Patrick deHahn
@pdehello.bsky.social
Hello. International news editor and reporter for hire. Previously The National, Quartz, USA Today, CNN, elsewhere.
📍Brooklyn. He/him, deaf.
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Patrick deHahn
@pdehello.bsky.social
· Oct 17
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My DMs are open, or securely message pdeh.99 on Signal.
And my LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/patrickde...
Got my flu shot today! 💪
The US may be headed for a rough flu season, with a virus that causes more severe symptoms than the one last year and seems to be spreading more rapidly and earlier than usual.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/h...
Early Signs Point to a Harsh Flu Season in the U.S.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Got my flu shot today! 💪
And super helpful for remote workers in newsrooms: "It’s absolutely possible to quickly handle a breaking news event with assignments, push alerts, social posts, fact-checking, copy-editing, publishing all through Slack, and both not be left out as a staffer and getting the story done for readers."
I spoke to @sarah-todd.bsky.social and Jackie Bischof about how I use Slack as a deaf person in journalism—Slack is a very accessible and essential tool! thewritethrough.substack.com/p/turn-off-y...
The case for turning off your Slack notifications
Plus more tips and advice on using Slack in the newsroom
thewritethrough.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
And super helpful for remote workers in newsrooms: "It’s absolutely possible to quickly handle a breaking news event with assignments, push alerts, social posts, fact-checking, copy-editing, publishing all through Slack, and both not be left out as a staffer and getting the story done for readers."
Slack is a very accessible and essential tool for disabled people: "I’ve worked in-person and done video calls, and those settings can sometimes be a challenge, while Slack makes it easy with workflow and assignments done via text."
I spoke to @sarah-todd.bsky.social and Jackie Bischof about how I use Slack as a deaf person in journalism—Slack is a very accessible and essential tool! thewritethrough.substack.com/p/turn-off-y...
The case for turning off your Slack notifications
Plus more tips and advice on using Slack in the newsroom
thewritethrough.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Slack is a very accessible and essential tool for disabled people: "I’ve worked in-person and done video calls, and those settings can sometimes be a challenge, while Slack makes it easy with workflow and assignments done via text."
I spoke to @sarah-todd.bsky.social and Jackie Bischof about how I use Slack as a deaf person in journalism—Slack is a very accessible and essential tool! thewritethrough.substack.com/p/turn-off-y...
The case for turning off your Slack notifications
Plus more tips and advice on using Slack in the newsroom
thewritethrough.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I spoke to @sarah-todd.bsky.social and Jackie Bischof about how I use Slack as a deaf person in journalism—Slack is a very accessible and essential tool! thewritethrough.substack.com/p/turn-off-y...
Reposted by Patrick deHahn
The US may be headed for a rough flu season, with a virus that causes more severe symptoms than the one last year and seems to be spreading more rapidly and earlier than usual.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/h...
Early Signs Point to a Harsh Flu Season in the U.S.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The US may be headed for a rough flu season, with a virus that causes more severe symptoms than the one last year and seems to be spreading more rapidly and earlier than usual.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/h...
Reposted by Patrick deHahn
UPDATED: Washington state epidemiologist on first human infected with H5N5 bird flu strain, different from H5N1 that has been spreading widely: “This is a severely ill patient.” But officials say no change to public health response or guidance. My story. 1/3
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
First U.S. case of human bird flu in 9 months confirmed in Washington state
The U.S. has reported its first human case of bird flu since February, with a confirmed infection in Washington state
www.washingtonpost.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
UPDATED: Washington state epidemiologist on first human infected with H5N5 bird flu strain, different from H5N1 that has been spreading widely: “This is a severely ill patient.” But officials say no change to public health response or guidance. My story. 1/3
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Reposted by Patrick deHahn
One of the most upsetting parts about covering the start of the Covid pandemic was having to report on all the perfectly healthy younger people whose first symptom - very first symptom - was dropping dead of a stroke.
Jay Bhattacharya's plan for a new pandemic is for everyone to suddenly be healthy.
November 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
One of the most upsetting parts about covering the start of the Covid pandemic was having to report on all the perfectly healthy younger people whose first symptom - very first symptom - was dropping dead of a stroke.
Top US military lawyer raised legal concerns about deadly boat strikes in the Caribbean Sea www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Top military lawyer raised legal concerns about boat strikes
The lawyer at U.S. Southern Command, which oversees the operations against alleged drug-smuggling boats near Venezuela, disagreed that the strikes are legal and was overruled, according to six sources...
www.nbcnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Top US military lawyer raised legal concerns about deadly boat strikes in the Caribbean Sea www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Reposted by Patrick deHahn
A counterproductive and unlawful U.S. policy:
Several States have now curtailed counter-narcotics intelligence support and/or called out U.S. boat strikes as illegal:
Canada
Colombia
EU
France
Mexico
Netherlands?
