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We texted 1,000 Americans about U.S. actions in Venezuela. Here’s what they said. A Washington Post poll shows Americans are split on sending military forces to Venezuela to capture Maduro. Most say it should have required Congress’s approval.

Flash poll from @washingtonpost.com finds:

- Americans are roughly divided on whether striking Venezuela, capturing Maduro was a good idea. (40% approve, 42% disapprove)

- More skepticism for whether U.S. should take control of Venezuela. (24% support, 45% oppose)

@sfcpoll.bsky.social @erxclau.me

We texted 1,000 Americans about U.S. actions in Venezuela. Here’s what they said. A Washington Post poll shows Americans are split on sending military forces to Venezuela to capture Maduro. Most say it should have required Congress’s approval.

We texted 1,000 Americans about U.S. actions in Venezuela. Here’s what they said. @sfcpoll.bsky.social and Eric Lau www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

And a "who's who" of the top 20 billionaires influencing American politics from @ence.bsky.social & @erxclau.me www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

On A1 for @washingtonpost.com election coverage. With @erxclau.me, Ence Morse, @nickmourtoupalas.bsky.social, Patrick Marley, @azipaybarah.bsky.social, Lydia Sidhom

Spanberger ran up wild margins in the DC/Richmond suburbs, flipped 6 Trump counties, and cut her losses in the rest of the state — some SWVA counties moved 15-20 points to her compared to 2021 gov's race. My first election results for @washingtonpost.com ! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The top 3 individual donors to Trump’s inaugural committee were also nominated for positions in his administration. with @cqzakrz.bsky.social @aaronschaffer.com @lmelgar.bsky.social & Nick Mourtoupalas

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Elon Musk gets government policy ideas from X. Here’s how. A look at which accounts — big and small — have Musk’s ear and how some appear to have sparked action from Musk and the Trump administration.

The Post identified several instances of Trump or DOGE implementing policy ideas proposed to Musk by users on X. Some proposals went from Musk's X feed to the White House Briefing Room in just hours. with @erxclau.me @azipaybarah.bsky.social & Talia Trackim

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We texted 1,000 Americans about Trump’s tariffs. This is how they responded. A majority of Americans disapprove of Trump's tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China.

We did a text message poll!!!! Gift link: wapo.st/3F9mmMU

🔬🧪🧬 @sadbumblebee.buzz and I are collecting stories from scientists whose research funding has been halted by the Trump admin. Feel free to share this form with anyone who has been impacted and as always you can reach me on signal at caitlingilbert.24

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How federal agencies have already changed their websites under Trump “Diversity” has been deleted. “Climate resilience” is now a popular substitute for “climate change.” And “pregnant people” has been replaced by “pregnant women.”

A Post review of 8,000+ federal webpages changed since Inauguration Day found 662 examples of deletions and additions that reflect policy changes at the heart of Trump’s campaign. By @jeremybmerrill.com @azipaybarah.bsky.social & @erxclau.me

Grid of people President Trump's cabinet nominees. The text reads, “Status of Senate-confirmable cabinet positions.” Nominated people are circled in purple and Confirmed people are circled in green with names and positions listed below each photo.

Four members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet have been confirmed by the Senate so far: Marco Rubio as secretary of state, John Ratcliffe as CIA director, Pete Hegseth as defense secretary and Kristi L. Noem as homeland security secretary. wapo.st/4hwPThh

What Americans think about Trump’s inaugural address Two dozen Americans share their thoughts on Trump’s second presidential inauguration with The Post.

Here's what some of the people we asked to watch the inauguration say they are watching for in today's speech from Trump www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

My #MetroRewind 2024 Report. Top 6% metro customer, top 2% rail customer, top 59% bus customer, 262 trips taken, 1082 miles traveled, 333.4 kilograms of carbon dioxide captured, 24 stations visited, Brookland-CUA was my top station, E2 was my top bus route.

baffling to me that i'm in the top 2% given i wasn't even in dc for 5 months thinking emoji

Screenhot of a web tool with a search field reading "Search for your country" labelled as "Share of multifamily units managed by companies named in rent-setting lawsuits" and a color ramp taht goes from 0 to >40%. It also has a black square icon labeled "Building managed by company named in lawsuits". In the map you can see DC and it suburbs. DC is at 20-30%, Maryland suburbs around 10%, Arlington at 30-40 and teh rest of the Virginia suburbs at 20-30. There are more than 100 black square icons visible.

Landlords have been accused of price fixing.
See where it may be happening.
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Tracking who Trump is appointing to fill key administration roles Follow President-elect Trump’s progress filling over 800 positions, among about 1,300 that require Senate confirmation, in this tracker from The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service.

President-elect Donald Trump has the ability to fill roughly 4,000 positions, including more than 1,300 that require Senate confirmation.
The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service are tracking nominees for roughly 800 of those positions.
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A statement from The Washington Post Guild: We vehemently condemn The Washington Post’s firing of dozens of valued employees today, just days into the new year and at a time when the company is actively growing. It is especially disturbing that Post CEO, Will Lewis, has not directly addressed his employees in a whopping 230 days — during which tumult and turnover have driven many of our highest-profile colleagues to other companies and new policies have been implemented with little explanation. The diligent, talented workers that make The Post every day should not bear the consequences of poor decisions made by Post executives. They deserve better. The Post deserves better. We demand leaders do the right thing: address workers during this time of upheaval and stop punishing hardworking Post employees for the decisions made far above their heads.

A statement from the Washington Post Guild on today's unconscionable layoffs.

white christmas in new york?? i could CRY we’re so back

How every House member voted on the bill to avoid a shutdown See how your lawmaker voted to extend funding until mid-March and avoid a government shutdown.

How every House member voted on the bill to avoid a shutdown
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Help us map Detroit's neighborhoods. No neighborhood names or boundaries are here to start with. You make the map. Real or imagined, within the city, or crossing municipal borders.

www.detroit-neighborhoods.com made it as an honorable mention in the @puddingviz.bsky.social cup (pudding.cool/pudding-cup/)!

had a lot of fun working on this with @alexbhill.bsky.social

Analysis | No daylight saving time? See how early or late you would be in the dark. Would you be okay if the sun rose before 4 a.m., or after 10? Not changing clocks is a popular idea, but we’d have to live with the extremes.

Permanent daylight saving time, no daylight saving time, or the current system?
See how each option would affect earliest and latest sunsets and sunrises where you live.
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someone should make a feed that only shows posts in this format

if i had a nickel for every time i got a cold going from dc to ny, i would have 2 nickels

debugged for an hour only to realize the fix was to bump a package version 👍🏼👍🏼

The Crossword Crack the clues in today’s puzzle. Tuesday, Nov 26 By Killian Olson

today’s nyt crossword is brought to you by a michigan daily games alum 🥹

when the research paper comes with a scrollytelling graphic 📽️

the bsky answer to this is to fork the app 😎

It’s just you right now. Add more people to your starter pack by searching above. Add 7 more to continue.

not possible to have a one-person starter pack 😔

see a lot of messaging around subdomains for organizational use but am enamored with the idea of personal use like photos.erxclau.me or alt.erxclau.me (if private accounts become a thing). feels nicer than doing different accounts on twitter or ig since the root domain persists across accounts

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