This kind of corporate arrogance from Conde Nast is making me rethink my paid subscriptions to WIred, ArsTechnica, and the New Yorker. https://www.semafor.com/article/11/06/2025/cond-nast-abruptly-fires-4-staffers-after-hr-confrontation

Meta, Meta, Meta. So Meta. This Reuters report is 🔥 "Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show" "Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates […]

Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, reports Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/

One of the most corrupt organizations on the planet launches a "peace prize" whose first recipient will surely be the most corrupt political leader on the planet. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/world/fifa-to-award-new-peace-prize-at-world-cup-draw-in-washington

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When the economy melts down one of these days, among the culprits will be people like Marc Andreessen and other major backers of the sleazy cryptocurrency industry, both of which got Trump's support after spending wildly to help him win. Their legacy will be toxic […]

Suburban Chicago mayor calls Trump's violent thugs “a bunch of liars" after they "forced this car accident, and then they started literally beating up innocent bystanders.” https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/02/us/evanston-border-patrol-arrests-investigation

All corruption, all the time in Trump world, Exhibit 54,667: https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/11/fda-described-as-a-clown-show-amid-latest-scandal-top-drug-regulator-is-out/

You know what to do, everyone. Loomer now has her very own Pentagon Press Corps tipline. She says it's the most influential tip line in all of DC. loomered.com/tip-line/

Every citizen should be made aware that Trump's masked thugs are violently kidnapping other citizens and then brazenly lying about what prompted the abductions. Every potential juror should understand this, too.

The gaslighter-in-chief denies the obvious truth of grocery inflation with a "it's only beef and we're taking care of that" misdirection. No pushback from CBS "News" journalist.

Teen Vogue -- a bastion of political journalism in the rancid Trump era -- is no more. It's being "folded into" Vogue, a fashion and lifestyle magazine, and has fired excellent staffers. This sucks in every possible way. Don't be fooled. Vogue + Teen Vogue = Vogue […]

Flock spy cameras are a pox on our society. Here's the latest example of why communities should be banning them, not promoting them. https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/flock-cameras-lead-colorado-police-wrong-suspect/

Huge "pharmacy benefit manager" -- part of a cartel that is stealing uncounted billions from all of us via rigged healthcare market -- is ripping off taxpayers via the Pentagon. No doubt the Trumpists are in favor, but you should be incensed. Fine reporting by The Lever […]

If you’re a user of Libby (the library app), consider before following their suggestion to type #inspireme into the search bar. It seems harmless, but it turns on an unrequested AI feature, & there is no way to reverse that. This comes courtesy of ProfHeyRochelle, who is now reasonably pissed […]

The New York Times still hasn't corrected its BS headline about what it calls a De Blasio "Impersonator" -- a man who has the almost-same name as the former NYC mayor and was quoted in another newspaper's story. The entire episode exemplifies journalistic malpractice, in two cities. 1/6

"for the rest of us who don’t have the technical knowledge and time to follow his accomplishments, his advice is to “Never use your primary WiFi network for IoT devices” and to “Treat them as strangers in your home.” " […]

WashPost adopts White House framing "cartel strikes" without caring whether it's true or not.

If you're a subscriber to the New York Times, how does it make you feel that the Times insists you pay extra to read sports news?

Firefox is blocking web pages for bogus security issues -- wish Mozilla would spend more time making its browser work better and less time experimenting with "AI"

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Whoever wins this game, the losing team's fans can still be proud...

Hell of a baseball game...

Congratulations to Brett Kavanaugh, who now has Joe Arpaio convinced you've rewritten the Constitution to support his tastes. [This isn't the full tweet. It just goes on and on and on.]

As Tim Bray aptly puts it, Grokpedia -- copied from Wikipedia and then junked up with right-wing advocacy and LLM slop -- is "the encyclopedia that Elon Musk’s LLM can edit, with sketchy citations and no progressive argument left un-attacked.” […]

I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]

Google's phone security is crap, according to a leaked presentation of a hacking tool widely used by law enforcement -- and no doubt corporations and crooks, too. I'd bet that this insecurity is deliberate, given Google's increasing friendliness with fascists […]

Tucker Carlson is hosting discussions of the perils of organized Jewry in America the right way. —-Ezra Klein, tomorrow.

