Tom Jackman
@tomjackmanwp.bsky.social
Former crime and justice reporter, The Washington Post. Big fan of sports, music, comedy, sleeping, not necessarily in that order.
Man this is a big loss. The heart of so many soul bands. RIP Steve Cropper
December 4, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Man this is a big loss. The heart of so many soul bands. RIP Steve Cropper
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I hope all the folks standing behind Trump feel real good about being the backdrop for the racist ravings of a jerk.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I hope all the folks standing behind Trump feel real good about being the backdrop for the racist ravings of a jerk.
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NEW: The commutation Trump issued to David Gentile wipes away all further fines & restitution.
Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture.
www.justice.gov/pardon/media...
Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture.
www.justice.gov/pardon/media...
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
NEW: The commutation Trump issued to David Gentile wipes away all further fines & restitution.
Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture.
www.justice.gov/pardon/media...
Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture.
www.justice.gov/pardon/media...
Have been a very longtime print subscriber to @rollingstone.com and @vanityfair.com. Which to renew? Rolling Stone hired @mattbaidc.bsky.social for its national correspondent job. Vanity Fair hired Olivia Nuzzi to be its LA bureau chief. Rolling Stone it is! Goodbye Vanity Fair, you were once great.
December 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Have been a very longtime print subscriber to @rollingstone.com and @vanityfair.com. Which to renew? Rolling Stone hired @mattbaidc.bsky.social for its national correspondent job. Vanity Fair hired Olivia Nuzzi to be its LA bureau chief. Rolling Stone it is! Goodbye Vanity Fair, you were once great.
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Full pardon for the convicted drug trafficker who helped move 400 tons of cocaine. Death by airstrike for the guys on the boat www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Ex-Honduras president, convicted of drug trafficking, freed on Trump pardon
A former DEA agent called the release “devastating”: “It means any attempt to work your investigations to the highest levels is meaningless.”
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December 3, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Full pardon for the convicted drug trafficker who helped move 400 tons of cocaine. Death by airstrike for the guys on the boat www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Great NYT piece (gift link) on “The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Great NYT piece (gift link) on “The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
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Debunking myths about Mother Rosa Parks, an icon of the Civil Rights Movement and (as we knew her growing up) a great Detroiter. 💐
Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Debunking myths about Mother Rosa Parks, an icon of the Civil Rights Movement and (as we knew her growing up) a great Detroiter. 💐
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Come for the description of Rahmanullah Lakanwa
feeling abandoned by the CIA.
Stay for the description of the entire group feeling abandoned by John Ratcliffe's attempt to disown the murder.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
feeling abandoned by the CIA.
Stay for the description of the entire group feeling abandoned by John Ratcliffe's attempt to disown the murder.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Come for the description of Rahmanullah Lakanwa
feeling abandoned by the CIA.
Stay for the description of the entire group feeling abandoned by John Ratcliffe's attempt to disown the murder.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
feeling abandoned by the CIA.
Stay for the description of the entire group feeling abandoned by John Ratcliffe's attempt to disown the murder.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Hell of a thread:
Ukraine relations get even more chaotic. Two factions - Kushner/Witkoff and Vance/Driscoll - are both freelancing to set US policy: cutting out the State Dept, pushing Ukraine to surrender, then leaking to press to claim they are official. Why? Putin is desperate and has called in his assets. A 🧵 1/
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Hell of a thread:
Really superb piece on kids keeping DC’s go-go music alive, by @marissajae.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
These teens are trying to save go-go. Can the music save them, too?
A new generation of D.C. teens is discovering the power of go-go music, thanks to a revival effort in local schools.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Really superb piece on kids keeping DC’s go-go music alive, by @marissajae.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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I wrote about Judge Jerry Smith's 104-page anti-semitic pro-racial gerrymandering crashout opinion, published yesterday, dissenting from the order blocking Texas's new electoral district map
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
November 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I wrote about Judge Jerry Smith's 104-page anti-semitic pro-racial gerrymandering crashout opinion, published yesterday, dissenting from the order blocking Texas's new electoral district map
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
I googled Walter Cronkite and this came up. For real.