UK
We discuss their legal obligations that forbid support for boat strikes.
Several States have now curtailed counter-narcotics intelligence support and/or called out U.S. boat strikes as illegal:
Canada
Colombia
EU
France
Mexico
Netherlands?
UK
We discuss their legal obligations that forbid support for boat strikes.
Obligation of States to Stop Intelligence Support for U.S. Strikes
The only way States can avoid complicity in “arbitrary killings” under IHRL is to refrain from sharing intelligence that enables them.
www.justsecurity.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A counterproductive and unlawful U.S. policy:
Several States have now curtailed counter-narcotics intelligence support and/or called out U.S. boat strikes as illegal:
Canada
Colombia
EU
France
Mexico
Netherlands?
UK
We discuss their legal obligations that forbid support for boat strikes.
Several States have now curtailed counter-narcotics intelligence support and/or called out U.S. boat strikes as illegal:
Canada
Colombia
EU
France
Mexico
Netherlands?
UK
We discuss their legal obligations that forbid support for boat strikes.
Politico: "The 28-point plan [...] would in its current form require significant concessions from Ukraine, including restraints on its military and giving up major territorial tracts..." www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Witkoff’s back-channel push on Ukraine alarms allies
A 28-point-plan, drafted with Russian input, is the White House’s latest push to end the fighting between Russia and Ukraine.
www.politico.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Politico: "The 28-point plan [...] would in its current form require significant concessions from Ukraine, including restraints on its military and giving up major territorial tracts..." www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Axios: US secretly drafting new plan to end Ukraine war www.axios.com/2025/11/19/u...
Scoop: U.S. secretly drafting new plan to end Ukraine war
"We feel the Russian position is really being heard," Russia's envoy told Axios.
www.axios.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Axios: US secretly drafting new plan to end Ukraine war www.axios.com/2025/11/19/u...
Wow
Hurricane season has just 2 weeks remaining, but so far, for the first time in a decade:
ZERO hurricanes made US landfall
ZERO Gulf hurricanes
ZERO hurricanes made US landfall
ZERO Gulf hurricanes
November 20, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Wow
Reposted by Patrick deHahn
Hurricane season has just 2 weeks remaining, but so far, for the first time in a decade:
ZERO hurricanes made US landfall
ZERO Gulf hurricanes
ZERO hurricanes made US landfall
ZERO Gulf hurricanes
November 18, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Hurricane season has just 2 weeks remaining, but so far, for the first time in a decade:
ZERO hurricanes made US landfall
ZERO Gulf hurricanes
ZERO hurricanes made US landfall
ZERO Gulf hurricanes
Syria condemns Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "illegal visit" to seized territory in the Golan Heights www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
Syria condemns Israeli PM Netanyahu’s ‘illegal visit’ to seized territory
Israel has kept troops in a UN-patrolled buffer zone in the Golan Heights since December's ouster of Bashar al-Assad.
www.aljazeera.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Syria condemns Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "illegal visit" to seized territory in the Golan Heights www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
Reposted by Patrick deHahn
According to Israel's public broadcast news, the talks between the Israeli state and Syria on a new armistice agreement have reached a dead end because Israel is insisting only on withdrawing its occupation army out of southern Syria in exchange for recognition of Israel + control of Golan Heights.
November 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
According to Israel's public broadcast news, the talks between the Israeli state and Syria on a new armistice agreement have reached a dead end because Israel is insisting only on withdrawing its occupation army out of southern Syria in exchange for recognition of Israel + control of Golan Heights.
Beirut plans to file an complaint against Israel for a wall that Lebanon says is inside its territory apnews.com/article/leba...
Beirut to file complaint against Israel for a wall that Lebanon says is inside its territory
Lebanon’s president has asked the country’s foreign minister to work on filing a complaint against Israel for building a wall that Lebanon and the U.N. say is in Lebanese territory.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Beirut plans to file an complaint against Israel for a wall that Lebanon says is inside its territory apnews.com/article/leba...
Israel’s military violates ceasefires with strikes in Lebanon and Gaza, killing dozens of people apnews.com/article/leba...
Israel's military carries out strikes in Lebanon and Gaza, killing dozens of people
The Israeli military has carried out airstrikes in southern Lebanon, targeting what it claims are Hezbollah weapons storage facilities.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Israel’s military violates ceasefires with strikes in Lebanon and Gaza, killing dozens of people apnews.com/article/leba...
