Saw this project posted on LinkedIn, feel like a lot of folks here would find this useful. A database of independent journalists, searchable by topic/platform, and looks like there’s also a form to submit nominations. Cool stuff journalismatlas.com

A conscientious journalism grad withdraw from a job when she learned the Cleveland Plain Dealer uses AI to write its stories. Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.” You can’t make this shit up. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...

The Trump administration pushes for more AI--but what does that mean for communities on the ground? For @politico.com Magazine, I tell the story of one VA county where local politics is struggling to reign in data center impacts on residents' health/peace of mind www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Climate denialists claimed victory when the Trump administration published an unprecedented report reliant on decades of debunked claims. The administration just proved it has no confidence their work could withstand scrutiny in a legal fight over climate regulations www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

So, has anyone out there actually seen the text of the endangerment finding rollback? Because they haven't put it out. And I'm told Zeldin might not even have signed it yet? on Signal at jchemnick.01

Here's what EPA just put up on the endangerment finding repeal: www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

Oh gosh, this was kind of a sad read. (Harold and Maude is my favorite movie and I rewatch it every year around Valentine’s Day, so my annual screening is coming up.) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/m...

if you are a current or former wapo worker and have any idea about how this came about, my signal is mollytaft.76 :)

NEW: This was the last essay I was supposed to publish at the Washington Post. But they fired me. I'm publishing it anyway-- about my family's connection to a sword the British looted from Ghana in 1874. If youve ever wondered why I love swords, here's why. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

I dunno what I expected this article to be about when I clicked on the headline (something else, to be sure), but anyway TIL what the term "desire path" means. Fun story ❤️ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/r...

2/9 PM UPDATE: Joining the list of AJC layoffs are: · Alia Pharr, a metro Atlanta local government reporter · Maya T. Prabhu, a statehouse reporter whose last day will be the end of the ongoing state legislative session Again: every single person laid off has been a woman and/or a person of color

This chart. Wow. reportearth.substack.com/p/the-washin... via @chriscmooney.bsky.social

Merino wool leggings. Jeans. Merino wool base shirt with built-in balaclava. Zip-up fleece. Down jacket. Scarf and hat over the balaclava. Hood. Gloves. Combat boots. It’s a single-digit Saturday night but bless my little southern heart I am readyyyy

@theonion.com is so worth the subscription for this

I'm told that the endangerment finding repeal package lands next week. I look at what that could mean for other climate rules, state action, and the future of U.S. climate policy. And on Signal at jchemnick.01, for any tips on when, where, etc.! www.eenews.net/articles/Her....

Months ago, during the first government shutdown, a source suggested I take a look at how small federal contractors were being affected. I started making calls and quickly realized that this story went beyond the shutdown — some of these folks had been losing money all year. 1/

So many incredible journalists got laid off today. Heroes, mentors, friends. Just an absolutely devastating day. Starting a thread here with some of their incredible work, and how to follow and support them.

We at the @postguild.bsky.social are raising money for the hundreds of journalists the Post just laid off. This goes to the people who are hurting, not the Post. Or if you'd rather, go subscribe to an independent journalist. Support is hugely appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.

Gutted by the layoffs at The Washington Post. I got my start there 11 yrs ago as a contributor to its brand-new "Energy & Environment blog" amid an ambitious digital expansion plan that gave us cubs hope for the future of this industry. Heartbroken for the tremendous staff who made WaPo what it was.

That little surge of dopamine in the investigative reporter's brain when she finally gets ahold of some hard data relevant to an anecdotal story she's been reporting for weeks 🤯

Thrilled to see that the virtuosi string duo ARKAI has won a Grammy for their album Brightside (go check it!). Philip Sheegog is a longtime guest artist/friend of my ensemble Cantori New York and is featured on our 2021 album THE ELEMENTS. Congrats to Philip and Jonathan, so well deserved!

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Some local drama spotted by my sister today at a neighborhood pond — hungry anhinga struggling to swallow the fish he just caught when out of nowhere💥🦅 (anhinga later emerged unscathed offscreen — unclear who ended up with the fish)

It begins… flurries in Summerville, SC

X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications

"As a member of the press, I filmed the church protest a few weeks ago and now I'm being arrested for that," Indipendent journalist Georgia Fort said. "It's hard to understand how we have a Constitution, Constitutional rights, when we can just be arrested for being a member of the press."

