Dan Gillmor

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2026-06-05 02:50:28 UTC

FIFA's ban on reusable water bottles at the World Cup is a reminder that the international football (aka soccer in the US) organization isn't just corrupt and greedy -- but also indifferent about fans' well-being.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jun/04/fifa-bans-reusable-water-bottles-world-cup-stadiums

2026-04-21 02:16:07 UTC

The scumbags running Twitter just kicked out journalist Gil Duran -- one of the best in the business -- who dared to call a fascist Silicon Valley manifesto what it is.
https://bsky.app/profile/gilduran.com/post/3mjwqsyj54s2a

2026-04-19 02:30:28 UTC

Molly Crabapple on the tech industry's appropriation of art, and profiting by regurgitating it. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/12/is-ai-the-greatest-art-heist-in-history

2026-04-16 00:05:07 UTC

Heartening news from one of America's reddest states: Citizens in a data-center-invaded town tossed out city council members who voted for the disruptive project that was a secret until it was too late to stop.
This issue crosses party lines.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/13/missouri-city-council-data-center-00867259

2026-04-14 09:39:03 UTC

I understand but lament the choice so many thoughtful people have made to publish their newsletters on the odious Substack. Surely they recognize that they are, at least indirectly, helping some of the worst people in the world spread and monetize malignant views.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vaba7tf7ylt2kaavf4t2kotp/post/3mjfo4h6u7s2f
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/402/391/827/053/514/original/15d34341957fc5e2.png

2026-04-12 22:05:31 UTC

Send Vance everywhere. He fails at everything he undertakes for America's criminal-in-chief. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/hungarian-prime-minister-viktor-orban-concedes-defeat-after-painful-election-result-ending-16-years-in-power

2026-04-04 05:18:35 UTC

Hey lawyers, how close is this to an outright kickback? Musk demands that investment banks spend tens of millions on Grok's craptastic "AI" if they want to be in on the SpaceX IPO. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/business/spacex-ipo-grok-elon-musk.html

2026-03-25 05:48:12 UTC

The gambling industry has successfully persuaded journalists, pet economists, captured regulators, and wholly owned politicians to use its preferred labels, e.g. "gaming" and now "prediction markets" -- and as always, people who should know better go along with it.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/02/prediction-markets-iran-strikes-khamenei.html

2026-03-24 00:34:56 UTC

Google's profound contempt for journalists is on display as it rewrites publications' headlines in search results, sometimes altering the meaning and intent of the original. https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/google-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment
The company calls it an "experiment" -- as if that makes it OK.

2026-03-22 02:14:44 UTC

As the U.S. sinks into dictatorship -- malevolent rule by corrupt politicians and oligarchs -- the institution I know the best has almost completely failed to recognize, much less counter, the threat. Big Journalism will be remembered for its cowardice and capitulation. https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2026/mar/17/trump-is-aiming-for-dictatorship-thats-the-verdict-of-the-worlds-most-credible-democracy-watchdog

2026-03-20 05:07:46 UTC

BlueSky wants you to trust them, but they raised $100 million from a crypto fund almost a YEAR AGO and didn't tell anyone.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/bluesky-announces-100m-series-b-after-ceo-transition/

2026-03-17 01:23:52 UTC

Google has become everything it once pretended to disdain -- an arrogant, sleazy, control-freak monopolist.
Its latest anti-user, anti-competition move will shut down the alternative app marketplaces that Google used to show off as "we're not like Apple" evidence. https://thenewstack.io/f-droid-says-googles-android-developer-verification-plan-is-an-existential-threat-to-alternative-app-stores/

2026-03-16 08:47:07 UTC

It will surprise no one that American billionaires are having, ahem, second thoughts about the obviously empty promises they made to be serious philanthropists.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/the-billionaires-made-a-promise-now-some-want-out/

2026-03-14 00:57:23 UTC

I do hope that these videos have been archived elsewhere -- they sound like essential viewing to understand the ratfuckery that "DOGE" was doing.
https://www.404media.co/doge-deposition-videos-taken-down-after-judge-order-and-widespread-mockery/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

2026-03-13 05:31:51 UTC

Big Journalism carries water for Trump as usual, obligingly calling the Republicans' voter-suppression legislation by the name they cooked up to make it sound just fine. The bill would destroy what's left of our democracy. The only thing it would "SAVE" is white male supremacy.
Do better, media.

