Heather Goss (@heathermg) — Bluesky Profile

6 hours ago

No Kelly. Get out of there.

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8 hours ago

Can’t speak for the states but D.C. is on it.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

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3 days ago

Lakers in-arena announcer. I AM HOWLING 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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5 days ago

a man drinking from a can that says science on it Alt: A man drinks from a can that says "science" on it. He turns to the camera looking refreshed.

Ah, facts. How refreshing!

Help support the high-quality science journalism at Eos with a one-time gift, recurring donation, or AGU membership.

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5 days ago

My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me.

In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.

On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.

Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.

What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.

"It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do.

Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go.

It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

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5 days ago

Everything is stupid now Our leaders and press still refuse to engage with America's core crisis: our unfit idiot president.

Everything is relentlessly stupid, all the time, and always getting worse.

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1 week ago

My phone actually gave me an alert to “clean camera lens”

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1 week ago

NEWS: D.C. CFO Glen Lee has spoken! In a letter to @mayorbowser.dc.gov and D.C. Council, Lee says that tax-filing season *will continue* and that the council's decoupling bill is the law of the land.

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1 week ago

Iran War Cost Tracker — Live Estimate of U.S. Taxpayer Spending Track the cost of the Iran war in real time. Live estimate of U.S. taxpayer spending on Operation Epic Fury — updated every second.

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1 week ago

Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: “BREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center.
STORY TK”

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

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2 weeks ago

Merriweather Post ALSO built an estate in NY that she tried to donate to the state, which also declined, and now it’s owned by Harlan Crow who uses it to vacation with his bff Clarence Thomas. Talk about your faustian real estate deals.

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2 weeks ago

I just read this book about Marjorie Merriweather Post (thx @isa-lara.bsky.social!) and learned SHE built Mar-a-Lago and tried to donate it to the gov as a Winter White House but NPS declined because the upkeep was too expensive. So it went on the market and ended up as…the winter White House.

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2 weeks ago

i'm a big fan of magazines, investigative reporting, and longform, all of which requires staff and institutions, but the really really dire thing that indie media can't replace? the fucking wire services

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2 weeks ago

Rubin Observatory has started paging astronomers 800,000 times a night Asteroids, exploding stars, and feasting black holes swarm in the first-ever batch of nightly alerts from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile

Astronomers scrambling to enable push notifications so they don't miss a ping from Vera

www.scientificamerican.com/article/rubi...

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2 weeks ago

The State of the Science 1 Year On: Executive Summary - Eos How the Trump Administration is redefining the way science is practiced and perceived in the United States.

President Trump will deliver his State of the Union address tonight in front of Congress and the country.

Ahead of the speech, take a look back at how the U.S. science enterprise was affected during the past year in our report, “The State of the Science 1 Year On.” 🧵 eos.org/report/the-s...

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2 weeks ago

Oh I had it on my Netflix queue for awhile but I see it’s gone now! That’s what I get for procrastinating. I’ll check out Kanopy though, thanks.

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2 weeks ago

Ooh I’ve seen the first one but still haven’t watched the second. Sounds like good enough motivation to do it tonight if you ask me.

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3 weeks ago

The Inside Story of the African American Explorer Who was the First Man to Stand on Top of the North Pole This African-American explorer was the first man to stand on top of the world.

Matthew Henson was an explorer who spent a total of 18 years on expeditions to the Arctic—including a 1908-1909 expedition that may have been the first to reach the geographic North Pole.

#BlackHistoryMonth

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3 weeks ago

Immigration Authorities Are Cracking Down on DC Restaurants Again Homeland Security Investigations is following up on employment eligibility audits conducted last spring.

“I’ve already spent $17,000 on lawyers to deal with ICE for me... And then I got an email last week to my attorneys saying, basically, we need to let go over two-thirds of our staff.”

washingtonian.com/2026/02/19/i...

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3 weeks ago

A year ago today, 168 of my NSF colleagues were fired suddenly & illegally. Half got their jobs back after an intense legal fight, but none of this is over for our small/mighty agency. Even while there are so many things happening everywhere all at once & it’s exhausting, I’m glad to keep pushing.

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3 weeks ago

WA Democrats consider retreat on estate tax, fearing wealth exodus Democrats in the state Legislature are moving to roll back a big increase in the estate tax rate, acknowledging it may be causing some very wealthy people to move.

You can't call every step of creeping fascism a distraction from kitchen-table issues and then punt whenever you have a chance to address the kitchen-table issues.

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1 month ago

Please read this long but important thread from an immigration defense attorney.

If this administration is permitted to scale its current abuse, neglect, and inhumane treatment of immigrants to the breadth and scope for which they’re currently planning, we’ll all be witness to mass atrocities.

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1 month ago

WATCH LIVE: Trump, Zeldin to announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change Watch PBS News for daily, breaking and live news, plus special coverage. We are home to PBS News Hour, ranked the most credible and objective TV news show. Sign up for Here's The Deal with Lisa Desja...

President Donald Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin are holding a press conference to announce the repeal of the Endangerment Finding at 1:30 p.m. ET. Follow along here for live updates.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cSW...

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1 month ago

Sorry if you liked breathing clean air.

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1 month ago

I can’t imagine why this incident would make you *announce* an unprecedented *10 day* ground stop rather than a temporary one that you extend until you had more info.

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1 month ago

I feel like you guys are overcompensating for the lack of democratic representation everywhere around you.

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1 month ago

Nothing bonds you immediately with a stranger like approaching each other on the sidewalk by a 5-foot high raised lawn right as a giant rat casually jogs across it a foot from your faces.

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1 month ago

Opinion: D.C. must restore TANF, pull children out of poverty Planned changes to Temporary Cash Assistance for Needy Families will impact 15,000 children, pushing them deeper into poverty.

Planned changes to D.C.'s Temporary Cash Assistance for Needy Families will impact 15,000 children, pushing them deeper into poverty.

@childrenslawcenter.org CEO Judith Sandalow and United Planning Organization CEO Andrea Thomas explain in this opinion piece:

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1 month ago

Join The 51st The 51st is a worker-led nonprofit news source for D.C. Our reporting is rooted in our conviction that local journalism is meant to make people’s lives better — no paywalls, ever. But that's only…

6/ The Post has lost over 375,000 subscribers in just over a year. If 10% of those readers subscribed to The 51st instead, we could hire 10 reporters and five editors, dramatically scaling our coverage of the city at this critical time. 51st.news/signup

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1 month ago

The morning after mass layoffs, The Washington Post publishes this as their lead editorial. The owner and publisher clearly have no idea why they are losing subscribers. Meanwhile they have destroyed a storied brand.

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