Caroline O'Donovan

We’ve formed a business investigative team! @ceodonovan.bsky.social, @benfoldy.bsky.social & @kendalltaggart.bsky.social now work for us! www.propublica.org/atpropublica... Yeah too bad nothing’s going on but if you got tips abt billionaire & corp abuses, send them our way! Signal: 718-496-5233

We hired three stone-cold killers @benfoldy.bsky.social @kendalltaggart.bsky.social & @ceodonovan.bsky.social for the biz desk at @propublica.org and I could not be more excited to get started with em www.propublica.org/atpropublica...

Travis Kalanick moved to Texas. So why is he hosting launch parties in San Francisco? sfstandard.com/2026/04/29/t...

I talked with OpenAI policy chief Chris Lehane about the violence last week and his plan to make you stop hating AI sfstandard.com/2026/04/15/o...

The week the AI backlash turned violent: sfstandard.com/2026/04/11/a...

endorse!!!!

My first story for @sfstandard.com, out today, is a SCOOP about a One Medical doctor who claims in a new lawsuit that the Amazon-owned primary care clinic illegally fired her for raising concerns about patient safety and harassment: sfstandard.com/2026/04/09/a...

This is so bad. The AP was the safety net left after basically every newspaper that wasn’t The New York Times shuttered their bureaus.

WIRED is doing more hiring! Come be a staff editor and work across our newsroom and with our international editions. Great, dynamic gig, moving quickly so don’t hold off on applying:

If you think my new job is cool (and it is) and you think local news is so hot right now (and it is) you can actually apply to come work with me! jobs.sfstandard.com/p/73543436bf...

this is what i'm saying

It's true! This is me and my real face!

New: marc benioff told international employees who traveled to a major salesforce meeting in Vegas that ICE is watching them. Cool joke. "employees are going absolutely apeshit about how completely awful it was" Read the Slacks: www.404media.co/marc-benioff...

Slack messages: some staffers complained about Marc Benioff making jokes about ICE at a Salesforce event, including about ICE surveilling employee travel (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

wait wait wait ... TUMBLR. THE PORN BAN GUY FROM TUMBLR IS GOING TO RUN THE WASHINGTON POST. Look I've been pushing back on the idea that Bezos is intentionally sabotaging the paper but COME ON this is a man who thought he could just take the boobs and dicks off of *Tumblr.*

We have launched a new fundraiser to support The Washington Post's courageous international employees and local staff who were laid off, who are not eligible for Guild protections, and who face additional logistical challenges and security risks. Please give & share widely: gofund.me/e765aab9f

sir will lewis welcome to the resistance

Great piece. Important reporting. Gift link: wapo.st/4kpCBGc

It’s actually pretty easy to beat Isaac Chotiner if you know what to do (wait until he completes his third attack sequence, roll behind him, use Flame Dart until you’re out of mana, hide under the gargoyle head until his Rage Wing Spin finishes, stun him with a Sylvan Dagger, equip the Thallslayer w

Exclusive: To increase Grok’s popularity, xAI embraced making sexualized material, rolling back guardrails and ignoring internal warnings about the risks of producing such content, according to more than a half-dozen former employees of X and xAI.

a microgrid of one's own

pitchbot: golf should be illegal

I got a surprise bag from Whole Foods for $6.99 and it’s all great except for … well, you guess

lot going on atm but i have to say — insane to write this entire article and not call these people by their true title: sauntrepreneurs www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

i'm at the McDonalds i'm at the Palantir I'm excited about the opportunity to follow my lifelong dream of working at the combination McDonalds-Palantir

"There’s little I can say that will make this situation better, but I do have a message for our community and our city and for ICE. To ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

This story is two months old. What did we know and when did we know it?

lowkey gonna put this on my resume

In November, a conservative website published an explosive claim: Al-Shabab is largely funded by money stolen from Minnesota. But the story's only named source who connected fraud to terrorism told me the story is “bullshit": www.startribune.com/city-journal...

ICE heads to Minnesota as the triple dip polar vortex starts

Want the news -- the really important news -- but don't want a WaPo subscription? That's fair. We're trying something new: $4 for a full day of WaPo access. Or if you just want this story, $2. Try it with this story, loaded with scoopy bits from me, @ddiamond.bsky.social & @rbeggin.bsky.social.

new personal low: downloaded the dropbox app to my phone

Good to see the country moving on from identity politics

Larry Ellison and his son David have rapidly assembled a potentially Trump-friendly tech & media empire that spans Hollywood, television, the cloud, new media and soon a chunk of TikTok. We wrote about the rise of America's newest media barons: wapo.st/3KyaHtE by @ceodonovan.bsky.social & me

As use of ChatGPT and other AI chatbots grows, reports of people apparently losing touch with reality after intense use of chatbots have gone viral on social media in recent weeks, with posts labeling them examples of “AI psychosis.”

smart scoop by @shiraovide.bsky.social here! www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

dogopticon www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices...

while it’s bad that robots are taking our jobs, it’s nice to see them returning to office and revitalizing our urban core

The Washington Post wrongly fired Opinions columnist Karen Attiah over her social media posts. The Post not only flagrantly disregarded standard disciplinary processes, it also undermined its own mandate to be a champion of free speech.