Caitlin Gilbert

‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the mega prison where the U.S. deported migrants Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.

“Welcome to hell”

We spoke to 16 Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. This is the most complete view yet of the conditions they faced — which, some experts said, may violate conventions against torture.

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The federal government is paying more than 154,000 people not to work Early resignation offers and other programs have reduced the workforce, but critics say the moves are also wasting money.

Latest in a string of stories you can read only/first from the @washingtonpost: The federal government is paying more than 154,000 people not to work right now, under the Trump admin's resignation program w/ @merylkornfield.bsky.social @laurameckler.bsky.social
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YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - The Vatican Rag - fabulous version - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967

tom lehrer 💔

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Coke confirms cane sugar soda is coming to the U.S. Is it healthier? Some nutritionists said there is little benefit in substituting high-fructose corn syrup, a staple of sugary snacks and drinks, with cane sugar.

Coke just confirmed its cane sugar soda is coming to the U.S. this fall. RFK Jr. described the alternative as a "MAHA win."

But nutritionists told @rachelroubein.bsky.social replacing one sugar for another isn't making America healthier www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

All the ways your access to vaccines has changed under RFK Jr. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s leadership at Health and Human Services has led to changes in vaccine recommendations and access, sparking concerns among medical experts.

💉Our rundown of the changes in access to different vaccines under RFK Jr’s HHS:

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Dear Jeff Bezos …

saw gerrera, emmy nominee 😌

Camp Mystic’s leader got a ‘life threatening’ flood alert. They evacuated an hour later. More than an hour passed between Camp Mystic receiving a severe flood warning and a decision to evacuate young campers asleep in cabins by the Guadalupe River.

consulting dozens of counselors, emergency officials, parents and experts, we recreated what made these floodwaters so deadly.

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Me realizing every journo on here is my neighbor bsky.app/profile/cait...

A condensed history of multiracial identification in the United States How to write about mixed and multiracial people, Part 1

also feels relevant to reup this piece we wrote for Source back in 2021 on the history of multiracial identification in the US: source.opennews.org/articles/con...

This NYT callout also makes it seem like the backlash to the Mamdani story raised the idea of census categories not reflecting people’s identities for the first time????

U.S. measles cases reach 33-year record high as outbreaks spread Johns Hopkins University data reflects the public health reversal in defeating the vaccine-preventable disease since measles was officially eliminated from the U.S. in 2000.

NEW: A sad milestone. U.S. measles cases reach 33-year record high as outbreaks spread. An enormous public health reversal of a vaccine-preventable disease as the anti-vax movement gains strength. My story.

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Trump’s DoL has announced that it’s withdrawing the Biden admin’s proposed rule from December to phase out the federal subminimum wage (14c) program — it specifically cites “the lack of legal authority to tear down what Congress has mandated” public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-12534.pdf

describing cremieux as “an academic and an opponent of affirmative action” is certainly a choice! dude posts extreme race science content regularly

RFK Jr. wins his fight against a rare, safe flu-shot ingredient A CDC panel’s vote to stop recommending thimerosal containing flu shots would have limited impact, but it illustrates how the anti-vaccine movement is achieving its goals.

Updated: My story w/ @lenasun.bsky.social on how Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of thimerosal, won his and other anti-vaccine activists fight against the rare and safe flu-shot ingredient @washingtonpost.com

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Today's ACIP meeting is usually a time where experts come together to inform the future of vaccines. That is not what today will be. That is not what we can stand behind. The AAP will continue to recommend its own childhood vaccine schedule -- just as we have since the 1930s

The only pollster (literally) to get tonight right, PPP, takes a victory lap.

And says they “saw Zohran Mamdani’s first place finish coming before anyone else did for one simple reason: we polled the 2025 electorate instead of the 2021 electorate.”

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I thought it was a joke that a lot of media folks lived in my BK neighborhood but how does everyone for real live in council district 39

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actually shellshocked by the margins in Staten Island right now what even

my favorite thing about watching the gilded age is saying the full name of every broadway legend every time they appear on screen

a not insignificant number of people heard the news from this frog

feels appropriate to re-up this one

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

Nutrition program for Americans on food stamps at risk in GOP bill The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education, or SNAP-Ed, faces elimination in a GOP bill, sparking concerns about the impact on low-income Americans' health education.

House Rs seek to eliminate a nutrition program for Americans on food stamps in Trump bill, alarming program leaders who say states would be forced to pare back efforts to improve Americans' health.

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RFK Jr. ousts all members of CDC vaccine advisory panel Kennedy said the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a group of experts who recommend vaccines, has been "plagued with persistent conflicts of interest."

from @lenasun.bsky.social and @laurenweberhp.bsky.social

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This move violates a pledge Kennedy made to Sen. Cassidy during his confirmation that he would maintain the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without changes.

at least MHE won so I don’t go to bed super mad

ok I’m pissed Audra should’ve gotten her 7th Tony GOOD NIGHT

I’m sorry if I were Audra recovering backstage and I have to hear that song from Operation Mincemeat I would truly lose it