2026-03-13 00:24:52 UTC

Looks from here like the Trump regime is hoping Iran will provide a Reichstag fire-type event (look it up) in the U.S. -- see those scary warnings of attacks on California.
Why? A pretext to escalate domestic fascism, such as even more direct interference with this year's elections.

2026-03-11 01:55:51 UTC

All corruption, all the time in Trump world, exhibit 64,549:
https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/trumps-properties-remain-an-epicenter-of-his-conflicts-and-corruption-in-second-term/
Big Journalism has done sporadic coverage of the beyond-epic corruption in Trump world. But occasional stories don't begin to show the breadth and depth of the sleaze. They could learn from this independent piece.

2026-03-10 01:06:22 UTC

So Grammarly foisted bad "advice" from AI-generated impersonations of real people on its users, without bothering to ask the people it's impersonating whether they had any issue with this rancid fakery.
https://www.platformer.news/grammarly-expert-review-reviewed/?ref=platformer-newsletter

2026-03-09 01:28:45 UTC

The Murdoch family's Fox "News" says sorry-not-sorry for its pure deceit in pretending Trump didn't insult the families of dead soldiers.
This almost certainty was not a "mistake" -- and this vile media company would have to improve to be merely dishonorable.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/08/fox-news-trump-hat-salute-military

2026-03-05 23:42:55 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/116178635828161083
This is why blocking ads and trackers is not just a suggestion. It should be a baseline of your online existence.
#note14d5…6nux

2026-03-05 19:40:39 UTC

The U.K. accelerates toward police state status, by requiring the equivalent of a license to read and speak online. Worse, it drastically undermines your personal security.
The US is moving this way, too. Wake up, people, because it's almost too late.
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/no-id-checks-web-access

2026-03-01 19:23:04 UTC

Rewriting other people's original reporting and clickbait-wrapping the "new" story is not new. But a scumbag operation called "The Daily News Today" is doing it at AI-juiced scale.
Alexios Mantzarlis, one of journalism's expert observers of this stuff, explains here:
https://indicator.media/p/this-ai-generated-podcast-network-publishes-11-000-episodes-a-day-it-s-also-ripping-off-media-outlet
Please don't reward ripoff artists.

2026-02-27 01:31:36 UTC

A reminder that Molly White (https://mastodon.social/@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io) is, by far, doing the best job of covering the endlessly corrupt cryptocurrency "industry" -- her latest newsletter post, replete with Epstein Class dot-connecting, should make you furious.
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-101/

2026-02-27 00:14:57 UTC

So it looks like Larry Ellison's going to be pulling the puppet strings at CNN, not just CBS "News" -- another domino falling in the right-wing extremists' war on honest journalism.
Neither of those outlets has been remotely perfect in the past. But they're heading toward Fox Lite status now.

2026-02-21 00:56:40 UTC

As Talking Points Memo's Josh Marshall makes clear, the Roberts Court's tariff ruling may be the right one, but it doesn't even begin to remove the court's stink of corruption.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-be-fooled-by-the-corrupt-courts-tariff-decision/sharetoken/4bc09a7c-2770-4b4b-8ebe-73f0cfb664c3

2026-02-20 08:50:13 UTC

Germany's leader wants to end anonymity online, demonstrating ignorance of both technology and the manifestly good reasons for anonymity (e.g. person with views govt doesn't like, whistle-blowers, etc.).
He, like so many before him, wants you to get a license to speak.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/germanys-merz-calls-real-names-211340863.html

2026-02-20 02:41:54 UTC

There is no one I admire more than Cory Doctorow, an extraordinary author, activist, and person. In his 6th anniversary post at his Pluralistic blog, he gives you a sense of the hard work that goes into his work.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/19/now-we-are-six/

2026-02-18 00:32:28 UTC

Here's a useful guide to voting on California's proposed wealth tax. The massively corrupt cryptocurrency "industry" and (of course) the state's billionaires absolutely hate the idea.
That is a key reason why I'm voting for it, and urging everyone I know in California to do the same.

