Laura Wagner

Famous writers at New Yorker are up in arms after fact-checker’s firing The media company dismissed four employees, including a fact-checker at the 100-year-old magazine, for “extreme misconduct.” Many of its famous writers are outraged.

“It’s frankly embarrassing that executives would make baseless claims about a fact-checker.”

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Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’ After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign

I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.

This really feels like we are at the Bored Ape stage

Made for each other! Rooting for those two crazy kids

What Does A Great Trans Athlete Deserve? | Defector Once every week or two, I swim molasses-slow laps at the YMCA. I’ve been on something of a fitness journey this year, testing out different forms of exercise to see what sticks—what feels the least to...

Hi! I wrote a thing about swimming and trans athletes and [*checks notes*] Santana for @defector.com, would mean a lot if you give it a read

Everybody Stand Down: New Yorker Columnist's Child Doesn't Care About Sports Gambling | Defector In the final hours before the Nov. 1 UFC bout between featherweights Isaac Dulgarian and Yadier Del Valle, the betting odds on Dulgarian, the favorite, abruptly dropped from -250, meaning a bettor wou...

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A yellow bridge in front of a city background with three banners reading "POST-GAZETTE STRIKERS WILL WIN".

BREAKING: We won!

Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.

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Bari Weiss was hired to remake CBS News. Here’s how it’s working out so far. Bari Weiss took over as editor in chief in October, launching a new era for CBS News amid layoffs, confusion and shifting expectations.

New with @laurawags.bsky.social >>

Bari Weiss was hired to remake CBS News — and she's already doing it. Staffers are weathering a flurry of layoffs, shifting resources and a cultural collision with Weiss’s ideas for the news.

Our latest in @washingtonpost.com:

Mark Zuckerberg Opened an Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. His Neighbors Revolted Neighbors complained about noise, security guards, and hordes of traffic. An unlicensed school named after the Zuckerbergs’ pet chicken tipped them over the edge.

SCOOP (free, as it's FOIA-based!): I obtained 1,665 pgs of documents about "Bicken Ben," a growing private school the Zuckerbergs ran illegally out of their Palo Alto compound

Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point:
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report Oxfam warns Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights – but Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap

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Milk hits different when pie is the vibe

John Dickerson announces he’s leaving CBS News The evening news co-anchor is stepping down amid big changes at the top of the network.

Longtime CBS News journalist John Dickerson, the co-anchor of the CBS Evening News, announced he is leaving the network.

He's the first major CBS News on-air talent to resign since David Ellison and Bari Weiss took charge. Latest with @laurawags.bsky.social for @washingtonpost.com:

“My findings were beyond reasonable doubt that this was an intentional killing of Shireen Abu Akleh.”

Retired Army Colonel Steve Gabavics tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social that the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, was intentional according to his findings.

Watch the episode:
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Walking the Thin Blue Line Bill de Blasio, Zohran Mamdani, and the NYPD

“If Mamdani is elected, the most reactionary voices in the department will have their knives out.” In a new preview from Issue Sixteen, @k80way.bsky.social considers Bill de Blasio’s relationship with the NYPD, and what lies ahead for Zohran Mamdani:

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Only If You Get Caught History Podcast · Updated Weekly · Only If You Get Caught is about how we can better understand sports and culture by appreciating the ways humans cheat in ways big and small.  Hosted by Patrick Redfo...

Only If You Get Caught S1E1 is about the most infamous basketball conspiracy theory: Did the NBA fix Game 6 of the 2002 Western Conference Finals? Our guest is the great @tcraggs22.bsky.social. Subscribe now, Or Else!!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Forty-Eight Hours in Israeli Captivity A journalist captured on a flotilla mission recounts treatment at the hands of the Israeli navy, border police, and prison guards.

"I announced, in case some camera somewhere was rolling, “I’m a journalist, I’m press.” The woman to my left hissed, 'We don’t give a fuck,' and the other dug her nails into my scalp and pulled me by my hair across the port."

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

NEW: Among the 170+ US citizens detained by immigration agents are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

Four children were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.

Google email shows it ruled Israel’s ads claiming ‘There is food in Gaza’ aren’t misleading An internal Google email said it received many complaints about Israeli government YouTube ads about food access in Gaza, but ruled they could remain online.

As a U.N.-recognized famine swept Gaza, Google allowed Israel to run YouTube ads claiming “There is food in Gaza.”

An internal email reveals the company received many complaints about the ads, but ruled they could remain online. https://wapo.st/43lTav7

A Plan to Rebuild Gaza Lists Nearly 30 Companies. Many Say They're Not Involved A presentation that has been shared with the Trump administration references Tesla, Ikea, TSMC, and more in its plan to rebuild Gaza. Some of these companies say they had no idea they were mentioned.

NEW: A presentation that has been shared with the Trump administration references Tesla, Ikea, TSMC, and more in its plan to rebuild the region. Some of these companies say they had absolutely no idea they were mentioned.

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

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Trump administration illegally targeted pro-Palestinian protesters, judge rules The efforts to detain and deport noncitizen activists earlier this year represented an unconstitutional infringement on the First Amendment, the ruling says.

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Can Liberalism Be Saved? The legal scholar Cass Sunstein argues for a more expansive definition of an ideology under threat.

Really good. Ezra Klein next www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

EXCLUSIVE: US Bill to Block Arms Sales to Israel Endorsed by Progressive Caucus The endorsement of the Block the Bombs Act by one of the largest caucuses in Congress gives a significant boost to efforts to hold Israel accountable for its genocidal war in Gaza.

NEWS: The Congressional Progressive Caucus — which represents nearly 100 members in Congress — has just voted to endorse the Block the Bombs Act, to block weapon sales to Israel.

First time any major congressional caucus has backed legislation to end US aid for Israel’s destruction of Gaza.

NBA Reporter Fired After Accurately Describing Charlie Kirk's Beliefs | Defector Arizona-based outlet PHNX Sports has fired its lead Phoenix Suns reporter Gerald Bourguet after he posted tweets critical of the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, in the aftermath of Kirk’s fatal…

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Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer scratched bullets with a Helldivers combo and a furry sex meme The suspected shooter left a hodgepodge of extremely online taunts.

New from @tinanguyen.bsky.social and me: Charlie Kirk's shooter left behind bullet casings with a furry sex meme and a bunch of Helldivers video game references. Subreddits for Helldivers immediately picked up on it.

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If you can track the boat on camera to slaughter everyone aboard then you can track the boat on camera to intercept the boat and arrest them

“I hate to say it, but the American settlers are the most harsh, the most racist towards us,” Abu Diab, the activist from Al Bustan, told me. “For example, so many of the settlers who took over houses in Sheikh Jarrah, in Silwan, in Batn al Halwa: you can immediately tell they are American from their accent,” Abu Diab said in a later interview in August 2025, “and some of them who commit violence against the Palestinian citizens also proudly say, ‘I am from New York, I am from California.”

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