i think it is great that conservative students functionally work as a volunteer stasi for republican politicians and conservative media

filed my first records request in a long while!!!!!

Day one back at my desk featured an hour-long call with Empower to rollover the contents of my 401k into my IRA. Next up: Healthcare ✅ Can’t wait to get back to actual work tasks 😭😂

me making a “we did it, joe” joke after blowing out my 35th birthday candles like a total fucking cornball :)

Officially 35. So grateful for supportive family and friends who helped me celebrate what I was worried would be an existential crisis-themed birthday. (And yeah, I spent some time off watching the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders series and have been infected with Spray Tan, Fake Lashes, and Big Hair.)

Now that my work days won’t be so meetings-focused, I rearranged my office. New energy!!!

I took social media off my phone, so I no longer post in real time but guys.... I’ve come to my computer to share because I’ve been thinking ALL DAY about this woman who I saw at my local diner order a Cobb Salad at 9:23 a.m.

Even as the world is racing to contain the deadly Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Trump administration is moving ahead with a plan that could decimate support for programs that detect and snuff out exactly such outbreaks. 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/h...

People who go to prison keep one important right — to file a grievance over their treatment: from abuse to denied medical care. But in the vast majority of cases, those efforts go nowhere, according to an analysis of federal data by The Marshall Project and NPR. n.pr/4vgpFab

Happy Birthday week to me!!!

well all I can say is that I *will* be finding out what hairspray is being used here

I never pick up the phone, and usually ignore sports, but made an exception when IRL friend in Brooklyn called today just to exult -- and made exactly the same point.

““If my husband’s the head of the household, I am the neck, and we work very cohesively together,” Brooke Foxworthy told the CBC. “So, I would imagine if he was voting on behalf of our household, I would be fine with that.”” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Happy Edith’s 5th Birthday to everyone!!!!

I turn 35 in a week. Seeking recommendations for birthday-related activities/rituals/traditions, since I’m without a full-time job and can do em. I’ve had years where I’ve written thank you notes to the people in my life or set a round of intentions. Some folks volunteer, right?

The death of a woman from Haiti seeking asylum in the U.S. who died from hypothermia days after her release from federal custody was ruled a homicide by a Pennsylvania county medical examiner's office.

My dog Edith has the same birthday as Trump, and I think about that a lot

Kathryn Anne Edwards @kedseconomist.com linktr.ee/keds_economist

hey has anyone thought about what we should do wrt this global warming stuff

CW: child loss I’ve been making more drawings of babies lately, which has been very special — but also encompasses the full range of human emotion, from joy to heartbreak. As celebratory as some are, others are to honor losses. How her hand caught the light.

finally started watching The Man in the High Castle, which is more like The OA x Homeland than I ever expected based on the premise. But my biggest takeaway is that I’m really confident that Elon Musk was definitely doing a nazi salute that one time

Not strictly about my book, but thematically linked: On a walk today, I saw some vultures eating a squirrel that had died coughing up blood in the road

pls hold me accountable if I’m posting about anything that isn’t my novel!!!!

I’m told that my 4-year-old nephew, who had been listening to a lot of Spice Girls, stole a friend’s crystal and then said “taking is too easy; that’s the way it is” 😏

Walked into my regular diner this morning and was greeted with a “Hey, Liv!” and a cute lil story about one of the waiters wearing some of the free TBW merch I gave them 🥹

NEW YORK (AP) — A New Jersey police sergeant has been charged with stealing $10,000 worth of cameras and other equipment from a photojournalist who had been injured covering tense protests outside a Newark immigration jail.

Thank you for reading and subscribing. Most of all thank you to @susanrinkunas.com for saying yes to doing a very hard thing with me and being so good at it!!!!

Watchdog sues U.S. immigration agencies to obtain autopsy reports and other records as deaths in ICE custody rise.

Here are the CDC positions they are saying are in the excepted service as policy roles — including "Epidemiologist," "Research Epidemiologist," and "Health Scientist."

Democrats in…array?

The Justice Department is investigating former congressman George Santos for insider trading on the prediction market site Kalshi

♥️🗞️goodbye for now to @thebarbedwire.com — it’s been an honor, and any newsroom would be stupid not to hire @carakelly.bsky.social @briangaar.bsky.social @iamleslierangel.bsky.social and @candibolden.bsky.social

Human remains found by a hiker last week in a New Mexico national forest are those of a Los Alamos National Laboratory employee who had been missing for nearly a year, authorities say.

Happy Monday everyone, it’s looking like it might be a nice week here. And remember last week when I said that we took some pictures in the park? Well we got some of them back! I was a handsome boy in the ferns and romping in the water #DogsOfBluesky

It's the first day of the Atlantic hurricane season (so for those who live in hurricane-prone areas, time to think about any preparation you need to do). But why are hurricanes a seasonal phenomena? @meghanbartels.bsky.social explains 🧪:

Tonight outside of Delaney Hall, police kettled protesters and press into a tight circle. After a couple quick snatch and grab arrests, officers gave credentialed media the choice to leave. Most of us did, but a couple journalists who wanted to go were detained.

Watching Love Story, and the Battery Park fight between JFK Jr and Carolyn Bessette hit me so hard it reminded me of when Rachel Lindsay and Peter Krause broke up on The Bachelorette. Unfortunately, I’m worried nobody else will get both references 😅😭

The end of The Barbed Wire is a terrible loss for independent journalism.

The @thebarbedwire.com is a phenomenal publication. Any editor or newsroom leader would be a fool not to hire or commission pieces from Olivia and her team. Can't wait to see what's next for them.

I said this on X because there aren’t a ton of Texas lawmakers on here but: To the #txlege, now that @carakelly.bsky.social and I no longer have budget meetings or a team to manage, good luck. We’ll see y’all when we finish our next exposé. [email protected]

“We were the lucky ones. We had the money, the time, and the childcare to make the trip […]. […] Two of our co-plaintiffs […] were not so lucky: they went septic waiting to find out whether they were dead enough for an abortion, after their water broke far too early for their daughters to survive.”

Women are never dead enough for the Texas GOP.

Officially my last guest essay edit as editor-in-chief. It’s an important one.

Sad to see another excellent independent newsroom shutting down. @thebarbedwire.com has been on my indie media feed since I created it. If you're hiring or have freelance work, reach out to these folks.

y’all have made me so emotional. don’t unfollow just yet -- we’re finishing one last guest essay from two mothers who almost lost their lives, and the lives of their babies, due to Texas’ abortion ban

As a native Texan, this is such a devastating loss. As the founder of a nonprofit news outlet, I know this struggle intimately. I can only imagine how difficult this decision was, but I hope Olivia and her team know their work was good and valuable and important.

This is a gd shame. This business is trash and that The Barbed Wire won’t be around to cover the hottest Senate race in Texas in 40 years is a shame.

this is such a crazy thing to read about myself and I’m so so grateful for all of the overwhelmingly kind comments today

Same feeling for a great online outlet: “Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism; when a great one goes … history itself is denied a devoted witness.” — Richard Kluger, The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune, 1986