beside Canadian PM Mark Carney this afternoon, the President appears to say the trade "deals" his team are working on are not deals in the traditional sense, as they will not have to be signed. This is really significant! More in thread.
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Robyn Dixon @robyndixon.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Quite a few creepy people here sending direct messages just with the word "Hello" and no intro or message or reason.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 12/12/2024
"Putin has shown everyone that he is no longer able to support his allies. He just doesn’t care" www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1... @robyndixon.bsky.social @ilyushina.bsky.social
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Assad’s fall humiliated Putin and could dent his global ambitions
Assad’s fall nine years after Russia saved his regime is a stunning blow to Putin’s goal of forging Russia into a world power to compete with the United States.
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Robyn Dixon @robyndixon.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Get to know my great colleagues at The Washington Post here. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
"This is hardly the MAGA landslide that Trumpers have made the 2024 election out to be," @crampell.bsky.social writes. wapo.st/4eQVqxv
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Opinion | This is Trump’s real ‘mandate’
No, Trump doesn’t have a mandate for his extreme agenda.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 26/11/2024
Trump barely won and many of his proposals barely crack the 50% mark in support, which even then is because of staunch Republican support. But there’s a reason he and his team insist they have a sweeping mandate. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Column | Why Trump keeps insisting that his policy proposals are wildly popular
President-elect Donald Trump has fervent in-party support, which he presents as a “mandate” — so he can rationalize the “extreme power” he seeks.
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Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
New in the live blog -- Improvement at the IRS is a major accomplishment of the Biden administration. It is answering taxpayer helplines. Audits of the super-wealthy are up. And now the IRS is set to lose $20B because a of quirk in a budget law, potentially unraveling a lot of that work.
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Live updates: Trump details plans to impose tariffs on imported goods on Day 1
Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump and a new Congress.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22/10/2024
The production company behind Blade Runner 2049 is suing Elon Musk for using AI-processed stills from its movie in his robotaxi event—after having asked for permission and being refused. The complaint has some zingers!
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 26/09/2024
Pew asked Americans who they expected to benefit from Harris's and Trump's policies. Women, people said of Harris. And of Trump? The rich. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Column | Americans expect Harris to boost women … and Trump to boost the rich
New polling from Pew Research Center shows interesting divides among supporters for both candidates about who would benefit from a Trump or Harris administration.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
I am also worried about political violence if he loses.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 25/09/2024
Why Trump gets away with it. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Robyn Dixon @robyndixon.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
More than a quarter of Americans think that Haitians actually are "eating the dogs, they're eating the cats."
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 13/09/2024
New: I talked to the "feral 25-year-olds" helping run Kamala Harris' wild social media operation. They're rattling Trump, going viral and acting almost nothing like a traditional campaign: “Holy s--- 🔥🔥🔥 She just cooked him" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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The ‘feral 25-year-olds’ making Kamala Harris go viral on TikTok
Harris’s all-Gen-Z “digital persuasion” team is tapping the trends and rhythms of internet culture to create a playful online presence that’s unique in presidential politics.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
In one week bluesky got video and the country of Brazil. We’re so fucking back.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 13/09/2024
To hear Donald Trump and JD Vance tell it, California is teetering on the brink of apocalypse. Californians shrug and call it jealousy.
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With Kamala Harris on the ballot, California is in Trump’s bull’s eye
To hear Donald Trump and JD Vance tell it, California is teetering on the brink of apocalypse. Californians shrug and call it jealousy.
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Robyn Dixon @robyndixon.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
These people have seen Harris in the Situation Room. Here’s what they have to say. One 4-star general said she is a lot more hard line than you would expect. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | These people have seen Harris in the Situation Room. Here’s what they have to say.
Harris is “more hard-line than most people think,” says a retired four-star general who has briefed her many times.
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Robyn Dixon @robyndixon.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
If you wondered where the eating dogs/cats/pets racist conspiracy theory came from, it'a all here: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Anatomy of a racist smear: How false claims of pet-eating immigrants caught on
How an anti-immigrant rumor spread from a random Facebook post to leadership of the Republican Party and the biggest influencers on social media so quickly.
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
“I’ve read about this kind of thing happening to others. I never imagined it would happen to me.” I meet a doctor denounced by a patient for alleged anti-war comments, & others in Russia caught up in a wave of denunciations. rb.gy/h0ugy1 Producer Ben Tavener
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Steve Rosenberg: Russian snitching evokes ghosts of the past
More Russians have been reporting each other since Ukraine invasion - what are the implications?
