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Reporting across America for the @WashingtonPost . Ex-foreign correspondent. Street dog tamer. Tips: danielle.paquette @washpost .com or DM for Signal.

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As a college journo in 2011, I interviewed Kamala Harris and...
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Secret service prepping Versailles bakery guests for a surprise Trump visit in Miami. (Then they kicked out press.)
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Trump’s visit to a Miami landmark left some Cuban Americans feeling betrayed: “We’ve seen these ‘rallies’ before. Fidel did it.”
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Sheriff Chitwood’s battle with the neo-Nazis began when a group of men laser-projected “Hitler was right” on the Daytona International Speedway. Things got personal — and genuinely scary — when I rode along with him in Volusia County, Florida:
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The scene as Trump pulls into his Doral resort ahead of tomorrow’s court appearance in Miami:
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@MEkrivus i could not believe my eyes
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“It’s just hard sitting and waiting,” Jimmy Carter's niece said said, tears streaking her cheeks. “You just want it to be peaceful.” Reported from the 39th president's hometown w/ @marycjordan :
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1. When I visited Jimmy Carter’s hometown recently, I wondered: What ever happened to A.D. Davis, the former president's childhood best friend? The boy who, because he was Black, was not allowed to sit at the dinner table in Jim Crow-era Georgia with Carter’s family?
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3. Then I tracked down A.D.'s son and niece, who live less than a mile from where Carter now resides. They had quite the story to tell:
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Star reporter @kemettler was just trying to take the metro, but -- because we live in America -- she stopped to cover a deadly shooting spree:
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“”Raise your head. You are Moroccan,’ said a sobbing commentator in Arabic. The words resonated viscerally in ways that will take time to unpack.” This piece from ⁦ @AidaAlami ⁩ gave me chills:
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For the record: Drew Harwell is a top-notch journalist and human being.
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Holy Shit. Elon Musk just popped into a Twitter Spaces chat with a bunch of journalists. He was called out by journalist Drew Harrell, who he banned, for lying about posting links to his private information, then leaves almost immediately after being pressed. Here is the exchange
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“I came out and told people the awful things he said about wounded soldiers, and it didn’t have half a day’s bounce.” ⁦ @jdawsey1 ⁩ on the Trump staffers dreading a potential repeat:
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Hate speech is surging. Antisemitism is on the rise. And an 11-year-old girl stepped outside one recent morning to paper swastikas with handwritten slurs: “GO TO HELL, JEW B-TCH.”
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In Fargo, White supremacists are exploiting a teen girl's murder to spread "Great Replacement" rhetoric. People woke up to racist fliers on their lawns: "Do you really want your children to become a hated minority in their own country?”
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A Chicago street artist wasn’t sure what to do about his mural of Kanye West. Leaving it up felt wrong after the rapper’s antisemitic spiral. But so did taking it down. Then a rabbi called:
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Reports of similar hate propaganda are surging to record-highs nationwide, and the most authorities can usually do is issue a littering citation. “That s--- is going to create the next mass shooter,” @SheriffChitwood said. “And we’re supposed to do nothing?”
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Republicans used to support Ukraine. Then came the middle fingers. Reporting from northern Alabama, where a little charity effort has become mired in yet another American culture war:
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2. A.D. was a beloved character in the stories Carter told in his memoirs, but few people knew much about his life outside Carter's orbit. Then I met a local historian who asked me: Did you know Carter got A.D. out of a prison for murder? Turns out, almost no one did.
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quite a crowd at the door
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Huge shoutout to @EvanKutzler , who knew where to find the receipts
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The men had stood across the street during the Daytona 500, raising their arms in Sieg Heil salutes. Then they scattered hundreds of fliers promoting a fringe conspiracy theory referenced in the online rants of mass shooters.
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Guinea, one of the poorest countries on Earth, has become a crucial player in the world’s green-energy transition. But people there aren't benefiting from that "gold rush." Quite the opposite, @Rachel_Chason reports:
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Abdul Sharifu fled Congo's war and found safe haven in Buffalo. He died after getting stuck in the blizzard. The city is home to a growing refugee population and advocates say official warnings need to be issued in more languages. @emily_wax reports:
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Working hard to explain this tweet in the Midwestern family group chat
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kamala IS brat
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In earthquake-battered Turkey, help poured in. But no one came to devastated parts of Syria, ⁦ @leloveluck ⁩ reports:
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Great detail from @AnaSwanson in SF: “The Chinese had prepared three versions of a speech Mr. Xi could deliver that night. After Wednesday’s events with Mr. Biden, Mr. Xi had picked the friendliest one.”
