Michelle Aslam

multimedia journalist - writer, reporter, audio producer | prev. NPR, Dallas News, Texas Observer

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

I’m back in the Occupied West Bank, reporting live from the ground. Follow along here, on substack (link in bio), and IG (same handle). Lot of shit going down.

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

This bill would require companies break off their AI-related businesses from non-AI related businesses. It also would likely cover Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia, Micron, Waymo, Broadcom, and a host of chip firms.

[Mohammad Alsaafin @malsaafin]

lol this is crazy

[Séamus Malekafzali @Seamus_Malek]

the washington post cut hundreds of reporters so that it could instead invest in the worst video podcast you've ever seen https://t.co/GqpQVYP4eB

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: We just won our second Emmy!

More Perfect Union took home the award for Outstanding News Discussion and Analysis for our video covering the real story of the Springfield, Ohio, immigration debate.

Watch our full acceptance speech here:

[Daniel Boguslaw @DRBoguslaw]

NEW: documents I obtained show congress has its own secret intelligence bureau and it’s targeting anti data center activists. Full story in replies.

[Azadeh Moaveni @AzadehMoaveni]

Extraordinary reporting by @SkyNews in southern Iran, meeting with mothers whose children were killed by a US strike on a school in Minab.

‘It is completely overwhelming for all of us here. You have child after child, grave after grave, of dead children. Every evening…their families come after dusk to spend hours at their children’s graveside, mourning their loss..”

@skyzein @DominicWaghorn

https://t.co/HxcEzZSnEo

[Julian Andreone @JulianAndreone]

Me: “Are you worried about the FISA backdoor search loophole given the government used it to spy on Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020?”

Jim Clyburn (D-SC): “I don’t worry about stuff. I just live through it.”

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores.

The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.

Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Today I released an investigative piece on something most people don't think about until they really need it - ambulances. The price of ambulances has skyrocketed since 2012. Why? It's likely... private equity.
https://t.co/q4WMOV5HUD

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

(🧵1/11) For the past year and a half, I've been investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman for @NewYorker. With my coauthor @andrewmarantz, I reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtained 200+ pages of documents related to a close colleague, including extensive private notes, and interviewed more than 100 people.

OpenAI was founded on the premise that A.I. could be the most dangerous invention in human history—and that its C.E.O. would need to be a person of uncommon integrity. We lay out the most detailed account yet of why Altman was ousted out by board members and executives who came to believe he lacked that integrity, and ask: were they right to allege that he couldn't be trusted?

A thread on some of of our findings:

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

💢 THREAD: Iranians form human chains around power plants and bridges as Donald Trump warns “a whole civilization will die tonight”

As Trump issued his most explicit threat yet, videos circulating online show civilians gathering around power stations and key infrastructure across Iran in acts of solidarity ahead of his 8 PM deadline.

🎥 Kazerun Combined Cycle Power Plant (southern Iran)

[Jeremy Diamond @JDiamond1]

The IDF took what appears to be unprecedented action against the battalion involved in my team's assault & detention.
In many ways, that's due to our position as US journalists. In too many cases involving Palestinian journalists & civilians, we've seen a lack of accountability.

[Jeremy Diamond @JDiamond1]

While covering the latest Israeli settler attack in the West Bank, Israeli soldiers assaulted my photojournalist @cyrilthps and detained my team.
But our 2-hour detention revealed a lot about the motives of these Israeli soldiers: acting in service of the settler movement.
W/ @AbeerSalmanCNN

[alex sammon @alex_sammon]

Today in @slate, the story of—depending on who you ask—either the worst neighbor in America, or the best, and his long, quixotic fight to grow and keep his own private homeless camp in one of America’s most homeless cities.
https://t.co/Ncs4GiIPSU

[Vincent Bevins @Vinncent]

Announcement — I am now seeking support to officially launch a little global affairs magazine. We plan to pay writers all around the world, and pay them well, to do our small part to save knowledge and human civilization. It's a Substack. Please join us

[Jonathan Karl @jonkarl]

Something we have rarely seen during the Trump era: a senior official resigning in protest — in this case, resigning to protest the war against Iran.

[Sam Levine @srl]

Breaking news: A jury convicted people who protested outside an ICE facility in Texas of providing material support to terrorists, and other charges in a closely watched case in which the gov't argued the protesters were "Antifa". https://t.co/DUlSOr7M09

[UN News @UN_News_Centre]

Nearly 700,000 people – including about 200,000 children – have been displaced in Lebanon in just 10 days of war in the Middle East, according to UNICEF.

Food and fuel prices are surging as the conflict spreads across the region.

https://t.co/Qq4OiAli4m

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

There are millions or even billions of people in this world who fundamentally do not understand that children everywhere are the same. This precious child, the tens of thousands dead in Gaza—people don’t connect them to the idea of their own child being violently killed.