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Tom Jackman

@tomjackmanwp.bsky.social
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Former crime and justice reporter, The Washington Post. Big fan of sports, music, comedy, sleeping, not necessarily in that order.

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Tom Jackman @tomjackmanwp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Even white people were strongly urged to do the hump.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
When Donald knew there was no real threat to his life, he preened for photographers, yelled “Fight, fight, fight!” and didn’t care if a fireman died. When Donald knew there was a real threat to his life, he hid in a catering truck and didn’t care if his staff died in the decoy plane.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This never would happened if (a) thirsty Ted Cruz hadn't been searching for tweets about himself; and (b) sloppy Ted Cruz paid as much attention to details as he does to trolling.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Some people might not be aware, but it is entirely possible that without Dolly Parton we wouldn’t have had a COVID vaccine. She partly funded Moderna’s research and gave the largest individual contribution to make it all happen. Just gives you an idea of the kind of person she was.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Trump told the Supreme Court this month that he must build his ballroom so he'll have a secure space in case of attack. But he already has one, former officials say — a secret bunker under the White House. (No, not the one under the East Wing.) Our exclusive tonight at @washingtonpost.com.
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Secret White House bunker undercuts Trump’s ballroom lawsuit, ex-officials say
The White House already has a nuclear-proof facility buried deep underground and built in secret after 9/11.
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Tom Jackman @tomjackmanwp.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
My man looks like Wilson from Cast Away if you punched it in the mouth.
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
THREAD. As you read chilling stories emerging about the illegal surveillance that Trump's DHS has been doing, recognize that federal law makes it nearly impossible for victims to sue feds for constitutional violations. A minimum part of Democratic platform should call for this.
U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown

The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Ohio Republican Vivek Ramaswamy hired his mother to manipulate clinical trial data for an Alzheimer's drug he owned the rights to, which he used to inflate its stock price and cash out before the stock tanked. But his opponent is a Democrat. Our rating: Lean Republican.
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Tom Jackman @tomjackmanwp.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Mos def. Scary
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I am not the first to make this point but imagine a woman president obsessing constantly over her “ballroom” as the economy imploded and her war spun out of control
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
New reporting reveals Ohio Republican Gov. candidate Vivek Ramaswamy hired his mother to manipulate clinical trial data for an Alzheimer's drug he owned the rights to. This scheme boosted Ramaswamy's company stock price and generated a $1.4 B IPO, where he then cashed out before the stock tanked.
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Tom Jackman @tomjackmanwp.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
And yet nothing for him in Northern Virginia, where he grew up and played in multiple bands before landing in Nirvana. I once wrote a piece for The Post calling for a statue outside the rec center where he used to play. And another proposed naming a Metro station after him. No luck.
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Tom Jackman @tomjackmanwp.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Wait is there a prob w THC now?
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Tom Jackman @tomjackmanwp.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
“I will consider it, and then I will vote for Blanche anyway.”
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
David Ellison wants us to know he’s not ideological, and that’s why he put a conservative with no tv experience in charge of CBS
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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Picture Biden trying to make his long time personal attorney the Attorney General of the United States.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 04/08/2026
Today marks six years since a catastrophic explosion of ammonium nitrate tore through Beirut’s port, killing over 200 people in one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in modern history.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
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Tom Jackman @tomjackmanwp.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The Daily Herald in LaPorte, not far from my alma mater in South Bend.
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Tom Jackman @tomjackmanwp.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I mean, it’s July. At Safeway
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Tom Jackman @tomjackmanwp.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Why would @NPR give this spineless tool any air?
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Tom Jackman @tomjackmanwp.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Well there’s only two things in life but I forget what they are. - John Hiatt
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 21/07/2026
More than two dozen accusers of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sent a letter to Republican Sens. Thom Tillis and John Cornyn urging them not to confirm acting attorney general Todd Blanche to lead the Justice Department permanently.
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Epstein accusers urge Tillis, Cornyn not to confirm Blanche after meeting with him
The votes of the two Republican senators are key to advancing the nomination of Todd Blanche as attorney general.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/06/2026
One of my favorite parts of this project was scooping up the www.nytimes.lgbt domain and using it to host the data dashboard. Check it out!
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The New York Times changed how it covers trans people. I measured it.
An investigation by Alejandra Caraballo for The Dissident: twelve years and 3,242 articles of New York Times transgender coverage, scored and open to review.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
RFK seeing this footage and bolting down to the Reflecting Pool so he can drink from the hose
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Tom Jackman @tomjackmanwp.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I noticed Wemby and Castle went straight to the locker room at the buzzer, not sure how many followed
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/06/2026
NEW: Trump administration officials earlier this year killed a federal criminal investigation into the coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice, the Republican former governor of West Virginia and a close ally of the president’s. By @justinelliott.bsky.social @josh-kaplan.bsky.social
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Trump Administration Killed Criminal Investigation of GOP Senator's Coal Companies
EPA and Justice Department officials were looking into potential criminal violations by the vast coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice. Then the Office of the Deputy Attorney General told them “pencils down.”
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Tom Jackman @tomjackmanwp.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
A friend on 29th St said they towed all the cars and it’s now a giant police staging area.
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Tom Jackman @tomjackmanwp.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
That's been the Trump admin's argument in so many cases: This is not your jurisdiction, courts/Congress. We have the sole authority do this (eliminate agencies, impose tariffs, tear down part of the White House).
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Trump's Department of Homeland Security has awarded more than $19.4 billion in border wall contracts in the past six months — compared with $2.1 billion from 2016 to 2024. Most of it has gone to two firms that have ties to the White House and the Republican Party, according to a WaPo analysis.
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Spike in border wall spending goes mostly to 2 firms with GOP, White House ties
Construction contracts are being awarded at a historic scale through a streamlined process that could put Trump on track to realize his vision for a border wall.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
That's not even his final form
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Tom Jackman @tomjackmanwp.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Ernest Goes to AI School
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
New: Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down: www.404media.co/cities-are-c...
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Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash Bags
Regretful cities aren't sure how to cancel their surveillance contracts, so they are literally covering their cameras.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
the trump official — who led the siege & occupation of Minneapolis — admitting to having an ongoing dialogue/rapport with Martin Sellner, a straight-up Nazi who influenced the Christchurch shooter, while speaking at a conference about remigration (read: ethnic cleansing) is a pretty big deal!
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Tom Jackman @tomjackmanwp.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
He reacts by thinking he’s a pretty good player. And then passes to someone else.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This New Yorker cartoon is accurate but a gut punch.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
From the reporter who scooped the news that Treasury's GC was quitting, IRS wrote a 25-page memo about why Trump's IRS lawsuit was dogshit. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/a...
I.R.S. officials prepared a 25-page memorandum outlining what they saw as flaws in Mr. Trump’s suit and advising the Justice Department to move to dismiss it, according to two people familiar with the memo. That memo was provided to Treasury officials in April, and it is unclear if they passed it along to its intended recipients at the Justice Department, according to the people, who spoke anonymously to discuss internal government deliberations.

