By 4 p.m., the NAACP filed in Davidson County Chancery Court for an emergency injuction against the maps. A link to the full filing has been added to our story.

Folks, pls don't share photos godforsaken Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social thieves circulate. Screenshot of a tweet looks like crap. No credit to photographer, a Black man. Support @nashvillebanner.bsky.social! Credit: Martin B. Cherry/Nashville Banner nashvillebanner.com/2026/05/07/t...

Ivermectin in an anti-parasitic. It kills parasites. Viruses are not parasites. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

I strongly endorse this wonderful piece. One of the joys of my life is traveling with our now adult sons on occasional adventures…

What ‘NPC,’ Elon Musk’s favorite term of abuse, reveals about his worldview. @bentarnoff.com and @quinnslobodian.com talk Muskism on Journalism 2050 with @emilybell.bsky.social and @heatherchaplin. youtu.be/9jCT8RyrgLY

Even among fascists, this is an extreme clothing brand, because it’s not deniable. And people now feel comfortable wearing it in the middle of Berlin, in a way they didn’t 10 years ago. I can’t describe how serious this is. It’s basically saying “I’d wear a swastika in the street if that was legal“.

I loved this episode with my co-conspirator Heather Chaplin - thanks @bentarnoff.com and @quinnslobodian.com , for coming on to talk Muskism , cyber conservatism, and how journalism needs to forge a path away from techno totalitarianism (buy their book of the same name - it’s truly excellent)

Tired: family group chat with me asking endless questions about travel plans - to complete tumbleweed Wired: family chat when someone else mentions the NYT greatest living American songwriter list…🙄

This is happening all the time , in journalism, in academia :

Wonderful to see a really artful/ useful application of AI tools to a news archive. (Also super cool that it started in @columbiajournalism.bsky.social Lede program …h/t @dangerscarf.bsky.social )

NEW: Emails obtained by @wired.com show how a small conservative group was instrumental in FCC chair Brendan Carr's actions against Jimmy Kimmel. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop. No paywall bc FOIA: www.wired.com/story/the-fc...

me with the time machine, to my 1996 self: the year is 2026. the Pope is the only world leader you respect. you believe unironically that the cultural mores and sexual behavior of San Francisco are destroying America. computers were a mistake

…. Point of law…Impersonating a doctor is illegal whereas impersonating Jesus isn’t www.nycourts.gov/judges/cji/2...

Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.

Big libel defeat… www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/b...

“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” is what an Education Department spokesperson wrote to one of our reporters, @megomatz.bsky.social, after she repeatedly tried to get comment from the department and its officials. (Published Dec. 2025)

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...

Nota News - sold as solving the ‘news deserts’ problem with AI - stories for $10 each! - was in fact stealing and regurgitating work from local journalists and it seems *other newsroom clients* using its tools. Excellent reporting @angelanfu.bsky.social for Poynter www.poynter.org/ethics-trust...

Unfortunate Clubhouse coded acquisition. Who better to comment on AI companies…than AI companies themselves!

I feel like Bluesky has had an unfollow bug. Just refollowing a bunch of accounts I definitely followed

Recommended for a nuanced examination of the history of genetic testing and fascism

Are there any good scholarly or legal papers by constitutional lawyers about where the line is drawn between reckless incompetence, self- enrichment and say treason?

This is a great thread - every use of AI in any article should (imo) be accompanied by any disclosure of marketing/licensing agreements with said AI companies by the publisher or author, plus whether those licensing agreements include further agreements to ‘integrate AI tools’ into workflows

A coda to my last column: another AI agent has been banned for angry blogging: www.404media.co/an-ai-agent-...

Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

A nice and unexpected review of my book in The Progressive. Tomorrow is the formal release date! progressive.org/latest/a-new...

I genuinely believe a lot of writers do not realize (though they should) that AI tools which suggest edits and summaries are not independently sentient ….they are using someone else’s work. (Just say no kids)

New: Wikipedia has officially banned AI-generated content. After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of LLMs, volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

New: Around the world people are turning to low-carbon EVs, solar panels, induction stoves and heat pumps as the Iran war upends oil and gas markets. Bloomberg journalists, including yours truly, filed dispatches from San Francisco to Lagos for this story. Free link www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

If you get an email from me - which is vanishingly unlikely given my current work schedule - check it has not come from inbox.ru …..which is definitely not me

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We have really top notch computational journalists at @towcenter.bsky.social and @columbiajournalism.bsky.social …here is @cj-robinson.bsky.social with new research on the dangerous Polymarket grift infecting news integrity

AI companies - ‘helping’ journalism…. by borrowing authority without bothering to fix citation . Me in CJR www.cjr.org/tow_center/d...

Mediahuis is a company that boasted about going ‘all in’ on AI …then it suspended one of its most senior editors for doing just that…..

Sora shuts down, the Metaverse is binned, a court decides Meta, Google are guilty in social media addiction trial, AOC says AI sucks…..a big week in the accountability renaissance

the default to focus on “positive” & “improvement-oriendted (even of harmful & shitty systems)” research in academia is not only a pathology but a real obstacle to actual accountability research that tries to shine light on broken systems, names responsible actors & confronts harmful practices

Doomscrolling Professor Pape videos is an unexpected new hobby

huge and true

I am very proud to say that I worked for months as an expert witness on this case. I am very pleased by the outcome.

"AI cannot coexist with education. It can only degrade it."

There is zero reason for any credible news organisation to do a deal with Polymarket or Kalshi. Here are some concrete reasons NOT to - new analysis from @towcenter.bsky.social show how far reaching and false Polymarket ‘affiliate’ accounts are www.cjr.org/tow_center/p...

genuinely shocking evidence of misconduct in ways that should guarantee disbarment of the lawyers responsible. i've never seen anything like the longer para on page 2.

AI - more at the top, less at the bottom

Mediahuis journalist Menno Van Den Bos emailed me to say he noticed a report about @towcenter.bsky.social ‘s Journalism 2050 project written by Dutch editor Peter Vandermeersch contained multiple errors- false attribution, and a quote (by me) I didn’t say… www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

of interest to few certain strains of music heads: huge stash of NME back issues now dropping on @archive.org, 300+ issues, 1969-1983 (so far). archive.org/search?query...

As LLM use expands, “the models’ outputs…are reabsorbed into human discourse & shape users’ own expression & reasoning and, in turn, influence the data used to train future models, transforming homogenization from a passive bias into a structurally reinforced influence.” www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Here’s my plea to the national security press: don’t report what he announces at face value. You’ve been suckered over and over to cover his fake trade deals and ceasefire “announcements” like they are real. He’s desperate to look like he’s got a plan. Make sure it’s not fake.

Disappointed Anne Hathaway didn’t mention Max Dowman’s goal