P.J. Joshi
@washingtonpost National Weekend Editor, Wife & Mom
- Why these red state Republicans are resisting Trump’s efforts to expand GOP power, by Patrick Marley (free link) wapo.st/3Ms0Syt
- Julie Z. Weil at @washingtonpost.com wants to hear from millennial & Gen Z homeowners out there about home ownership -- want to talk? If you're interested in a Washington Post story about the youngest homebuyers, email: julie.weil@washpost.com Thanks so much!
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- NEW: Seven years after @aoc.bsky.social leapt onto the national stage as an outsider, she’s learned an inside game and is considering a run for Senate or president. Read @lizcgoodwin.bsky.social & @yabutaleb7: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- NEW: Trump faces resistance in MAGA movement over immigration & Epstein. By @knowleshannah.bsky.social: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- Join @ktumulty.bsky.social at 12 p.m. Eastern today for a chat with @postkranish.bsky.social about "Revolutionary Revelations," a Post series on the paradox of Thomas Jefferson's role in the American story www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- The Trump administration asked SCOTUS to pause an order directing it to release SNAP benefits, escalating a legal battle, via Mark Berman: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- Your chest will tighten when you get to the woman crying in her car after receiving only $34 of a monthly $300 she relies on for food assistance. In MAGA stronghold, fury over SNAP but little blame for Trump in shutdown By @CleveWootson + @SidhomLydia www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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- Democrats’ defiance on shutdown shows a new, tougher approach to Trump. After eight months of getting battered by Republicans, the party has largely abandoned efforts at conciliation or outreach, by @NaftaliBendavid @yabutaleb7 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- On WhatsApp, Palestinians in the U.S. look for food for Gaza — and mourn, by @yabutaleb7 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- EXCLUSIVE: The Pentagon has for weeks been planning a military deployment to Chicago as Trump seeks to crack down on crime, homelessness and undocumented immigration. It's a model that could later be used in other major cities, via @danlamothe.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
- @washingtonpost.com is collecting the videos and photos of the police encounters you’ve witnessed in D.C. since President Donald Trump ordered federal agents to patrol the city. Upload your footage via this link: thewashingtonpost.formstack.com/forms/law_en...
- Harris to embark on tour to promote memoir about presidential campaign, via @amyBwang www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- Trump and the GOP portray cities as chaotic dystopias in need of occupation. The president describes cities as “blood-soaked” and “cesspools,” while military incursions in D.C. and L.A. show growing anti-urban sentiment on the right, by @NaftaliBendavid www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- BIG SCOOP by @marianne_levine, @lizcgoodwin.bsky.social & @danlamothe.bsky.social: Kristi Noem is living free in Coast Guard commandant’s home on a US military base. No DHS secretary has done this, even in the years after 9/11 when the US was at war. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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- The Trump administration claims sites tracking immigration officers are putting law enforcement at risk. The creators say they’re helping shield people from a modern-day “Gestapo.” Robert Klemko reports for @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
- Musk says he wants a new political party, and many agree. Can he pull it off? Would-be independent candidates have been searching for what they say is a sensible center of the electorate for a long time. No one has found it, by @danbalz www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- The divide between Democratic voters and elected leaders over Israel isn’t just happening in New York. @patrickdmarley on why it’s also rattling a moderate swing state wapo.st/44sAqvc
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- Trump officials who felt sidelined on liberal campuses are spearheading a federal crackdown on DEI at their alma maters. A deep dive into the people and power behind the push to change Harvard and U-Va. & others, via @emilydavies.bsky.social & @DanRosZiff www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- Miami postponed its 2025 elections. The move would schedule city elections to coincide with even-year midterms and presidential elections, but is opposed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and others, by @sabrod123.bsky.social t.co/uvMExCqT0q
- Camp Mystic, which has been attended by the daughters of LBJ as well as former first lady Laura Bush, gave many girls space to forge an identity. That idyll was shattered this week, via @jjouvenal.bsky.social, @EvaRuth & @bradydennis.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
- For Democrats, handcuffs are the latest symbol of resistance to Trump. By Toluse Olorunnipa www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- How Trump finally got the military parade he always wanted, via @mviser @oliviacgeorge.bsky.social @danlamothe.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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- Intel chief Tulsi Gabbard placed a top adviser inside the ODNI’s watchdog office, compromising the watchdog's integrity as it probes Signalgate, officials say, by @merylkornfield.bsky.social & @ellenwapo.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- The Justice Department is wielding a little law dating to WWII to criminally charge unauthorized immigrants who have failed to register their presence in the country, report @marianne_levine + @jeremyrroebuck.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
- Two refugee families - one from South Africa, the other from Myanmar. Two very different experiences under Trump. @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social reports from the city both are now starting over in: Birmingham. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
