Julia Duin

@brithume Good for you, Brit. Problem is, you expect civil behavior from DJT, a person who professes to follow a religion that commanded us to love our enemies. Instead, he follows the law of the jungle.

This is the kind of stuff Trump does that makes people not just oppose him but hate him. There was no need to say anything.

@mboorstein I keep on thinking these awful people can’t do something worse and then they do. Unbelievable.

EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon bars press photographers over ‘unflattering’ Hegseth photos washingtonpost.com/business/2026/…

@russell_m @KTmBoyle The PG is closing for UTTERLY different reasons than the Post closing down, ie the Block family losing in court.

@KTmBoyle Thank you very much for posting this to counter all the "Bezos is rich and evil" narrative out there. Anyone paying attention will realize this is not unique to WAPO. They should go read the article on why the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is shutting down post-gazette.com/local/city/202…

I left the Washington Post 12 years ago. An editor told me Jeff Bezos would gut the paper and I wouldn’t have a job very long. The motto when I left, before they changed it to ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness,’ was “For and about Washington.” They changed it to communicate the diminished ambitions of a once grand paper. Anything that didn’t directly impact the Bethesda or Fairfax reader had already been cut. The newsroom had dwindled to 600 or 700 reporters after many buyouts. The Graham family strategy was to become a local paper, free from the cost of international bureaus and expensive teams. Marty Baron was brought on to execute this local strategy (we called it managed decline) before the surprise Bezos purchase changed everything. Bezos did the opposite of what the newsroom assumed he would do: he poured obscene amounts of money into a cash incinerator. He gave the Post a fancy new building. He subsidized every section of the paper, even the ones with no readers. He expanded international. He financed experiments in video and podcasting. He gave the newsroom a blank check for over a decade. Rather than pursuing a strategy based in reality, the Post newsroom became very accustomed to a billionaire patron giving them everything they wanted in perpetuity. In retrospect, this was a terrible business decision because it made the young reporters and editors delusional. The old ones who remembered the cuts and the pain of the business before Bezos— when they finally took the free coffee away—they had all been fired or left the industry. The “For and About Washington” strategy was also a loser, because it retained the most expensive parts of the newsroom while diminishing its reach. Sports is expensive. Metro news is expensive. And as pretty much every other local newspaper in the country has learned, the old local paper model is broken and has been since the internet arrived. The Post’s brand was and is Washington politics. It’s the seat of American power. It should be focused on covering politics from its premier perch in DC. It should have never been distracted by anything else— it only ever needed this product. It lost sports to the Athletic. It lost International to The Times. There’s no reason to compete on those products. The Post can still own politics, and every story, feature and reporter should be focused on covering it. But it needs to stop pretending that the world didn’t change 20 years ago and start listening to its readers again. There are solid media companies being built for the future and the Post can become one of them. But the old Post died many decades ago. Pretending Bezos killed it isn’t true.

@WashPostComms @washingtonpost @murraymatt Best sentence in the letter: “You only write from one perspective for one slice of the audience.” The country swans to the right 30 years ago but you couldn’t see it and you were damned if you were going to report on it. By the time you woke up to it, half your audience was gone

