Shannon Eblen
@shannoneblen.bsky.social
Philadelphia-based writer and editor.
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries.
When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom.
I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.
When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom.
I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.
weird that neither of these articles two main stories decrying censorship mention WaPo's firing of @karenattiah.bsky.social I guess democracy really does die in darkness
September 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries.
When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom.
I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.
When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom.
I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.
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Just a reminder that there are nearly 400 million guns in the U.S.--that's more firearms than Americans.
What studies reveal about gun ownership in the US | CNN
As the nation continues to endure devastating mass shootings and increasing homicide rates, guns remain a fixture of American culture. Here’s what polls and surveys conducted in recent years tell us a...
www.cnn.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Just a reminder that there are nearly 400 million guns in the U.S.--that's more firearms than Americans.
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It’s weather like this when you really start to realize how many streets have zero trees. ☀️🥵
More funding for more trees! 🌳
More funding for more trees! 🌳
June 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
It’s weather like this when you really start to realize how many streets have zero trees. ☀️🥵
More funding for more trees! 🌳
More funding for more trees! 🌳
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Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
June 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
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This is really well-done.
It’s hard to imagine an American home without Chinese products. Smart visual/color-coded story by NYT of all the many essentials in American homes that are imported almost entirely from China — are likely to become more expensive with the new tariffs
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Your Home Without China
We analyzed import data to show where Americans may see product shortages, fewer choices and price increases.
www.nytimes.com
April 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
This is really well-done.
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We are thrilled to share that our current exhibition, Lunchtime: The History of Science on the School Food Tray, has been highlighted in a recent @nytimes.com article from their Museums Special Section!
Read it here! ⬇️
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/a...
Read it here! ⬇️
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/a...
A Philadelphia Museum Looks at the Food Fights Over School Lunches
A science museum in the city looks back at the history of feeding children in schools and reminds us how fraught the efforts have been for more than 100 years.
www.nytimes.com
April 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
We are thrilled to share that our current exhibition, Lunchtime: The History of Science on the School Food Tray, has been highlighted in a recent @nytimes.com article from their Museums Special Section!
Read it here! ⬇️
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/a...
Read it here! ⬇️
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/a...
“Lunchtime: The History of Science on the School Food Tray" at the Science History Institute examines how this cornerstone of childhood became deeply intertwined with American politics, culture and scientific progress.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/a...
A Philadelphia Museum Looks at the Food Fights Over School Lunches (Gift Article)
A science museum in the city looks back at the history of feeding children in schools and reminds us how fraught the efforts have been for more than 100 years.
www.nytimes.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“Lunchtime: The History of Science on the School Food Tray" at the Science History Institute examines how this cornerstone of childhood became deeply intertwined with American politics, culture and scientific progress.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/a...
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"If the government can disappear any people it wishes, dump them in a Salvadoran dungeon and prevent any court in this country from providing relief, we all should be very, very afraid."
Opinion | Trump’s Gulag Archipelago (Gift Article)
Trump is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants, anywhere in the world.
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"If the government can disappear any people it wishes, dump them in a Salvadoran dungeon and prevent any court in this country from providing relief, we all should be very, very afraid."
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“America isn’t the country she thought it was.”
A British tourist’s nightmare, weeks-long detention by ICE, even as she was trying to leave the US.
Our tourism industry is going to be in deep trouble.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A British tourist’s nightmare, weeks-long detention by ICE, even as she was trying to leave the US.
Our tourism industry is going to be in deep trouble.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
“America isn’t the country she thought it was.”
A British tourist’s nightmare, weeks-long detention by ICE, even as she was trying to leave the US.
Our tourism industry is going to be in deep trouble.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A British tourist’s nightmare, weeks-long detention by ICE, even as she was trying to leave the US.
Our tourism industry is going to be in deep trouble.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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To anyone who is not clear: The First Amendment protected Rumeysa Ozturk when she published her op-ed. The same way it has protected me.
Rule of law means that we should be treated equally.
Rule of law means that we should be treated equally.
March 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
To anyone who is not clear: The First Amendment protected Rumeysa Ozturk when she published her op-ed. The same way it has protected me.
Rule of law means that we should be treated equally.
Rule of law means that we should be treated equally.
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Literally grabbing people off the streets.
SCOOP: Hooded ICE agents snatched Indian-born Georgetown postdoc Badar Suri from Rosslyn street Monday, per court filing. Like Khalil, linked to pro-Palestinian views & Rubio 'foreign policy' power, lawyer says. Then whisked to Louisiana. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Trump is seeking to deport another graduate student who is legally in the country, lawsuit says
Badar Khan Suri, a fellow at Georgetown, says he is being punished because of the suspected views of his wife, a U.S. citizen with Palestinian heritage.
www.politico.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Literally grabbing people off the streets.
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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too?
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My YES vote is *not* an endorsement of this deeply flawed CR.
My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down.
I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.
I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.
My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down.
I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.
I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.
March 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too?
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Republicans’ partisan spending bill turns the federal government into a slush fund for Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
It’s unthinkable that any Senate Democrat would hand them a blank check by voting for cloture.
It’s unthinkable that any Senate Democrat would hand them a blank check by voting for cloture.
March 14, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Republicans’ partisan spending bill turns the federal government into a slush fund for Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
It’s unthinkable that any Senate Democrat would hand them a blank check by voting for cloture.
It’s unthinkable that any Senate Democrat would hand them a blank check by voting for cloture.
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these people swore an oath to defend the constitution but i guess that’s just too hard
Schumer tells me Republicans might try to jam Democrats again in September, but thinks Trump will be less popular then and Republican appropriators might be more willing to stand up to him. He said they refused to do so now.
March 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
these people swore an oath to defend the constitution but i guess that’s just too hard
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Now that Schumer and Dems have abjectly decided to cave, when they scream about the cuts that Musk and Trump continue to undertake in violation of *their own CR,* it will only sound all the more hollow. Great job all around, guys.
March 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Now that Schumer and Dems have abjectly decided to cave, when they scream about the cuts that Musk and Trump continue to undertake in violation of *their own CR,* it will only sound all the more hollow. Great job all around, guys.
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I post one gym pic with an arm flex. Post about men’s confused and harmful reactions to visibility muscular / athletic women.
Now my mentions are in meltdown about trans women in sports.
Deflecting from the actual issue - men’s insecurities and urge to control what women should be or look like.
Now my mentions are in meltdown about trans women in sports.
Deflecting from the actual issue - men’s insecurities and urge to control what women should be or look like.
March 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I post one gym pic with an arm flex. Post about men’s confused and harmful reactions to visibility muscular / athletic women.
Now my mentions are in meltdown about trans women in sports.
Deflecting from the actual issue - men’s insecurities and urge to control what women should be or look like.
Now my mentions are in meltdown about trans women in sports.
Deflecting from the actual issue - men’s insecurities and urge to control what women should be or look like.
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Since writing this article, I have received messages from federal civil servants who tell me it is accurate, and that they are frightened. Please share this with anyone who doesn't understand the scale of the transformation.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in America
www.theatlantic.com
March 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Since writing this article, I have received messages from federal civil servants who tell me it is accurate, and that they are frightened. Please share this with anyone who doesn't understand the scale of the transformation.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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I don't think media is overall meeting this moment (and in some ways it's actively acting in support of facism) but at the same time a lot of what you know is because of hard working reporters and I want you to hold those two ideas in tension with each other.
March 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I don't think media is overall meeting this moment (and in some ways it's actively acting in support of facism) but at the same time a lot of what you know is because of hard working reporters and I want you to hold those two ideas in tension with each other.
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There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵
March 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵
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Between the FAA/Verizon/Starlink contract news and today's NOAA and NWS firings, remember: the privatization is the point (or one of the main ones). This is about enriching the few, not creating efficiency for the many.
Some people were pretty incredulous when we published this before the election www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reports
Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
www.theatlantic.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Between the FAA/Verizon/Starlink contract news and today's NOAA and NWS firings, remember: the privatization is the point (or one of the main ones). This is about enriching the few, not creating efficiency for the many.
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What's behind "Head of Household" voting, or the SAVE Act, which would strip millions of American women of the ability to vote? www.salon.com/2025/02/26/a...
"A woman is like a child": MAGA turns its sights on stripping Republican women of power
Conservative women believe complicity will save them, but an emboldened far-right is gunning for their rights
www.salon.com
February 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
What's behind "Head of Household" voting, or the SAVE Act, which would strip millions of American women of the ability to vote? www.salon.com/2025/02/26/a...
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The reason for “female mice” is because until recently research ignored the differences between men and women which led to treatments that were dangerous or ineffective for women.
Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...
Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies
Such a shift would “put us back in the dark ages in terms of our science,” says neuroscientist Anne Murphy, who helped to formulate the original policy.
www.thetransmitter.org
February 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The reason for “female mice” is because until recently research ignored the differences between men and women which led to treatments that were dangerous or ineffective for women.
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Happy I get to share this: wapo.st/3ERDW7P Story/photos by me for @washingtonpost.com
How I’m living with brain cancer
Rushed to the hospital after a middle-of-the-night seizure, I was initially told the mass removed by surgery was probably benign. It wasn’t.
wapo.st
February 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Happy I get to share this: wapo.st/3ERDW7P Story/photos by me for @washingtonpost.com