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A Chicago suburb launched a reparations plan for Black residents in 2019. But Evanston has only spent $400K of promised $10M. Hundreds applied, only 16 have received money. At least 5 people died before reparations could be dispersed. @emmanuelfelton
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Need a break from the world’s horrors? Here’s how Ricardo the steer escaped the @NJTRANSIT tracks and ended up with a nice guy who feeds him apples.
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Surprised we didn’t lose our checks at 4:20 p.m.
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@JStein_WaPo doesn’t he know we call you the Crunch Wrap Stein-preme
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Travis Kelce describing Taylor Swift as "hilarious" and "a genius" has turned me into a Chiefs fan
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Travis Kelce to @WSJ on dating someone as famous as Taylor Swift: “Obviously I’ve never dated anyone with that kind of aura about them… I’ve never dealt with it. But at the same time, I’m not running away from any of it…. The scrutiny she gets, how much she has a magnifying
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Fear is boosting Tony Thurman’s home security business — and weighing on his conscience. How do you sell safety responsibly in trigger-happy America?
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As Maine gov. @JanetMillsforME launches a “broad discussion” on stopping gun violence — and President Biden visits the site of the latest U.S. massacre — the @washingtonpost asked people in Lewiston: What do you want to see change?
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She didn’t trust the government. She didn’t trust the news. She didn’t know whom to trust, so Kathy Nichols eased into the armchair facing her psychic. “What comes up in my future?” she asked. A look at the era of exhaustion & uncertainty - w @sabrod123 :
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The hate campaign is terrifying Liberian immigrants in North Dakota. Many landed there years ago after fleeing civil war. “I came here for safety,” one man told me. “It feels like the safety is disappearing.”
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“There is only one commonality among all isolated, troubled young men who eventually become shooters, and America has struggled to address it: their access to a gun.”
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Remember North Carolina's bathroom bill? That 2016 law cost the state billions in lost deals. Now the GOP candidate for gov says he wants to see transgender women arrested for using the ladies restroom, and the state's biz community is panicking:
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Une ÉTOILE
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En même temps.
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His earnestness seems otherworldly. His wholesomeness seems impossible. Is it a prank, or the new punk rock? Who is Tony P, and why can’t we stop watching?
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What could the operators do about the n-word carved onto a car? A spray-painted swastika? Antisemitic fliers? As hate crimes + speech surges, Oregon's hotline is trying to help (without necessarily involving the police):
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One coffee shop owner couldn’t find a therapist online who was accepting new clients. Had the shooter tried to seek help and hit a similar wall? “I can’t even get my doctor on the phone,” she said, “but it’s a little too easy to buy a gun.”
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Why is Chinese leader Xi Jinping inviting a bunch of Iowan farmers to dinner this week? It all started with a Star Wars-themed bedroom in 1985:
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Teared up reading the first grafs.
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I hate mass killings. But this time we, (w/ @karinbrulliard @jslaternyc ), got to write about a hero, his dance partner, a dance community and unconditional love. 💜Hattie & Jim He’s a retired cop. She’s a dancing queen. He saved her life at Star Ballroom.
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Jupiter Paulsen, 14, was skateboarding to her mother’s house last June when Arthur Kollie, a 23-year-old Liberian immigrant, stabbed her to death. Kollie's sister said he is gravely mentally ill, but White supremacists framed the attack as a "hate crime."
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The mother of a psych ward nurse wants to see raises for mental health care workers. “She makes $2 less an hour than I do, and I sell weed,” said Jenny Coffey, the manager of 207THC, gesturing toward a glass display of pipes. “It’s a lot to put up with to be broke.”
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Then one self-described "pro-White advocate" contacted her father "relentlessly," urging him to lodge an "anti-White hate crime report." It didn’t matter that Jupiter’s mother is Hispanic. Her face suddenly appeared on Great Replacement propaganda.
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On the morning of her first shift serving VIP guests at the Democratic National Convention, Leah Jordan wondered: Is my milk about to spoil? She opened her fridge and checked the expiration date. Aug. 26. “I’m good,” she said. “I’m good for right now.”
