A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

Because foreigners are the reason America has an obesity problem? 🤔

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

The president of the United States thinks asylum-seekers come from mental asylums. He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up. How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?

“…taking a different approach.”????? You guys. Come the F on Do better

This is … news?

Tonight marks a milestone for all of us at the PBS News Hour. On this day 50 years ago, we aired our first broadcast. The show had a different name, but the same mission to deliver thoughtful & trustworthy journalism. Half a century later, we're still at it & guided by the same principles & mission.

Such an embarrassment.

This headline encapsulates the debates in newsrooms over how to report on an authoritarian regime without alienating those who aren’t ready to call it that. Q for the @nytimes.com: At what point will you report Trump’s authoritarianism as fact instead of something some people think?

I guess they think only Democrats get these diseases? “More than 130 employees were laid off from the office of the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases…as the country is heading into the winter respiratory virus season…” #CDC #publichealth

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

“…bucking tradition…”?? You guys. No

Hands down @oliverdarcy.bsky.social is the main must read in media reporting www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

This is what happens when you have an administration that guts #foreignaid and ignores #science. Now all we can do is hope and pray that highly #infectious diseases like #ebola don’t land in the U.S. b/c the expertise & resources we had in place to contain it are gone. #usaid #epidemic #congo #who

Thanks to #iMEdD International Journalism Forum for the chance to speak alongside @jeffkahnbioethics @susanferris @TaiwoAdebulu about the impact of the adminstration's cuts to foreign aid and biomedical research. #imeddijf2025 #USAID #globalhealth #publichealth #journalism #foreignaid #media

THANK you, @nickkristof.bsky.social for this critical reporting on this administration's cuts to foreign aid: "Trump has broken a lifesaving structure, squandering billions of taxpayer dollars while magnifying waste and inefficiency alike, costing dollars as well as lives." #USAID

The science is perfectly clear. @npr.org It is our responsibility as journalists to report the truth. With this headline you’re serving up one of this administration’s blatant lies as if it’s a credible scientific debate. It’s inaccurate and dangerous.

Signing should be a career ender.

Thank you @sifill.bsky.social for saying exactly how so many in the media feel (and saying it better)

@apnews.com nails the headline. In reporting on the dangers of this administration's fake science we must stick to the facts. And the fact here is that there is no causality between Tylenol and autism.

Thanks to #BostonUniversityCollegeofCommunication & #BostonUniversitySchoolofPublicHealth for hosting me, and for the opportunity to speak with students & faculty about the state of the media and the impact the #USAID cuts. Special thanks to the #PulitzerCenter for making my visit to BU happen!

“HIV should not be politicised. We were close to ending it. I would ask him to restore funding for a future free of HIV.” Patients in Lesotho urge President Trump to reconsider HIV funding. Story by grantee Pascalinah Kabi and Limpho Sello for Public Eye News. bit.ly/4nfeN8m

📽️ WATCH: Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past 20 years studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child. RFK Jr. cut her entire division — yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: https://propub.li/4nhXQua

I watched the 1st meeting day of RFK Jr’s handpicked committee of vaccine advisors. It was utterly depressing. 1/

What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power. This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.

Much of the reporting at issue in Trump's lawsuit comes from "Lucky Loser," the remarkable book by @russbuettner.bsky.social @susannecraignyt.bsky.social. And as it happens, the new paperback edition comes out next week. politics-prose.com/book/9780593... www.amazon.com/Lucky-Loser-...

He must be fired or impeached. Plain and simple.

Using the power of the US government to "go after" our Constitutionally-protected journalists is a flagrant violation of our Constitution and a perversion of the office of President, whether carried out by a Liberal or Conservative.

Damn, he's good, and right.

Why?????

Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.

Sephamandla's story highlights the significance of #USAID funding in combating HIV globally. "I am lucky to have three grandchildren born to HIV-positive mothers who are all HIV-negative." Story by grantee Pascalinah Kabi and Limpho Sello for Africa Brief. bit.ly/4gqsoaA

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"Why would we put at risk laboratories that are working to cure cancers or perfecting artificial limbs or exploring deep space or testing the limits of artificial intelligence?" WHYYY????

In some of the most flood- and drought-prone parts of the U.S., subsidies are keeping farmers on land that is no longer productive. Grantees Molly Parker, Julia Rendelman, & Lylee Gibbs, explain why this happens. Story for @propublica.org & @capitolnewsil.bsky.social. 👉 bit.ly/4plAcyn

Branding failure 101 — is costly, is not accurate and makes us look pointlessly insane www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

A start to…totally discrediting and destroying decades of the evidence-based #science and #medicine informing #publichealth in the U.S.

Agree on all of these points. (As someone who has admired a lot of what Mayor Bowser has done, and who has subscribed to the WaPo forever.)

"Under Secretary #Kennedy’s leadership, #HHS policies are placing the #health of all Americans at risk, regardless of their politics..." thehill.com/policy/healt...

NINE former CDC Directors sounding the alarm on what RFK Jr is doing to America's public health system, saying it "should alarm every American." #CDC #publichealth

A must-read if you care about the global fight against #HIV

White House declares $4.9B in foreign aid unilaterally canceled in end-run around Congress' funding power.

Inside the USAID Fire Sale we see Marco Rubio’s brand of management. Food burned by the ton, contraceptives torched, clinics abandoned, defibrillators sold like junk. This is not oversight it is waste and fraud on a historic scale and it carries Rubio’s name stamped in ashes.

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

A devastating end to sixty years of bipartisan success that saw more children live to see their fifth birthday than through any other U.S. agency.

Thanks for sharing our reporting @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social

It’s hard to overstate how big a deal this is - for the economy (ours and globally), for the rule of law, and for the proper and efficient function of government. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

A pardon. @wutangforchildren.bsky.social