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Todd Zwillich

@toddzwillich.bsky.social
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Journalism in Washington, often heard hosting 1A on NPR. Former host of The Takeaway from WNYC and "Breaking the Vote" @ Vice News.

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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE @ms.now: Trump administration officials have discussed attaching the president’s name to Ford’s Theatre, the playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 Officials are circulating a list of government sites that could carry the president’s name www.ms.now/news/trump-f...
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Trump aides explore attaching president’s name to Ford’s Theatre
The playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated has been mentioned among federal properties that could carry the president’s name, people familiar with the effort told MS NOW.
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It was shocking to hear of Glen Hansard’s death today. Less than two months ago Glen sat with me for an hour long interview on 1A / NPR. He talked about his outsider’s view traveling America, and more importantly, played two songs live. the1a.org/segments/glen-…
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Coming up live for the hour on WAMU / NPR: wamu.org/provider/wamu/
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WAMU Archives
The local DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia journalism you rely on every day.
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 20/07/2026
I love radio because you can have a real, sustained, in-depth conversation and cover topics and nuances other mediums don't quite allow. Here's the interview @juliaangwin.com and I did today with @toddzwillich.bsky.social on NPR's 1A. A joy and a pleasure. www.npr.org/2026/07/20/n...
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'If You Can Keep It': The Power Of Dissent In 2026 : 1A
One of the most critical parts of a democracy is the right to dissent. But if democratic norms weaken, that right can become harder to exercise. And when authoritarianism creeps into a government, dis...
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss. First book is called “The Name of the Wind”
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Ugh you’re right
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Arthur Delaney @delaneyrules.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Talking sports on 1A w: @toddzwillich.bsky.social this morning at 10
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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Scoop: Her DACA status doesn't expire till 2027. ICE deported her anyway, separating Jessica Treviño from her 3 U.S. citizen kids “I'm not mad at the country, I'm more mad at the president,” said Sarah, Jessica’s 14yo daughter. “Why is he just separating families?” www.ms.now/news/trump-i...
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The Trump administration is deporting ‘Dreamers.’ Their kids are paying for it.
Jessica Treviño Villegas’ DACA status was still valid when she was deported to Mexico. Her children, who are U.S. citizens, are now navigating life without her.
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Andy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Trump's nominee for Surgeon General deleted posts before her nomination saying the administration was delaying announcing that measles was spreading again in the U.S. until after the midterms, attacking Trump personally, and lambasting Trump's Tylenol/Autism comments. www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/p...
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Exclusive: Deleted tweets reveal new surgeon general pick criticized Trump and RFK Jr. health policies | CNN Politics
Just two months before she was selected as President Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, Dr. Nicole Saphier suggested the administration was hiding that measles was spreading widely enough in ...
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
.@brianbeutler with a reminder to journalists attending Saturday’s dinner with Pres Trump: History is being written today. We’re all players, and history is watching. “Some of your faces will be filmed and photographed; some of those images will circulate for centuries.”
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Love it
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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
NEW: ICE detained DACA recipient Juan Chavez Velasco 12 days after his youngest child was born prematurely. The father of 3 U.S. citizen kids was driving to deliver milk to her in NICU "I never got to hold her" Juan told me, sharing his story for first time w/ @ms.now www.ms.now/news/ice-det...
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‘Americans at heart’: ICE detains DACA recipient on way to visit premature baby in NICU
Juan Chavez Velasco’s case reflects a growing pattern: The Trump administration is targeting Dreamers who once believed DACA shielded them — and letting their renewals expire unanswered.
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
A White House official talking about infighting in the Texas GOP Senate primary. It’s the qualifier that really contains worlds.
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Trump's racist post is very similar to Musk's "Seig Heil" @ the inauguration. If don't want to be seen as virulently racist / Nazi, you clearly say it wasn't your intention, I made a bad call, etc. OR, you mock people & let their worst fears linger. The aftermath is its own, clear choice.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
We are now 42 days beyond the statutory deadline for the full release of the Epstein files
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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
SCOOP: Trump admin plans to deport at least 40 Iranians days after mass killings in Iran, sources tell me, @davidrohde.bsky.social Flight is as early as Sunday. Two men set to be on it are gay & “terrified” of returning to Iran where being gay is punishable by death www.ms.now/news/trump-d...
