Rebecca McCarthy
@rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social
fellow @grist.org // freelance elsewhere // interviews editor at fullstopmag.bsky.social // mccarthy.ree@gmail.com // rebeccamccarthy.net
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I’m reading at the Kelly Writers House as part of their Truth and Misinformation in the Writing Arts Series: Monday, January 26 at 6:30 PM
January 18, 2026 at 5:55 PM
I’m reading at the Kelly Writers House as part of their Truth and Misinformation in the Writing Arts Series: Monday, January 26 at 6:30 PM
Reposted by Rebecca McCarthy
Federal agents’ use of chemical weapons has hurt children at immigration raids, while walking down their block, and in their schools.
This includes a 6-month-old, whose mother was forced to perform CPR on him after being exposed to ICE's tear gas.
This includes a 6-month-old, whose mother was forced to perform CPR on him after being exposed to ICE's tear gas.
ICE's tear gas sent a 6-month-old to the hospital, the latest in an alarming pattern
Federal agents' use of chemical weapons has hurt children at immigration raids, while walking down their block, and in their schools.
www.motherjones.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Federal agents’ use of chemical weapons has hurt children at immigration raids, while walking down their block, and in their schools.
This includes a 6-month-old, whose mother was forced to perform CPR on him after being exposed to ICE's tear gas.
This includes a 6-month-old, whose mother was forced to perform CPR on him after being exposed to ICE's tear gas.
Reposted by Rebecca McCarthy
Breaking WaPo:
The FBI executed a search warrant this morning at a Post reporter's home as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified materials.
It's highly unusual and aggressive for law enforcement to conduct a search on a reporter's home.
The FBI executed a search warrant this morning at a Post reporter's home as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified materials.
It's highly unusual and aggressive for law enforcement to conduct a search on a reporter's home.
FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporter’s home
The reporter, Hannah Natanson, covers the federal workforce and has been part of The Post’s most sensitive coverage of the first year of the second Trump administration.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Breaking WaPo:
The FBI executed a search warrant this morning at a Post reporter's home as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified materials.
It's highly unusual and aggressive for law enforcement to conduct a search on a reporter's home.
The FBI executed a search warrant this morning at a Post reporter's home as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified materials.
It's highly unusual and aggressive for law enforcement to conduct a search on a reporter's home.
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Pre-order It Is Not Enough to Survive: The Young Patriots Story (5/26) NOW and get 30% off. On sale @UNC_Press til the end of the month.
Featuring: Rednecks, Black Panthers, & Blue Ribbon Beer! Colonel Sanders watching the 1968 DNC riots! High-grade People Power! & more!
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Featuring: Rednecks, Black Panthers, & Blue Ribbon Beer! Colonel Sanders watching the 1968 DNC riots! High-grade People Power! & more!
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January 13, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Pre-order It Is Not Enough to Survive: The Young Patriots Story (5/26) NOW and get 30% off. On sale @UNC_Press til the end of the month.
Featuring: Rednecks, Black Panthers, & Blue Ribbon Beer! Colonel Sanders watching the 1968 DNC riots! High-grade People Power! & more!
Link below⤵️
Featuring: Rednecks, Black Panthers, & Blue Ribbon Beer! Colonel Sanders watching the 1968 DNC riots! High-grade People Power! & more!
Link below⤵️
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"Three-quarters of the world’s forcibly displaced people live in countries that are heavily impacted by climate change, a reflection of the fact that the vast majority of refugees and other humanitarian migrants live in or next to their conflict-battered home countries."
Can Refugees Outrun Both Bullets and Natural Disasters?
An excerpt of Julian Hattem’s forthcoming book, ‘Shelter from the Storm,’ which will be released by The New Press on Jan. 6, 2026.
inkstickmedia.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:26 PM
"Three-quarters of the world’s forcibly displaced people live in countries that are heavily impacted by climate change, a reflection of the fact that the vast majority of refugees and other humanitarian migrants live in or next to their conflict-battered home countries."
in some very exciting good news, my brother and his wife had a beautiful little baby last night!!!
January 9, 2026 at 4:03 PM
in some very exciting good news, my brother and his wife had a beautiful little baby last night!!!
