Lizzie O'Leary
@lizzieohreally.bsky.social
I host What Next TBD at Slate. A show about tech, power and the future. Who wants night bacon?
https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next-tbd
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Signal: Lizzieohreally.31
https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next-tbd
[email protected]
Signal: Lizzieohreally.31
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This is America.
Harassment, assault, arrests of Americans.
Black and brown Americans.
By their own government.
Endorsed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Harassment, assault, arrests of Americans.
Black and brown Americans.
By their own government.
Endorsed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
The U.S. citizens getting caught in Trump’s immigration crackdown
Latinos describe being detained and assaulted by officers who want to know: “Where were you born?”
www.washingtonpost.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
This is America.
Harassment, assault, arrests of Americans.
Black and brown Americans.
By their own government.
Endorsed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Harassment, assault, arrests of Americans.
Black and brown Americans.
By their own government.
Endorsed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
🎵 pit bulls in coats
Pit bulls in coats
Sweatshirts or puffiers
Who is the goat
Of all cozy dogs?
It’s pit bulls in coats🎵
Pit bulls in coats
Sweatshirts or puffiers
Who is the goat
Of all cozy dogs?
It’s pit bulls in coats🎵
December 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
🎵 pit bulls in coats
Pit bulls in coats
Sweatshirts or puffiers
Who is the goat
Of all cozy dogs?
It’s pit bulls in coats🎵
Pit bulls in coats
Sweatshirts or puffiers
Who is the goat
Of all cozy dogs?
It’s pit bulls in coats🎵
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The Tow Center for Digital Journalism is releasing a tracker, created by Tow Researchers @klaudia.bsky.social and @aisvarya17.bsky.social, that monitors lawsuits, deals, and grants between news publishers and AI companies
www.cjr.org/analysis/law...
tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...
www.cjr.org/analysis/law...
tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...
Lawsuit or license? A new tool to keep track of disputes and deals between publishers and AI companies.
Announcing a new tool to keep track of disputes and deals between news publishers and AI companies.
www.cjr.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The Tow Center for Digital Journalism is releasing a tracker, created by Tow Researchers @klaudia.bsky.social and @aisvarya17.bsky.social, that monitors lawsuits, deals, and grants between news publishers and AI companies
www.cjr.org/analysis/law...
tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...
www.cjr.org/analysis/law...
tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...
Happy Sagittarius season. Run amok, accidentally hurt some feelings, go to Paris, never finish that project.
December 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Happy Sagittarius season. Run amok, accidentally hurt some feelings, go to Paris, never finish that project.
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RIP Frank Gehry
December 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
RIP Frank Gehry
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Breaking News: Frank Gehry, a titan of architecture, has died at 96. He designed some of the world’s most recognizable buildings — many widely regarded as masterpieces. nyti.ms/4rGCYiE
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Breaking News: Frank Gehry, a titan of architecture, has died at 96. He designed some of the world’s most recognizable buildings — many widely regarded as masterpieces. nyti.ms/4rGCYiE
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Would love to see more journalists post the cables behind these stories. It would help others file FOIAs for related cable traffic.
And if you want to know how to read a State Dept cable - here's a great primer from @foianate.bsky.social @nsarchive.bsky.social
unredacted.com/2010/11/29/f...
And if you want to know how to read a State Dept cable - here's a great primer from @foianate.bsky.social @nsarchive.bsky.social
unredacted.com/2010/11/29/f...
Trump administration moves to deny visas to factcheckers and content moderators
Action detailed in a state department memo directs officials to deny visas to any applicant engaging in ‘censorship’
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Would love to see more journalists post the cables behind these stories. It would help others file FOIAs for related cable traffic.
And if you want to know how to read a State Dept cable - here's a great primer from @foianate.bsky.social @nsarchive.bsky.social
unredacted.com/2010/11/29/f...
And if you want to know how to read a State Dept cable - here's a great primer from @foianate.bsky.social @nsarchive.bsky.social
unredacted.com/2010/11/29/f...
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The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991.
From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991.
From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
I enjoy the url for this convo with @rmac.bsky.social about the big David Sacks story slate.com/podcasts/wha...
The AI & Crypto Czar’s Conflicts
The GENIUS Act and its kickbacks.
slate.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I enjoy the url for this convo with @rmac.bsky.social about the big David Sacks story slate.com/podcasts/wha...
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This is a hugely important job at @knightcolumbia.org, and an opportunity to help chart the course of an unusually dynamic, effective organization that is already a leading defender of democratic rights, institutions, and values. Please send good people our way! knightcolumbia.org/page/chief-o...
December 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is a hugely important job at @knightcolumbia.org, and an opportunity to help chart the course of an unusually dynamic, effective organization that is already a leading defender of democratic rights, institutions, and values. Please send good people our way! knightcolumbia.org/page/chief-o...