2026-02-17 07:09:24 UTC

This story needs context. Namely: Big Tech owns Ireland's government. If that "sovereign" nation does any serious regulating of Musk's company it will be because other tech companies ordered it to do so.
https://www.dw.com/en/ireland-launches-data-protection-probe-into-groks-deepfakes/a-75997610

2026-02-17 01:45:52 UTC

Federal judges keep ruling that Trump's violent, masked goons are illegally arresting and jailing people, but the regime goes right on doing it.
How close are we to outright fascism? This close.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/courts-have-ruled-4400-times-that-ice-jailed-people-illegally-it-hasnt-stopped-2026-02-14/

2026-02-16 00:27:28 UTC

The Trump regime is routinely telling US judges to go screw themselves -- ignoring and violating court orders, and flagrantly spitting on people's constitutional rights.
So far, not even one regime apparatchik has been held accountable in any serious way.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/world/africa/us-secret-deportation-cameroon.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MVA.rP52.v68z1-9CPLv1&smid=nytcore-ios-share

2026-02-15 06:24:35 UTC

So many evil aspects of the Trump regime, but normalizing sexual abuse of minors by rich white men has to be near the top.

2026-02-14 12:37:35 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.online/@jonsnow/116067957751331057
Dump Discord, now.
#note1fpn…w55f

2026-02-14 06:27:14 UTC

Democrats calling for "reform" of ICE and DHS are demonstrating their standard weakness. Disband them and rebuild immigration/security agencies that aren't dens of criminals and grifters.

2026-02-12 01:13:16 UTC

Californians need to know that a "Democrat" running for governor is basically a tool of the worst tech barons. Gil Duran explains. https://www.thenerdreich.com/palantir-for-governor/?ref=the-nerd-reich-newsletter

2026-02-11 06:31:20 UTC

If you have a Ring (Amazon) camera, you are -- or will become -- a tool of the surveillance state. Is that really what you want to be?
https://www.404media.co/with-ring-american-consumers-built-a-surveillance-dragnet/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter&attribution_id=698b47cbe724d10001786209&attribution_type=post

2026-02-10 05:42:06 UTC

Trump has so thoroughly brought Big Journalism to heel that NBC makes a transparently hollow denial that it covered up the Olympic audience's booing of JD Vance. The denial is a pathetic but telling lie. It tells us a lot about the network's disintegrating integrity.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/09/nbc-hid-the-boos-for-jd-vance-wheres-trumps-unfair-editing-lawsuit/

2026-02-08 04:49:07 UTC

Dave Farber, R.I.P.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Farber
More information will be forthcoming.

2026-02-07 05:20:09 UTC

The New York Times has done as much as any Big Journalism organization to badmouth San Francisco in recent years. Now it pretends to discover -- by quoting visitors -- that the image isn't the reality.
No doubt, the doom-loop crap will return soon.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/027/661/303/334/844/original/8705b72d267b6c0e.png

2026-02-07 00:42:06 UTC

Trump is -- and always has been -- a vile racist. But journalists do -- and always have done -- keep publishing his denials that he is a racist, in the face of the obvious.

2026-02-03 02:07:59 UTC

Cory Doctorow: "America is not great. It has been gutted by the Epstein class, who robbed us blind, raped our kids, and are now selling us shitcoins and chatbots and the spectacle of protesters being shot in the streets."
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/02/corprophagia/#that-makes-me-smart

2026-02-03 01:59:37 UTC

Speaking of Wolff, his "I know things about Trump that you don't but which would curl your toes if you did" routine is getting super-tedious.

2026-02-02 00:15:06 UTC

ICE/CBP are criminal agencies, staffed by violent criminals, and gleefully dispatched against Americans by a vicious president and his apparatchiks. It's far worse than most of us understand.
Garrett Graff has done the homework and lays it out here:
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountability-for-ice-and-cbp?utm_source=www.doomsdayscenario.co&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=accountability-for-ice-and-cbp
Read and share it.

2026-01-31 00:28:45 UTC

Yet another blatantly obvious coverup from the Trump regime, this time in DHS's shape-shifting story about prison videos it now claims never to have recorded.
Remember: You should always presume these people are lying.
https://www.404media.co/dhs-says-critical-ice-surveillance-footage-from-abuse-case-was-actually-never-recorded-doesnt-matter

2026-01-29 03:00:33 UTC

Please note that the Trump regime continues to flagrantly, illegally withhold the Epstein documents and plainly has no intention of releasing them (at least until the apparatchiks can destroy/doctor the incriminating stuff).

