Which is it? Do you want to occupy the public space to express your dissent and invoke your absolute right to speak? Or do you want to beat on anyone who then exists in that same space and invokes their absolute right to document it?

Bob Graham, the Florida governor and senator who never lost an election, has died at 87. He was a hero in the town his family created, Miami Lakes, which was my first beat at the Miami Herald. miamiherald.com/news/politics-…

O.J. Simpson, football great whose trial for murder became a phenomenon, dies at 76 wapo.st/3UdFkqE

Here's the story that led the last print extra edition The Washington Post ever published: O.J. SIMPSON ACQUITTED #ojsimpson
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Wow. I visited this place some years ago and spoke to one of the family members who worked and lived there. It was the scene of a famous 1968 Washington Post photo. washingtonpost.com/local/i-still-…

Starting in the ‘80s, Dorie Ladner taught a young reporter a lifetime’s worth about D.C. politics and the complex rivalries of the civil rights generation. She was a generous and delightful storyteller. I’ll always be grateful & will miss her wisdom. washingtonpost.com/obituaries/202…

Dang, looks like I forgot to pay the rent footwearnews.com/business/legal…

National Park Service to cut down 300 cherry trees at Tidal Basin for seawall project wapo.st/48MWhfC

Had never seen this clip before. Love it

Media news: Looks like bad news is ahead of DC’s NPR affiliate, WAMU. Their office will be closed and their site will be temporarily automated ahead of a morning “strategic” meeting tomorrow, and staff have been “frozen” out of internal systems.

Joe Madison, radio host who merged talk format and activism, dies at 74 washingtonpost.com/obituaries/202…

A reporter working a weekend shift, covering a Vietnamese festival in the Virginia suburbs, finds a link to his parents' wedding in 1965 in Saigon wapo.st/4832R1n

Charles Osgood, creator of “The Osgood File” and author of “Gallant Men,” the surprise hit song of 1966, is dead at 91. google.com/gasearch?q=gal… washingtonpost.com/obituaries/202…

The final flip through the old Rolodex, which came with me through six newsrooms at the Miami Herald, two at The Washington Post and one foreign bureau too. That Trump card dates from my first interview with him, in 1983.
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Tom Smothers, half of Smothers Brothers sibling comedy duo, dies at 86 washingtonpost.com/obituaries/202…

Former hostage Agam Almog speaks about their experience in Gaza: They took us one day to a school. A woman offered water and a mattress and said she’d organize a place to sleep. I said to my mother, “mom, there are good people in the world.”

And then five minutes later, they…

NEW: The Donald Trump campaign is up on TV in IA, NH and SC with this Christmas ad featuring a clip of Sarah Huckabee Sanders recounting Trump's visit to see soldiers in Iraq in 2018 --

Huckabee Sanders:

'It was a sight, and a sound, and a scene that I hope I never forget. That room…

Barry Bonds, the infield fly rule & Frank Robinson with a great Expos jacket telling his players to stop being idiots.