Marisa Kabas is an independent journalist who runs a newsletter called The Handbasket. She broke down how she built and grew ...

When The Washington Post ran its first piece on the federal funding freeze last week, its reporters gave credit where it was due: It was independent journalist Marisa Kabas who had broken the story.

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Kabas has her own website, the Handbasket, but to give the story wider visibility, she posted a screen shot of the memo on the social media site Bluesky. Then she waited. Her stomach was in knots.

Many legal experts say the pause is an illegal impoundment and compromises Congress’s constitutional “power of the purse.” ...