The scores of big-name journalists (and their bosses) who flock to the White House Correspondents dinner -- where Trump is the INVITED guest -- are the undeniable proof that Big Journalism has become fundamentally amoral and corrupt. We have to rebuild our honorable craft, from the ground up.

Surveillance and data-manipulation giant Palantir was a CIA-funded creation and has become one of the planet's most powerfully evil companies. It is vital that the general public understand the danger -- and then work to root it out of our lives.

Open-source software is in existential danger -- and the ramifications of that are grim for everyone but the opportunists who'll make a few bucks from its demise.

Forbes magazine was never my cup of tea, due to its founder's nutty right-wing economic views, but at least it did real journalism for a long time. The descent from then to now is sick.

The Trump family cryptocurrency corruption escalates. It is endless, massive, and protected by the (by far) most corrupt administration in American history.

All corruption, all the time in Trump world, Exhibits 64,354-64,358: www.doomsdayscenario... If the Democrats had even a tiny bit of political common sense, they would be making an issue of the (by far) most corrupt administration in American history.

The scumbags running Twitter just kicked out journalist Gil Duran -- one of the best in the business -- who dared to call a fascist Silicon Valley manifesto what it is.

All corruption, all the time in Trump world, Exhibit 62,903:

Molly Crabapple on the tech industry's appropriation of art, and profiting by regurgitating it.

Yet again the Associated Press normalizes the most corrupt presidency, by far, in American history. This story about Trump's kabuki-theater shakedown of the government he controls barely mentions that until the very end. apnews.com/article/t... All corruption in Trump world, all the time.

Extraordinary journalism from Dave McKenna at Defector about a long-ago killing in Virginia, where local authorities refused to follow the obvious evidence, engaged in an ongoing cover-up, and left a victim's family endlessly damaged in the wake of undone justice.

Heartening news from one of America's reddest states: Citizens in a data-center-invaded town tossed out city council members who voted for the disruptive project that was a secret until it was too late to stop. This issue crosses party lines. www.politico.com/new...

One of the most disheartening aspects of today's political journalism is the total normalization of Trump's lying. Even when they note that it's bullshit, they feel obliged to quote Trump/apparatchik excuses/denials. Here's one TV commentator who's fed up.

I understand but lament the choice so many thoughtful people have made to publish their newsletters on the odious Substack. Surely they recognize that they are, at least indirectly, helping some of the worst people in the world spread and monetize malignant views.

Shameful "journalism" from the Associated Press, which normalizes the Trump family's rampant and unprecedented corruption. apnews.com/article/t... This quote, near the top, is a sickening example of how the news outlet handles things: "President Donald Trump is taking a different approach."

Democracy gets a big win in Wisconsin:

OpenClaw hackers hackers are having open season on OpenClaw users. arstechnica.com/secu... Not even slightly interested in putting this crap on my PC.

Hey lawyers, how close is this to an outright kickback? Musk demands that investment banks spend tens of millions on Grok's craptastic "AI" if they want to be in on the SpaceX IPO.

All corruption, all the time in Trump world.

All corruption, all the time in Trump world, Exhibit 64,330:

Blocking earned military promotions, top Trump Pentagon apparatchik Hegseth flaunts the regime's racism and sexism, with no real pretense otherwise. www.npr.org/2026/03/...

This California sheriff should be in jail, not running for governor.

Bluesky has tens of millions of users. Mastadon has (at most) a couple of million. I post the same stuff on both, and 50 times the genuine engagement there that I get here.

That supposed $1 billion Disney investment in "Open"AI was a mirage all along, as so many things related to the AI industry have come to be.

All corruption, all the time in Trump world. In any other time in American history, a president stealing super-sensitive documents on his way out of the White House -- almost certainly to profit from them -- would have gone to prison.

The gambling industry has successfully persuaded journalists, pet economists, captured regulators, and wholly owned politicians to use its preferred labels, e.g. "gaming" and now "prediction markets" -- and as always, people who should know better go along with it.

