Michelle Aslam

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.”

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.

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. thebignewsletter.com/p/code-red-why…

(🧵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:

💢 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)

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.

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

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. slate.com/business/2026/…

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

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.

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". theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…

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. news.un.org/en/story/2026/…

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.

A New York Times investigation indicates that it was a US strike on an Iranian school that killed 175 people, mostly children. nytimes.com/2026/03/05/wor…

NEW for @newlinesmag: I wrote about how we verify strikes such as the one on the elementary school in Minab, Iran. The death toll from this strike is now at least 150. I touched on the collaborative nature of open-source work, and how researchers like @ChrisOsieck, @NemoAnno (and many more) coming together to do this reporting is vital in times like this: newlinesmag.com/running-notes/…

So strange to watch this in juxtaposition with the video from President Trump just hours later.

Iranian media now report 40 killed and 48 students injured following the strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, as rescue and recovery efforts continue.

I always like to look at Woody Guthrie's New Year's Resolutions from 1942. Pretty similar to what mine are each year.

Laura Poitras????? immediate watch.

BREAKING: Instacart is ending all price testing on its platform in the wake of this report.