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On the oceanfront pastures of Point Reyes, ranchers once grazed the cattle whose milk was integral to California’s organic food scene. But then their neighbors—the wild tule elk—started showing up dead.
Last Herd on Earth | Lauren Markham
In California, conservation-minded environmentalists go to war against organic milk producers.
thebaffler.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:59 PM
On the oceanfront pastures of Point Reyes, ranchers once grazed the cattle whose milk was integral to California’s organic food scene. But then their neighbors—the wild tule elk—started showing up dead.
Reposted by Rebecca McCarthy
BREAKING:
The White House plans to withdraw the U.S. from the United Nations framework climate treaty, according to reports.
Here's @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social with what we know:
heatmap.news/sparks/us-wi...
The White House plans to withdraw the U.S. from the United Nations framework climate treaty, according to reports.
Here's @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social with what we know:
heatmap.news/sparks/us-wi...
The U.S. Will Exit UN’s Framework Climate Treaty, According to Reports
The move would mark a significant escalation in Trump’s hostility toward climate diplomacy.
heatmap.news
January 7, 2026 at 11:41 PM
BREAKING:
The White House plans to withdraw the U.S. from the United Nations framework climate treaty, according to reports.
Here's @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social with what we know:
heatmap.news/sparks/us-wi...
The White House plans to withdraw the U.S. from the United Nations framework climate treaty, according to reports.
Here's @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social with what we know:
heatmap.news/sparks/us-wi...
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Minneapolis public schools canceled classes officials after Roosevelt High School said armed Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt
Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.
www.mprnews.org
January 8, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Minneapolis public schools canceled classes officials after Roosevelt High School said armed Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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The wealthy Block family who own @post-gazette.com are certainly doing their part to kill off local journalism!!
The newspaper of record of my entire childhood would literally rather die than pay its unionized workers the wages and benefits that the actual Supreme Court of the United States of America decided were owed to them.
NEW: Publishers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announce they are shutting down the newspaper on May 3, 2026.
Hours ago, the Supreme Court of the US declined to extend a stay on a court order for the paper to pay its journalists following the end of a 3-year strike.
Hours ago, the Supreme Court of the US declined to extend a stay on a court order for the paper to pay its journalists following the end of a 3-year strike.
January 7, 2026 at 7:44 PM
The wealthy Block family who own @post-gazette.com are certainly doing their part to kill off local journalism!!
Reposted by Rebecca McCarthy
Days after announcing it would close the Pittsburgh City Paper, Block Communications says it will shut down the daily Post-Gazette. Pittsburgh's other daily, the Tribune-Review, is digital-only but has a print-like replica edition. www.wtae.com/article/pitt...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette closing: Final edition slated for May
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has announced they will be ceasing operations.
www.wtae.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Days after announcing it would close the Pittsburgh City Paper, Block Communications says it will shut down the daily Post-Gazette. Pittsburgh's other daily, the Tribune-Review, is digital-only but has a print-like replica edition. www.wtae.com/article/pitt...
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Ex-Chevron executive seeks $2bn for Venezuelan oil projects ft.trib.al/n8fTMQV
Ex-Chevron executive seeks $2bn for Venezuelan oil projects
Donald Trump’s toppling of President Nicolás Maduro opens door to US investors eyeing world’s largest crude reserve
ft.trib.al
January 5, 2026 at 5:15 AM
Ex-Chevron executive seeks $2bn for Venezuelan oil projects ft.trib.al/n8fTMQV
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we are going to see some extremely ugly copycat landgrabs/kidnappings, not least in the very regions where Trump claims to have brokered ceasefires
Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
January 3, 2026 at 2:41 PM
we are going to see some extremely ugly copycat landgrabs/kidnappings, not least in the very regions where Trump claims to have brokered ceasefires
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Trump has started another American war for oil this time in Venezuela. He is not hiding the real reason why he is attacking Venezuela.
"They took all of our oil from not that long ago and we want it back. But they took it. They illegally took it."
"They took all of our oil from not that long ago and we want it back. But they took it. They illegally took it."
January 3, 2026 at 8:42 AM
Trump has started another American war for oil this time in Venezuela. He is not hiding the real reason why he is attacking Venezuela.
