Editing The Brief @kharondata. Used to report on my Virginia county @fairfaxmachine and edit @postlocal. Georgetown grad. Soccer guy. Sounds like ‘basic.’
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Unitree Robotics on Wednesday became the first humanoid robot maker to list in mainland China, with its shares soaring over 460% in their Shanghai debut.
The Brief has been investigating Unitree, which advertises only civilian uses for its products, since last summer — uncovering a series of military connections the company does not advertise.
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How did a company tied to China's ballistic missile program end up embedded in America's defense supply chain?
Read it in The Brief @KharonData
w/@IanTalley Edit/ @RyanBacic Graphic/ @AmateurLeader , Yin Liao
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Full story in the Brief:
kharon.com/brief/russia-ukra…
edit/ @RyanBacic , graphic/ Yin Liao, w/ @KharonData research.
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NEW: How did a European chip become a fixture in Russia's battlefield drones despite years of Western sanctions?
For the first time, our investigation identifies 2 possible routes—including a key distributor and two of China's largest state-backed "Little Giant" drone companies.
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Full Story with data at @KharonData The Brief:
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w/Grace Borges, James Disalvatore. Edit/@RyanBacic Graphics/ @AmateurLeader
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NEW: China’s AI IPO Boom Has a New Home: Hong Kong
Tracking listing activity among Chinese AI-related companies this year, we found that more than 85% have chosen Hong Kong.
Experts @kyleichan, @SamuelBickett , and @hofunghung point to several factors behind the trend.
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The United Kingdom intensified the campaign against the multibillion-dollar Southeast Asian scam economy last week, issuing new sanctions targeting the networks of Cambodia’s Prince Group conglomerate.
Read more: bit.ly/4lZzSnu
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There are a million reasons to be heartbroken by what happened this week. But the decimation of the journalists who cover our diverse and dynamic community with care and accountability is the one that hurts the most.
Our neighbors deserve better.
Much of the mourning for the late great @washingtonpost has rightly focused on how democracy dies in darkness at the national level, which is hugely important. But the evisceration of Metro coverage is every bit as devastating because there is no comparable news outlet keeping local governments and institutions honest.
Eight of my 20 years at the Post were spent on Metro, which was the heart and soul of the Post under the legendary @dongrahamdc1. The undertakers now running the paper have all but wiped out the metro staff, leaving just 12 reporters, according to reports, to cover a region of 6.5 million people.
We had twice that many journalists in Fairfax alone back in the day. And it mattered. Reporters are the eyes and ears of the community, keeping tabs on people in power. We were there for every supervisors meeting, every school board meeting. We pored through planning commission documents and campaign filings.
When county officials wasted taxpayer money, raised taxes on overstretched homeowners, gave sweetheart zoning deals to developers who filled their election coffers, we were there. When teachers who sexually abused students were quietly transferred to other schools to do it all over again, we were there.
We were there for the more uplifting stories too, the cops who broke a cold case, the educators who turned around a struggling school, the residents who rallied to help neighbors in trouble, the student athletes who won the big game, the entrepreneurs who started something new.
Our friend @SariHorwitz who has won more Pulitzers than I can count, wrote so movingly online about the Post (facebook.com/share/p/1AZLTTD…). To recognize how indispensable local coverage is, you need only look at her holy-shit investigations of a broken child welfare system, rampant police shootings and the corporate-fed opioid crisis, stories that opened eyes and led to change.
Democracy is not just what happens at the White House and the Capitol but in our own backyards. The Post has just turned the lights down at home too.
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Today I was laid off from my job covering Amazon for Jeff Bezos's Washington Post.
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I’m among the hundreds laid off today by The Post. It was a dream to write about education for @postlocal. I don’t have answers over what future coverage of Maryland schools will look like. If you have job tips, please send them my way
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On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We are devastated and raising funds to help them. Please, please share far and wide.
gofundme.com/f/standing-toge…
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I was among the many employees laid off this morning @washingtonpost
It was a privilege to tell the stories of Virginia’s schools for a place like The Post.
I don’t know what’s next, but if you want to reach out… I’m at [email protected]
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The @WashPost has now laid off its Asia editor, its New Delhi bureau chief, its Sydney bureau chief, its Cairo bureau chief, the entire Middle East reporting team, China correspondents, Iran correspondents, Turkey correspondents, and many more. The world is becoming less America-centric by the minute while the United States is becoming more America-centric than ever. It is just a depressing yet somehow perfect summation of our current moment that one of the most important newspapers in the history of the country - one that has actually shaped the history of the United States - doesn't think reporting on the world is of any use anymore. What an utterly perfect encapsulation of where we have arrived.
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I grew up reading the Washington Post Sports section. It is the reason I became interested in journalism. It has been the best sports section in the country for decades and is the main reason that I (and many others) still subscribe to the Post. What a shameful decision.
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If you want to feel like you live in “the ruins of a once great civilization,” then read a newspaper from the middle of last century — our predecessors had more and better information about their neighbors, their governments, and their local democracies than we do about ours.
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Yeah when I think about what's essential to my life it just might include books, sports, what's happening on the street I live, and whether we're going to war
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No struggling newspaper ever saved itself by becoming a worse and less essential product. But what's happening today at the @washingtonpost is not just the latest devastating contraction of the news industry; it's the gutting of an American institution vital for a healthy society
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Crestfallen and f$&@ furious about closure as we know it of @PostSports by an indifferent, compromised owner and a failing publisher — a dept of Povich and Boswell, Wilbon and Kornheiser, Gildea and Sheinin, of poets, authors, Hall of Famers and Pulitzer finalists. Terrible day.