re: jobs, among everything that needs coverage, for people starting their work lives, it feels like an impossible labor market to break into. Impossible for everyone, but with less work experience or start of work shaped by the start of the pandemic, there's a LOT impacting young workers right now.

Thank you so much to @claywallace.bsky.social for having me on to talk about two last-second anti-trans bills in Kentucky! #kyga26 Check it out:

Larissa, a therapist from D.C., recently spent 12 hours in a jail cell with five other people. There was no running water, since the sink wasn’t working. They were all fed once: a baloney sandwich per person. She was there for her trans patients. They're being hurt by this administration, she said.

Writers with MFAs (or PhDs): The Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University (where I teach!) is hiring a full-time, tenure-track, Associate Programs Director at the Assistant Professor rank. (On campus in Louisville 2-3 days/week.) www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...

Hi Bluesky, we’re hard at work on an illustrated newsletter that brings our contributors’ lived experience journalism to life through art. Join the list to get the first issue in your inbox when it debuts. Link here ➡️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Two veteran journalists made a documentary about Israeli attacks on Gaza hospitals, but the BBC later refused to air it. This week on Reveal, we team up with @kcrw.com to investigate why and what it says about the future of journalism:

Acc to witnesses in southern Lebanon, where Israeli forces have killed dozens, Israeli soldiers disguised in Lebanese military fatigues and used ambulances with signs of Hezbollah's Islamic Health Organization. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The government’s official story would unravel in court — refuted by video surveillance, crime scene photos and witness statements.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Any time there is ballet-related discourse (this time, re: Timothée Chalamet's comments), I want to reshare this piece, which talked to artists fighting to make work conditions better & more equitable: “I think it’s important for [...] audiences to know that dancers are having these conversations.”

i love doing stuff alone!!!!!!!

NEW: One of the most active hubs for sexually explicit AI "deepfakes" is hiding in plain sight. My latest takes a hard look at a 4chan board that's acting as a factory floor for online sexual abuse — where its users have victimized untold numbers of women and girls. openmeasures.io/4chan-ai-dee...

NEW: ICE tackled + arrested Juanita Avila, an Oregon shop owner who is a legal permanent resident and had her green card in her pocket. When she asked through sobs why they didn't believe her, one masked agent replied: “Because they lie all the time.” Video + interview with her and her daughter:

This obviously applies to so much. But the amount of times I've heard "kids are going to go hungry" or "I'm scared my kids are going be hungry" this week is just...almost beyond comprehension.

This obviously applies to so much. But the amount of times I've heard "kids are going to go hungry" or "I'm scared my kids are going be hungry" this week is just...almost beyond comprehension.

AI is destroying the environment, depleting water, causing layoffs, destroying critical thinking, but at least it's also inaccurate.

“Every day felt like a week. Every week felt like a month. Every month felt like a year,” said Owen Ramsingh, a former property manager in Columbia, Missouri... “Camp East Montana was 1,000% worse than a prison.” apnews.com/article/suic...

A few hours after NYT reported that the U.S. bombed an elementary school in Iran, killing many children, the White House last night posted this video mixing airstrike footage with Top Gun, Iron Man, Gladiator, Halo, Breaking Bad, Star Wars, John Wick, Superman, Transformers and Dragon Ball Z

Applications for the summer/fall 2026 session of @thenation.com internship are now open! 🔴 $20/hr, 35 hrs/week 🔴 6 months long, starting June 22 🔴 application deadline April 19 thenationfund.org/apply/

Today's jobs report was much weaker than expected. Payroll jobs fell 92k in Feb, and revisions to Dec data show a loss of 17k jobs. Average job growth over the last 3 months now under 6k. Household survey population controls indicate a significant drop in the labor force. #NumbersDay #EconSky

The mother is an asylum seeker. Her 7-year-old is deaf and didn’t have his hearing aids when he was detained.

re: jobs, among everything that needs coverage, for people starting their work lives, it feels like an impossible labor market to break into. Impossible for everyone, but with less work experience or start of work shaped by the start of the pandemic, there's a LOT impacting young workers right now.

1/ Every winter and spring, cedar pollen blankets Central Texas and makes millions of people miserable. For @texashighways.bsky.social, I wrote about why I look forward to it anyway and what it taught me about belonging somewhere. texashighways.com/culture/find...