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Robyn Dixon @robyndixon.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
As soon as the CIA shuts down on of Russia's covert disinfo operations in the U.S. run by RT, the Russians already have a bunch more popping up. Yet in the U.S., there's largely been a collective shrug.
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Robyn Dixon @robyndixon.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
This is hilarious. Russian state TV tries to prove North Korea, Putin's ally, is "normal" and misportrayed. You know, like Russia.
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Natalia Antonova🇺🇸🇺🇦 @nataliaantonova.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Please appreciate this sweetie who woke me up from a bad dream and purred me to sleep again last night like the good girl that she is
Little tabby cat naps on a blanket
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Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com · 06/10/2023
I am shocked — simply SHOCKED — to learn that one of the Twitter Files nonsense-peddlers spent his free time writing things like, "I want white identity politics to grow like wildfire," and, "Holy shit, Hitler actually had some decent points." Exceptional reporting by @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social.
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This anti-censorship crusader appears to have buried something himself: A secret alt-right past
Frame Game, the pseudonym of an alt-right internet personality, hid his face while pushing racist conspiracy theories. Inadvertent slips revealed details about his identity.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 17/10/2023
We don't talk enough about what a problem this is. The proliferation of actual micro-news sites has basically stopped and collapsed. But ideologically-driven hatchetjob sites which exist just to spread anti-vaccine hokum and right-wing conspiracy theories are popping up daily.
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Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com · 15/10/2023
This is the clearest analysis I’ve seen of the fundamental problem with Community Notes in crisis situations: The overwhelming majority of impressions on tweets happen in the first 1-3 hours after posting, but it takes an average of 10 hours and 44 minutes for Community Notes to publicly show up.
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Daniel @danielrembrandt.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Wow - hourly sign ups to Bluesky hit almost 2000 *PER HOUR* overnight for a few hours! Twexit is gaining momentum! twexit.nl/statistics
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19/10/2023
X, formerly known as Twitter, removed the gold “verified” badge from the New York Times’ account amid ongoing complaints about the news organization from owner Elon Musk. The badge was the only symbol distinguishing the account from impostors amid two major global conflicts in Israel and Ukraine.
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Elon Musk’s X removes New York Times’ verification badge
The gold badge was the only symbol distinguishing the Times’ 55-million-follower account from impostors amid two major global conflicts.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 10/10/2023
News of the attack on Israel was “the first real test of Elon Musk’s version of Twitter, and it failed spectacularly," a researcher says
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Israel-Hamas Conflict Was a Test for Musk’s X, and It Failed
Researchers say changes to verification, safety policies make the site an unreliable source for news
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 10/10/2023
Finnish govt will hold press conference today to discuss gas pipeline leak in Gulf of Finland. The leak reportedly "does not appear to be an accident," and press conference relates to "worrying change in Finland's security situation". yle.fi/a/74-20054419
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Yle source: Finnish government to make announcement on gas pipeline leak in Gulf of Finland; "not an...
According to Gasgrid Finland, the only possible reason for the unusual pressure drop in the Balticconnector pipeline is a hole in the pipe, which has only been in use for a few years.
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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
Musk personally promoting popular spreaders of misinformation. Free and also true link: wapo.st/3rBg6XU
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Our former president ... www.axios.com/2023/10/04/t...
This is an image of recent quotes from Donald Trump. It says, "In speeches, interviews and on social media in recent weeks, Trump:

Said former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley committed "treason" and suggested he be executed.
Called for Judge Engoron to be disbarred, thrown out of office and criminally prosecuted, in addition to attacking the judge's clerk.
Labeled New York Attorney General Letitia James — who's suing Trump for fraudulently inflating his wealth and assets on financial records — a "racist" and "a monster."
Said special counsel Jack Smith — who's prosecuting Trump in the Jan. 6 and classified documents cases — is "deranged" and a "psycho" who "looks like a crackhead."
Posted online, "IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I'M COMING AFTER YOU!" — one day after swearing in federal court that he would not intimidate witnesses in the election interference case."
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Robyn Dixon @robyndixon.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
The story of one of at least 17 Tesla autopilot fatal accidents. At least 10 people are suing over claims Tesla is partly to blame.
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The final 11 seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash
A lawsuit over the crash could determine whether the maker of the technology bears some responsibility when things go wrong in a vehicle guided by Autopilot.
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Robyn Dixon @robyndixon.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Donald Trump allegedly shared the number of nuclear warheads US submarines carry and how close they can get to a Russian sub without being detected, with an Australian billionaire.
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Donald Trump allegedly shared potentially sensitive information about US nuclear submarines with Aus...
Anthony Pratt, a member of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, allegedly shared submarine details with former Australian PMs and journalists, according to media reports
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