@sheeraf.bsky.social
NYTimes reporter and co-author of NYT bestseller “An Ugly Truth” with Cecilia Kang. Tell me a story. (Ideally through a non-work device using Signal. Find me via my username sheera.11)
First street art of hometown hero Alysa Liu already going up in Oakland!
28.02.2026 23:32 — 👍 74 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0We ate outdoors last night too! We belong to a pool club situation in the Oakland Hills.
28.02.2026 19:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“Mama, Requested at Pool, is Nowhere to be Found”
28.02.2026 19:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When you are working all weekend and your kids want your attention so you open your laptop screen to find this:
28.02.2026 18:59 — 👍 29 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0When you call the DOD and they point you to this as their timeline🙃
28.02.2026 04:15 — 👍 35 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/a...
28.02.2026 03:46 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I stopped working for an hour to have dinner with my kids, and Open AI announces they have reached a deal with Pentagon under… the same terms Anthropic was requesting?
If anyone can explain what is going on, my DMs are open ;)
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28.02.2026 00:09 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our story on how the Pentagon misread the situation with Anthropic. They thought they would fold under the strong-arm tactic. Instead, Anthropic is seeing a boom of support from other AI companies and their own employees.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...
A US-based company has never been declared a supply chain risk. The decision by the Pentagon to use this tactic against Anthropic will almost certainly end up in court: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...
27.02.2026 22:42 — 👍 268 🔁 66 💬 11 📌 9I have not been able to put my cell phone down for hours.
27.02.2026 22:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It is SO NUTS. There were so many off-ramps to declare and yet…
27.02.2026 22:38 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Should read: “every time I blink.” Yikes.
27.02.2026 22:37 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I haven’t had time to post because everything I blink there is a news development in the Anthropic V. Pentagon story. Today, the Defense Department took the unprecedented step of declaring Anthropic a supply chain risk for not capitulating to their demands:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...
Always a pleasure to talk to Lizzie! Here is my big thoughts on the Anthropic/DOD fight: it’s really a fight about the future of warfare.
27.02.2026 17:35 — 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Morning! @sheeraf.bsky.social and I break down the Anthropic/Pentagon fight. slate.com/podcasts/wha...
27.02.2026 13:42 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 3
NEW: citing our reporting, a group of lawmakers are demanding answers from tech companies on how many administrative subpoenas they have received from the Homeland Security Department.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/t...
Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!
19.02.2026 22:21 — 👍 7607 🔁 1074 💬 47 📌 133Big Oakland pride for this skater!
20.02.2026 00:24 — 👍 25 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New story today on the public battle between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, which is really a fight about the future of AI in warfare:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/t...
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17.02.2026 05:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s leading our home page:)
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DHS is being more aggressive than ever targeting anonymous social media accounts that have spoken out against ICE, asking Big Tech to hand over information on users without signed judicial warrants
story w/ @sheeraf.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
I didn’t see those. Could you email/DM me? (Or repost, whatever is easy). I am looking to collect as many examples as possible. Sheera.Frenkel@nytimes.com
13.02.2026 23:42 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Story with @mikeisaac.bsky.social !
13.02.2026 23:39 — 👍 99 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0FWIW- this is why I was trying to reach Bluesky early this week. I received no response back.
13.02.2026 23:29 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Our reporting uncovered that hundreds of administrative subpoenas have been sent by the Homeland Security Department to Meta, Google, Reddit, and other social media companies. Some of the accounts they have sought to unmask have flight back in court.
13.02.2026 23:24 — 👍 359 🔁 80 💬 5 📌 4
New story up on the Homeland Security Department’s new tactic: flood social media companies with subpoenas to unmask anonymous accounts that criticize ICE or monitor the movements of ICE agents.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
In an internal memo in May, Meta laid out its plans to release facial recognition in its smart glasses, to the blind first, & then to the general public.
“Civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...