Shane Harris
@shaneharris.bsky.social
Staff Writer @theatlantic. Author. Podcaster. Filmmaker. https://linktr.ee/shaneharris Signal: shaneharris.64
It’s that time of year again. Let’s make bacon! www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos... Post Reports is repeating our James Beard Award-winning podcast about my ten-year quest to find a secret recipe for candied bacon. Recipe at the end. (It goes perfectly with cocktails.) Happy Thanksgiving!
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November 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
It’s that time of year again. Let’s make bacon! www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos... Post Reports is repeating our James Beard Award-winning podcast about my ten-year quest to find a secret recipe for candied bacon. Recipe at the end. (It goes perfectly with cocktails.) Happy Thanksgiving!
Over several interviews, RFK Jr. told @michaelscherer.bsky.social about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he has crusaded against? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?
How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/01/rfk-jr-public-health-science/684948/?gift[…]8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
November 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Over several interviews, RFK Jr. told @michaelscherer.bsky.social about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he has crusaded against? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
A cache of emails from the longtime Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell shows her prison conditions improving dramatically as a crisis grew for Trump, @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Ghislaine Maxwell Emails
Extra toilet paper is just one of the privileges the former Epstein associate is enjoying in prison.
www.theatlantic.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
A cache of emails from the longtime Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell shows her prison conditions improving dramatically as a crisis grew for Trump, @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
This is some lede: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This is some lede: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
"The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025... You should always read @sophiegilbert.bsky.social, particularly this month.
President Piggy
This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.
www.theatlantic.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
"The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025... You should always read @sophiegilbert.bsky.social, particularly this month.
You have to admit, the ineptitude is impressive.
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
You have to admit, the ineptitude is impressive.
Reposted by Shane Harris
When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.
And David Ellison, the new owner of CBS.
TIME magazine owner Marc Benioff was among the dignitaries dining last night with Mohammed bin Salman, who approved the murder of a journalist. e.ejewishphilanthropy.com/deliveries/d...
Good Wednesday morning!
e.ejewishphilanthropy.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
And David Ellison, the new owner of CBS.
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TIME magazine owner Marc Benioff was among the dignitaries dining last night with Mohammed bin Salman, who approved the murder of a journalist. e.ejewishphilanthropy.com/deliveries/d...
Good Wednesday morning!
e.ejewishphilanthropy.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
TIME magazine owner Marc Benioff was among the dignitaries dining last night with Mohammed bin Salman, who approved the murder of a journalist. e.ejewishphilanthropy.com/deliveries/d...
A Klimt sold last night for the second-highest price ever paid at auction. Who paid the highest price? www.wsj.com/articles/sau... (Debatable whether it’s actually a da Vinci)
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Identified as Buyer of Record-Breaking da Vinci
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman used a distant relative as a proxy to purchase the 500-year-old “Salvator Mundi,” according to U.S. government intelligence and a Middle East art-world figure.
www.wsj.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A Klimt sold last night for the second-highest price ever paid at auction. Who paid the highest price? www.wsj.com/articles/sau... (Debatable whether it’s actually a da Vinci)
“Forgetting Mohammed’s brutality and Khashoggi’s warnings is a choice, and Trump made the wrong one.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | ‘Things happen’
Setting the record straight about our murdered colleague.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:11 AM
“Forgetting Mohammed’s brutality and Khashoggi’s warnings is a choice, and Trump made the wrong one.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Worth remembering today that two citizens of Saudi Arabia remain wanted for the murder of a North Carolina man. They are among dozens who have fled justice in the U.S., often with the help of the Saudi government.
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Saudi Embassy has helped its citizens facing criminal charges flee the United States
The FBI warns that Saudi government officials have undermined the U.S. judicial process.
wapo.st
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Worth remembering today that two citizens of Saudi Arabia remain wanted for the murder of a North Carolina man. They are among dozens who have fled justice in the U.S., often with the help of the Saudi government.
wapo.st/44b6nY9
wapo.st/44b6nY9
"But he knew nothing about it," Trump says. False: The CIA (under Trump) concluded that Mohammed bin Salman ordered the operation that killed Jamal Khashoggi. Trump has long resisted that fact. But it's a fact. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
November 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
"But he knew nothing about it," Trump says. False: The CIA (under Trump) concluded that Mohammed bin Salman ordered the operation that killed Jamal Khashoggi. Trump has long resisted that fact. But it's a fact. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
Trump is not acting like someone who has nothing to hide, one of the president’s allies told @jonlemire.bsky.social. bhttps://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/11/jeffrey-epstein-trump-emails/684926/?gift=kPTlqn0J1iP9IBZcsdI5IRlpytBzII6okvuEm422iA4
Epstein Returns at the Worst Time for Trump
The president is desperate to make the questions go away, but there is no sign they will.