2026-01-28 00:42:20 UTC

The governor of Texas is rapidly turning world-class universities into minor regional ones. Example:
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/26/texas-greg-abbott-h1b-visa-schools-universities/

2026-01-27 03:12:15 UTC

You'd think that every news report of Trump's dispatch of Tom Homan to Minnesota would prominently remind people that Homan was caught on video taking $50,000 in cash, plainly an intended bribe.
Sadly, you would be wrong. I'm still looking for any mention of it.
Reminder: https://newrepublic.com/post/200788/tom-homan-50k-cash-bribe

2026-01-27 00:12:03 UTC

We owe a lot to the people of LA, Chicago, and now Minneapolis for their organized, peaceful, and increasingly successful campaign to save our nation from the fascists who run the federal government. This is great reporting from the Atlantic:
https://archive.is/2026.01.26-040554/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/minneapolis-uprising/685755/

2026-01-26 02:34:57 UTC

A reminder that the Trump regime lies about absolutely everything. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/23/mahmoud-khalil-palestine-protest-rubio/
When you see any statement from this corrupt government, you must ASSUME it is a lie.
And we need, collectively, to educate everyone -- especially people serving on juries -- of this reality.

2026-01-24 07:13:35 UTC

Yet another reminder that when it comes to data privacy, Microsoft cannot be trusted -- and, worse, its management is an eager ally of the fascists who run our government.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/microsoft-gave-fbi-a-set-of-bitlocker-encryption-keys-to-unlock-suspects-laptops-reports/

2026-01-24 07:13:35 UTC

2026-01-24 06:36:50 UTC

Hey, US TikTok users, did you know that one of the worst of the vile techlords -- Larry Ellison, who's totally in bed with Trump -- now has control of your personal data from that site?
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/22/tech/tiktok-us-deal-closes

2026-01-23 02:40:16 UTC

"Minneapolis needs your help, your money, your supplies, absolutely right now. But so does the community you live in. We are all we have..."
Essential reading from Dan SInker.
https://dansinker.com/posts/2026-01-21-all-we-have/

2026-01-22 01:08:44 UTC

Trump's secret police says it will invade your home without a judge-signed warrant. https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrests-warrants-minneapolis-trump-00d0ab0338e82341fd91b160758aeb2d
Any doubt that the corrupt Roberts court will rubber-stamp this?
(Never mind Congress, where the majority party utterly loathes the Bill of Rights, except the Second Amendment.)

2026-01-21 07:04:07 UTC

The Trump regime has pure contempt for Congress, as evidenced in its nearly complete stonewalling on the Jeffrey Epstein documents despite a new law requiring their release a month ago.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/one-month-epstein-files-deadline-rcna254416
This regime exploits others' weakness, relentlessly and effectively.

2026-01-20 09:07:13 UTC

With little resistance, most of America's big law firms gave into the Trump regime and its lawlessness. They are a disgrace, but money is money, right?
https://newsletters.democracydocket.com/big-law-didnt-just-capitulate.-it-cashed-in

2026-01-20 06:24:05 UTC

Mozilla is asking for your opinion about what it's doing, and the survey appears to be aimed at getting you used to the idea that "AI" will become an integral focus area.
I told them that I want Mozilla to focus SOLELY on improving Firefox and Thunderbird, with zero AI in the product.
https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201

2026-01-20 05:57:37 UTC

We collectively need to help the general public understand this: When you encounter Trump regime justifications for ICE/DHS goons' violence against immigrants and citizens alike, you should presume the regime's apparatchiks are lying. They have less than no credibility.
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-st-paul-chongly-scott-thao-saly-hmong-us-citizen-arrest

2026-01-19 00:32:54 UTC

Going to disconnect my Mastodon feed from Bluesky. The connection is a mess, and I just discovered that when I reply on Mastodon to a Bluesky post, it doesn't show up there. I'll still crosspost to Bluesky (via Fedica) but I'll keep my conversations in the place where I have vastly more engagement.