- At Musgrave Pencil Company in Shelbyville, Tennessee, politics rarely came up before this year. President Donald Trump’s tariff policies have changed that. via @emilydavies.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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- A look inside Trump's 48-hour scramble to fly migrants to a Salvadoran prison, from @blaskey_s, @schmidtsam.bsky.social, @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social, @AnaVHerrero, @arelisrhdz.bsky.social @marialuisapaul.bsky.social & @karendeyoung1 www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
- Trump won these independent voters. Now some are souring on his second term. “Economically, he’s not the same person,” one said. Read @knowleshannah.bsky.social on signs of political danger for Trump and his party: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- EXCLUSIVE from @hannahnatanson.bsky.social: White House floor plans and other sensitive documents were improperly shared with thousands: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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- Need to sort through Trump's lies & falsehoods in his tariff announcement? @glennkessler.bsky.social breaks them down: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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- DOGE terminated nearly all HQ employees in D.C. at the U.S. Institute of Peace. Workers at the congressionally funded organization are calling it the “Friday night massacre,” via @abigail-washpost.bsky.social & @d-hawk.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
- More than a dozen states have moved to adopt DOGE-style tactics but have shied awy from setting concrete goals, by @patrickdmarley @yvonnewingett.bsky.social @mariana-alfaro.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- Behold the Centennial Bulb company, still glowing after 124 years. @reisthebault www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
- The 10 Republicans who could be Trump’s heir apparent in 2028 via @AaronBlake wapo.st/3Fa0Qrf
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- NEW: Trump has ordered a wartime effort to increase deportations -- but even with a massive infusion of resources, ICE statistics show arrests have dipped so far this month, @nickmiroff.bsky.social & @marianne_levine report. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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- The mass resignation of prosecutors marks a new kind of defiance in the second Trump era. The Trump team has rarely if ever faced such resistance from within the government, a move that may pave the way for further confrontation, by @NaftaliBendavid www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- Their names have not been released. Their exact crimes are unknown. The immigrants being held at Guantánamo have entered what some lawyers are calling a “legal black hole.” @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social reports: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
- Is the United States in the grip of a constitutional crisis? As the White House ignores congressional mandates, the conflict raises questions at the heart of the nation’s founding document, by @NaftaliBendavid & @knowleshannah.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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- SCOOP: Trump's DEI purge has targeted dozens of federal workers who did not work in DEI, report The Washington Post's @laurameckler.bsky.social, @hannah_natanson & @julianmark.bsky.social: www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
- Context for Trump's proposal for a 30,000-bed detention center at Gitmo: ICE has capacity for about 40,000 immigrants facing deportation. The largest facilities in its network have roughly 2,000 beds, @nickmiroff.bsky.social & @danlamothe.bsky.social report. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
- The flurry of activity in Week 1 underscores Trump’s determination to try to bring about wholesale changes far more radical and punitive than what he tried in his first term, writes @danbalz www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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- Trump’s first-week strategy: ‘Flood the zone.’ Repeat. The plan all along was to begin with a bang and follow a detailed policy blueprint, though key posts are stuck in a hiring bottleneck and many directives lack immediate effect. Via @iarnsdorf.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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- Black revolutionary Marcus Garvey is pardoned on Biden's last day in office: The president also grants clemency to a handful of others as his term winds down By @CleveWootson www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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- SCOOP: Trump’s “border czar” says the Trump administration is reconsidering whether to launch immigration raids in Chicago next week after preliminary details leaked out in news reports, @nickmiroff.bsky.social and @mariasacchetti.bsky.social write. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
- Trump has already conquered D.C. even before taking office. His triumphant return to power stands in stark contrast to his divisive entry in 2017 and departure in 2021, by @marianne_levine @ccemorse+ @aaronschaffer.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- What it looks and feels like to fight for the Palisades, via a Washington Post team including @reisthebault @MrErinO @juliawall_ @tuckabelle and more wapo.st/42iJ3Yk
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- Biden's record on race: disappointments mixed with quiet progress Police and voting reforms floundered. But Biden elevated Black leaders and launched programs to help minority communities. By @CleveWootson @ToluseO www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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- Disaster is in the air. It clouds the skies, it sears the eyes, it lodges in the lungs. Most of all, it weighs on the heart. Even for millions of Angelenos who are miles away, the fires are still inescapable, an ever-present ache, by Reis Thebault www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
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- Rubio nomination complicated by attack on Musk’s Tesla and China’s ban, via @postkranish.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
