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Mike Soraghan

@mikesoraghan.bsky.social

Reporter at E&E News. Husband. Dad. Person of Evie and Duncan. Reposts do not connote comprehension.

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PEN Guild@pen-guild.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Months after telling staff that the E&E News brand was not going away, POLITICO is shuttering six publications. A statement from PEN Guild's leadership: This is unacceptable.

On January 29, as we were discussing buyouts for the energy and environment teams, Joe Schatz told PEN Guild union leaders “The brands and the publications are not going away. We are looking to sharpen their missions.” Today, he told us that E&E News as we know it is gone. Energywire, Climatewire, Greenwire, E&E News PM, E&E News Daily, PowerSwitch--six publications are being killed this summer. This is information that management should have had, and should have told us, while our colleagues were making the decision about taking a buyout earlier this year. PEN Guild’s Labor Management Committee has questioned POLITICO monthly since January--including Jonathan Greenberger himself--about the vision for the newly combined energy and environment teams. At no point was sunsetting the E&E News publications ever mentioned--not even at our most recent meeting on Thursday, June 4. And yet somehow Semafor had the exclusive at 9:17 a.m. today. This is the second time management has lied to employees in six months--the first being when John Harris said in December there would be no layoffs at the company, only to lay off some managers a month later. Management says that none of us should be shocked, that change is part of the news business, that they did not lie and that they only finalized this new plan last week. And yet the question remains why such ground-shattering, publication-killing plans were not part of the “new vision” management announced in January? Why were our subscribers only surveyed in May? This is not leadership. This is unacceptable.Bild
Phelim Kine@phelimkine.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"The newest round of sanctions takes explicit aim at China's intake of Iranian oil, potentially ratcheting up tensions with Beijing ahead of the Trump-Xi Jinping summit next month" w/ @mikesoraghan.bsky.social @politico.com subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

POLITICO Pro: US targets China with sanctions on refinery and 'shadow fleet'

The Treasury Department sanctions target a Chinese refinery and about 40 shipping companies and ships the department says operate as part of Iran's so-called shadow fleet.

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Bill Kuchman@billkuchman.bsky.social · 5mo ago

After almost 15 years, today is my last day at POLITICO. I’m on the hunt for my next challenge. If you’re looking for a designer/illustrator/editor/writer with almost 20 years of media experience, let me know. The newsletters live on! (I’d love it if you bought a subscription to The Omnicosm.)

The Omnicosm | The home of Snackology, Popculturology and The Cold Open

Newsletters about snacks/fast food/candy, pop culture and SNL

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Jennifer Yachnin@yachnin.bsky.social · 7mo ago

My colleague @mikesoraghan.bsky.social with a great explainer on why the global crude glut complicates the president's plans to "get reimbursed for everything that we spend" in Venezuela. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

E&E News: Trump’s Venezuela gambit relies on oil boom for payback

A global crude glut complicates the president's plans to "get reimbursed for everything that we spend" in the South American petrostate, whose leader was captured by the U.S. on Saturday.

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Alice Miranda Ollstein@alicemiranda.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Exciting news: my union @pen-guild.bsky.social won our fight to hold management accountable for rolling out AI tools with no notice & for failing to hold the bots to the same standards all of us humans must follow — in violation of the contract they agreed to. A neutral arbiter said we were right!

PEN Guild wins landmark arbitration on AI protections - Washington-Baltimore News Guild

This marks one of the first major labor-arbitration rulings on the impact of AI on journalism, setting an important precedent for the U.S. news industry.

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PEN Guild@pen-guild.bsky.social · 10mo ago

And yet @politico.com uses AI that sends glaring errors to our subscribers and violates our ethics standards. Tell POLITICO management to follow it's own rules for accurate, ethical journalism and sign our petition. actionnetwork.org/petitions/ai...

Tell POLITICO Management: AI should work with journalists, not against us!

Last year, PEN Guild members ratified a groundbreaking first contract that included some of the strongest provisions in the industry around artificial intelligence. These protections not only gave uni...

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Politico@politico.com · 10mo ago

“This was the year, I think, that the AI got smarter than us.” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman gets candid about the promises and perils of AI in the premiere episode of MD Meets — a new podcast from POLITICO's parent company Axel Springer. 🎧 Listen and subscribe: mdmeets.com

Mike Soraghan @mikesoraghan.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Inspector who worked on Mountain Valley pipeline says it was built unsafely. Operator @EQTcorp says feds checked and called MVP safe. What those feds say: We're not telling you anything subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

E&E News: Feds won’t confirm safety findings on Mountain Valley pipeline

The operator of the natural gas conduit said inspectors found no problems, but federal officials won’t back that up.

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Mike Soraghan @mikesoraghan.bsky.social · last yr.

The FBI redacted President Donald Trump’s name, as well as the names of other prominent public figures, from the Epstein files under privacy exemptions. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files

The bureau’s FOIA team tasked with conducting a final review of the records blacked out the names before higher-ups said last month that releasing the documents ‘would not be appropriate or warranted....

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Politico@politico.com · last yr.

EXCLUSIVE: A DOGE appointee told independent regulators they are expected to “rubber stamp” approvals of new nuclear reactors, three people with inside info told us. The directive comes after Trump said he wants to quadruple the U.S. nuclear power supply by 2050.

DOGE told regulator to ‘rubber stamp’ nuclear

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's historic role of assuring safety is changing as the White House shifts some responsibility to the Department of Energy.

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