James Gleick

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The Telephone: A New History
Chaos. Genius. The Information. Time Travel.

Website: https://around.com
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2026-04-19 17:11:07 UTC

Did the President of the United States really just announce, "NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!”?
Yes. Yes, he did. We live in the dumbest possible timeline.

2026-04-17 09:56:36 UTC

#FensterFreitag
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2026-04-10 10:53:21 UTC

U.S. and Israeli weapons are precise enough to enable the assassination of Iranian leaders—yet they are targeting hospitals and schools, This is the beginning of what will surely be extensive documentation of war crimes.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/09/world/middleeast/us-israel-strikes-iran-structures-damage.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Z1A.jNTc.JZhppIRJ8_tY&smid=url-share

2026-04-07 14:18:57 UTC

Call it what it is.
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2026-04-05 14:56:40 UTC

When even Marjorie Taylor Greene can see the truth, who does Trump have left?
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2026-04-05 08:23:00 UTC

“Experts are dubious.”
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2026-04-04 16:16:56 UTC

The NY Times has a blockbuster story here: Epstein got valuable inside information from the first Trump administration and fed it to a wealthy foreign customer of his sex-trafficking racket.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/world/asia/epstein-india-ambani.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YVA.83Co.UxeBjXa6EFjs&smid=url-share
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2026-04-02 10:07:41 UTC

Think about this. Having started a war with no planning, the US has discovered that it can't defend its own bases in the Middle East. So it is shifting troops to hotels and other residences where they are shielded by civilians. That's a war crime.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/us/politics/troops-iran-hotels.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X1A.zMhU.V-_4ydMQKLwy&smid=url-share
#Iran

2026-03-27 11:04:34 UTC

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116297445220770371
Forbes providing a handy metric for how much the grifter-in-chief has stolen from the American people.
#note1ew7…7vxr

2026-03-22 16:55:55 UTC

Alternate lede:
Tom Homan, the top White House border official, scrambled Sunday to carry out an impulsive order by Trump to use ICE agents at airports “to do security like no one has ever seen,” despite their lack of training for the work currently done by officers of the Transportation Security Administration.
He admitted he had no idea what the ICE agents would actually do.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/us/politics/ice-airports-homan-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VFA.FktN.oBFmz5LzrhD5&smid=url-share

2026-03-22 13:00:30 UTC

Do you understand why Trump has lifted the oil sanctions that were punishing Iran, the country he’s bombing, and Russia, the country that’s helping it?
Do you understand why Trump is sending 5,000 Marines to sail through the Strait of Hormuz while complaining that none of our friends and allies will help him reopen it?
Here's the whole explanation.
https://no01.substack.com/p/march-19-21-god-is-a-comedian

2026-03-19 15:16:57 UTC

It turns out a DEA organized-crime task force was running a massive investigation of Epstein and 14 co-conspirators for drug trafficking and prostitution. That is, until Trump took office in 2016.
The investigation silently vanished.
Now the second Trump administration continues the cover-up.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-18-2026?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

2026-03-17 17:08:44 UTC

Underappreciated story: Trump and Bondi have decided to disregard the constitutional requirement that US Attorneys require Senate confirmation. In state after state they install unqualified apparatchiks, and it's up to the courts to discover that these stooges are serving illegally.
Which the courts have done, again and again. But the Trump regime simply ignores the courts and the law. All the work of these US Attorneys' offices is at risk. (1/2)

2026-03-17 15:01:48 UTC

Be clear about this outrage: Trump and Republicans are attempting in broad daylight to disenfranchise 21 million American voters.
If they want to require a certain kind of ID for voting, they must first provide all eligible voters with that ID. They are making no attempt to do that. It's a Voter Disenfranchisement bill.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/us/politics/trump-voter-id-bill.html?smid=url-share