From @WashingtonPost Executive Editor @murraymatt: Dear All, As we shared in our live stream earlier, the company is taking actions today to place The Washington Post on a stronger footing and better position us in this rapidly changing era of new technologies and evolving user habits. These moves include substantial newsroom reductions impacting nearly all news departments. For the immediate future, we will concentrate on areas that demonstrate authority, distinctiveness, and impact and that resonate with readers: politics, national affairs, people, power and trends; national security in DC and abroad; forces shaping the future including science, health, medicine, technology, climate, and business; journalism that empowers people to take action, from advice to wellness; revelatory investigations; and what’s capturing attention in culture, online, and in daily life. We will meet with leaders in each department today and tomorrow to review the impacts on their teams. Today’s news is painful. These are difficult actions. We are proud of, and grateful for, the many valued colleagues whose talents and passion have contributed to The Post over many years. But we take them with clarity of purpose. The need has never been more urgent to reposition The Post. A more flexible, sustainable model will help us better navigate unprecedented volatility, competition, technological change, news-consumption habits, and cost pressure. As you know, we have grappled with financial challenges for some time. They have affected us in multiple rounds of cost cuts and buyouts, along with periodic constraints on other kinds of spending. We have concluded that the company’s structure is too rooted in a different era, when we were a dominant, local print product. This restructure will help to secure our future in service of our journalistic mission and provide us stability moving forward. We are far from alone in reevaluating our model or rethinking how we operate. The ecosystem of news and information, on- and off-platform, is changing radically. News consumers enjoy more variety, voices, platforms, and options than ever before. In just the last five years, multiple startups—and even individuals—have created meaningful products that draw attention and generate impact at low cost. Platforms like Search that shaped the previous era of digital news, and which once helped The Post thrive, are in serious decline. Our organic search has fallen by nearly half in the last three years. And we are still in the early days of AI-generated content, which is drastically reshaping user experiences and expectations. We are producing much great journalism of which we can be proud. As we discuss every day in the news meeting, some of our best work attracts readers and generates subscriptions and engagement. Unfortunately, some does not. Some areas, such as video, haven’t kept up with changes in how consumers get news and information. Significantly, our daily story output has substantially fallen in the last five years. And even as we produce much excellent work, we too often write from one perspective, for one slice of the audience. If we are to thrive, not just endure, we must reinvent our journalism and our business model with renewed ambition. We already have taken important and, in some cases, long overdue steps toward reinvention—creating the Print desk, transforming digital workflows, and embedding Audience Strategy editors in every department. Today’s moves will put us in position to find and develop better ways to connect Post journalism to news consumers in the ways they want it. From this foundation, we aim to build on what is working, and grow with discipline and intent, to experiment, to measure and deepen what resonates with customers. We can’t be everything to everyone. But we must be indispensable where we compete. That means continually asking why a story matters, who it serves and how it gives people a clearer understanding of the world and an advantage in navigating it. Some of you have heard me ask how we can shrink the gap between some of what we create in our newsroom during the day and what we — and our children, families, and friends — consume at night. Today’s actions are about addressing those questions, forcefully, to reinvent The Washington Post for this new era. This work is difficult, but it is essential. The Post is a necessary institution, and it must remain relevant. Even amid challenges, The Washington Post retains great strengths. We have a deep pool of talented journalists and leaders, strong standards, institutional backing, a proud legacy, and millions of customers. Most important, our central purpose remains as it ever was: To produce riveting and distinct journalism of the highest caliber that breaks news, explains the world with authority and fairness, empowers people with knowledge, and helps them live better-informed lives. Matt

@mboorstein Hang in there, Michelle!

TO FOLKS WHO CARE ABOUT THE WASHINGTON POST: Before you post something, please ask yourself: A) are you rallying support for us and our work or are you pulling people away from us? B) do you have solid reporting and facts about what you’re sharing? or are you spreading rumors? ❤️

A month ago, my mother, Phyllis H. Duin, passed into eternity. I miss you so much! obituaries.seattletimes.com/obituary/phyll…

@DennyBurk @AAGDhillon Oh, give it a rest. Where were you when pro-Palestinian demonstrators interrupted an Easter weekend Mass @St. Patrick's Cathedral in NYC yelling "Free Palestine" in 2024? Didn't say anything then? So it's only when Protestant churches experience demonstrators that you care?

Here’s what happened inside Cities Church today. Look at the terrified child being comforted by his father at 1:05. If the FACE Act isn’t enforced against these lawless radicals, then expect for this to continue all over the country. @AAGDhillon

@nostrildomus @MaryLTrump That's right - thanks for being in favor of Trump's immediate arrest, imprisonment and life sentence.

@MaryLTrump Well, nobody is above the law. Right ⁉️

After ICE agents ate lunch at a Minnesota Mexican restaurant, they went back and arrested three of the restaurant's employees. I don’t know that you can reform that kind of cruelty.

@JoeToole13 @MaryLTrump Those "dregs" are picking your fruit, babysitting your kids, taking care of your elderly and running your meat processing plants. Hope you're ready to work at least one of those jobs now that they're gone.

Most Americans are good with people coming here, we empathize and most turn a blind eye. However, you all let 10-15 million people who aren’t hard working or looking for a better life. They let in dregs, tens of thousands of criminal dregs from countries that will never assimilate. Unfortunately when they can’t find them they go after the low hanging fruit. The treasonous democrats did this to us by breaking the border, bribing them for their future votes and committing so many treasonous acts it’s difficult to count. This is the fault of this iteration of the Democrat party and the people have had enough.

@sololoner2 You’ve got to be kidding. Falling like dominoes- and it isn’t the single guys, it is the married ones!

