Will Lewis is resigning as WaPo CEO, former Tumblr CEO Jeff D’Onofrio is the paper’s new acting CEO and publisher, per memos to staff

Before The Washington Post layoffs came down, a group of wealthy D.C. locals approached CEO Will Lewis with a proposal. @passantino.bsky.social has the details in his Saturday @status.news column: www.status.news/p/washington...

sometimes u will be reading a great article and then they'll have a graph and it has two y axes and u will close the tab and cry in the fetal position

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

TMZ's video shows both Sveum and Vazquez. Vazquez is seen wearing a hat with the letters "SS" and a skull mask. Sveum is on the right. In the video Vazquez approaches and appears to push the person recording.

yup! all under control. jeffries and schumer seem to know exactly what we all want. done deal!

the most incomprehensible quote i have ever seen in a press release (sighs) openai

🚨New WP "@Grok is this true?" We analyze 1.6M factcheck requests on X (grok & Perplexity) 📌Usage is polarized, Grok users more likely to be Reps 📌BUT Rep posts rated as false more often—even by Grok 📌Bot agreement with factchecks is OK but not great; APIs match fact-checkers osf.io/preprints/ps...

in which a term is coined

i talked to mira, a very good friend, a few days back about this unifying mindset in MPLS. she put it into necessarily rough yet overwhelmingly clear words here. great read from someone living the federal hell

CBP Black Hawk overhead the ICE OUT protest in the Bay today. we know from Chicagoland that they frequently fly without transmitting ADS-B Out, so they won't appear on flight trackers. you may also see a white-and-blue Airbus H125, their 'control' helicopter, which often does appear on trackers.

A note from our editors:

summarizes journalism pretty well

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the thing that irks me the most abt the bondi arrests is the lack of pushback from the right-leaning media, who have historically (afaik) not been This Bad at pushing for press freedoms free don lemon. free georgia fort.

and my mouth Dropped open

terrific little project

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reading about precolonial chamorro fishing methods (they had upwards of 40) and found this one where they pavlov'd fish into getting caught. but like. thousands of years ago "The Chamorros had a practical application to their experiments in behavioral animal psychology. They caught fish." 🔥🔥🔥🔥

SCOOP w/ @carolinehaskins.bsky.social: ICE Is Using Palantir’s AI Tools to Sort Through Tips www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

"It is not journalism to publish the lies of a state institution whose agents have killed yet another person."

Here is the newly-unsealed State Department memo confirming -- finally -- that the detention of Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk was based on an op-ed. No antisemitic activity. No support of terrorism. An op-ed in a student newspaper. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Spotted just now in Minneapolis: Arizona CBP Agent Timothy Donahue (knit cap). Donahue has a history of physical violence, waving his sidearm, and threatening to shoot people. His social media feed was littered with racist, bigoted right-wing hate-speech.

any political assessment that starts with polling data is doomed to fail. we are in a moment that presents the moral test of our lives. politicians can either rise to the occasion or shirk back in fear. it really is that simple

🗣 “Journalists envision a future in which mental health care is not a privilege, but a professional necessity.” ➡️ Learn about our Survey findings 🗓 Jan 22, 1:00 PM ET | 📺 YouTube: www.youtube.com/@VitaActivaOrg #MentalHealthMatters #JournalismCare #ResilientNewsrooms #MediaFuture

New poo balls on Sydney beaches after revelation of huge fatberg stuck in treatment plant

an unfortunate side effect of the shift to indie outlets that i'm starting to see is that readers' standards for what "good journalism" is have been whittled down a single scoop without solid reporting to frame it is a fucking social media post, not a feature article. why does it get praise?

one of these days they'll pull the espionage act card and all hell will break loose

damn what is wrong with me, i am having the hardest time concentrating on work, i lament as i compulsively refresh live feeds of unspeakable horrors

"as an American, I'm allowed to call them that" ...

in an effort to not argue on the tl about how calling a whole class of people bound by circumstance 'uneducated' is bad, i'll discuss the media part here. it's a times problem, and it's twofold: 1. both-sides reporting, which helps spread ideas like the below 2. the 'i must quote all takes' paradox

will be super useful for tracking (wild)fires!!

BREAKING: Hundreds of sensitive U.S. records obtained by WIRED undercut the Trump administration’s claims portraying Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua as a unified terrorist force invading the country. Intelligence agencies spent much of 2025 unsure TdA even functioned as an organization on U.S. soil.

NEW: When Nick Benson (@ottergoose.net) put out the call for dashcams to film ICE, he thought he’d get maybe 10 people to donate. More than 500 have shown up on his front porch in suburban Minneapolis. "We have to make sure we’re keeping track of our community members."

i am deeply concerned about this and doubly deeply concerned about the amount of bluesky commenters — including people that follow me — that say the reporter 'had it coming.' if you think *any* journalist has done *anything* that makes state violence okay you need to unfollow me stat

"Cum guy appears to have departed."

sometimes when i say i'm "running a few minutes late" i was early but am in a riveting text convo that i want to continue for a little bit longer. sometimes i haven't gotten out of bed yet. what a versatile phrase

want to note this terrific illo by Ben Hickey for Mother Jones!

you should know that this helps local journalists with their livethreads and social media alerts as well as the rapid response groups it is intended for!!!

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i need someone to explain to me why exactly people are freaking out at the times over this

New: A few weeks before Grok started 'digitally undressing' people (and some children) by user request on X, there was a meeting at xAI. Musk expressed frustration over guardrails on what ppl could create w/ Grok Imagine, source tells me.

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

i love putting in hours of research work to at best get credited somewhere in prose

fun fact from the indie 'investigative' 'journalism' world: sometimes ppl say they're gonna "work some sources" and they actually just get these 'sources' to do work on their behalf haha

gbyte has you COVERED if you need elden ring runes AND to stalk your partner AND account boosting on World of Warcraft

If you thought Elon Musk's “Grok” chatbot couldn't get worse, read my latest article: Grok isn't just undressing women, it's now putting swastika bikinis on them. One woman who was targeted is a recently-deceased Holocaust survivor.

confirming via a source that Border Patrol was boots-on-the-ground and moved toward their offices

Chicagoland: it appears Border Patrol is returning to the city. three Coast Guard C-130J Super Hercules planes left New Orleans for DuPage County Airport; one, #2016, which was used on Dec. 19 to transport Border Patrol agents, already landed.

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