2026-03-14 18:15:59 UTC

The Trump bloodhounds have just won in court against an “Antifa cell” belonging to the "Antifa domestic terrorist organization.” Here are some useful antifa facts:
1. There is no antifa organization. You can't find it, join it, give it money, or identify any leaders.
2. There are likewise no antifa cells, outside of Pam Bondi’s fever dreams.
3. Even so, if you yourself are not antifascist, what's the matter with you?
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-crackdown-on-terrorist-left-notches-a-victory-in-texas

2026-03-13 17:25:40 UTC

Today in the Kleptocracy.
This matter-of-fact article describes a shameless and spectacular bribery mill at the Pentagon, enough to bring down any previous administration. Want to line your pockets with taxpayer money? Walk right in.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/us/politics/wall-street-access-pentagon.html?unlocked_article_code=1.S1A.fecq.KhjdhnbvQj2f&smid=url-share

2026-03-12 14:04:24 UTC

The word is "cover up." The Times has found email proof that Kash Patel's FBI combed the Epstein files to protect Trump and 14 others.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/politics/trump-epstein-files-fbi-doj.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SlA.eZnK.neSkFik4rPMr&smid=url-share
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2026-03-08 22:23:37 UTC

Did AI kill 175 schoolchildren, aged 6 to 12, with a double-tap precision-guided missile strike?
No, AI didn't commit this war crime. Donald Trump did. Pete Hegseth did.
"The people in charge don’t seem to be pondering this, as it’s all a game to them. You can hear it in the despicable language of the lacquered and grotesque Hegseth and his middle-school braggadocio about ‘warfighting’ and ‘the warrior ethos.’”
Will Bunch, must read. Gift link.
https://share.inquirer.com/HAOS9l

2026-03-05 22:10:37 UTC

Given what is plain to see the video and accurately described in the article, “Senator Helps Officers" is an egregiously cowardly headling. https://mas.to/@gleick/116178407102807491
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2026-03-05 20:16:47 UTC

Senator Breaks Protester's Arm
"Mr. Sheehy then hooks his arm around Mr. McGinnis’s arm, which is still bent around the door, and yanks.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/us/senator-tim-sheehy-marine-war-protester.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Q1A.KaLX.8n_ZnE5hXKl4&smid=url-share

2026-03-03 23:14:07 UTC

It's almost as if Trump and his cabinet of dunces didn't think this thing through.

2026-03-03 15:26:33 UTC

ICE and its agents broke so many laws in Minnesota. Here's the investigation that's needed. (Important story apparently being ignored in the US press.)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/03/minnesota-investigation-us-immigration-officers?CMP=share_btn_url

2026-02-23 21:42:51 UTC

At the New York Historical Society today.
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2026-02-21 21:33:15 UTC

American citizen. No criminal record. Shot to death in his car by #ICE.
Anyone believe the official version?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/us/ruben-ray-martinez-ice-shooting-texas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.N1A.blv7.9lgcRKBKm8BK&smid=url-share

2026-02-21 15:24:10 UTC

How often does some automated entity demand that you “Verify you are human”?

2026-02-13 22:46:23 UTC

How is it possible for the United States to have committed $1 billion to the Trump-branded vanity project called "Board of Peace"? Has Congress appropriated these funds?
Anyone?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/world/middleeast/board-peace-pledges-gaza.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L1A.9CaS.wl5U6SmUv29c&smid=url-share

2026-02-08 20:27:18 UTC

I'm so old I remember when Jeff #Bezos seemed like sort of a good guy who chose books as the focus of his clever new internet store.
Now he will always be remembered as the toady who paid tens of millions in tribute to the Trumps while ruthlessly destroying one of history's great newspapers.