You really have to hand it to the people who came up with the concept of “cancel culture” — it’s a tremendously flexible tool usable by everybody. Why, here it is being used to explain why an organization nominally about values can’t reject overt antisemites.

The Times of London and the New York Times have lots of resources but can't be bothered to do basic pre-publication fact-checking. https://www.semafor.com/article/10/29/2025/british-newspaper-spoke-to-the-wrong-deblasio-not-an-imposter

Just because you see it coming a mile away doesn't mean it’s any less horrific. 😭 CBS now that DEI is DOA:

DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf

The Times of London narrowly avoided another embarrassment when it realized that it had reached the wrong “Andrew Cuomo” online upon receiving a response without gutter bigotry or sex pestilence.

Trump regime lied to a federal court and is sorry, not sorry. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/justice-department-corrects-evidence-trump-portland-deployment/

Like everything in US culture that was visible but somewhat implicit, this has been blown out & made theatrically, inescapably obvious in the era of Trump. Trump's a white wealthy male who was a failure & a fuckup *from the beginning & at every stage*, yet the system still delivered him the rewards.

If you are a California voter, please vote Yes on Proposition 50, a hopefully temporary measure to counter the Trump-Republican rigging of U.S. House districts for perpetual GOP control. They declared war on democracy. Support Prop 50 to fight back […]

Trump's masked thugs are using facial recognition on American streets to identify people to kidnap. In dictatorships, the top criminals work for the government. https://www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-agents-are-scanning-peoples-faces-on-the-street-to-verify-citizenship/

This and the Chicago indictments make it abundantly clear that the rule of law is dead at DOJ. The agency has been fully weaponized to smite Trump’s enemies and shield his friends.

Whenever you hear a tech bro screeching about drug addiction in San Francisco, remember that crypto is supercharging the fentanyl trade and reflect on the quote historian Rick Perlstein attributed to Marc Andreessen in 2017: “I’m glad there’s OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet.”

I cancelled my Facebook account a few weeks ago. After waiting until they (presumably) took it completely offline, I tried to create a new placeholder account that would tell people how to find me (including here). Instead, I was informed I was banned forever from FB. No appeal allowed. OK.

"The pardon was the payoff" Molly White, almost alone in journalism, is fully laying out Trump world's beyond-epic cryptocurrency scams. https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-95/ Meanwhile, Congress and most "news" media keep normalizing what is by orders of magnitude the most criminal […]

404 Media makes the case that Andreessen Horowitz the Devil's venture capital arm... https://www.404media.co/a16z-is-funding-a-speedrun-to-ai-generated-hell-on-earth/

New from me: Elite law firms, multiple media outlets, the D.C. attorney general, and a group of parents accused a teacher of molesting 15 kids. They were wrong. This piece is two-and-a-half years in the making. And as you'll see, it took some incredible turns, even as I was reporting it.

I hear the Epstein Ballroom will be illuminated solely by gaslighting.

In Chicago. Another US citizen violently snatched by Trump's masked thugs.

What if Trump's new ballroom is just an excuse to build a bigger, deeper, stronger bunker underneath so he can hide from the angry mobs? https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-ap-top-news-george-floyd-politics-a2326518da6b25b4509bef1ec85f5d7f

The thing that astounds me more than anything lately is how dangerously uninformed almost everybody who thinks they’re well informed actually is. Social media has created a series of cascading filter bubbles that has spawned a remarkably enshittified class of people.

Sergei Brin and Larry Page couldn't have imagined when they were starting Google that they would be become enablers of fascism, wanton enemies of human rights. But if history is told by honest people, that is how they will be remembered. (Not so sure about Larry Ellison...)