No one writes more incisively, accessibly and credibly than Geoffrey about the ways tech companies are serving — or, far more often these days, disserving — everyday consumers than Geoffrey. He’s worth following wherever he goes.

@petridishes.bsky.social is a national treasure, exhibit #394729374 www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Still working to hold power to account here @washingtonpost.com on the health team amid our crushing losses yesterday. Email/signal/DM with tips as the work continues.

We had devastating cuts to @washingtonpost. Our health team of 14 lost 9 reporters yesterday despite it being listed as part of the Post’s new focus. But I still have my job. Along w/a core team, we are still dedicated to covering public health, holding the powerful to account.

Nothing was more Washington Post than Marty Weil starting his night shift by walking around the newsroom saying hello to every single person at their desks

I had the privilege of editing one of the sharpest health policy reporters anywhere. Paige owned coverage of Medicaid cuts and the expiration of enhanced ACA subsidies and brought precision and nuance often missing in coverage. She's relentless about fairness. Hire her!

Our second most read story right now comes from @markjohnpost.bsky.social, a Pulitzer-winning science reporter on our team, who announced he was laid off. Just the latest example of how he found the most fascinating areas of science to unpack beautifully www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

The Washington Post gutted the health team which I helped to lead despite our stories being among the most widely read, impactful and adept at reaching new audiences.

I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons is the first major medical association in the U.S. to narrow its guidance on pediatric gender care amid a crackdown by the Trump administration.

NEW: American Society of Plastic Surgeons has become the first major US medical org to recommend against all youth gender transition surgeries. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

How D.C. taxpayers financed a city contractor's lavish parties, go-karting trips to New Jersey and an alcohol-filled pool party. Even with diminished resources, The Post's local desk delivers hard-hitting accountability coverage you won't find elsewhere. wapo.st/4qWcoRO

A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social

An estimated 16,000 Floridians are set to lose access to free HIV treatment medication or the insurance plans to pay for them. @davidovalle.bsky.social and Drea Cornejo did a great job telling the stories of people whose lives hang in the balance through text and video. Free link: wapo.st/49VO2BK

The caliber and rigor of our international desk is breathtaking. @raelombuor.bsky.social & Katharine Houreld "uncovered an extensive clandestine pipeline stretching from Nairobi to the forests of eastern Ukraine" of Africans conscripted by Russia to fight in Ukraine wapo.st/4qnDnoA

Ours sports section takes us into delightful worlds with some of the best writing anywhere. Case in point: @jessedougherty.bsky.social’s dispatch from the competitive Excel championship www.washingtonpost.com/sports/inter...

South Carolina is now experiencing the nation’s worst measles outbreak since the virus was declared eliminated a quarter century ago. @lenasun.bsky.social and photographer Juan Diego Reyes show what’s happening on the ground wapo.st/4rttZRg

For nearly a century, the @washingtonpost’s foreign correspondents have been on the ground for the world’s most pressing stories. Now, our desk is facing potential steep cuts. Washington needs us. The world needs us. If you read us and need us, please watch this video and share.

At least eight of the 21 people RFK Jr. picked for a key autism panel have been involved with anti-vaccine organizations or questioned vaccine safety, Ariana Eunjung Cha reports www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Weiss tapped the three people RFK Jr. recently named on Katie Miller’s podcast as the best people for lifestyle advice — Mark Hyman, Andrew Huberman and Peter Attia — as CBS contributors

NEW: US formally exits WHO. U.S. officials say nation will remain a global leader in health, but through “existing and new engagements directly with other countries, the private sector, nongovernmental organizations, and faith-based entities.” My story. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel charted a new course for the committee in a podcast released Thursday, suggesting the public might want to reconsider the use of polio vaccines. www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/v...

The Washington Post demanded the feds return devices the government seized from reporter Hannah Natanson's home last week. The extraordinary search “flouts the First Amendment and ignores federal statutory safeguards for journalists.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

And now they’ve back tracked and plan to restore the nearly $2 billion in grants www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

The Trump administration has slashed federal grants that support mental health and addiction care. “We are witnessing the complete dismantling of the recovery infrastructure we have built over time,” the leader of a group that lost funding said. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

The Washington Post Guild is alarmed and appalled by federal law enforcement’s search and seizure of reporter Hannah Natanson’s property and personal devices. Hannah is a valued member of our union whose work covering the federal workforce has been essential (1/3)

Three nutritionists weight in on eating red meat and whole fat dairy products now promoted under revised dietary guidelines www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

EXCLUSIVE: We vetted RFK Jr.'s latest picks for a federal vaccine advisory panel. One explicitly called herself an anti-vaxxer, the other compared vaccine makers to cigarette manufacturers. “My grandchildren will not get any shots if I can help it" @lenasun.bsky.social reports wapo.st/4pFHsEe

Great look here at when you should keep a sick kid home from school since it can be infeasible to do so with every sniffle. From @karinaelwood.bsky.social, @jennaportnoywp.bsky.social & Shikha Subramaniam www.washingtonpost.com/health/inter...

