Sarah Kaplan
@sarahkaplan48.bsky.social
Washington Post climate reporter. Guild member. Long-suffering Mets fan. I love all the planets but I write about saving this one.
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Read me: https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/sarah-kaplan
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Chart of the decade, from a new blockbuster reportage on how billionaires took over American politics www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Chart of the decade, from a new blockbuster reportage on how billionaires took over American politics www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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How @washingtonpost.com reporting gets results: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
How @washingtonpost.com reporting gets results: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“If you’re a billionaire, you want to stay a billionaire,” one donor told @bethreinhard.bsky.social about his political spending.
Don't miss this tour-de-force about the unprecedented influence of the ultrarich on American elections and politics.
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Don't miss this tour-de-force about the unprecedented influence of the ultrarich on American elections and politics.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
How billionaires took over American politics
The current concentration of wealth is unlike anything in history. So is billionaires’ involvement in politics.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
“If you’re a billionaire, you want to stay a billionaire,” one donor told @bethreinhard.bsky.social about his political spending.
Don't miss this tour-de-force about the unprecedented influence of the ultrarich on American elections and politics.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
Don't miss this tour-de-force about the unprecedented influence of the ultrarich on American elections and politics.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
An extraordinary work of investigative journalism, revealing how high speeds and larger vehicles, combined with a systemic bias towards cars (and against people in low-income communities) have made U.S. streets so deadly for pedestrians.
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The deadliest roads in America
The number of pedestrians killed by vehicles has increased in the U.S., with road infrastructure and inadequate safety measures among key contributing factors.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
An extraordinary work of investigative journalism, revealing how high speeds and larger vehicles, combined with a systemic bias towards cars (and against people in low-income communities) have made U.S. streets so deadly for pedestrians.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
“It wasn’t just a building; it was our whole history."
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Gazans will return to a shattered city after Israel leveled its high-rises
Israeli bombardment punched large holes in Gaza City’s skyline by repeatedly demolishing high-rise buildings containing hundreds of homes and businesses.
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October 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
“It wasn’t just a building; it was our whole history."
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"This is the place the U.S. government delivered him out of and the place it intends to send him back to."
A must-read from @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social
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A must-read from @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social
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America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.
He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.
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October 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"This is the place the U.S. government delivered him out of and the place it intends to send him back to."
A must-read from @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social
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A must-read from @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social
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An extraordinary story made possible by an unprecedented partnership between Washington Post reporters and readers. It takes immense trust to give a journalist access to your data and your story. My colleagues and I strive to earn and keep that trust every day.
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/int...
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/int...
How TikTok keeps its users scrolling for hours a day
Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.
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October 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
An extraordinary story made possible by an unprecedented partnership between Washington Post reporters and readers. It takes immense trust to give a journalist access to your data and your story. My colleagues and I strive to earn and keep that trust every day.
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/int...
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/int...
Vital, devastating reporting from @megkelly.bsky.social @joyceshlee.bsky.social & co. on the human consequences of President Trump's suspension of foreign aid
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Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.
USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...
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September 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Vital, devastating reporting from @megkelly.bsky.social @joyceshlee.bsky.social & co. on the human consequences of President Trump's suspension of foreign aid
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“We didn’t get any direction or info from him,” said an official who has worked on ~75 FEMA operations. “We never got an email from him. There was definitely no indication that he was involved.”
Staggering reporting from the indomitable Brianna Sacks
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Staggering reporting from the indomitable Brianna Sacks
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As Texas flooded, key staff say FEMA’s leader could not be reached
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s acting administrator, David Richardson, is often inaccessible, several current and former officials say, raising concerns within the agency.
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September 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“We didn’t get any direction or info from him,” said an official who has worked on ~75 FEMA operations. “We never got an email from him. There was definitely no indication that he was involved.”
Staggering reporting from the indomitable Brianna Sacks
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Staggering reporting from the indomitable Brianna Sacks
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“We’re just constantly exposed to a soup of chemicals."
Amazing reporting by @shannonosaka.bsky.social & co. on the plastic pollutants that are almost impossible to avoid -- and whose potential harms we're just beginning to understand.
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Amazing reporting by @shannonosaka.bsky.social & co. on the plastic pollutants that are almost impossible to avoid -- and whose potential harms we're just beginning to understand.