2026-02-05 18:28:17 UTC

Suddenly I get all this official (!) government email branded with “Dr. Oz.” I suppose it's meant to remind me that we're now ruled by charlatans, quacks, and other criminals.
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2026-02-04 22:09:52 UTC

“Donald Trump has clearly lost control of his emotions, his contact with reality, and such fidelity to truth as he ever had.
This is a problem for everyone on Earth: That a furious 79-year-old has asserted one-man authority to disrupt the world economy, destroy historic alliances, sell pardons to criminals, and conceivably start a nuclear war.”
James Fallows, keeping track of the many “examples of Trump saying and ordering things that his own people know are insane.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/fallows/p/management-under-a-mad-king-the-courtiers?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

2026-02-03 16:31:27 UTC

If anyone hurts Trump's feelings, he sues them for billions of dollars. This woman was genuinely and maliciously defamed. Why can't she sue Trump?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/us/politics/nekima-levy-armstrong-minnesota-protest.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JVA.uiOu.Pl5rSMS_tj_i&smid=url-share

2026-02-02 14:40:54 UTC

It took Trump barely a year to destroy the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He fired its artistic board and staff, replaced them with stooges, drove away performers and audiences, decimated attendance, and pasted his name on the walls. Now, he's shutting it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/us/politics/trump-kennedy-center.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JFA.akpx.QfUnJrhFszg-&smid=url-share

2026-01-31 21:16:42 UTC

U.S. District Judge Fred Biery finds that Trump and his apparachiks are demonstrating “the perfidious lust for unbridled
power and the imposition of cruelty”; that they “know no bounds and are bereft of human decency.”
And adds, “the rule of law be damned.”
He attaches a photograph to his ruling.
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2026-01-30 06:05:29 UTC

Yes, it’s true. Trump is demanding that American taxpayers give him another $10 billion dollars.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/us/politics/trump-irs-lawsuit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

2026-01-28 16:01:48 UTC

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Pretti and other peaceful bystanders were being pepper-sprayed, not “arrested.”

2026-01-28 14:33:59 UTC

The internet was not supposed to suck. Here's what went wrong.
(Books by @npub1fdr…lvhs, Tim Berners-Lee, and Joanna Walsh.)
https://around.com/how-the-web-was-lost/

2026-01-27 16:47:03 UTC

The New York Times photographer David Guttenfelder is doing great work in Minneapolis. Here is a paramilitary force attacking its own citizenry on American soil.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/world/europe/italy-ice-olympics.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HlA.K6L5.BUohtIUgaVWB&smid=url-share

2026-01-26 22:38:23 UTC

The AI craze run amok. Of course the Trump people are believers. Not me: https://around.com/the-lie-of-ai/ https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk/115963756469654257

2026-01-25 18:54:13 UTC

Nonsense. A "joint federal and state" investigation is the last thing we need. We need state prosecutors to do their job unhindered: indict the murderers for murder and indict Noem, Patel, Bovino, and Bondi for obstruction of justice.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/us/bill-cassidy-minneapolis-investigation.html?smid=url-share

2026-01-24 23:12:42 UTC

This is a brave man, with a phone camera in his hand, moments before he is tackled and murdered.
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2026-01-24 22:22:40 UTC

Murder is a state crime. Local prosecutors must indict the murderers of Renee Good and Jeffrey Pretti, even though federal authorities are trying to block and obstruct them.

2026-01-24 19:31:44 UTC

The video shows a man forced to the ground and pummeled by masked men. Then, when he is completely helpless, they shoot him in the back.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/us/video-shows-moments-in-which-agents-killed-a-man-in-minneapolis.html?smid=url-share

2026-01-24 17:15:12 UTC

Every public official—Trump, Vance, Bondi, Noem, and on down—lying to cover up the ICE killings is guilty as an accessory to murder. If the Trump era ever ends, there must be a reckoning.

2026-01-23 20:37:07 UTC

It would be useful for reporters writing about Trump's preposterous "Board of Peace" to mention one country that is definitely not a member: the United States.
Trump doesn't have the power to join it. Any international treaty requires the vote of two-thirds of the Senate.

2026-01-19 22:36:29 UTC

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“We are a country ruled by a megalomaniac whose views are openly hateful and proudly ignorant, whose avarice knows no bounds and whose claim to power is absolute. Foreign leaders try to appease him with flattery and curry his favor with gifts.”

