“It Seems Like Blind American Ignorance”: The New U.S. War on Iraq, by Nir Rosen
In the shadow of its wars in Iran and Lebanon, the U.S. has conducted devastating attacks on the security forces of its Iraqi ally.
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Afghans Search for Missing Family Members After Strike on Rehab Center Kills At Least 400 by Fazelminallah Qazizai and Emran Feroz
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Grieving Parents in Iran Spend Every Night at the Graves of Their Children, Killed by U.S. Strike, by Mahmoud Aslan
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My latest from Baghdad in @dropsitenews.com, with edits from @hedtk.com.
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Iran weighs tactical shift in Persian Gulf strikes while intensifying attacks on Israel
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Israel Assaults Lebanon With Ground Incursions, Relentless Airstrikes, Mass Displacement Orders www.dropsitenews.com/p/lebanon-he...
Mass expulsion in Lebanon as Israel expands war: "We don't know where to go" www.dropsitenews.com/p/lebanon-he...
Syngenta will stop making paraquat, weed killer linked to Parkinson's disease that's been banned in 70 countries www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005.
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The 2024 H1B visa record showing The Washington Post CEO being paid $3 million can be seen here. (There's no similar record for 2025, including under variants of the company name.) h1bdata.info/index.php?em...
“I’m glad Will Lewis has been fired. I wish it had happened before he fired all my friends.” And before he oversaw running the paper’s finances into the ground, while attacking its staff when he was in touch at all
The right wing Cato Institute has released a paper showing that, over 30 years, immigrants to the US created a fiscal surplus of $14.5 trillion, and that without immigrants, US public debt would be twice its current level.
Don't call the Klansman who killed Medgar Evers a racist in Donald Trump's America. mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
there are a few outlets that require owners who see them as a public trust. the post is (was?) one of them, a national institution of accountability and public knowledge. nobody should ever forget what bezos has done, & i truly hope he faces consequences.
cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual
My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.
I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated.
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The Washington Post but it’s ‘The Traitors’
as a journalist, the gutting of wapo makes me anxious; as an american, it makes me terrified
We at the @postguild.bsky.social are raising money for the hundreds of journalists the Post just laid off. This goes to the people who are hurting, not the Post. Or if you'd rather, go subscribe to an independent journalist. Support is hugely appreciated.
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Among the other outrages in today's news from the @washingtonpost.com, management has gutted the Pulitzer-winning climate team, according to @sammyroth.bsky.social. Their work has been so important — one more reason to be heartbroken today. And pissed. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
Terrible day for many amazing, hard-working, intelligent journalists at the Washington Post. I'm still here and trying to figure out how to best support my colleagues who have lost their jobs.
If you feel able to share or contribute, please do:
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Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
EPA’s proposal to repeal the landmark “endangerment finding,” which established a legal basis for most of the agency’s climate actions, has stalled over concerns it’s too weak to survive a court challenge. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
More history exhibits pulled from national parks, including Grand Canyon www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Park Service erases "the dirty business of slavery" in Philadelphia www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Scientists were frustrated by a piece in the Guardian earlier this week that seemed to call into question the science on microplastics in the body.
I wrote about why researchers are certain microplastics are in the human body -- and what we still don't know:
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