Stefania Lugli
@steflugli.bsky.social
journalist, writing about homelessness in kansas • venezuelan • fl native
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Statement from @postguild.bsky.social on the firing of Karen Attiah:
September 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Statement from @postguild.bsky.social on the firing of Karen Attiah:
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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 11:07 AM
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...
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Signal Ohio workers across the state walked off the job for two hours! We're still demanding that our CEO & board members recognize us as one bargaining unit. @newsguild.org
Show your support by sending an email to them here: actionnetwork.org/letters/one-...
📸: Reporters in Akron & Cleveland
Show your support by sending an email to them here: actionnetwork.org/letters/one-...
📸: Reporters in Akron & Cleveland
September 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Signal Ohio workers across the state walked off the job for two hours! We're still demanding that our CEO & board members recognize us as one bargaining unit. @newsguild.org
Show your support by sending an email to them here: actionnetwork.org/letters/one-...
📸: Reporters in Akron & Cleveland
Show your support by sending an email to them here: actionnetwork.org/letters/one-...
📸: Reporters in Akron & Cleveland
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Scoop! Kansas housing programs lost $2.3 million in federal funds, forcing some providers to close programs, eliminate jobs or work at a financial loss. Read more about how these cuts hurt vulnerable Kansans and those serving them: klcjournal.com/doge-federal...
Vulnerable Kansans already struggled to find housing. Federal funding cuts will make it even harder.
When a Kansas state agency was told to cut $2.3 million in housing programs, some closed their doors while others found temporary life rafts.
klcjournal.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Scoop! Kansas housing programs lost $2.3 million in federal funds, forcing some providers to close programs, eliminate jobs or work at a financial loss. Read more about how these cuts hurt vulnerable Kansans and those serving them: klcjournal.com/doge-federal...
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For the last several months, I've been digging through endless scientific literature on what happens when pregnant mothers are exposed to plastic chemicals in their food, water, and everyday household products.
The result is this story.
I hope you'll take the time to read.
wapo.st/4g3ZoFc
The result is this story.
I hope you'll take the time to read.
wapo.st/4g3ZoFc
The health risks from plastics almost nobody knows about
Researchers have linked phthalates, chemicals found in plastics, to premature birth, infertility and ADHD.
wapo.st
September 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
For the last several months, I've been digging through endless scientific literature on what happens when pregnant mothers are exposed to plastic chemicals in their food, water, and everyday household products.
The result is this story.
I hope you'll take the time to read.
wapo.st/4g3ZoFc
The result is this story.
I hope you'll take the time to read.
wapo.st/4g3ZoFc
Scoop! Kansas housing programs lost $2.3 million in federal funds, forcing some providers to close programs, eliminate jobs or work at a financial loss. Read more about how these cuts hurt vulnerable Kansans and those serving them: klcjournal.com/doge-federal...
Vulnerable Kansans already struggled to find housing. Federal funding cuts will make it even harder.
When a Kansas state agency was told to cut $2.3 million in housing programs, some closed their doors while others found temporary life rafts.
klcjournal.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Scoop! Kansas housing programs lost $2.3 million in federal funds, forcing some providers to close programs, eliminate jobs or work at a financial loss. Read more about how these cuts hurt vulnerable Kansans and those serving them: klcjournal.com/doge-federal...
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The National Weather Service will hire as many as 450 people after Elon Musk's DOGE gutted the agency, leaving it dangerously understaffed.
After Dangerous Understaffing Due To DOGE, National Weather Service Hiring 450 People
Meteorologists and climate scientists have warned of consequences with fewer workers in crucial positions.
www.huffpost.com
August 7, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The National Weather Service will hire as many as 450 people after Elon Musk's DOGE gutted the agency, leaving it dangerously understaffed.
Second Light, Wichita’s emerging homeless shelter, is a haven from the elements and a place where you know when you’ll have your next meal. The residents are grateful for that. But they wait for more.
August 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Second Light, Wichita’s emerging homeless shelter, is a haven from the elements and a place where you know when you’ll have your next meal. The residents are grateful for that. But they wait for more.
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Second Light, Wichita’s emerging homeless shelter, faces steep challenges—building a campus while housing residents, uncertain funding, little state support, and earning trust from homeless Wichitans.
✍️ @steflugli.bsky.social
📸 Jeff Tuttle
✍️ @steflugli.bsky.social
📸 Jeff Tuttle
‘We cannot fail’: Wichita’s emerging homeless shelter is finding its footing
The former winter shelter transitioned to a privately-run operation on April 1. Operators are optimistic about its future while shelter residents express frustrations.
klcjournal.com
August 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Second Light, Wichita’s emerging homeless shelter, faces steep challenges—building a campus while housing residents, uncertain funding, little state support, and earning trust from homeless Wichitans.
