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Sarah Szilagy 🌱
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Journalist at large, focused on education, gender, the courts / recently: @motherjones.com / Szilagy.14 on Signal or sarahszilagy@protonmail.com
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This article I had published at @motherjones.com in January feels very relevant with federal special ed office layoffs. Project 2025 targeted disability education services. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Project 2025's plan to dismantle public education—and screw over disabled kids
Nearly nine million students rely on DOE-backed disability accommodations.
www.motherjones.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Mary Retta on the Trump admin's attacks on higher ed and diversity itself, from the "compact" to their hostility enabling colleges to seemingly stonewall their unions and dispose of roles @teenvogue.com

"I think the numbers of Black and certain other minoritized students and faculty will decrease.”
How The Trump Admin's Attack on Higher Education and DEI Are Impacting Campuses
Several colleges throughout the United States have eliminated funding, offices, and even staff associated with "DEI" — inspired in part by the Trump administration’s bluster.
www.teenvogue.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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“We were treated like digital peasants.”

What happened after FTX’s collapse? Read @revealnews.org's investigation into the untold tale of a bankruptcy that has ballooned into one of the biggest in US history, and the lawyers and opportunists who have profited from the carnage.
Sam Bankman-Fried and the multibillion-dollar drama over FTX’s ruins
In exclusive prison interviews, the convicted crypto king is still fighting to control the narrative ahead of a high-stakes appeal.
www.motherjones.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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FTX’s collapse wasn’t just about Sam Bankman-Fried. It’s about billions in customer money, a high-powered law firm steering the case, and who really profits when companies implode.

🎧 Listen to part 1 of our new series with @motherjones.com:
Sam Bankman-Fried recounts FTX’s collapse and why he feels he was wrongly convicted of fraud
Through exclusive prison interviews with Sam Bankman-Fried and others, we put fresh eyes on the dramatic collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
revealnews.org
September 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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"Of course, I am not K, but I find myself uncannily identified with his predicament." Judith Butler's open letter to UC Berkeley.
Kafka-land at UC Berkeley
The 160 members of the university notified that their names were forwarded to the DOE's Office for Civil Rights were not informed of any specific allegations against them.
www.thenation.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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"It is often the case that the individuals who commit political violence in this country have incoherent ideological backgrounds. They don’t have clear manifestos, nor do they come from a background that signals attachment to one party or the other." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Both the Left and Right are targeted by political violence. Who perpetrates it?
"What really connects these folks is not a coherent ideology."
www.motherjones.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Questions about their fate swirled after the government's July deadline for destruction came and went. Then came a false report they'd been incinerated. Aid groups say it's not too late to save them.
The U.S. says it will burn $9.7 million of birth control. Its fate is still unclear
Questions about their fate swirled after the government's July deadline for destruction came and went. Then came a false report they'd been incinerated. Aid groups say it's not too late to save them.
n.pr
September 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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My story on (some of) the misinformation in the last 48 hours:
September 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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This is from my last story as a fellow at Mother Jones. As someone who arrived at journalism via career switch, I've used it as a vehicle to reflect on questions in my own life—namely, what family, community, and solidarity mean to me. A little on the ones I’m most proud of below:
August 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Rampant mosquitoes swarming the tents. Leaks after summer rainstorms. Excessive heat. And hurricane season around the corner. This is life in "Alligator Alcatraz."

@lauracmorel.bsky.social reports:
August 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
For my last story as a fellow at @motherjones.com, I got to do what I love most: Talk to regular people about the impacts federal policy has on their day-to-day lives. I'm so grateful to the people who shared their worries and stories of student debt with me. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Interest on student loans for low-income borrowers is about to skyrocket
As Trump guts the SAVE program, "I feel like we're holding our breath while watching a train crash."
www.motherjones.com
August 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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“Walking corpses”: Israel's blockade starves Gazans, aid groups say

“People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses.”

Here's a rundown on what to know @motherjones.com. Be warned that the latest images we have from Gaza are disturbing.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“Walking corpses”: Israel's blockade starves Gazans, aid groups say
"People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses."
www.motherjones.com
July 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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"The Trump administration has increased travel bans, detention space and daily arrest goals. Elected officials have been wrestled to the floor and handcuffed... Meanwhile, millions of noncitizens remain in the shadows, wanting to be left alone to earn a better living for their families."
Why This Guatemalan Family Is Hiding From ICE This Summer in St. Louis, Missouri
They say returning to Guatemala isn’t an option — even if they are forced to.
www.themarshallproject.org
July 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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How exactly will RFK Jr. and his allies wreck the US's vaccine infrastructure? From sabotaging the federal vaccine court to attacking the supply system, this is the plot to make Kennedy's anti-vaccine crusade our national nightmare.