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“A wave of lawmakers who oppose vaccine requirements are winning elections for state legislatures amid a national drop in childhood vaccination rates and a resurfacing of preventable deadly diseases.”
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“I worry I’ve allowed myself to base too much of my identity on my job. Without my job, what’s left of me?”
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Someone else spray-painted “Jews Not Welcome” near the entrance of a Maryland high school. Someone else passed out fliers in Los Angeles blaming Jews for the coronavirus pandemic. (This is far from a comprehensive list.)
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J.D. Vance claimed that Biden’s rhetoric “directly led” to the assassination attempt. But Trump supporters who witnessed the horror tell me they disagree: “The only thing Biden inspires is sleep.”
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Over the past two months alone, someone jumped an older Jewish man in New York, yelling antisemitic slurs and “Kanye 2024.” Someone else tagged tombstones with swastikas at a Jewish cemetery in suburban Chicago.
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An Arizona official who was targeted by election deniers is now in therapy for PTSD. by @yvonnewingett :
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This is just packed with delightful lines — tho I relate to “looking very much like a freshman at a prep school in hell.” ⁦ @MrDanZak ⁩ ⁦ @bterris
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Relatedly, one of the several mass shooters to reference the Great Replacement theory in recent years pleaded guilty today to carrying out the Buffalo massacre.
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Political will in India often bends in favor of dirty fuel — and the business titan who dominates the coal industry. By ⁦ @gerryshih ⁩ ⁦ @NihaMasih
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Why did we all root for him? A psych professor weighed in: “It runs through all civilizations — the myth of the hero, the epic. An individual leaves home, must overcome challenges and in the process is transformed.”
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Time is running out for Afghan allies who risked their lives for Americans. They’re on the verge of getting kicked out of America — and people don’t seem to care. Gripping work from ⁦ @ahauslohner ⁩:
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"My brutalist building is made of heavy concrete, steel and glass, but it swayed for so long as the quake’s aftershocks spread here that I was queasy, as if seasick. It took me a few seconds to register that I was on land."
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Brenda McDonnell sells food, not hotel rooms. But that didn’t stop the restaurant owner from fixing up a motel nearby — just so her staff would have somewhere to live. Read @rachsieg on America's urgent affordable housing shortage:
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Since a gunman stormed Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue four years ago, killing 11 men and women in the deadliest rampage against Jews in U.S. history, researchers have recorded a steady acceleration in prejudice-fueled attacks.
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“On Isabela, the lone airport employee feared the cartels had arrived.”
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New: The fragile Galápagos Islands are being pulled into the booming cocaine trade that’s fueling Ecuador’s violence Our story about how drug traffickers made the Galápagos Islands their gas station. Reported alongside @Cascabelito09 @vanhoutenphoto
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In Boston, somebody spray-painted “Nazis” on a Palestinian cultural center. In Dearborn, Mich., police arrested a man who urged his Facebook friends to “hunt Palestinians.” In suburban Chicago, a landlord stabbed to death a little Palestinian boy:
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Hell of an intro
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For my first story @latimes , I went to Mexico and got drugs. Specifically, @ConnorASheets and I went to pharmacies, got pills & tested them. Turns out, some are selling oxy & Adderall over the counter – but the pills are actually fentanyl & meth.
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@byHeatherLong @JStein_WaPo crunch 👏 wrap 👏 supreme 👏
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“Haley has found a soft spot in Trump’s armor. She seems to relish the opportunity to torment him. That could make the next few weeks much more interesting than anyone might have expected… if she keeps it up.” ⁦ @danbalz ⁩:
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"It is a silent distress signal sent by one of Earth’s most enduring organisms. A warning written in wood." Read @sarahkaplan48 and team:
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@mindyleeCRG @thelauracoates @bru thanks for listening, Mindy! Bru was excellent 🙌
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“It’s a real trauma, and trauma and romance don’t go together,” Kolomiychuk said. “When people are struggling to survive, they don’t think about intimacy, about sex.” ⁦ @JStein_WaPo ⁩ ⁦ @schmidtsam7
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@SophieAlex1 Thanks for getting in touch, Sophie. Deleting my incorrect tweet and sharing your video.
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"Karen McDonald, Oakland County’s elected prosecutor, opened the box and picked up a Sig Sauer handgun that had ended four teenagers’ lives in 2021 and consumed her own ever since." Read @JohnWoodrowCox :
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