DHS is being more aggressive than ever targeting anonymous social media accounts that have spoken out against ICE, asking Big Tech to hand over information on users without signed judicial warrants story w/ @sheeraf.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

New story up on the Homeland Security Department’s new tactic: flood social media companies with subpoenas to unmask anonymous accounts that criticize ICE or monitor the movements of ICE agents. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

In an internal memo in May, Meta laid out its plans to release facial recognition in its smart glasses, to the blind first, & then to the general public. “Civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Seems like the right place to ask: who is doing press for Bluesky these days?

. @nickijhabvala.bsky.social: "Will Lewis was too busy to join the call to tell his staff he’s destroying the @washingtonpost.com sports department yesterday … but he did have time to walk the red carpet at NFL Honors here in San Francisco today. Amazing."

When I started out in journalism in the mid-2000’s, there were almost a dozen US papers with bureaus in critical areas like the Middle East. Papers like The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Miami Herald, and Washington Post each had correspondents who were fierce competitors and colleagues.

We stand with you, @postguild.bsky.social

Joe Menn is a powerhouse of cybersecurity and tech reporting. His work has been nominated for Pulitzers, Loebs, and Sabew prizes in journalism.

I’m going to share some posts from amazing Wpost reporters who lost their jobs today. I’m regularly jealous of Nitasha’s reporting and know from my days at BuzzFeed that she is a wonderful and generous colleague.

🎙️ON AIR: We're talking to @brennancenter.org's @rlevinsonwaldman.bsky.social and @nytimes.com's @sheeraf.bsky.social about how the facial-recognition tools used by federal immigration agencies work and what they mean for enforcement and civil liberties. ❓What are your Qs about this tech? 📻Listen:

Join me and @sheeraf.bsky.social at 1 pm ET/10 am PT *today* as we talk with @kqedforum.bsky.social about ICE surveillance and more. www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

NEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning. Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

The Wpost had shredded their coverage of the Middle East and Ukraine. Take a moment to think about that. Two areas where U.S. interests and involvement are critical, and where their reporters have produced award-winning work, (at great risk to their own lives).

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

This is terrible news for the entire journalism industry. The Washington Post regularly produces critical reporting. Its international reporters were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize last year. It’s an institution for a reason.

This is the surveillance toolkit - including facial recognition and cell phone tracking - that ICE is using to identify people in Minneapolis: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...

I love getting the weekend paper delivered to my house. I didn’t love trying to explain today’s news to two small kids.

“Footage shows Mr. Pretti was holding a phone, not a gun, when the agents took him to the ground and shot him.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

Latest NYT analysis of video footage from the Renee Good shooting capture Ross firing the 2nd and 3rd shots at her after his body is visibly clear of the path of her vehicle. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...

New from the @nytimes.com Visual Investigations team: Detailed, second-by-second video analysis of all of the video footage of the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Inside the fight to keep Iran online: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/t...

Today in things I made from clay: a little salt pot and a bowl.

Nobody does snark like the British.

I finished the gay hockey books, and they are as good as everyone said. To anyone not reading/watching because you think you don’t like romance, I was once one of you. These books taught me that it’s not romance, as a genre, that I hate. It’s the traditional male/female power structure they lean on.

As a member of the media, I can’t say this enough: It’s the media’s job to arm you with information. It’s your job to decide what to do with that information.

Judge Blocks Detention of British Researcher Who Scrutinizes Online Hate www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...

Another day, another huge Epstein document dump. Follow along as a team of @nytimes.com reporters sifts through 29,000+ pages of newly released (and heavily redacted materials). www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Olive grove by olive grove, sheep pasture by sheep pasture, village by village — over the past two years, Israeli settlers, often with Israeli military support, have escalated their unrelenting campaign to seize land and erase its Palestinian presence. Paywall free: nytimes.com/interactive/...

I send my kids to a small Bay Area school where a high percentage of parents work in tech. My informal survey of popular holiday gifts found that the two most popular were the Yoto mini music player and Tin Can phone. Tells you something that all these families want their kids to be screen-free.

A+ data journalism. @karenyourish.bsky.social @kenvogel.bsky.social and @charliesmart.bsky.social analyzed 346 donors who gave more than $250,00 to Trump. They found that more than half, “benefited, or are involved in an industry that has benefited,” from Trump. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I love that Yalda and the last night of Hannukah fall on the same day this year, (the winter solstice). Hafez and Latkes for all.

My first story for @nytimes.com: a profile of Rachel Reid, bestselling author of Heated Rivalry. Still pinching myself!

The power outage and spotty cell service sending Waymos in San Francisco into a total meltdown is pure comedy.

Maria has been accused over the years of fabricating her story that she had gone to the FBI. After finding the document in the trove, I called her. She broke down in tears. “I’ve waited 30 years. I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

The Pulitzer Board is actually fighting back against one of Trump’s vexatious lawsuits, saying, ‘If you were harmed, prove it — with medical and financial records.’ Not rolling over like some of the capitulating companies we’ve seen. newrepublic.com/post/204475/...

Look, at some point the universe is going to start smacking us over the head with the symbolism.

I want to participate in the Heated Rivalry discourse. Do I need to read the book first?

ICE snatched a human rights hero. Guan Heng risked his life to capture video of Uyghur concentration camps. After escaping to the U.S., Guan was in hiding for years, not knowing his work had been crucial to substantiating China's mass detention practices. On Monday, he has an asylum hearing in NY.

Kudos to the Brown University students who are posting continuous live updates, spaced just minutes apart, on the campus shooting. A lot of grace and professionalism under immense pressure. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

Did all the brands get together and decide that 30% was going to make us impulse buy our way through Black Friday? (In this economy?!?)

Please share your Thanksgiving traditions especially if (like me!) you grew up in an immigrant family and have created your own version of this holiday. We make: Turkey mole, pickled onions, jalapeño cornbread, cranberry salsa, roasted corn, and sage salsa verde (thank you Samin Nosrat!).

Because a lot of people might be talking about journalistic ethics this holiday weekend, I want to put out there how my editor at the NYT does anon sourcing for our stories. If something is stated and attributed to an unnamed person, she wants us to have at least three people verify it.

The most thorough reporting I’ve seen on how Chat GPT is affecting some people’s mental health, (and what the company is doing about it). Great work from @kashhill.bsky.social and @Jen Valentino www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...

NEW: For months, my colleagues and I dug into YouTube's conservative airwaves and found a flourishing network of host-read ads on right-leaning podcasts. This phenomenon has enriched hosts, YouTube, and businesses that use ideology to sell. bloom.bg/3Kaio9w

Cheat sheet for a perfect day: wake up on a small island in Fiji and pay a local to take you out on a boat. Snorkel wherever the water takes you until you get hungry. Breakfast is a sprouted coconut you found on the beach and some local fruit. Spend the rest of the day exploring tiny islands.

Just arrived in Paradise (aka Fiji). Going to check out of the world for 5 days.

Now making seasonal glazes for my mugs.