Shannon Bond

and now Google has removed this feature

welp www.npr.org/2026/07/31/n...

wild story from @jjoffeblock.bsky.social: a NY woman posted about the Minneapolis immigration surge back in January. Five months later, DHS officials showed up telling her to take a post down, saying she had doxxed an ICE agent -- by citing a newspaper reporting his name www.npr.org/2026/06/26/n...

Chef's kiss, salute, tears, all of it

Olivia Rodrigo continuing to prove she's spiritually Gen X by announcing new Lilith Fair pitchfork.com/news/olivia-...

Congress knows that AI is too big to ignore, but lawmakers have yet to agree on the federal government's role in the industry. The big companies are spending to shape policy — and Congress — ahead of whatever legislation eventually comes. --- new @byshannonbond.com and me

my president

I had never heard of Flo Balogun before tonight and I would now die for him

I've reported on Musk for around 8 years. I've co-authored a book on him. I don't think folks understand the rate of his wealth accumulation. Shortly after he helped elect Donald Trump in Nov 2024, his net worth was around $350 billion. That net worth has nearly tripled in less than two years.

“It usually happens when there’s been a season where suddenly there’s color in men’s wear that people fall back on Hockney as an attempt to convince men to wear two colors in the same outfit” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/f...

Flowers Sent as a Gift (1995) by David Hockney 1995

On the biggest Kalshi market over who would eventually become mayor of LA, traders bet $60M for and against Pratt. $10M of that was thrown away betting he’d advance to runoff and win. $50M of that were bets that he would never be mayor. Kalshi pocketed $547k in fees just on Pratt trading

Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD

sports!

doesn’t matter who you are when you’re the designated tech support family member

But the bottom line is, there's no need for China to influence anything. A recent Gallup poll found that 71% of Americans would oppose AI data center construction in their community. And unlike a lot of issues in this country right now, the Partisan split isn't even all that great.

NEW I did a deep dive on the theory taking the rich by storm: That China is funding data center haters. (TL;DR There's not a lot of evidence to support the idea) www.npr.org/2026/06/10/n...

ok sometimes i do miss it

everything is content moderation

Polymarket & Kalshi are both now cracking down on paid partnership posts that use betting odds to allege election fraud, after a surge of unsubstantiated claims about the LA mayoral race circulated on X, @bobbyallyn.bsky.social and @jjoffeblock.bsky.social report www.npr.org/2026/06/07/n...

I would like to respectfully add this as a chaser. daniellekurtzleben.substack.com/p/when-authe...

George Santos, to NPR’s Bobby Allyn: “This story is going to get you a gun in your face.”

George Santos called me after my story revealing federal investigations into his suspected market manipulation on Kalshi. And he said: "This story is going to get you a gun in your face." Then he lied about it. www.npr.org/2026/06/04/n...

a you-can't-make-it-up @bobbyallyn.bsky.social scoop: George Santos told X followers he was going to the State of the Union. Then he didn't show - and placed bets on Kalshi that netted him tens of thousands of dollars. Now he's under federal investigation by DOJ and CFTC www.npr.org/2026/06/02/n...

I'll be less polite then Geoff or Nell. Deciding to give Nell Greenfieldboyce "the ol' heave ho" (her words) is absurd and self-defeating. She's a reason to listen to the radio. Which is something NPR should treasure! It's a rare gift!

it's a crushing day at NPR. we're losing some people i've been listening to since before i ever dreamed i'd do radio myself. it's a blow to NPR and i fear to journalism.

I wrote about Dianna Russini, the constant pressure female reporters face to prove they aren't sleeping with sources (plus the pressure we do get from sources to get involved with them), and why all of this is so uncomfortable to talk about. Gift link:

In its "weaponization" report on the FACE Act, DOJ once again struggles to answer the most difficult question of all: who was president in 2020? www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

“Key historical records about the incident during the Reagan administration, known as the Able Archer 83 War Scare, were removed without explanation.“ This was the war game that nearly started WWIII during my first semester of college. It took years for us to find out about it. Now it’s gone.

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

i can't articulate exactly why, but this is the antidote i needed to the stories about journalists embracing AI www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/s...

I don't need a summary of what's available online, in biographies, or even in my own notes. I need to comb through and find the great details, decide what interests ME. No, it's not efficient. It's slow and painstaking. But I don't believe in efficiency as an ultimate good, especially in writing. /

<interior, space boat> He drinks a Chocolate Breakfast Drink He drinks a Vanilla Breakfast Drink He drinks a Strawberry Breakfast Drink He drinks a Pineapple Drink

what, am i NOT gonna listen to the live Orion feed for the next 10 days? www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rwf...

Enjoying the savvy of the “For All Mankind” marketing

it me! also a fun fact, my consular report of birth abroad certificate doesn't have my parents' names on it. this caused a lot of consternation when i went to get a learner's permit, bcs my mom and i have different last names and the DMV employee refused to accept it as proof she was my parent.

Adam means that she is the daughter of immigrants, but it is worth emphasizing that *every* U.S. citizen who has not been naturalized is a birthright citizen, either by the 14th Amendment or by statute.

What a fucking shot holy shit

also i picked the right time to finally get into For All Mankind

i didn't realize until watching it with my kid today how much capacity i still have to be excited about human ingenuity. space is cool, and we shouldn't let the billionaires take that sense of wonder from us.