BREAKING: The U.S. economy lost 92,000 jobs in February, according to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

For @time.com, I wrote a short essay about the first time, years ago, that I went to a ballet alone, where I entered the theater with a cheap, single ticket and emerged with a love of solo outings. I also chatted with people about activities they love to do alone, from hikes to movies to meals out:

i know people on here don't rly care about culture coverage but sharing because I'm proud I did it: reviewed Mitski's new residency at NYC's The Shed @us.theguardian.com seeing her perform for the ninth time in 9 years (!), I feel confident saying that Mitski is in her triumphant era.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Former LA Times managing editor @sarayasin.bsky.social launches The Key, a new publication about Palestine that will be "a home for journalists who have had their stories spiked in mainstream outlets." Her opening essay is worth every second of your time: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...

“My little girl was completely burned,” he said. “There was nothing left of her. We could only identify her from her school bag, which she was still holding. She was completely burned.”

I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...

Okay, I have AWP FOMO.

Tennessee wants to ban undocumented children from access to a free public education, and turn school administrators into immigration informants. The Heritage Foundation wants to take that plan national. Read my latest for @theintercept.com:

After we ran our story about alleged sexual misconduct in Shelby Co, I reached out to all 22 district superintendents who make up the board of KASS, to ask if they are still behind their ED, who was the subject allegations from two graduates. www.lpm.org/investigate/...

Seeing people in the news industry say that articles should be AI-generated is absolutely bonkers and the antithesis of why so many of us became journalists in the first place—because we aspired to the art of reporting AND writing. I will never release AI slop under my byline.

My 11-year-old, reading the news at breakfast: Kids my age have lived through some rough stuff--two Trump administrations, a pandemic, and now a new war. It's a lot.

these laws are a political project by which the state attempts to assume the power to decide sex and gender, power it does not have—and power it will express “incorrectly” because that’s power, too

HAPPY FLYTRAP TUESDAY!! This week, @sesmith.lol writes about the "algorithmic violence" navigated by sex workers across platforms, how it robs SW of their time, creativity, and (most importantly) their money. READ BELOW: www.theflytrapmedia.com/sex-wor/

I had the honor of interviewing @brian-goldstone.bsky.social last year, & still think about points he raised in this conversation often. "If you can drastically limit the magnitude and scope of a crisis, or even deny the existence of a crisis, you can more easily claim that you’re tackling it."

I know I've said this before, but this is hands-down one of the most important books I've ever read (and is beautifully written and reported, too). Get your paperback copy of There Is No Place For Us:

When I have conversation with my deceased mom in my dreams, I wake up filled with wonder and awe: Was it really her talking to me? What did that weird thing she said mean? Why was she carrying a bird? To try to take away the rich mystery that grief can bring is naive and sad.

Lot going on but: A Kentucky prosecutor admitted to not reading the law closely before charging a woman with fetal homicide after an abortion "When we looked at it for the grand jury, we took a more intense look at it, and we realized we were unable to prove it." Only dropped charge post-indictment

*recalls people responding to a post about liking pancakes by asking "what about waffles??"*

“For months there has been speculation and a growing petition for the San Francisco Ballet to cancel their May performances at the Kennedy Center. This weekend, after reporting from the Bold Italic, the SF Ballet Board of Trustees announced that the company will no longer be performing at the venue”

States have started proposing steep reductions in disability services to cope with Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Idaho is the first to suggest scrapping home care altogether — An action with a high human cost. My latest @19thnews.org.

This was one of the most meaningful projects I've worked on recently. Dylan Lopez Contreras, a student at ELLIS Prep academy in the Bronx, was taken by ICE. Here's what he and his classmates want you to know...

“When you see that happen at a neighborhood association, you realize that it’s not just the usual, you know, ‘radical Antifa cells,’” Reilly said, “it’s crossed over into the minds of your SUV driving soccer moms.”

Hello! I am a trans journalist looking to speak with trans kids and parents of trans kids across the US who have been impacted by the clinic closures---please get in touch or share!

A must read www.tpr.org/news/2026-02...

what a terrible time to not have foreign bureaus b/c the billionaire owner of a news org decided to shutter them