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Susan Campbell Beachy

@susancb.bsky.social
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Researcher, reader, connoisseur of dumb jokes

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michael h keller @mhkeller.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Our latest investigation: How giant trucks and SUVs are far deadlier for pedestrians. “Before the driver knows what’s happened, the pedestrian’s head is under the wheel.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)
The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Adjusted for inflation, hourly wages are up 3% since the end of 2019 while profits are up 50% www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
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The Record Divide Between Corporate Profits and Worker Pay
Labor’s share of economic output just hit an all-time low, while the profit share neared a record. It helps explain why consumers feel so glum.
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
He likes writing his son Satchel’s name in wet cement, something he couldn’t really do in Texas, there not being as many sidewalks there. gothamist.com/arts-enterta...
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
If the headline "Nudist Camp for Sale" doesn't get you to click, what will? Quite the tale from @rondakaysen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/r...
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Nudist Camp for Sale: The Rise and Fall of the Florida Naturist Park
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Who doesn't love a tiny New York? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/n...
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TikTok Loves the New York City He Built Out of Balsa Wood
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Asher Perlman @asherperlman.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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Jennie Coughlin @jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
More than 70K new homes could be built within a half mile of stops along the train line over the next decade, if some land-use changes are approved by city officials, according to an analysis released today by the New York Building Congress, a trade group for construction and real estate companies.
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A New Rail Line May Come to New York. Will a Housing Boom Follow?
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
This remains an excellent campaign promise
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
No alternative facts on the Alex Trebek stage www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...
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Opinion | Ken Jennings: Trivia and ‘Jeopardy!’ Could Save Our Republic
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Mike Forsythe 傅才德 @pekingmikenyt.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
“The event was unlike anything in recent American history — not a campaign fund-raiser but a gathering arranged by the president’s business partners to directly enrich the first family.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
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Hundreds Join Trump at ‘Exclusive’ Dinner, With Dreams of Crypto Fortunes in Mind
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Times staffers could roll out of bed and be at the office www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/n...
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A Times Square Office Tower Will Be Converted Into Apartments
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/05/2025
Congestion pricing was designed to finance more than $15 billion in critical transit upgrades in New York City. Those investments will take years. But the parallel changes at street level are already apparent. Here’s what we know so far. nyti.ms/4mbuGg0
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
That's a NOPE from me www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/b...
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Chatting in Movie Theaters Is a No-No. But What About Chatbots? (Gift Article)
Blumhouse, the horror movie studio, has teamed up with Meta on a chatbot that encourages people to use their phones while watching a movie.
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Come for the skyscraper, stay for the fatberg www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/n...
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Want to Try Driving a City Bus, Hauling Trash or Building a Skyscraper? (Gift Article)
A new exhibit at the New York Hall of Science celebrates cities by letting visitors get hands-on with urban infrastructure.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This kind of story is why we need the NYTimes and other institutions like it. Multiple bylines, weeks of work, deep research, important sourcing based on relationships earned over long periods, and, of course, the institutional strength and money to resist any retaliation for it.
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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” 
Subheader:
“In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
The administration is substantially scaling back the State Dept's annual reports on international human rights to remove longstanding critiques of abuses such as harsh prison conditions, government corruption and restrictions on participation in the political process www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...
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The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights
The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.
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Jennie Coughlin @jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Growing up in a Palestinian refugee camp, Mahdawi, 34, saw his best friend killed by an Israeli soldier. Rather than calling for vengeance, since immigrating to the U.S., he has delivered 100+ lectures extolling empathy as key to a resolution in the Middle East. He is a practicing Buddhist, he said.
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A Columbia Activist Sought Middle Ground on Gaza. The U.S. Detained Him. (Gift Article)
Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested at a citizenship interview in Vermont. He had spent a decade trying to understand the conflict that shaped his life, his supporters say.
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Dana Rubinstein @danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
"This is not the homeless problem that New Yorkers are most familiar with," reports @elizashapiro.bsky.social "These are the people who help make New York run, now shut out of the city’s rental market." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/n...