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The health risks from plastics almost nobody knows about
Researchers have linked phthalates, chemicals found in plastics, to premature birth, infertility and ADHD.
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September 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
“We’re just constantly exposed to a soup of chemicals."
Amazing reporting by @shannonosaka.bsky.social & co. on the plastic pollutants that are almost impossible to avoid -- and whose potential harms we're just beginning to understand.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Amazing reporting by @shannonosaka.bsky.social & co. on the plastic pollutants that are almost impossible to avoid -- and whose potential harms we're just beginning to understand.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Lots of brilliant colleagues mark the ends of their Post careers today. But the special thing about this newsroom is its incredible spirit of camaraderie and friendship. Every legend who leaves has mentored countless others who are going to take up the baton. Underestimate us at your own peril.
July 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Lots of brilliant colleagues mark the ends of their Post careers today. But the special thing about this newsroom is its incredible spirit of camaraderie and friendship. Every legend who leaves has mentored countless others who are going to take up the baton. Underestimate us at your own peril.
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The Washington Post offers the most complete view yet of conditions in the El Salvador mega prison where the U.S. is sending migrants. Gift link: wapo.st/3HbPOmE
July 31, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The Washington Post offers the most complete view yet of conditions in the El Salvador mega prison where the U.S. is sending migrants. Gift link: wapo.st/3HbPOmE
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Latest in a string of stories you can read only/first from the @washingtonpost: The federal government is paying more than 154,000 people not to work right now, under the Trump admin's resignation program w/ @merylkornfield.bsky.social @laurameckler.bsky.social
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The federal government is paying more than 154,000 people not to work
Early resignation offers and other programs have reduced the workforce, but critics say the moves are also wasting money.
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July 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Latest in a string of stories you can read only/first from the @washingtonpost: The federal government is paying more than 154,000 people not to work right now, under the Trump admin's resignation program w/ @merylkornfield.bsky.social @laurameckler.bsky.social
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“Unlike shooting or bombing, if killing stops, the dying won’t stop. It’ll still continue for some time,” said Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University.
“Starvation in war like this is a massacre in slow motion.”
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“Starvation in war like this is a massacre in slow motion.”
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Gazans are starving. Here’s what lack of food does to the human body.
Children suffering under severe food shortages can face lifelong consequences.
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July 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
“Unlike shooting or bombing, if killing stops, the dying won’t stop. It’ll still continue for some time,” said Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University.
“Starvation in war like this is a massacre in slow motion.”
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“Starvation in war like this is a massacre in slow motion.”
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“[Children's] small bodies are shutting down — they can’t breathe, their immune systems are collapsing."
Meanwhile, Gaza health authorities say more 1,000 people have been shot and killed trying to access food distribution sites backed by Israel and the US.
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Meanwhile, Gaza health authorities say more 1,000 people have been shot and killed trying to access food distribution sites backed by Israel and the US.
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Mass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger rise
Aid agencies warned for months that Israel’s harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widespread suffering to Gaza’s 2.1 million people.
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July 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
“[Children's] small bodies are shutting down — they can’t breathe, their immune systems are collapsing."
Meanwhile, Gaza health authorities say more 1,000 people have been shot and killed trying to access food distribution sites backed by Israel and the US.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Meanwhile, Gaza health authorities say more 1,000 people have been shot and killed trying to access food distribution sites backed by Israel and the US.
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"I used to chase the truth. Now I chase calories.”
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Journalists Are Starving in Gaza
“I used to chase the truth. Now I chase calories.”
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July 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
"I used to chase the truth. Now I chase calories.”
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www.cjr.org/news/journal...
“We’re living in a climate that we’ve never seen and it keeps throwing us curveballs. How do you plan for the worst thing you’ve never seen?”
In this year of floods, Helene's aftermath holds important lessons about how communities can become more prepared.
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In this year of floods, Helene's aftermath holds important lessons about how communities can become more prepared.
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A new era of floods has arrived. America isn’t prepared.
A Washington Post investigation reveals why so few people evacuated in the state hit hardest by last year’s deadliest disaster.
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July 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
“We’re living in a climate that we’ve never seen and it keeps throwing us curveballs. How do you plan for the worst thing you’ve never seen?”
