“Despite the massive growth of independent journalism, there’s still this idea that news is only “real” once it’s confirmed by massive corporate outlets. After all, could one woman with absolutely ...

Kabas publishes her own newsletter, called The Handbasket, on Beehiiv. She broke down how she built and is growing her newsletter business, which has 17,500 subscribers. Everything changed for ...

When someone says “It’s all gone to Hell in a handbasket,” what they mean is that everything is utterly and irredeemably ruined. But why Hell? And why a handbasket, of all things?

In the wild political week that followed the funding freeze memo, readers rewarded Kabas for her scoop. The Handbasket went from 8,300 subscribers to 16,000 — and the number who pay ($8/month, ...

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.