The videos surfacing online from Sudan are horrifying, and I say this as a journalist who has sadly become an expert on violent videos and images uploaded to the internet over the last decade. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...

Allan Brooks, the corporate recruiter from Canada I wrote about in August who went into a 3-week-long delusional spiral with ChatGPT, sued OpenAI Thursday, alongside six other plaintiffs. They blame ChatGPT for their mental breakdowns and for four suicides. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...

NEW: Foreign food safety inspections have hit a historic low after Trump staffing cuts. The dramatic shift in oversight comes as the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food. “It’s only a matter of time before people die,” one expert said.

Two bishops with ties to Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, including Bishop Robert Barron, criticized the administration’s treatment of Catholics detained by immigration officials this week. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

Mikie Sherrill elected governor of New Jersey after a campaign that pounded away at her Republican opponent, Jack Ciattarelli, for his allegiance to Trump. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Re-upping my column from last year on @MikieSherrill and @SpanbergerForVA. A really fun interview. -- Can these Capitol Hill roommates lead Democrats out of the wilderness? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Follow live results from the Virginia governor election.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Our forecasting model now sees Spanberger finishing with around 57 percent of the vote.

“Selma van de Perre, a valiant Jewish secretary who during World War II covertly transported suitcases bulging with cash, seditious newsletters, identity cards and ration books to Dutch resistance agents, even penetrating Nazi headquarters in Paris, died on Oct. 20 in London. She was 103.”

In a shocking reality check, @wired.com is not, in fact, bankrolled by “donations from far left organizations.” We actually rely on an amazing and growing audience of subscribers to support our journalism, so please subscribe to WIRED if you don’t already.

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see Like the US economy Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters. Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The private conversations in the Young Republicans’ Telegram chat were only marginally more racist and hateful than the language that’s out in the open, common on the most popular podcasts in America,” our columnist David French writes.

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GIFT LINK: Scenes from a day of mass protests. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program. ➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Save money during Amazon's Prime Days? Not so much. "I would have saved, on average, almost nothing during Amazon’s recent fall “Prime Big Deal Days” — and for some big-ticket purchases, I would have actually paid more," @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social found. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Greetings from Printers’ Row Lit Fest in Chicago. Please join me at 4 PM CT today, when I will be discussing my book, “Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America.”

The great @mikeallen remembers the same: "After a Bush speech, the newspaper reporters would be struggling with their leads when suddenly the gym (or wherever we were filing) was engulfed with the voice of Knoller ... with an efficient, insightful take." www.axios.com/newsletters/...

The diaries of the Minnesota school shooter go for over 250 pages. I've spent the last few days reading them. The writing is full of self-hatred, detailed planning, and obsessions with inflicting pain & suffering. From Julie Bosman, me, and Jeff Ernst: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...

Trump is using emergency powers more than his predecessors. On average, presidents have declared about seven national emergencies per four-year term. Trump declared that many during his first month in office. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"All presidents have the authority ...to declare a national emergency ... But Mr. Trump has already invoked this power much more frequently than his predecessors and, experts say, for situations that do not qualify as true emergencies." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

10 emergency declarations ↓ 33 executive orders ↓ Hundreds of actions www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

President Trump cited a number of false and misleading claims about crime in Washington, D.C., as he announced a federal takeover of the city. Here's a fact check.

They'll go where they can make money. "After making fortunes hauling oil, gas and metals around the world, the traders are turning to opportunities buying, storing and selling energy back into grids. In Europe capacity is set to rise sevenfold by 2030." 🎁 link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Mar-a-Lagofication of the White House… My new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Trump calls the Epstein case a "hoax." His MAGA base disagrees. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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“A suburban New York county that recently barred residents from wearing masks is now making an exception for police officers so they can obscure their identities while helping the federal authorities detain immigrants.” — www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/n...

The @nytimes.com just posted an updated version of their detailed map of the 2024 election results, with the data available for download. This is invaluable in part because funding constraints have slowed down academic efforts at releasing precinct-level results. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

As Shawn McCreesh and Tyler Pager report, House Republican holdouts were apparently swayed to support President Trump’s tax and spending bill by signed merch and photographs with the president.

GIFT LINK: The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official rejected broad uses of two Covid vaccines, citing unknown risks or injuries despite assurances of safety from dozens of staff experts, newly released documents show. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/h...

USA TODAY reporters called Social Security's 1-800 line multiple times over several days and found the wait times to be consistently over an hour. Multiple times they did not reach a live person before the line disconnected with no warning. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

RIP Rod Nordland, one of our generation's most extraordinary foreign correspondents. For 40 years, if there was a war or conflict or crisis anywhere around the world, Rod was likely to be there reporting the hell out of it. An inspiration to so many of us. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/b...

A sad day for @washingtonpost readers as the standalone Metro section in print is eliminated and folded behind Style. As a lifelong Washingtonian and veteran of the Metro staff, I always admired the Post's commitment to covering Washington as a community not just a capital.

What was the 1980s like? Well, there was a buff Australian man who starred in commercials for batteries where he just shouted “oi” and on the basis of that, he got a network series where he drove around in a big custom truck and solved crimes.

New: The White House wants you to laugh at its mass-deportation memes. The Trump admin is using dark jokes, hype videos and personal jabs to promote its immigration policy. A former MAGA organizer is disturbed by how far they've gone: "This is not reality TV. It’s actual reality" wapo.st/3ZT5FNl

I talked to @dieworkwear.bsky.social for this story, who JD Vance and DHS made jokes about deporting. He's unnerved but hopes it'll backfire, saying most people take no "pleasure in cruelty" Of X: "It’s hard to recognize when you’re in sewage until you get out of the sewage" wapo.st/3ZT5FNl

NEW: We obtained records showing how a DOGE staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wrong tool for this,” one expert said. By @bxroberts.org, @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social

The State Department Published A Substack Manifesto On ‘Western Civilizational Heritage’ talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-sta...

🏆☕️👔 Achievement unlocked: I got home one evening recently and discovered I'd somehow spilled coffee on the *back* of my shirt.

(AP) — Secretary of State Rubio says the Trump administration will start revoking visas for some Chinese students.

Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining anti-terrorism initiatives. By Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social

BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses. In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...

Joe Kent, top aide to DNI Tulsi Gabbard, ordered rewriting to an intel analysis re Venezuela & TDA so the doc could not be "used against" Trump, adding to concerns about politicizing intel. More emails also emerging. @julianbarnes.bsky.social Maggie Haberman & me. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...

Efforts to drive down the smoking rate have worked: We're at a 75-year low for smoking and a 25-year low for vaping. Now the CDC office credited with some of that work is gone. I met with teens in West Virginia who were sad to see their anti-vaping group cut: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

I tracked more than 1,000 accounts that Elon Musk follows on X to recreate what he sees www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump has long had plane envy. “People come in from, especially the Middle East countries, with brand-new 747-800s, the brand-new super-duper-new one, and we have planes that are thirty-one years old," he told @sbg1.bsky.social and me when we interviewed him in 2021 www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library. Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams. Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...

Fun to pop on the Apple News Today podcast and chat about an innovative and sophisticated new way to wreck the atmosphere. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...