“60 Minutes” Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi: >“We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

There are lifelong unexpected costs to surviving a school shooting. As one mom of a mass shooting survivor told me, “At the moment, you don’t care what anything’s going to cost, and then the bills start to roll in.” Her daughter's first hospital bill was $178,000. www.huffpost.com/entry/brown-...

Wrote about the sneakily effective fake toy scam that fools too many people. Be wary of any "flash deals" from unknown vendors! www.huffpost.com/entry/fake-t...

"In years past, lawmakers have seen young people fleeing horrific, dangerous conditions in their home countries and taken extra steps to protect unaccompanied immigrant youth — creating a paper trail...In a cruel irony, those same factors make unaccompanied immigrant children easier to control."

What Instacart is doing “is arguably more deceptive than dynamic pricing," one of the authors of the report told me. www.huffpost.com/entry/instac...

I'm writing about the financial costs of living through a school shooting and would like to hear from Brown University students about the unexpected expenses they have incurred from this tragedy, from therapy bills to hotel costs. Please share your stories at [email protected] or DM me.

Talked to therapists about the “See, I’m just not good at this, so don’t expect anything from me” manipulative gifters among us. Sometimes, the thought *doesn’t* count. www.huffpost.com/entry/weapon...

In the era of the rolling smaller-scale layoffs, you could be spared from one layoff and axed in the next. This solitary layoff is uniquely dreadful because you lose "coworkers to commiserate with, compare notes with, or even make sense of what happened”: www.huffpost.com/entry/foreve...

The most devastating line: "A representative for Chalamet declined to comment." www.wsj.com/style/fashio...

"You shouldn’t write a memoir unless you are willing to make yourself look foolish and pathetic." www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

We received our first counterproposals from management today with disappointing language — including no guaranteed wage increases this year and rollbacks of hard-fought language on diversity and severance. We stand united and ready to fight for the contract we deserve.

More companies are doing multiple smaller layoff rounds this year. If you lost your job as part of a "rolling layoff" this year, would love to chat about the emotional and financial impacts it caused you. I'm [email protected] if interested!

Ready to work towards making our newsroom a more inclusive and fair place for all ✊!

If you want to suss out an AI video, listen to how it sounds. I talked with a linguist and AI experts about why AI videos are still so bad at voiced speech. Even OpenAI has admitted that a wired voice is the biggest tell of a Sora video. www.huffpost.com/entry/ai-acc...

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

I wrote about whether the "cancel ICE ads" movement can be the next "cancel Disney." As one person boycotting Spotify, Peacock, and Hulu told me, "Their message to me is that they don’t have respect for me or my community, and I’m not going to give them a dollar.” www.huffpost.com/entry/cancel...

Wrote about how Sora videos are flooding social media, and what kind of reality-bending consequences that's having on us: www.huffpost.com/entry/how-id...

If you're going to a No Kings rally this weekend, consider the safety risks of sharing photos and videos, not just for yourself, but for everyone around you. I talked to privacy experts about strategies for mitigating these risks: www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Wrote about what the National Guard can ask or do to civilians and how the Insurrection Act could dramatically change that: www.huffpost.com/entry/nation...

Wrote about why Tilly's obedience might be the most unsettling thing about "her" and what it means for the future of work: www.huffpost.com/entry/ai-act...

I asked car experts and mechanics about what will actually help you save the most $$$ on car expenses, and the answers they gave were surprisingly simple -- and yet too many people don't follow these tips: www.huffpost.com/entry/reduce...

Just five days after suspending Jimmy Kimmel, Disney announced that “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” will go live once more. I talked to boycott experts and a die-hard Disney adult about what made the "cancel Disney" movement different. www.huffpost.com/entry/cancel...

I'm writing about ChatGPT influencing dating, and am looking to talk with people who believe they have been "chatfished" by dates who use it to copy-paste messages. Am also interested in people who are open about using AI chatbots to date. Email me at [email protected] with your stories.

This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.

