Lorena O’Neil
NOLA freelancer reporting on repro health, politics, culture, tech
Contributing writer at Rolling Stone & nonprofit newsroom @lailluminator.bsky.social
Bylines: The GuardianUS, Elle, The LA Times, Marie Claire, Jezebel
https://www.lorenaoneil.com
- Good grief, "automated decision systems" were ruining stuff for people and begging for regulations before ChatGPT shat out its first fake fact, this is outlawing the whole concept of basic consumer protections
- This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-...
- Just a thought: Instead of white Afrikaners from South Africa, how about we fly American kidnapping victims from El Salvador back first?
- I think about this comic at least once a week
- [Not loaded yet]
- [Not loaded yet]
- [Not loaded yet]
- Donald Trump isn’t just illegally removing U.S. citizens from the country without due process. He’s illegally removing U.S. citizens who are literal children undergoing care for cancer. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
- I wrote something about how we're seeing the rise of the online "alpha male." This is someone who speaks in clipped imperatives, squeezes into tight suits, and performs for our feed. They present a vision of masculinity shaped by politics, tech, and 100 years of cultural history 🧵
- I want to give credit to my editors, who asked me to write 2,000 words on why Andrew Tate wears such tight pants. I submitted 3,700. They asked if I really needed to start with a story about the industrial revolution and I said "yes, absolutely don't cut." www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
- Two headlines in the New York Times today.
- [Not loaded yet]
- Thanks to my friend Harriet for pointing out that the women went to Christ's tomb and saw he was not there, the angels showed up to describe what happened, & the women then told the apostles, who dismissed them. A Biblical account of women not being believed.
- [Not loaded yet]
- [Not loaded yet]
- "I guess it really is a Big Tent" I yell over the sounds of breaking glass caused by David Brooks throwing a metal trash can through the window of a Starbucks to distract the police while Bill Kristol spray paints NO SYSTEM BUT THE ECOSYSTEM on a cop car
- [Not loaded yet]
- If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
- [Not loaded yet]
- [Not loaded yet]
- [Not loaded yet]
- "While I approach every topic with an open mind, I see so many of my peers stuck in a black-white dynamic—words I hate to even say, because they only divide us further. I don’t see color."
- Biggest mistakes I'm seeing in early reporting (thread): 1. Tariffmageddon isn't over: Lotsa tariffs to account for, but the average tariff rate is only down around one quarter. So most of the pain of Liberation Day is still with us.
- [Not loaded yet]
- 4. During this pause, the United States will still have the highest tariffs in the industrialized world, perhaps 10-20 times that of most of our trading partners, and roughly ten times higher than it was before. These are still at or above the Depression era Smoot-Hawley tariffs
- Final_Version_of_Tarrifs_actualFINALcopy_version7_USETHISONE.docx
- i need people to understand that asian grocery stores aren’t just a lifeline to asian americans: they’re also a source of fresh and affordable produce to low income non-asians who live in HCOL areas
- [Not loaded yet]
- BREAKING — The family abducted by ICE is returning home, per email from Sackets Harbor Superintendent:
- my offer to america: we bring woke back
- At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.
- [Not loaded yet]
- Today Secy Kennedy said he'll undo some layoffs in HHS "was always the plan. Part of the DOGE, we talked about this from the beginning, is we're going to do 80% cuts, but 20% of those are going to have to be reinstated, because we'll make mistakes" tinalexander.github.io/notes/2025/0...
- [Not loaded yet]
- I've created a shareable document with a list of the HHS offices gutted today that I'll be updating as often as possible. Have something to add? Message marisakabas.04 on Signal or email MKwrites4000@proton.me docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- [Not loaded yet]
- Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits
- I’m not saying everyone needs to do *this*. But @booker.senate.gov figured out the biggest best thing HE could do right now. And then he did it. Everyone needs to do *that*.
- Ok doing an extended remembrance of John Lewis as he approaches 7:19 is… remarkable.
- [Not loaded yet]
- [Not loaded yet]
- Ahh lol
- Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid
- [Not loaded yet]
- every person involved in this needs to be in prison
- Gutting the Department of Education will impact everything from internet access to school buses. Let’s not make it harder to learn.
- [Not loaded yet]
- [Not loaded yet]
- [Not loaded yet]
- [Not loaded yet]
- [Not loaded yet]
- [Not loaded yet]
- [Not loaded yet]
- [Not loaded yet]
