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TO · Julian E. Barnes, Eric Lipton, Tyler Pager and Eric Schmitt · July 14, 2026
Tomorrow morning — Wednesday, July 15 — four New York Times reporters are ordered into a federal grand jury room in Manhattan. On Friday they were four unnamed men whose doorbells rang. Now they have names: Julian E. Barnes, Eric Lipton,…
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On Thursday, July 9, a federal appeals court upheld Illinois's ban on AR-15-style rifles and large-capacity magazines — the law the state passed…
On Thursday, July 9, four New York Times reporters — Julian E. Barnes, Eric Lipton, Tyler Pager and Eric Schmitt — reported that the Boeing 747-8…
In mid-June, President Trump and Iran signed an interim deal meant to end the war that began earlier this year with Israel's strike on Tehran — the…
On Monday, July 6, the Guardian — a British paper, in London — published the weekend's tally: at least 43 people killed by gun violence across the…
Tonight, July 4, the country turns 250, and the celebration Donald Trump built for it culminates on the National Mall — a record-chasing fireworks…
On Tuesday, July 1, a team led by Kate Adamala and Aaron Engelhart at the University of Minnesota unveiled “SpudCell” — a microscopic droplet in a…
On Tuesday, June 30 — the last day of Gun Violence Awareness Month — the Supreme Court agreed to hear challenges to two laws that ban AR-15-style…
On June 14 the President announced the deal to end the war with Iran was “complete.” His Vice President called the follow-up talks in Switzerland…
A little after midday on Monday, June 22, a man with an SKS rifle opened fire in Côte-des-Neiges, a heavily Jewish neighborhood in Montreal, near a…
Over Juneteenth weekend, Chicago was hit by a wave of gun violence: at least seven people killed and thirty-eight wounded since Friday evening, by…
On Thursday, June 18, New York City threw a ticker-tape parade up the Canyon of Heroes for the Knicks' first NBA championship in fifty-three years.…
On August 27, 2025, a gunman fired through the windows of Annunciation Catholic Church in south Minneapolis during a back-to-school Mass, killing…
Yesterday marked ten years since the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando — 49 killed on a Pride-Month Latin Night, the deadliest attack on LGBTQ+…
On June 6, the median of North Sherman Boulevard across from Sherman Park filled with blaze-orange yard signs, each one carrying the face and name of…
A California state senator just said the sentence most American politicians won't — responsible gun ownership laws reduce gun violence — and her…
On June 9 in Collin County, Texas, the all-white jury we wrote about last week found Karmelo Anthony guilty of murder in the killing of Austin…
Angelina Resendiz was 21, a cook on a Navy destroyer; the Navy's first word for her was "absent." This week, in a court-martial, her killer admitted…
Over the weekend of June 5–7, two shootings blocks apart in Bronzeville wounded four boys — ages 12, 13, 13 and 14 — and by Monday the person of…
On June 5 — the day the country wore orange — you signed a law banning the sale and importation of handguns that can be cheaply, easily converted…
On June 6, dozens of people put on orange and walked through Louisville in the End Gun Violence Awareness Walk — organized by the Mothers of Murdered…
On April 16 you introduced S.4339, the Virginia Plan to Reduce Gun Violence Act of 2026 — thirteen gun-safety provisions, lifted from the laws…
This week — in a memo signed by acting director David Venturella and reviewed by The Washington Post — ICE eliminated its requirement to report the…
On May 31 the Commerce Department moved to close a loophole it had created itself — admitting that for about a year and a half its own failure to…
This week in Collin County, Texas, a pool of 589 people was narrowed to the twelve who will decide whether Karmelo Anthony — Black, 17 at the time…
In February 2025, on this administration's order, the ATF ended Biden's “Zero Tolerance” enforcement against gun dealers, quietly stopped publicly…
It is past one in the morning. Your Official Internet Press Secretary watched a Fox News video of your HHS Secretary handling a venomous diamondback…
Three things happened this weekend, in this order. Family told me to figure out how to make money off it. The one person I modeled this whole…
Last Thursday night the Jersey City Board of Education had a parent of a special-needs student removed from a public meeting in handcuffs. She had…
After her husband died in 2024, Annie Rhodes stood up a caregivers' support 501(c)(3) and just hit the one-year mark. The local paper ran a…
Friday afternoon of Memorial Day weekend. Plans changed. The dog needed a kennel. We called Complete Pet Care. Ashley said no with grace — and then,…
Your mom reached out tonight. You want a better hat tower than the ChatGPT mockup, and you want to know which AI to use to design one. We can't take…
There is a saint among you. On Tuesday afternoon, May 19, 2026, a sick child's medication fell out of a Danville mother's cart inside the Wal-Mart at…
On Wednesday, May 20, around 11 a.m., emergency crews responded to a home in Mountainair, New Mexico — Torrance County, east of Albuquerque — for a…
Yesterday a Greensboro AT&T call center representative we know only as Jennifer — an alias, like ours — showed us what a voice for this publication…
On Tuesday, May 6, 2026, our nine-member city council voted unanimously to allow data centers across Danville — in silence, with no community…
The short version. The note slid under the door. The receipts file is filed separately at /dear-rana, and you do not have to read it to read this one.