Wrote about how we transform into people-pleasing fawns to survive unreasonable bosses, and how this self-protective pattern hurts you in the long run: www.huffpost.com/entry/fawnin...

I talked to wedding photographers about the most telling behaviors they see with couples that could foretell a divorce: “I’m like, 'Oh, these pictures are looking wonderful, but I need you to smile.′ And he was like, ‘I’ll smile when it’s genuine.'” www.huffpost.com/entry/weddin...

There's one important difference between life jackets marketed as safe and reliable and ones that actually are. As one expert put it, “There’s no regulations for how people market these things." www.huffpost.com/entry/life-j...

Wrote about what the end of "de minimis" this month will mean for your everyday shopping purchases. Here's where you could see sticker shock first: www.huffpost.com/entry/de-min...

This story demonstrates how even a short convo with an AI chatbot can be dangerous for vulnerable people: “The best way to sustain usage over time...is to prey on our deepest desires to be seen, to be validated, to be affirmed." www.reuters.com/investigates...

Enjoyed talking to women who defend using "HR voice" when rejecting people they date. As one woman told me, "I’m the queen of a polite termination text." www.huffpost.com/entry/hr-voi...

As I told @monicatorrr.bsky.social, gender stereotypes in children's programming haven't changed in 60 yrs bc the people making it are still largely men. As of 2019, men = 80% of directors, 71% of creators, >50% of writers. Only 18% of episodes written by all women. www.huffpost.com/entry/gender...

The examples nurses gave me shocked and appalled me: “I had a guy one time who had signed up for a timeshare talk, and literally left his wife when she was eight centimeters dilated...and missed the birth of his child,” one nurse told me. www.huffpost.com/entry/labor-...

Instagram's new Map location-sharing feature is a privacy nightmare. “Absolutely make the choice to have it off,” one lawyer told me. www.huffpost.com/entry/instag...

Do you know the difference between a "flood watch" or a "flash flood emergency"? Knowing this could save your life: www.huffpost.com/entry/flood-...

Justice for Diego Luna in "Andor" for giving a leading performance that should have been Emmy nominated! www.huffpost.com/entry/andor-...

Talked to Gen Z about the Gen Z stare, and got a range of answers about what this unnerving stare could mean! www.huffpost.com/entry/gen-z-...

What happens in a galaxy far, far away feels all too close to what’s happening in U.S. politics. I talked to fans who are inspired by "Andor" to fight the Trump administration: www.huffpost.com/entry/andor-...

Excellent piece from @monicatorrr.bsky.social about how data brokers are selling off our addresses and phone numbers for pennies, what you can do to opt out of the sites, and what regulation would be needed to stop all of this. www.huffpost.com/entry/minnes...

If you're one of the many who plan to protest Trump this weekend, you need to decide whether or not you bring your phone. At the very least, you need to disable touch and Face ID, security experts say: www.huffpost.com/entry/bring-...

we’re ready to strike if we don’t get a good contract

Amazing. Respect the lede.

When AI models deceive and blackmail humans, it's not good, AI safety experts warned --especially if the goal is to make them more autonomous: "They want to have an AI that doesn’t just advise commanders on the battlefield, it is the commander on the battlefield.” www.huffpost.com/entry/ai-shu...

like I dunno maybe if you are going to state something weird and racial about half the population of a country of 1.4 billion people you should have… a (?) source ? ??

The main problem with AI notetakers is how often they can be inaccurate ― and yet they can create a lasting record that may one day be used against you. www.huffpost.com/entry/ai-not...

It IS possible to negotiate above a listed salary range. I asked career coaches about how to strategically pull this off. www.huffpost.com/entry/salary...

This is an excellent, deeply reported article that shows how institutions can insulate supposed stars from consequences and how hard it can be for women to be believed: www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...

An extreme Georgia abortion law is forcing a brain-dead woman to stay on life support for months so doctors can try to deliver her unborn baby

Good riddance. "There was really no business justification to allow hidden fees that are mandatory...The only justification was that businesses made more money than they otherwise would make.” www.huffpost.com/entry/ftc-ne...