✍️ @steflugli.bsky.social
📸 Jeff Tuttle
✍️ @steflugli.bsky.social
📸 Jeff Tuttle
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If you are involved in trying to make nonprofit news sustainable, I wrote and reported this story for you!
So much news that deserves our attention right now, but I hope you'll spend some time with my Houston Landing retrospective for @niemanlab.org (1/3)
www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/what...
So much news that deserves our attention right now, but I hope you'll spend some time with my Houston Landing retrospective for @niemanlab.org (1/3)
www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/what...
What went wrong at the Houston Landing?
“We tried to be too much, too fast, for too many people.”
www.niemanlab.org
July 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
If you are involved in trying to make nonprofit news sustainable, I wrote and reported this story for you!
So much news that deserves our attention right now, but I hope you'll spend some time with my Houston Landing retrospective for @niemanlab.org (1/3)
www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/what...
So much news that deserves our attention right now, but I hope you'll spend some time with my Houston Landing retrospective for @niemanlab.org (1/3)
www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/what...
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So Kristi Noem now requires that any FEMA contracts over $100K get her personal signoff.
She didn't authorize search and rescue teams in Texas for more than 72 hours.
www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p...
She didn't authorize search and rescue teams in Texas for more than 72 hours.
www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p...
In Texas flood response, FEMA slowed by Noem’s cost controls | CNN Politics
As monstrous floodwaters surged across central Texas late last week, officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency leapt into action, preparing to deploy critical search and rescue teams and li...
www.cnn.com
July 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
So Kristi Noem now requires that any FEMA contracts over $100K get her personal signoff.
She didn't authorize search and rescue teams in Texas for more than 72 hours.
www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p...
She didn't authorize search and rescue teams in Texas for more than 72 hours.
www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p...
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Musk may have left Washington, but DOGE is continuing its assault on the federal government unabated.
More incredible reporting from the all stars of DOGE reporting @telliotter.bsky.social and @makenakelly.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/next-s...
More incredible reporting from the all stars of DOGE reporting @telliotter.bsky.social and @makenakelly.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/next-s...
This Is DOGE 2.0
Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency is continuing its wholesale assault on federal agencies—even without Musk in government.
www.wired.com
July 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Musk may have left Washington, but DOGE is continuing its assault on the federal government unabated.
More incredible reporting from the all stars of DOGE reporting @telliotter.bsky.social and @makenakelly.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/next-s...
More incredible reporting from the all stars of DOGE reporting @telliotter.bsky.social and @makenakelly.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/next-s...
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"Shortly after 10 a.m., Orozco Forero texted her family member: 'They are going to deport us'
'Nicolle what happened? Nicolle answer me,' they texted back. 'What do I do?'"
An important yet heartbreaking read.
19thnews.org/2025/07/chil...
'Nicolle what happened? Nicolle answer me,' they texted back. 'What do I do?'"
An important yet heartbreaking read.
19thnews.org/2025/07/chil...
After a child care worker is detained by ICE, a community is left reeling
Nicolle Orozco Forero is one of the thousands of immigrant women who provide child care for American children, and one of the few who cares for children with disabilities. Now she and her seriously il...
19thnews.org
July 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"Shortly after 10 a.m., Orozco Forero texted her family member: 'They are going to deport us'
'Nicolle what happened? Nicolle answer me,' they texted back. 'What do I do?'"
An important yet heartbreaking read.
19thnews.org/2025/07/chil...
'Nicolle what happened? Nicolle answer me,' they texted back. 'What do I do?'"
An important yet heartbreaking read.
19thnews.org/2025/07/chil...
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More than 1,000 U.S. counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/new-...
New report maps a “severe” shortage of local journalists in the U.S.
The report from Rebuild Local News and Muck Rack finds that more than 1,000 counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist.
www.niemanlab.org
July 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
More than 1,000 U.S. counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/new-...
my desk neighbor asked if I got a bad phone call because she heard me "muttering" at my desk
... I was not-silently mouthing along to the Wicked soundtrack
... I was not-silently mouthing along to the Wicked soundtrack
June 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
my desk neighbor asked if I got a bad phone call because she heard me "muttering" at my desk
... I was not-silently mouthing along to the Wicked soundtrack
... I was not-silently mouthing along to the Wicked soundtrack
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NEW: Adults fighting kids for clean water, despondent toddlers and a child with swollen feet denied a medical exam - these first-hand accounts from immigrant families are offering a glimpse at conditions in TX detention centers. according to court filing.
apnews.com/article/migr...
apnews.com/article/migr...
New insight into Texas family detention reveals adults fighting kids for clean water
A new court filing in an ongoing legal dispute with the federal government reveals the psychological and physical trauma endured by children and families held at Texas family detention centers.
apnews.com
June 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
NEW: Adults fighting kids for clean water, despondent toddlers and a child with swollen feet denied a medical exam - these first-hand accounts from immigrant families are offering a glimpse at conditions in TX detention centers. according to court filing.
apnews.com/article/migr...
apnews.com/article/migr...
