Lauren Wolfe
@Wolfe321
Journalist with 20+ yrs on the war and trauma beat. Editing at CPJ. Chills: http://chills.substack.com. I have concepts of a plan.
My pinned tweet seems to have disappeared, so here is the story I worked on for 6+ years, upon arrests, pre-convictions for crimes against humanity, for the rape of ~50 little girls, aged 18 months-11 years theguardian.com/world/2016/aug…
Hahahaha is there really even a scale anymore?
This isn’t just a scandal—it could be the biggest state-level cover-up in modern history. - Trump told the public to “move on.” - The DOJ said the case was closed. - But Trump is in the files. The DOJ told him. - The FBI secretly searched every doc for his name. A Thread: 🧵
I, for one, am shocked.
Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files on.wsj.com/4mcTIKV
Real question: What’s the “scam” Trump is alleging about the Epstein case?
CPJ: Israel is starving Gazan journalists into silence. Incredibly disturbing reports of journalists fainting on air and being unable to work cpj.org/2025/07/cpj-is…
Agence France-Presse released a statement today saying that their journalists in Gaza are now too weak to work. There are so very few journalists covering the war — this is a blow to press freedom as well as just plain devastating
The crazy thing is I have to wonder if this ISN'T real
Trump is posting random videos of a girl in a bikini catching a snake
Oh wow. An appeals court just overturned the guilty verdict of the man convicted in the 1979 Etan Patz case
Journalists in Syria are under attack as violence continues to tear through the country. This video is frightening facebook.com/watch/?mibexti…
Memories of miasmic clouds of Drakkar Noir surrounding adolescent boys at high school lockers pervade my nightmares. But right now, I am on a quest, and scent is my happy place. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/an-exquisite…
Idiotic. The coconspirator "regularly asked Slater for classified information. In one message she wrote, “Dave, I hope tomorrow NATO will prepare a very pleasant ‘surprise’ for (Russian President Vladimir) Putin! Will you tell me?” apnews.com/article/slater…
Pulitzer Prize-winner Adam Zyglis published a cartoon of a man in a MAGA cap being swept away in the Texas floodwaters holding up a sign that reads “Help” and a speech bubble floating downstream says: “Gov’t is the problem not the solution.”apnews.com/article/texas-…
On a scale of 1929-1937 what’s your stress levels these days
So not only have abortion bans not reduced the number of abortions—they’ve increased the number of later abortions!
A brutal and eloquent story about the search for bodies in Texas by @arelisrhdz. "It was hard bec the exposed bark resembled a shade like some human flesh where they had been stripped bare by violent collisions with RVs, cars, tin roofs & kitchen tables." washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/07…
As of today, we've counted a massive number of arrests of journalists in the Palestinian territories since the start of the war: 90. 84 of them are Palestinian. cpj.org/2023/10/arrest…
