Carolyn Hax

Thank you for subscribing. I’m still there because the news side is independent (no owner meddling) and still doing important work

Thanks for noticing 🩷 … the chat was mostly heavier topics, tho. I just shared extra comments on the dress. Because yes, we try not to forget that lives are still happening, and also sometimes need a damn break

Hi Kate. Petri writes for Atlantic now

Totally.

NC Court of Appeals gives over 60,000 challenged voters 15 days to prove eligibility The majority wrote that, even though they have the authority to completely throw out the contested ballots, they decided to instead mandate a cure period for most of the challenged voters.

If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks.

The website to check linked in the reply.

www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

The administration says that criminal immigrants can be deported to a foreign forced labor prison without a hearing that could determine if the person is actually a criminal or actually an immigrant and that if it makes a mistake it can’t be rectified because the person is now outside their control.

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Happy 1st gotcha day ❤️

This is very smart

www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-thi...

I’ve had time to think. I cherish most of my profanity

You mean so I don’t regret the profanity I’m likely to write if I commit to something now

Mosaic of a mermaid in blue water with gray hair and red scales

Finally (ran out of a color I needed). Stress-management mermaid No. 2. Haven’t decided what to put on the sign

UPDATE: From the original poster of the letter on FB:

My goodness. My pops (USMC, r.i.p.) could have written this, including the Agent Orange cancers. Devastating.

I understand. I’m staying put for now — Post newsroom remains independent (and is doing great, necessary work)

YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History

So much corruption, so little time youtu.be/hycoCYenXls?...

Whoa. Right down to the life management skills

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It is a lot. Ned suggests taking breaks to fold yourself in half

Opinion | All the splinters we cannot see Regardless of the thorns in any of our feet, we all just have to carry on.

Welcome back, Monica Hesse www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Here’s the real threat to ‘personal liberties and free markets’ The rapidly spreading authoritarianism coming from this administration threatens all of our freedoms.

I don't know what Jeff Bezos means by "personal liberties and free markets." But I do know this: The biggest threat to personal liberties and free markets in America today is Donald Trump. My @postopinions.bsky.social column on this week's trauma at the Post. wapo.st/3DaSKxX

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Ned thinks this week calls for both nap and toe beans

Good family

They sure are. I think I can do the most good by supporting the great work of the news side of The Post. Especially now. (The changes affect the opinion side only but hurt the news side’s credibility.)

Oh, tons. Emails all day.

Owners have this right — the opinion pages are theirs to shape (or leave alone, or strangle). So Bezos wants to make ours the WSJ? Not my preference, but not my paper. News side still independent.

Thanks for sticking around.

No notes

I’m sorry, just posting links, which still go to The Post. (Understand why some are canceling, but we’re still busting our butts)

That’s grief, isn’t it? You don’t know where to put it. I miss him too

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Om

Senior U.S. official exits after rift with Musk allies over payment system A top Treasury career staffer, David A. Lebryk, announced his retirement. Surrogates of Musk’s DOGE effort had sought access to sensitive payment systems.

Not online. Only in print in my syndication clients. I will humbly ask that you don’t quit it, tho. I support the work and hope you will too: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... and www.washingtonpost.com/business/202..., just for recent examples

The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

“Unless you cast your ballot so that South African oligarchs could steal your data, your money, your country, and your future, make it known to your elected officials that you wanted something else.” But “oops” or “my bad” will do open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Democracy 2025 | The united legal frontline in the fight for our democracy Democracy 2025 is the strategic hub to protect people and their rights should the Trump-Vance administration seek to unlawfully strip away freedoms and prosperity.

Is this the place? I won’t call what I did “vetting” but it looks promising: www.democracy2025.org