Nick Baumann

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'Adolescence' is "The best TV show I’ve seen in a decade," writes @williamfleitch: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

Losing it over this therapy horse that vigorously plays the piano to wake kids up from anesthesia

"We’ve built ourselves a world of greater professional ambition, more intensive parenting, and lavish entertainment abundance. But in making this world, we’ve lost a bit of each other." derekthompson.org/p/the-death-of…

"America should stop giving Israel financial aid," argues @mattyglesias: slowboring.com/p/america-shou…

The online activists trying to stop ICE from making arrests wapo.st/44UmZmC

Big "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it" energy.

Trump officials accused of defying 1 in 3 judges who ruled against him, "suggesting widespread noncompliance with America’s legal system." washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

I wrote about what it was like growing up as a child in the Bosnian civil war, where food was extremely scarce. I didn't have much, but at least UNICEF was there to help keep me alive. Congress just defunded it, putting lives at risk around the world. huffpost.com/entry/trump-cu…

I am so old that I remember a massive scandal over George W. Bush firing U.S. attorneys, who are *political appointees*.

Trump’s DOJ has fired dozens of prosecutors, upending decades-old norm washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

Under a potential deal, Bari Weiss would serve as an "ideological guide of sorts" at CBS News, according to Puck. (paywall) puck.news/was-colberts-c…

@JBPritzker spent a decade working with Holocaust survivors. That experience is fueling his alarm about Trump. I sat down with him at the museum he helped build to discuss how that and his family story of surviving the pogroms shapes his worldview. csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2…

"Mr. Murdoch stated that he would take care of it."

Having seen this team at work - and it is truly important work for this who experience a loss overseas - this will have real impact.

Spurred by Bolsonaro’s son, Trump mulls sanctions on Brazilian judge washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/…

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Here legally since 1999, thousands of immigrants now have 60 days to leave washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…

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