Paige McGlauflin

tonight we got our first trick or treaters since moving to seattle (5 years) 🥲

CBS News fired 8 on-air personalities in latest layoffs. All of them are women EXCLUSIVE: Multiple sources told The Independent that senior foreign correspondent Debora Patta was added to the layoff list following a last-minute change by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.

"...a male correspondent was initially included on the layoff list but was removed after he appealed directly to the new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, leading to another female correspondent being added to the list at the last minute."

Screenshot of lefthand Gmail menu, with "More" at the bottom adjacent to a down arrow

Screenshot of options revealed under "More" including Manage Subscriptions

PSA: There's a relatively new and super useful Gmail feature: a "Manage Subscriptions" tab in the lefthand menu under
More. It instantly shows you all the email lists you're subscribed to, including spam, and allows you to unsubscribe from most with the click of a button

How Verizon handles more than 1 million job applications annually—and plans to use AI to streamline the process Addressing job seekers’ grievances about AI in hiring is also top of mind.

Today I learned Verizon hires 20k people each year and gets more than 1 million applications. @paigemcglauflin.bsky.social has a fascinating story with VZ's global head of talent acquisition, culture and community, Spring Lacy, about how the company uses tech & AI.

www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...

Tweet from Adrian Bott @Cavalorn 'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

this tweet turns 10 today 🎂🥳

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto.
ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

The documentary "Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink," about how Hedge fund Alden Global Capital is gobbling up newspapers across America and gutting them, is available to watch on PBS.

WIC runs out this week

They are called writers

Apologies for not adding alt text to all these photos. My cat is screaming her head off and if I don't let her outside right this instance, where I have to accompany her, I might die.

Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵

Just spoke to someone who drove an hour and a half to another state to get the Covid vaccine, which he had to pay over 200 for. People should not have to do that.

Spike Lee fanboying out over meeting Pete Townshend is oddly charming.

Do your mental health a favor and turn this on for today. You really don't want to watch this. It is awful.

just got the new covid vax. it was, ironically, probably the most uneventful instance i'd experienced getting that vaccine.

i got the shot with 3 minutes of showing up to the pharmacy. i didn't have to answer questions/fill out paperwork beyond the questionnaire when booking the appointment

as a reporter i'm well aware of the problem of headlines being too clickbait-y or not accurately matching the article.

maybe we should focus on that for the criticisms, instead of doing things like, oh, making fun of the essay author's appearance/masculinity as a "gotcha"

i am linking to the essay bc it seems many are critiquing it without having read it.

the essay criticizes the buzzwords named in the headline, noting they're continuations of a decades-long trend conflating latte drinking with liberalism/emasculation.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

In a bold change from senate norms, Chancellor Palpatine has declared himself "Galactic Emperor"

good morning to all the other folks in queen anne seattle who lost power at 6:15am

It would be hard to make this week's Midtown Manhattan shooting any more devastating. But Fortune found a way. Among the four murder victims in Monday's rampage was Wesley LePatner, a top real estate executive at Blackstone Inc. and a forty-three-year-old mother of two. On Tuesday, Fortune ran a bizarre, disrespectful, and mercifully short obituary about LePatner. Under the unfortunate subhead "FORTUNE INTELLIGENCE," the obituary: • misstated LePatner's age; • put the gunman's name into the lede; • included a graf about his football injury; • linked to a New York congressman's tweet, without offering evidence the two knew each other; • published this photo caption: "An image of Wesley LePatner"; • and added this line, which is reprinted here verbatim: He honored her sense of civics, as a ". The most informative part of the obit is the editor's note at the end: "For this story, Fortune used generative Al to help with an initial draft. An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing."

When obituaries go awry.

Via this week’s Laurels & Darts/ @columjournreview.bsky.social

www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

Evangelical legal group asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling (RNS) — ‘We think that it’s not a matter of if, but just a matter of when, the Supreme Court will overrule Obergefell,’ said Mathew Staver, head of Liberty Counsel.

And so it begins...

Evangelical legal group asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling [Obergefell v. Hodges]

both a great and terrible week to be an HR reporter on vacation

Journalists of Bluesky: If you're looking for an editor's role, and you know your way around IT, and you like working with (and managing) smart and caring people, and you enjoy WFH, and you like unlimited PTO, and you like having a large/devoted audience...see below.

jobs.lever.co/morningbrew/...

Massive crowd moving through Seattle. The front of the march has reached Seattle Center. Meanwhile, people are still pouring out of Cal Anderson

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government.

That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

Q. Have you seen any good movies lately? A. Well, I've only seen one in the last couple of years. It's called Norbit by Eddie Murphy. Q. How did you like it? A. Fantastic movie. Very funny. Q. What's your favorite movie? A. Norbit.

RIP to Brian Wilson, who gave us many perfect albums but also the perfect interview

spent my morning volunteering at a local pride event 🌈 happy pride month y'all 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

“People don’t understand that the systems that were put into place back then, still have the dominant, prevailing decision-making [factor] for most of the things that we do in our country,” Black Hackett said. “While, yes, we don’t have slavery in the sense that it was then. We don’t have segregation as it was. A lot of those laws are still embedded in [today’s] systems.”

HR Brew's @mikaelacohen.bsky.social spoke with the Dept of Labor's former chief DEI officer about the state of DEI, as well as bias.

www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...

Donald Trump's decades-long obsession with eugenics A timeline of the president's thoughts on "good genes," IQ, and which disabled people should "just die."

Donald Trump has long-espoused eugenicist and ableist beliefs.

For @motherjones.com, I put together a timeline of some of these greatest (or worst) hits, which shows a pattern, starting back in the 1980s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

LLMs and generative AI are fruit of the poisoned tree, and the plagiarism is one of the three main reasons why. The ecological impact is another (excellent work by @jamesmodonnell.bsky.social and @caseycrownhart.bsky.social for @technologyreview.com):