I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox

The open misogyny era is so back

Jeffrey Epstein’s brother Mark sent a tip to the FBI accusing Trump of authorizing his murder: “I have reason to believe he was killed because he was about to name names. I believe Present Trump authorized is murder.“

There is zero reason for a billionaire to own an adversarial news outlet in a kleptocracy. And so billionaires are gutting the media companies they own, reorienting them to better align with the regime, and spending money on bribes rather than journalists www.404media.co/the-washingt...

Oh. He just came out and said it

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

He cannot be clearer. There is no difference to him between bombing random fishermen on boats and shooting Americans protesters in the face

Especially considering all 12 of them are sociopaths

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

"Really hard criminals"

I'm sure it will be a priority, in that WaPo will increase its output of dimwitted right-wing pundits spewing propaganda about "national security, in DC and abroad." They just won't bother to have any journalists doing actual reporting on it.

And there it is

Striking from new Quinnipiac poll: *Voters prefer path to legalization over deportations for most undocs by 59-34. Among independents it's 61-33 *Majority says Trump on immigration is making America less safe Again, there's broad rejection of the whole project, not just ICE tactics (see below)

“A rare misstep”

My time with The Washington Post is up. I was laid off with hundreds of folks I am so honored to call my colleagues. I covered it all at The Post (really), so now I'm looking for my next adventure. ➡️ kbellware [at] gmail dot com Website update coming soon @postguild.bsky.social forever

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades

As a Texas journalist, I cannot say enough how absolutely stupid it is to lay of PATRICK SVITEK during an election year. What idiocy. Also harrowing: An already impossible job market being flooded with the most talented reporters of my generation. God help us all.

So subtle.

journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact

Imagine you and your child getting sent to a concentration camp in a place called Surprise

After a lengthy appeals process and productive discussion with the Blue Sky safety team I will no loinger be sending George Thorogood lyrics to beautiful women on here via DM. Thank you all

I was laid off from the Washington Post today, along with hundreds (!!!) of incredible colleagues. If you need a data journalist, chart designer, or wacky-idea-specialist, give me a shout!

Unbelievable

"The Washington Post could have been the moral center of the news industry in this era, as it was during the 1970s. It had the reporters, editors, editorial writers, columnists, researchers, lawyers and legacy. But it didn’t have the owner." newrepublic.com/article/2061...

I've never been a conspiracy theory guy, but you're never gonna convince me that there hasn't been a specific cabal of ultra-rich dullards trying to buy, strangle, and bring to heel all of the most important reality-shaping machines since the uptick in power labor had during COVID

This is what Nicolás Maduro did in Venezuela. Nationalize voting, then clamp down on journalists and appoint only partisan judges. Becoming a dictator one step at a time. 🗽

I just got off the phone with Elizabeth's dad...she and her mom were freed tonight! Updated story: sahanjournal.com/education/co...

A Minneapolis City Council committee delayed action Tuesday on renewing liquor licenses for two Minneapolis hotels that have housed federal immigration officers.

Sorry for being nosy but I’m in a pretty quiet airport. a woman sat down next to a much older pilot here in the food court and started very obviously flirting with him but he absolutely cannot stop listing off aviation facts to her regardless of whatever question she asks him

Martinez is recounting her harrowing experience: after being shot by CBP agents, she drove a mile to the safety of an auto shop where she called 911, got treatment at a hospital for 7 bullet wounds, then was immediately taken into custody by federal agents.

Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...

He literally pulled a "you should smile more" IN RESPONSE TO AN EPSTEIN QUESTION.

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

Hundreds of Texas public school students walk out to protest ICE killings

I’m still waiting for an election denier to explain why democrats didn’t cheat in 2016 or 2024 if they did it so easily and without detection in 2020

“Magically” doing a lot of work here

More specifically, he's lying that the SAVE Act is "voter ID." It creates a requirement at the time of *registration* to vote which is deliberately calculated to make traditional voter registration drives impossible. It is not what people usually think of and many states have, ID check at the polls.

So, uh, what is being done now about the whistleblower complaint against Gabbard that’s buried in a safe? Nothing?

How is this real life

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Democrats gonna flip 100 House seats.

is it woke to oppose child sex trafficking

Another eight federal prosecutors have left or announced their intentions to leave the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation.

The extent to which all of this is about one guy's psychological inability to admit he lost a contest will never stop breaking my brain. Perhaps a good lesson is that it's important to teach your kids how to lose—maybe even giving awards just for playing to show that not losing isn't everything.

This is a full on “if I can’t have it, you can’t have it either” madman tantrum

Love a standing room only movie theater. Just butts to nuts at the AMC

And she belongs there but yea

A newborn in Minneapolis hadn’t eaten for a day and a half. ICE agents took her mother when she went to work, trying to make money for diapers. Her 16-year-old and Bri, a local mother of two, saved that baby's life. @chabeli.bsky.social tells their story