More on the very clever, but also very simple, way unknown persons* convinced me to crack open my email account for them last month. Here's the problem: almost all of us have this same back door in our security. Now it's in the open, could we all be targets? foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/02/g...

Taiwan, China coast guards in renewed standoff at top of South China Sea reut.rs/4e6RsCs

In the energy tech space, Claude-bros are just pumping out websites they've made at a rate of like one a week, and 99.999999% of them just sit there completely unused. 40-something white guys are just dazzled by the prospect of stealing work more easily, but don't ask if it's worthwhile

A new Post analysis finds the video showing the Trump administration’s recent Pentagon appointee clambering into the Capitol on Jan. 6 www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Think in decades. If Trump is president five years after January 6, where will America be in another five or ten years with his death cult surviving him? Listen to how to stop them and rebuild: gaslitnation.libsyn.com/a-new-americ... #oligarchy #dictatorship #dictatortrump

SpaceX's value is not only fake, but it's all about its government graft. From 2025:

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Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:

Good, necessary... also blindingly obvious and a bit belated. God I hope Bouie writing it for NYT can help get it through the thick skulls of the oldest, most powerful Democrats though.

As someone who regularly criticizes crime reporting, I want to highlight the good stuff when it happens. Like this. No equivocating in the post. Headline is clear. First paragraph blunt. Doesn’t quote the admin until paras 12-13, and explicitly notes that it’s evidence-free blather.

Trump now says he won’t nominate Pulte for the permanent DNI position, but he still plans to appoint him acting DNI when Tulsi Gabbard steps down at the end of June. Under the law, Pulte can hold that position for 210 days—past the mid-term elections. 2/15

Trump just all but admitted he wants his DNI (who wields the enormous powers of the national security state) to help him steal the midterms. Seems like that should be a big deal.

This Is How Musk & Trump Could Have Cheated in the 2024 Election The Election Truth Alliance has spent the past 2 years doing a forensic analysis of 26 states & found disturbing anomalies & vulnerabilities in our voting machines that can still be exploited. thelefthook.substack.com/p/this-is-ho...

Tax and voting records establish definitively that when Tommy Tuberville said he was living in Alabama to establish residency in his run for the senate (he's now running for governor), he was actually living and voting in Florida. www.al.com/news/2026/06...

Heading into arbitration today w/ @karenattiah.bsky.social -who was fired by the Washington Post for speaking plainly about political violence & now fighting back A LANDMARK battle well worth having, for press freedom & for every journalist who refuses to be silenced -TN thegrio.com/2026/06/01/k...

In a 215-208 vote, the House of Representatives passed a resolution that would restrict President Trump’s ability to continue the war against Iran without congressional approval. Here's how each member of the House voted. on.wsj.com/49ALcSg

If my math is right, the crime rate for pardoned insurrectionists is roughly three times higher than that of immigrants.

NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.

And yet… Is anyone in government listening to science? www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/no...

Watch all the Republican senators fall in line to confirm Blanche because he “canceled” the slush fund (though he won’t put that in writing) but allowed the Trump tax immunity to remain.

many people who would have lived longer will die because of this. he’s one of the most destructive people on the planet.

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dennisgoris.bsky.social )

"The resort is intended to cover an area... wetlands and coastal habitats in the marine national park that surrounds it. The waters are among the last refuges for the Mediterranean monk seal, with the area also sheltering more than 200 bird species–many endangered–incl flamingos & Dalmatian pelican"

Rep. Lieu: “The Supreme Court is out of control, out of touch with the American people…This is the most corrupt Supreme Court we’ve seen in our history, and reform is going to come next year."

My modal expectation remains that Trump will functionally cave, taking a fig-leaf non-resolution on the nuclear issue that leaves Iran an open path to a bomb in exchange for reopening the strait, with Iran getting a pile of cash larger than the JCPOA on the side.

Really amazing to think of the social and ideological bunker you have to be in to think "“He’s like the ‘big balls’ from DOGE but for DOW” is a sentence" is an argument that would convince someone that a given young person is a good hire for a position.

Congo's Ebola outbreak "had a big head start, and we're still behind," the head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday, adding that the medical community was "catching up" even as militant attacks plague the stricken region. https://to.pbs.org/4o4WlAC

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune: the wind blowing from the Supreme Court brings the smell of rotting fish and fecal matter

Bari Weiss has now repeatedly lied to her staff and destroyed every remaining shred of confidence in her ability as a leader. Her main trait according to the staff is systematic dishonesty and deception. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

Who would’ve thought!? US companies are not paying their taxes now that Trump is allowing them to move profits to overseas tax havens. Shocking. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/b... via @NYTimes

Oooh what a burn! Hey, dumBasses...no one under the age of 50 knows who Alfred E. Neuman is. Trump holds up a bizarre image comparing James Talarico to magazine character Alfred E. Neuman.

Grandpa has gone crazy again. Better lock up the crayons

NEWS The SPLC demans a hearing to determine whether a judge should sanction prosecutors for allegedly violating grand jury secrecy by sending a draft of the superseding indictment to the press before it was docketed. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is amazing. CENTCOM said that the attack on the Kuwait international airport was "unprovoked." But Trump, just minutes later, says it was a response to attacks he ordered on Iran—which is precisely what the Iranians said.

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.

The United States now has thirteen fully stocked, fully staffed facilities capable of providing Ebola care safely and effectively. The administration has no plans to make use of them. Trump has a chance to do Ebola his way, and Ebola veterans are aghast.

FLAG: Trump just said he doesn't know if the slush fund is dead or on hold: "I'd have to ask the lawyers. I don't know. I know one thing. The weaponization—are you talking about the weaponization? The weaponization fund, as far as I'm concerned, was a beautiful thing."

This will not end w/ voting rights. The fundamental premises of these SCOTUS opinions are: 1) Anti-discrimination is actually unconstitutional discrimination; 2) Intentional discrimination isn't actionable if any alternative rationale is presented. It's the beginning of the end of civil rights law.

“I served with Don Hewitt. I knew Don Hewitt. Don Hewitt was a friend of mine. Nick Bilton, you're no Don Hewitt.”

Boring dunce Nick Bilton hounded out of first meeting with '60 Minutes' staffers: defector.com/boring-dunce...

Scott Pelley is a former war correspondent, Whit House correspondent, nightly news anchor. NIck Bilton wrote a book about influencers.

"The Supreme Court's Republican appointees end civil rights redistricting protections." That's how I said it at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-ala...

This is truly one of the worst things the court has done — both in terms of legitimacy and in terms of the law — since I have been covering the court.

the death of 60 minutes and the rest of the VRA on the same night really brings home how the current conservative project is to kill the progress and ideals of the mid century

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

🎁 "While rapid tests for the virus do exist, they were designed for the Zaire species — and in any case, because of the way Ebola viruses behave in the body, a rapid test cannot accurately identify sick people until their viral load is extremely high." #medsky

What we know so far in California —Hilton, Becerra, & Steyer still in the hunt for gov —so far, GOP isn't on track to flip Orange County —Bass & Pratt have top 2 spots so far for mayor but way to go. —Left otherwise doing well downballot in LA —Centrists doing well in SF, CEO tax trails so far ...

It's not a good sign for your democracy when the attorney general is "not committing to doing anything in writing."

Today SCOTUS allowing Alabama to press ahead with the use of a map that erases a majority Black congressional district makes clear clear that this Court has unashamedly set its course to dismantle the 14th Amendment brick-by-brick. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

And Blanche said this RIGHT AFTER saying that his so-called Fraud Task Force would jail not only those who stole $100M from taxpayers, but also those who stole $1001.