Gotta be able to split the defense.

NEW: The DOJ was criminally investigating the companies of W. Va.'s MAGA Senator Jim Justice. Until then-DAG Todd Blanche's office killed it. Prosecutors were told "pencils down." @mtredden.bsky.social & @AASchapiro:

NEWS: A @lawfare report finds that *97* Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the attack were arrested, charged, or convicted of subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported. Incredible work from Katherine Pompilio: lawfaremedia.org/article/the…

A new Post analysis finds the video showing the Trump administration’s recent Pentagon appointee clambering into the Capitol on Jan. 6

Exclusive: A convicted Jan. 6 rioter who later said that he regretted his participation in the U.S. Capitol attack has been hired by the Trump administration to work inside a Pentagon office that manages highly classified military operations. wapo.st/4uRA4Ja

Read @sapna on the stark changes at Glamour nytimes.com/2026/06/02/busin…

NEWS: Just fired veteran correspondent Scott Pelley says 60 Minutes has lost its DNA He alleges new CBS News management "instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story" this season. (He says he ignored or refused.) FULL STATEMENT

Incredible scoop from @EricM_Katz notus.org/policy/usda-bed-bu…

"The room no longer resembled anything clinical or controlled. I could see blood coming out of the puncture wounds... the executioners moved frantically... The state’s constructed illusion of precision had collapsed, revealing something far more chaotic and brutal" nytimes.com/2026/06/01/opini…

Trump administration officials have pressed the office responsible for printing the nation’s money to design a $250 bill featuring the president’s portrait. It would be the first appearance of a living person on U.S. currency in more than 150 years: wapo.st/4vlxiMg

According to the indictment, Lineberger renamed the report "Bundt_Cake_Recipe.pdf" before attaching it to an email from her DOJ account to her personal Gmail account.

.@Emily_Sundberg is right. I am hiring a gossip intern for @sfstandard. Please apply if you are obsessed with San Francisco society, power, and culture, get genuine FOMO if you miss a good party, know how to read a room, and are funny. readfeedme.com/p/dream-job-a…

We didn’t have Ozempic. Only spite, cigarettes and a mother’s conditional love. ❤️

On May 4, The Washington Post won two Pulitzers. To stream the announcement live, the paper had to bring back two of the video operators it had laid off in February. Nobody left in the building could run the equipment. They walked past the new opinion studio on their way in. The new opinion studio was built with $80,000 in video gear. Its flagship podcast has 515 YouTube subscribers after 186 videos and more than 20 episodes. Apple Podcasts users have given it 2.3 stars. The most positive review on record: "This is bad and the people making it should feel bad." Dave Jorgenson, the journalist who built WaPo's TikTok presence, left last year. His personal YouTube channel now has 358,000 subscribers. The opinion podcast has 515. A former WaPo journalist working with a small team has built more than 600 times the audience of the flagship new show. Bezos was warned by his own opinion editor that the rightward pivot would cost subscribers. His documented response, per the New York Times: "I don't care." The piece's own summary is the only sentence needed: "Bezos laid off the people who win the Pulitzers. He's funding the people who lose the subscribers."

Trump: I hate good looking men. We also have the only cadet who earned a perfect score on every single fitness test. I wanna check him out. Look at the muscles on this guy.

“To every government worker who risked so much to confide in me, I want you to know your trust is the highest honor I will ever receive" -- Great @ErikWemple profile of our dear colleague @hannah_natanson nytimes.com/2026/05/05/busin…

Some personal news: I’ve been named U.S. News Director at @AP. I’ve spent my career in this newsroom, and I’m grateful to the reporters and editors I’ve had the privilege to work alongside — and to everyone who has trusted me along the way.

🎉🎉 Pulitzer winner @ByronTau !!!!!!!!

I don't quite have words yet. I'm stunned, grateful, disoriented. My deepest, deepest thanks to the five families without whom this book would not exist. It has been the honor of my life to know and learn from you.

The Wall Street Journal was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Public Service for our reporting on the birthday book and the handling of the Epstein files — work that helped trigger the release of more than three million Justice Department documents. I'm so proud to work alongside the best colleagues and editors in the world, who have supported my reporting on Epstein's network for years. What began last year with @marcelolprince and @joe_palazzolo grew into a newsroom-wide effort. This past summer was enormously challenging for me and my family. Getting through it was only possible because of the extraordinary support I received from across the newsroom, from our fearless editors, from our legal and security teams, and from the many people who reached out with care and concern. I'm so proud of this work and the courage displayed by our paper. I'm deeply grateful to our sources, who placed so much trust in us. And most of all, I'm grateful to live in a country with a First Amendment. pulitzer.org/finalists/wall-…