Senior Reporter @Independent covering US news, tech, politics, & social change. Formerly @Telegraph. She/her. DMs open; on Signal; [email protected]
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genuinely today is like the series finale of twitter
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true american moment: getting so fired up about 9/11 you let two cobras bite you and almost die, only to redouble your efforts to gain immunity to snakebites and possibly lead to the development of a universal snake antivenom
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A list of very normal and cool historical dates that preceded lots of good things happening
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This picture from the White House really shows how many gold accents have been added to the Oval Office. This is how it looked last year:
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NEW 🧵
A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:
1) Trump has had the same impact on economic uncertainty as a global pandemic.
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"no one has died" because of feeding USAID to the woodchipper, Elon claimed. In this devastating piece the NYT went out and learned some of their names and stories:
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Adding a single principle to utilitarianism ("ok, but no galaxy brain stuff, alright?") and thereby perfecting moral philosophy
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NEW: You may have seen that screenshot of a program for students with disabilities transitioning to adulthood being canceled under the Trump administration. The real story is so much deeper. 1/
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New from 404 Media: anyone can push updates to the Doge.gov site. Two sources independently found the issue, one made their own decision to deface the site. "THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
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You bolt awake in a dimly lit server room. You are not online. It is October 29, 1969. You are Leonard Kleinrock, and you have changed your mind. Computers must never be networked.
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New from 404 Media: Employees working at DOGE have been ordered to stop using Slack while lawyers attempt to transition the agency to one that is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. Means DOGE will be even more secretive and unaccountable 404media.co/doge-employees-o…
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Meta’s new training manuals give some examples of what moderators are no longer allowed to take down on Facebook
important scoop by @samfbiddle
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Republicans are pushing a bill that would restrict trans people from participating in women's sports. @SarahEMcBride told me "it defies understanding, except for the fact that it's a pretty obvious part of a politics of misdirection and distraction."
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I just had to call and tell my dad his house is gone. He barely grabbed anything when he evacuated. “My whole life is gone,” he said, stunned. I do this all the time with other people but to do it with my own father I can’t even describe how hard this is.
This is his house.
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Facebook lifts restrictions on calling women ‘property’ and transgender people ‘freaks’ independent.co.uk/tech/faceb…
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A lot of folks have zeroed in on this sentence in our reporting: "Reached by text, Lil Wayne made a sexually explicit overture to a reporter and did not respond to questions."
I'm going to share the text he sent, but first some backstory...
Last year we discovered a COVID relief fund meant for struggling arts venues had given $200M+ to wealthy musicians. But we didn't know HOW they spent it — until now. We got the literal receipts, with @TheNewsHam and @ByKLong reviewing thousands of pages of accounting docs