The blue state rebellion against RFK Jr.'s overhaul of vaccine recommendations continues. @jennaportnoywp.bsky.social reports Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is pushing legislation to allow the state to makes its own recommendations www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

What's in the new dietary guidelines crafted by RFK Jr. and the Trump administration, @rachelroubein.bsky.social explains ✅ whole milk ❌ flour tortillas ✅ kimchi ❌ artificial sweetener ✅ butter www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

SCOOP: CDC vaccine experts were blindsided by RFKJr top deputy’s decision to unilaterally overhaul child schedule. Also, previously undisclosed CDC presentation refutes Trump admin narrative that US is outlier on vaccine policy. My story @Washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

The Trump administration says evidence supports giving one HPV vaccine dose instead of two. But in May, the FDA said there's enough evidence to conclude that a single dose provides the same protection against cervical cancer as two doses www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

What science shows about the vaccines that are no longer routinely recommended to children because of Trump and RFK Jr., explained by @lenasun.bsky.social & @paigecunningham.bsky.social

After extensive back-and-forth, @lenasun.bsky.social confirmed the RSV recommendation is not actually changing. Admin now categorizes RSV immunization as for high-risk groups. But otherwise healthy newborns should still get if their moms weren't vaccinated. Which is the existing guidance!

The Trump administration said it was important to change the vaccine schedule to improve public trust, but insisted their answers to questions about the changes should be attributed to anonymous officials. (Kudos to @lenasun.bsky.social who pushed back against this during the press conference)

BREAKING: The U.S. has overhauled the childhood immunization schedule, no longer recommending all children receive annual flu shots, RSV immunizations and other shots. wapo.st/4joGue1

In case you missed it last week when many were still on vacation

This is fantastic journalism about addiction and the toll of unfettered sports betting wapo.st/49lI9w2

The share of counties where 95% or more of kindergartners were vaccinated against measles has dropped from 50% before the pandemic to 28%, according to our analysis of public records from 44 states and the District of Columbia. At least 19,000 schools are now more vulnerable to outbreaks.

You definitely want to look at these maps. Some of this is bleak but expected. Wisconsin? That's a surprise to me.

“The share of US counties where 95% or more of kindergartners were vaccinated against measles—the number doctors say is needed to achieve overall protection for the class, known as ‘herd immunity’— has dropped from 50% before the pandemic to 28%”🛟🧪

In a heroic data journalism effort involving scores of records requests, The Washington Post made it possible to search MMR vaccination rates at individual schools in much of the country. Gift link to look up schools and learn about the post-pandemic plunge in vaccination rates: wapo.st/49zDc43

The Post discovered how RFK Jr. quietly influenced vaccine moves behind the scenes, including by asking for a change to hepatitis B recommendations and for Aaron Siri, an attorney for the anti-vaccine movement, to speak at the CDC. Part of our bigger story examining his tenure wapo.st/48YSPC1

“Bobby has asked for the following changes,” top Kennedy aide emailed HHS officials. Email reveals his previously undisclosed role in seeking vaccine policy changes in a highly unusual way, per experts/former/current officials. W/ @lenasun.bsky.social @laurenweberhp.bsky.social wapo.st/48YSPC1

The Post interviewed almost 100 sources for this comprehensive, revelatory account of how RFK Jr. has disrupted public health in America. It's the capstone to a year of extensive reporting by @rachelroubein.bsky.social, @lenasun.bsky.social & @laurenweberhp.bsky.social. Gift link: wapo.st/48YSPC1

“One day, a woman wrote to me on Signal, asking me not to respond. She lived alone, she messaged, and planned to die that weekend. Before she did, she wanted at least one person to understand: Trump had unraveled the government, and with it, her life.” @hannahnatanson.bsky.social essay:

The Trump administration plan to recommend fewer childhood vaccines to mimic Denmark makes no sense scientifically, a Danish health official said “Public health is not one size fits all. It’s population specific and dynamic. Denmark and the U.S. are two very different countries.” wapo.st/4aXfzn5

Important point here. Talk to your doctor about vaccines sounds reasonable, but doctors often refer back to the CDC.

BREAKING: The U.S. is preparing to stop recommending most childhood vaccines and defer to doctors instead. The plan, which is not finalized, marks a fundamental shift in the U.S. vaccine strategy, @lenasun.bsky.social & @rachelroubein.bsky.social report. Gift link: wapo.st/4aXfzn5