John Malloy
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washington post reporter code-switching on twitter and bluesky like a key & peele sketch
December 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
washington post reporter code-switching on twitter and bluesky like a key & peele sketch
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One issue with voter registration is that there’s the strong temptation for people to chuck forms with “obviously fake” names but the reality is there are tons of real people who legitimately have the names of fictional characters.
December 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
One issue with voter registration is that there’s the strong temptation for people to chuck forms with “obviously fake” names but the reality is there are tons of real people who legitimately have the names of fictional characters.
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"I believe that all bullies are frightened children who deserve to be well, and whom God wants to deliver from the spiritual forces of evil that have overtaken them," says David Black, who was paper sprayed by ICE officers in September.
sojo.net/magazine/dec...
sojo.net/magazine/dec...
‘All Bullies Are Frightened Children’
A pastor’s reflections after being shot at by ICE agents.
sojo.net
December 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"I believe that all bullies are frightened children who deserve to be well, and whom God wants to deliver from the spiritual forces of evil that have overtaken them," says David Black, who was paper sprayed by ICE officers in September.
sojo.net/magazine/dec...
sojo.net/magazine/dec...
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This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
December 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
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The privately reported numbers are all we have to go on now, and they aren’t good.
December 4, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The privately reported numbers are all we have to go on now, and they aren’t good.
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Van Epps starting the timer for his swearing-in to the House in mid-January, assuming Mike Johnson applies the same waiting period that he did to Grijalva.
December 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Van Epps starting the timer for his swearing-in to the House in mid-January, assuming Mike Johnson applies the same waiting period that he did to Grijalva.
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Even accounting for the new congressional maps, a swing like Aftyn Behn's (Trump+22 to D-8.6) would net Dems 259 seats in the midterms.
Even if the swing is *half* of tonight's, Dems win the House with 229 seats
Data: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Even if the swing is *half* of tonight's, Dems win the House with 229 seats
Data: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
December 3, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Even accounting for the new congressional maps, a swing like Aftyn Behn's (Trump+22 to D-8.6) would net Dems 259 seats in the midterms.
Even if the swing is *half* of tonight's, Dems win the House with 229 seats
Data: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Even if the swing is *half* of tonight's, Dems win the House with 229 seats
Data: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Some angry QTs on this on the assumption that I'm trashing Harris. Not at all. There was a silly "Harris may be nationalizing the race" narrative when she made stops in district, but big GOP money - which I pay more attention to as a campaign reporter - was flowing in right before Harris got there.
Kamala will take some blame if Behn loses - which is what everyone would have expected three weeks ago.
But to be fair, the day she got there, the Club for Growth was already spending panic money on ads for Republican voters.
But to be fair, the day she got there, the Club for Growth was already spending panic money on ads for Republican voters.
December 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Some angry QTs on this on the assumption that I'm trashing Harris. Not at all. There was a silly "Harris may be nationalizing the race" narrative when she made stops in district, but big GOP money - which I pay more attention to as a campaign reporter - was flowing in right before Harris got there.
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Just in the last few mins more votes have come in, and total turnout in this special stands at 96% of the 2022 November election. With more votes coming in Nashville, it could EXCEED 2022.
The GOP can't explain this double digit swing away with their old excuses of low turnout.
The GOP can't explain this double digit swing away with their old excuses of low turnout.
The Dem (Behn) will fall short in the TN7 special, but what happened was a double digit margin swing from last year.
GOPs try to explain these special elections away by saying they are just low turnout and their voters will come out next November.
That's not true here...
GOPs try to explain these special elections away by saying they are just low turnout and their voters will come out next November.
That's not true here...
December 3, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Just in the last few mins more votes have come in, and total turnout in this special stands at 96% of the 2022 November election. With more votes coming in Nashville, it could EXCEED 2022.
The GOP can't explain this double digit swing away with their old excuses of low turnout.
The GOP can't explain this double digit swing away with their old excuses of low turnout.
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The Dem (Behn) will fall short in the TN7 special, but what happened was a double digit margin swing from last year.
GOPs try to explain these special elections away by saying they are just low turnout and their voters will come out next November.
That's not true here...
GOPs try to explain these special elections away by saying they are just low turnout and their voters will come out next November.
That's not true here...
December 3, 2025 at 2:38 AM
The Dem (Behn) will fall short in the TN7 special, but what happened was a double digit margin swing from last year.
GOPs try to explain these special elections away by saying they are just low turnout and their voters will come out next November.
That's not true here...
GOPs try to explain these special elections away by saying they are just low turnout and their voters will come out next November.
That's not true here...
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If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:
December 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:
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DC Statehood on demand and without apology. Every dem trifecta that has failed to secure this has led us to this point.
NEW: Republican-led states, in a new filing at the D.C. Circuit, say D.C. residents are irrelevant, D.C. belongs to everyone else. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
December 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
DC Statehood on demand and without apology. Every dem trifecta that has failed to secure this has led us to this point.
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Trying to internalize this concept for over a year....
If you're new to the job market, know this now. Don't wrap up your whole identity in your job.
