War ravaged Portland

(AP) — The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, three people familiar with the matter said Friday. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/fbi-...

Thousands of laid-off federal workers in DMV struggle to get enough food, report shows wjla.com/news/local/s...

RETRACTION: A paper that touted the potential weight-loss properties of apple cider vinegar in people with overweight and obesity was pulled by its publisher

Mothers regularly shoulder the "blame" for having a child with autism. So when autistic moms watched Trump insist — despite little scientific evidence — that Tylenol use during pregnancy causes autism, it felt like a return to a dark era. #disability #autism www.statnews.com/2025/09/25/a...

I don't cover prison systems or NY state but I find it interesting that months after corrections officers in NY ended their strike, there are still National Guard working in some prisons in NY. It's barely been talked about in months nysfocus.com/2025/07/22/n...

12 states have passed anti-DEI laws targeting higher ed in 2025 so far. These attacks are often paired w/ efforts to weaken unions "Protecting unions & advancing equity are inseparable—& both are vital for strong schools & a thriving democracy," says EPI's Adewale Maye: www.epi.org/blog/anti-eq...

Great reporting as always from Julia

I chose a really bad time to remodel the guest bathroom.

the weather in the mid atlantic today feels like someone took a 20 minute shower in a windowless bathroom and forgot to turn on the exhaust fan

Karolina spent years idolizing raw vegan influencers on Instagram. She went to Bali to meet them — and never came home. My deep dive on fruitarianism — a group of wellness influencers who exclusively eat raw fruit — is up on @nymag.com @thecut.com today. www.thecut.com/article/karo...

feeling this again today

I went to a Chappell Roan concert in NYC this week -- she's the definition of an inclusive artist. I never heard a singer thank sign language interpreters, but she did. Her concert was a space for every body, was kind & welcoming. The crowd reflected that energy too

This is really great reporting from Mother Jones - the "godfather" of evidence-based medicine disavows the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine for misusing his work. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A group wearing MAGA hats and carrying signs that read "DEI should be illegal" and "deport all illegals now" appeared Tuesday on the campus of Tennessee State University, a historically Black college in Nashville. They were escorted off campus. www.tennessean.com/story/news/e...

all credible doctors have left the chat.

New: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

Last week, Israel targeted and massacred 34 newspaper reporters in Yemen. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, it was the second deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded.

I read them every day. Boring gets the job done.

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"If you stand for nothing, what'll you fall for"

“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.” That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.

The new report "concludes that the original endangerment finding was accurate and 'has stood the test of time.' It says that there is now even stronger evidence that rising greenhouse gas levels can threaten public health and well-being, and that new risks have been uncovered."

Canceling my Hulu subscription. I may actually have to purchase Bob's Burgers so I can continue watching every episode on repeat.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

We're watching free speech get stripped away in real time and no one in power seems to be standing up for it.

dating apps should just make men list their top 5 podcasts

Higher education has been under attack for quite some time but I still can't believe it's gotten to this level with minimal push back

Jerry of Ben & Jerry's quits, says Unilever curtailed brand's social activism

My stars, this man was as talented, kind, & brilliant as he was beautiful. Truly. just wow.

Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...

NEW: Two men were found hanging from trees in Mississippi on Tuesday—a Black student at Delta State University in Cleveland and a homeless white man in Vicksburg. Police say the deaths aren't connected, but speculation has spread on social media like wildfire.

I have a friend who just moved here from Europe for a 2 year reporting stint. What will reporters and newsrooms do? This doesn't seem like a great way to have the best journalism

NEW: "I loved him." Bob Woodward remembers Robert Redford www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/b...

I know it's not his most famous or beloved role, but I loved Robert Redford's Great Gatsby. It broke my heart more than the Leonardo version www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

Statement from @postguild.bsky.social on the firing of Karen Attiah:

And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section. Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

I wrote about Cover-Up, a portrait of the legendary investigative journalist who broke the stories about Abu Ghraib and the My Lai massacre, and the toll that decades of digging in the country's darkest secrets takes on your soul.

Write letters to incarcerated D.C. residents, unite with members of the city's queer community, brush up on your rights as a tenant, and more opportunities to get engaged in the city this week.

Musk, who has funded lawsuits against companies for terminating employees based on what they've said on social media, is tagging the CEO of Microsoft on X to complain about what some of his employees are saying on social media.

Here's to hoping the House of Lords gives the Assisted Dying Bill the scrutiny, safeguarding, & open debate it failed to get in the Commons. Lives -- of disabled and ill people, already under attack in this country -- are quite literally at stake. Lucy Webster for @theguardian.com ⬇️

At least seven historically Black colleges and universities across the South received threats Thursday that caused lockdowns and closures. via @wwno.org

feels like the price of coffee goes up every time I turn around, and the coffee shops I frequent are small businesses. They can't afford to eat the cost of tariffs the way Starbucks or Peets can

governor abbott wants to ban all DEI policies, but also wants companies to commit to hiring more disabled workers. Disability hiring initiatives do not exist without the principles of DEI. gov.texas.gov/news/post/go...

We now have GOP lawmakers saying they are going to use their Congressional authority to ban anyone who "belittled" Charlie Kirk's assassination from social media for life.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

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