"If he gets what he asks for, I hope he lives to regret it.”
The plot against vaccines
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his allies have hit on a way to undermine immunization.
www.motherjones.com
July 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
are you enrolled in the SAVE plan for student loans and facing confusion or financial distress at the prospect of upcoming interest charges or changing loan repayment plans? I’d love to talk to you for @motherjones.com. reach me at sszilagy@cir.org or securely (info in my bio).
July 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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New @motherjones.com: Is the FDA about to keep pregnant women from taking antidepressants?

Yesterday they quietly convened a panel whose participants suggested that women just feel emotions more deeply than men & that SSRIs cause autism (false).

Meanwhile, mothers' mental health is plummeting.
Is the FDA about to keep pregnant women from taking antidepressants?
A panel of experts repeated what one women's health expert called "MAHA talking points."
www.motherjones.com
July 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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As CEO of Microsoft AI, Mustafa Suleyman wants everyone to have their own AI assistant. But MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle warns about forming emotional connections with AI.

This is part 2 of TED Radio Hour's "Prophets of Technology," featuring conversations with those crafting our digital world.
A tech CEO and a psychologist weigh in on AI chatbots : TED Radio Hour
As AI infiltrates every aspect of our lives, who are some of the people behind this huge inflection point? In this special three-part series, you'll hear from the people predicting and shaping our tech future. Host Manoush Zomorodi reports on the latest and revisits her favorite conversations with the minds crafting the digital world we live in today: what they've gotten right — and wrong — and where they think we're headed next. Part 2 features Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman and MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle. For handpicked podcast recommendations every week, subscribe to NPR's Pod Club newsletter at npr.org/podclub. TED Radio Hour+ subscribers now get access to bonus episodes, with more ideas from TED speakers and a behind-the-scenes look with our producers. A subscription also lets you listen to regular episodes (like this one!) without sponsors. Sign up at plus.npr.org/ted.
n.pr
July 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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The National Weather Service sent urgent alerts about potentially life-threatening danger hours in advance of the flash floods, leaving time to try to evacuate those in harm’s way.

In Texas, some local officials did just that. But others did not.

Read @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social's story:
Some Texas Officials Didn’t Respond to Flood Alerts, Echoing the Tragedies of Hurricane Helene
Weather warnings predicted devastation from both the Texas floods and Hurricane Helene. But in both disasters, people were left in harm’s way.
www.propublica.org
July 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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NEW: Jordan Lasker recently made news by leaking hacked admissions data about Zohran Mamdani.

Our investigation shows a Reddit user who posted highly specific details that fit with his offline life once wrote: “I actually am a Jewish White Supremacist Nazi.”

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The shocking rise of one of the tech right’s favorite posters
After he leaked Zohran Mamdani’s Columbia application data to the New York Times, critics called Jordan Lasker a “eugenicist.” A Mother Jones report shows there’s much more to his backstory.
www.motherjones.com
July 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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One person died in federal prison after being kept in restraints for over two days. Another was restrained so tightly that part of a limb had to be amputated.

A new report by the Justice Department’s internal watchdog comes after investigations by The Marshall Project & NPR exposed similar abuses.
Shackled For Days and Weeks: A Federal Report Finds Widespread Abuse in Prisons
The report, by the Justice Department’s internal watchdog, comes after an investigative series by The Marshall Project and NPR exposed similar abuses.
www.themarshallproject.org
July 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Powerful visual story about a transgender asylum seeker from Honduras who fled to the U.S. due to safety concerns—and is now fleeing because of Trump.

"The U.S. is no longer a free country,” she said. “When it changes, I’ll go back.”

www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
An asylum seeker abandons her claim and leaves Trump’s America
Kataleya Nativi Baca, permitted in 2021 to stay in the country while her claim was being decided, was awaiting an interview with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Shortly after President Trump was sworn in for his second term, videos of ICE raids began to surface across social media — from every corner of the U.S.
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July 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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New for @motherjones.com

“Rap music has provided opportunities for artists coming from marginalized backgrounds to express their hopes, their aspirations, but also their frustrations [and] their political views,” says Chad Williams.

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Listen to the Trump-referencing Clipse track Universal Music allegedly tried to censor
To stay in Trump's good graces, the label reportedly demanded cuts to the duo's collab with Kendrick Lamar—so they left.
www.motherjones.com
July 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Ohio really is the heart of it all 😌
July 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Budapest's streets overflowed with Pride marchers on Saturday, despite the Orban regime's threats of legal consequences. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Hungary banned Pride events. Thousands marched anyway.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said those who attended should face “legal consequences.”
www.motherjones.com
June 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM