Sonia Weiser

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.”

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

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:

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 @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“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.

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Manhattan Hospital Ends Medical Treatment for Transgender Youth NYU Langone Health cited the “current regulatory environment” in its decision to discontinue its gender medicine program for minors.

Breaking News: Facing threats of losing federal funding, a major Manhattan hospital has closed its program for treating transgender youth.

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.

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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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.

exactly.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 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.

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.

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

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.

Just say Neil Gaiman, this is taking forever.

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

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.

My first remarks since being arrested last night.

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.

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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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.

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.

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

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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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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.