Expanding this concept: don't wrap your whole identity in one thing outside of your control.
Xo, an elder millennial 💙
If you're new to the job market, know this now. Don't wrap up your whole identity in your job.
Expanding this concept: don't wrap your whole identity in one thing outside of your control.
Xo, an elder millennial 💙
"When I say “work won’t love us back” I don't mean “don’t work hard” or “don’t strive for excellence” or “laziness is good, actually” or any other ways people interpret this...
I mean simply: Be intentional & thoughtful about how much you give to your job." amandalitman.substack.com/p/work-wont-...
I mean simply: Be intentional & thoughtful about how much you give to your job." amandalitman.substack.com/p/work-wont-...
Work won't love you back
That doesn't mean you can't love your work! But know the limits of this love.
amandalitman.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Trying to internalize this concept for over a year....
If you're new to the job market, know this now. Don't wrap up your whole identity in your job.
Expanding this concept: don't wrap your whole identity in one thing outside of your control.
Xo, an elder millennial 💙
If you're new to the job market, know this now. Don't wrap up your whole identity in your job.
Expanding this concept: don't wrap your whole identity in one thing outside of your control.
Xo, an elder millennial 💙
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Imagine what it does to morale in the military to see the defense secretary hang an admiral out to dry to avoid responsibility for war crimes.
December 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Imagine what it does to morale in the military to see the defense secretary hang an admiral out to dry to avoid responsibility for war crimes.
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I can’t promise that this is the first time a Canadian publisher of a beloved children’s book series has publicly condemned the bloodthirsty US secretary of defense’s use of its imagery to smirkingly defend heinous war crimes. I mean who can say.
December 2, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I can’t promise that this is the first time a Canadian publisher of a beloved children’s book series has publicly condemned the bloodthirsty US secretary of defense’s use of its imagery to smirkingly defend heinous war crimes. I mean who can say.
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November 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
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🚨 New working paper 🚨
Can LLMs with reasoning + web search reliably fact-check political claims?
We evaluated 15 models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on 6,000+ PolitiFact claims (2007–2024).
Short answer: Not reliably—unless you give them curated evidence.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.18749
Can LLMs with reasoning + web search reliably fact-check political claims?
We evaluated 15 models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on 6,000+ PolitiFact claims (2007–2024).
Short answer: Not reliably—unless you give them curated evidence.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.18749
November 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
🚨 New working paper 🚨
Can LLMs with reasoning + web search reliably fact-check political claims?
We evaluated 15 models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on 6,000+ PolitiFact claims (2007–2024).
Short answer: Not reliably—unless you give them curated evidence.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.18749
Can LLMs with reasoning + web search reliably fact-check political claims?
We evaluated 15 models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on 6,000+ PolitiFact claims (2007–2024).
Short answer: Not reliably—unless you give them curated evidence.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.18749
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To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
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If this reporting is accurate, Secretary Hegseth ordered a murder and must be held accountable.
This is probably why he is so concerned about Senator Kelly and my colleagues’ warning about illegal orders. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
This is probably why he is so concerned about Senator Kelly and my colleagues’ warning about illegal orders. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:10 AM
If this reporting is accurate, Secretary Hegseth ordered a murder and must be held accountable.
This is probably why he is so concerned about Senator Kelly and my colleagues’ warning about illegal orders. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
This is probably why he is so concerned about Senator Kelly and my colleagues’ warning about illegal orders. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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I found this terribly sad. A young woman with her life ahead of her, and she becomes one of the last American victims of the Long War.
November 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I found this terribly sad. A young woman with her life ahead of her, and she becomes one of the last American victims of the Long War.
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Absolutely devastating news. My heart is broken for her family. Let us keep her loved ones in our thoughts and continue to pray for Staff Sgt. Wolfe. apnews.com/article/nati...
Trump says one of the two West Virginia National Guard members shot by Afghan national has died
President Donald Trump said that one of the two West Virginia National Guard members shot by an Afghan national near the White House had died.
apnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Absolutely devastating news. My heart is broken for her family. Let us keep her loved ones in our thoughts and continue to pray for Staff Sgt. Wolfe. apnews.com/article/nati...
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Passed by a procession for the guardsman who died on 4th street SW.
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Passed by a procession for the guardsman who died on 4th street SW.
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Miles, an Indigenous actor best known for her roles in “Northern Exposure,” “Smoke Signals,” “Wyvern” and “The Last of Us,” handed them her tribal ID from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon.
Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it “fake.”
Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it “fake.”
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Miles, an Indigenous actor best known for her roles in “Northern Exposure,” “Smoke Signals,” “Wyvern” and “The Last of Us,” handed them her tribal ID from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon.
Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it “fake.”
Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it “fake.”
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I used to feel bad
for the aunt cleaning up
while everyone else talked
but now I know
she just wanted to be alone
for the aunt cleaning up
while everyone else talked
but now I know
she just wanted to be alone
November 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I used to feel bad
for the aunt cleaning up
while everyone else talked
but now I know
she just wanted to be alone
for the aunt cleaning up
while everyone else talked
but now I know
she just wanted to be alone