Egan Reich
@eganreich.bsky.social
Former press director at the Labor Department; somehow purged twice by this ridiculous administration; writer of plays and one (1) real movie. DC
If you just opened this app for the first time in a few hours, close it now. Trust me. There’s nothing here you want to see.
February 18, 2026 at 12:33 AM
If you just opened this app for the first time in a few hours, close it now. Trust me. There’s nothing here you want to see.
At this point, we need to be reading “The Free Press,” as an ironic literary device of a name. Sorta like Todd Solondz’ “Happiness.”
Bari Weiss built her career in part by whining about how the left was supposedly censoring conservatives. “The Free Press” - the unironic title of her publication - ran numerous pieces about a “censorship-industrial complex.”
Now, under her watch, we get to see real censorship - and hypocrisy.
Now, under her watch, we get to see real censorship - and hypocrisy.
Stephen Colbert blasted Brendan Carr after FCC scrutiny led CBS to pull an interview with Texas State Rep James Talarico. Instead, 'The Late Show' posted it to YouTube.
February 17, 2026 at 6:21 PM
At this point, we need to be reading “The Free Press,” as an ironic literary device of a name. Sorta like Todd Solondz’ “Happiness.”
Definitely think we’re gonna be saying “probably in the files” long after anybody still remembers what that refers to. Like, somebody cuts you off in traffic or leaves a bad tip: “motherfucker… [muttering] probably in the files…”
It’s nice that swarovski crystals decided to make Funko Pops for people who are probably in the files
February 14, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Definitely think we’re gonna be saying “probably in the files” long after anybody still remembers what that refers to. Like, somebody cuts you off in traffic or leaves a bad tip: “motherfucker… [muttering] probably in the files…”
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Career communications staff at the Dept of Labor were ignored and many resigned when a 21 year old starting posting white nationalist meme. Now he is going to DHS. This is who prospers under the clicktatorship.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
Homeland Security Hires Labor Dept. Aide Whose Posts Raised Alarms
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Career communications staff at the Dept of Labor were ignored and many resigned when a 21 year old starting posting white nationalist meme. Now he is going to DHS. This is who prospers under the clicktatorship.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
Honestly believe that Richard Nixon himself would be out here calling for hearings and arrests if somebody killed the Washington Post sports section.
Join us Thursday for a rally to #SaveThePost!! The rally will run from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday at 1301 K St. NW!!
Bring friends! Bring gloves! Bring a love of journalism!
Bring friends! Bring gloves! Bring a love of journalism!
February 5, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Honestly believe that Richard Nixon himself would be out here calling for hearings and arrests if somebody killed the Washington Post sports section.
This is the closest real life has come to Shakespeare in my 46 years on earth.
Queen Elizabeth knew about this stuff btw and intervened repeatedly to protect him
February 1, 2026 at 5:08 PM
This is the closest real life has come to Shakespeare in my 46 years on earth.
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Labor Secretary Frances Perkins’ first challenge in office was figuring out what to do with Section 24, a gang of immigration agents who were causing chaos with “highly visible and extreme” raids on immigrant communities.
So she defunded them.
More @thebaffler.com
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So she defunded them.
More @thebaffler.com
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A Piece of Work | Kim Kelly
Workers can no longer count on the Department of Labor.
thebaffler.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Labor Secretary Frances Perkins’ first challenge in office was figuring out what to do with Section 24, a gang of immigration agents who were causing chaos with “highly visible and extreme” raids on immigrant communities.
So she defunded them.
More @thebaffler.com
thebaffler.com/latest/a-pie...
So she defunded them.
More @thebaffler.com
thebaffler.com/latest/a-pie...
So what @criterion.bsky.social disc are we buying with our $53 from @criterionchannl.bsky.social?
January 28, 2026 at 4:02 PM
So what @criterion.bsky.social disc are we buying with our $53 from @criterionchannl.bsky.social?
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All due respect lady you go to hell
January 25, 2026 at 11:15 PM
All due respect lady you go to hell
That was better than anything Mahomes ever did.
January 19, 2026 at 2:44 AM
That was better than anything Mahomes ever did.
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“If we were living under fascism, this post would be a death sentence” deeply and dangerously misunderstands how fascism actually works. Fascism is not a light switch. It’s a process.
If we were living under fascism right now, the words I’m writing would be a death sentence.
Hell no, it's not over
We still have rights. Time to use them.
www.motherjones.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:55 AM
“If we were living under fascism, this post would be a death sentence” deeply and dangerously misunderstands how fascism actually works. Fascism is not a light switch. It’s a process.
Was just reading a section of Eichmann in Jerusalem that describes this, the utter silence that swallows up any hint of bravery.
Imagine being the person brave enough to leak this in the hopes that media attention could stop it and then the media just……buries it.
NEW: Plans for secret U.S. raid to capture Maduro leaked to the Washington Post and New York Times before it happened, but both decided not to publish to protect U.S. troops - Semafor
January 4, 2026 at 6:31 AM
Was just reading a section of Eichmann in Jerusalem that describes this, the utter silence that swallows up any hint of bravery.
I do not have a job because I’m stuck in the eighteenth of November.
Well, now I'm an English professor...