2026-01-18 23:57:34 UTC

All corruption, all the time in Trump world, Exhibit 64,704:
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/17/business/trump-financial-disclosure-netflix-warner-bros
And as usual, Big Journalism tiptoes around it, using the standard "concerns" and "raises questions" hedges to avoid stating the blatantly obvious reality. Pathetic, but that's the norm.

2026-01-16 00:41:24 UTC

"Of all the tools that I use to maintain my equilibrium in these dark days, none is so important as remembering the distinction between happiness, optimism and hope."
An important reminder from the brilliant @npub1fdr…lvhs:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/15/how-the-light-gets-in/#theories-of-change

2026-01-15 02:30:53 UTC

US Big Tech is conspiring with European (and American) fascists to wreck the EU's ability to even modestly regulate this rogue industry, which has unparalleled -- and growing -- power over people's lives.
Fascism and tech are an unholy, and maybe unstoppable, alliance.
https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1916422/us-tech-giants-allying-with-european-far-right-to-strip-back-eu-rules

2026-01-15 00:39:53 UTC

As the Trump regime steamrolls everything in sight, congressional Democrats are demonstrating weakness with more enthusiasm every day.

2026-01-13 06:23:28 UTC

We need to stop calling techlords like Mark Zuckerberg (and Tim Cook, et al) "cowards" for their nuzzling up to Trump.
Call them what they are: supporters of America's metastasizing fascism. And for god's sake, stop supporting their businesses.
https://apnews.com/article/meta-dina-powell-mccormick-trump-adviser-bce6b207f1754284f9b922b0ea8ec7bf

2026-01-13 02:37:19 UTC

Think of ICE's masked thugs -- committing murder in public, with impunity -- as members of a revived KKK. Trump's KKK goons carry federal badges.
ICE is a clear, present, and escalating danger to everyone.

2026-01-13 01:24:09 UTC

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) implores non-US governments to understand that they can fight Trump's wave of economic destruction -- and help average Americans in the process -- by repealing insane laws that enforce technology lock-in and reward Big Tech:
See this in the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/10/trump-beginning-of-end-enshittification-make-tech-good-again

2026-01-13 00:31:27 UTC

Here's the New York Times helping the Trump regime normalize murder -- by federal thugs against anyone they decide to kill -- on America's streets.
The modest caveats in the sub-head and story are not remotely sufficient.
Both-sides treatment of obvious murder -- journalistic malpractice.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/884/968/256/245/357/original/71058a1b30e81a0f.png

2026-01-13 00:16:47 UTC

"We are far past the stage of permissiveness with white-supremacist violence inside DHS. We are at the stage of active, enthusiastic commission of it."
Big Journalism doesn't get it, because it doesn't want to. So we have to rely on independent reporting that does.
https://www.forever-wars.com/either-ice-is-abolished-or-it-will-kill-many-more-renee-goods/?ref=forever-wars-newsletter

2026-01-09 03:57:20 UTC

Damn right: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/08/abolish-ice-before-they-kill-again-impeach-trump-noem-before-they-incite-more-murder/

2026-01-08 18:49:26 UTC

This New York Times video journalism about Trump goons' murder of a Minneapolis woman is essential. No both-sides bullshit when one party -- the regime and its vile propagandists -- is relentlessly and provably lying.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010631041/minneapolis-ice-shooting-video.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

2026-01-08 01:34:19 UTC

One of our most important tasks in saving American democracy is to help the wider public understand this: When the Trump regime's masked immigration thugs injure or kill people, as is becoming more common, government statements about what happened are likely to be lies.
https://www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying-to-you-about-ice-shooting-a-woman/

2026-01-07 17:07:17 UTC

If your community uses Flock surveillance cameras, you are supporting increasingly obnoxious abuses of privacy and human rights. https://rangemedia.co/spokane-county-flock-cameras-immigration/

2025-12-31 01:33:14 UTC

"The reason it is important to identify the Court as corrupt is because it is in fact corrupt."
Essential commentary from Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo, one of the news sites that is doing the journalism we need right now.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-latest-defenses-of-scotuss-corruption-only-make-the-case-against-it/sharetoken/d7bf45cf-5baf-4556-a9a1-c6929ed6cc21

