covering creators, until recently national political reporter @washingtonpost ✰ past lives @USAToday, @njhotline, @CNN, @UChiPolitics

Joined July 2016
New beat alert! I’m still at the @washingtonpost, but expanding my coverage and launching a newsletter about the creator economy next month (powered by @beehiiv). Sign up for Verified here — and in the meantime send me your tips and gossip 💌 wpcreator.washingtonpost.com…
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Spotted: Boy Throb at City Hall to meet with Mayor Mamdani. They say they hope Mamdani dances with them. The group’s fourth member just got his visa.
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Dylan Wells retweeted
These are all photos by Heidi Levine, the @washingtonpost photojournalist assaulted by Israeli attackers today in the West Bank. She was covering Palestinian families picking their autumn olive harvest. Israeli soldiers did nothing to stop the violence. washingtonpost.com/world/202…
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Dylan Wells retweeted
To be clear: Some facts are neither in dispute nor unclear. Our photographer was clearly marked as Press. She was clearly beaten. These are not partisan or risible statements, but indisputable. We urge a thorough investigation and accountability.
The Prime Minister’s Office: The facts surrounding the confrontation near Abu Falah, during which Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine was allegedly assaulted, remain unclear and are under investigation. Israel unequivocally condemns violence against anyone—Jews, Arabs, Christians or journalists. Those responsible will be held accountable. But serious questions remain. Reports indicate some 200 Arabs and far-left activists confronted approximately 40 Israeli youths. Footage shows masked individuals on both sides hurling objects, amid reports of fireworks fired at Jewish youths. Other footage appears to show Levine knocked down and immediately helped to her feet by the same unidentified individual. The investigation must establish the facts, including who initiated the violence. We will not allow disputed incidents to be exploited to demonize the hundreds of thousands of law-abiding Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria. The facts must determine the conclusions. Not the headlines.
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my influence 💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️
I went to the Washington post political creator event and all I got was this delicious earl gray matcha
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A group of men cheered as a woman was sexually assaulted at a University of Chicago frat house, according to a police report obtained by @Suntimes. The woman told CPD the assault happened during a party at AEPi. Her account was backed up by friends. bit.ly/4AWDb5Y
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BREAKING: We have obtained the footage. Full episode tonight @ 9pm Eastern. Live on our YouTube. See you there.
Okay fine I will investigate the Kelly Clarkson bird story.
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New: Karoline Leavitt, who as White House press secretary was a firebrand defender of President Donald Trump, is joining Fox News as a contributor. Fox agreed to build a studio in her home in New Hampshire, where she recently moved. w/ @Cat_Zakrzewski washingtonpost.com/business/…
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Left-of-center new media has grown significantly over the last few years. Democratic lawyer Marc Elias launched a media company focused entirely on gerrymandering/election law. It now has 500k free/70k paid subscribers, 800k on YT, generating millions and funding a newsroom.
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📊 @MorePerfectUS was once again the fastest-growing political or political-adjacent YouTube channel in the US last quarter, pretty much tied with @TPUSA.
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Excited to share this @WSJ project: I went home to Miami to see how the Hispanic voters who helped propel Trump to victory are feeling ahead of the midterms. What I found? Deep frustration, esp. over immigration—and it could keep some who backed him home. wsj.com/politics/elections/i…
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NEW w/ @PatrickSvitek: We spoke to 20+ campaign operatives, election officials, traders and other insiders about how the 2026 midterms became "the first prediction market election," with over $750m in trading volume so far. Here's what we found... (1/5)🧵
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Dylan Wells retweeted
The print and radio pool also distribute their information to other outlets. Stills use their respective wire services to distribute images. WH has invited secondary and new media outlets into pool that do not have any responsibility to provide content beyond their own viewers/readers. Those outlets do not provide a collective product.
The 5 networks expend considerable resources for staff, equipment, travel costs to provide coverage of the president anywhere in the world and have an established infrastructure for how the images, audio and editorial information is distributed for use by other outlets. That is how the public receives this coverage.
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NEW: The presidential TV pool has been suspended as networks react to the White House's ongoing ban of CNN. That means, for now, that no major TV network will provide coverage of Trump's events, including today's appearances at the WH and his trip to the United Nations.
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Thread: Two different versions of this AI-generated image purporting to show President Trump and his assistant Natalie Harp kissing went viral this week, generating millions of views across multiple platforms. Despite being fake, this wasn't a straightforward AI image to debunk. I'll try to explain why in this thread, and hopefully shine some light on the increasingly complex world of verification in the age of generative AI, which is only set to become even more complex and difficult.
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Attention fellow reporters: Some members are angling to ban press from the Speaker’s Lobby for the 120th Congress.
Rules Committee Chair Virginia Foxx tells @pkcapitol on 535 about a rules change she thinks the Speaker should move next Congress: “The one that has a lot of support was to not allow the press in the Speaker’s Lobby. People are very irritated about the press being right off the floor.”
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Scoop: 4 anonymous accounts that perfectly correspond w/ Trump & sons’ holdings have taken first step to enable offloading of family’s own crypto, records show Could be worth billions of dollars Meanwhile, retail investors have lost +$1B washingtonsun.com/donald-tru…
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