I spoke with @issielapowsky.bsky.social at the @nytimes.com about an important experiment in post-disaster housing happening Maui. Ka La‘i Ola will provide transitional housing for hundreds of wildfire survivors, then convert to permanent housing and infrastructure. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/h...

Wired rules. Just an incredible group of journalists who are completely meeting the moment. And you can subscribe for $2 a month, which is insane www.wired.com/story/a-new-...

I have a story out today in the NYTimes that's been bouncing around my brain for years. Backstory: I was a new mom when COVID started. I was working from home, switching off and on w/my husband, who was also home, every few hours. It was hard, yes, but I also really loved the time with my kid...1/x

Every single part of this entire interview is nonsensical. As in the words, strung together as sentences, in the form of questions and answers make no sense. Two men who think they sound smarter if they never admit they don’t know wtf the other one just said or meant. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/o...

Elon keeps stiffing people. She keeps suing him. Really fun interview with Shannon Liss-Riordan, the renowned labor lawyer, on how she's carving out a subspecialty in "billionaire justice." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/s...

NEW: In 2018, California became the first state to let DAs revisit old prison sentences that seemed unjust. Another 5 states have since passed similar policies. But of the 1,000+ people resentenced, almost none are women. I wrote about an effort to change that. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/h...

“We’ve Been Sold a Story That Isn’t Remotely True”: How Private-Equity Billionaires Killed the American Dream @issielapowsky.bsky.social talks to @greenwell.bsky.social about her new book, "Bad Company" www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

Wisdom of the crowd: My kid got a basketball net for his birthday. He plays no earlier than 10am and no later than 7pm. We found an anonymous note on our fence asking us to "respect the neighborhood" because the ball bouncing is too loud, including "during dinnertime." What is the right response?

RFK Jr's "MAHA" report is filled with references to studies that literally do not exist, or that completely misinterpret the studies' findings. “We did not publish a paper.. on this topic with that co-author group, or with that title,” says one cited researcher. www.notus.org/health-scien...

NEW: The US government has collected DNA from over 100,000 migrant children—including a 4-year-old—and uploaded their genetic profiles into a national biometric database meant for sex offenders and violent criminals. www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

It says something about the tenor of the reader emails I've been getting lately that I immediately assumed this subject line was a troll.

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

Had a fascinating chat with @patrickmcgee.bsky.social about his book, Apple in China. It flips what we know about Apple and China on its head. It's not just that China built Apple. He argues that through massive investments in the country, Apple built China, too. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/a...

Great article by @issielapowsky.bsky.social about the impact AI content is already having. Even if the "dead internet theory" isn't 100% true, if platforms don't properly disencentivize AI content, it can still hurt online publishing and content creators. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Quoted in this great article about AI slop by @issielapowsky.bsky.social: what mix of real and AI-generated content will our information environment reach in the limit? Maybe AI Slop Is Killing the Internet, After All www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation" Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company

I've been wanting to pitch this *exact* story, but so glad it exists anyway. The Jennifer Hudson Show TikToks are the ultimate antidote to the doomscroll and the only way to calm my addled brain at the end of a long day. I love them so very much. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/a...

“They were already taking our homes because of Facebook, landlords pricing us out. Now they’re gonna take this away too." sfstandard.com/2025/04/23/p...

New in PN: RFK Jr. is wrong about autism "The Trump administration's attack on difference, the idea that people who are different are a tragedy and a burden and that they have nothing to contribute — that is fascism. And it is a danger to almost everyone."

In 2013, a junior senator named Marco Rubio delivered a stern warning against protectionist foreign policy and asked, “If America stops leading, who will fill the vacuum we leave behind?” What ever happened to that guy? www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

Had to watch this several times to wonder if he was just...talking about his own accomplishments.

Important column by @vermontgmg.bsky.social… “Has America Reached the End of the Road? Donald Trump has forced the one crisis that will tell us who we are.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/has-americ...

Not sure who needs to hear this, but @thekrebscycle.bsky.social, as the first director of CISA and an outspoken truth teller in the years since then, has done incredibly important work for the cybersecurity community and the country. Pretty much the definition of a “good faith actor.”

