Disability and aging reporter @19thnews. Opinions are my own. Send tips to: sluterman@19thnews.org or slooterman.18 on Signal.
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Were you ill served by an autism or chronic illness diagnosis/self-identification as a teen/young adult?
I’d love to talk for a potential story focused on young women and disability identity and I want to capture diverse experiences.
DM or email sluterman at 19thnews dot org
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Starting #31DaysOfHorror a little late, with a double feature to catch up. Race with the Devil and The Cars that Ate Paris.
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I've been a reporter for a long time and this might be the strangest thing I've ever done.
We've been reporting on privatization of schools this year and found that just about anyone can open a private school in most states. Could reporters do it?
propublica.org/article/propu…
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fyi for all the Discourse going on: the main degree at columbia journ school is the MS in journalism. the MA is a separate program targeted at later-career journos. school's still offering its main attraction
NEW: The Columbia Journalism School is pausing admissions for its Master of Arts degree amid a “critical evaluation” of the M.A. curriculum, Dean Jelani Cobb announced in a Thursday afternoon email to alumni.
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A 17-month-old girl was hospitalized with E. coli after consuming raw milk.
Soon, another child — a 6-year-old girl who’d drunk milk from the same farm — would wind up in the same San Diego hospital, with the same potentially fatal illness.
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville recently went on an unhinged rant about how "many airline pilots" are "part of the furry community." He wasn't totally wrong — there ARE a surprisingly high number of furries in aviation, and the reasons why are super interesting! I investigated for @WIRED:
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I only know one person my age who cut off his parents and it was for a very good reason.
I realize that’s not necessarily a representative sample but the articles about the epidemic of parental estrangement also only have anecdotes. So.
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I have a diagnosed developmental disability that makes me bad at social interaction and it turns out I’m actually more social than most Americans. Huh.
New newsletter: THE DEATH OF THE AMERICAN HOST
The share of Americans who say they host friends or family at their home at least monthly has declined by 70 percent in the last 50 years.
derekthompson.org/p/the-deat…
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I disagree with @emmma_camp_ about the autism of it all but you really can (and should) just do things.
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I cannot understand why the MAHA Summit denied so many press credentials, especially with so many U.S. govt officials on stage. @foodfixco applied and was granted credentials, but the press area was largely empty and our movement was restricted so I left.
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Hello from the MAHA Summit.
A number of reporters denied credentials despite empty press seats.
A security guard first said he needed to escort me everywhere but now has given up I guess.
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Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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This is such an interesting shift from the classic “welfare queen” stereotype.
You pay taxes to cover welfare for people who just choose not to work. That’s why I launched a welfare-to-work requirement.
If you’re young, healthy, and get government assistance, you should work, go to school, or volunteer.
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just love it when the piece you reported out for months gets read word for word by someone looking into their front facing camera who then gets ad revenue from it
people have said it before but the whole shortform video / youtube / podcast content industry is so extractive of actual newsroom labor, and as far as I can tell very few of those studios have hard news operations, reporters / checkers / researchers...
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ICYMI: "It's a zombified CDC." What was once the world's "undisputed leader in public health" is a skeleton of its former self. @apoorva_nyc
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More than 1.2 million children lost access to food aid through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program between July 2025 and 2026, according to a new analysis. to.pbs.org/4dwuKEf
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A CNN KFile investigation has uncovered since-removed posts from the past six years in which Texas GOP candidate Bo French repeatedly advocated having public executions for political opponents, including former President Barack Obama cnn.com/2026/09/28/politics/…
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