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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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Sonia Weiser @weischoice.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

which editors are up for philosophical yet fun opining these days?

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Sonia Weiser @weischoice.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I've started experimenting with bolder lip colors. Slowly becoming more confident about not looking like a clown.

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Sonia Weiser @weischoice.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

gorgeous! That lip color is amazing

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Sonia Weiser @weischoice.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

which editor can I beg to let me go report from the Diane Keaton auction in June? I can't imagine any publication that cares about that sort of thing hasn't already assigned someone to it.

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Sonia Weiser @weischoice.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Thanks for boosting! It’s true!

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

Documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY exposing how ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts.

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Sonia Weiser @weischoice.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Boston already had a tea party. Stop coming for our drinks.

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Sonia Weiser @weischoice.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

@petersagal.bsky.social hi Peter, I'm writing a piece for Current about WWDTM and tried emailing WBEZ to connect with you to no avail. What's the best way to get in touch? Thanks

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Sonia Weiser @weischoice.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

What’s a totally non offensive word or phrase you’ve heard recently that made you realize you never use it in your work? For me it’s “writ large.”

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality. Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:

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For ICE to build concentration camps quickly, they're leaning on this Dept. of War program

WEXMAC TITUS helps contractors bypass the traditionally lengthy government contract bidding process

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Mia Valentina Paz Faria
A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas
Detained for 70 days

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by
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Sonia Weiser @weischoice.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

for an upcoming demo I'm doing for the Interviews with Non-Evil People series with a professional storytelling coach about how to turn an article into a "story" for social media content, I need someone to send me an article that they wrote that is very dull and kind of lengthy.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

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Sonia Weiser @weischoice.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

as always, the job resources I create are donation based and available for free for those who need. If you're a journalist trying to leave the industry and you can't afford a subscription, send me an email sonia.weiser@oppsoftheweek. Here's the link to learn more. lesserofevilsjobs.beehiiv.com

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Home | The Lesser of Evils Job Board

editorial jobs outside AI bubble (on a good day)

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Sonia Weiser @weischoice.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I happen to be very good at organizing campaigns and initiatives and such. If you have a good idea for how journalists (and their fans) can support each other right now but don't know how to go about executing it, email me at sdweiser@gmail.com and we can brainstorm together.

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Sonia Weiser @weischoice.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I urge every newsroom and company that requires people come into the office think long and hard right now about just how exclusionary your policy is and whose life you could improve just by offering them work where they're at. Hire based on talent, not location.

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Sonia Weiser @weischoice.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

It sucks that the default for helping laid off journalists has become making fundraisers because none of us have the hiring power or assigning capacity or the jobs for that matter to do anything else.

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I *love* freelancing. I have done the best work of my career as a freelancer. But the idea that several hundred new freelancers, newsletter writers, and worker-owned co-ops is remotely feasible, much less a replacement for The Washington Fucking Post, is insane.

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Sonia Weiser @weischoice.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

not to mention that when you're freelance, many sources trust you less so the "good" stories can't come to fruition, partially because you don't have the time/money to embed yourself in the community, and partially because we've equated legacy publications with accuracy and legitimacy for too long.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD. Just some facts I think bear repeating.

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Silvia Killingsworth @silviakillings.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

For those looking for freelance work in the wake of WaPo layoffs: I'm an editor at large overseeing Ideas & Culture at Bloomberg, including our Books coverage. Find me at skillingswo2@bloomberg.net

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 04/02/2026

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.

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Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.)

But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.

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Night of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Just say Neil Gaiman, this is taking forever.

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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

When I resigned as co-chair of the National Association of Black Journalists convention after their decision to platform Trump, I took a lot of heat for it. I was told “Black journalists are going to expose his racism and save America” Today, the Trump regime is arresting Black journalists.

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Don Lemon @donlemonofficial.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

My first remarks since being arrested last night.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The origin story of our current moment in American fascism is the creation of white fraternities—which exempted a piece of campus from race and gender integration and allowed the most powerful students to bond over their hateful ideologies and group violence.

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Sonia Weiser @weischoice.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

This dude studies bad decisions FOR A LIVING. Like he writes books on why people make bad decisions. Write what you know, I guess.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Marimar Martinez is a hero. She was shot 5 times by ICE. The agent told her to “do something b*tch” before opening fire. He later bragged “5 shots, 7 holes”. DHS tried to smear her reputation but video footage vindicated her. Next week she will testify in Washington about ICE’s brutality.

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Chicago Woman Shot 5 Times By Border Agents Will Testify In Washington Next Week

Marimar Martinez will speak at a federal forum on immigration agents' use of force as she fights to unseal evidence in her now-dropped prosecution.

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Sonia Weiser @weischoice.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Hi Ashley, I applied for this job weeks ago and never heard anything and then I saw they reposted it.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Federal agents blocked a man identifying himself as a doctor from reaching the woman killed by ICE in Minneapolis, video shared with HuffPost shows www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

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Sonia Weiser @weischoice.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

It's up! My latest take on all things.

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Sonia Weiser @weischoice.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I want to start a newsletter where I interview people who were popular in high school. If you were popular in high school, hmu because I certainly was not.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

what else is there to say

Inside CDC, many of us are grieving, not only for colleagues who have left, but for the institution we once believed was resilient enough to withstand political cycles and changes in administration. We are grieving the loss of institutional memory, of mentorship, of the quiet competence that made crises manageable even when resources were thin. We are grieving the realization that dedication alone cannot protect an agency from leaders determined to destroy it.
The prevailing mood at the agency is one of devastation and a growing recognition that there is little we can do to stop the chaos; no rescue is coming. The atmosphere is…

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/12/2025

A coalition of 19 states and DC have filed a lawsuit challenging the Kennedy declaration seeking to ban gender affirming care for trans youth by fiat by creating a federal "standard of care" based on pure pseudoscience. ag.ny.gov/press-releas...

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Attorney General James Leads Lawsuit Challenging Federal Attack on Gender-Affirming Care

NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today led a coalition of 18 other states and the District of Columbia in filing a lawsuit to stop the U.S

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Sonia Weiser @weischoice.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

jesus. "'We need to get better at treating this like a business,” ICE Acting Director Todd M. Lyons said... The administration’s goal, he said, was to deport immigrants as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: 'Like Prime, but with human beings.'"

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Sonia Weiser @weischoice.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

how many POVs can a novel have before it gets annoying?

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Sonia Weiser @weischoice.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Cafes need to sell to-go coffee at “walk ready” temps

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Joseph Cherabie MD MSc (They/He) @jncherabiemd.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The news of HHS potentially pulling funding for any hospital that provides gender affirming care for youth should terrify everyone. This means the govt can decide what care any of us can receive and hold funding hostage for any hospital that doesn’t bend to its will.

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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->

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WIRED @wired.com · 17/12/2025

An online marketplace is selling code modules that simulate the effects of cannabis, ketamine, cocaine, ayahuasca, and alcohol when they are uploaded to ChatGPT. www.wired.com/story/people...

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People Are Paying to Get Their Chatbots High on ‘Drugs’

An online marketplace is selling code modules that simulate the effects of cannabis, ketamine, cocaine, ayahuasca, and alcohol when they are uploaded to ChatGPT.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16/12/2025

MIT professor, Nuno Loureiro was shot and killed in his Brookline home. He was the director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and a professor of nuclear science and engineering and physics. boston.com/news/crime/2...

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MIT professor shot and killed in his Brookline home

An MIT professor was shot and killed in his Brookline home on Monday night.

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