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Literally no different than South Park would do it
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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
NEWS: Pentagon ordered active-duty soldiers with a military police unit in NC to prepare for possible deployment to Minneapolis, three people familiar told @ms.now Prepare to deploy order was issued yesterday for at least a few hundred members of an Army military police brigade based at Fort Bragg
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Trump has repeatedly said he reserves the right to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy the US military in American cites. Here. his Deputy Atty General refers to ICE-involved violence in Minneapolis as “an insurrection”. On the right, Trump’s NYT interview
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
This is *definitely* how you behave when you're trying to bring every resource to bear, rather than trying to cover up the unlawful behavior of your own personnel.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
"But Wiles conceded that attacking targets on Venezuela’s mainland would force Trump to get congressional approval. 'If he were to authorize some activity on land, then it’s war, then [we’d need] Congress.'" - WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Nov 2, 2025 interview www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
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Trump’s Inner Circle, On the Record (Part 2 of 2)
Susie Wiles discusses the Epstein files, Pete Hegseth’s war tactics, and “retribution” against Letitia James.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
So for months they have tried to blame the entire fentanyl crisis on Venezuela and the indictment only mentions cocaine, which they pardoned a different guy for weeks ago
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
White House reporters, producers, pundits and viewers should be ferocious over this moral emergency:
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
“Will you pardon the convicted child sex trafficker” has one correct answer, and everyone with intact moral intuitions knows what that is. When Trump failed to say “No, of course not” it should have been a show stopper, not another instance of “Trump being Trump”. WH reporters should be ferocious.
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
New from me, covering for @brianbeutler.bsky.social at Off Message: Trump has us living in a distortion field. He's openly coddling a *child sex trafficker*, apparently so she won’t tell what she knows. We've blown past it instead of sounding the alarm. www.offmessage.net/p/the-5-alar...
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The Trump-Epstein Emergency Isn't in the Files
Trump has distorted the political landscape so badly that it's warping the moral intuitions of people and institutions of account.
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Turns out Hegseth forced Adm Holsey out of his command because, at least in part, of friction over the so-called “drug boat” strike campaign.
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
🚨 My first SCOOP for @ms.now: Mike Johnson has secretly been working to tank a provision to mandate IVF coverage for active duty service members from the Defense Reauthorization Bill—even as Trump has pledged to expand access. Here's what to know 👇
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Mike Johnson works in secret to strip IVF health coverage from defense bill
The speaker is working behind closed-doors to remove a provision from the National Defense Authorization Act that would mandate health coverage for in vitro fertilization for all active duty military.
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
New from me, covering for @brianbeutler.bsky.social at Off Message "Maybe it was blind luck that led this group of national security-oriented lawmakers to bait Trump into a debate over war crimes just as the Post was working up a story about potential war crimes" www.offmessage.net/p/mark-kelly...
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Mark Kelly's Double Tap
National security Democrats launched a preemptive strike on Trump's misuse of the military. Weeks later it's paying off in ways even they didn't predict. Or maybe they did.
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
WH Press Sec on Trump's dehumanizing tirade against Somali immigrants, where he called them garbage: "Epic moment" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
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Trump Appears to Fight Sleep During Cabinet Meeting
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Congressman Eugene Vindman @repvindman.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office. He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people. Release the transcript.
