Folks in journalism who are out of a job right now—we assign lots of freelance work on my team. Topics include home, garden and parenting. We define those pretty broadly. Happy to hear from anyone with ideas to pitch: Jennifer dot Rogers at washpost dot com
in this very long and nuanced piece about why Gillibrand isn't catching fire, there are 1400 reader comments, and nearly every single one is railing about the Al Franken situation
@ajsilverstein16
It feels so inadequate to say anything in response to this piece and your situation, but from one stranger to another, I’m wishing you the best in the coming days
the small-town election content I crave: 300 Wisconsin ballots are unaccounted for because the Willow Township municipal clerk got sick and no one can find her
oh I have a new job! Starting in September, I will be the Post's lifestyle editor. Writers, pitch us your best wellness, parenting and home pieces — reported stuff, newsy stuff, service-y stuff, weird stuff, I want it all. Also seeking all things kid-appropriate for KidsPost. Woo
“Up until now, I was a professional tidier, so I did my best to keep my home tidy at all times. I have kind of given up on that in a good way for me. Now I realize what is important to me is enjoying spending time with my children at home.”
absolutely brutal season for media layoffs. Please message me if you have stories you want to place/ideas to pitch related to home or family. If you have ideas for other types of stories, I can try to route you to the relevant editor at the Post.
ok this article on the twisties in gymnastics is so interesting. The twisties are basically the yips, except they could make you break your neck. One gymnast had to go back to doing preschool level moves to get past it
a *million* more people visited the Portrait Gallery in 2018 than did the year before, drawn by the Obama portraits. "Both women, who have worked at the museum’s information desk for 12 years, said they have never seen new works have such an impact."
my secret weird editor quirk is that I LOVE when writers file too long because then I get to do my FAVORITE THING which is trim trim trim snip snip snip I love it so much
forget those 30 under 30 lists. Here are eight women who did something great after 50: became a comedian, a doctor, a novelist, a bodybuilder, a mayor, a star
@jdesmondharris
they didn't traumatize me in any way, no cruelty or weird stuff; my dad always took me seriously; my mom never commented negatively on my looks/weight/food choices ever, not once
After years living in the U.S. for 30 years, a 39-year-old immigrant in metro Detroit was deported this morning to Mexico. Escorted by ICE agents, he said bye to wife and 2 kids before boarding. He was brought to US from Mexico when he was 10-yrs-old, too old to qualify for DACA:
funny thing about 3-year-olds is they will say something about how they are friends with a leaf and you're like mmhm yes sweetheart, your friend the leaf, and then you find out there is a kid at daycare named Leif
“I’ve never actually learned a lot about the ’90s,” says Molly Prokop, 9. “I know it’s like, 30 years back, but I don’t know, it kind of feels like 50 years back.”
Damn Molly, just dump the dirt on my coffin
The sheer number of these vague “remote work is bad” “in office is good” pieces is starting to feel very silly. Like how many pieces can be published insisting that water is not wet. Every office worker knows even partial remote work is life changingly great
whether to send your kids back to daycare or not seems to be entirely decided by necessity and emotion, since government at all levels and even doctors have provided no or useless guidance
@janecoaston
I used to work in college admissions and every now and then I try to tell people that most schools accept most applicants/most kids go to their top-choice school, and people get very very angry and tell me I'm wrong (they are wrong)
Shots fired across the street from the entrance of my kid’s school this morning, not even five minutes after I dropped him off. And then I answered emails and gave a presentation at work. What are we doing
this is so awful and I don't know what can be done about it: “It’s not just the masks. Our passengers have changed. Their behavior on our flights, the safety of our flight attendants, the safety of our passengers — every day is being threatened here.”
I know cliches are bad but sometimes do you ever think about how insanely good they must have been the first time they were used? Like, "preaching to the choir." Absolute genius
"They rushed to help, bringing towels to staunch the blood, and tried to keep him talking and conscious. Yarl told them he was a Staley High School junior and played clarinet."
He's blaming Hope Hicks ... "The president feels that Hope Hicks has allowed her romantic relationship with Porter to really cloud her judgment and her decision-making ... that Hope Hicks put her own priorities above his and above the White House's."
saw a post from a mom who said she lets her toddler play in the bath for 45 minutes a night, he loves it, she loves the downtime, and she felt "guilty" about this. Has modern parenting become so unrelenting and shitty that we feel "guilty" when we actually enjoy it?
Underrated place to get holiday gifts for the kids in your life: your local art supply store. Lots of unexpected stuff like toys and puppets and weird doodads, in addition to all the awesome art stuff and notebooks
@aterkel
omg he came after ME on twitter once a few years ago. I had 1000 followers and was literally of zero importance. I have never been so baffled.
Using shame — either by decrying the death of it or by weaponizing against your opponents — is the oldest move in American politics, but it's not working in Wisconsin, Michigan or North Carolina
New: Last year, demographers realized that, after US fertility had fallen to all-time lows, Americans were having more babies.
Nobody knew for sure why.
A new report from
@ModeledBehavior
and
@lymanstoneky
finds a surprising factor: Remote work.
Losing touch with some friends over a lifetime is so normal; making it some kind of official divorce is bizarre and I don't know why it's happening so much now
📢
@axios
: DC IS NOT A TRANSIENT CITY. This is a thing that constantly gets repeated w/ no evidence by people who equate DC with Capitol Hill (or pretending EoTR isn’t DC) . A 2017 study didn’t even have DC in the top 25. 2021 study didn’t have us in top 15.
@cuneytdil
Preterm birth, the largest contributor to infant mortality, is up among pregnant Latinas since Trump was elected. Some interesting research on how the stress of this administration is affecting health
D.C. is known as one of the most politically engaged towns --- but ive been getting texts from lots of people the last few days asking what's on their ballot and who are their candidates in their local races. Read up!
Cried laughing at this last night. Cried laughing watching again this morning. Cried laughing again in the time in between telling my husband he had to watch it and him actually watching it
The show undercover boss was dumb in some ways but it definitely showed that low wage work was not low skill. The ceo always struggled with the work his lowest paid employees did routinely
I love this
@AnnieLowrey
jeremiad against the term "low-skill jobs." Those jobs aren't low-skill. They're low-wage, and calling them low-skill is a way of blaming often exploited workers for inequality and unemployment.
Today my 2-year-old turned on the tv (?) and bought a movie (!?) for $15 (!?!?!) about "two young patients with cystic fibrosis, who try to have a relationship despite always being forced to stay a certain distance away from each other" (!?!?!?!?)
incredibly sad to read that the Post is folding Express, our commuter paper. One thing I know for sure is that it was not for lack of quality. Those 20 staffers, who are now all losing their jobs, produced a wonderful product. I will miss their covers.