For my night owls, I got the chance to talk to Markiplier a couple days ago about Iron Lung, making movies and the YouTube stigma. youtu.be/k29YAAX5u3w

Personally, I like my doctors to have finished residency and passed their boards.

Thank you to @justinpeters.bsky.social and everyone in our Olympics slack for letting me bully them about this man slate.com/culture/2026...

‘No Reason He Should Have Died’: Alex Pretti’s Parents Open Up I'm gifting this article.

NEW: The F.D.A. refused to accept an application from Moderna for its mRNA flu vaccine. Its reason: The agency did not think Moderna compared the new vaccine to one of the best flu shots available. The company spent $750M+ on a 41,000 person study. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...

Time to get the dog her big break

NEW: The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has resulted in more than 18,000 challenges in federal court from immigrants claiming their detention is illegal. We are tracking the increase in these cases 👇

Meta, TikTok and Snap have agreed to undergo independent assessments of how effectively they protect the mental health of teenage users, submitting to a battery of tests by a coalition of advocacy organizations.

NEW: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff ‘joked’ with employees who had traveled to the United States for a Salesforce all-hands meeting that ICE agents were in the building keeping tabs on them, 404 Media has learned.

Johnny Weir drop your skincare routine

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

OK but I, personally, would be annoyed as hell if Cheaty McCheaterpants expected me to take him back after a globally televised pressure-fest.

NEW: The AMA and a leading public health research group focused on vaccines are teaming up to create a parallel system to review vaccine safety and effectiveness. 
The CDC’s vaccine review process has “effectively collapsed” under RFKJr. My story. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

A group of conservative activists has worked for 16 years to stop all government efforts to fight climate change. Their efforts are now paying off. The EPA is expected to revoke the endangerment finding, which has underpinned the government’s ability to fight global warming since 2009.

Hey! I talked to Markiplier about Iron Lung m.youtube.com/watch?v=k29Y...

Let’s see what we checked out from the school libra— Ah yes, that’s my kid.

The White House just sent a "Don't Panic" email. That'll do it

Yelling MAKE BETTER CHOICES at the dog while she climbs atop a dirt encrusted iceberg to poop on my neighbor’s bumper

A federal worker at the CFPB found out in December that she had a brain tumor that needed to be removed. The next month, Russ Vought unilaterally ended her agency's short-term disability plan. www.huffpost.com/entry/russel...

Journalism Jobs: The @startribune.com is hiring an investigative reporter at their headquarters in Minneapolis MN, a state increasingly at the center of national news conversations including policing, immigration, public safety, business, politics and fraud.

In 2013, Epstein's foundation got Business Insider to remove his mugshot from a story so it wouldn't show up in Google search results www.semafor.com/article/02/0...

I'm a little bit obsessed with the growth of visual investigation teams and I think they are great for journalism.

Vacuuming in my weighted vest like some kind of psychotic middle aged Mrs. Danvers.

on benito, and america

🚨🚨 @bridgetgillard.bsky.social splashy feature alert 🚨🚨 www.thecut.com/article/morm...

Great read from Wired about what went into making the Bad Bunny halftime show. www.wired.com/story/bad-bu...

Here is a show I made in 2019 (!) with @carolinehaskins.bsky.social on Ring’s budding surveillance empire shows.acast.com/whatnext-tbd...

Please take the time to read what the children detained in Dilley wrote me in their own words: www.propublica.org/article/ice-... 10/

Macbeth: SHIT

Back in 2019, @carolinehaskins.bsky.social wrote a killer series on Ring. Worth revisiting. www.vice.com/en/article/h...

I am a @404media.co subscriber and you should be too

WE BOUGHT A SUPER BOWL AD

Somebody barfed into one of the icebergs on my street and it melted things just enough to create a circular indentation now filled with frozen vomit.

If I had a newsletter of personal recommendations, I would recommend pretty much every article of clothing from Dilling. I don’t even like leggings and I am currently living in these us.dilling.com/category/mer...

👀 What if I told you there was a hidden art gallery scattered across the country? What if I told you some of its treasures had vanished? What if I told you that I found them? A project three years in the making (🎁 gift link):

So, I’m reading A Fever In The Heartland, and while it is amazing, I might need to stop reading it before bed.

Last summer, @agreenberg.bsky.social got a mysterious email from someone who said they were trapped in a scam compound and wanted Andy’s help in getting out:

Things to do small child New York City zero fucking degrees help

A great journalism professor of mine once referred to “holy shit stories.” This story from @agreenberg.bsky.social is definitely one of them. I can’t urge you enough to listen. slate.com/podcasts/wha...

As a professional analyst of journalistic data, if asked, I’d say the significant data point worth focusing on with the Washington Post would be hundreds of thousands of subscribers suddenly canceling when they became aware the billionaire owner was directly dicking around with what ran in the paper

“I’m glad Will Lewis has been fired. I wish it had happened before he fired all my friends.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...

More people than ever are using @signal.org to exchange information in large groups. But as groups grow, so does the risk to your messages’ privacy. Fortunately, there’s a lot you can do to use Signal groups more safely. Our security team shows you how.

Introducing my child to the greatest Olympic tradition of all: the soft focus NBC feature.

New Yorkers, what you’re gonna need to do is get a lil tub of Dermatone and slather it all over your face before going outside.

After watching data centers on the ballot in Virginia, I’m convinced they are a midterms issue.

Why are all the athletes walking through a giant ring light?

The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.

6/ The Post has lost over 375,000 subscribers in just over a year. If 10% of those readers subscribed to The 51st instead, we could hire 10 reporters and five editors, dramatically scaling our coverage of the city at this critical time. 51st.news/signup