"They took all of our oil from not that long ago and we want it back. But they took it. They illegally took it."
"They took all of our oil from not that long ago and we want it back. But they took it. They illegally took it."
Went back on Here and Now to talk about the privatization of disaster services:
www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
In the growing 'disaster economy,' quick recovery services are available to those who can afford it
As federal disaster services deteriorate, private companies are stepping in to fill the void.
www.wbur.org
December 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Went back on Here and Now to talk about the privatization of disaster services:
www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
Reposted by Rebecca McCarthy
Who actually gets help after a climate disaster? As public recovery systems erode, access to rebuilding increasingly depends on wealth, connections — and a few private companies.
@vox.com via our partners @grist.org / @climatedesk.org: www.vox.com/climate/4735...
@vox.com via our partners @grist.org / @climatedesk.org: www.vox.com/climate/4735...
In America, surviving a disaster increasingly depends on what you can afford
Disaster capitalism isn’t theoretical anymore.
www.vox.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Who actually gets help after a climate disaster? As public recovery systems erode, access to rebuilding increasingly depends on wealth, connections — and a few private companies.
@vox.com via our partners @grist.org / @climatedesk.org: www.vox.com/climate/4735...
@vox.com via our partners @grist.org / @climatedesk.org: www.vox.com/climate/4735...
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What a fucking nightmare. The profit motive remains undefeated in creating new frontiers of Obviously Evil Behavior. Just broadly speaking this is a very lousy way to live. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Insurers Said They Could Return Home. Our Tests Found Neurotoxins in Their Bodies.
A Times investigation has found that insurers are driving families into homes contaminated by smoke. Lab results show how one family was exposed to neurotoxins and carcinogens.
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
What a fucking nightmare. The profit motive remains undefeated in creating new frontiers of Obviously Evil Behavior. Just broadly speaking this is a very lousy way to live. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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WaPo reports that ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people.
Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
WaPo reports that ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people.
Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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We're looking for an editor to join the worker-owned media revolution.
hellgatenyc.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
🚨JOB ALERT🚨 Enjoy writing clever headlines and assigning one-of-a-kind stories? Have an eye for detail and a knack for turning rough copy into sparkling prose? We're looking for another editor to join our small but elite team covering New York City news and culture: hellgatenyc.com/hell-gate-is...
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Oscars attendees always leave with gift bags…But in 2025, they received a grimmer gift: a yearlong subscription to a white-glove disaster recovery service called Bright Harbor, which has grown popular in the wake of the wildfires that devastated Los Angeles last January.
grist.org/economics/wh...
grist.org/economics/wh...
What happens when disaster recovery becomes a luxury good
As federal services deteriorate, a patchwork of private companies is taking their place — for better or for worse.
grist.org
December 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Oscars attendees always leave with gift bags…But in 2025, they received a grimmer gift: a yearlong subscription to a white-glove disaster recovery service called Bright Harbor, which has grown popular in the wake of the wildfires that devastated Los Angeles last January.
grist.org/economics/wh...
grist.org/economics/wh...
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This is how Trump lost his first court fight over offshore wind, as I explain in my story today on the president’s action
December 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This is how Trump lost his first court fight over offshore wind, as I explain in my story today on the president’s action
Also wrote about the new face of disaster capital to close out the Disaster Economy series
grist.org/economics/wh...
grist.org/economics/wh...
What happens when disaster recovery becomes a luxury good
As federal services deteriorate, a patchwork of private companies is taking their place — for better or for worse.
grist.org
December 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Also wrote about the new face of disaster capital to close out the Disaster Economy series
grist.org/economics/wh...
grist.org/economics/wh...
I wrote about Finland’s efforts to grapple with historical treatment of the Indigenous Sámi people
grist.org/indigenous/r...
grist.org/indigenous/r...
Report: Climate is central to truth and reconciliation for the Sámi in Finland
As Finland reckons with its historic mistreatment of the Indigenous Sámi people, climate change complicates the path forward.
grist.org
December 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I wrote about Finland’s efforts to grapple with historical treatment of the Indigenous Sámi people
grist.org/indigenous/r...
grist.org/indigenous/r...