All corruption, all the time in Trump world, Exhibit 54,299:

US Border Patrol's abuses long predate the Trump regime, but are increasing by orders of magnitude now. Here's some excellent AP reporting on just one way the government spits on civil liberties:

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.

It's so difficult to pick the story that uniquely demonstrates how low and corrupt our "mainstream" media became in the past generation, but the New York Times' recent love letter to Olivia Nuzzi has to be in the running.

The deeply anti-semitic Trump regime tells Coast Guard to stop classifying the swastika as a symbol of hatred. www.seattletimes.com...

This is an important document, about the growing entanglement of Big Tech's most evil people/companies and the US government -- and increasingly, the EU.

Musk's megalomania would be amusing if he wasn't such a danger to almost everyone else.

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.

All corruption, all the time in Trump world, exhibit 65,303:

All corruption, all the time in Trump world, Exhibit 56,783:

Trump has gotten away with everything else. Why does anyone expect a different outcome if (when?) the Epstein files show that he was an active pedophile? His cult will just believe the lies, and rationalize the truth. www.mediamatters.org...

This piece by ProPublica, about the consistent deceit emanating from the Murdoch family's primary U.S. media outlet, is chapter and verse why that propaganda outlet should ALWAYS be referred to as Fox "News" --

This guy runs the Windows unit at Microsoft, and he's telling you that the company intends to infiltrate "AI" into every aspect of the operating system. If you use Windows, this is an injection of a living, self-replicating virus into your digital existence. Yes I use Linux.

Jason Sattler: Vance is fine with Nazis in the Republican Party, but Big Journalism remains pretty much clueless about the danger this uniquely awful vice president poses to the nation.

All corruption, all the time in Trump world: Trump family's cryptocurrency operations brought in $800 million in cash and many times that amount in paper profits just in the first half of this year. www.reuters.com/inve... Reuters is doing superb investigative reporting these days...

In almost every way at this point, the corrupt Roberts Court -- formerly known as the Supreme Court -- is a policy-enforcement arm of the Trump regime. Latest example: www.npr.org/2025/11/...

The Democrats who engineered and/or voted for the odious shutdown deal are even more cowardly and reckless than anyone could have imagined. See this:

The BBC's Trump speech error was stupid. It doesn't change the reality: Trump led the Jan. 6 insurrection, and his call for "peaceful" action was gaslighting bullshit. But the BBC's cowardice in the face of a massive, totally bad-faith right wing mob attack is suicidal.

Josh Marshall, among the most astute political observers, has thoughts on the Democrats' cave-in. Yes, he says, they caved in -- but in key ways they still won. I'm skeptical of this argument, but hope he is right about the longer-range effect.

Canadian martial arts nazis: www.cbc.ca/news/cana...

Trump world's brazen, pure corruption is disgusting and devastating to our nation. It's also the culmination of liberal democracy's kowtowing to wealth for decades. A new generation of Democrats could win by taking down the billionaires, on behalf of the rest of us.

The right wing's bad faith brigades saw a photo that they wanted to believe mocked Charlie Kirk's murder. It didn't, but they didn't care, and they've done enormous damage to countless people who have no recourse. Pure scumbaggery, and standard operating procedure.

This essay muses wisely on the New York Times' relentless insistence on false balance -- a big-media standard that, sadly, amounts to business as usual malpractice. It'll help you see the need to rebuild honest journalism from the ground up.

Mark Zuckerberg's contempt for the law is Trumpian in scale. He should be in jail. www.reuters.com/inve... www.wired.com/story/...

This kind of corporate arrogance from Conde Nast is making me rethink my paid subscriptions to WIred, ArsTechnica, and the New Yorker.

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.”

All corruption, all the time in Trump world, Exhibit 54,667:

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.

NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work. Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours. She was later released with NO CHARGE. A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”. You decide…

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.

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:

Teen Vogue possesses more integrity and professionalism than NYT and WaPo combined.

$5M in Shein stock is crazy. to put it in perspective, a child would have to work three billion hours in a Shein factory to earn a 1/10000th of this

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

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?

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.” www.tbray.org/ongoin...

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.

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.

Trump regime lied to a federal court and is sorry, not sorry.

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.

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. www.citationneeded.n... Meanwhile, Congress and most "news" media keep normalizing what is by orders of magnitude the most criminal presidency in history.

404 Media makes the case that Andreessen Horowitz the Devil's venture capital arm...

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...)

Sequoia Capital supports its internal bigot, because money.