slate published a brilliant investigation by @laurajedeed.bsky.social into ICE's hiring practices and the department of homeland security called it a "lazy lie." good thing we have the receipts.
more on @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...
We don’t have to rely on eye witnesses or normal journalism to understand what happened yesterday in Minneapolis. There’s video that shows what happened and it makes it pretty clear: This was not a 'must shoot to kill' moment. slate.com/news-and-pol...
"Returning, I realize now, was never going to answer any questions or heal us. Returning gives shape to memory. It allows us to feel the ragged trenches of its scars, map the landscape it creates—and that, in turn, changes us."
beautiful essay by @tonyhotran.bsky.social for @slate.com 🤍
lazy girls unite <3
you’re totally right! some days that’s also my routine, but i’ve found that just a good leave-in really helps avoid getting my hair super tangled (especially as I sleep!)
thanks for reading! i’ve never tried gel-only, but will definitely try it now. I usually do leave-in only and call it a day — def doesn’t help my curls last for more than a few days, but I don’t mind it.
letting go of the idea that “good” curls are smooth and defined has given me so much freedom. so i'm here to tell you to embrace the frizz! it’s what ’90s mariah carey would’ve wanted.
my latest for @slate.com 😇
Read this whole interview about what Brad Lander saw in detention but — this part. Oof. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Two facilities in South Texas are being readied for undocumented parents and their children. One site began receiving them earlier this month. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...
By an 8–4 vote, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit last week upheld Florida’s law prohibiting 18- to 20-year-olds from buying guns. The court’s opinion was authored by Chief Judge William Pryor, a highly influential George W. Bush appointee.
By @mjsdc.bsky.social for @slate.com:
At Slate, we care about bringing you critical reporting and analysis about the layoffs happening throughout the federal government. We’re offering six months of complimentary Slate Plus access to federal employees who have been affected by these layoffs.
Visit slate.com/fed-plus for more info.
when the first trump admin separated thousands of immigrant children from their parents, there was massive public outcry at the cruelty of family separation—then the admin admitted the cruelty was the point.
now, the cruelty is back. story by @hdamonfeng.bsky.social for @slate.bsky.social:
yesterday was a tough day for us. please send all love, support, and job opportunities to @methsaxon.bsky.social, @hashtagkatie.bsky.social, and @natalieshut.bsky.social, all of whom deserved so much better than this.
The Slate Union logo—the Slate S featuring upward fist and surrounded by pink and white stripes—is seen above a statement: We, the Slate Union, are united in our belief that management’s decision yesterday to lay off three editorial employees—along with three of our coworkers in other departments—was misguided, foolish, and cruel. The cuts are not these employees’ failures; they are the result of the failure of this company to follow its obligations to its workers. When you can’t find a way to make the most out of smart, talented journalists, that’s a failure of management—and Slate staffers are right to believe it’s incumbent upon management to find ways to solve that problem that don’t involve job losses. Otherwise, what are we investing in journalism for? What are we asking Slate Plus members to invest in us for? There are particular aspects of these layoffs that we in the union find particularly outrageous. Eliminating three editors with their hands on politics and business will put an unbearable strain on others in the department, at the precise moment when coverage of these two subjects is crucial to the magazine’s success. One of the laid-off editors had union-negotiated parental leave approaching—as did another union member who was laid off just months ago. Another one of the laid-off employees was about to go on a honeymoon, and yet another was about to meet the qualifications for their pension benefit. The affected worker will be paid out for their parental leave, but the timing of these departures appears to be designed to make other union members think twice before utilizing the leave they have the contractual right to take. Not to mention, that one of the laid-off editors was hired not even a year ago—after a protracted search—calls management’s strategy into question, to put it lightly.
Slate has had two consecutive years of profitability. The fact that management views employees as chits to be discarded at any hint of trouble, instead of valuable people whose work makes our shop successful and profitable, is an enormous mistake. We insist that, in the upcoming contract negotiations, Slate commits to policies that treat layoffs not as a hair-trigger response to adversity but as an absolute last resort, one that will not be undertaken without consulting with the union and the employees in question. Simply paying out extra severance to a laid-off employee should no longer be a substitute for warnings about the state of our business and, more importantly, real attempts to save our staffers’ jobs. Anything short of this will demonstrate that Slate values the jobs of its executives more than its rank-and-file workers, and that good journalism by good journalists is no longer the north star of the magazine.
On Monday morning, Slate was suddenly informed that six of its employees—including three editors, two of whom were members of the union—were being laid off, just months after four other staffers were also let go. The Slate Union's official statement reads as follows:
we care about bringing you critical reporting about the extensive layoffs happening in the federal government & know how important access to this type of journalism is—so we're offering current & recently laid off federal employees six months of slate plus access for free: slate.com/fed-plus
these women spent three election cycles trying to persuade their husbands not to vote for trump—someone who threatened their bodily autonomy, their children’s futures, and the tattered fabric of american democracy. did they stay or go?
from @scaachi.bsky.social: slate.com/life/2025/03...
He isn’t who anyone would imagine as the answer to Donald Trump’s darkest political power. Yet here he is.
Breaking from @jeremystahl.bsky.social and @mjsdc.bsky.social: Attorney General Pam Bondi instructed the DOJ to criminally investigate companies over DEIA initiatives, according to a memo sent by Bondi on Wednesday evening.
i'm not ok, don't text, out of commission youtu.be/P71Xx3EC67Y?...