2026-01-19 22:35:29 UTC

“We have become a country where people are disappeared by a paramilitary force that hunts them down in their apartments, on city streets and country roads.”
"We have become a country where a person can be summarily executed in public for protesting that paramilitary force.”
"We have become a country whose federal government deploys military and paramilitary forces in the streets of its major cities, terrorizing the residents in the guise of protecting them.” (1/2)

2026-01-19 22:35:29 UTC

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Masha Gessen. It needs to be said, and it needs to be felt.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/opinion/trump-one-year-later.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FlA.crde.7jYvifcOp0Zu&smid=url-share (2/2)

2026-01-16 22:02:40 UTC

Trump selling pardons for cash with utter shamelessness and, thanks to John Roberts, impunity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/us/politics/trump-fraudster-pardon.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

2026-01-15 16:02:40 UTC

“Now we have Minneapolis, America’s laboratory of democratic destruction, where ICE agents have gone full Sturmabteilung, terrorizing and even killing not only people with brown skin, but anyone who protests or gets in their way.”
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-minneapolis-crucible

2026-01-15 15:12:08 UTC

Prepare to see the American Gestapo deployed to polling places in November.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-miller-secret-police_n_696812bee4b0774cc19ebbe3

2026-01-07 13:37:55 UTC

The US now presents itself as a lawless and piratical nation, plundering and pillaging the assets of a poorer neighbor. Serious question: Are most Americans okay with that?

2026-01-06 12:56:15 UTC

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“Mr. President, what gives you the right to dictate the terms of elections in another sovereign nation?”
—apparently no American reporter dares ask him.

2026-01-06 12:51:32 UTC

We've reached the point where an American dictator says he alone can decide whether or when another country can hold elections, and the American press thinks that's normal.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/06/world/venezuela-maduro-us-trump?smid=url-share

2026-01-03 23:05:37 UTC

“the most disturbing presidential press conference I have seen in my life.”
James Fallows has seen more than anyone else I know. So pay heed.
https://fallows.substack.com/p/blind-into-caracas?r=ad0yf&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay&triedRedirect=true

2026-01-03 11:28:54 UTC

Which is correct?

2025-12-22 22:14:38 UTC

It is fitting that the new gold-plated Epstein class warships are being announced at Mar-a-Lago. What a mighty Navy we shall have.

2025-12-21 10:09:04 UTC

Epstein-Trump photos "disappear."
It's a mystery!
Whatever could have happened?
Or:
Justice Department Flouts Law,
Suppresses Evidence
Of Trump-Epstein Collusion
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2025-12-19 18:12:46 UTC

“We’re rolling at full speed into what we what we might call North Korean aesthetics of power with triumphal arches that will soon enough be dusty, half-broken relics, renaming everything after the Maximum Leader. It’s all weird. And it is all of this very particular moment.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-in-winter-drift-fragmentation-and-just-low-energy/sharetoken/816cdf7d-4d08-45ce-9371-06c0e8aca0a4

2025-12-19 17:19:28 UTC

These are workers removing the signage for Adolf Hitler street in 1945. This seems like a good day to remember.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/747/374/204/837/056/original/584ded73bfed69ef.jpeg

2025-12-18 17:40:24 UTC

“Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband. Protect her.”
—Marla Maples to the mother of a 14-year-old girl at one of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago bacchanals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/us/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9k8.lCbr.iiWKr9OvIMrg&smid=url-share

2025-12-17 17:03:18 UTC

I first visited this magnificent citadel of science in 1984. NCAR has saved countless lives and pays for itself many times over. It's something the United States can be proud of.
And now the deranged zealots who have hijacked our government will destroy it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/climate/national-center-for-atmospheric-research-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U8._w4P.koJmi6jHMhtU&smid=url-share

2025-12-15 17:51:14 UTC

The worst person in the world.
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2025-12-14 23:12:30 UTC

