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New York Times reporter Email me at greg.jaffe@nytimes.com

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“.. They couldn’t break me by arresting me,” Ms. Levy Armstrong said, “so they doctored an image to show the world a false iteration of that time to make me look weak.”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

03.02.2026 12:41 — 👍 2037    🔁 574    💬 25    📌 18
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It takes all of us to make The Washington Post. Every section works together to create this authoritative, entertaining, worldwide news report.

So, Jeff Bezos, #SaveThePost.

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I’m enjoying this season! They’re young and feisty. They play hard every night and with joy.

29.01.2026 23:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Despite Trump’s Words, China and Russia Are Not Threatening Greenland

NEW: Trump reality check — China and Russia aren't threatening Greenland. US and European officials say there's no intelligence on any such dangers. Sen. Mark Warner says the only immediate threat to Greenland is Trump asserting claims to it. Gift link to my story: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

24.01.2026 15:53 — 👍 153    🔁 52    💬 7    📌 7

though officials are reluctant to say it publicly, they are quietly hoping for a few days of brutal cold.

17.01.2026 20:37 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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NEW: Trump pardoned a porta-potty magnate named Arie Eric De Jong III who was sentenced to 5 months in federal prison for illegally disposing of sludge in cities across southern California.

16.01.2026 22:27 — 👍 940    🔁 397    💬 69    📌 80
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3 More Lawmakers in Video Say Federal Prosecutors Are Investigating Them

3 More Lawmakers in Video Say Federal Prosecutors Are Investigating Them www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

15.01.2026 02:20 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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From the latest email to the staff from @washingtonpost.com executive editor Matt Murray:

14.01.2026 23:39 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 1
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I am The Post’s ‘federal government whisperer.’ It’s been brutal. One reporter’s effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources — and nearly broke her.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

14.01.2026 14:08 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Documents

The reporter in question — Hannah Natanson — has done important, incredibly valuable work.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

14.01.2026 14:08 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
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Senator Says Prosecutors Are Investigating Her After Video About Illegal Orders

Sen. Slotkin: “I’ve studied this kind of political authoritarianism in other countries my entire professional life. I just can’t believe I am talking about it in my own country.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

14.01.2026 13:52 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Senator Says Prosecutors Are Investigating Her After Video About Illegal Orders

The latest escalation:
Senator Says Prosecutors Are Investigating Her After Video About Illegal Orders www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

14.01.2026 13:50 — 👍 105    🔁 28    💬 4    📌 7

Thanks for the note and for posting.

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U.S. Citizens Are Joining the Military to Protect Undocumented Parents

"She along with hundreds of other recruiters around the country, had been offering something else: protection from the government she served."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

12.01.2026 12:51 — 👍 145    🔁 58    💬 8    📌 12
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U.S. Citizens Are Joining the Military to Protect Undocumented Parents

Who is joining the National Guard these days and why? I went to Oregon to find out. The answer surprised me:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

12.01.2026 12:48 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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A Close Call for U.S. Commandos and an Emboldened Trump

New details: The lead pilot was wounded three times in the leg. The Maduro raid was a big success. Like so many of these high stakes missions it nearly went badly wrong.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...

07.01.2026 22:16 — 👍 48    🔁 19    💬 16    📌 4
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What the Pentagon’s Attack Videos Reveal About the Boat Strikes at Sea

AC-130 gunships lasing targets. Griffin missiles captured fractions of a second before impact. RQ-4 Global Hawk drones filming it all. Seeing beyond the redactions in the Pentagon’s attack videos w/ @docubrent @carolrosenberg @cjchivers www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

26.11.2025 14:14 — 👍 148    🔁 58    💬 10    📌 4
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Democrats Say F.B.I. Is Investigating Them Over Illegal Orders Video.
nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

25.11.2025 21:07 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Why a Man With U.S. Ties Fought for Russia in Ukraine Col. Andrei Demurenko’s war story began at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., at a moment of hope and peace. It ended with a mortar blast in Ukraine.

Andrei Demurenko was the first and only Russian commander ever chosen to study alongside American troops at the U.S. Army’s Command and General Staff College. Decades later, his war story ended with a mortar blast in Ukraine. nyti.ms/4p9gLbp

24.11.2025 21:00 — 👍 28    🔁 5    💬 8    📌 1
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He Saw the Best of America and Then Fought for Russia in Ukraine

He Saw the Best of America and Then (at age 67) Fought for Russia in Ukraine. One of the crazier stories I've worked on. with Paul Sonne.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...

24.11.2025 13:40 — 👍 81    🔁 14    💬 11    📌 4
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an older man in a suit and tie is pointing at the camera and saying my man . ALT: an older man in a suit and tie is pointing at the camera and saying my man .
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Gated communities!

21.11.2025 16:05 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Democratic Lawmakers Tell Military to Refuse Illegal Orders

Six Democratic Lawmakers Tell Military to Refuse Illegal Orders
(I wrote about this video on Tues. I didn't think we'd still be talking about it on Thurs.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

20.11.2025 19:31 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Something good comes along, then it’s gone: Farewell, Todd Snider. When I moved to East Nashville in 2012, legend had it that if you wanted to find Todd Snider, all you had to do was go to Drifter’s BBQ in Five Points, and he’d be there at the bar. Nashville always h...

Wrote about Todd Snider, East Nashville and how the more things change, the more they change.

www.dontrocktheinbox.com/something-go...

17.11.2025 19:08 — 👍 88    🔁 35    💬 4    📌 8

“you ever go to one of those ‘mainstream’ shows,” he emailed me in 2013, when I was asking him some questions about his work on the Alabama tribute project, High Cotton. “they bring joy to a lot of people with songs. if there’s a wrong way to do that then god help us all.”

18.11.2025 14:36 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

👀⚖️‼️ #wrongly #deported

14.11.2025 23:51 — 👍 35    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.

"Sánchez’s youngest son, a third grader, could not accept for days that his father was gone. He kept asking adults if his father could have survived the explosion, noting he might still be at sea."
apnews.com/article/trum...

10.11.2025 17:34 — 👍 20    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Hegseth Vows to Shake Up the Way the Pentagon Does Business

Nearly every new defense secretary since the end of the Cold War has at some point declared war on the Pentagon’s sclerotic bureaucracy.
And then came Pete Hegseth:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

08.11.2025 01:40 — 👍 40    🔁 4    💬 5    📌 2

Latest Army general to be jammed up over alleged wokeness is Pat Work, who led the Ranger company that fast-roped into the Korengal to recover the bodies during Operation Red Wings and was the 82nd brigade commander who dug ISIS out of Mosul

07.11.2025 16:08 — 👍 632    🔁 248    💬 22    📌 29

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