Michelle Boorstein
@mboorstein
I cover religion (and other words for meaning-making) for The Washington Post. I like to share stuff on religion and journalism
Hulk Hogan has died at 71, TMZ reports tmz.com/2025/07/24/hul…
The Associated Press, AFP, BBC News and Reuters issued a joint statement about journalists in Gaza: "We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families. For many months, these independent journalists have…
#Sunrise on Thursday over the Potomac River in #DC! @capitalweather @StormHour
BREAKING via AP Columbia University has reached a deal with the Trump administration to pay more than $220 million to the federal government to restore federal research money that was canceled by the Trump administration, which accused the university of failing to squelch…
Catholic priests have been barred from providing religious services inside Florida's controversial new migrant detention facility — dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" — nearly three weeks after it opened deep in the Everglades, the archbishop of Miami said. bit.ly/3IFk8qd
A requiem for Stephen Colbert, the most subversive Catholic voice in late-night TV americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2…
"Only the human brain, coupled to human spirit, human emotion and development can take the headline.. and with an assist from the God-spark..send it careening off into something else." @TheAnchoress on why she's praying for journalists osvnews.com/artificial-int…
Incredible work from @JMaham, @WashPostPhoto's @salwangeorges, @e_h_obrien, @lmshap, @KarklisCarto, @wneff and @yutaochenn. | Saving Istanbul’s ancient structures from the next big earthquake wapo.st/4kODEhm
President George W. Bush and Ozzy Osbourne at the 2002 White House Correspondents Dinner
"This is one of the worst tragedies we've seen so far," @WFPChief Cindy McCain tells @BeckyCNN, describing a deadly incident yesterday in which dozens were killed and injured by Israeli gunfire in Gaza while seeking aid from a convoy of World Food Programme trucks.
NEW: @washingtonpost investigation of the more than 300 lawsuits against the Trump Administration finds Trump and his appointees are accused of defying ONE-THIRD of cases where there was a ruling washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…
LOVE. The @washingtonpost just delivered these for us folks who did some of the breaking news calls when Trump was shot - part of a big team who won a 2025 Pulitzer. It’s a mix of “work smells sweet” and “man do we need a calming candle to get through this shit”
Sunday PM about 25 Knights on Bikes stopped at entrance of Alligator Alcatraz and prayed a rosary for the detainees. Archdiocese is still waiting for approval to access to provide Mass for detainees
The Talmud, speaking of the concept LaShon HaRa (the evil word or language, or just: gossip) says it “kills three people: the speaker, the listener, and the subject of the talk”
by popular request I have written an uncharacteristically fast and slightly furious take on the whole Coldplay adulterers situation for @thefp
Yes, he’s a citizen. Yes he’s a veteran. Yes he just happened to be driving to work. ICE detained him anyway. msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/-t…
A deep dispatch from Springfield, Ohio, an epicenter of Trump-Vance attacks on Haitian immigrants who were encouraged there. @DPAQreport profiles a pastor and his family who invested everything in America -- and now their lives and home are cracking washingtonpost.com/nation/interac…
