Cameron Peters
@jcameronpeters.bsky.social
Vox staff editor covering politics + policy, researcher, runner, PNW transplant
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November 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Astead Herndon breaks down Zohran Mamdani's victory in the New York City mayoral race on Tuesday, where he became the first Muslim and first South Asian mayor in the city’s history.
Why Zohran Mamdani’s victory will resonate beyond New York City
Vox’s Astead Herndon explains why Zohran Mamdani’s win matters for Democrats.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Astead Herndon breaks down Zohran Mamdani's victory in the New York City mayoral race on Tuesday, where he became the first Muslim and first South Asian mayor in the city’s history.
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Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.
www.vox.com/health/46008...
www.vox.com/health/46008...
Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.
Kennedy wants to “Make America Healthy Again” — but doesn’t want you to see a report that could do just that.
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September 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.
www.vox.com/health/46008...
www.vox.com/health/46008...
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After delivering a strike threat and negotiating until 5am, our members at @VoxMediaUnion.bsky.social have UNANIMOUSLY ratified a new union contract 🎉 Highlights from the contract include guaranteed general wage increases, protections from GAI, a new layoff process and improvements to PTO.
June 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
After delivering a strike threat and negotiating until 5am, our members at @VoxMediaUnion.bsky.social have UNANIMOUSLY ratified a new union contract 🎉 Highlights from the contract include guaranteed general wage increases, protections from GAI, a new layoff process and improvements to PTO.
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The Vox Media Union’s current union contract expires at 11:59 pm ET on June 12.
Time is running out, but Vox Media management has refused to even discuss our proposals in good faith. Send a letter urging Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff to negotiate a fair contract NOW! wgaea.st/vox-letter
Time is running out, but Vox Media management has refused to even discuss our proposals in good faith. Send a letter urging Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff to negotiate a fair contract NOW! wgaea.st/vox-letter
Help union members at Vox Media win a fair contract
Writers Guild of America East members at Vox Media are bargaining for a new union contract before their current CBA expires at 11:59 pm ET on June 12. Our proposed terms are fair, reasonable, and foc...
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June 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The Vox Media Union’s current union contract expires at 11:59 pm ET on June 12.
Time is running out, but Vox Media management has refused to even discuss our proposals in good faith. Send a letter urging Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff to negotiate a fair contract NOW! wgaea.st/vox-letter
Time is running out, but Vox Media management has refused to even discuss our proposals in good faith. Send a letter urging Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff to negotiate a fair contract NOW! wgaea.st/vox-letter
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This is very bad
Once they start screwing with the data, that’s the whole ballgame
Once they start screwing with the data, that’s the whole ballgame
Trump officials delayed farm trade report over deficit forecast
Administration officials blocked publication of written analysis that normally accompanies the report because they disliked what it said about the deficit.
www.politico.com
June 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This is very bad
Once they start screwing with the data, that’s the whole ballgame
Once they start screwing with the data, that’s the whole ballgame
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The Vox Media Union just delivered our strike pledge to Vox management, showing our unwavering commitment to securing a collective bargaining agreement that is fair. Should we not get a fair contract, we are prepared to strike.
June 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The Vox Media Union just delivered our strike pledge to Vox management, showing our unwavering commitment to securing a collective bargaining agreement that is fair. Should we not get a fair contract, we are prepared to strike.
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The following is a statement of support for @voxmediaunion.bsky.social WGAE members at SB Nation and Vox Media from MLBPA, MLSPA, NFLPA, NHLPA, NWSLPA, PHPA, USLPA, & WNBAPA.
June 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The following is a statement of support for @voxmediaunion.bsky.social WGAE members at SB Nation and Vox Media from MLBPA, MLSPA, NFLPA, NHLPA, NWSLPA, PHPA, USLPA, & WNBAPA.
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Protected bike lanes have a near-magical ability to produce cyclists.
This new study of 28 US cities finds that census block groups w/protected bike lanes expanded bike commuting almost 2x faster than those w/standard bike lanes & >4x faster than those w/o new lanes.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
This new study of 28 US cities finds that census block groups w/protected bike lanes expanded bike commuting almost 2x faster than those w/standard bike lanes & >4x faster than those w/o new lanes.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
June 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Protected bike lanes have a near-magical ability to produce cyclists.
This new study of 28 US cities finds that census block groups w/protected bike lanes expanded bike commuting almost 2x faster than those w/standard bike lanes & >4x faster than those w/o new lanes.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
This new study of 28 US cities finds that census block groups w/protected bike lanes expanded bike commuting almost 2x faster than those w/standard bike lanes & >4x faster than those w/o new lanes.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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The kids are not the problem
June 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The kids are not the problem
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If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade
May 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade
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Standing up for the silent majority of voters who celebrate and treasure their right as Americans to owe $11,000 for getting rushed to the hospital on one of the worst days of their lives. It's called "being moderate" and it's how you win elections.
NEW: Gov Jared Polis (D) has vetoed a bill banning surprise billing by ambulance companies. The bill passed the Colorado legislature by *unanimous* votes in both chambers. #copolitics
May 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Standing up for the silent majority of voters who celebrate and treasure their right as Americans to owe $11,000 for getting rushed to the hospital on one of the worst days of their lives. It's called "being moderate" and it's how you win elections.
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“Napoleon ended his speech with a reminder of Boxer's two favourite maxims, ‘I will work harder’ and ‘Comrade Napoleon is always right’—maxims, he said, which every animal would do well to adopt as his own.” — George Orwell, “Animal Farm”
Kevin Hassett on tariffs: "President Trump has a hat which is the accurate response to what that person said, which is 'Trump always wins.' A lot of people are wearing that hat, and 'Trump was always right.' But Trump does always win these negotiations."
