Shannon Bond
@shannonbond.bsky.social
🎙️NPR correspondent covering how technology, politics, power, & influence intersect. send tips on Signal to shannonbond.01
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now i need to bleach my brain
November 22, 2025 at 7:08 AM
now i need to bleach my brain
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HEADS UP: CDC website now officially asserts that vaccines may cause autism.“Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” Also says the “vaccines do not cause autism” header remains b/c of an agreement with Cassidy.
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
HEADS UP: CDC website now officially asserts that vaccines may cause autism.“Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” Also says the “vaccines do not cause autism” header remains b/c of an agreement with Cassidy.
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it should also now be illegal for journalists to use metaphors
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 AM
it should also now be illegal for journalists to use metaphors
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Functionally, the wandering self-indulgence of the bamboo section does a good job of lulling the reader into not being ready for the relentlessly focused intensity of the finale
November 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Functionally, the wandering self-indulgence of the bamboo section does a good job of lulling the reader into not being ready for the relentlessly focused intensity of the finale
what a time to be alive and in multiple media group chats
November 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
what a time to be alive and in multiple media group chats
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"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official.
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official.
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
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Every single Wikipedia "alternative" I've ever come across works like this. IIRC even the NSA's internal Intellipedia cribs extensively from Wikipedia. The amount of work it would take it actually replace Wikipedia is just too massive (unless you wanted dubious machine-generated entries)
"'Even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist,' Lauren Dickinson, a spokesperson for the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia tells The Verge."
www.theverge.com/news/807686/...
www.theverge.com/news/807686/...
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia contains copied Wikipedia pages
Ironic.
www.theverge.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Every single Wikipedia "alternative" I've ever come across works like this. IIRC even the NSA's internal Intellipedia cribs extensively from Wikipedia. The amount of work it would take it actually replace Wikipedia is just too massive (unless you wanted dubious machine-generated entries)
other examples: apple, Genesis (band), tarot
October 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
other examples: apple, Genesis (band), tarot
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Fans of the indie rock band Here We Go Magic were surprised to see they dropped a new single today, the first release since 2015.
Actually nope, it's just AI.
"It's so predatory, and so terrible," the band's singer Luke Temple told me.
www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
Actually nope, it's just AI.
"It's so predatory, and so terrible," the band's singer Luke Temple told me.
www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
Your favorite band has a new single? It might be AI
With AI music generators widely available, scammers are uploading songs to the pages of inactive artists and dead musicians. Spotify says it is cracking down, but the practice persists.
www.npr.org
October 28, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Fans of the indie rock band Here We Go Magic were surprised to see they dropped a new single today, the first release since 2015.
Actually nope, it's just AI.
"It's so predatory, and so terrible," the band's singer Luke Temple told me.
www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
Actually nope, it's just AI.
"It's so predatory, and so terrible," the band's singer Luke Temple told me.
www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
At least 3 times in the past 2 weeks, an official Post editorial has taken on matters in which Bezos has a financial or corporate interest without noting his stake. In each case, the Post's official editorial line landed in sync with its owner's financial interests.
www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
www.npr.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
At least 3 times in the past 2 weeks, an official Post editorial has taken on matters in which Bezos has a financial or corporate interest without noting his stake. In each case, the Post's official editorial line landed in sync with its owner's financial interests.
www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...
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Mario Guevara, an Emmy-award winning reporter, was deported to El Salvador — a nation he fled more than two decades ago. He was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.
U.S. deports journalist Mario Guevara to El Salvador, family says
Mario Guevara, an independent journalist, was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Mario Guevara, an Emmy-award winning reporter, was deported to El Salvador — a nation he fled more than two decades ago. He was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.
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NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.
Version of original on left, updated on right:
Version of original on left, updated on right:
October 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.
Version of original on left, updated on right:
Version of original on left, updated on right:
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UPDATE:
At the Small Business Administration, employees were given "suggested" language for OOO email replies: blaming Senate Democrats for the shutdown and praising the "record-breaking services we are providing under the leadership of the Trump administration":
www.npr.org/2025/09/30/n...
At the Small Business Administration, employees were given "suggested" language for OOO email replies: blaming Senate Democrats for the shutdown and praising the "record-breaking services we are providing under the leadership of the Trump administration":
www.npr.org/2025/09/30/n...
Trump administration uses taxpayer dollars to blame Democrats for government shutdown
Federal employees across the government reported seeing similar messages. Experts say the messages may violate ethics laws meant to keep partisan politics out of day-to-day governing.
www.npr.org
October 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
UPDATE:
At the Small Business Administration, employees were given "suggested" language for OOO email replies: blaming Senate Democrats for the shutdown and praising the "record-breaking services we are providing under the leadership of the Trump administration":
www.npr.org/2025/09/30/n...
At the Small Business Administration, employees were given "suggested" language for OOO email replies: blaming Senate Democrats for the shutdown and praising the "record-breaking services we are providing under the leadership of the Trump administration":
www.npr.org/2025/09/30/n...
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The Justice Department website now has a banner that blames Democrats for the government shutdown.
