I really miss hearing your commentary on what’s going on in the Texas legislature- especially right now during this GOP power grab.

Opinion | 11 tips for becoming a columnist Here’s my advice for handling the awesome responsibility of this job.

Some professional news: After more than a decade of columnizing at The Washington Post, I'm taking the buyout.
This is my last column. It is my advice to any other lucky pundits who land a perch like this -- with 11 principles I've aspired to, even if I haven't always achieved them:
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FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show - NYT

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

NPR receives $2-3M/year in federal funding.

PBS receives $80-85M.

The military-themed birthday parade Trump is throwing himself will cost taxpayers $92M.

We’re told cutting news and kids programming to fund an authoritarian birthday bash somehow “makes America great again”

Looks like Mark Zuckerberg is censoring Heather Cox Richardson kottke.org/25/04/004655...

Lawyers, Big Law firms--you have a choice. Will you be Paul Weiss and Skadden, or will you be Jenner and WilmerHale. Appease Trump or fight his flagrantly unconstitutional orders. Partners, what will you tell your children?

Because DOGE has shut down USAID's payment system (Phoenix), our housing electricity and the electricity in our USAID building have not been paid for. Mission leadership has informed us that the only reason our electricity is on is because we've asked for an extension from the electric company. The Mission asked for a waiver but because our payment system is down, the Treasury has no way to issue money to USAID and State Department representatives here are hesitant to make payments on our behalf for fear of not being reimbursed. 7. Once the electricity goes out in our homes, we lose access to our security cameras and radios. Again, I live in a high-risk post, so access to security systems is very important to me. 8. I have been told by Mission leadership that the cell phone and internet bills are due this week with no way to pay them. This is despite the so-called "waiver" process that has been allegedly implemented to preserve such access. 9. Our cell phones and radios are also the only way to communicate with the Regional Security Office about security threats. We have access to no other USAID security systems.

The agency is also considering spending about $25,000 to install a washer and dryer on the building’s 6th floor, according to a Feb. 25 invoice obtained by POLITICO. There is also a child’s play area decorated with a stuffed animal and toys, according to a photo of the room shared with POLITICO. “People are definitely … sleeping there,” said one GSA staffer.

DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America.

Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.

The White House has gone after another leading law firm. This time Paul Weiss. I cannot overstate how dangerous this is—and how urgent for the private bar to respond with solidarity to this assault on the legal profession and rule of law.

Advances in women’s brain health needed to close gender gap in neuroscience, doctors say The Center for BrainHealth in Dallas hosted a women’s brain health conference on Wednesday. Experts nationwide attended to discuss the pressing gender gap in...

The Center for BrainHealth in Dallas hosted the women’s brain health conference last week. Experts nationwide attended to discuss the pressing gender gap in neuroscience research and its implications for women’s mental and physical well-being.

Opinion | How to lose the 21st century, in three easy steps Trump is throwing away what could have been the next great American century.

More than anything else, Trump loves winning. Yet he has already positioned America to lose the 21st century, in three simple steps:
1. Alienate your friends.
2. Destroy your business environment.
3. Slaughter your golden goose (i.e., science and research).

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Robert Putnam reflects on how America became so polarized and what can unify the nation For over two years, Judy Woodruff has traveled the country exploring the roots of America’s divisions over race, religion, culture, wealth and more for America at a Crossroads. The series returns…

"America at a Crossroads" returns with political scientist Robert Putnam, who has spent decades studying these divides and how we might find our way back to a more unified nation.

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...

How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps

A 71-year-old woman has died after her oxygen supply was cut off when Trump announced his federal funding freeze.

JD Vance - If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.

This. I don't see why a court order shouldn't stop this instantly.

An immigrant faces deportation after a routine traffic stop in Texas, sparking more fear Advocates worry that rapidly shifting federal and state immigration initiatives will prompt more city police to funnel migrants without criminal records to federal agents.

A 29-year-old father of three was pulled over while getting baby formula for his kid. He now faces deportation, despite the Trump admin’s claim that they are prioritizing undocumented migrants with criminal histories.

Which Federal Programs Are Under Scrutiny? The Budget Office Named 2,600 of Them. (Gift Article) The Trump administration ordered temporary freezes in funding for programs spanning virtually every part of the government. Here’s the full list.

Here is a list of the 2,600 programs under funding freezes as they are reviewed by the Trump Administration:

(Gift link)

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Opinion | Trump finds a new way for foreign governments to pay him off: Crypto Trump’s crypto coin is little more than a whizbang Ponzi scheme.

Trump finds a new way for foreign governments to pay him off: Crypto wapo.st/4h8AGmP

Select January 6th Committee Final Report and Supporting Materials Collection

Dear Kristen Weller and all other press, when they say we deleted evidence, refer them to this…. It’s all the evidence:

www.govinfo.gov/collection/j...

Texas Lawmakers Push for New Exceptions to State’s Strict Abortion Ban After the Deaths of Two Women The new legislation, prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, comes after 111 Texas doctors signed a public letter urging that the ban be changed because it “does not allow us as medical professionals to d...

Texas lawmakers file bills that would create new exceptions in the state’s abortion ban after @propublica.org reporting on the preventable deaths of two women whose miscarriages went untreated. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

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