www.theatlantic.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Trump is not acting like someone who has nothing to hide, one of the president’s allies told @jonlemire.bsky.social. bhttps://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/11/jeffrey-epstein-trump-emails/684926/?gift=kPTlqn0J1iP9IBZcsdI5IRlpytBzII6okvuEm422iA4
A juror in The Sandwich Guy's trial in D.C. told @ashleyrparker.bsky.social: “We’re supposed to be looking at the evidence, but a clear majority felt it was nonsensical, like 'Don’t waste our time or money.'" www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Inside the Sandwich Guy’s Jury Deliberations
Can a flung sandwich cause bodily harm?
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
A juror in The Sandwich Guy's trial in D.C. told @ashleyrparker.bsky.social: “We’re supposed to be looking at the evidence, but a clear majority felt it was nonsensical, like 'Don’t waste our time or money.'" www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
November 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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FWIW in 2025, Wolff described Epstein as becoming a "source" in 2015, the year he sent the email giving Epstein advice washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/20/t...
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
FWIW in 2025, Wolff described Epstein as becoming a "source" in 2015, the year he sent the email giving Epstein advice washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/20/t...
"The opinion also states that drug cartels are selling drugs to finance a campaign of violence and extortion, according to four people." That would be remarkable, since it's not how drug cartels work. They use violence to protect their business--selling drugs. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. troops not liable in boat strikes, classified Justice Dept. memo says
In a classified memo, the Trump administration’s Office of Legal Counsel said that U.S. troops would not be liable for participating in boat strikes on alleged narco-traffickers.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"The opinion also states that drug cartels are selling drugs to finance a campaign of violence and extortion, according to four people." That would be remarkable, since it's not how drug cartels work. They use violence to protect their business--selling drugs. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
The CIA conducted an audacious highly classified program to covertly manipulate Afghanistan’s lucrative poppy crop, blanketing Afghan farmers’ fields with specially modified seeds. An extraordinary story from Warren Strobel. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Inside the CIA’s secret mission to sabotage Afghanistan’s opium
In a decade-long operation, the CIA modified poppy seeds and dropped them by the billions from aircraft over Afghanistan in an attempt to weaken the potency of the country’s opium crop.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The CIA conducted an audacious highly classified program to covertly manipulate Afghanistan’s lucrative poppy crop, blanketing Afghan farmers’ fields with specially modified seeds. An extraordinary story from Warren Strobel. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
And how about when they seize reporters’ phone records without telling us?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
And how about when they seize reporters’ phone records without telling us?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
"NSO Group, the Israeli company behind Pegasus spyware, says a group of investors led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds has acquired a controlling stake in the firm, which has named a former Trump official to lead an effort to restore its battered reputation." www.wsj.com/tech/israeli...
Israeli Spyware Maker NSO Gets New Owners, Leadership and Seeks to Mend Reputation
Investors led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds have taken a controlling stake in the company behind Pegasus, and former Trump official David Friedman has been named executive chairman.
www.wsj.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
"NSO Group, the Israeli company behind Pegasus spyware, says a group of investors led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds has acquired a controlling stake in the firm, which has named a former Trump official to lead an effort to restore its battered reputation." www.wsj.com/tech/israeli...
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“Hell, yeah, she’s getting paid!” the lobbyist said."
Antonia Hitchens on the mystery of Laura Loomer's many vendettas
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Antonia Hitchens on the mystery of Laura Loomer's many vendettas
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Laura Loomer’s Endless Payback
The President’s self-appointed loyalty enforcer inspires fear and vexation across Washington. What’s behind her vetting crusades?
www.newyorker.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Hell, yeah, she’s getting paid!” the lobbyist said."
Antonia Hitchens on the mystery of Laura Loomer's many vendettas
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Antonia Hitchens on the mystery of Laura Loomer's many vendettas
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
"...while Americans today have more opportunities than ever to speak, they have fewer opportunities than ever to be truly heard." This reflection from the Post's former letters editor--who read all 21,000 she got after the paper didn't endorse--is worth listening to. www.notus.org/perspectives...
The Washington Post Got 21,000 Emails After It Didn't Endorse. I Read Them All.
Reading and editing letters gave me a theory about what is wrong with America — and how it could be fixed.
www.notus.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM
"...while Americans today have more opportunities than ever to speak, they have fewer opportunities than ever to be truly heard." This reflection from the Post's former letters editor--who read all 21,000 she got after the paper didn't endorse--is worth listening to. www.notus.org/perspectives...