Author Philip Yancey Confesses Affair, Withdraws from Ministry christianitytoday.com/2026/01/author… - #Adultery #Marriage #PhilipYancey

@FrancisXRocca @Pontifex Thank God finally a pope who speaks the world’s major international language. About time, no?

Established Vatican journalists of all nationalities have cause to rue @Pontifex’s increasing use of English. Italian has been a huge barrier to entry into our beat.

After @Anglican Bishop David Parsons retired a year ago from 12 years of shepherding the Diocese of the Arctic and 36 years of Arctic ministry in Canada, he was quickly treated like a non-person. I looked into this for @VirtueOnline: tinyurl.com/3bjypdus

@logicrak91 @reachjulieroys @Acts17David If you would bother to read the article, you would see that the reporter watched the speech.

@reachjulieroys @Acts17David A ‘Christian investigative journalist’ who didn’t even watch the speech, even though the video was right at your fingertips.

Christian apologist David Wood (@Acts17David), known for his prison conversion & significant following on his 'Apologetics Roadshow' YouTube channel, sparked outrage after admitting in a livestream to raping girls before becoming a Christian. julieroys.com/christian-apol…

@mikroresearch @reachjulieroys @Acts17David In his most recent video, he said, "Those girls approached me. But it’s statutory rape, right? Because girls that young can’t consent."

@reachjulieroys @Acts17David You dishonest viper. Did he say that he raped girls?

@BeingOrNothing @reachjulieroys @Acts17David The reporter did watch the video, Frank. I was his editor. I watched it too. Satisfied?

@thegrantstevens @reachjulieroys @Acts17David Really? He said in two tapes that the girls approached him, not he they (as if they were to blame); he wondered outloud what they were doing at this party; he never once apologized for having sex with them.

@reachjulieroys @Acts17David This is false: “He spoke gleefully about his past criminal acts, boasting openly to his audience. He did not express remorse but rather seemed to take pride in his admissions.” I watched it. He was NOT boasting, he was NOT gleeful, and he was NOT proud of his past actions.

@iamann2489 @travelingflying Yep. The guys I've dated - it's never about what I do for a living; it's always about what he does, what he thinks, what he cares about. I'm supposed to be an adoring audience w/no life of my own. If I dare to say I'm bored w/that - oh I'm being shrill, a witch, unworthy of men.

I first scanned through the comment thread before writing the reply. I'm sorry to tell you, but as a woman with a career in academia and STEM this is true. Men don't care about your career, your degrees or your hobbies. I'm saying these based on my personal experiences. I've been to four weddings recently and all these women who got married had one thing in common: they were supporting their husbands. They weren't waitresses, they had education. One of them is a PE teacher and her husband is a soccer coach. Even though she is also a coach for a girls voleyball team and won championships between schools, she puts her husband first and she supports him as if he's Christiano Ronaldo. I've dated one guy, he was a surgeon, and I told him I lived in Portugal for 6 months. What do you think he asked me? About the culture? About the places I saw? Nope. His words were: "Wow! This means you know how to manage a household!" Now I'm just going to go look for cats or dogs, because I'm 36 and I'll never be married.

Men, is this really true?

@HustleBitch_ Good for her! More parents need to do likewise.

🚨 MOM LOSES IT AFTER HER SON BULLIES AN AUTISTIC KID AT THE PLAYGROUND - AND IT’S ALL CAUGHT ON CAMERA “HOW DARE YOU!! How dare you! Come here! He is severely autistic - he does not understand! DON'T...YOU...DARE!” She finds out her son bullied another child and completely snaps - screaming at him in front of the entire park. “That's not nice...I’m not raising you to be a bully! How dare you make him feel like that! Are you blind?!” Was this good parenting or a total meltdown?

Just posted this essay in @Medium about my Halloween visit to Mitchell, Ore. and Spoke'n Hostel for what was a great Neighborhood Night a year ago. Would that more Oregonians would go there: @julia.c.duin/the-oregon-town-that-found-halloween-6062c5de006a" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@julia.c.duin/…

@GovBobFerguson Just cut the waits at all border crossings down to no more than 5 minutes long. And change those new ghastly CDC rules mandating any puppies who cross the border must be >6 mos old. It's created a massive mess for Canadians, Americans, show dogs, breeders, service dogs, etc.

Today I announced an agreement between Washington state, Oregon, and British Columbia to renew and strengthen our partnership. Together, the Cascadia region will address housing affordability, invest in clean energy, and create the conditions for long-term economic growth.