Hana Kiros
@hana-kiros.bsky.social
assistant editor at The Atlantic. retired woman in stem
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astounding reporting from @hana-kiros.bsky.social on the US-led plan to build temporary housing for displaced Gazans and its potentially permanent consequences.
"It’s unclear if there was any consultation at all with any Palestinian."
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"It’s unclear if there was any consultation at all with any Palestinian."
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The Trump Administration Has a New Plan for Gaza
The U.S. wants to build housing for those displaced by the war, but not everyone is on board.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
astounding reporting from @hana-kiros.bsky.social on the US-led plan to build temporary housing for displaced Gazans and its potentially permanent consequences.
"It’s unclear if there was any consultation at all with any Palestinian."
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
"It’s unclear if there was any consultation at all with any Palestinian."
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
SCOOP: The Trump admin confirmed its new Gaza plan to me. “Alternate Safe Communities”
Palestinians approved by Israel will relocate to temp. housing on Gaza's IDF occupied side. Israel's military told the U.S. that people who move in can't go back to where 98% of Gaza's population lives. 🎁 link
Palestinians approved by Israel will relocate to temp. housing on Gaza's IDF occupied side. Israel's military told the U.S. that people who move in can't go back to where 98% of Gaza's population lives. 🎁 link
November 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
SCOOP: The Trump admin confirmed its new Gaza plan to me. “Alternate Safe Communities”
Palestinians approved by Israel will relocate to temp. housing on Gaza's IDF occupied side. Israel's military told the U.S. that people who move in can't go back to where 98% of Gaza's population lives. 🎁 link
Palestinians approved by Israel will relocate to temp. housing on Gaza's IDF occupied side. Israel's military told the U.S. that people who move in can't go back to where 98% of Gaza's population lives. 🎁 link
Around the world, defibrillators, motorbikes, and water towers from cancelled aid projects are being donated, sold, or simply abandoned. me for @theatlantic.com on what’s happened to the stuff taxpayers bought to help people.
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Inside the USAID Fire Sale
Around the world, defibrillators, motorbikes, and water towers are being donated, sold, or simply abandoned.
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August 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Around the world, defibrillators, motorbikes, and water towers from cancelled aid projects are being donated, sold, or simply abandoned. me for @theatlantic.com on what’s happened to the stuff taxpayers bought to help people.
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The administration will incinerate enough food to feed 1.5 million children for a week. When it burns, its label will read: THIS PRODUCT IS A GIFT FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 500 tons, from us, to no one.
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The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
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July 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The administration will incinerate enough food to feed 1.5 million children for a week. When it burns, its label will read: THIS PRODUCT IS A GIFT FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 500 tons, from us, to no one.
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"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
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@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
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The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
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July 15, 2025 at 5:31 AM
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
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@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
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the 🐐 @matteowong.bsky.social and i tried to explain some of technical reasons for why grok went nazi as well as some of the less technical ones (prompting Grok to use X posts as a primary source and rhetorical inspiration). It's all quite awful and illuminating www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
July 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
the 🐐 @matteowong.bsky.social and i tried to explain some of technical reasons for why grok went nazi as well as some of the less technical ones (prompting Grok to use X posts as a primary source and rhetorical inspiration). It's all quite awful and illuminating www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
RFK JR. has made the anti-vaxx agenda a part of American foreign policy. A lot of kids will probably die as a result.
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RFK Jr. Is Globalizing the Anti-Vaccine Agenda
The Trump administration is ending U.S. support for immunizations abroad because of its opposition not only to foreign aid, but to vaccination itself.
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June 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
RFK JR. has made the anti-vaxx agenda a part of American foreign policy. A lot of kids will probably die as a result.
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My little brother’s friend—a 10th grader—lost big sports betting on Robinhood, of all places. Gambling has never been this easy or accepted! And the government allocates exactly zero dollars to help people being consumed by it.
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‘I’m Treating Guys Who Would Never Be Caught Dead in a Casino’
Sports betting seems to be spurring a rise in gambling addiction—one that the U.S. isn’t equipped to address.
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June 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
My little brother’s friend—a 10th grader—lost big sports betting on Robinhood, of all places. Gambling has never been this easy or accepted! And the government allocates exactly zero dollars to help people being consumed by it.
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Some signs point to gambling problems increasing since sports betting was legalized. If addiction really is on the rise, the U.S. is unequipped to deal with it, @hana-kiros.bsky.social reports.
‘I’m Treating Guys Who Would Never Be Caught Dead in a Casino’
Sports betting seems to be spurring a rise in gambling addiction—one that the U.S. isn’t equipped to address.
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June 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Some signs point to gambling problems increasing since sports betting was legalized. If addiction really is on the rise, the U.S. is unequipped to deal with it, @hana-kiros.bsky.social reports.
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Smart and thorough from @hana-kiros.bsky.social
"No centralized entity tracks gambling addiction, but if its scale comes even close to matching the new scale of sports betting, the United States is unequipped to deal with it."