This is how every Democrat should be talking. “Politicize a tragedy”? Hell yes. https://med-mastodon.com/@cbarbermd/115720322179846160

2025-12-12 19:16:26 UTC

Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for daring to report bad news, so now the BLS is dutifully fudging the numbers to report job GAINS when in fact they are LOSSES.
Who says? The chair of the Fed.
Someone should investigate.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fed-chair-warns-trump-admin-163052814.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fed-chair-warns-trump-admin-163052814.html

2025-12-07 20:58:27 UTC

It's December 2025, the Trump regime is engaged in a vicious and lawless pogrom, destroying the lives of immigrants and children of immigrants, creating a reign of terror and cruelty, and the New York Times assails ...
Biden. For not being tough enough on immigrants.
I won't link to it.
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2025-12-05 22:54:13 UTC

I imagine Judge Currie gnashing her teeth at this framing in the NY Times. She ruled with utter clarity that Lindsey Halligan was unlawfully appointed as US Attorney and “has been unlawfully serving in that role since September 22, 2025.”
She ruled that "all actions flowing from Ms. Halligan's defective appointment” are invalid. There's nothing else to say.
Lindsey Halligan is not now and never was US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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2025-12-05 15:37:52 UTC

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Even worse, it seems to me that Trump has already pardoned him. Surely his lawyers will say so. This spectacle is baffling.

2025-12-04 18:21:51 UTC

Officially, the US has Immigration Courts and immigration judges.
Trump has fired the immigration judges and explicitly turned them into deportation centers staffed by "deportation judges.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/trump-has-never-been-clearer-about-what-an-immigration-judges-real-job-is

2025-12-02 20:32:35 UTC

They can't use the word, but this is a $14 billion tax fraud—theft from Americans who actually DO pay taxes—by our untouchable oligarch Elon Musk.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/politics/elon-musk-foundation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5k8.ObM-.eA2qGCNrJB2J&smid=url-share

2025-12-02 01:44:58 UTC

Yesterday Pete Hegseth thought he could murder with impunity. Today he suddenly thinks accountability might come. He’s scared. Five (5) “officials” hiding behind anonymity come forward to assure the NY Times that he really didn’t give that order. Honest.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/us/hegseth-drug-boat-strike-order-venezuela.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

2025-11-30 21:51:18 UTC

This is heartbreaking, cruel, pointless, and criminal. The monsters responsible for seizing and deporting these innocents are doing incalculable harm. They are disregarding the courts and making America worse in every way possible.
A college freshman who has lived in the US most of her life.
Who will speak now for Any Lucia López Belloza?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/us/politics/college-student-deported-thanksgiving-texas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5E8.zEYe.bY2K3jOP9JIy&smid=url-share

2025-11-29 22:46:01 UTC

This phrase is doing a lot of work. If you were a NY Times copy editor, could you suggest any improvements?
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2025-11-22 22:33:45 UTC

Even if you already assume that Trump is Putin’s toady, doing his bidding at every turn, the details of their so-called “peace plan” must shock you. It sells out not only Ukraine but all of Europe. And it is crafted to shift billions of dollars into the pockets of shady oligarchs.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/trumps-war-peace/685024/?gift=UDCAY75CzHyGUPSsXwkpWhjActye6JKOklBHVEsYxxM

2025-11-19 20:39:30 UTC

Future trivia question: Which US president put hundreds of convicted violent criminals back on the streets because they were his personal supporters?
And what happened then?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/19/january-6-rioter-arrested-child-sexual-abuse-crimes

2025-11-18 18:19:52 UTC

Mobster on the left had the journalist Jamal Khashoggi murdered and dismembered with a bone saw.
Mobster on the right says that’s just fine: “A lot of people didn't like the gentleman you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen.”
They don't even bother to pretend.
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2025-11-17 22:22:09 UTC

