Serious scholars have examined what happens when we change the number of H1-B visas issued. Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially. Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.

Readers in Missouri! Your Right to Read Coalition is looking for members! They're working to keep libraries open & protect them from outside interference in their vital work. Both individuals & organizations can join. ncjwstl.org/right-to-rea...

Wow. After being fired from @washingtonpost.com, my Substack, The Golden Hour, has been #1 rising bestseller in Culture for three days. Thank you all for the support!! Please subscribe! substack.com/@karenattiah...

I keep reading think pieces on the current state of affairs and I don’t think anyone needs two thousand words to understand what’s happening right now. It’s essentially just the Jenga problem. Jenga relies on everyone wanting the tower to stay upright, to not make it fall. Now play with a toddler.

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

They still haven't consolidated full authoritarianism yet; they can still lose

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I'm supposed to try to bring her back into work next week. Send help and an ambulance on standby.

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

This has been a very hard month so far, in every way. From losing my cat, to dayjob, to writing, to health stuff, and all against the backdrop of *gestures wildly at the world around*. It's been a lot a lot a lot. Shoutout to everyone else for whom it's a lot, on top of a lot, on top of a lot.

Wow this is a REALLY interesting messaging thread! Read it if you want to have impactful conversations with the low propensity low information voters in your life.

Doomscroll break!

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“Extraordinary” is barely adequate to describe this story. Kudos to @chrisgeidner.bsky.social for keeping track of this seeming abuse of power

If you're looking for a positive governmental effort to engage with, here's a good one: 19thnews.org/2025/09/lgbt...

BREAKING: A court ruled that the federal government can't pick and choose among viewpoints when deciding who gets a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. We took the Trump administration to court to fight artistic censorship — and won.

My law firm is handling a proposed class action lawsuit against this company for allegedly using people's identities to sell subscriptions w/o consent. salahilaw.com/is-academia-.... This revision appears to be an end-run around the litigation process and we are looking into it. Thanks for flagging.

Your name, voice, signature and photo IN ANY MANNER. That is BONKERS.

Before the media blames Democrats for a shutdown, remember: we want to fund the government, but won’t vote for a bill that rips healthcare from millions.  Republicans could have negotiated—yet they chose to cut us off, just like the millions they’re cutting off from care.

Look. I'm not mad you bought a Kimmel picture book. But marginalized creators are getting banned and death threats and harassed all the time. It'd be neat to show them that wallet solidarity.

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Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.

I sort of guessed the answer when I asked which Kirk legacy would be honored — debating your opponent, or using state power to shut down the left. But it happened very quickly. www.semafor.com/article/09/1...

If you're on a job search subreddits things are very very bad there. People are desperate and panicked in a way I've never seen before.

There are so many posts on the federal employees subreddits from folks who haven’t been able to find a job. It is going to be really really bad

My most expensive child was having fun in the rain tonight.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

RFK Jr. ordered staff to rubber stamp immunization policies regardless of evidence. Make no mistake: Americans will die needlessly if this is how RFK runs HHS. He must resign.

Announcing my new think tank

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I wish sometimes you could just tell people outside book world that you were forged in the depths of YA Twitter and they would get it. Because that was a time and nothing will really rise to the same level of that.

In a shocking turn of events, threads had actual actionable recommendations for where this bookstore could turn for legal advice and bluesky mostly had snark. Not how I expected that to go 😅

I see people comparing this to 30s Germany and yes, of course. But we see this playbook across all sorts of authoritarian governments, current and historical, and in our own history. Fugitive Slave Acts of 19th century, Lavender Scare, McCarthyism all come to mind.

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

Hi friends! An 🏳️‍🌈 owned indie bookstore was targeted with enormous amounts of hate, including explicit direct threats of violence, and review-bombing of their store in the wake of Last Week. They're seeking legal advice at this time. Any recs?

The note referred to undocumented people as vermin.

All the people being fired for telling the truth about Charlie Kirk—many of them women—in the aftermath of his death demonstrates that his legacy was never one about universal free speech. It was only ever about about straight, white, conservative Christian men spouting bigotry without consequence.

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

oh what's that? a goodreads giveaway of my next YA?

I'm pretty fucking terrified, every single day, but i know putting in the work where i can, spreading the word as i can, and aiming for compassion are the only things i can do to even maybe try to make things better. And if enough of us do that, together, scared or no, shit can meaningfully change.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Looking for recommendations of single player tabletop rpg games! Journaling type/pen & paper with dice, cards etc only. Example: Waffles for Esther or Artefact.

Love when my fake progressive senator @fetterman.senate.gov goes full fascist on main 🫠🫠🫠 do Pennsylvania a favor and shut the fuck up, Senator. You are the biggest embarrassment to the state since Santorum.

One thing that I think some not-youngs forget (and is different from 20 years ago) is that Kirk used his ‘debates’ to generate video that could go viral and, to use an old phrase, catapult the propaganda. His debates weren’t in any way, shape, or form educational.

An MSNBC host lost his job for saying, accurately, that violent speech leads to violent actions. But a Fox News host said that unhoused people should be killed by "involuntary lethal injection" and he still has a job.