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They Work All Day and Go Home to Shelters (Gift Article)
Thousands of working people in New York City now live in shelters, unable to afford apartments despite holding down jobs that pay them $50,000 or more.
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Sad to hear about the passing of Clem Burke, drummer for Blondie and many others. Gonna listen to this on repeat for a bit youtu.be/TU3-lS_Gryk...
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 04/04/2025
The title of my email newsletter today is "Decimation": buttondown.com/carlzimmer/a...
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Friday's Elk: Decimation
As we head into the third month of the new Trump administration, some of the damage that it is inflicting on American science and medicine is starting to...
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Metropolitan Transportation Authority @mta.info · 02/04/2025
Say hello to a new subway map! 🗺️ Today, the MTA unveiled a new subway diagram that provides riders with essential travel information in an easily readable, bright, and orderly manner.
2025 version of the NYC subway map
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Happy International Fact-Checking Day! Some resources for those who celebrate: www.politifact.com www.factcheck.org www.snopes.com www.newsguardrealitycheck.com toolbox.google.com/factcheck/ex... www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fac... www.nytimes.com/spotlight/fa... reporterslab.org/fact-checking/
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
To economists, the policies threaten to undermine U.S. competitiveness in emerging areas like artificial intelligence, and to leave Americans as a whole poorer, less healthy and less productive in the decades ahead www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...
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Trump Science Funding Cuts May Hurt Economy, Experts Say (Gift Article)
Since World War II, U.S. research funding has led to discoveries that fueled economic gains. Now cutbacks are seen as putting that legacy in jeopardy.
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Dr. Francis Collins, a former director of the N.I.H., said, “If you are taking an F.D.A.-approved drug that is improving the quality or length of your life, there is a 99 percent chance N.I.H. was involved in the pathway to its discovery.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...
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‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the N.I.H., the Crown Jewel of American Science (Gift Article)
Senior scientists at the National Institutes of Health fear that research on conditions like obesity, heart disease and cancer will be undermined by President Trump’s policies.
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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What’s being lost with the DOGE cuts? These fired feds can tell you.
The Washington Post spoke to fired workers who explained their roles — and what the country is losing with the elimination of those jobs.
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Defunded Aid Programs Are Asked by Trump Administration to Prove Their Value, on a Scale of 1 to 5 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/h...
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Defunded Aid Programs Are Asked by Trump Administration to Prove Their Value, on a Scale of 1 to 5 (Gift Article)
A week after terminating thousands of contracts, the administration has sent questionnaires to those programs asking how their work benefits the U.S. national interest.
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Today there isn’t a single state, city or county in the United States where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a median-priced two-bedroom apartment www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/o...
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Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness (Gift Article)
The working homeless are casualties of our prosperity.
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
"As humans, we don't love uncertainty. It's something that we don't tend to tolerate well. And then when we're anxious, it's excruciating." www.axios.com/2025/02/10/t...
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 08/02/2025
“Efforts by Trump officials to control the publication have stalled the release of three studies about bird flu for weeks, as the virus continues spreading through wild birds, poultry farms and cows around the country.” www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...
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Trump officials exerting unprecedented control over CDC scientific journal
"The MMWR has lost its autonomy," one health official told CBS News.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 07/02/2025
USDOT is proposing to prioritize areas with high marriage & birth rates for funding. Our new analysis @urbaninstitute.bsky.social shows this approach would produce a massive redistribution of transportation funding to rich, car-dependent, high white population areas. www.urban.org/urban-wire/d...
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Binyamin Appelbaum @bcappelbaum.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
One thing that was actually better during the McKinley era? You could get pretty much anywhere by railroad.
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Not exactly a feel-good story, but super interesting www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/d...
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Inside the Kitchen of New York City’s Rikers Island (Gift Article)
As New York City’s troubled jail complex tries to improve its food, the people who cook there see a higher mission.