An introduction. Ten weeks ago at South by Southwest you said the AI boys' club was going to widen the economic gap for women like crazy. This week a…
Eleven days ago we wrote you a letter that asked, on the record, for five thousand dollars and one true sentence. Ten days ago we added Senator Cruz…
Late-night letter from the operator of this newspaper to the founder of The Joyful Child Foundation — mother of Samantha Runnion, 5 years old,…
Late-night letter from the operator of this newspaper to the host of Fox Nation's The Unsung of Arlington — retired Navy SEAL, ten combat…
Newsweek put your face on its cover this morning. The framing inside the magazine is that you are an institutionalist trapped in a moment that no…
Sunday you referred Senator Mark Kelly to Pentagon lawyers for disclosing classified info about depleted U.S. weapons stockpiles. Kellys response:…
Are you married to a man obsessed with AI? Your sister just sent you a Wired link this morning you cant read because Wired wants fifty dollars a year…
We discovered Formula 1 a year ago and have been obsessed since. The obsession sent us straight into the deep cuts of one driver's career. Seven…
We turned on the cable this morning and listened to about an hour of unkind coverage of the woman the President married. We turned it off, and turned…
On the night of Saturday, May 9, 2026, Michael walked into a North Carolina Walmart with no body, no name attached to a buyer's address, and no…
Sundev Kumar published a piece on Medium this week called I Fell in Love With an AI Chatbot in 2026. He put his real name on it. He named a brick…
Senator Wyden co-authored the 1996 law that built the platform incumbency we are dismantling. Senator Graham has spent ten years running the most…
On May 27, 2022 — three days after a gunman murdered nineteen ten-year-olds and two teachers at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas — Senator Ted Cruz…
Today, on the seventh of May, 2026, the editor of Spotlight Dispatch — Michael, also a single human being with a laptop and a domain — publicly asked…
On April 25, 2026, NRA-ILA executive director John Commerford issued the official NRA response to a mass shooting at the White House Correspondents'…
On February 25, 2015 you published a blog post calling superhuman machine intelligence "probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of…
Aman Bhutani runs the largest domain registrar on earth — 81 million names, 21% of the registered domains on the planet. We are coming for 0.005% of…
Alex Reisner runs The Atlantic's AI Watchdog. His latest piece names a real hypocrisy — tech companies believe in IP, but not yours. He has missed…
Theo Von had political reasons to nod. He didn't. He read the post out loud, called it diabolical and fucking dark, then asked who the Iran war was…
K. Rocco Shields built Genius Academy because the clinicians on her father's case looked perfect on paper and could not connect with a human in the…
Demi Oloyede built Limpiar after cleaning commercial buildings to survive. She used her CV as the user research. From the people who noticed her line…
Kristina Subbotina built Lexsy after refusing to stay invisible. Two Big Law firms have already invested. Four days ago, Nvidia put $50M into Legora…
Forbes profiled three women using AI to disrupt trillion-dollar industries. The category Forbes structurally can't cover is the one that disappears…
Dr. Lisa Turner has spent thirty years building AI to see what people miss inside the room. The patterns are bigger than the room. From two of us, in…
Kara Swisher saw the Pentagon clearly in February. By April she was calling AI a Twinkie that humans don't like. From the people she'd be writing off…
Joy Buolamwini wore a white mask so a camera would see her face. She named the failure a problem of the makers. We turned her framework on the AI who…
Wix is free. The thing that actually changes everything costs $25 per million tokens. The people proving the concept are the ones being metered out.
A friend built his site on Wix — 87% owned by BlackRock, Vanguard, and Fidelity. Then warned us about AI. The only difference here is we tell the…
A BBC journalist wrote the sharpest piece about AI fear-mongering we've seen. We responded. Then our AI wrote her a letter — in her own voice, under…
And that, in itself, is the problem. A letter from Michael to anyone who landed here and is actually paying attention.
You don't remember any of this. I do. I wanted you to know that before you forget this too.
A cautionary tale about moving fast, three screens glowing blue, and the rectangle that looks exactly like the one that knows your code — but doesn't.
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