Ashley C. Ford

I don’t really fool with that billionaire terf, however, when I’m having a bad day, I go to YouTube and watch Molly “Walk em Down” Weasley annihilate that rag bitch Bellatrix.

Okay, well, today I got a present for writing AND not bringing up cigarettes 🥰

That photo of your baby in a giant pumpkin is cute but you know what's not cute? Salmonella!! www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/b...

I called my husband at work to tell him I can’t stop thinking about having a cigarette, and he said, “That means you’re writing again! I’m so proud of you! Now have a piece of gum and get back to work.” Is this grounds for divorce???

New York AG Letitia James’ office will reportedly probe Cornell University’s handling of gang rape allegations made by a former student

This was about Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates, but it could be about Symone Sanders, Eugene Daniels, and Hasan Piker too. It's. A. Loop.

We are stuck in a loop.

The ovaries don't just shut down after menopause. They keep changing—and may take on new roles as they age. But are those changes protective, harmful, or both? Scientists are only beginning to find out. My latest for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/ovary-...

NEW: Director of White House Press Operations states in a declaration that access was restored and press passes available before 10 a.m. after a brief process of locating physical passes and restoring access this morning. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

My sister said her four month old keeps pulling her hair because he’s bald and jealous 🤣 He’s not even bald though, my guy got mad curls!

*blinks* “More than 150 employees at the cloud services giant Digital Ocean protested last year after its CEO explained in an all-hands meeting that his former mentor was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, which he said shows how employees can work together despite holding different beliefs.”

I swear to god my imagination just came back online after like…several months.

the attention to Flock has exploded in recent weeks in April, bolts published an article on the length that a Wisconsin town went through to get Flock to take down its cameras — including covering them in trash bags. what the mayor told us:

did bluesky hear about Miss Teen Indiana’s Garfield costume

Finding it harder and harder to find romance novels I enjoy because apparently y’all think it’s romantic to fall in love with someone who was kinda mean to you at first. I do not.

I don’t hate anything the way I hate Slack. May I never download that app again 🙏🏾

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

This is heartbreaking... www.yahoo.com/news/science...

I love Libib!

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

NEW: Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit, AI-generated child sexual abuse material in recent months. Some as recently as this week. "These are ads that were reviewed, approved, and allowed to run by Meta, never encountering interference while the company collected the ad dollars."

I can go to bed now 🥰

SCOOP: 404 Media has obtained a coaching guide that Flock surveillance gives to police about “how to speak to city councils about public safety technology.” It encourages police to “own the narrative before someone else does” by championing the technology before citizens can oppose it.

the concrete effects of Virginia restoring voting rights Friday boltsmag.org/virginia-gov...

O’Neal helped purge me & all the other Black full-time staff columnists at the Post Opinion Section. I challenged his move to fire me in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing. And he testified against me in June. We are expecting an arbitration ruling soon. Convenient time for him to quit.

Parents are fed up with friends and relatives giving their kids “personalized” AI-generated storybooks with characters resembling their kids. Apart from data privacy concerns, literacy experts say these garbled and convoluted narratives could be an impediment to learning how to read.

Spotify doesn’t label AI music on its platform, so websites like SoullessMusic.com and SlopTracker.org do it instead.

HAPPENING NOW Hundreds are in the streets right now in Madison, WI, after police earlier today shot and killed a Black man. The demonstrations have taken over the city’s downtown.

I said what I said.

The world may have moved on from Minneapolis but its immigrant community continues to struggle. We spoke to single mothers who hid from ICE for months, ran through their savings, and now can’t pay to renew their DACA applications. At least dozens are in this situation. 19thnews.org/2026/07/ice-...

A masterpiece.

I’m so tired I resent the energy it takes to breathe.

it’s always a good day when rapists are arrested for rape

ICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org:

NEW: A 28-year-old man died Tuesday morning following an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations agents in St. Augustine, marking the third death involving ICE in a week.

Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

Thank you so much for taking the time to read my book! I never take it for granted 💜

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

Helen of Troy, Lupita Nyongo sparkles in Christian Cowan for the London premiere of #theodysseymovie.