melina mara

National Political Staff Photographer/Photojournalist at The Washington Post

[Reuters @Reuters]

LIVE: Pope Leo leads Passion of the Lord service https://t.co/CiBpxbhkM6

[Michael Calderone @mlcalderone]

My @TheWrap look at the talent scramble post-WaPo cuts, with Atlantic, NOTUS, others in the fray

“If the Washington Post’s ownership and management is going to drive away its best journalists,” says the Atlantic's Jeff Goldberg, “I’m more than happy to give them a home.”

https://t.co/sCaJCjp68N

[Ashley Parker @AshleyRParker]

The Washington Post has long done — and is still doing — great journalism. I don’t understand how laying off a bunch of talented and hardworking journalists solves what is fundamentally a publisher and business side problem. The Post deserves better.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: "What's happening in Minnesota right now defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos and disruption and trauma the federal government is raining down upon our communities. They're pulling over people indiscriminately, including US citizens, and demanding to see their papers. At grocery stores, at bus stops, even at our schools, they're breaking windows, dragging pregnant women down the street, just plain grabbing Minnesotans and shoving them into unmarked vans. Kidnapping innocent people with no warning and no due process. Let's be very, very clear. This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government. This week, he went online to promise that 'the day of retribution and reckoning is coming.' That's a direct threat against the people of this state who dared to vote against him three times and who continue to stand up for freedom with courage and empathy and profound grace."

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Mitch McConnell just said the quiet part out loud on Greenland:

We already have everything we need.
Greenland already cooperates.
Our Arctic access already exists.

What Trump is proposing isn’t strategy, it’s burning allied trust for nothing.

“Incinerating the hard-won trust of loyal allies” is not strength. It’s self-sabotage.

[Evan Vucci @evanvucci]

This photo underscores the importance of eyewitness journalism and AP’s legacy of documenting the presidency. I look forward to the day I can once again cover President Trump alongside my colleagues. Now more than ever, independent, nonpartisan photojournalism is essential.

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

Here's Ruth's note to Jeff and Will:

[melina mara @melinamara]

@dsamuelsohn @USATODAY Fantastic! Congratulations Darren

[melina mara @melinamara]

@JStein_WaPo @ddiamond Thank you Jeff for putting words to my experience for the last 20 years, and many of our experiences, at The Post

[Jeff Stein @jstein_star]

Great additional thoughts from @ddiamond https://t.co/itHssQ4yMq

[Marty Baron @PostBaron]

On political endorsement https://t.co/e5OTZhylIE

This is cowardice, with democracy as its casualty. @realdonaldtrump will see this as an invitation to further intimidate owner @jeffbezos (and others). Disturbing spinelessness at an institution famed for courage.

[Jazmine Ulloa @jazmineulloa]

We were just violently thrown forward, as our van slammed into the one in front of us and was hit from behind.

[Jazmine Ulloa @jazmineulloa]

Several cars in the Walz motorcade crashed just before 1 p.m. A staff member in our press van appeared to have a sprained or broken arm and is being treated by medics. Everyone else is shaken but appears to be in okay condition.

[melina mara @melinamara]

A blast-stressed elephant and an abandoned lemur: The war within Kyiv’s zoo https://t.co/oI0lxIvfww

[Scott Wilson @PostScottWilson]

Here's a link to the full package awarded the @PulitzerPrizes today in explanatory journalism, which I shared with an extraordinary cast of colleagues. Thank you to the @washingtonpost - a place that still has the ambition to do the hard stuff. https://t.co/pskaQydxIL

[Scott Wilson @PostScottWilson]

Millions of Americans don’t have clean running water. In the age of the coronavirus, that puts the entire population at risk. Via @FrancesSSellers with magnificent photography from @melinamara
https://t.co/MIsKja4WLO

[melina mara @melinamara]

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[melina mara @melinamara]

Wet California winter is a boon for skiers and water supply. But it brings a threat: wildfires. https://t.co/gO0Jxhv1Gr

[melina mara @melinamara]

One million species face extinction, U.N. panel says. And humans will suffer as a result. https://t.co/SlTrMKwJ5z

[melina mara @melinamara]

‘Absolutely out of control’: Cliff Sims’s book depicts life in Trump’s White House - The Washington Post https://t.co/zRPgzTR0FJ