Reposted by Patrick deHahn
The IDF laid the groundwork for the destruction of whole cities with the rural 1km border buffer zone and the Netzarim, Philadelphi, and Mefalsim Corridors that it declared and cleared of all structures in 2024, and then the widened buffer zone and Morag and Magen Oz Corridors in spring 2025:
November 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The IDF laid the groundwork for the destruction of whole cities with the rural 1km border buffer zone and the Netzarim, Philadelphi, and Mefalsim Corridors that it declared and cleared of all structures in 2024, and then the widened buffer zone and Morag and Magen Oz Corridors in spring 2025:
Reposted by Patrick deHahn
Here are Rafah and Khan Younis without the Yellow Line overlay, so it's clearer that the area between them is farmland and not undemolished urban neighborhoods
November 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Here are Rafah and Khan Younis without the Yellow Line overlay, so it's clearer that the area between them is farmland and not undemolished urban neighborhoods
Reposted by Patrick deHahn
Central Gaza (Deir al-Balah, Bureij, Nuseirat, prewar population 310,000) has not seen sustained IDF ground operations since early 2024 so it's the most intact, except for the smaller towns of Juhor ad-Duk and Mughraqa that were fully demolished in 2024 for the Netzarim Corridor
November 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Central Gaza (Deir al-Balah, Bureij, Nuseirat, prewar population 310,000) has not seen sustained IDF ground operations since early 2024 so it's the most intact, except for the smaller towns of Juhor ad-Duk and Mughraqa that were fully demolished in 2024 for the Netzarim Corridor
Reposted by Patrick deHahn
In the north, the Gaza City/Jabaliya/Beit Hanoun metro area (prewar population ~1.2 million) has had about two-thirds of its 24-square-mile area demolished: a belt 0.5-1.5 miles deep around Gaza City, Jabaliya reduced to pockets, Beit Hanoun completely gone
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
In the north, the Gaza City/Jabaliya/Beit Hanoun metro area (prewar population ~1.2 million) has had about two-thirds of its 24-square-mile area demolished: a belt 0.5-1.5 miles deep around Gaza City, Jabaliya reduced to pockets, Beit Hanoun completely gone
Reposted by Patrick deHahn
Southern Gaza:
Rafah (left, prewar population 175,000) has been almost completely erased by a year and a half of sustained IDF demolition operations
Khan Younis (right, prewar pop 200,000) has been reduced to two pockets of standing neighborhoods, one still under IDF control and being worked on
Rafah (left, prewar population 175,000) has been almost completely erased by a year and a half of sustained IDF demolition operations
Khan Younis (right, prewar pop 200,000) has been reduced to two pockets of standing neighborhoods, one still under IDF control and being worked on
November 13, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Southern Gaza:
Rafah (left, prewar population 175,000) has been almost completely erased by a year and a half of sustained IDF demolition operations
Khan Younis (right, prewar pop 200,000) has been reduced to two pockets of standing neighborhoods, one still under IDF control and being worked on
Rafah (left, prewar population 175,000) has been almost completely erased by a year and a half of sustained IDF demolition operations
Khan Younis (right, prewar pop 200,000) has been reduced to two pockets of standing neighborhoods, one still under IDF control and being worked on
Reposted by Patrick deHahn
What's left of Gaza:
Black—urban neighborhoods the IDF has fully demolished with earthmovers etc.
White—undemolished urban neighborhoods (with varying levels of major damage from 2 years of bombing, artillery, and ground fighting)
Yellow—IDF-controlled (white areas liable to further demolition)
Black—urban neighborhoods the IDF has fully demolished with earthmovers etc.
White—undemolished urban neighborhoods (with varying levels of major damage from 2 years of bombing, artillery, and ground fighting)
Yellow—IDF-controlled (white areas liable to further demolition)
November 13, 2025 at 9:55 PM
What's left of Gaza:
Black—urban neighborhoods the IDF has fully demolished with earthmovers etc.
White—undemolished urban neighborhoods (with varying levels of major damage from 2 years of bombing, artillery, and ground fighting)
Yellow—IDF-controlled (white areas liable to further demolition)
Black—urban neighborhoods the IDF has fully demolished with earthmovers etc.
White—undemolished urban neighborhoods (with varying levels of major damage from 2 years of bombing, artillery, and ground fighting)
Yellow—IDF-controlled (white areas liable to further demolition)
Reposted by Patrick deHahn
Hani Mahmoud reports on what Palestinians in Gaza think about Trumps 'board of peace' as they struggle to survive.
November 19, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Hani Mahmoud reports on what Palestinians in Gaza think about Trumps 'board of peace' as they struggle to survive.
"This is an existential moment. The international community must not allow Gaza’s future - or the future of the Palestinian people to be decided without their agency and consent. Only an approach rooted in justice, legality, and self-determination can lead to genuine peace."
UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese says the UN Security Council approving a US-led international stabilization force and "board of peace" in Gaza is a "violation" of Palestinian rights and international law.
November 20, 2025 at 4:38 AM
"This is an existential moment. The international community must not allow Gaza’s future - or the future of the Palestinian people to be decided without their agency and consent. Only an approach rooted in justice, legality, and self-determination can lead to genuine peace."