WSJ reports that Sam Altman has apologized to the Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge, for not alerting authorities after OpenAI banned the ChatGPT account of the person who later did the mass shooting there. Read my recent investigation—and I have more coming soon. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0... 1x

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

CHICAGO!! TOMORROW!!

This is a terrible story. I will point out that incarcerated people are commonly targeted for identity theft bc there's no Experian in prison; however I've seen very few stories about this. www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-wo...

Politicians have literally bragged about having low ratings with the NRA 😭😭

For Playboy, I wrote about Clavicular, masculinity, and the digital image www.playboy.com/read/enterta...

“The power of Mayor Mamdani’s candidacy + early tenure have been rooted in this communal rhetoric of a city that works for everyone. If NY is to be a model for the nation of how a progressive city can work, we can’t neglect public libraries…”

NEW: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, a Catholic, criticized Pope Leo XIV’s decision to decline President Trump’s invitation to join the proposed Gaza “Board of Peace.” The pope’s top Middle East envoy condemned the initiative as a pay-to-play “colonialist operation.”

@marynmck.bsky.social has an excellent TED talk on this.

New fusionism: “Citing their work, Brockman predicted in 2005 that the “dangerous idea of the next decade” would be that “groups of people differ genetically in their average talents”.” ht @libankerdc.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

“There should be more grit in the story, which is too rhythmically indebted to the swoon beats of ‘Bridgerton’” Doreen St. Felix is so good, per usual

German journo: “If an artist is afraid to speak up when it comes to fascism — then they shouldn’t be coming. Because these are different times. This is about good and evil, and as a German, we know what we’re talking about. You can’t be on the sidelines when it comes to this” Via Variety

The genocide is ongoing.

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

Don’t be fooled by Kushner’s Gaza fantasy. The plan is to confine Palestinians to hyper-surveilled prison camps and exploit them as cheap labor for luxury developments they’ll never live in, all built atop mass graves. My latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...

“No matter how Ring and other surveillance tech companies may downplay it, there’s no world in which finding lost dogs is the final end-use for this technology.”

I wrote about the new Muppet Show, which is, thank God, exactly like the old Muppet Show.

Abolish ICE is too confusing. What we meant to say is that "no masks should be deployed in an arbitrary and capricious fashion."

As The Washington Post cleaved off a third of its workforce, chief executive Will Lewis and owner Jeff Bezos were nowhere to be found—leaving the storied institution to profusely bleed while its top leaders hid from accountability. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

Shaun King aka Talcum X aka (insert your favorite moniker here) is Shaun Kinging again, on Substack, writing ICE-related stories. Please do not support him. He's a serial grifter. He promises he's 'working hard behind the scenes'. He's not. He's just taking your money.

I wrote about the similarities between OBAA and Sinners www.hannaphifer.com/thought-daug...

The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong. I landed on "slopagandist." Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

Did you know i have a substack?? open.substack.com/pub/mayasing...

Some of the best writing and thinking ive encountered abt the women of these two films, this season.

there are so many gutting stories, but this one is hitting me extra hard. just imagining wael tarabishi slowly dying without his dad there to care for him because he was jailed by ICE makes me…i don’t have words. this country is disgusting.

Minneapolis's anti-ICE organizing grew, in part, from seeds planted in the 2020 uprising. And as Minneapolis organizers @jonathanstegall.bsky.social & @annekosseffjones.bsky.social write, "By protecting our neighbors from ICE, we are practicing abolition." truthout.org/articles/min...

This interview is very funny. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

finally some good fucking food

nine years old

I wrote about the similarities between OBAA and Sinners www.hannaphifer.com/thought-daug...

I interviewed Char Adams about her book Black Owned www.hannaphifer.com/thought-daug...

I wrote about Kamala Harris’ 107 Days and Karine Jean Pierre’s Independent www.hannaphifer.com/thought-daug...

I wrote about Kamala Harris’ 107 Days and Karine Jean Pierre’s Independent www.hannaphifer.com/thought-daug...

"There are very few ways to verify someone’s identity online well, and no ways to do it both effectively and anonymously."

I wrote about the Labubu Dubai chocolate Love Island matcha latte of it all. There really has been a material change in how trends are produced and which ones are capable of catching on with huge audiences. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Contrary to Trump’s grotesque, self-congratulatory press releases, he has not ended gender-affirming care for young people; rather, as the health care workers I spoke to this week made clear, hospital management, boards, and their legal advisers have ended it for him. My new story:

I love late night shows and will always love late night shows. There’s a showbiz magic to hundreds of people throwing together an entire entertainment program for a live studio audience that will then be on television that same night. Regardless of business or if you like them, just kind of magical.

The Hinton Family Needs Support. Ryan Hinton's Funeral hasnt even been held yet. His family is struggling/ being harassed- I got confirmation from one of their church fellows on a few things. If yall dont know about what's going on in Cincinnati right now, read this: www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/u...

How Two Women Turned a TikTok Post Into a Nationwide ICE Raid Tracker www.marieclaire.com/politics/peo...

NEWS: In one of the first major federal prosecutions of an LA protester, the DOJ has moved to dismiss the case. Jose Manuel Mojica was accused of assaulting officers, but came forward to Guardian to recount how he was brutally attacked by agents. “I feel a huge relief. The truth always comes out."

Roger Ebert would have been 82 today, sharing the only Onion article to ever legitimately make me tear up theonion.com/roger-ebert-...

I wrote about Ms. Rachel and the landscape of children’s programming www.hannaphifer.com/thought-daug...

This photo. ICE is a gang.

"A reporter from @thecity.nyc had overheard one agent say to another minutes before Lander’s arrest, 'Do you want to arrest the Comptroller?'"

I wrote about Democrats' obsession with calling Trump's actions a "distraction," and how it reflects their failure to understand the modern media ecosystem.

If you rank Zohran 1st you’re voting to make every New York Times Opinion writer insane for several years.