https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bWGj!,w_1100,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F799f5773-e8f7-4e0c-b5b0-6f2fbdd7ccdb_736x515.jpeg Former Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah lost her job after “endangering” colleagues with inflammatory posts about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. This summer, she will receive the Distinguished Service Award from the Washington, D.C., chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, our Andrew Stiles reports. The society is a mainstream association that says it’s dedicated to the promotion of “high standards” and “ethical behavior.” Its Distinguished Service Award was designed to honor journalists whose “work and or actions have made a positive difference on our craft and on society.” Attiah, for her part, has repeatedly denounced mainstream journalism as a racist industry in which black voices are “silenced” and progressive black women are “hunted.” In the wake of Kirk’s killing, she described the United States as a “sick” country that “worships violence” and denounced the “performative mourning for a white man that espoused violence.” She later responded to her firing from the Post by posing in front of the paper’s headquarters wearing a socialist ball gag and holding a flaming newspaper like a torch. “Since leaving the Post, Attiah has posted sporadically on Substack and prolifically on Bluesky, the social media app for deranged liberals who will never be happy,” Stiles writes. “She has also launched an online school for ‘resistance’ liberals that aims to guide students through the ‘intellectual and emotional labor of building a liberated future.’ She recently announced a new course on politics and soccer—the most anti-American sport ever devised—that purports to explain how the World Cup is a ‘framework for how we move through the world.’” Congrats, Karen! READ MORE: Karen Attiah, Radical Beefcake Columnist Fired for ‘Endangering’ Colleagues, To Receive ‘Distinguished Service Award’ From Journalism Society