Journalism is an optimistic endeavor. By surfacing truths the powerful prefer to keep hidden, we provoke discussion and unlock change. This happened hours after we published an investigation exposing the Trump admin's sweeping retreat on human trafficking www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Top story @theguardian.com right now A sweeping retreat by the Trump admin that legal experts, former officials and anti-trafficking advocates say threatens to undo decades of progress on human trafficking and sexual exploitation. w/Bernice Yeung & Noy Thrupkaew www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

President Trump's deployment of the National Guard to LA and DC is prompting “shame and alarm” among active duty troops and veterans and driving a “wedge between citizens and the military," according to an internal assessment obtained by the Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Follow-up story: Veterans who helped America's Afghan allies find refuge in the United States say they are outraged that a fellow veteran and advocate now faces federal conspiracy charges for his role in a protest against ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A war veteran attended a protest in June. He was arrested in July and now faces a federal charge for conspiracy, which carries a maximum penalty of 6 years and a $250,000 fine. Reporting here by @aglantz.bsky.social:

An Army veteran, known in his community for the work he did trying to get people to safety after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, was arrested for his protests against ICE. The charge is alarming. Latest by @aglantz.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New from me: A month after he participated in a protest against ICE, the FBI came to the door of Afghanistan War veteran Bajun Mavalwalla II and arrested him for "conspiracy." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Latest by @aglantz.bsky.social. Sexual assault is a huge problem for women in the military. Under new rules proposed by the administration, veterans won't be able to get abortions at the VA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

My latest is the top story @theguardian.com right now Sexual assault remains endemic in the military. About 1 in 3 women respond “yes” when asked by their VA provider if they had been forced to endure sexual activity against their will while in uniform. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This weekend I ran the Santa Rosa Marathon. My 8th. ... Completing a marathon has become an annual ritual for me -- a reminder that one does not needed to be the fastest runner. Put one foot in front of the other and, eventually: mission accomplished

Filed three FOIA requests with the Department of Veterans Affairs this week seeking vital information on veterans' healthcare and benefits. Let's see how long they take! (Your best guesses in the comments, please!)

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), an Army helicopter pilot who lost both of her legs during combat in Iraq, told Military Times, “these views are antiquated, flat out wrong and — more dangerously — designed to justify discrimination and mistreatment of women.” www.defensenews.com/news/pentago...

Here's what the VA's own inspector general found: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A day after we published this story the VA's Inspector General reported a 50 increase in "severe occupational staffing shortages" in FY 2025 www.vaoig.gov/reports/nati...

NEW: The Department of Veterans Affairs has lost thousands of healthcare professionals deemed “core” to the system’s ability to function and “without which mission-critical work cannot be completed”, agency records show. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Nearly 100 lawmakers claim the agency’s recent actions put veterans’ healthcare at risk. Department of Veterans Affairs chief says "no one is being discriminated against at VA".

IMPACT: An investigation I published last May has prompted the VA to add risk factors impacting women -- including military sexual trauma, pregnancy and ovarian cysts -- to an AI product that directs suicide prevention outreach

EXCLUSIVE: Doctors at VA hospitals nationwide could refuse to treat unmarried veterans and Democrats under new hospital guidelines imposed following an executive order by Donald Trump. The VA calls the change a "formality" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

If you're going, please find me at the @ire.org conference in New Orleans next week where I'll be leading a resilience workshop with the incomparable Parul Somani!

My latest: A flurry of red, white and blue American flags fluttered across the National Mall on Friday as more than 5,000 military veterans descended on DC to protest against the planned elimination of 80,000 jobs at the @DeptVetAffairs: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I'm in DC to cover the "Unite for Veterans" rally. If you're here and would like to say hello message me!

If you're going, please find me at the @ire.org conference in New Orleans next week where I'll be leading a resilience workshop with the incomparable Parul Somani!

