Casey Quinlan

Early prenatal care declines across US, reversing years of progress • Wisconsin Examiner More than a quarter of pregnant women are not getting early prenatal care, a significantly worsening trend according to the CDC

Early prenatal care declines across US, reversing years of progress wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/03/02/r...

It's a beautiful day. A beautiful day to open your apartment window for a lovely breeze only to find out that a car alarm is going to go off every 20 minutes for an hour

ICE is targeting workers at Home Depot. Advocates want Congress to step in. Immigrant advocates are calling on Arizona's congressional delegation to investigate ICE enforcement at Phoenix Home Depot locations

Immigrant rights advocates want Arizona’s Democratic congressional delegation to look into whether The Home Depot is collaborating with federal immigration officials, report @azmirror.com and @statesnewsroom.com

CFPB Fires Employee Over a Confrontation With DOGE a Year Ago The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fired an employee for disrupting and documenting a 2025 meeting between the agency and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, according to emails rev...

Scoop–CFPB just fired employee alexisgoldstein.bsky.social for allegedly disrupting &documenting a meeting a year ago between CFPB & DOGE www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
She says she's being retaliated against after asking DOGE visitors who they were & if they'd completed training on handling info

Judge orders restoration of Philadelphia slavery exhibits Cynthia Rufe, a George W. Bush appointee, compared the administration’s effort to remove the panels to Orwell’s “1984.”

JUST IN: Judge Cynthia Rufe (GWBush) invokes Orwell's dystopian "1984" as she bars Trump admin from memory holing slavery exhibits at Washington's Philly home. w/@kyledcheney
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

My kid is going through a yogurt obsession right now. I'm begging them every day. Please eat something else. This is not an advice-seeking post! I just really appreciated that and so many other things about the movie

It was so smart of If I Had Legs I'd Kick You to choose to center a struggle to get your child to eat because most parents struggle with picky eating of some kind and it's soooo hard

You'd probably see more women in senior reporting roles and editor roles if the career advancement path for journalism ever considered how best to keep parents in journalism, but of course this is an issue that is pervasive in every industry

There are so many of us as who have kids and are forced by lack of childcare to scale back our work and need to get back into full-time journalism roles and a fellowship is not a magic bullet but I think it is useful in this context

If there were more pathways to transition from one kind of journalism work to another or build more skills while navigating a layoff with less economic pressure

There are many fellowships out there for early career journalists, as there should be, because it's a difficult time for them as well right now. But I wish there were more mid-career fellowships out there because I think it would be useful in this environment to stop more journalists from leaving

journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact

Please forgive typos and other errors. My toddler crawled on me the entire time I wrote this.

It’s all so broken and I wish I had any answers.

There are few reporters who can make a similar income as an independent journalist through something like Substack or a regular podcast and then who edits your work? can you employ an editor?

This is not the way that we keep journalism alive. You have very few staff reporters with even fewer editors who stretched too thin and a ton of freelancers trying to support themselves on what is usually insufficient pay, if they’re lucky and get an assignment

This is the reality for so many laid off journalists today. We are trying to create something valuable for readers with no support

I feel like I should get a little more credit for freelance reporting with a toddler at home in my one-bedroom apartment with no reliable internet because we were late on the bill because we had to pay for groceries

Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund

One immediate effort (and the @postguild.bsky.social will likely share more): www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

The mass layoffs at the Washington Post feel worse than the ones made during 2020, especially after the ones at NBC News, CBS, and the WSJ. So many smart and experienced people will leave the industry forever.

Fearing major layoffs, current and former Posties rally around #SaveThePost campaign The Washington Post newsroom, whose journalists have continued to deliver essential reporting in an unrelenting news cycle (not to mention one reporter being subject to an FBI raid), is expecting…

Fearing major layoffs, current and former Posties rally around #SaveThePost campaign www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/fear...

Cheering myself up by reading….Russian literature

In the wake of another fatal shooting in Minneapolis.
AG Pam Bondi sends Gov. Walz a letter today making several asks including:
"Allow DOJ Civil Rights division access to state voter rolls"

ICE Asks Companies About ‘Ad Tech and Big Data’ Tools It Could Use in Investigations A new federal filing from ICE demonstrates how commercial tools are increasingly being considered by the government for law enforcement and surveillance.

NEW: Amid it all, ICE is seeking information from companies about ad-tech and big data tools—potentially gaining access to information in ways that constitutional experts say circumvents the Fourth Amendment. @carolinehaskins.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-as...

The latest: Scores of Minnesota businesses close in protest of ICE enforcement The “ICE Out! Statewide Shutdown” was planned by labor and faith leaders and will include a march through downtown at 2 p.m. that will culminate in a rally at Target Center.

ICE has detained two Hopkins students and their parents, a school official said.

Hey! My beat is changing. I'm still covering LGBTQ+ news, but now I'm focused on how LGBTQ+ people are navigating the American health care system. I'm sure it's going great, right?

If you're struggling with insurance, care costs or access, then I want to hear about it. Text me on Signal @orionr.80

Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

So the Trump Administration is refusing to promise not to look at materials seized from a WaPo reporter even though that seizure is being challenged in court and may have been illegal

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Job growth has stopped (and may even be in decline).

It stopped right around "Liberation Day."