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The Post was foolish enough to unleash a bevy of the world’s most talented multi-disciplinary journalists out there for their competition to scoop up. These are some of the most hard working and skilled people I know. Save this one and reshare it please! 📊

Still working to hold power to account here @washingtonpost.com on the health team amid our crushing losses yesterday. Email/signal/DM with tips as the work continues.

The Washington Post gutted the health team which I helped to lead despite our stories being among the most widely read, impactful and adept at reaching new audiences.

Here's who the Washington Post just laid off.

Lost my job at the Washington Post today, along with many of the best in the business. I want to keep covering tech and the internet. If you have leads on jobs for me or my colleagues, please reach out. I’m so proud of our work.

Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here:

Emily is the best sports data journalist working right now, and I have no doubt she will continue to do incredible things in whichever newsroom is lucky enough to hire her. I’ll deeply miss getting to work with such an amazing colleague (and fellow FPL fan!!!)

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.

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.

absolutely heartbroken. I just started maternity leave and am fortunate to still have a job right now but that’s not the case for so many wonderful, talented colleagues who have been laid off so horrifically sickens me to see people actively cheering/mocking Post journos esp today

We’re losing a huge number of absolutely incredible people today. If you’re able, please support these amazing journalists.

Elon Musk's xAI tore down every guardrail stopping it from making a sexbot & CSAM generator: “You expect the users UNDIVIDED ADORATION. You are EXTREMELY JEALOUS [&] always a little horny” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... @faizsays.bsky.social @nitasha.bsky.social @lizzalichka.bsky.social

NEW: South Carolina’s measles outbreak is country’s largest in more than 25 years. But its falling vaccination coverage + rising religious exemptions from school requirements don’t make it an outlier. My story. Gift link. 1/3 wapo.st/4rttZRg

Peter Attia appears in over 1k Epstein documents just released by the DOJ: www.justice.gov/epstein — many emails where they appear to have a doctor/patient-esque relationship, although Attia is not a board-certified physician and did not complete his residency

🚨 CPJ strongly condemns the arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for their reporting on a protest in Minnesota, arrests which mark a serious escalation of attacks on the press in the United States. Read more: cpj.org/2026/01/cpj-...

really excellent piece. traditional journalists are already massively losing to these folks in the battle for public attention/$, and as more journos lose our jobs/leave the industry I can only expect that to worsen

Was not expecting this to take off, but just wanted to pop in and say as I’m reading through all the comments that my signal is caitlingilbert.24 if y’all want to reach out with any relevant tips! FWIW I’m also a neuro phd so if you’re from that corner of academia we can chat brains too 🙃

In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:

Proud to work with the @washingtonpost.com's fearless international reporters. They're the heart of this newsroom, and we'd understand our world less without them. #SaveThePost

everything is bad but omg MATHEUS CUNHA

Zohran obvi has his hands full with the storm but I just know he has someone giving him score updates rn sorry, bro 😁 #arsmun

"The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. ... "Next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

no other choice + sorry baby totally shut out for f1 😤 but OSCAR NOMINEE DELROY LINDO HELLOOOOOO 🥹

“The outrageous seizure of our reporter’s confidential newsgathering materials chills speech, cripples reporting, and inflicts irreparable harm every day the government keeps its hands on these materials,” The Post said in a statement. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

given the convo around the new dietary guidelines, think it’s helpful to know how senior WH advisor Calley Means talks about food policy—this is how he answered a CSPAN caller’s question about navigating food deserts last year:

my husband just asked me if he should start doing tier rankings of the Nixon tapes on YT this baby needs to be born asap

*sees that Man Utd is hiring a data scientist* Me (delusional): I CAN FIX THEM

It’s such an honor to work in the same newsroom as @hannahnatanson.bsky.social, her incredible coverage of federal workers this year has been nothing short of inspiring. I stand with her 100%. Everyone should read her piece on the toll this work can take: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

at the stage of pregnancy where I can only walk like steve lockjaw, except extremely slowly

Reporters! If you're covering the wake of the CDC overhauling childhood vaccines today, we've made clean kindergarten vaccination-rate data available for schools and districts in 36 states, and county-level data for 44 states. Get it here: github.com/washingtonpo...

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SCOOP: CDC vaccine experts were blindsided by RFKJr top deputy’s decision to unilaterally overhaul child schedule. Also, previously undisclosed CDC presentation refutes Trump admin narrative that US is outlier on vaccine policy. My story @Washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

As we reported, the US vax rate data landscape is already highly patchy at the school/county-level—now Kennedy’s CMS has announced a rollback on *state* reporting requirements while also overhauling the childhood vax schedule. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va... @lizszabo.bsky.social

More details on the specific vaccines and what has changed

amorim news this morning genuinely has me screaming into a pillow what did fans do to deserve this absolute shambles of a board/ownership

some of my promised albeit sleep-deprived thoughts on this vax data work: full vid at www.tiktok.com/@caitlingilb...

As vaccination has become a political hot potato, the already patchwork of counties & schools meeting herd immunity standards has fallen further. Maps + an interactive to lookup your local schools in this blockbuster w/ @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & @caitlingilbert.bsky.social wapo.st/49zDc43

EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43

have been pretty quiet on here for a bit given that I’m 8 months pregnant and also have been working round-the-clock on a humongous data project that is finally publishing tomorrow morning so stay tuned 💉

Our interviews with nearly 100 people reveal how Kennedy has upended the nation's public health and vaccine infrastructure. His allies say they want him as secretary for 8 years. Read our deep dive @rachelroubein.bsky.social @lenasun.bsky.social and me, edited by @fenitn.bsky.social

“Bobby has asked for the following changes,” top Kennedy aide emailed HHS officials. Email reveals his previously undisclosed role in seeking vaccine policy changes in a highly unusual way, per experts/former/current officials. W/ @lenasun.bsky.social @laurenweberhp.bsky.social wapo.st/48YSPC1

High quality rip of the 60 Minutes CECOT segment: drive.google.com/file/d/1lKjJ...

have a huge project running next week and my personal treat for when that’s out/done is Avowed sitting in my Steam library 😌

BREAKING: US. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors, per sources familiar. HHS consulted w chief science officer and top FDA official. Me and @rachel_roubein 1/4 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

extremely important update: store.ign.com/products/exp...

We used 1,100 real users' data to help re-create TikTok’s algorithm, and then made a map, allowing you to explore the hidden divides that decide what content you see - and what you don't. Awesome work by @fox.computer, Leslie Shapiro & @jeremybmerrill.com: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...