For a story: I'm looking to speak to people of all ages about how uncertainty around access to SNAP and high cost of food is impacting mental health and well-being, especially as new restrictions/work requirements have taken effect. rainesford.alexandra@gmail.com, Signal rstauff.20

Clavicular, the Radical Submissive In 2026, hypermasculinity has one master: the algorithm. Here, John Paul Brammer examines Clavicular's algorithm worship.

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

New York Mayor Mamdani is breaking his promise on library funding. Fitting that a few days after Valentine’s Day, New Yorkers may be reaching the end of their Mamdani honeymoon. Earlier this week, the Mayor released his preliminary budget for the 2027 fiscal year,…

“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…”

Pope Leo Rejects Trump’s Gaza “Peace Board” Invitation After his top Middle East envoy denounced the plan as a “colonialist operation,” the Vatican formally declined to participate in Trump’s pay-to-play Gaza “Peace Board.”

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.

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

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...

“Love Story” Is a Forgettable Elegy for Gen X The FX series, with its Wikipedia-page-like narrowness on the romance between John F. Kennedy, Jr., and Carolyn Bessette, excises all that contemporary drama that makes the Kennedy story, one of a rel...

“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

Why the Sidelining of Politics in Berlin Is Causing a Stir: ‘If an Artist Is Afraid to Speak Up’ About ‘Fascism, They Shouldn’t Be Coming’ The sidelining of politics — and artists unwillingness to speak out — has become the central theme of the 2026 Berlinale

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 Flock off

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

Jared Kushner’s “Plan” for Gaza Is an Abomination Kushner is pitching a “new,” gleaming resort hub. But scratch the surface, and you find nothing less than a blueprint for ethnic cleansing.

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...

Opinion | Ring is using lost dogs to make the surveillance state adorable The same technology the Amazon-owned company uses to find lost dogs could easily be turned against their owners.

“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.”

Finally, a Muppet Show Reboot That Understands the Original Appeal of the Muppets After countless failed gimmicks, this time it’s just like you remembered it.

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."

Bezos’ WashPost Bloodletting 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 l...

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.

How Two of This Oscars Season’s Buzziest Films Failed Their Black Heroines — ‎ NOTE: You are reading a free edition of THOUGHT DAUGHTER. Please consider becoming a member for the low low price of $1 dollar monthly or a $50 dollar yearly donation fee or pay me directly ...

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

What is Nick Shirley? Slop doesn’t need to be AI-generated

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/...

how the fuck you gonna reform a children’s concentration camp asshole

I Regret Reading Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar on my Phone A Premature Review

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.

Disabled son of ICE detainee dies after 30 days of hospitalization It had been months since Wael Tarabishi seen his father. The family is calling on ICE to release Maher Tarabishi so he may attend his son's funeral.

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 2020 Uprising Laid an Abolitionist Groundwork for ICE Resistance The George Floyd uprising laid foundations for the politicized networks of care that are organizing against ICE now.

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...

Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit A conversation with Graham Granger, whose combination of protest and performance art spread beyond campus. “AI chews up and spits out art made by other people.”

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

finally some good fucking food

nine years old

How Two of This Oscars Season’s Buzziest Films Failed Their Black Heroines — ‎ NOTE: You are reading a free edition of THOUGHT DAUGHTER. Please consider becoming a member for the low low price of $1 dollar monthly or a $50 dollar yearly donation fee or pay me directly ...

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

This New Book Explores the History of Black Owned Bookstores — ‎ An Interview with Journalist Char Adams about her debut book Black Owned FREE

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...