Anyway, we have ample research on how living under a state of sustained terror and stress causes life-long health problems as well as intergenerational epigenetic effects. This feels like it's making you sick because it actually is making you sick.

I spent a year talking to teens about why they were using role-playing chatbots, and something surprising happened: By the end of the year, the teens stopped using the chatbots. Observer effect? Or that chatbots fall into patterns that eventually get boring? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/t...

To register for our free monthly Grief Catharsis Theater event this Sunday, March 29, from 1–4 PM in Los Angeles (downtown Culver City), please use the Eventbrite link below: www.eventbrite.com/e/grief-cath...

In 2022, I did a story about life in "the metaverse," spending 24 hours as an avatar with no legs meeting the people using Facebook's VR-based social network, Horizon Worlds. www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/t... Met interesting people who seemed enthused about it but this was my conclusion:

Katie on Katie. @katierobertson.bsky.social profiles Wired editor, @katie-drummond.bsky.social, who has been making the tech optimists very mad lately. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/b...

Thomson Reuters is best known for its media outlet and legal research tools, but it is also a huge data broker that provides investigative tools to the government, including ICE. Its Minneapolis workers aren't happy about that: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/t...

How the rich have gotten richer since the 2017 tax cuts, and how it's affecting everyone else. A case study in Wyoming: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

People are revealing sensitive personal information to A.I. chatbots — including plans to commit violent acts. What should the companies do when it happens? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/t...

Took the FTC's remaining two commissioners a year to vote to finalize the agency's settlement with GM over the automaker's selling data about how and where people were driving their cars. www.ftc.gov/news-events/... (I broke the news back in 2024 that GM was doing this.)

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For some positive news: the effects of congestion pricing in New York City. It has significantly decreased how much time my own commute takes so I'm a big fan. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Grief Wave 🌀 recently bereaved in several directions (1/8) As we move into year two of The Grief Wave, I keep returning to a line by Muriel Rukeyser: “The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.” Grief rearranges the story before we’re ready.

"The advent of realistic videos has been a boon for disinformation, fraud and foreign influence operations" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/b... What is the positive use case for an easy-to-use fake video tool?

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...

(1/5) 🕯️ When grief gets dark, companionship brings light. This week’s Grief Wave explores what sustains us when loss feels endless — connection, courage, and care. Read: The Grief Wave – When Grief Gets Dark 👉 caligrief.substack.com/p/the-grief-... #Grief #Healing #Help #Bluesky #Love #Loss

(1/5) When grief gets hard, what we often need isn’t strength — it’s steadiness. This week’s Grief Wave looks at how we find clarity and connection when everything feels heavy. 💜 Read the full issue: caligrief.substack.com #Grief #HealingTogether #TheGriefWave

1️⃣ When grief gets stuck, love is still moving. 💔 This week’s Grief Wave explores what happens when sorrow feels frozen — and how love, memory, and movement help us find our way through. 🌊 Read: When Grief Gets Stuck 🔗 caligrief.substack.com/p/the-grief-... #Grief #Healing #TheGriefWave

(1/5) 🕯️ Where What Hurts Meets What Heals Grief isn’t an ending — it’s an opening. A moment to face pain, hold meaning, and rediscover connection. This week’s Grief Wave explores how memory and community help heal what remains. 🌊 Read: open.substack.com/pub/caligrie... #TheGriefWave #Grief #Healing

1/5 HCR’s latest piece is a storm warning for democracy 🌩️ open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... The shutdown isn’t just politics — it’s a slow bleed of trust and care. Historians like Richardson hold the light, reminding us where we fell — and how to rise again. @hcrichardson.bsky.social

(1/5) A proposed Triumphal Arch—gold winged statue and all—rises from the Potomac in Trump’s imagination. Facing Lincoln’s Memorial, it casts a shadow not of triumph but of forgetting. 👉 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... A reminder: architecture tells our national story. @hcrichardson.bsky.social

(1/5) History isn’t a monument—it’s a mirror. Heather Cox Richardson reminds us that when leaders rewrite the past to sanctify power, they set fire to truth itself. Today’s proclamation about Columbus reveals not reverence, but revision. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... @hcrichardson.bsky.social

(1/5) History, HCR reminds us, is not an archive but a mirror. Today’s reflection shows power turning inward, silencing truth-tellers and calling dissent “hate.” Democracy feels like an organ under siege—wounded, yet still alive. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... @hcrichardson.bsky.social

(1/5) HCR’s Oct 9 essay feels like watching a storm gather over the republic—each gust an abuse of power, each flash a warning of what’s at stake when truth becomes partisan. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Democracy, she reminds us, isn’t won once—it’s defended daily. @hcrichardson.bsky.social

(1/5) History bends like a river, and today’s current is swift and dangerous. Heather Cox Richardson reminds us that when justice is bent into a tool of revenge, democracy itself trembles. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... @hcrichardson.bsky.social

(1/5) History bends in moments like this. National Guard troops on Illinois soil against the governor’s will. A president invoking the Insurrection Act’s shadow. What HCR calls out is not just politics—it’s democracy’s breaking point. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... @hcrichardson.bsky.social

(1/5) 🕯️ Echoes & Endings honors Jonathan Lear (1948–2025). A philosopher & psychoanalyst, he showed us that wisdom is not in avoiding pain but in facing it with courage. His work on Radical Hope and mourning helps us imagine how to live when futures collapse. 👉 caligrief.substack.com/p/echoes-and...

(1/5) History is not only memory, it is warning. Heather Cox Richardson reminds us: power abandoned by elected leaders does not vanish, it seeps into the hands of unelected actors. ⚖️ Read here: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

(1/5) 🍂 The Grief Wave — Oct 7, 2025 Grief is never loss. It is also a lantern — casting light on memory, presence, and the path forward in one another’s company. 🌊🕯️ This week’s edition: honoring a leader, supporting children, new laws, & healing gatherings. 👉 caligrief.substack.com/p/the-grief-...