November 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I googled Walter Cronkite and this came up. For real.
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Trump on MBS: "He's investing $1 trillion into the United States." (The entire GDP of Saudi Arabia is $1.1 trillion, so yeah, this isn't happening)
November 19, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Trump on MBS: "He's investing $1 trillion into the United States." (The entire GDP of Saudi Arabia is $1.1 trillion, so yeah, this isn't happening)
In which the Trump administration openly admits to racist redistricting, and the courts call them out on it:
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump DOJ’s ‘Ham-Fisted’ Letter Key to Ruling Blocking Texas Gerrymander
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:59 AM
In which the Trump administration openly admits to racist redistricting, and the courts call them out on it:
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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"It’s a goddamn disgrace. Especially when so many worthy journalists, who dedicated their lives to their profession with ethics and seriousness, are being cast onto the ash heap." www.unpopularfront.news/p/we-are-not...
We Are Not Amused
The Olivia Nuzzi Return is a Disgrace
www.unpopularfront.news
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"It’s a goddamn disgrace. Especially when so many worthy journalists, who dedicated their lives to their profession with ethics and seriousness, are being cast onto the ash heap." www.unpopularfront.news/p/we-are-not...
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In 2001, terrorists tried to destroy the White House with a hijacked plane. 24 years later, the president of the United States accepted a plane from people funding terrorists and destroyed the White House himself.🔄
November 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
In 2001, terrorists tried to destroy the White House with a hijacked plane. 24 years later, the president of the United States accepted a plane from people funding terrorists and destroyed the White House himself.🔄
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SCOOP: Alexander Smirnov, the FBI informant convicted of lying about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Trump any moment.
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FBI Informant Who Lied About Bidens Quietly Released From Jail Sparking Trump Pardon Fears
Alexander Smirnov was quietly furloughed from prison months ago.
jacquelinesweet.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
SCOOP: Alexander Smirnov, the FBI informant convicted of lying about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Trump any moment.
jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/fbi-inform...
jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/fbi-inform...
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New: Prosecutors suspended for mentioning Jan. 6 riot in sentencing memo.
"The depravity of the Trump administration is already well documented, but each day brings more evidence of the moral and ethical vacuity of this president and his Republican enablers."
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"The depravity of the Trump administration is already well documented, but each day brings more evidence of the moral and ethical vacuity of this president and his Republican enablers."
All links/subscriptions are free.
Are we supposed to remove Jan. 6 from our calendars?
Two prosecutors suspended for mentioning the riot in sentencing memo for armed man stalking Obama
fightthefire.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:46 PM
New: Prosecutors suspended for mentioning Jan. 6 riot in sentencing memo.
"The depravity of the Trump administration is already well documented, but each day brings more evidence of the moral and ethical vacuity of this president and his Republican enablers."
All links/subscriptions are free.
"The depravity of the Trump administration is already well documented, but each day brings more evidence of the moral and ethical vacuity of this president and his Republican enablers."
All links/subscriptions are free.
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There’s money for the Blue Angels during a shutdown, but not for children going hungry.
They’ve done at least four circles, I captured them going over DCA again.
October 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
There’s money for the Blue Angels during a shutdown, but not for children going hungry.
The Washington Post laid off their Opinion page copy desk and promptly served up this gem today:
October 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The Washington Post laid off their Opinion page copy desk and promptly served up this gem today:
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Suddenly remembering the time The Washington Post gave a strong review to a book critical of Opus Dei only to have the paper's executive editor, whose father was a priest, write a defense of the book for a Catholic publication.
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
open.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Suddenly remembering the time The Washington Post gave a strong review to a book critical of Opus Dei only to have the paper's executive editor, whose father was a priest, write a defense of the book for a Catholic publication.
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Jeanine Pirro becoming the Washington Generals of prosecutors.
October 17, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Jeanine Pirro becoming the Washington Generals of prosecutors.