Great conversation with @sarayasin.bsky.social, editor in chief of The Key, about leaving the LA Times/legacy media and exploring the difficult dynamic of changing an institution from within. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Billionaires are propping up right-wing media mouthpieces with no real organic audience. Bezos bankrolled an (embarrassing) new Post opinion desk, Ellison shelled out for Bari Weiss, and is looking to again with Katie Miller. It’s obvious why. My latest @status.news www.status.news/p/katie-mill...

LA news outlets have done a really poor job covering Pratt’s mayoral campaign and history of junk claims. Here’s TMZ breaking the news that Pratt has actually been living in a Bel Air hotel and not the trailer as he claimed in the viral ad www.tmz.com/2026/05/13/s...

I had the honor of being in conversation with with my great friend, the scholar Tareq Baconi, about HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY everythingispolitical.com/readings/mol...

Issue 005 of The Key is here! Today we have the honor of publishing Husam Maarouf's profile of Omar Hamad and the newly-opened Phoenix Library in Gaza www.thekeymagazine.com/p/phoenix-li...

In the latest edition of The Key, Fariha Róisín examines the viral phenomenon of Zionists who participate in wellness culture while also justifying genocide against Palestinians. That dissonance, she says, is made possible by the idea of “spiritual bypass" www.thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-wel...

New on THE KEY, a piece by Amu Gib, a 30-year-old British activist who has been imprisoned for the last nine months under counterterrorism laws—and is now running for office in the upcoming council elections.

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The following piece was written by Amu Gib, a 30-year-old British activist who has been imprisoned for the last nine months under counterterrorism laws. Amu and four others allegedly broke into a British military airbase in June 2025. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/amu-gib-pa...

"I want to be part of the government in the way a sledgehammer wants to be part of the prison wall: briefly, and with maximum impact." Amu Gib, a pro-Palestine activist in the UK, writes for The Key about their decision to run for office from behind bars www.thekeymagazine.com/p/amu-gib-pa...

In honor of Palestinian Prisoners Day please take a moment with this incredible photo essay by Maen Hammad from the crucial new publication The Key, edited by @sarayasin.bsky.social

Issue 004 of The Key is dedicated to Palestinian Prisoners' Day:

I am proud to publish this essay by Huda Fakhreddine about her family's home in southern Lebanon; first destroyed by Israeli rockets in 2024 and now under threat again in light of Israel's full-scale attack on her homeland www.thekeymagazine.com/p/huda-fakhr...

For April & May's Bookshelf we have @mollycrabapple.bsky.social's HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY - an epic history of the Jewish movement that refused Zionism's pressure to colonise and subjugate another people. Subscribe now at www.palfest.org/bookshelf and get an original artwork postcard too

This @sarayasin.bsky.social essay launching "The Key" is excellent. This line captures so much. "It just takes far too much effort to make these stories happen." She means the necessary, moral, honest stories, like calling a genocide a genocide. Must-read. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...

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"There are people in the Democratic Party–which I think is a separate thing from the movement, and certainly from my own politics–who, to this day, and it sounds insane, think they can get away with telling you that the Earth is flat and supporting a system that is designed around that logic." —TNC

Ta-Nehisi Coates on what it will take for Democrats to actually shift on Palestine: "It’s like any other issue; they’ll have to be forced." (Please sign up to read the whole thing! It's very illuminating) www.thekeymagazine.com/p/ta-nehisi-...

We’re stunned. In just day 1 of our subscriber drive, we’ve raised $48,884! 🎉 That’s 30 percent of our goal of $160,000 to support the launch of Ravenous. We’re blown away by the love and support we’ve received from YOU.

This is really good and you should support The Key!

We are Ravenous — food media with teeth. Ravenous is worker-owned food and culture media company founded by @francesdoingthings.bsky.social, @aemccarthy.bsky.social, @jayasaxena.com, @shokdiesel.bsky.social, and @thecourtneyesmith.bsky.social.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Tucker Carlson and other right-wing figures vocally criticizing Israel: "These people will turn on you in a second" www.thekeymagazine.com/p/ta-nehisi-...

