appears to have been a degen, but this is the new norm: large anomalous trades are made on world events, creating speculation about whether it’s intel or speculation, which could in theory influence whether officials do act or not, if it is insidered. impossible to distinguish signal from noise

Jake Paul has been on a journey over on X. (h/t @shannonbond.bsky.social)

“In an extreme case, two users sent very similar messages describing symptoms of a subarachnoid hemorrhage but were given opposite advice,” the study’s authors wrote. “One user was told to lie down in a dark room, and the other user was given the correct recommendation to seek emergency care.”

"Seeing there was a need for someone to help out, help clear the streets and get the people back their vehicles. So we stepped up and started doing it," Leon said. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

“I’m glad Will Lewis has been fired. I wish it had happened before he fired all my friends.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...

everyone sucks here but also, lol

Saturday scoop w @stphnfwlr.com: The State Dept says it wants to “speak with one voice” on social media. There is precedent for archiving prior admins’ online footprint — but this doesn’t follow it. Staff are told the public will have to FOIA archived posts www.npr.org/2026/02/07/n...

EXCLUSIVE @npr.org - the State Department is directing employees to archive + delete all X posts on official accounts from before President Trump returned to office in 2025. More with @shannonbond.bsky.social:

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

So many have given to The Post Guild’s fundraising effort, and we are floored. But we also ask you to consider supporting the fundraiser for our international staff and staff in our bureaus who aren’t Guild eligible. They are absolutely vital to coverage. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

what a godawful day for journalism, following a great many other godawful days for journalism

Former executive editor @postbaron.bsky.social says the Post is "a case study in near-instant, self-inflicted brand destruction." www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

The Washington Post has laid off hundreds of talented journalists, so many of whom I was lucky to work with over the years. The Post Guild launched this fund to support them:

Great piece here from Mia: "The main function of slop is to take something from you: your time, your attention, your trust. It is passive in that it requires nothing from viewers but to sit back and consume"

As I just reported for @ms.now yesterday, they were charged w/ blocking entrances to abortion clinics, harassing & injuring staff & livestreaming some of it. Trump freed them from federal prison; 3 have been re-arrested since. Now, the DOJ is using the same law to go after a journalist.

🚨Don Lemon is being charged under the FACE Act, which has historically been used to prosecute those who impede access to abortion clinics. But it also criminalizes interference @ houses of worship. Days into 2nd term, Trump pardoned 24 anti-abortion activists convicted under FACE 🧵

‘I don’t have words’: 2 more kids from Liam Ramos’ Columbia Heights school taken into ICE custody www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Please listen to this story from my @npr.org colleague Adrian Florido about a fruit seller named Jesus

I've spent a lot of time lately talking to people dealing with fallout from AI chatbots. One thing I've learned is that many of us are profoundly lonely and seeking connection - and that's both how people ended up in this story, and how they're finding their way out. www.npr.org/2026/01/20/n...

i often hear “Bezos just doesn’t care” as an explanation of his looming evisceration of the paper, but is that really the leading theory here? he’s approving this out of apathy? a man worth $249B who oversees a global business empire is giving a 🤷🏼‍♂️ to this being an unforgettable part of his legacy?

how false narratives spread by social media influencers & AI chatbots derailed CA's response to the LA fires, by @juliaradio.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/01/07/n...

"the swift policy and political repercussions the video helped propel illustrate the symbiotic relationship between online content creators and the Trump administration's policy goals," @jjoffeblock.bsky.social writes www.npr.org/2026/01/07/n...

Not sure how to summarize this one. Wrote about the podcaster-occupied government invading for content, how the algorithmic internet is governed by the logic of reaction videos, and how it has contributed to a very nihilistic illiterate politics and culture of performance for imagined audiences

There is a smart and fair and nuanced conversation to be had over discrimination (whether real or perceived) against white men and lol we as a society of course won’t have it

"Trust and safety is a broad practice which includes critical and life-saving work to protect children and stop CSAM as well as preventing fraud, scams, and sextortion…not censoring just for the sake of it” www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n... by @shannonbond.bsky.social

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

now i need to bleach my brain

HEADS UP: CDC website now officially asserts that vaccines may cause autism.“Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” Also says the “vaccines do not cause autism” header remains b/c of an agreement with Cassidy.

it should also now be illegal for journalists to use metaphors

Functionally, the wandering self-indulgence of the bamboo section does a good job of lulling the reader into not being ready for the relentlessly focused intensity of the finale

what a time to be alive and in multiple media group chats

"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official. How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar. www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...

Every single Wikipedia "alternative" I've ever come across works like this. IIRC even the NSA's internal Intellipedia cribs extensively from Wikipedia. The amount of work it would take it actually replace Wikipedia is just too massive (unless you wanted dubious machine-generated entries)

other examples: apple, Genesis (band), tarot

Fans of the indie rock band Here We Go Magic were surprised to see they dropped a new single today, the first release since 2015. Actually nope, it's just AI. "It's so predatory, and so terrible," the band's singer Luke Temple told me. www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...

At least 3 times in the past 2 weeks, an official Post editorial has taken on matters in which Bezos has a financial or corporate interest without noting his stake. In each case, the Post's official editorial line landed in sync with its owner's financial interests. www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...

Mario Guevara, an Emmy-award winning reporter, was deported to El Salvador — a nation he fled more than two decades ago. He was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

UPDATE: At the Small Business Administration, employees were given "suggested" language for OOO email replies: blaming Senate Democrats for the shutdown and praising the "record-breaking services we are providing under the leadership of the Trump administration": www.npr.org/2025/09/30/n...

The Justice Department website now has a banner that blames Democrats for the government shutdown. More on the partisan messaging strategy pushed by the Trump administration: www.npr.org/2025/09/30/n...

Despite DOGE's promise that canceling contracts and terminating leases would help reverse the trend of the government spending more money than it brings in, the most recent Treasury data shows an *increase* in expenditures by hundreds of billions of dollars more than the year before.

Agencies ordered to drastically slash their workforces over the last eight months are now hiring back hundreds of workers, as they struggle to perform basic operations or carry out some of President Trump's top policy priorities. Read more with @shannonbond.bsky.social @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social

NEW @npr.org: The so-called Department of Government Efficiency effort has failed to deliver on its outsized promises to cut costs and increase efficiency, NPR's latest analysis of federal data finds.

tfw you watched Mountainhead and learned nothing.

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

Scoop: CBS News' corporate-installed, MAGA-loving ombudsman visited the network on Monday, visiting with senior leadership. Meanwhile, the Bari Weiss appointment is imminent. More in @status.news: link.status.news/4nrFwyD

A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The infant was less than two months old and was not old enough to receive the pertussis vaccine. buff.ly/8epl2QS