Tiny O'Neill, Nebraska, took a big hit from a 2018 ICE raid. The town is still recovering, its Latino residents again fearful. "The potential removal just lingers on for years like a war wound that won’t heal." @anniegowen 

Take a walk on Bourbon Street during Super Bowl weekend in New Orleans — a place where noisy celebration still mixes with much anxiety some five weeks after a deadly terrorist attack. @mollyhf and @KFlynnNola are there.

RT @Laurie_Garrett: When a billionaire tells we mere mortals to "get over it" you know he has zero concept of what an extra $1 per quart of…

John and Gail spend their nights wandering down hallways that no longer exist. Gone are the “#1 Dad” pillow, the poem John wrote to Gail in high school, Gail’s childhood dolls. All “72 years of life stuff.” Without it, will memories fade? @reisthebault

A fight for control of vast swaths of public lands looms. States like Utah, leading the charge, say they would be better managers of that terrain, and they expect the next Trump administration to agree. @karinbrulliard on what's at stake.

L.A. is a place with a reputation for being self-involved and materialistic. But not since the wildfires erupted and a massive, spontaneous force of volunteers arose. @mollyhf talked to those helping and those receiving.

A gallant crew of untrained Californians seemed no match for the awesome power of nature, and yet: What it looks and feels like to fight for the Palisades, via a Washington Post team including @reisthebault @MrErinO @juliawall_ @tuckabelle and more

For the first time in a century, the folks in Plains, Georgia, awoke without Jimmy Carter in their midst. Amid the sadness and deep appreciation for a man who was far more than a former president here is much anxiety about the town's future. @hollybdc

In a suburban Los Angeles congregation, Republicans, Democrats and Independents are trying to do what is increasingly rare and tricky for modern religious communities: Hold together despite their different views. @mboorstein

In Texas, a state with one of most restrictive abortion bans and some of the worst access for women's health care, newborns have been abandoned this year in dumpsters, an industrial ditch, a Whataburger restroom. “Women don’t know what to do." @mollyhf

TLC for Tots has seen a generation of little ones since its founding. But the future is very uncertain — reflecting a child-care crisis that is nationwide — and the leaders of red-state Idaho say government isn’t the solution. @karinbrulliard

Red-state leaders emboldened by Donald Trump’s presidential victory are not waiting for him to take office in January to advance far more aggressive agendas at home. They're "chomping at the bit," one conservative says. @mollyhf

An investigation by @washingtonpost @LHreports + @El_Universal_Mx found more migrant drownings than the U.S. or Mexico have reported. Nowhere was the toll higher than in Eagle Pass, a popular crossing point where Texas's border crackdown is concentrated.

Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary says women shouldn’t serve in combat. Those who have say his attitude is outdated, uninformed and inaccurate. @emily_wax

With its $11 billion Operation Lone Star enforcement effort along the border, Texas aims to be both the model and epicenter as the next Trump administration cracks down on immigration. @mollyhf @arelisrhdz

The country’s trans community is caught up in a swirl of angst, anger and fear, emotion triggered not just by a bathroom banned aimed at the woman about to become Congress's first trans member but by her own response to the new rule. @emily_wax

Four years ago, the NIH director dismissed Jay Bhattacharya’s proposal to end covid lockdowns as dangerous and “fringe.” Now Bhattacharya could lead the NIH under Trump, @ddiamond reports. 

Sarah McBride, a 34-year-old state senator in Delaware, will be the first transgender member of Congress come January. “Our democracy is big enough for all of us,” she believes. @emily_wax reports from the state that has nurtured McBride's career.

RT @PostBaron: On political endorsement This is cowardice, with democracy as its casualty. @realdonaldtrump will…

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