Agree—important reporting on the ethical shortcuts to greenlighting this reprehensible study to sicken babies abroad in an effort to weaken trust in vaccines here. Notable to see Bill Ackman’s foundation turn up as another funder

BREAKING: Judge who allowed FBI to search Washington Post reporter’s home rips into Justice Department for not informing him of the law that explicitly bars raids of reporters

When will I be getting back the $1,000 that Trump tariffs cost US households? www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

There is so much pent up demand for joy and to believe in the future.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

[Don Draper voice] ...yes, the Thin Mint reminds us of a simpler time, but the modern consumer doesn't want to be body shamed by their cookies. Thus, gentlemen, I present to you...

I wrote about how there are no pure platforms or publishers and how there are very few ethical media diets. Which leaves those of us who know we can’t consume ethically but still want to try, left to navigate what feels right, or, at least, less bad. lithub.com/what-do-you-...

Howdy, I am looking to talk with a backcountry skier for a story for @kqedscience.bsky.social & NPR. I am working on a piece about climate change & avalanches. What do you❤️about it? How do you prep? Looking to interview someone today/tomorrow morning DM me/email is [email protected] Thanks!

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

I imagine this is directionally accurate, and that’s a terrible trend. But I continue to be confused by any organization evaluating media trends without incorporating online news sources in 2026. i.e. “131 newspapers, radio, and television outlets.”

when big tech companies say that AI will save the planet, what kinds of AI are they actually talking about — and what's their proof? i took a look at some great new research from @ketanjoshi.co and talked to other experts about how a lot of this talk is probably bullshit:

www.nsf.gov/news/transit... I wish I had a good read on this, but I don’t and neither does anyone else right now. Definitely not good, but not clear how bad and how fast things could change now. Still time to respond to the DCL and say NCAR must stay together. If not for NCAR’s sake, for yours…

It's software. Everybody just take a breath.

In addition to the specific anti-vaccine yikes, a federal regulatory agency jump-scaring a company that just put nearly a billion dollars into a trial seems like it could freak out the entire pharmaceutical industry, no? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...

Salesforce employees are circulating an open letter demanding that CEO Marc Benioff denounce ICE -- hours after he joked at a company event that ICE agents were monitoring international employees:

“You take enabling a president, proximity to the president, and an unease around AI ... and now people are starting to take action with their wallets.”

NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship. Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.

The National Labs are part of the foundation of U.S. science and innovation. They should be strengthened, not gutted.

Can you simmer down over there babe?

Allison makes the hilarious and manifestly correct point here that, hey, maybe a bunch of cities lining the world's most spectacular natural bay should use boats to get around? What about that? www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti...

go out & touch the grass, they said

Newly released files from the investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein reveal that his ties to the scientific community were deeper than previously known. go.nature.com/3Oq4Po2

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Every once in a while I check out the conversations & tone on Twitter through my dog's account (deleted mine), and it's always, always a mistake.

Whatever you think of the Washington Post at this moment, here's a chance to support the dedicated, hard-working journalists who were just laid off. If you have the means, your donation is most welcome. If you don't, a kind thought and maybe spreading the word to others is support enough 💙

They fired a war reporter in the field yesterday.

Need an expert take here, @caseynewton.bsky.social did Google make enough in Q4 to continue as a going concern?

Nothing to see here; just the division that funds (or not) all of us in the environmental sciences, including atmosphere, ocean, ice, Earth, climate, hydrology, whatever.

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...

Shannon is spot on. In the 12 years since I started covering climate, I've seen the beat evolve continuously to meet the moment. My industry colleagues are some of the most curious and nuanced thinkers in media, weaving together stories from often siloed subjects like science, business and politics.

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

can vouch for heather’s editing, writing, and personality. getting to work with her was one of the best things about working at the post and soon it will be one of the best things about working wherever heather lands next.

Terrible day for many amazing, hard-working, intelligent journalists at the Washington Post. I'm still here and trying to figure out how to best support my colleagues who have lost their jobs. If you feel able to share or contribute, please do: www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

@sammyroth.bsky.social reporting that the Post cuts include 14 climate journalists: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

This statement alone is an act of voter intimidation. The point is to suppress minority turnout.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

My grandfather, a journalist, made the same number of dollars for a piece in 1955 that a freelancer might make for a piece today — as if there were no inflation. $300 in 1955 should be $3600+ today, but in 2026 you still make $300.

The hometown newspaper that I read as a teenager through Watergate and Vietnam and made me crave the life of a reporter is now being butchered by a billionaire who had $75 million to bribe and flatter a president and his wife but nothing to save journalism, an bulwark of the republic itself. Got it.

If you ever want to feel like you live in “the ruins of a once great civilization,” then read a local daily paper from the middle of last century — our predecessors had more and better knowledge of their neighbors, their societies, and their local democracies than we do about our own.

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

I usually hesitate to post obituaries but this one, of my literary agent, Georges Borchardt, born in 1928, is so unusual that it deserves to be widely shared. An incredible 20th century life www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/o...

Everything about how we got here is just heartbreakingly, mind-bogglingly, irredeemably, self-servingly stupid. So much incredible work done under trying conditions for low pay by smart people to educate us when we desperately need it, just tossed aside. And for what? www.npr.org/2026/02/04/n...

Horrifying and unnerving. DHS sent an administrative subpoena to Google for this retiree's records and even sent armed agents out to his house for the "offense" of writing the following completely anodyne email to a federal prosecutor using an email address he found via Google.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

We are expecting the EPA to make a decision about its "endangerment finding" for greenhouse gases in the next week or so. While many expect the agency to rescind it, there's a few important questions to look out for about how the move is justified. Here's why. heatmap.news/climate/epa-...

Internal emails show Department of Energy's debunked climate science report was reviewed by scientists internally, who found it "biased," "misleading," and "hypocritical." Contrarian authors tailored their work to ensure it focused on weakening climate regulations. www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

ChatGPT really delivered here:

Is climate change responsible for increasingly frequent or severe cold events? The evidence suggests it is not. Instead, the impact of climate change is warmer winters and less severe cold events. @hausfath.bsky.social has a great post on The Climate Brink talking about this.