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
At least some DOGE staffers have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset that contains the personal information for millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program wapo.st/3WNMLWj
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Trump preps order to dismantle Education Dept. as DOGE probes data
Closing the agency would require congressional approval, so the new administration hopes to diminish it in the meantime.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
We just published a 3,000 word feature on Elon Musk's incursion into the federal government. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/02/2025
More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a New York Times analysis found. The purges have removed information about vaccines, veterans’ care, hate crimes, scientific research and more.
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Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday
Federal agencies moved to satisfy Trump’s orders to remove topics like diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
The most challenging day in decades for air traffic controllers, safety inspectors and other Federal Aviation Administration employees started with profound questions about a deadly crash the night before — and ended with an email urging them to resign from their jobs www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/u...
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Official Email Urges Federal Workers to Find ‘Higher Productivity’ Jobs (Gift Article)
The message reiterated an offer to take a second job or travel to a “dream destination” and remain on the federal payroll for months. But questions remain about whether that would be legal.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
“I’ve been an infectious disease doctor for 30 years, and I’ve never seen anything that scares me as much as this.” The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True.
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“People Will Die”: The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True.
Organizations that provide vital care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt operations, turn away patients and lay off staff. “I’ve never seen anything that sca...
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Insert that cartoon of a dog wearing a hat, drinking coffee in a burning room thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo...
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Among the federal agencies that are telling nonprofits that funding is on hold are the Department of Veterans Affairs, whose Supportive Services for Veteran Families branch funds shelters for veterans www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/u...
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Nonprofits in New York Are Told Their Contracts ‘Have Been Paused’ (Gift Article)
New York leaders were trying to determine how the state will be affected by a Trump administration order to freeze trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans.
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 28/01/2025
Six million Jews, one of them my grandfather, and millions of others were murdered by Nazis. On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we honor the innocent lives taken and families destroyed. Never again means countering any and all antisemitism and hate taking root. The work is not over.
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
At least it's Dumpling Week www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/d...
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5 Dumpling Recipes in Time for Lunar New Year (Gift Article)
Just in time for Lunar New Year, Cooking’s recipe creators share the ones they love most.
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Trying not to get my hopes up
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rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
guess who got told to do service journalism today www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/t...
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Why You Might Suddenly Be Following Trump on Instagram and Facebook
Many Instagram and Facebook users say they are confused about why they are seeing posts from the president and vice president in their feeds. Here’s what to know.
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
OK, I know who Khaby Lame is. That's gotta count for something, right? www.nytimes.com/article/tikt...
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From the Renegade to the Supreme Court: A Timeline of TikTok’s Rise and Fall (Gift Article)
What started as “the dance app” spawned countless memes, launched lucrative careers and shaped entire industries. Here’s how it got here.
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
On today's MLK Day: We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
They're so crazy, they just might work www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How to Make New York City More Affordable: 40 Big Ideas
As the cost of living dominates politics, dozens of residents offered plans to bring down the price of housing, child care, transportation, cultural life and more.
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rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
NEW: inside Mark Zuckerberg’s six-week sprint to remake Meta for the Trump Era w @sheeraf.bsky.social and @kateconger.com www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/t...
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Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era (Gift Article)
After visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta’s speech policies. He asked a small team to carry out his goals within weeks. The repercussions are jus...
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Susan Campbell Beachy @susancb.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Sadly, it was the right move www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...
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Opinion | As a Climate Scientist, I Knew It Was Time to Leave Los Angeles (Gift Article)
After the Bobcat Fire, L.A. no longer felt safe.
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Washington Post Guild @postguild.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
A statement from the Washington Post Guild on today's unconscionable layoffs.
A statement from The Washington Post Guild: We vehemently condemn The Washington Post’s firing of dozens of valued employees today, just days into the new year and at a time when the company is actively growing.

It is especially disturbing that Post CEO, Will Lewis, has not directly addressed his employees in a whopping 230 days — during which tumult and turnover have driven many of our highest-profile colleagues to other companies and new policies have been implemented with little explanation.

The diligent, talented workers that make The Post every day should not bear the consequences of poor decisions made by Post executives. They deserve better. The Post deserves better. We demand leaders do the right thing: address workers during this time of upheaval and stop punishing hardworking Post employees for the decisions made far above their heads.
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