More on the partisan messaging strategy pushed by the Trump administration:
www.npr.org/2025/09/30/n...
More on the partisan messaging strategy pushed by the Trump administration:
www.npr.org/2025/09/30/n...
October 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The Justice Department website now has a banner that blames Democrats for the government shutdown.
More on the partisan messaging strategy pushed by the Trump administration:
www.npr.org/2025/09/30/n...
More on the partisan messaging strategy pushed by the Trump administration:
www.npr.org/2025/09/30/n...
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Despite DOGE's promise that canceling contracts and terminating leases would help reverse the trend of the government spending more money than it brings in, the most recent Treasury data shows an *increase* in expenditures by hundreds of billions of dollars more than the year before.
Federal agencies are rehiring workers and spending more after DOGE's push to cut
Eight months after the Department of Government Efficiency effort to shrink the federal workforce began, some agencies are hiring workers back – and spending more money than before.
www.npr.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Despite DOGE's promise that canceling contracts and terminating leases would help reverse the trend of the government spending more money than it brings in, the most recent Treasury data shows an *increase* in expenditures by hundreds of billions of dollars more than the year before.
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Agencies ordered to drastically slash their workforces over the last eight months are now hiring back hundreds of workers, as they struggle to perform basic operations or carry out some of President Trump's top policy priorities.
Read more with @shannonbond.bsky.social @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social
Read more with @shannonbond.bsky.social @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social
Federal agencies are rehiring workers and spending more after DOGE's push to cut
Eight months after the Department of Government Efficiency effort to shrink the federal workforce began, some agencies are hiring workers back – and spending more money than before.
www.npr.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Agencies ordered to drastically slash their workforces over the last eight months are now hiring back hundreds of workers, as they struggle to perform basic operations or carry out some of President Trump's top policy priorities.
Read more with @shannonbond.bsky.social @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social
Read more with @shannonbond.bsky.social @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social
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NEW @npr.org: The so-called Department of Government Efficiency effort has failed to deliver on its outsized promises to cut costs and increase efficiency, NPR's latest analysis of federal data finds.
Federal agencies are rehiring workers and spending more after DOGE's push to cut
Eight months after the Department of Government Efficiency effort to shrink the federal workforce began, some agencies are hiring workers back – and spending more money than before.
www.npr.org
October 1, 2025 at 10:19 AM
NEW @npr.org: The so-called Department of Government Efficiency effort has failed to deliver on its outsized promises to cut costs and increase efficiency, NPR's latest analysis of federal data finds.
tfw you watched Mountainhead and learned nothing.
OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this
October 1, 2025 at 3:58 AM
tfw you watched Mountainhead and learned nothing.
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New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising
www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...
www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...
ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
www.404media.co
September 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising
www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...
www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...
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Scoop: CBS News' corporate-installed, MAGA-loving ombudsman visited the network on Monday, visiting with senior leadership. Meanwhile, the Bari Weiss appointment is imminent.
More in @status.news: link.status.news/4nrFwyD
More in @status.news: link.status.news/4nrFwyD
October 1, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Scoop: CBS News' corporate-installed, MAGA-loving ombudsman visited the network on Monday, visiting with senior leadership. Meanwhile, the Bari Weiss appointment is imminent.
More in @status.news: link.status.news/4nrFwyD
More in @status.news: link.status.news/4nrFwyD
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A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012.
The infant was less than two months old and was not old enough to receive the pertussis vaccine.
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The infant was less than two months old and was not old enough to receive the pertussis vaccine.
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Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough Amid Rising Cases
A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The baby was less than two months old—too young for vaccination.
www.mississippifreepress.org
September 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012.
The infant was less than two months old and was not old enough to receive the pertussis vaccine.
buff.ly/8epl2QS
The infant was less than two months old and was not old enough to receive the pertussis vaccine.
buff.ly/8epl2QS
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SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted.
My story:
My story:
Trump mandates all federal agencies send email blaming Dems for potential gov’t shutdown
Workers call the partisan email "a vile slap in the face."
www.thehandbasket.co
September 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted.
My story:
My story:
The White House is pinning the shutdown on Democrats, in a message blasted to agencies that's raising ethical questions. HUD & VA blame the "Radical Left"/"radical liberals."
"It basically read like a campaign email," one federal worker told me.
w/ @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social & @stphnfwlr.com
"It basically read like a campaign email," one federal worker told me.
w/ @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social & @stphnfwlr.com
Trump administration uses taxpayer dollars to blame Democrats for government shutdown
Federal employees across the government reported seeing similar messages. Experts say the messages may violate ethics laws meant to keep partisan politics out of day-to-day governing.
www.npr.org
September 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The White House is pinning the shutdown on Democrats, in a message blasted to agencies that's raising ethical questions. HUD & VA blame the "Radical Left"/"radical liberals."
"It basically read like a campaign email," one federal worker told me.
w/ @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social & @stphnfwlr.com
"It basically read like a campaign email," one federal worker told me.
w/ @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social & @stphnfwlr.com