Noah Lanard

I spoke to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that information is being used to violate our privacy rights. What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us up.

My family knows a kid killed in this Israeli strike in Central Beirut in a mixed Christian-Muslim area. He was in 9th grade. A Lebanese priest was killed by Israeli forces last week, as he helped the wounded in South Lebanon. We all know victims in this war, it’s a small nation

NEW: The Dilley family detention facility disabled video calls on tablets after detainees’ call recordings were shared on social media, according to a document viewed by ProPublica. 1/

The Designated Survivor is Kid Rock

New: Immigrants in MN are being released from detention without their IDs, work permits, social security cards, and other key documents that prove their status to begin with motherjones.com/politics/2026/…

The on-the-record quotes in this story about Rep. Cory Mills are absolutely bananas. Sample: "When you’re a Grade A jackass and you do dumb shit and you make everybody look bad, you get remembered." motherjones.com/politics/2026/…

New: Details from Epstein files reveal Howard Lutnick had a years-long business tie w/ the sex offender. Luntick said last year he stopped contact with Epstein in 2005. But an email shows "HWL" discussing an investment with Epstein in 2018. motherjones.com/politics/2026/…

Folks, it is insane how out of business Rep. Cory Mills’s weapons company is going right now. The have been stiffing their lawyers and at the same time they’re trying to appeal to the Supreme Court

NEWS: The FBI *did* interview a victim who credibly accused Trump of sexual assault, according to Epstein file documents, undermining claims that Trump has not been accused of wrongdoing. It's unclear what became of the investigation. My report here: substack.com/home/post/p-18…

Read the full story here: motherjones.com/politics/2026/…

I spoke with 18 people who've known Florida Republican Congressman Cory Mills. Nearly everyone, I found, dislikes him. As one Army veteran who served with Mills put it, “I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire."

Veterans accuse him of stolen valor. His international arms company is deep in debt. He had a restraining order placed on him last year. And he's widely disliked. Read my profile of Florida Republican Congressman Cory Mills here: motherjones.com/politics/2026/…

The @FBI and Saint Paul police are now investigating how a Mexican immigrant received 8 skull fractures in @ICEgov custody Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says officers beat him. ICE says he fell and hit a wall Authorities are seeking surveillance footage apnews.com/article/immigr…

NEW @MSNOWNews: The lawyer repping the woman shot 5x by a Border Patrol agent in Oct says the agent is under criminal investigation by the US Attys Office. This would be a remarkable shift in a case that began w/ gov’t trying to prosecute woman he shot ⬇️ ms.now/news/agent-inv…

Nearly a year after masked federal agents in plainclothes arrested Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk on the street, an immigration court dropped its case against her. The DHS couldn’t prove that Öztürk needed to be removed from the U.S. wsj.com/us-news/law/im…

Trump restarted family detention, but it’s different now. Before, the family facility in Dilley, Texas, primarily housed recent border crossers. Now, parents and children who have been living for years in the United States are being detained there. 2/

New: ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves. propub.li/4a4V4nR

I was laid off today from the Washington Post’s campaigns team covering the midterms and 2028. I hear this is an important election year — and I want to cover it aggressively. If you’d like to work together, my DMs are open and you can email me at patrick.svitek@gmail.com.

Jeff Bezos wealth in 2024: $194 billion Jeff Bezos wealth in 2025: $215 billion Jeff Bezos wealth today: $249.4 billion Net increase in Bezos wealth since 2024: $55.4 billion Cost of Bezos’s 417-foot superyacht: $500 million Amazon investment in "Melania": $75 million Original Bezos purchase price of the Washington Post in 2013: $250 million Bezos net worth in 2013: $25.2 billion Net increase in Bezos wealth since buying the Post: $224.2 billion Last reported annual losses of Post: $100 million Number of years Bezos could absorb those losses with what he makes in a single week: 5 @JeffBezos

My heart is broken — for the Post, for journalism, but most of all, for my brilliant colleagues who were shamefully and recklessly removed from their jobs today. Anyone who's been hired by the Post would be a worthy addition to any newsroom. Here are some I'd love to highlight: