journalist & screenwriter, working on an oral history of the WNBA. Follow Laura June.
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26 Jun 2024
i'm very excited to share that i'm writing an oral history of the first three decades of the WNBA. can't wait to spend the next year trying to capture these women’s stories and impact. if you know someone i should talk to, or have a story i should hear, email me: wnbabook@gmail
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From the @semafor media newsletter: Totei, a new magazine focused on the creative process, launches tomorrow. Puja Patel is the editorial director, Gaurav Kapadia is the founder. Pieces dropping tomorrow on Holly Herndon, Paul Carmichael, Susan Orlean, and more...
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May 14
saying this on espn during the nba playoffs is honestly just an enormous deal, and deserves all the credit in the world. not hyperbole to say it could be life saving for someone
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Mar 24
Wilson on her championship season and what’s next. vogue.com/article/aja-wilson…
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Jan 29
Rest in peace @dhm, an admirer of Philly and the Big 5. I’ll never forget his laugh and “woo!” in this video when La Salle’s smoke machine went viral. Cancer sucks.
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i loved @dhm's writing and i'll miss it a lot. a blogger's blogger. RIP to a wonderful guy and love to @DefectorMedia defector.com/dan-mcquade-198…
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Jan 24
New video shows that the final act of his life was trying to help a woman who was being physically assaulted by the masked agents who would then kill him.
Jan 24
"The man fatally shot by federal officers in Minneapolis this morning has been identified as Alex Jeffrey Pretti, according to sources familiar with the investigation ... State records show Pretti was issued a nursing license in 2021, and it remains active through March 2026." startribune.com/ice-raids-mi…
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5 Dec 2025
I'm afraid I have to share very sad news about a very nice man: caity.info/blog-1-1/38pemy9n…
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Abdullah Abu Zarqa, one of the children mentioned in this Free Press piece, reportedly died this week at a hospital in Turkey because he didn't get proper medical care in time. Olivia said he wasn't actually starving because he had rickets. Truly appalling journalism
18 Aug 2025
Two weeks ago, I noticed something strange: the same emaciated toddler in Gaza that The New York Times had put on its front page had also appeared in nearly every mainstream outlet. Different news organizations, different photographers, same boy.
So I did something no one else bothered to do: I ran the children’s names through Google Translate and combed Arabic media. What @TanyaLukyanova_ and I found is that nearly every image told the same story: these were kids with cystic fibrosis, rickets, or other serious ailments used by mainstream media to give the false impression of a famine.
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24 May 2025
I wrote for the Guardian’s Saturday magazine about my son Max, who changed how I see the world. Took ages. More jokes after the first bit.
Thanks @meropemills for being the most patient and generous editor.
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22 May 2025
Retweets, replies, comments—having my back out loud means more than you know because predators thrive in silence. cjr.org/feature-2/wesley-low… 4/5
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20 May 2025
My father was a Nazi hunter, until he was killed in the Lockerbie bombing, when I was four. Now, a man will stand trial for the crime. What does it mean, after nearly forty years, to seek justice for the crimes of history? My new cover story for @NYTmag: nytimes.com/2025/05/20/magaz…
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The New York Times really asked Ms. Rachel if she's paid by Hamas: defector.com/the-new-york-ti…
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I can't wait for the Golden State Valkyries to make history tonight, but remember that the Pioneers (1979-81) were SF's first pro women's team. It included Anna Johnson, the first-ever pro women's basketball player from the Bay Area & an Oakland legend: oaklandside.org/2025/05/06/w…
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25 Feb 2025
my book, CHANGEOVER, will be out this summer. read about Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, the end of the Big 3, and pretty much any stray thought about tennis still rattling around my skull
preorder it here 🎾
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30 Jan 2025
Hello! 97% of @NYMagUnion members--including me!-- just signed a pledge to walk out of work if we don’t get a fair contract from @VoxMedia. If you love @NYMag, sign our solidarity pledge to support us in the event of a walkout: nymagunion.org/reader-pledge
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15 Jan 2025
HELLO!!!! I have big news — about Jonathan Lemire!
14 Jan 2025
We’re excited to announce @caityweaver joining The Atlantic as a staff writer, along with @JonLemire and @_alexreisner joining as contributing writers. More info here: theatlantic.com/press-releas…
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9 Jan 2025
In the wake of so many friends losing everything they have, the instinct I see again and again from the people I know is to give everything they have to help. This is the only way forward, it’s so clear. We are inextricably linked. Strength in community and all that. ❤️
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22 Nov 2024
Well, after five years editing and writing features and politics stories for Esquire, I, indeed, received my delayed calendar invite. Yesterday, I along with a couple other Hearst employees, was laid off from a job I loved and was very good at.
21 Nov 2024
Layoffs at Hearst today. Staff got an email saying those impacted would get an HR meeting invite by 9 am. But then President Debi Chirichella noted there’d been some technical difficulties…
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16 Sep 2024
If your soul is tortured, it can be helpful to think of elections not as being between "good" and "bad" candidates, but instead as contests between Enemies and Cowards.
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