Everything they do, large and small, makes the world a little worse than it was before.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/us/buddy-holly-crosswalk-texas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.108.rTkE.uBL_Rss1dGIn&smid=url-share

2025-11-15 17:07:20 UTC

For 60 years the National Endowment for the Humanities was a shining light. In a few short months the Trump regime destroyed it, shutting down all its good work for arts and education and converting its empty hulk into a corrupt scheme to send taxpayer money to right-wing operatives and activists.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/arts/national-endowment-humanities-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1U8.lB00.abHni-pS_VuV&smid=url-share
#NEH

2025-11-12 22:56:45 UTC

Using the White House Situation Room to enforce the #EpsteinFiles coverup is a confession. Trump is the pedophile who needs protecting. Nothing else could justify it.

2025-11-12 22:22:01 UTC

And now this: the Attorney General and the FBI Director summon a member of Congress to the White House Situation Room—“a space reserved for handling high-level crises and military operations”—to pressure her to help with their coverup of the century's most notorious pedophile and sex trafficker.
I guess it's a crisis.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/politics/trump-epstein-vote-boebert.html?smid=url-share
#EpsteinFiles

2025-11-12 14:22:02 UTC

Trump didn't just “know” about #Epstein's sex trafficking. He was a customer.
“[VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/politics/trump-epstein-emails.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0k8.hRpU.Pxw8yLlIvimJ&smid=url-share

2025-11-11 16:56:26 UTC

Eight of the most corrupt US senators, who helped Trump try to overturn the 2020 election and got away with it, who are now taking food out of the mouths of the poorest and hungriest of their constituents, have found a sleazy and unprecedented trick to hand themselves $500,000 each in taxpayer money. https://mas.to/@tpm_rss_bot/115531895091616066

2025-11-11 13:49:15 UTC

How the Web Was Lost (The internet was not meant to suck).
I review some history—thoughtful, philosophical, and enraged—by Tim Berners-Lee, Joanna Walsh, and @npub1fdr…lvhs.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/12/04/how-the-web-was-lost-internet-this-is-for-everyone/?utm_source=nybooks&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-share

2025-11-10 22:19:48 UTC

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"There wouldn't be a radio, there wouldn't be a television, there wouldn't be internet, there wouldn't be anything, because magnets are such a part.
Now, nobody knows what magnets are. And not overly sophisticated, but to build a magnet system would take two years.” (2/2)

2025-11-10 22:19:48 UTC

The following is a technical explanation by the president of the United States. The subject: #magnets. Every word is guaranteed verbatim.
“China was going to hit us with rare earth.
Now, everybody says, oh, what is happening?
Magnets.
If China refused to get magnets, 'cause they have a monopoly on magnets, 'cause they were allowed to happen over a 32 year period.
There wouldn't be a car made in the entire world. (1/2)

2025-11-08 13:48:52 UTC

On today's front page: Trump is simultaneously
—fighting relentlessly to avoid paying $5 billion already appropriated by Congress to feed the nation's poor and hungry.
—quietly diverting *hundreds* of billions in the form of “unlegislated tax cuts" to the nation's superrich elite, private equity, and billionaire investors.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/business/trump-administration-tax-breaks-wealthy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zk8.4ZQN.5VTqsS_Bh6cx&smid=url-share

2025-11-07 23:40:53 UTC

It's easy to hate journalists, it's easy to hate the mainstream media. Here's something that's hard, though: working in Venezuela, village after village, to find out who Trump and Hegseth have murdered in the name of fighting “narco-terrorism.” They were real people, with names, jobs, and families.
Credit to Regina Garcia Cano and the Associated Press.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-boat-strikes-drugs-cocaine-trafficking-95b54a3a5efec74f12f82396a79617ea

2025-11-06 16:40:38 UTC

Here is Mark Zuckerberg canceling all of his previously touted philanthropy that benefited people in need and instead spending his tax-deductible “gifts” on vanity projects in AI.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/technology/zuckerberg-chan-initiative-biohub.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zE8.14lC.J7ztKByGv7wm&smid=url-share

2025-11-05 04:36:55 UTC

In one state after another, and without exception, voters repudiated Trump and Trumpism today.

