Dan Diamond
@ddiamond.bsky.social
White House reporter at the Washington Post. Focused on politics, policy and public health. Democracy dies in darkness.
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Here is the child’s drawing.
January 27, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Here is the child’s drawing.
First Lady Melania Trump, the film’s director Brett Ratner and other attendees have posted photos from last night’s White House event. Apple CEO Tim Cook, motivational speaker Tony Robbins and retired boxer Mike Tyson were among the guests.
January 25, 2026 at 8:57 PM
First Lady Melania Trump, the film’s director Brett Ratner and other attendees have posted photos from last night’s White House event. Apple CEO Tim Cook, motivational speaker Tony Robbins and retired boxer Mike Tyson were among the guests.
One note on this article, which says “the usual White House screening room in the East Wing has been *shut down* to construct the Trump ballroom.”
More accurately - the White House movie theater was demolished when Trump tore down the East Wing.
More accurately - the White House movie theater was demolished when Trump tore down the East Wing.
White House Holding VIP ‘Melania’ Screening Ahead of Doc Premiere With Mike Tyson, Tim Cook, Andy Jassy and More (Exclusive)
Sources say nobody outside of Melania Trump, director Brett Ratner and a very small group of their associates has yet seen the movie, including the president and his advisors, who are seeing it Saturd...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:50 AM
One note on this article, which says “the usual White House screening room in the East Wing has been *shut down* to construct the Trump ballroom.”
More accurately - the White House movie theater was demolished when Trump tore down the East Wing.
More accurately - the White House movie theater was demolished when Trump tore down the East Wing.
Another example of bipartisan concerns: Here’s @aoc.bsky.social now pushing the CEO of CVS Health on the company’s own acquisitions.
CVS CEO: I’d suggest it’s a model that works really well for the consumer.
AOC: I think it works very well for CVS … the patient gets screwed.
CVS CEO: I’d suggest it’s a model that works really well for the consumer.
AOC: I think it works very well for CVS … the patient gets screwed.
January 22, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Another example of bipartisan concerns: Here’s @aoc.bsky.social now pushing the CEO of CVS Health on the company’s own acquisitions.
CVS CEO: I’d suggest it’s a model that works really well for the consumer.
AOC: I think it works very well for CVS … the patient gets screwed.
CVS CEO: I’d suggest it’s a model that works really well for the consumer.
AOC: I think it works very well for CVS … the patient gets screwed.
Have covered the Trump-Cassidy dynamic this past year, and how Cassidy (the Senate health chairman) first boosted RFK Jr and then reined in his criticism to avoid a direct confrontation with the admin.
He still lost Trump’s endorsement.
He still lost Trump’s endorsement.
Cassidy has been trying to get back in Trump’s good graces — he’s up for reelection and politically endangered.
That’s shaped his approach to RFK Jr — despite being a doctor himself.
(I scribbled the attached post before the hearing, and think it ended up being a good forecast of what we saw.)
That’s shaped his approach to RFK Jr — despite being a doctor himself.
(I scribbled the attached post before the hearing, and think it ended up being a good forecast of what we saw.)
January 20, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Have covered the Trump-Cassidy dynamic this past year, and how Cassidy (the Senate health chairman) first boosted RFK Jr and then reined in his criticism to avoid a direct confrontation with the admin.
He still lost Trump’s endorsement.
He still lost Trump’s endorsement.
“When I traveled to Denmark this month, I found there was still fidelity to principles that seem to have vanished from the American government’s calculations, namely a sense of mutual obligation and basic morality."
Read @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social’s terrific piece here →
Read @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social’s terrific piece here →
“We have done so much for America”: Denmark fought alongside the U.S. in Afghanistan. Now, as Trump eyes Greenland, the families of fallen soldiers have a message for him, @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports: theatln.tc/I8nGcxwO
January 19, 2026 at 3:28 AM
“When I traveled to Denmark this month, I found there was still fidelity to principles that seem to have vanished from the American government’s calculations, namely a sense of mutual obligation and basic morality."
Read @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social’s terrific piece here →
Read @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social’s terrific piece here →
All credit to Hannah, an incredible colleague who has been doing exceptional work.
January 17, 2026 at 4:35 PM
All credit to Hannah, an incredible colleague who has been doing exceptional work.