Washington Post columnist says she was fired over her posts about Charlie Kirk and political violence

Karen Attiah, pictured above, wrote that the Post fired her over her Bluesky posts in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder last week. Arturo Holmes/Getty Images

Longtime Washington Post writer Karen Attiah says she has been fired from the publication’s Opinions department for “speaking out against political violence, racial double standards, and America’s apathy toward guns.”

The Post, which has been overhauling the entire department, declined to comment on personnel matters. But Attiah’s Post biography has been revised to say she “was” a columnist, indicating she is no longer employed.

Attiah posted a string of messages about political violence in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination last week. She criticized what she called “empty rhetoric” denouncing violence that hasn’t been matc