In this year of floods, Helene's aftermath holds important lessons about how communities can become more prepared.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
In this year of floods, Helene's aftermath holds important lessons about how communities can become more prepared.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Today I'm thinking about this: when Hurricane Helene devastated Appalachia last year, my public radio colleagues in North Carolina, West Virginia, and Southwest Virginia stepped up. They broadcast the emergency alerts. They carried the official press conferences live.
July 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Today I'm thinking about this: when Hurricane Helene devastated Appalachia last year, my public radio colleagues in North Carolina, West Virginia, and Southwest Virginia stepped up. They broadcast the emergency alerts. They carried the official press conferences live.
The world is grim right now, but the universe is still full of wonder. I'm always grateful to @joelachenbach.bsky.social for reminding me of that fact. www.washingtonpost.com/science/inte...
July 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The world is grim right now, but the universe is still full of wonder. I'm always grateful to @joelachenbach.bsky.social for reminding me of that fact. www.washingtonpost.com/science/inte...
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Exclusive: Kerr County, where nearly 100 people were killed and more than 160 remain missing, had the technology to turn every cellphone in the area into a blaring alarm, but officials did not do so before or during the river level rising to record heights.
Kerr County did not use its most far-reaching alert system in deadly Texas floods
Local officials used the system more than two days after the recorded height of the floods.
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July 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Exclusive: Kerr County, where nearly 100 people were killed and more than 160 remain missing, had the technology to turn every cellphone in the area into a blaring alarm, but officials did not do so before or during the river level rising to record heights.
Reposted by Sarah Kaplan
There was no immediate sign the staffing shortages that have wracked the National Weather Service this year contributed to the tragedy in Texas. There are a handful of vacancies at two central Texas forecasting offices, according to a union representing meteorologists.
Live updates: Rescuers search for more than two dozen missing campers after Texas floods killed at least 27
The flooding in Kerr County, Texas, killed 27, while Camp Mystic on the banks of the Guadalupe River had dozens of girls unaccounted for.
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July 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
There was no immediate sign the staffing shortages that have wracked the National Weather Service this year contributed to the tragedy in Texas. There are a handful of vacancies at two central Texas forecasting offices, according to a union representing meteorologists.
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US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammunition as Palestinians seek food in #Gaza.
The AP has obtained videos of a food-distribution site in Gaza and interviewed two American contractors working there.
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The AP has obtained videos of a food-distribution site in Gaza and interviewed two American contractors working there.
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US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza
American contractors guarding aid distribution sites in Gaza are using live ammunition and stun grenades as hungry Palestinians scramble for food, according to accounts and videos obtained by The Asso...
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July 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammunition as Palestinians seek food in #Gaza.
The AP has obtained videos of a food-distribution site in Gaza and interviewed two American contractors working there.
apnews.com/article/pale...
The AP has obtained videos of a food-distribution site in Gaza and interviewed two American contractors working there.
apnews.com/article/pale...
Really helpful overview of what the GOP bill means for people on Medicare & Medicaid, those who get their health insurance on the marketplaces and people who depend on rural & safety net hospitals
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What the GOP’s tax bill means for your health care
Legislation passed by the Senate on Tuesday could affect how people sign up for Medicaid and the insurance marketplaces, and where they can get care.
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July 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Really helpful overview of what the GOP bill means for people on Medicare & Medicaid, those who get their health insurance on the marketplaces and people who depend on rural & safety net hospitals
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Please read this @khoureld.bsky.social story about the consequences of USAID cuts.
Children are dying from starvation on the streets of Sudan — and the food that could save them, already paid for by our government, is languishing in U.S. warehouses.
(No paywall)
Children are dying from starvation on the streets of Sudan — and the food that could save them, already paid for by our government, is languishing in U.S. warehouses.
(No paywall)
In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal
The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.
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June 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Please read this @khoureld.bsky.social story about the consequences of USAID cuts.
Children are dying from starvation on the streets of Sudan — and the food that could save them, already paid for by our government, is languishing in U.S. warehouses.
(No paywall)
Children are dying from starvation on the streets of Sudan — and the food that could save them, already paid for by our government, is languishing in U.S. warehouses.
(No paywall)