Liz Skalka
@lizskalka
journalist & writer, covered political features/2024 for @huffpost, missing the midwest 🇺🇸 🧀
Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
My latest, from Camp Mystic: The story of one teenage counselor's extraordinary courage amid so much loss. Deeply grateful to Ainslie Bashara for sharing. wapo.st/44pck4q
“'It’s Alissa!' my sister screamed. 'I’m with Rosemary. Clay is gone.' The memory of those words will never leave me." @FreshParsley @TexasMonthly texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…
The most haunting story you will read abt the flood. "If I or anyone else had been closer to them, we would have helped her. We would have grabbed one of the kids. But we didn’t know that we were about to be plunged into the water. We simply didn’t know." texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…
Amy Acton's leadership during Covid catapulted her national profile. But within just a few months, Acton had resigned as health director -- later citing the political pressure to sign health orders. Now she's back, and running for office. politico.com/news/magazine/…
“A leader has to maximize the best outcomes you can get with what you have as your reality.” tinyurl.com/4c2vs5zf
Covid times elevated a host of unlikely voices from the trenches of public health and medicine, including Ohio’s Amy Acton, who now wants to be the state’s next governor. My dispatch for @POLITICOMag: politi.co/45LiI7d
Can ‘Ohio’s Anthony Fauci’ Stage a Political Comeback? politico.com/news/magazine/… Great feature by @lizskalka on Amy Acton, the politician whose campaign is inherently forcing voters to remember life during the early days of the pandemic
Police in Ohio have arrested a suspect in an incident that Rep. Max Miller reported Thursday as an attempt to run him off a Cleveland-area interstate while waving a Palestinian flag, hurling antisemitic insults and threatening to kill him and his daughter. nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
"It is a slippery thing, this two weeks — not a measurement of time so much as a placeholder ... It is completely divorced from any sense of chronology. It simply means later. But later can also mean never." nytimes.com/2025/06/19/wor…
Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate.
‘WTF With Marc Maron’ To End After Over 15 Years deadline.com/2025/06/wtf-wi…
JUST IN: Tyler was the grandson -- yes, you read that right, the grandson -- of John Tyler, who was U.S. president from 1841 to 1845.
Harrison Ruffin Tyler, the grandson of the 10th U.S. president, has died richmonder.org/harrison-ruffi…
This deeply fascinating dive into the Idaho pastor growing in influence in DC circles by @ianwardreports is a must read. Here’s how pastor Wilson describes his vision of a theocracy: politico.com/news/magazine/…
The GOP’s current trans obsession wasn’t inevitable — or even likely. But Terry Schilling saw the possibilities. And he had data. via @lizskalka notus.org/the-influencer…
a delight to get to publish @lizskalka this morning notus.org/the-influencer…
The Philadelphia Inquirer, founded on June 1, 1829, is in the new media seat in the White House pool tomorrow. The Inquirer is the third-longest continuously operating paper in America.
NEW for @POLITICOMag's Media Issue: How Trump's Gen Z press secretary used a failed congressional campaign to vault her way into Trump's inner circle. politico.com/news/magazine/…