Kathleen Massara

Since Leaving Washington, Elon Musk Has Been All In on His A.I. Company

Inside a tumultuous summer at xAI, in which Elon Musk's demands to make Grok less "woke" and more viral led to chaos: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/t...

The world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack.

Read more from @joshdzieza.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

If New Orleans don’t make a bounce version of it, your song is not a hit.

NYC Immigration Arrests Just Shot Through the Roof, New Data Shows Newly obtained federal records offer the clearest picture yet of how aggressively the Trump administration has pursued its mass deportation agenda — with a sixfold increase in arrests in early June.

Read the full article on #NYC #ICE arrests at @thecity.nyc: www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/14/i...

Thanks to the Deportation Data Project (deportationdata.org) for filing the FOIA requests and doing the work to compile the data for news media.

"We just watched a watershed moment in New York City history."

@michaellangenyc.bsky.social on our livestream just now

Thousands of people marching through Lower Manhattan now demanding ICE get out of New York City.

What Tear Gas and Rubber Bullets Do to the Human Body So-called “less-lethal” weapons like those that have been used against demonstrators in Los Angeles can cause severe, lasting harm like nerve or brain damage or blindness. They can also kill.

So-called “less-lethal” weapons like those that have been used against demonstrators in Los Angeles can cause severe, lasting harm like nerve or brain damage or blindness. They can also kill. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

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it’s true and you should say it

“Truth is mighty and will prevail”– Ida B. Wells | Timeless Ida B. Wells, one of the most influential investigative journalists in American history, is remembered in this post as a fearless truth-teller.

on this day in 1892: white Memphians destroyed the printing press and offices of the newspaper owned and operated by Ida B. Wells, a threat meant to stop her from reporting on lynching. They failed.

Hi, I think you should read THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS by Isabel Wilkerson.

Magnum wearing shorts

young men would attract more women if they wore the right type of shorts

Tonight’s Zohran Mamdani rally isn’t a fundraiser, but a way to energize the base and get supporters volunteering, the campaign says. They’re handing out bandanas with a print of NY icons (pigeons, Metrocards, etc.) that are already all over Brooklyn Steel in East Williamsburg.

i don't rise and grind. i wake and spiral

The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests In early March, the agency announced that it had arrested forty-eight people in New Mexico—a month later, their identities and whereabouts remain unknown.

ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

Elon Musk is looking toward the camera. He is wearing a black shirt. A headline reads: "DOGE Is Far Short of Its Goal, and Still Overstating Its Progress." Photo by Eric Lee/The New York Times

Elon Musk now admits his Department of Government Efficiency will produce only 15% of the savings it promised. But even that estimate is inflated with errors and guesswork. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...

I have always wanted to put down Th on paper all those clever horse names that I had been accumulating in my brain for years. Everytime I got an idea, I would say to my kids, E n "Wouldn't that make a great name for a horse?" They would reply, n "Mom, is that all you think about?" I denied it for years, but have come to grips with the fact that l am obsessed with naming horses and ponies. When my oldest daughter announced that she was expecting our first grandchild. My first response was, "What will the name be?" | immediately bought her a baby name book. There were hundreds of books devoted to baby names. Then, I thought to myself, "There is no such thing as a name book for horses?" Bingo, the light went on in my head and I went into high gear.

please have as much confidence in your writing as the co-author of 10,001 Names for Horses

Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow

“Tubman’s photograph is now gone. In its place are images of Postal Service stamps that highlight “Black/White cooperation” in the secret network and that feature Tubman among abolitionists of both races.”

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💥🇭🇺 Police have given up guarding Budapest’s Liberty Bridge as anti-government protesters shut down traffic on four major bridges, rallying against Viktor Orbán’s new law curbing freedom of assembly and banning the Pride march.

They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week.

We've taken the paywall down for this one.

It feels so surreal as an American to hear about Green Card holders asking relatives of mine to delete text exchanges on their phones for fear that they'll be searched by the authorities and those private conversations will become the pretext for illegally deporting them. But here we are.

Masked officers in Tufts student arrest raise fears among immigrants and bystanders Federal agents have been filmed wearing masks while making arrests in public. When is it legal for police and the public to conceal their faces in an age of digital facial recognition and doxxing?

Federal agents have been filmed wearing masks while making arrests in public. When is it legal for police and the public to conceal their faces in an age of digital facial recognition and doxxing?

Musk says DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials say that’s not true. USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.

Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone

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Housing supply constraints do not seem to matter for house price and house quantity growth across US cities, from Schuyler Louie, John A. Mondragon, and Johannes Wieland https://www.nber.org/papers/w33576

"What is some non-toxic dating advice you'd give to straight men?" First, understand that while Never Say Die is regarded as the transition point between Sabbath and Blizzard of Ozz, Technical Ecstasy is the truly transitional album. Comparing Sabbath Bloody Sabbath to Technical Ecstasy, we 1/2,357

What It’s Like to Live in a Small Town Polluted by a Cryptomine Across the U.S., rural towns are engaged in bitter battles against noise and air pollution from cryptomines. These will only get more common now that President Trump’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and…

Nationwide, bitcoin mines—the majority of which are powered by dirty fossil fuels—use 2% of the country’s electricity and may be consuming as much water per year as the entire city of Washington, D.C.

Mahmoud Khalil has been quietly sent 1000+ miles away to a Louisiana ICE facility.

Note this ACLU/RFK Human Rights report from *just months ago* on ICE detention in LA —

"Inside the Black Hole: Systemic Human Rights Abuses Against Immigrants Detained & Disappeared in Louisiana"

1. Happening now, the United States Senate is considering S9, a bill that would ban transgender people from playing sports of their gender identity from chess to darts and everything in between.

It could result in genital exams and more.

I'm covering live.

Watch:

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