2025-12-31 01:23:07 UTC

One of the finest investigative journalists of our times, a veteran of CBS news foibles himself, has posted a definitive explainer -- with deep context -- of the "60 Minutes" takedown by "oligarch functionary" Bari Weiss.
https://www.forever-wars.com/watching-bari-weiss-murder-investigative-journalism-at-cbs/?ref=forever-wars-newsletter

2025-12-30 04:28:18 UTC

One of the best journalists in recent history has a new and scary scoop: The feds are pouring HUGE amounts of cash into big banks, apparently to avoid a new (and predictable) meltdown.
Once again, Wall Street makes reckless bets, and gets rewarded for failure.
https://www.dcreport.org/2025/12/29/ny-fed-unlimited-cash-infusions-bank-crisis/

2025-12-29 23:43:18 UTC

Big Journalism's stenographic tendencies are never more on display than right now, as so-called news organizations faithfully report Trump claims that US bombed a drug "facility" and that a Ukraine "peace" deal was almost done -- without noting that he lies about everything.
Lies are his default.

2025-12-28 03:50:38 UTC

All corruption, all the time in Trump world, Exhibit 56,304: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/melania-doc-to-premiere-at-renamed-trump-kennedy-center-1236457244/

2025-12-26 02:49:53 UTC

Trump's deranged Christmas message is a reminder that if you put Dear Leader into a room with decency, you'd get a matter-antimatter explosion.

2025-12-25 01:01:46 UTC

With its standard credulous, stenographic political coverage style, the NY Times reports with a straight face that Trump's "Justice" Department just "found" a million more Epstein documents.
On some days, the Paper of Record struggles to be merely pathetic.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/777/503/562/796/359/original/7e51402291727140.png

2025-12-23 06:51:34 UTC

The minute the Ellisons took over the former news operation at CBS, it became CBS "News" -- and the network's propagandist-in-chief proved it beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Glad to say the "60 Minutes" segment was posted publicly, though not by the company that produced it.
https://www.404media.co/archivists-posted-the-60-minutes-cecot-segment-bari-weiss-killed/

2025-12-20 08:41:39 UTC

Trump, Musk, Rubio, and their henchmen destroyed USAID -- directly causing hundreds of thousands of deaths, mostly children. The apparatchiks celebrated while bosses lied about what they'd done.
I can't overstate my incandescent rage at these monstrous people.
https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan
#pitchforks

2025-12-17 03:55:44 UTC

O hive mind: Can you point me to 501(c)(3) nonprofit news organizations that are explaining the depth and breadth of Trump world corruption? The "mainstream" press is doing such an abysmal job on this, and I want to donate to journalists who get why this is so important to flag for public notice.

2025-12-16 03:46:53 UTC

Trump Derangement Syndrome exists in two ways:
1) Trump is visibly deranged and it's accelerating.
2) People who imagine that Trump's cult will ever be disgusted enough by anything he says or does to cut themselves -- that's derangement, too.
There's no bottom to his vileness, or their support.

2025-12-11 23:58:00 UTC

Trump regime wants to force ALL visitors to the U.S. to install government-controlled spyware on their phones, and submit detailed personal data -- even DNA, apparently -- to the authorities.
(If they're trying to wreck tourism, including the World Cup, this is the way.)
https://papersplease.org/wp/2025/12/10/cbp-wants-all-visitors-to-install-and-use-its-smartphone-app/

2025-12-10 00:58:34 UTC

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has posted one of his most important pieces, in which he brings historical context to the ascendance -- and profound malignity -- of the ultra-wealthy who are on the verge of destroying us. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-the-21st-century-nabobs-win-their-war-on-public-accountability/sharetoken/aa705d17-c630-40b7-bba9-752e489e3638
#pitchforks

2025-12-09 05:43:15 UTC

The corruption of the Roberts court expands and expands. There's no longer even a tiny pretense -- what Donald Trump and his Republican apparatchiks and lackeys want is what the court will approve.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-court-just-okayed-one-neat-trick-to-illegally-gerrymander-your-state

