diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 9476b9e..2387046 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ PostgreSQL with three migrations in `crates/moments-data/migrations/`. Two roles
 
 All under `/v1/`: `healthz`, `events`, `sources`, `projects`, `blog`, `blog/{slug}`, `activity/daily`, `forge/{source}/*`, `og/contributions.png`.
 
-Blog posts are markdown files with YAML frontmatter (`title`, `slug`, `date`; optional `draft`/`public`) in the `grenade/blog` Gitea repo. The worker's `BlogSource` polls the repo (branch-tip sha as change detection) and upserts posts into `events` with `source='blog'` and `occurred_at` from the frontmatter date, so imported posts keep their original publish dates. Publishing or editing a post = pushing to that repo.
+Blog posts are markdown files with YAML frontmatter (`title`, `slug`, `date`; optional `draft`/`public`) in the `grenade/blog` Gitea repo. The worker's `BlogSource` polls the repo (branch-tip sha as change detection) and upserts posts into `events` with `source='blog'` and `occurred_at` from the frontmatter date, so imported posts keep their original publish dates. The repo is the source of truth for the full set of posts: publishing, editing, renaming, and deleting are all just pushes — each poll upserts the current tree and prunes `source='blog'` rows that are no longer in it.
 
 ## Deployment
 
diff --git a/crates/moments-core/src/lib.rs b/crates/moments-core/src/lib.rs
index fd93188..f188654 100644
--- a/crates/moments-core/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/moments-core/src/lib.rs
@@ -31,4 +31,8 @@ pub trait EventReader: Send + Sync {
 pub trait EventWriter: Send + Sync {
     async fn upsert_events(&self, events: &[Event]) -> Result<usize, StoreError>;
     async fn upsert_repo_languages(&self, languages: &[RepoLanguage]) -> Result<usize, StoreError>;
+    /// Delete events of `source` whose id is not in `keep_ids`. For sources
+    /// whose upstream is authoritative for the full set (e.g. the blog repo),
+    /// this reconciles deletes and renames that upserts alone never would.
+    async fn prune_events(&self, source: moments_entities::Source, keep_ids: &[String]) -> Result<usize, StoreError>;
 }
diff --git a/crates/moments-data/src/blog.rs b/crates/moments-data/src/blog.rs
index 16349a0..f626f07 100644
--- a/crates/moments-data/src/blog.rs
+++ b/crates/moments-data/src/blog.rs
@@ -171,6 +171,18 @@ impl EventSource for BlogSource {
         }
 
         let total = self.writer.upsert_events(&events).await?;
+
+        // The repo is the source of truth for the full set of posts: anything
+        // stored under source='blog' that no longer parses out of the current
+        // tree (deleted file, renamed slug/filename, broken frontmatter) is
+        // pruned. Nothing is lost — git still has it, and fixing or restoring
+        // the file re-ingests it on the next tip change.
+        let keep: Vec<String> = events.iter().map(|e| e.id.clone()).collect();
+        let pruned = self.writer.prune_events(Source::Blog, &keep).await?;
+        if pruned > 0 {
+            tracing::info!(pruned, "blog posts removed upstream; pruned from store");
+        }
+
         self.state.save(SOURCE_NAME, Some(&tip), None).await?;
         debug!(ingested = total, tip = %tip, "blog poll complete");
         Ok(total)
diff --git a/crates/moments-data/src/lib.rs b/crates/moments-data/src/lib.rs
index 9271c27..1153367 100644
--- a/crates/moments-data/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/moments-data/src/lib.rs
@@ -479,6 +479,22 @@ impl EventWriter for PgStore {
         Ok(inserted)
     }
 
+    async fn prune_events(&self, source: Source, keep_ids: &[String]) -> Result<usize, StoreError> {
+        let n = sqlx::query(
+            r#"
+            DELETE FROM events
+            WHERE source = $1 AND NOT (id = ANY($2))
+            "#,
+        )
+        .bind(source.as_str())
+        .bind(keep_ids)
+        .execute(&self.pool)
+        .await
+        .map_err(map_err)?
+        .rows_affected();
+        Ok(n as usize)
+    }
+
     async fn upsert_repo_languages(&self, languages: &[RepoLanguage]) -> Result<usize, StoreError> {
         if languages.is_empty() {
             return Ok(0);