Grace Panetta
@gracepanetta.bsky.social
political reporter @ The 19th. new englander, bad speller, hot sauce enthusiast.
Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is being sued under a rare North Carolina law by a woman who says she "destroyed a 14-year marriage by sustaining an affair with a former member of her security detail and U.S. Senate staff," @law360.bsky.social reports www.law360.com/articles/243...
Sinema Sued Under Rare Law By Her Former Guard's Ex-Wife - Law360
Former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, now a Hogan Lovells attorney in Washington, D.C., destroyed a 14-year marriage by sustaining an affair with a former member of her security detail and U.S. Senate staf...
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January 15, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is being sued under a rare North Carolina law by a woman who says she "destroyed a 14-year marriage by sustaining an affair with a former member of her security detail and U.S. Senate staff," @law360.bsky.social reports www.law360.com/articles/243...
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What will the year in politics look like? Our political reporter @gracepanetta.bsky.social will discuss what she’s following, key issues, candidates and more as this midterm election year takes shape.
Join us for a Reddit AMA at 1 p.m. ET! https://bit.ly/3YEWX45
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January 14, 2026 at 5:11 PM
What will the year in politics look like? Our political reporter @gracepanetta.bsky.social will discuss what she’s following, key issues, candidates and more as this midterm election year takes shape.
Join us for a Reddit AMA at 1 p.m. ET! https://bit.ly/3YEWX45
Join us for a Reddit AMA at 1 p.m. ET! https://bit.ly/3YEWX45
The Senate passed the bipartisan DEFIANCE Act, which would allow victims to sue creators of nonconsensual, sexually-explicit deepfakes, by unanimous consent today, @jazzmyth.bsky.social reports 19thnews.org/2026/01/sena...
Senate moves to let victims of sexually explicit deepfakes sue for damages
The DEFIANCE Act goes to the House amid controversy over images created by X’s Grok.
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January 13, 2026 at 10:32 PM
The Senate passed the bipartisan DEFIANCE Act, which would allow victims to sue creators of nonconsensual, sexually-explicit deepfakes, by unanimous consent today, @jazzmyth.bsky.social reports 19thnews.org/2026/01/sena...
Supermajority, the nonprofit focused on mobilizing young women, is shutting down, @jennifergerson.bsky.social reports. The organization, co-founded by Cecile Richards, Ai-jen Poo, and Alicia Garza, has been a key player in the women's resistance movement since 2019
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Supermajority, group organizing women around politics, is shutting down
Founders of the group, which started in 2019, pointed to the legacy of women organizers responding to the Trump administration and how the country thinks about gender.
19thnews.org
January 8, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Supermajority, the nonprofit focused on mobilizing young women, is shutting down, @jennifergerson.bsky.social reports. The organization, co-founded by Cecile Richards, Ai-jen Poo, and Alicia Garza, has been a key player in the women's resistance movement since 2019
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Exciting holiday news! @19thnews.org is hiring *two* full-time editors to join our newsroom in 2026! 🥳 Apply by January 19! 19thnews.org/19th-news-ed...
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The 19th is hiring an editor to work closely with the editorial director to assign, shape, edit and publish stories to fulfill The 19th’s mission of serving women and LGBTQ+ people with timely, high-q...
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December 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Exciting holiday news! @19thnews.org is hiring *two* full-time editors to join our newsroom in 2026! 🥳 Apply by January 19! 19thnews.org/19th-news-ed...
Inbox: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s board has voted to dissolve the organization following Congress pulling its federal funding
January 5, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Inbox: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s board has voted to dissolve the organization following Congress pulling its federal funding
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Thank you for your support! Here’s to a braver, clearer, more joyful 2026. 💜 https://bit.ly/48ufq81
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Exciting holiday news! @19thnews.org is hiring *two* full-time editors to join our newsroom in 2026! 🥳 Apply by January 19! 19thnews.org/19th-news-ed...
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December 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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I'm off today. But my colleague @gracepanetta.bsky.social is all over today's massive news for trans youth:
Trump administration moves to adopt sweeping new rules targeting care for transgender youth
If approved, the proposed regulations would dramatically impact an already challenging landscape.
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December 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I'm off today. But my colleague @gracepanetta.bsky.social is all over today's massive news for trans youth:
ICYMI: I profiled @pelosi.house.gov’s outgoing chief of staff Terri McCullough — the first woman to serve as chief of staff to a House speaker 19thnews.org/2025/11/terr...
The woman who made history with Nancy Pelosi
Terri McCullough, the first woman to serve in a formal role as chief of staff to a House speaker, worked alongside Pelosi on big policy wins and broke a marble ceiling of her own.
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November 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
ICYMI: I profiled @pelosi.house.gov’s outgoing chief of staff Terri McCullough — the first woman to serve as chief of staff to a House speaker 19thnews.org/2025/11/terr...
NEW: I profiled a powerful Democratic woman you’ve likely never heard of: Terri McCullough, @pelosi.house.gov’s longtime outgoing chief of staff, who reshaped the policy + political landscape for women and made history of her own alongside Pelosi 19thnews.org/2025/11/terr...
The woman who made history with Nancy Pelosi
Terri McCullough, the first woman to serve in a formal role as chief of staff to a House speaker, worked alongside Pelosi on big policy wins and broke a marble ceiling of her own.