2025-11-02 12:20:27 UTC

At this point the NY Times is just parodying itself.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/480/069/880/306/163/original/0bb8f17b65be87d6.png

2025-10-29 11:01:35 UTC

Elon Musk is stealing Wikipedia and creating a grotesque right-wing parody.
https://uk.pcmag.com/ai/160970/turns-out-wikipedia-isnt-that-woke-as-grokipedia-rips-off-most-of-its-pages

2025-10-27 18:20:59 UTC

Words matter. When the NY Times says Trump is "float[ing] the possibility of finding a way to circumvent the 22nd Amendment," they are saying it's just a small matter. No biggie.
In fact, he is threatening to FLOUT, VIOLATE, or DEFY the 22nd Amendment. It's an emergency.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/447/513/700/185/093/original/29a06ba27f986ea1.png

2025-10-25 17:00:00 UTC

Timothy Mellon, a doofus of long standing, is the quintessential argument for sensible estate taxes. He's never worked an honest day in his life and shouldn't have this kind of money to throw around. Now he’s made a belated contribution of $130 million to the Treasury (not, as he seems to think, to our troops, who are getting paid regardless).
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/us/politics/timothy-mellon-donation-troops.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wE8.Vd5N.UA2BYrBjk3ma&smid=url-share

2025-10-23 11:39:46 UTC

It’s unfortunate that “the White House" has become standard synecdoche for the president and his staff. Now we have newspapers saying with a straight face that the White House refuses to comment on its own demolition.
#EpsteinBallroom

2025-10-22 21:33:58 UTC

“How do you top ordering your appointees to cut you a check for $230 million taxpayer dollars. I’ve already seen the first advance troops of normalization trying to tame it, with the New York Times saying it raises potential “conflicts of interest.
“I don’t know how to capture this. What thing can be more unimaginable and beyond belief than the president just saying, Cut me a check for a quarter billion dollars?”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-moves-into-full-twilight-zone-anthony-phase

2025-10-17 08:26:07 UTC

Trump receives further instructions from his master Putin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ydIHDgJOcg

2025-10-16 16:36:39 UTC

This is important, no matter how much you thought you already knew. Our lawless secret police (there's a German word for it: Gestapo) is seizing, jailing, tasing, and beating American citizens.
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

2025-10-12 00:49:43 UTC

If only the bailout were really going to Argentinians. They’re just passing it through to a bunch of American hedge fund bros. Billions of taxpayer dollars to bail out a few billionaire speculators. https://masto.ai/@KenExline/115357747570490614

2025-10-11 14:18:09 UTC

In the eternal struggle of humanity against disease, has there ever before been a government determined to side with disease? https://scicomm.xyz/@mattjhodgkinson/115354832230844423

2025-10-07 19:48:30 UTC

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As best as we can tell, stockpiles of food and contraceptives — stockpiles already paid for by the US taxpayer! — were destroyed rather than handed off to groups that could make use of them. Allies and countries that counted on the US for assistance were left to twist in the wind, and adversaries like China were able to rush into the openings left behind.”
That was the first step of many. Trump has broken the system and traditions of American governance, perhaps beyond repair. (3/4)

2025-10-07 19:48:30 UTC

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"Decades of institutional knowledge, delicate international relationships, a proud source of US soft power, and a vital part of humanitarian relief the world over disappeared in just days. US foreign service personnel and thousands of contractors were uprooted, fired, cashiered, and forced to move; US intelligence programs and covert operations were upended. (2/4)

2025-10-07 19:48:30 UTC

Here is an important piece by Garrett Graff. Is there any "deal” for Democrats to make now with Trump? No, there is not.
Remember how Elon Musk gleefully smashed USAID in a single weekend? (1/4)