Ja'han Jones of @MSNBC on our exclusive: "It certainly looks like the Trump administration is engaging in academic censorship" www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

EXCLUSIVE: US veterans agency orders scientists not to publish in journals without clearance Of note: The edict came hours after the prestigious @nejm.org published a perspective co-authored by two pulmonologists who work for the VA in Texas www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Exclusive: US veterans agency orders scientists not to publish in journals without clearance

As we head into Memorial Day, I wanted to share this new investigation for @theguardian.com on an agency plunged into crisis. Having lived through the war in Iraq it’s very painful to see so much of the progress we made put at risk www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As we head into Memorial Day, I wanted to share this new investigation for @theguardian.com on an agency plunged into crisis. Having lived through the war in Iraq it’s very painful to see so much of the progress we made put at risk www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rarely has a journalist been more prescient than @davidenrich.bsky.social , whose book, "Murder the Truth," published this month. This masterwork, on the years long effort to overturn Supreme Court precedent, weaponize our speech laws and silence dissent, comes at exactly the right time

WILDFIRE INVESTIGATION: The U.S. Forest Service drafted a plan to minimize damage from a catastrophic wildfire years before Altadena burned. But despite billions of dollars and a rare bipartisan consensus, t he proposed fuel breaks were never built. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Resurfacing this piece published the day after the election. Still true. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

AI Fellow @eedugdale.bsky.social and Hanisha Harjani investigated how the world’s largest dating app company, knew for years about the abusive behaviour on its platforms but chose to keep millions of users unaware. A report for @themarkup.org, @theguardian.com, & @19thnews.org! bit.ly/4b7RCrp

Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, Owned by Match Group, Track Reports of Rape. Why Don't They Warn Users?

WATCH: @eedugdale.bsky.social discuss our 18-month investigation into sexual assault facilitated by Tinder, Hinge OkCupid and the entire suite of Match Group dating apps.

The company behind more than a dozen dating apps, Match Group, has known for years about the abusive users on its platforms, but chooses to leave millions of people in the dark. Produced in partnership with the @pulitzercenter.bsky.social and @themarkup.org and copublished with @us.theguardian.com.

NEW: Your next Hinge or Tinder date could have a history of sexual assault, but the company behind these dating apps isn’t telling you that. What our investigation found, with @pulitzercenter.bsky.social, @us.theguardian.com and @19thnews.org: themarkup.org/investigatio...

The Match Group operates in 190 countries and controls half the global dating market.

Your next Hinge or Tinder date could have a history of sexual assault, but the company behind these dating apps isn’t telling you that. What our investigation found, with @pulitzercenter: themarkup.org/investigatio...

Checking out my review copy ahead of this important event. Join us!

Some last minute tips from me published by @poynterinstitute.bsky.social on how journalists can prepare for the next four years www.poynter.org/commentary/2...

Some last minute tips from me published by @poynterinstitute.bsky.social on how journalists can prepare for the next four years www.poynter.org/commentary/2...

Please join me in donating the the GoFundMe campaign to support fantastic Los Angeles journalist @josiehuang.bsky.social I donated $100. Please give what you can www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...

Please join me in donating the the @gofundme.com campaign to support the fantastic Los Angeles journalist David Rodriguez, who lost everything in the Eaton Fire. I contribued $100. Please give what you can. @laist.com @revealnews.org gofund.me/4e17fcfa

I recently told the staff at @casbsstanford.bsky.social why I chose study #32 for my fellowship. It's where Edward Said wrote Orientalism in 1975. The book I am working on now is a passion project that's been in me for at least a decade, probably two.

In October 1977, Pres. Jimmy Carter signed the Community Reinvestment Act, which forced banks to confront the legacy of redlining. Without this law, banks would be under no obligation to make loans or place branches in poor neighborhoods, or support community development. Rest in peace.

I've just been looking at this letter that Jimmy Carter sent my eldest son, congratulating him on being born. ... We didn't request it, but I was a fellow at the Carter Center at the time. That was the kind of person he was. President Carter understood that these little things really mattered.

CASBS fellows often choose their offices (called studies here) for specific reasons or get inspired once they see lists of their studies' occupants (ghosts) throughout CASBS history It's true; Edward Said occupied study #32 in 1975-76. Current fellow & #32 occupant @aglantz.bsky.social has thoughts

I've been reading the @niemanlab.org Predictions for 2025 and wish more of them responded directly to Trump... 🧵 ...

Now is a time to focus. We're a little more than a month before President Trump takes office. Change will come fast. Where will you put your effort? How will you be pro-active, rather than re-active?

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

My thoughts in @poynterinstitute.bsky.social: "If we don’t take the bait, if we focus on issues that matter and use the tools that journalism provides to surface information in the public interest, we can still hold powerful actors accountable and generate change." www.poynter.org/commentary/2...