Statement from @postguild.bsky.social on the firing of Karen Attiah:

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Signal Ohio workers across the state walked off the job for two hours! We're still demanding that our CEO & board members recognize us as one bargaining unit. @newsguild.org Show your support by sending an email to them here: actionnetwork.org/letters/one-... 📸: Reporters in Akron & Cleveland

Scoop! Kansas housing programs lost $2.3 million in federal funds, forcing some providers to close programs, eliminate jobs or work at a financial loss. Read more about how these cuts hurt vulnerable Kansans and those serving them: klcjournal.com/doge-federal...

For the last several months, I've been digging through endless scientific literature on what happens when pregnant mothers are exposed to plastic chemicals in their food, water, and everyday household products. The result is this story. I hope you'll take the time to read. wapo.st/4g3ZoFc

Scoop! Kansas housing programs lost $2.3 million in federal funds, forcing some providers to close programs, eliminate jobs or work at a financial loss. Read more about how these cuts hurt vulnerable Kansans and those serving them: klcjournal.com/doge-federal...

The National Weather Service will hire as many as 450 people after Elon Musk's DOGE gutted the agency, leaving it dangerously understaffed.

Second Light, Wichita’s emerging homeless shelter, is a haven from the elements and a place where you know when you’ll have your next meal. The residents are grateful for that. But they wait for more.

Second Light, Wichita’s emerging homeless shelter, faces steep challenges—building a campus while housing residents, uncertain funding, little state support, and earning trust from homeless Wichitans. ✍️ @steflugli.bsky.social 📸 Jeff Tuttle

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If you are involved in trying to make nonprofit news sustainable, I wrote and reported this story for you! So much news that deserves our attention right now, but I hope you'll spend some time with my Houston Landing retrospective for @niemanlab.org (1/3) www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/what...

So Kristi Noem now requires that any FEMA contracts over $100K get her personal signoff. She didn't authorize search and rescue teams in Texas for more than 72 hours. www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p...

Musk may have left Washington, but DOGE is continuing its assault on the federal government unabated. More incredible reporting from the all stars of DOGE reporting @telliotter.bsky.social and @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/next-s...

"Shortly after 10 a.m., Orozco Forero texted her family member: 'They are going to deport us' 'Nicolle what happened? Nicolle answer me,' they texted back. 'What do I do?'" An important yet heartbreaking read. 19thnews.org/2025/07/chil...

More than 1,000 U.S. counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/new-...

my desk neighbor asked if I got a bad phone call because she heard me "muttering" at my desk ... I was not-silently mouthing along to the Wicked soundtrack

NEW: Adults fighting kids for clean water, despondent toddlers and a child with swollen feet denied a medical exam - these first-hand accounts from immigrant families are offering a glimpse at conditions in TX detention centers. according to court filing. apnews.com/article/migr...

I know a lot of people just don't really know much about foreign cities, but please imagine how it would go if someone told all of NYC to evacuate "immediately," and then add two million more people to that scenario

"Tear gas is banned in international warfare, but it is classified as a 'riot control agent' that law enforcement can use for crowd control."

Thousands of Kansans rallied today at the Statehouse in Topeka as part of a nationwide backlash to President Donald Trump, hoisting signs, joining in pro-democracy chants and speaking out against immigration raids. Via @kansasreflector.com: lawrenceks.news/400zXxl

Strib lifts paywall for this critical story: www.startribune.com/brooklyn-par...

White House: "Violent mobs have attacked ICE officers and Federal Law Enforcement Officers." LAPD: "Today, demonstrations across the City of Los Angeles remained peaceful."

I was invited to write about art! "On the day of my visit, there was a makeshift bed a dozen feet away. Its maker was absent, but it made me wonder, where do your eyes go in a tunnel like this? Left to glyphics you don’t understand? Or right to a stranger you think you do?"

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

The "fact sheet" associated with this executive order is of course even more deranged and preposterous than the executive order itself. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

🚨🚨🚨 In the last two hours, the Trump admin: - Banned all immigrant visas from 19 countries, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela - Banned all student and researcher visas to Harvard - Colluded with Texas to kick 20,000 undocumented college students off of in-state tuition.

"Yes, robots can do some things better than humans — none more so than spread disinformation." Let that sink in.

The very best #writing advice, perhaps the only advice a fledgling writer needs, is to read as many books as possible. Let the rhythms of fiction soak into you, and you can figure out the rest from there.

When a homeless man questioned the Phoenix police’s authority to stop him in Feb. 2020, an officer knelt on his neck while another shocked him with a Taser. Another unhoused man said officers threw away his things, telling him, “You guys are trash and this is trash.”

NEW: Citations in the MAHA Report have telltale signs of AI chatbot use -- we reviewed all 522 of the listed citations, and at least 37 of the footnotes appear multiple times in the citations with another 21 having dead links w/ @laurenweberhp.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

I'm glad to see a journalist put what I've been feeling in words. It is, actually, extremely disheartening to read a deeply reported story about someone's plight and see a slew of comments only asking "who did they vote for" Victims of government cruelty are still victims, regardless of their vote

your dose of joy and hope this morning: our feature on the effort to adopt dogs on the Ukrainian front lines. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

A must-read report form @dmehro.bsky.social that @wired.com made free to read because it is based on government documents (it's their policy to make FOIA-based reporting free as well). Thank you for making important journalism based on public records available to all.

very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students

writing is going well

Later today I'll be live with the Solutions Journalism Network (@soljourno.bsky.social) to talk about the intersection of solutions and investigative journalism! Noon central time, come through www.linkedin.com/events/73291...

"People here are exhausted by the endless cycle of exile, with no safe place left to go. How many times must we abandon the places we love — filled with our memories and our lives — only to be cast into the unknown?"

Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

Standing in awe of the @propublica.org team helmed by @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social that pulled off this journalistic feat: a stunning narrative that painstakingly captures Helene’s tragedies and NC’s missed opportunities. www.propublica.org/article/hurr.... www.propublica.org/article/hurr...

new trail of tears

These are the kinds of stories few others will tell. And they’re at risk of disappearing. The funding landscape is bleak. Some foundations are afraid to support work that challenges power. Despite The Appeal’s enormous success, our own funders are clawing back support.

🚨 Our newsroom is in crisis. Without urgent donations, The Appeal may not be able to keep publishing.

You can be evicted for: calling 911 too many times; being wrongly accused of shoplifting; having a son with a disability who needs help; being a victim of domestic violence. This is "crime-free housing" in America. A searing, crucial investigation by Sidnee King Pineda:

new from me for @wired.com : the EPA is moving to reorganize its scientific research office, which will likely kill off a small but crucial program devoted to studying the impacts of toxic chemicals—which has been a target of industry groups for years

Last night: City Council vocalized support to secure sustainable funding for the city’s Affordable Housing Fund while the Sedgwick County Commission Chair also committed to expanding the city’s municipal ID all county residents klcjournal.com/justice-toge...

Actual state media watch

this deep dive into the plight of wrongfully detained Venezuelans and how they barely escaped being sent to El Salvador had me holding my breath. I feel so much grief thinking about these men. incredible reporting and storytelling by Mother Jones

I went to SEJ last week and the vibes were…kinda weird! I wrote about it for @niemanlab.org: www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/a-co...

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...