Greg Jaffe

Erin Cunningham O @erinmcunningham…... As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East. Paul Musgrave @professormusg... • 5h I have to say the Post chose a hell of a moment to lay off all their foreign correspondents 3:39 PM • Mar 2, 2026 ® Everybody can reply

Just the dumbest newsroom decision you could make, unless you were trying to undermine your own newsroom

The disappearing art gallery in your post office The U.S. Postal Service is home to thousands of historic works of art in post offices nationwide. Hundreds have been lost, sold or destroyed.

👀 What if I told you there was a hidden art gallery scattered across the country?

What if I told you some of its treasures had vanished?

What if I told you that I found them?

A project three years in the making (🎁 gift link):

“.. 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
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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.

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

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...

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

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.

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...

From the latest email to the staff from @washingtonpost.com executive editor Matt Murray:

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...

F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Documents

The reporter in question — Hannah Natanson — has done important, incredibly valuable work.
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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...

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...

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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."
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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:
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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...

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...

Democrats Say F.B.I. Is Investigating Them Over Illegal Orders Video.
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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

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...

Gated communities!

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.)
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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.

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“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.”

👀⚖️‼️ #wrongly #deported

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."
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