No lawyers from the Justice Department ever appeared in court to respond to the suit or disputed any of Mr. Trump’s claims, which demanded at least $10 billion from the I.R.S. for not doing enough to prevent the leak of his tax information. The Justice Department instead made to a highly unusual deal in the case. In exchange for Mr. Trump dropping the suit, the Trump administration created the $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund for people who say they were wrongly targeted by the federal government.

The existence of the internal memo, which has not been previously reported, shows that the Trump administration disregarded readily available defenses to a lawsuit filed by the president against an agency he controls. While the Justice Department has said that Mr. Trump will not receive money from the new fund, critics have slammed the arrangement as a corrupt attempt at paying Mr. Trump’s political supporters, including, potentially, those who were convicted and later pardoned for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
via @hissgoescobra.bsky.social Listen to the judge at Tina Peters's trial give a searing condemnation of her crimes and behavior in Court. Compare this to what Polis is trying to spin today, in order to justify the bended knee to Trump and his shortcutting of the judicial process:
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Tom Jackman @tomjackmanwp.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Little Steven Van Zandt is on Fallon at the same time as Dave Grohl on Colbert. Boomer dilemmas!
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Tom Jackman @tomjackmanwp.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
WHO’s the cat that won’t cop out when there’s danger all about. Which you like to see in an agency.
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Tom Jackman @tomjackmanwp.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The depth and uniqueness of the Wire’s characters was what made that show so memorable. If anything it was some Sopranos characters who were one note caricatures.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
It’s telling that absolutely nobody can convince him to not brag about constantly being administered dementia tests.
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Tom Jackman @tomjackmanwp.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I am putting all my money on that right now
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
As a political holiday, May Day began in Chicago after the Haymarket Massacre in 1886 when workers demanded an eight hour workday. It’s “as American as apple pie.”
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Tom Jackman @tomjackmanwp.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Tenleytown, Potomac, Great Falls
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
There is absolutely no way anyone in the administration will understand a joke about the French and Indian War. That’s half the joke.🔥🔥🔥
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Tom Jackman @tomjackmanwp.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
“It” would be a comically inept assassination attempt. Knocked that right off the To Do list.
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Tom Jackman @tomjackmanwp.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
You are so indicted
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 26/04/2026
“Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery—the greatest material interest of the world,” Mississippi’s 1861 Declaration of Secession declared. Once again, the Mississippi governor has declared April as Confederate Heritage Month. buff.ly/1JqEwko
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