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I know a lot of people just don't really know much about foreign cities, but please imagine how it would go if someone told all of NYC to evacuate "immediately," and then add two million more people to that scenario
President Trump urges all of Tehran to evacuate "immediately" in new social media post as he says Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon.
Iran renews missile attacks on Israel, killing 3 and wounding dozens
Iran has launched a new wave of missile attacks on Israel, triggering air raid sirens across the country as emergency services reported at least three killed and dozens more wounded in the fourth day of open warfare between the regional foes.
bit.ly
June 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I know a lot of people just don't really know much about foreign cities, but please imagine how it would go if someone told all of NYC to evacuate "immediately," and then add two million more people to that scenario
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"Tear gas is banned in international warfare, but it is classified as a 'riot control agent' that law enforcement can use for crowd control."
Tear gas can cause long-term health consequences by making people more susceptible to contracting respiratory illnesses, including COVID.
The chemical agent can also hurt people inside their homes if it seeps into residential neighborhoods. What you need to know (published 2020):
The chemical agent can also hurt people inside their homes if it seeps into residential neighborhoods. What you need to know (published 2020):
Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On
In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and…
www.propublica.org
June 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
"Tear gas is banned in international warfare, but it is classified as a 'riot control agent' that law enforcement can use for crowd control."
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Thousands of Kansans rallied today at the Statehouse in Topeka as part of a nationwide backlash to President Donald Trump, hoisting signs, joining in pro-democracy chants and speaking out against immigration raids.
Via @kansasreflector.com:
lawrenceks.news/400zXxl
Via @kansasreflector.com:
lawrenceks.news/400zXxl
‘Our nation is in distress’: Thousands protest Trump in ‘No Kings’ rally at Kansas Statehouse
Thousands of Kansans rallied Saturday at the Statehouse in Topeka as part of a nationwide backlash to President Donald Trump, hoisting signs, joining in pro-democracy chants and speaking out against i...
lawrenceks.news
June 15, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Thousands of Kansans rallied today at the Statehouse in Topeka as part of a nationwide backlash to President Donald Trump, hoisting signs, joining in pro-democracy chants and speaking out against immigration raids.
Via @kansasreflector.com:
lawrenceks.news/400zXxl
Via @kansasreflector.com:
lawrenceks.news/400zXxl
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Strib lifts paywall for this critical story:
www.startribune.com/brooklyn-par...
www.startribune.com/brooklyn-par...
Live: Rep. Melissa Hortman assassinated, others shot in ‘targeted’ attack
Authorities said suspect impersonated a police officer, and a “manifesto” was recovered with lawmakers’ names.
www.startribune.com
June 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Strib lifts paywall for this critical story:
www.startribune.com/brooklyn-par...
www.startribune.com/brooklyn-par...
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White House: "Violent mobs have attacked ICE officers and Federal Law Enforcement Officers."
LAPD: "Today, demonstrations across the City of Los Angeles remained peaceful."
LAPD: "Today, demonstrations across the City of Los Angeles remained peaceful."
Statement from LAPD regarding protests in the city of Los Angeles.
June 8, 2025 at 2:36 AM
White House: "Violent mobs have attacked ICE officers and Federal Law Enforcement Officers."
LAPD: "Today, demonstrations across the City of Los Angeles remained peaceful."
LAPD: "Today, demonstrations across the City of Los Angeles remained peaceful."
I was invited to write about art!
"On the day of my visit, there was a makeshift bed a dozen feet away. Its maker was absent, but it made me wonder, where do your eyes go in a tunnel like this? Left to glyphics you don’t understand? Or right to a stranger you think you do?"
"On the day of my visit, there was a makeshift bed a dozen feet away. Its maker was absent, but it made me wonder, where do your eyes go in a tunnel like this? Left to glyphics you don’t understand? Or right to a stranger you think you do?"
‘Hobo codes’ public art tracks the past alongside the present
In downtown Wichita, Jeff Best's Hobo Code Railings is tucked beneath an underpass. The art piece celebrates past nomadic life but permanently sits in a place where homelessness is present.
www.shoutwichita.com
June 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I was invited to write about art!
"On the day of my visit, there was a makeshift bed a dozen feet away. Its maker was absent, but it made me wonder, where do your eyes go in a tunnel like this? Left to glyphics you don’t understand? Or right to a stranger you think you do?"
"On the day of my visit, there was a makeshift bed a dozen feet away. Its maker was absent, but it made me wonder, where do your eyes go in a tunnel like this? Left to glyphics you don’t understand? Or right to a stranger you think you do?"
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🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
June 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
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The "fact sheet" associated with this executive order is of course even more deranged and preposterous than the executive order itself. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
June 5, 2025 at 1:33 AM
The "fact sheet" associated with this executive order is of course even more deranged and preposterous than the executive order itself. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...