An independent arbitrator has ordered the Washington Post to rehire the high-profile opinion columnist Karen Attiah, abruptly fired by the news organization last September over comments she made on social media about Charlie Kirk, the then recently slain conservative activist.

On Monday, an arbitrator ruled that the Post had violated her rights as a union-protected employee and ordered the newspaper to reinstate her and compensate her for lost wages.

  • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works
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    8 hours ago

    It is astounding that the members of the Child Rapist Party can openly celebrate the attacks and murders of Democrats, and then successfully vilify people like Attiah who simply refuse to mourn the death of a vile human like Charile Kirk.

  • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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    13 hours ago

    After Kirk was shot and killed on 10 September 2025, Attiah took to social media and wrote: “Refusing to tear my clothes and smear ashes on my face in performative mourning for a white man that espoused violence is … not the same as violence.” She also posted: “Part of what keeps America so violent is the insistence that people perform care, empty goodness and absolution for white men who espouse hatred and violence.”

    “This decision confirms what we’ve said from the start: I was doing my job as an opinion journalist, and doing that job is not misconduct,”

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    12 hours ago

    Charlie Kirk’s murder was a net positive for humanity and that’s on Charlie.