(1/5) 📰 HCR’s latest essay: a map of America at the edge of memory and meaning. Project 2025 is no longer a plan in the shadows. It is becoming a lived reality. The question is not just politics but survival of democracy itself. 👉 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... @hcrichardson.bsky.social

(1/5) 🌊 New from The Grief Wave Grief 101: When Children Grieve (Part 2) How do we talk to kids about death without overwhelming them—or leaving them in confusion? This piece explores practical, compassionate ways forward. 📖 Read: caligrief.substack.com/p/grief-101-...

(1/5) 📰 Heather Cox Richardson reminds us: America is at a crossroads where perception collides with reality. Leaders invoke war zones that do not exist, and the grief of a nation deepens when power bends truth into fear. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... @hcrichardson.bsky.social

(1/5) 📰 HCR's essay feels like a mirror to America. Trump’s absence is replaced with AI grim reapers, zombies, and mockery of democracy. The question is no longer politics. It’s: what happens when power feeds on fear? 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... @hcrichardson.bsky.social

(1/5) 🕯️ The Grief Wave (Oct 3, 2025) | Echoes & Renewal + The Second Funeral Grief is not only about loss. It is also about resilience, meaning, and community. This week’s edition explores justice, science, memory & connection. 👉 Read: caligrief.substack.com/p/the-grief-...

(1/5) 🕯️ In Chicago, a raid tore through homes in the dark of night. Families zip-tied, children crying, neighbors calling it an “invasion by our own military.” HCR traces how these actions connect to a larger authoritarian push. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... @hcrichardson.bsky.social

(1/5) 🌊 New essay on The Grief Wave: The Tangled Net #14 — The Weaponization of Nostalgia 👉 caligrief.substack.com/p/the-tangle... From Brexit to MAGA to Modi, nostalgia has become the most powerful political force of our time. But what it’s really tapping into is something deeper: grief.

(1/5) A nation’s stage is set. While millions brace for a shutdown, the president plays with doctored videos like a jester in a collapsing court. HCR reminds us: history records not just policy, but the spirit in which power is wielded. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... @hcrichardson.bsky.social

(1/5) 🕯️ Echoes & Endings | Jane Goodall (1934–2025) She showed the world that patience could be revolutionary—that empathy belongs in science and that every life, human or chimpanzee, has meaning. Full tribute here: 👉 caligrief.substack.com/p/echoes-and...

(1/5) A stage set at Quantico: 800 military leaders rushed to D.C., only to watch a theater of bluster. A flag backdrop, speeches echoing Patton, but silence told its own truth. History’s pen records both words spoken and words withheld. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... @hcrichardson.bsky.social

(1/5) 🌊 New issue of The Grief Wave: Music, loss, resilience, & the courage to begin again. 🎵 Viral bagpipes + tradition 🌊 Children’s grief explained 🎀 40 years of breast cancer awareness 📜 Telehealth & reproductive care updates 🎭 October gatherings 👉 caligrief.substack.com/p/the-grief-...

(1/5) Shutdown looms, healthcare hangs by a thread, and leaders walk away without a deal. Heather Cox Richardson’s latest reminds us that politics is not abstract—it is about people’s survival, their health, and their dignity. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... @hcrichardson.bsky.social

(1/5) 💔🧒 Children grieve too—often more deeply than we realize. When adults try to shield kids from loss, we may create more confusion instead of protection. I explore this in my latest essay: 🔗 caligrief.substack.com/p/grief-101-...

(1/5) A deep fake MedBed promise. A golden Oval Office. Troops eyed for Portland. HCR’s latest reminds us: when spectacle replaces substance, democracy trembles. History warns that illusion is often used to mask erosion. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... @hcrichardson.bsky.social

(1/5) Yesterday’s Epstein files cracked the façade. Logs spill like ghosts from a locked room. Instead of truth, Trump tosses distractions—Earhart, vaccines, conspiracies. History shows us: when power fears exposure, it points elsewhere. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... @hcrichardson.bsky.social

(1/5) 📜 History has echoes. Today’s headlines about Medals of Honor at Wounded Knee are not just news, they are the sound of unfinished grief in America. HCR traces how political maneuvering and broken promises shaped a massacre that still reverberates. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

(1/5) 🌊 The Grief Wave | Sept 26, 2025 Grief is never only an ending. It is also a beginning—carrying memory forward, reshaping us, and binding us together. This week’s stories explore courage, tradition, and resilience. 👉 Read here: caligrief.substack.com/p/the-grief-...

(1/5) 📜 HCR's Letters from an American reminds us: democracy bends but must not break. Yesterday’s essay traces threats to federal workers, courts, and the very rule of law. Reading it feels like holding a mirror to America’s grief. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... @hcrichardson.bsky.social

(1/5) 🌊 New in The Grief Wave The Tangled Net #13: The Death of Local Knowledge When grandmother’s wisdom is replaced by algorithmic advice. We live in a world where centuries of lived knowledge fade quietly under the glow of apps and “best practices.” ➡️ caligrief.substack.com/p/the-tangle...

(1/5) 🌊 HCR reminds us that history is not just dates and policies. It is the struggle of memory against forgetting. Yesterday’s speech at the UN shows how power twists, reverses, and retreats—while lives hang in the balance. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... @hcrichardson.bsky.social

(1/5) 🕯️ Echoes & Endings | Kongjian Yu (1963–2025) A visionary who believed cities should dance with rain, not fight it. His sponge city philosophy reshaped how the world thinks about resilience. 🌧️🌱 Full tribute: open.substack.com/pub/caligrie...