December 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I do not have a job because I’m stuck in the eighteenth of November.
My goodness.
December 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
My goodness.
So I recently finished reading The Snow Leopard, and on the way to school the other morning, I said to my five-year-old. “I sort of think yetis exist.”
And she goes, “yetis DEFINITELY exist.”
So yetis exist now. End of discussion.
And she goes, “yetis DEFINITELY exist.”
So yetis exist now. End of discussion.
I'm surprised by Yeti. We've found human remains that are over 200,000 years old and we've found 0 Yeti remains.
I realize this conflicts with my whole "wow there are whales we haven't seen alive yet" thing BUT WE'VE SEEN THEM DEAD!
I realize this conflicts with my whole "wow there are whales we haven't seen alive yet" thing BUT WE'VE SEEN THEM DEAD!
November 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
So I recently finished reading The Snow Leopard, and on the way to school the other morning, I said to my five-year-old. “I sort of think yetis exist.”
And she goes, “yetis DEFINITELY exist.”
So yetis exist now. End of discussion.
And she goes, “yetis DEFINITELY exist.”
So yetis exist now. End of discussion.
3,700 is SO FAR from enough.
I’m ONE follower short of reaching 3,700 - help spread the reach of labor reporting
November 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
3,700 is SO FAR from enough.
Lol mookie poking himself in the eye
November 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Lol mookie poking himself in the eye
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My good people, you’re on crisis comms duty all the time now. Crack open those notes you took at the crisis consultant’s presentation. It’s a crisis. For everyone.
October 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
My good people, you’re on crisis comms duty all the time now. Crack open those notes you took at the crisis consultant’s presentation. It’s a crisis. For everyone.
I don’t know what’s going to happen, but the almost unanimous assumption that he’ll stop with the East Wing/ballroom seems silly and credulous and unwise. It won’t overwhelm the White House itself if he also tears that down to build some awful palace.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation warned that President Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom would “overwhelm the White House itself,” which spans just 55,000 square feet. https://wapo.st/4hmL8rC
October 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I don’t know what’s going to happen, but the almost unanimous assumption that he’ll stop with the East Wing/ballroom seems silly and credulous and unwise. It won’t overwhelm the White House itself if he also tears that down to build some awful palace.
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Assata Shakur exchanged letters with Audre Lorde from prison, and Lorde wrote for her the poem "For Assata":
I dream of your freedom
as my victory
and the victory of all dark women
who forego the vanities of silence
👇Here's the whole poem
I dream of your freedom
as my victory
and the victory of all dark women
who forego the vanities of silence
👇Here's the whole poem
September 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Assata Shakur exchanged letters with Audre Lorde from prison, and Lorde wrote for her the poem "For Assata":
I dream of your freedom
as my victory
and the victory of all dark women
who forego the vanities of silence
👇Here's the whole poem
I dream of your freedom
as my victory
and the victory of all dark women
who forego the vanities of silence
👇Here's the whole poem
I think I might start a service providing a mock @ichotiner.bsky.social interview for people with a humiliation kink. Like a dominatrix.
I can upcharge by actually publishing it on Substack, for the real sickos. I’m dead serious.
I can upcharge by actually publishing it on Substack, for the real sickos. I’m dead serious.
September 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I think I might start a service providing a mock @ichotiner.bsky.social interview for people with a humiliation kink. Like a dominatrix.
I can upcharge by actually publishing it on Substack, for the real sickos. I’m dead serious.
I can upcharge by actually publishing it on Substack, for the real sickos. I’m dead serious.
Watch Downhill Racer.
September 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Watch Downhill Racer.
Remember when everyone was like “😩 don’t cancel the Post; cancel Prime instead”?
Prime at least still does what it’s meant for. Your packages still come. Not sure what the Post is for.
Prime at least still does what it’s meant for. Your packages still come. Not sure what the Post is for.
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Remember when everyone was like “😩 don’t cancel the Post; cancel Prime instead”?
Prime at least still does what it’s meant for. Your packages still come. Not sure what the Post is for.
Prime at least still does what it’s meant for. Your packages still come. Not sure what the Post is for.
I’m the exact age of guy for whom this man was the first Graham Greene.
Then later had to say “wait…” when learning about the English writer.
He really was excellent. One of the greats. RIP.
Then later had to say “wait…” when learning about the English writer.
He really was excellent. One of the greats. RIP.
Graham Greene was one of those actors whose presence was absolutely, 100% guaranteed to make whatever movie or TV show he was in better. He added instant gravitas and authority, reliable stealthy humor and depth beyond whatever was on the page.
Should've been Emmy nominated for "Reservation Dogs."
Should've been Emmy nominated for "Reservation Dogs."
Graham Greene, ‘Dances With Wolves’ Actor, Dies at 73
The actor’s role as Kicking Bird in the 1990 film ‘Dances with Wolves’ earned him a best supporting actor Oscar nomination.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I’m the exact age of guy for whom this man was the first Graham Greene.
Then later had to say “wait…” when learning about the English writer.
He really was excellent. One of the greats. RIP.
Then later had to say “wait…” when learning about the English writer.
He really was excellent. One of the greats. RIP.