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"No centralized entity tracks gambling addiction, but if its scale comes even close to matching the new scale of sports betting, the United States is unequipped to deal with it."
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America’s Newest Gamblers Are Playing a Dangerous Game
Sports betting could spur a rise in gambling addiction that the U.S. isn’t equipped to address.
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June 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Smart and thorough from @hana-kiros.bsky.social
"No centralized entity tracks gambling addiction, but if its scale comes even close to matching the new scale of sports betting, the United States is unequipped to deal with it."
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"No centralized entity tracks gambling addiction, but if its scale comes even close to matching the new scale of sports betting, the United States is unequipped to deal with it."
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Two American companies manufacture an emergency food product that can save starving children, even those who are days away from death by malnutrition. @hana-kiros.bsky.social spoke to those companies, who now have no way to get their product overseas www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
‘In Three Months, Half of Them Will Be Dead’
Elon Musk promised to preserve lifesaving aid to foreign children. Then the Trump administration quietly canceled it.
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April 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Two American companies manufacture an emergency food product that can save starving children, even those who are days away from death by malnutrition. @hana-kiros.bsky.social spoke to those companies, who now have no way to get their product overseas www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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The Trump administration has quietly doubled down on its decision to stop sending emergency food to children starving in Bangladesh, Somalia, and other countries. Without urgent intervention, these children might die within months, @hana-kiros.bsky.social reports. https://theatln.tc/kQAZFJJw
April 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The Trump administration has quietly doubled down on its decision to stop sending emergency food to children starving in Bangladesh, Somalia, and other countries. Without urgent intervention, these children might die within months, @hana-kiros.bsky.social reports. https://theatln.tc/kQAZFJJw
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Trump Is Ceding Ground to a Deadly Enemy, an essay by me adapted from my book Everything Is Tuberculosis.
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Trump Is Ceding Ground to a Deadly Enemy
By retracting foreign aid, the president could make tuberculosis untreatable again.
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March 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Trump Is Ceding Ground to a Deadly Enemy, an essay by me adapted from my book Everything Is Tuberculosis.
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Here's @hana-kiros.bsky.social on what dismantling USAID means. Mostly it means dead children. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
America Can’t Just Unpause USAID
The speed with which the Trump administration took the agency apart will be felt for years to come.
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February 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Here's @hana-kiros.bsky.social on what dismantling USAID means. Mostly it means dead children. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
A pause on saving live means exactly that. Me on USAID’s rapid destruction for @theatlantic.com
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What Is the Full Cost of Dismantling USAID?
The speed with which the Trump administration took USAID apart will be felt for years to come.
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February 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
A pause on saving live means exactly that. Me on USAID’s rapid destruction for @theatlantic.com
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Good reporting by @hana-kiros.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
What Is the Full Cost of Dismantling USAID?
The speed with which the Trump administration took USAID apart will be felt for years to come.
www.theatlantic.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Good reporting by @hana-kiros.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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My latest for @theatlantic.com looks at an important new study suggesting that ulipristal acetate could serve as a substitute for mifepristone in medication abortion. Big thanks to @rachgutman.bsky.social & @hana-kiros.bsky.social for superb edits.
A Possible Substitute for Mifepristone Is Already on Pharmacy Shelves
A higher dose of an emergency-contraception drug may open a back door for Americans seeking abortions in restrictive states.
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January 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
My latest for @theatlantic.com looks at an important new study suggesting that ulipristal acetate could serve as a substitute for mifepristone in medication abortion. Big thanks to @rachgutman.bsky.social & @hana-kiros.bsky.social for superb edits.
What other app will show me what it’d look like if Justin Bieber played Glinda the Good Witch. My latest @theatlantic.com
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The Internet Is TikTok Now
Even LinkedIn copied it.
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January 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
What other app will show me what it’d look like if Justin Bieber played Glinda the Good Witch. My latest @theatlantic.com
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Love social media video fullscreening = 'the wormhole' @hana-kiros.bsky.social:
"clicking any video leads to the entry point of something common to all these platforms: the wormhole. The app expands into full-screen mode to serve me an infinite scroll of videos"
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"clicking any video leads to the entry point of something common to all these platforms: the wormhole. The app expands into full-screen mode to serve me an infinite scroll of videos"
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The Internet Is TikTok Now
Even LinkedIn copied it.
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January 17, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Love social media video fullscreening = 'the wormhole' @hana-kiros.bsky.social:
"clicking any video leads to the entry point of something common to all these platforms: the wormhole. The app expands into full-screen mode to serve me an infinite scroll of videos"
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"clicking any video leads to the entry point of something common to all these platforms: the wormhole. The app expands into full-screen mode to serve me an infinite scroll of videos"
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Hi! Are you an ex (or current) Spotify employee? Would love to chat for an @theatlantic.com story. DM!
December 8, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Hi! Are you an ex (or current) Spotify employee? Would love to chat for an @theatlantic.com story. DM!