The White House will open 13.1m acres of public land to coal mining while providing $625m for coal-fired power plants, the Trump administration has announced.

Today is my first day @theguardian.com! I’m so excited to be joining the audience team for the U.S. edition.

“These deliveries almost certainly violate the Genocide Convention, which Germany is party to. However, as Bartal demonstrates, German authorities have not taken accountability for the shipments nor have they moved to stop them.”

Hegseth actually posted this on X.

Guten Morgen von Berlin! Excited to speak with lots of different people this week for @forward.com. Thanks again to @boellus.bsky.social for sponsoring this reporting trip.

Somebody tried to blow up a news van in Salt Lake City

I never got a chance to publish this, but I made a searchable database of every anti-Jewish law enacted by the Nazi government — from before their national rule in 1930, up until the end in 1945. It's based on the "Catastrophe" exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, who provided the data.

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

Today is my last day @forward.com. I'm headed to Germany on Sunday to report my final story for them, thanks to @boellus.bsky.social, and then I'm starting something new at the end of the month! It's been an honor.

@louiskeene.bsky.social is one of the best voices capturing the fraying and emerging strands of Judaism in the post-10/7 world.

"The reality is that this is just one of countless such accounts on Instagram. Unless Meta changes its enforcement methods I could write one of these every day until I die." Appreciate this coverage from @404media.co:

welcome to the era of Aryan public health. I imagine it will go about as well as Aryan physics, only with a vastly higher death toll

Just casually laying the groundwork for violent repression of the opposition

I'd like to emphasize that you can make a totally above-board donation to support @katiehonan.bsky.social's work at @thecity.nyc right here. All you get in return is great journalism, and a tax deduction. It's up to you whether you itemize any potato chips you include.

A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children.

ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt attacks Mamdani, but gets his facts wrong. Greenblatt claimed Mamdani hasn’t visited a single synagogue, though Mamdani attended forums at B'nai Jeshurun, UJA-Federation + engaged Orthodox voters. A spox clarified he meant after primary win forward.com/news/763210/...

New reporting from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social, who got hold of internal standards for chatbot behavior at Meta.

DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man? Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.

"This is what journalism must be now—not merely a mirror, but a moral force that actively resists the erosion of truth and democracy."

I had fun doing an AMA with @ampress.bsky.social, and they wrote this really nice thing about my work! "When news organizations talk about measuring impact, change in conversation is not a metric that often comes up. How can you measure the way your content influences discussions in communities?"

We first reported in June about Return to the Land’s hopes of replicating its whites-only settlements across the country, with the stated aim of “trying to put land back under the control of Europeans.”

Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin said Thursday that ‘Return to the Land’, which bars non-whites and Jews from membership in its northern Arkansas living community, doesn’t violate state or federal law.

WITH AUDIO ⬇️ At the Hampton Synagogue this morning, Andrew Cuomo blames Zohran Mamdani’s young, Jewish and pro-Palestinian voters for his primary loss. forward.com/fast-forward...

In @theintercept.com, Debbie Nathan reports on ICE lawyers refusing to give their names in court - and immigration judges going along with it. theintercept.com/2025/07/15/i...

Two striking DC33 workers, one of whom is pregnant, were the victims of a hit-and-run last week when a drunk driver drove into their picket line. Tyree Ford, a sanitation worker and father of four, sustained serious injuries and is still in critical condition. www.gofundme.com/f/tyree-ford...

The Center for Cooperative Media did the first-ever study on journalist pay in New Jersey and found a "workforce under significant financial strain, with compensation levels that often fail to align with the state’s high cost of living."

Medicaid is the primary insurance provider for nearly two-thirds of U.S. nursing home residents, and Jewish organizations that serve seniors and Holocaust survivors are set to be impacted by the passage of Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” and its cuts to healthcare spending.

Honored to have won my first-ever Rockower Award (and first place!) from the American Jewish Press Association for this story I wrote last year about the rise of Alternative für Deutschland. Stay tuned for more later this year! forward.com/culture/6673...

Immigration agents arrested Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller and mayoral candidate, in immigration court on Tuesday after Lander sought to protect an undocumented immigrant from the Trump administration’s practice of courthouse arrests.

Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

Here's what I wrote in August before the election. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

NEW: Richard Iott, a former Ohio congressional candidate with a history of dressing up as Nazis, donated a total of $900 in ten monthly installments since last year to the Winsome PAC, which supports Virginia lieutenant governor Winsome Earle-Sears, @jacobkornbluh.bsky.social reports.

Revenue AMA: How The Forward grows audience across generations www.eventbrite.com/e/revenue-am... with @jacobhwasserman.bsky.social !

We don't have secret police in America. At least we're not supposed to.

Friedrich Merz is attributing rising antisemitism to migrants in Germany, with 67% of cases in his cited data from the Federal Association of Departments for Research and Information on Antisemitism being "antisemitism related to Israel."

BREAKING: President Donald Trump signed Wednesday evening a modified version of his first term’s controversial Muslim travel ban executive order following the recent firebombing attack in Boulder, Colorado, which injured a dozen Jewish marchers.

NEW: Trump plans to revive the Muslim travel ban with targeted changes after the Boulder attack, White House staff secretary Will Scharf told Jewish leaders. more details ⬇️ forward.com/fast-forward...

I have been trying to make more social videos for @forward.com and this one struck me as a really moving story of how the death of one community could fuel the birth of another. Check it out and read the full story too because it captured so much more than I could fit into 2 minutes 👇

this is why local news in so many of its forms is so important. people in media who serve a community, not a national audience, who can build up decades of credibility. it's not just that he's speaking up but that there's a possibility people might listen. this is what's lost when you gut local news

A man attacked and burned a number of people in Boulder, Colorado who were at a rally calling for the release of hostages in Gaza, according to police and a statement from the local Jewish community.

Please man I just need one more reliable NJ pollster to release a Democratic gubernatorial primary survey result before early voting ends PLEASE

Took my dog to a pet psychic today and they told us that he is an extremist

kind of obsessed with 2025 pride merch...I'm calling it cowardcore.

Come be my new boss!

Big fan of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s “MerlinID” mobile app. I just went on a walk using it to follow bird sounds and it was fascinating to hear how many types of birds are in my neighborhood

"These days I can't nurse without thinking about Gaza, whether I want to or not." many thanks to the parents who spoke with me for my latest @forward.com forward.com/opinion/7239...

"The Department of Health and Human Services has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract with the company to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics, including the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus"

The definition of antisemitism that governments rely on may seem like a semantic debate, but the recent flurry of state legislation shows its impact on how crime data is tracked, which incidents at public universities lead to discipline, and what is considered acceptable speech in the classroom.

Sh’koyach to our engagement editor!