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Our editor’s response to the Trump White House calling The Washington Post its “media offender of the week” and singling out several of our reporters.
December 5, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Our editor’s response to the Trump White House calling The Washington Post its “media offender of the week” and singling out several of our reporters.
Cobra chicken www.expressnews.com/news/article...
Geese chase down 72-year-old Texas woman, put her in hospital, family says
She suffered several pelvis fractures and internal bleeding as a result of the attack, her family told WFAA-TV.
www.expressnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Cobra chicken www.expressnews.com/news/article...
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Malone is suggesting that there is not informed consent when the CDC has a universal vaccine recommendation. That is not true.
December 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Malone is suggesting that there is not informed consent when the CDC has a universal vaccine recommendation. That is not true.
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I went to the Nevada desert to see one of the world’s biggest AI data center buildouts. It’s so big it was hard to wrap my mind around.
Downriver is the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the data centers’ water and power consumption could put their land at risk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Downriver is the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the data centers’ water and power consumption could put their land at risk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west
Once home to gold and prospectors, the Nevada desert is now the site of a new kind of expansion: tech datacenters
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I went to the Nevada desert to see one of the world’s biggest AI data center buildouts. It’s so big it was hard to wrap my mind around.
Downriver is the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the data centers’ water and power consumption could put their land at risk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Downriver is the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the data centers’ water and power consumption could put their land at risk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Thousands of staff are gone. www.wired.com/story/cdc-te...
A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone
Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.
www.wired.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Thousands of staff are gone. www.wired.com/story/cdc-te...
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If you were a tech company employee who moderated content overseas — say, trying to prevent a repeat of the Myanmar genocide! or maybe policing CSAM! Or hate speech illegal in your country! — you are a “censor” under the definitions of the Republicans in power.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Exclusive: Trump administration orders enhanced vetting for applicants of H-1B visa
An internal State Department memo said that anyone involved in "censorship" of free speech should be considered for rejection.
www.reuters.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
If you were a tech company employee who moderated content overseas — say, trying to prevent a repeat of the Myanmar genocide! or maybe policing CSAM! Or hate speech illegal in your country! — you are a “censor” under the definitions of the Republicans in power.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Tell me you have a young child, without telling me, etc etc
December 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Tell me you have a young child, without telling me, etc etc
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FULL INTERVIEW: I spoke with Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, the nineteen year old Babson College freshman who was deported when going home to surprise her parents for Thanksgiving. "People say we're criminals. It's just not right." youtu.be/UuldnddRc10?...
'Shackled' and 'Handcuffed': Deported college student in tears SPEAKING OUT on ICE encounter
YouTube video by MS NOW
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
FULL INTERVIEW: I spoke with Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, the nineteen year old Babson College freshman who was deported when going home to surprise her parents for Thanksgiving. "People say we're criminals. It's just not right." youtu.be/UuldnddRc10?...
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If you choose a good password on the LL Bean website they rate it as Wicked Strong.
December 4, 2025 at 2:48 AM
If you choose a good password on the LL Bean website they rate it as Wicked Strong.
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If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
FDA official proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
doing some family history and it's full of things like this, lest you doubt the efficacy of modern medicine:
1884 John William “Willie” Hutcheson (15 months) dies July 3 of “congestion”
1887 Sterling (age 10) dies, January, in Houston of “convulsions”
1884 John William “Willie” Hutcheson (15 months) dies July 3 of “congestion”
1887 Sterling (age 10) dies, January, in Houston of “convulsions”
December 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
doing some family history and it's full of things like this, lest you doubt the efficacy of modern medicine:
1884 John William “Willie” Hutcheson (15 months) dies July 3 of “congestion”
1887 Sterling (age 10) dies, January, in Houston of “convulsions”
1884 John William “Willie” Hutcheson (15 months) dies July 3 of “congestion”
1887 Sterling (age 10) dies, January, in Houston of “convulsions”
this is giving me an anxiety attack and my child is in kindergarten nymag.com/intelligence...
Pity the Eighth-Grade Parents
New York City’s high-school application closes today. It’s been a season of agony.
nymag.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
this is giving me an anxiety attack and my child is in kindergarten nymag.com/intelligence...
Let me introduce you to Alice’s Kids, which helps kids afford toys, prom tickets, field trip fees, etc. but in a way helps families avoid stigma and shame. www.aliceskids.org
Alice's Kids
Alice’s Kids provides targeted financial assistance to children in need in the hopes of boosting their self-esteem.
www.aliceskids.org
December 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Let me introduce you to Alice’s Kids, which helps kids afford toys, prom tickets, field trip fees, etc. but in a way helps families avoid stigma and shame. www.aliceskids.org