19thnews.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
NEW: I profiled a powerful Democratic woman you’ve likely never heard of: Terri McCullough, @pelosi.house.gov’s longtime outgoing chief of staff, who reshaped the policy + political landscape for women and made history of her own alongside Pelosi 19thnews.org/2025/11/terr...
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“When you do a job like this, your priorities move the day,” Pelosi said. “And her priorities were: ‘How do we do this bill or this commission or this committee that we’re forming … thinking about the women? It’s not always the case around here.”
@gracepanetta.bsky.social reports for @19thnews.org
@gracepanetta.bsky.social reports for @19thnews.org
The woman who made history with Nancy Pelosi
Terri McCullough, the first woman to serve in a formal role as chief of staff to a House speaker, worked alongside Pelosi on big policy wins and broke a marble ceiling of her own.
19thnews.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
“When you do a job like this, your priorities move the day,” Pelosi said. “And her priorities were: ‘How do we do this bill or this commission or this committee that we’re forming … thinking about the women? It’s not always the case around here.”
@gracepanetta.bsky.social reports for @19thnews.org
@gracepanetta.bsky.social reports for @19thnews.org
New: I talked to @replamonica.bsky.social about her decision to get on a train just hours after surgery for uterine fibroids to vote on the government funding bill last week
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A vote too important for Rep. LaMonica McIver to miss
Just hours after surgery for uterine fibroids, the New Jersey Democrat — a target of Trump’s Justice Department — was in Washington to vote last week.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
New: I talked to @replamonica.bsky.social about her decision to get on a train just hours after surgery for uterine fibroids to vote on the government funding bill last week
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"I know everybody sees us today as grown adults, but we are fighting for the children that were abandoned and left behind in the reckoning. This is who you’re fighting for.”
@gracepanetta.bsky.social reports.
@gracepanetta.bsky.social reports.
‘This is who you’re fighting for’: Epstein survivors push for justice for their younger selves
The survivors spoke at the Capitol ahead of a House vote that seeks to compel the Justice Department to release files about the convicted sex offender.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
"I know everybody sees us today as grown adults, but we are fighting for the children that were abandoned and left behind in the reckoning. This is who you’re fighting for.”
@gracepanetta.bsky.social reports.
@gracepanetta.bsky.social reports.
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“I want everybody to take a look,” survivor Haley Robson said. “I know everybody sees us today as grown adults, but we are fighting for the children that were abandoned and left behind in the reckoning. This is who you’re fighting for.”
@gracepanetta.bsky.social via @19thnews.org
@gracepanetta.bsky.social via @19thnews.org
‘This is who you’re fighting for’: Epstein survivors push for justice for their younger selves
The survivors spoke at the Capitol ahead of a House vote that seeks to compel the Justice Department to release files about the convicted sex offender.
19thnews.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
“I want everybody to take a look,” survivor Haley Robson said. “I know everybody sees us today as grown adults, but we are fighting for the children that were abandoned and left behind in the reckoning. This is who you’re fighting for.”
@gracepanetta.bsky.social via @19thnews.org
@gracepanetta.bsky.social via @19thnews.org
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I was one of the four people who got canned.
In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com
In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I was one of the four people who got canned.
In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com
In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com
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New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
November 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
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Calling Tuesday night a “half-dozen scattered elections” shows why everyone needs to follow sites like The Downballot. There were thousands of elections this week, and Dems achieved as close to a clean sweep as is possible. We kept readers informed on dozens and dozens of them.
November 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Calling Tuesday night a “half-dozen scattered elections” shows why everyone needs to follow sites like The Downballot. There were thousands of elections this week, and Dems achieved as close to a clean sweep as is possible. We kept readers informed on dozens and dozens of them.
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New: Women candidates, running on affordability, powered many of Dems’ big wins last night. Aside from the VA and NJ gov races, women made up a large % of those who flipped VA House seats + set a record for women’s representation in that chamber 19thnews.org/2025/11/demo...
Women running on affordability powered Democrats’ night of victories
Democratic women proved effective messengers in an election focused on the rising cost of living and the effects of Trump’s second term.
19thnews.org
November 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
New: Women candidates, running on affordability, powered many of Dems’ big wins last night. Aside from the VA and NJ gov races, women made up a large % of those who flipped VA House seats + set a record for women’s representation in that chamber 19thnews.org/2025/11/demo...
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Democratic Rep. Jared Golden, facing a primary challenge from state Auditor Matt Dunlap, says he won't seek reelection in #ME02
Jared Golden: I won’t seek reelection. Here’s why.
"What I could accomplish in this increasingly unproductive Congress pales in comparison to what I could do in that time as a husband, a father and a son."
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November 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Democratic Rep. Jared Golden, facing a primary challenge from state Auditor Matt Dunlap, says he won't seek reelection in #ME02
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November 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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NEW: Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the state Senate tonight for the first time since 2011.
It came as Democrats flipped 2 Senate seats and 1 House seat.
“Mississippi just broke the supermajority—and the people have taken back their power,” the party says.
It came as Democrats flipped 2 Senate seats and 1 House seat.
“Mississippi just broke the supermajority—and the people have taken back their power,” the party says.
Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:25 AM
NEW: Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the state Senate tonight for the first time since 2011.
It came as Democrats flipped 2 Senate seats and 1 House seat.
“Mississippi just broke the supermajority—and the people have taken back their power,” the party says.
It came as Democrats flipped 2 Senate seats and 1 House seat.
“Mississippi just broke the supermajority—and the people have taken back their power,” the party says.