The State Department is outraged that people are being rounded up and threatened with deportation based on their political speech. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

The White House can have "This was our master plan all along" or they can have "Trump wasn't manipulating the markets with his Truth Social posts." They can't have both. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

I might have suggested some word other than "exploding," but that's just me.

We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.

THE WORST DEFENSE OF THE TRUMP TARIFFS: I wrote in the newsletter today about how annoying it is to hear people talk about how we need these tariffs to reindustrialize and counter China in high tech manufacturing. We were literally just doing that! Sub here www.bloomberg.com/account/news...

The country's biggest retailers are scared to challenge Trump's tariffs in court. But this Pensacola-based entrepreneur, who runs a 10-person stationary business, isn't. I spoke with @emilyley.bsky.social about her lawsuit for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91312081/mee...

MAGA world's response to the SCOTUS ruling on Venezuelan deportations misses a key point: This is not a free pass. As Sotomayor wrote, if this admin keeps deporting people in a "shroud of secrecy," it would violate "an edict by the United States Supreme Court.” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/s...

"Google Says Employees Can Discuss Antitrust Case" as a treat.

The internet archive is just an invaluable journalistic tool.

BREAKING: Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily stayed the district court's order setting a deadline for Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return from El Salvador, ordering the man's lawyers to file a response by 5 p.m. Tuesday to the Trump admin's request that SCOTUS block the district court's order.

NEW: As Trump threatens more China tariffs, I spoke with the small business owner challenging Trump's tariffs in court: www.fastcompany.com/91312081/mee...

For “One First,” I wrote up why the federal courts absolutely *do* have the power to order the U.S. government to take all possible steps to bring back an individual who was wrongfully removed from the country—and what it would mean if they didn’t: www.stevevladeck.com/p/138-abrego...

I interviewed Becky Burke for today's Guardian. This is what is happening right now in Trump's America www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Most predictable news yet. As I wrote earlier this week, Trump’s initial TikTok EO was basically a presidential pinky-swear that he wouldn't enforce the law as written. There was nothing stopping him from doing it again. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

A lot of Silicon Valley finds the whole DOGE/Musk approach troubling, or just bad management — but they're afraid to say so out loud. New from @issielapowsky.bsky.social: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

NEW: At a time when some of the most powerful people in their industry aren't just aligned with the Trump administration, they're running it, liberals in tech are becoming the new silent majority. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

In other news, here I am crying at the coffee shop over this beautiful and somehow funny essay.

A Philly city council member kept replying to sexy girl accounts (likely bots) on Threads and is now claiming he thought they were constituents trying to reach out. 🫠https://www.inquirer.com/politics/philadelphia/councilmember-jimmy-harrity-social-media-posts-20250402.html

Youtube comments as Cory Booker concluded. I didn’t speed this up.

We are 17+ hours (and counting) into @booker.senate.gov's address to the Senate, and unlike when Sen. Ted Cruz resorted to reading Green Eggs and Ham during his 2013 filibuster, Sen. Booker has not yet run out of material. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Trump won’t rule out seeking a third term in the White House, tells NBC News ‘there are methods’ for doing so

NEW: Mike Waltz and Susie Wiles both left their Venmo friend lists public, which experts say is a counterintelligence nightmare, until @wired.com reached out for comment earlier today. From @dmehro.bsky.social @timmarchman.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/michae...

A growing number of lawmakers are pushing back on data centers’ largely unchecked expansion into their states. But those lawmakers looking to regulate data centers have faced an uphill battle, writes Issie Lapowsky (@issielapowsky.bsky.social): www.techpolicy.press/as-data-cent...

"We're all trying to find the guy who did this" www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

NEW: DOGE put a not-so-secret CIA training facility up for sale, apparently in error. "Obviously, someone did no research about the long and well-documented history of this property," says the chairman of the local county board of supervisors.

Sure would hate for government employees to be able to read the news.

Why doesn't "sui generis" mean "generous" and why doesn't "dispositive" mean "negative"? These words are traps.