In a post on X on Sept. 15, 2025, longtime Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah announced that she had been dismissed from the newspaper’s Opinion section after 11 years. Attiah linked to a detailed essay on her Substack outlining her account of the events, which has since ignited sharp debate across social media.
In her Substack post, Attiah contends that the Post dismissed her for “speaking out against political violence, racial double standards, and America’s apathy toward guns.” She writes that the paper cited a series of posts she published on Bluesky following recent shootings in Utah and Colorado as the principal reason for her firing:
