This is a wild hack. a16z gave a million dollars to startup called Doublespeed. They use a phone farm to flood social media with AI generated influencers and ads. A hacker remotely broke into the phone farm, unmasking the AI influencers/fake accounts, gave us the data www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

It’s the opening line of Weiss’ staff-wide email and unrelatedly a common refrain of populist attacks on institutions. First you break trust in the thing. Then you point at the thing and say “hey, nobody trusts this, we got to make it more like I want it to be”.

My latest for @lataco.bsky.social There are many reasons to be excited about the 2026 World Cup…however... lataco.com/guadalajara-...

Exactly this: the administration’s concentration camps should be a howling, daily outrage, a scandal of historic proportions.

L.A. TACO’s Editor @theglutster.bsky.social hopped on @metrolosangeles.bsky.social's A Line for an epic food crawl highlighting our favorite restaurants along the 57.6 mile-long rail line. 📍1st Street Station ~ Sonoratown 📍 Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station ~ Tamales Elena y Antojitos

i say this with nothing but love for all of you to whom this applies, but the moral rot in elite journalism is because journalism is a trade and it should be done by tradespeople and instead it's been professionalized in a way that makes it cozy to capital instead

It's so sad to know how many mid-career+ journalists who have been laid off and/or burned out are going to leave the industry because of how bad everything has become, not return, and journalism will suffer from that level of experience, skills and perspective walking out the door forever.

Bari Weiss is killing stories the right way. by Ezra Klein

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It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now. It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.

Just noting this came out the same day JD Vance insisted that the left was a mono-view unthinking borg of leftist views controlled by Soros, as an attempt to defend the MAGA internal fighting over just how racist the GOP should be.

Vance was known to be in many group chats. If anyone has screenshots, my Signal is emgarcia.85

minaj is on the verge of having her $20M home forcibly sold by the court to cover a $500K debt, in case you wonder what’s going on here

This was so entertaining!

Shoutout to @theglutster.bsky.social for this & to the panaderos in my mom’s side of the family.

😮 / 😏

Sadly @poynterinstitute.bsky.social left off the horrific unconstitutional treatment of journalist Mario Guevara. Guevara was arrested covering a protest in ATL, detained over 100 days in rural GA, deported to El Salvador for his journalistic work filming police. www.poynter.org/commentary/2...

"There are a lot of reasons why many Americans don’t trust the news media. Their reluctance to stand up for each other, and for the facts, is one." - @bgrueskin.bsky.social for @columjournreview.bsky.social Remember: Those who stand for nothing, fall for anything. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

Rewatching "Children of Men" for the 1st time in almost 20 years and OMG, the opening lines. "Day 1,000 of the Siege of Seattle. The Muslim community demands an end to the Army's occupation of mosques...the deportation of illegal immigrants will continue." The movie takes place in 2027.

Also I just wrote about Del Toro’s Frankenstein, how he’s always reluctant to condemn his monsters because he identifies with them, but how monsters sometimes need to be outside the human story. I also wrote about this tension in my own book. somethingwonderful.substack.com/p/what-is-a-...

THEY'VE PUT ME ON THE POCKETSTATION COOP. I'M BEING RENDERED IN A 32 BY 32 GRID OF MONOCHROME PIXELS. THE BOYS BACK AT QUANTICO SAID THEY'RE GOING TO RELOCATE ME TO A "DOKO DEMO ISSYO" UNTIL THEY CAN GET THIS STRAIGHTENED OUT.

FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years. It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.

Funny (not funny) thing is that Trump first gained power because the GWB administration made a war out of thin air. Criticizing the Iraq war was largely how he separated himself from the other 2016 GOP presidential candidates. If only he was able to remember this.

jiji

🧵 it's always curious that the DSA doesn't emphasize that they can trace their lineage to the original Socialist Party of America. Founded in 1901, members were city mayors, Congressmen & key figures in both the Civil Rights movement and AFL-CIO.

One of the many downsides of losing this contract with Forbes was that I had an exclusive lined up for them on the USL CBA, which now won't see the light of day. The players pay/conditions are very important in any plans for pro/rel and move to a Division I league, and not spoken about much so far.

starting to lose my enthusiasm for living in the post-fact violence world

We have Africa Cup of Nations Final Penalty Kick insanity in the Liga MX final!!

By the way, if anyone in Space Force or just anyone who knows can share who did these graphics, I want to talk to that person. I have so many questions about the aesthetic and why they went with MTG-type playing cards.

This has created increasing frustration in host cities, who feel they aren’t “getting any help from anyone”, as sources openly ask whether “Donald Trump is aware he has become the figurehead” for what is described as “the worst deal in Fifa World Cup history”. www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

This is an achewood plotline

In terms of US politics, Bush v. Gore is the defining event of the century. It set the template: a ruthless right that instinctively seeks power & doesn't give a shit about rule of law...and a bunch of hapless, feckless octogenarian Dems worried about the good opinion of centrist opinion columnists.

King Ant!

Next week we announce our nominations for Protagonist Soccer Club of the Year. As we head towards Monday, let’s celebrate our previous winners who’ve hoisted the award for best lower league soccer club in the United States!

#RSFRoundUp 2025: Journalists don't die, they are killed. In 2025, the number of journalists killed rose once more. Let's continue to count, name, denounce, investigate, and ensure that justice is done. Impunity must never prevail. Watch our #RSFRoundUp2025 ⬇️

Jimmy Fallon: "And you've been collecting coins for a long time?"

No puedo esperar a las audiencias del congreso estadounidense para entender por qué Google Gemini mandó a un batallón entero por un campo con narco minas en las afueras de Naco, Sonora

“How did American democracy backslide?” “Two ways: gradually, then suddenly” Trump is the culmination of GOP trends that have been accelerating since at least Ford’s pardon, then Reagan’s rogue pre-presidency foreign policy & Iran-Contra, through everything in the GWB admin. All of it unpunished.

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these are so clearly only controlled by humans it’s astounding how much everyone gives elon musk for lying to everyone all the time about everything

I do not get why so many journalists are willing to torch their own reputation to save a colleague who showed complete contempt for every facet of journalism, starting with "just being able to write well"

(the FBI destroyed my security cameras when they seized my newsroom. it is a Thing Feds Do not exclusive to ICE.)

He's trying to speedrun Succession, except his dad owns a bunch of boring database software and some old useless Network Computers.

"Old and true. And sturdy. One of the best [gaming] tools ever built. We've grown reliant on Imperial tech, and we've made ourselves vulnerable. There's a growing list of things we've known and forgotten, things they've pushed us to forget. Things like freedom."

Love to see @lataco.bsky.social in such great company!