CNN statement on the arrest of Don Lemon.

A cloud-seeding startup that MAGA lawmakers blamed for Texas flooding last July is now spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on lobbying and gold-framed Metro ads in very Trumpy play for attention. www.eenews.net/articles/a-s...

NEW: When Congress killed The Corporation for Public Broadcasting in July, experts predicted scores of stations could go dark. Six months later, vanishingly few have shut down. Inside the public media apocalypse that wasn't (yet.) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/b...

News: The Washington Post is preparing to slash upwards of 300 staffers, incl sports, metro and foreign desks @nataliekorach.bsky.social reports. “The newsroom is being punished for absolute incompetence from the owner and publisher,” one staffer told @status.news www.status.news/p/washington...

Some small joys today: -A perfect batch of vegan gumbo -An imperfect but delicious first attempt at Japanese anpan -A good friend to share it all with + a long, lazy afternoon of deep life chats -This single heroic parent I spotted today on the playground mid-blizzard with their child ❤️

He spent decades bringing the religious right to power. Now he's marching to undo it. Rev. Rob Schenck spent decades helping build the Religious Right—commingling church and state to advance conservative causes. Now, he says he must confront the damage he helped cause.

There are about 100 protesters outside Schumer’s building in the middle of the blizzard urging him to whip Dem votes against any more ICE/CBP funding.

Breaking NYT: The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.

Minnesota's state FBI-like bureau is suing Noem. It says before pre-emptively declaring the killing righteous and abandoning the crime scene, feds took exclusive custody of evidence, including "apparently seized cellphones." MN asserts a sovereign right to investigate crimes within its borders.

BREAKING: A young doctor who lives near where Alex Pretti, a nurse, was killed by ICE says in a declaration he saw the shooting, went out to help, was not let through at first then patted down before being let by, and was apparently the first to try and provide any medical assistance to Pretti.

The request includes a declaration from a witness who filmed today's shooting of Pretti. Read their words: "I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me.

To put 200 active measles infections in one state in context, the Disneyland measles outbreak a decade ago - which I did some work on in grad school - was 131 total cases in California. That was a notable outbreak. That's an outbreak with its own Wikipedia page. And it's just like this now

Can’t believe I ever disliked snow. A decade+ of climate reporting has fully reformed me. Going outside to play now 😍

Amid a lot of upheaval in the past week I somehow missed this news. Folks who know me know I'm always on my local news pulpit and Jesus this makes me sad www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/will...

EPA will soon release its final repeal of Obama's greenhouse gas endangerment finding and all climate regulations for cars and trucks. Then comes all the litigation. Here's my cheat sheet about what folks will be looking for in the final version: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

. @seth-stern.bsky.social at @freedom.press: "The administration may now be in possession of volumes of journalist communications having nothing to do with any pending investigation and, if investigators ... access them, we have zero faith that they will respect journalist-source confidentiality"

This sounds like a bunch of folks wanting to talk about a means to end ("decarbonization") without mentioning the end (curbing climate change). These are not interchangeable concepts *and* they're also not separable. (And imo depoliticization is a sympathetic goal but almost certainly unattainable)

My dad's SC accent is so thick that once, on a trip to PA, a hotel clerk asked if he was British. My accent was always slight and after 12 years in NYC I have to consciously relax back into it. This story made me genuinely sad - I think about this all the time. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

NEW: I obtained internal emails from the Department of Energy's climate working group. They show the group plotting to produce a second misleading climate report, DOE officials avoiding public disclosure laws, DOE peer reviewers stating they weren't qualified: www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

Great details in this @scottpwaldman.bsky.social story on climate contrarians considered for the NCA. One of interest: some (still unnamed) reviewers of the DOE climate report said they did not have enough time to review or lacked "technical depth" of subject knowledge www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

Post and Courier (my hometown paper) launches its 3rd donor-sponsored reporting lab focused on arts & culture (the others cover education and climate impacts). It does my heart so much good to see this model for local reporting successfully implemented 3x now ❤️ www.postandcourier.com/features/pos...

Ending the weekend with a lil prog-metal in Times Square 💅 Fun singing in this year’s Prototype Festival

As a reminder, the White House announced plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (in Colorado) last month. Some Colorado lawmakers suggested the move was retaliation over Polis' refusal to release Tina Peters.