Dan Keating

Trump’s first 100 days, in 10 charts Trump’s second term has seen a significant increase in executive orders, with more than 140 signed in his first 100 days, and a decline in his approval rating.

Great visuals telling the story of Trump II's 1st 100 days www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

RFK Jr. said autistic people don’t work or play sports. They say he’s wrong. The health and human services secretary on Wednesday suggested that autistic children would never play baseball or pay taxes, enraging those in the community.

Autistic people and their loved ones have swiftly and publicly rejected statements by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, that people with autism will never play baseball, date, pay taxes or have a job.

Bill Ackman, hedge fund billionaire and key Trump ally, slams tariffs The Wall Street mogul warned of “economic nuclear winter” as the threat of an all-out trade war triggers a global market meltdown.

The United States is “heading for a self-induced, economic nuclear winter, and we should start hunkering down,” Bill Ackman, a hedge fund billionaire who endorsed Donald Trump’s 2024 candidacy, wrote on the social media site X on Sunday.

Fed work helped build Black wealth in this suburb. Now families worry. Prince George’s was until recently the nation’s wealthiest majority-Black county. That standing has been fueled by workers who gravitated to the federal sector.

Great story on an overlooked angle to the gutting of the federal workforce: The public sector has been a key driver of Black wealth and refuge from the discrimination of the private sector. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Trump promised scientific breakthroughs. Researchers say he’s breaking science. NIH funding for biomedical research has abruptly fallen by billions of dollars, with many grant decisions on hold. Trump officials say they’re reviewing the agency.

As a candidate last year, Trump promised “to unleash the power of American innovation” to super-charge U.S. scientific research.

He’s instead unleashed cuts and chaos, researchers and scientists warn.

Our look at the abrupt changes — and the consequences. With @dtkeating.bsky.social

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Analysis | D.C.’s BLM street painting is nearly gone. What about all the others? Although D.C.’s iconic Black Lives Matter Plaza is being torn up, other street art from the summer of 2020 remains, and a few paintings look better than ever.

Amazing visual view of America's evolving views on race www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Column | It’s not just the Gulf of Mexico. Why is so much of America named after foreign countries? Our exhaustive search of American place names discovered that one country has been a shockingly dominant source of inspiration. You’ll never guess which one.

AND THE COUNTRY THAT HAS INSPIRED THE MOST U.S. PLACE NAMES — and it's not particularly close — is ...

Turkey.

No, @moriartymaps.com and @andrewvandam.bsky.social argue, really

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Former Social Security official describes hostile takeover by Musk team DOGE officials also put millions of taxpayers’ private data at risk and refused to say why they needed access to it, the official says.

A federal lawsuit filed by a Social Security Administration chief of staff, until they were forced out in February, is the first in-depth public account from a high-ranking government executive of how Musk’s team is operating as it leads a downsizing of the federal government under President Trump.

FDA announces Jim Traficant as agency's new chief of staff, per agency email obtained by The Post.

DOGE staffers bring U.S. Marshals to small federal agency that denied them access The show of force by Trump administration officials and federal law enforcement resulted in a frantic and “traumatizing” scene, several officials of the aid agency said, and sparked a lawsuit from its...

DOGE brings U.S. Marshals to small federal agency that denied them access, sparking a federal lawsuit from the aid organization’s leader claiming DOGE officials are unauthorized to represent the agency. Via @briannatucker.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Amid West Texas measles outbreak, vaccine resistance hardens A child has died in an outbreak that has grown to 146 cases.

“We’re not going to harm our children or [risk] the potential to harm our children so that we can save yours,” says the mother of an unvaccinated Texas child who contracted measles.

Her 7-year-old son recovered.

But an otherwise healthy unvaccinated 6-year-old died of measles 80 miles away.

Elon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s wealth.

Elon Musk's businesses have received at least $38 billion in government funding, helping seed the growth that has made Musk the world’s richest person.
From data reporters Emmanuel Martinez & @dtkeating.bsky.social and a great team: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

Invasive frisks, suicide attempts: Three migrants describe Guantánamo detention Three migrants sent to Guantánamo said they were denied calls to loved ones, subjected to humiliating strip searches and left in isolation for prolonged periods.

The men said they were denied calls to loved ones, subjected to humiliating searches and left in isolation for prolonged periods.

Trump team once said Russia invaded Ukraine. Now they won't. YouTube video by Washington Post

New Washington Post supercut:

Trump officials once said Russia invaded Ukraine. Now they won't.

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As a hard-news journalist at The Washington Post, there's no shortage of important news to cover. I will keep digging in.

As I've stated before:

Nothing changes. We ask hard questions and hold those in power to account. That's the job, whether those in power like it or not.

Someone got $38 billion in government funding.

Texas child is first confirmed death in growing measles outbreak The unvaccinated school-age child is the first confirmed fatality in Texas’s worst measles outbreak in three decades.

A child in Texas has died of measles, the first confirmed fatality in the state’s worst outbreak in three decades, state health officials said Wednesday.

Elon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s wealth.

Exclusive: Over the years, Elon Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits, often at critical moments, helping seed the growth that has made him the world’s richest person.

Elon Musk, who has said the beneficiaries of federal spending are a "parasite class," runs businesses that have pocketed $38 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies, loans and contracts www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

My colleagues and I have been working to break news + write stories holding powerful people accountable.

These are the top stories on our homepage right now, one of which I worked on.

Our newsroom work is continuing.

No one has ever told me what to write. If that changes, I’d speak out and leave.

Using my “personal liberties” to repost this

I stand by my work and that of my amazing Post News colleagues. I work to uncover the truth in service of the public. If that ever changes, you will hear from me.

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This is on the opinion side. On the news side, we will continue rigorous reporting.

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Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published

I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know

Tweet that reads “Massive encroachment by Jeff Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section today - makes clear dissenting views will not be published or tolerated there I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side of coverage, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know”

Wanted to echo @jeffstein.bsky.social here. my work has always been about keeping the public informed and holding the powerful to account. That has not changed. If it does, you’ll hear it from me. And no you can’t yell at me to “learn to code” because coding is already my job.

WaPo Page One:

“If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going to be an effective town hall,” McCormick said ..

“But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted. #GA07

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Musk’s DOGE says it has saved $55 billion. Not so fast. A Washington Post analysis found that hundreds of the canceled contracts DOGE listed represent savings of $0 each.

Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service claimed this week to have saved an estimated $55 billion through a combination of layoffs, canceled contracts, lease renegotiations and other actions. But a list that it posted of contracts and leases suggests that number is inflated.

Musk’s DOGE says it has saved $55 billion. Not so fast. A Washington Post analysis found that hundreds of the canceled contracts DOGE listed represent savings of $0 each.

DOGE claims don't stand up - check it out www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... w @abtran.bsky.social @rachellerman.bsky.social @jonswaine.bsky.social

The DOGE site initially listed the original version of a contract from FPDS with a higher $8 billion amount, when the more updated version showed only $8 million. They updated it. But we found 80 other instances of DOGE linking to earlier modified versions when newer versions exist. wapo.st/3DcnJcP