We don't normally publish on a Tuesday, but this is a special one-off: A big interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates where we cover the aftermath of the 2024 election, the boycott movement, Black and Palestinian experiences in the US and more www.thekeymagazine.com/p/ta-nehisi-...

If you’re in London, come by this Thursday to see me and others talk privacy, check out some art, and have a drink!

[[earnest alert]] THE CITY has been publishing for seven whole years as of this morning. very proud to be one of the originals. journalists working independently on a nonprofit model without a paywall are endangered species these days, so each year we make it, I thank my lucky stars www.thecity.nyc

Hey everyone! The Ta-Nehisi interview will most likely go out on Monday. Still ironing out our publishing flow and hope to be consistent in the future. Sorry about that ♥️

"Open up this huge cage! Open it — blow it up" from The Cage by Nasser Rabah www.thekeymagazine.com/p/poem-nasse...

In Issue 003: - A first look at @mollycrabapple.bsky.social's new book, an epic social history of the Bund - A profile of Haykal, an incredible Palestinian rapper (ft. our first photo shoot) - A Nasser Rabah poem - An extensive Q&A w/ Ta-Nehisi Coates, out tomorrow www.thekeymagazine.com

The White House complained about an unflattering wire photo of Karoline Leavitt, which was subsequently scrubbed from the AFP and Getty Images libraries. The scoop in @status.news www.status.news/p/karoline-l...

“The bettor won a staggering 93% of their five-figure wagers about Iran, even though the events they predicted were unannounced military operations.” www.cnn.com/2026/03/24/p...

If you spot ICE agents at an airport in the coming days, I’m still collecting stories and I want to hear from you. Reach me via Signal at marisakabas.04

The TSA union criticizes the deployment of ICE agents to airports across the U.S. "Our officers, they're not getting paid, and having people that come in that are getting paid just feels like an insult,” says Cameron Cochems, vice president of AFGE TSA Local 1127.

Hind Rajab deserved a film that knew her. I reviewed "The Voice of Hind Rajab", the thriller that made Palestinians the agents of their own death. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/the-voice-...

"In childhood, I made my siblings a tent of pillows and blankets. It would fall on us, and we’d laugh. The tent walked us far, out of the house and the homeland. It fell on us, and we died. Next time, I will make my siblings a homeland that returns them home." www.thekeymagazine.com/p/three-new-...

When I was working on my introductory essay for The Key, I struggled to find words to describe the need to minimize our backgrounds and histories to exist within Western institutions. Here, Khouri gives a name for that experience that so many of us share www.thekeymagazine.com/p/psychoanal...

Here is @mohamhawish.bsky.social with a provocative and thoughtful critique of "The Voice of Hind Rajab" www.thekeymagazine.com/p/the-voice-...

Good morning! The second issue of The Key is live: www.thekeymagazine.com

Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income? Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero. Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit? Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.

Buzzfeed was $165 million in debt three years ago; that’s been slashed by more than 65%, the company said. But CFO Matt Omer said the company is still burdened by legacy commitments. https://cnn.it/4bkoOwj

"This is the image we should not see, not one of us should name." www.thekeymagazine.com/p/two-new-po...

"my own rhythm still holds the tremor of urgency from Gaza" www.thekeymagazine.com/p/the-contra...

NEW MAGAZINE ALERT "When you are in Palestine, you see things exactly as they are." -Sara Yasin @palfest.bsky.social www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...

The US economy lost 92,000 jobs last month, far worse than expected. https://cnn.it/4rNtNg2

"A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible – and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying." www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

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...

I've launched a publication with @palfest.bsky.social called "The Key." I am so excited to share this first issue with you: www.thekeymagazine.com

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As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:

More journalists have been killed in Gaza than in any other conflict in history. The EIC at Reuters, Alessandra Galloni, joins us to reflect on the last two years of covering the war on Gaza. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...