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
For me it was the fact that when the President was asked about releasing a record of the debasement and humiliation of girls and women, he somehow reflexively resorted to language intended to debase and humiliate a woman.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The Trump administration is going to make it harder for the public to learn about wrongdoing by withdrawing protections for whistleblowers. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
No. Literally no one, besides perhaps Maxwell, could be remotely seen as forcing him to withhold special favors for Maxwell
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
What all morally sound people are collectively sure of, is that absent a gross, demonstrable, clear miscarriage of justice, the question "will you pardon this child sex trafficker" has a right answer. Trump appears not to want Maxwell to hear him say "No". The implications are mind blowing. /x
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We're in a bizarre, surreal condition of collective knowledge re this part of the Epstein story. "Everyone knows that everyone knows"...is it causing collective inaction? Or is the collective knowledge instead driving what appears to be an overwhelming GOP vote against Trump on Tues? I'm not sure /8
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Trump HAS the authority to order Ghislaine Maxwell back to max security in Florida with no special treatment. WHY hasn't he? Trump HAS the power to say he'd never pardon a convicted sex offender. WHY hasn't he? The simplicity and clarity of these questions, is stark. /7
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Then, this weekend, Trump, famous for pardoning friends and allies, refuses to say he won't extend clemency to this convicted sex trafficker. He appears to not want Maxwell to hear that her freedom is off the table. It would solve some problems for him if he ruled it out...but he won't. /6
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Shortly after, Maxwell was moved from a FL prison to a much more comfortable minimum security facility in TX. No one has acknowledged ordering the transfer, which broke federal rules for sex offenders. A whistleblower reported Maxwell is receiving special comforts like gym time, better food, etc /5
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
This past summer the Epstein story flared again with reports of a "birthday book"--including Trump--that Maxwell prepared for Epstein. Trump's former personal lawyer, now Deputy AG Todd Blanche, was dispatched to personally sit with this convict and interview her. /4
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
In July 2020 Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested and charged with 6 counts including child sex trafficking. Weeks later Trump was asked about the arrest of his one-time, long-time friend. Instead of condemning her or her (at the time alleged) crimes, he repeatedly, shockingly, said "I wish her well." /3
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
In any morally centered context, and to every ethically normal person, the question "Have you ruled out a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell" has a right answer: "Absolutely. No person convicted of her crimes will every get a pardon." Instead the President refuses to be heard saying just that. to review/2
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I’ve been thinking about this exchange all weekend. Even with everything else, the fact it hasn’t brought politics and the news in general to a screeching halt is surreal. There’s a new book “Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows” about how collective knowledge drives collective action, or inaction. /1
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
In case after case—Comey, James, Maxwell,Homan, J6, etc—Pam Bondi has shown that she runs DOJ on behalf of Trump, personally. Now that Trump is resigned to releasing the files he fought to bury, the question HAS to be: Has Bondi altered or destroyed records in her possession to protect Trump?
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
"Like Trump, some of the most prominent players on the American right have talked openly about Orbán providing a blueprint for a Christian nationalist takeover of the federal government." www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...
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What Trump learned from Hungary
The president has long praised Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as a model strongman.
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Rhodes amassed weapons to use on Jan 6 and was convicted of seditious conspiracy. Trump freed him from prison. Now, using Trump’s “invasion” rhetoric, Rhodes urges Trump to use his militia as a private army. www.rawstory.com/amp/stewart-...
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Convicted Oath Keepers' founder announces militia's relaunch to enforce Trump orders
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
It’s clear you don’t listen to the show, and don’t listen to me, very often. But thanks for the input.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Had a lot of fun on @the1a.org with @jwhitepubradio.bsky.social and @toddzwillich.bsky.social. A productive conversation. the1a.org/segments/if-...
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If You Can Keep It: The fight over funding the government
It happens every year — sometimes even more frequently than that.
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NPR @npr.org · 09/09/2025
The GOP said its overhaul of Medicaid was aimed at reducing fraud and getting more adult beneficiaries to work. Among the likely side effects: fewer services and doctors for treating sick children.
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Trump's Medicaid cuts will hurt children's hospitals
The GOP said its overhaul of Medicaid was aimed at reducing fraud and getting more adult beneficiaries to work. Among the likely side effects: fewer services and doctors for treating sick children.
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Kudos to @brianbeutler.bsky.social, somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
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Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
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Todd Zwillich @toddzwillich.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I am, not really. It kind of just asks the big, obvious one.
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