2025-12-09 01:15:59 UTC

For those who fret about the future of CNN under Ellison/Saudi/Trump or as a Netflix spin-off, the channel's deal with a Trump-connected online betting operation gives you a sense of CNN's commitment to honorable news coverage. It leaves me with increasing doubt.
https://news.kalshi.com/p/kalshi-cnn-prediction-market-partnership

2025-12-08 04:54:25 UTC

Betting <1 percent of the population knows that a manifestly corrupt "industry" bought itself a Congress that puts cryptocurrency holders first in line -- ahead of you and your money -- if there's a run on your bank. Yep, you're subsidizing the sleaziest speculators.
https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/115678753302203662

2025-12-08 00:03:48 UTC

Resale values of Teslas are in the depths for all kinds of reasons, but the central one -- apart from the taint of Musk -- is that the cars are ridiculously crappy and unreliable as they age. https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/old-teslas-falling-apart
Just one more reason to avoid this toxic brand at all costs.

2025-12-05 08:31:41 UTC

By utterly amazing coincidence, a company backed by Trump son's VC firm got a $620 million military contract.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/company-backed-by-donald-trump-jr-s-firm-nabs-620m-government-contract/

2025-12-05 01:42:48 UTC

I retired from teaching 18 months ago, in part because it was becoming clear to me that the "AI" industry was undermining education in profound ways. This essay makes a convincing case that LLMs are a plague on learning -- and, not incidentally, higher education. https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself

2025-12-03 23:33:28 UTC

Wondering why Trump is murdering alleged (no proof) drug traffickers on the open seas while pardoning a mega-crook head of state who was helping to smuggle tons of drugs into the US?
Krugman has a compelling theory. It involves the slimy crypto crowd.
https://www.nationalmemo.com/donald-trump-crimes

2025-12-02 00:03:08 UTC

Committing war crimes or outright murdering people, or both. That's what the president of the United States and his military henchmen are doing on the open seas, in your name and with your tax dollars.
Read this from one of our best national security journalists:
https://www.forever-wars.com/pete-hegseth-and-adm-mitch-bradley-belong-in-prison/?ref=forever-wars-newsletter

2025-12-01 01:31:03 UTC

All corruption, all the time, everywhere in Trump world. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/30/all-the-presidents-millions-how-the-trumps-are-turning-the-presidency-into-riches

2025-11-30 05:31:03 UTC

Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Marco Rubio gave orders leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of human beings, most of them children. These three "leaders" killed USAID, and in the process ordered those deaths.
A crime against humanity, IMO.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/the-shutdown-of-usaid-has-already-killed-hundreds-of-thousands

2025-11-30 02:20:06 UTC

The endless saga continues: Bigger news outlet pretends it's breaking a story that was reported earlier by someone else, often a solo publisher.
It's grossly unethical -- and it's so common that journalists take it for granted. They should take the honorable path.
https://dysruptionhub.com/opinion-when-local-tv-breaks-the-story-you-already-reported/

2025-11-29 06:59:18 UTC

The Atlantic magazine aspires to be one of the top places to find quality information. It often is. But it needs to apologize for its role during the early Covid years, when it published BS -- and helped pave the way for RFKjr et al to wreck the public health system.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/if-the-atlantic-wishes-to-write-more-about-the-origins-of-maha-it-will-be-brave-enough-to-turn-it-spotlight-on-itself/

2025-11-28 04:39:11 UTC

I've been fanboy of technology for decades. All those years of following and writing about it never changed that.
But while I could always appreciate, and often celebrate, the achievements of some of the people who created things, I was never a fan of their industry. Its growth and power came with a massive increase in arrogance and abuse.
If we don't get a handle on this, everything good about tech will be subsumed by the bad.

2025-11-22 02:20:01 UTC

Just in case you had the slightest doubt about what Elon Musk is doing with X/Twitter, look at this brief thread. He is one of the true monsters of our era, and he uses X/Twitter to guide his fellow right-wing extremists to ever-more-extreme places.
If you are still there, you should be ashamed.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/590/955/040/763/505/original/401b1b02fb0a4ca0.png

2025-11-21 00:54:16 UTC

AI-generated "evidence" is infecting the legal system. Until judges come down HARD on the the lawyers doing this stuff -- and until some of the lawyers are disbarred -- these sleazebags will poison the system completely.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-generated-evidence-deepfake-use-law-judges-object-rcna235976