May 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
“Napoleon ended his speech with a reminder of Boxer's two favourite maxims, ‘I will work harder’ and ‘Comrade Napoleon is always right’—maxims, he said, which every animal would do well to adopt as his own.” — George Orwell, “Animal Farm”
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When I give FOIA talks, students ask me how to generate ideas for requests. Well, just read news stories and wait for public officials to blurt out something that makes you think, "Oh really?"
May 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
When I give FOIA talks, students ask me how to generate ideas for requests. Well, just read news stories and wait for public officials to blurt out something that makes you think, "Oh really?"
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for:
"As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."
"As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."
May 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for:
"As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."
"As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."
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A man pulled up to a gas station to fill up his truck. ICE agents surrounded him and took him away. But his children were left behind.
“They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.”
www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...
“They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.”
www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...
ICE raids have 'overwhelmed' coastal California communities
Communities in three California counties "overwhelmed" as ICE raids ramp up in the region.
www.sfgate.com
May 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
A man pulled up to a gas station to fill up his truck. ICE agents surrounded him and took him away. But his children were left behind.
“They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.”
www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...
“They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.”
www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...
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Federal agents' seemingly universal adoption of neck gaiters worn just below the eyes like they're robbing the railroad is emblematic of this time in the US
🚨 ICE activity reports for 5/9:
Activity reported at
- Fort Totten Dr & Gallatin St NE at 8:00AM
- 5 officers - 3 ATF, others federal police
- 4 unmarked black cars with VA tags
- At least one person detained
Activity reported at
- Fort Totten Dr & Gallatin St NE at 8:00AM
- 5 officers - 3 ATF, others federal police
- 4 unmarked black cars with VA tags
- At least one person detained
May 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Federal agents' seemingly universal adoption of neck gaiters worn just below the eyes like they're robbing the railroad is emblematic of this time in the US
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NEW: @nbcnews.com confirmed last night that the Trump admin almost sent a dozen men from Vietnam, the Philippines, Laos, and Mexico to Libya, a country described as a “hellscape” for migrants where some have been SOLD INTO SLAVERY and many have been subjected to extraordinary horrors.
May 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
NEW: @nbcnews.com confirmed last night that the Trump admin almost sent a dozen men from Vietnam, the Philippines, Laos, and Mexico to Libya, a country described as a “hellscape” for migrants where some have been SOLD INTO SLAVERY and many have been subjected to extraordinary horrors.
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dunno man it's small but in his 1st homily, Leo XIV seems to be coming for American white evangelicals and American Catholics' cozying up to them
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
May 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
dunno man it's small but in his 1st homily, Leo XIV seems to be coming for American white evangelicals and American Catholics' cozying up to them
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
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i think this shit is an affront to this country and its traditions
Constitution Avenue has been selected as the main route for Trump’s Jun. 14 military parade, so for once “trampling on Constitution” will be more than a metaphor for him.
Here's what we know about Trump's June 14 D.C. military parade
From the route to the music, permit applications give us a glimpse into the spectacle.
www.axios.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
i think this shit is an affront to this country and its traditions
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The new Pope didn't tweet once in 2024. In 2025, he's posted 5 times, in which he:
- Criticized JD Vance's views on Catholicism and Jesus
- Posted an article opposing Trump's immigration policies
- Retweeted twice about the Pope's health
- Retweeted a criticism of Trump & Bukele's laughter at KAG.
- Criticized JD Vance's views on Catholicism and Jesus
- Posted an article opposing Trump's immigration policies
- Retweeted twice about the Pope's health
- Retweeted a criticism of Trump & Bukele's laughter at KAG.
May 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The new Pope didn't tweet once in 2024. In 2025, he's posted 5 times, in which he:
- Criticized JD Vance's views on Catholicism and Jesus
- Posted an article opposing Trump's immigration policies
- Retweeted twice about the Pope's health
- Retweeted a criticism of Trump & Bukele's laughter at KAG.
- Criticized JD Vance's views on Catholicism and Jesus
- Posted an article opposing Trump's immigration policies
- Retweeted twice about the Pope's health
- Retweeted a criticism of Trump & Bukele's laughter at KAG.
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gotta be the first pope who conceivably has tried malort
May 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
gotta be the first pope who conceivably has tried malort
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Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk:
-Is not accused of committing any crime
-Is nonviolent
-Was in this country legally
-Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to
-Has been locked up for six weeks
-Is not accused of committing any crime
-Is nonviolent
-Was in this country legally
-Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to
-Has been locked up for six weeks
Now from Öztürk’s ACLU lawyer Esha Bhandari:
“Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is unprecedented and shocking. She has been held behind bars for six weeks while her health deteriorates for writing an op-ed.”
“Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is unprecedented and shocking. She has been held behind bars for six weeks while her health deteriorates for writing an op-ed.”
May 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk:
-Is not accused of committing any crime
-Is nonviolent
-Was in this country legally
-Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to
-Has been locked up for six weeks
-Is not accused of committing any crime
-Is nonviolent
-Was in this country legally
-Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to
-Has been locked up for six weeks
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JUST IN: Judge HOWELL rules forcefully in favor of Perkins Coie against Trump's punitive executive order, comparing him to a Shakespearean character who famously called to "kill all the lawyers" in order to amass power.
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
May 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
JUST IN: Judge HOWELL rules forcefully in favor of Perkins Coie against Trump's punitive executive order, comparing him to a Shakespearean character who famously called to "kill all the lawyers" in order to amass power.
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...