All corruption, all the time in Trump world, exhibit 56,703:

Communities are realizing that Flock surveillance cameras are most useful not for locals, but for ICE and other unaccountable spies. boltsmag.org/verona-... -- from Bolts, an excellent nonprofit news org covering issues and institutions from the "local up".

"Prediction markets aren't good at producing information, but they're *amazing* at producing corruption." Cory Doctorow on the Trump-connected "markets" that take gambling to new depths of depravity. pluralistic.net/2026...

Nilay Patel's interview with the CEO of Grammarly's parent company is a master class in how to confront a tech executive with facts and skepticism. Strongly recommended.

Google's profound contempt for journalists is on display as it rewrites publications' headlines in search results, sometimes altering the meaning and intent of the original. www.theverge.com/tec... The company calls it an "experiment" -- as if that makes it OK.

As the U.S. sinks into dictatorship -- malevolent rule by corrupt politicians and oligarchs -- the institution I know the best has almost completely failed to recognize, much less counter, the threat. Big Journalism will be remembered for its cowardice and capitulation.

So the Knight Foundation is one of the investors in Bluesky, via the $100 million funding round led by a crypto fund almost a year ago but only just announced. knightfoundation.org... It's a bad move. The logic is, to put it mildly, unpersuasive. I'll be writing about this soon.

I see the "writer" whose novel just got tanked for being "AI" is blaming it all on an editor who allegedly rewrote substantial portions of the novel using an LLM. So, a) why would you use an "editor" like that, b) I reread reach my novels a dozen times during the pre-pub process, this excuse is bunk

A Georgetown University teacher to her students: Don't be part of the "AI" lemming brigade.

BlueSky wants you to trust them, but they raised $100 million from a crypto fund almost a YEAR AGO and didn't tell anyone.

CNN gives Trump's obvious lie (a claim regarding a former president) the both-sides treatment here -- and never even considers adding the context that Trump lies about almost everything. Story promotes the bullshit while refuting it. Crap journalism in every way.

"[J]ournalists could easily exploit their knowledge for insider trading on (gambling 'markets'). I dearly hope that’s not been happening, and won’t happen, in this unnerving new arena, where reality, journalism, gambling and criminality intertwine."

"For all the fine talk at Substack about how easy it is to leave, the reality leaves something to be desired."

Again, Molly White is doing by far the best journalism about the cryptocurrency "industry" that is massively corrupt and a threat to everyone's financial health. Her latest newsletter highlights how the sleaze involves top politicians, especially (of course) Trump.

Google has become everything it once pretended to disdain -- an arrogant, sleazy, control-freak monopolist. Its latest anti-user, anti-competition move will shut down the alternative app marketplaces that Google used to show off as "we're not like Apple" evidence.

We all get periodic emails with subject lines like "We're updating our Terms of Service and Privacy Notice." Question: Has ANY update of this kind EVER been in favor of the customer?

The United States is at war with Cuba, but our weapons are aimed at further impoverishing -- and starving -- the population. Destroying the electrical grid will have that effect. It's all blatantly illegal, not to mention immoral. Big Journalism has kind of, sort of noticed, but doesn't really care.

It will surprise no one that American billionaires are having, ahem, second thoughts about the obviously empty promises they made to be serious philanthropists.

It's worth remembering that the catastrophic Supreme Court Citizens United ruling -- giving billionaires the right to buy elections -- had the support of the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU ignored the predictable consequences, and democracy may never recover.

We are governed by the stupidest criminals in the history of the U.S. federal government, as Josh Marshall makes clear. And their stupidity is causing incalculable harm at home and around the world.

All corruption, all the time in Trump world, Exhibit 65,665:

Big Journalism carries water for Trump as usual, obligingly calling the Republicans' voter-suppression legislation by the name they cooked up to make it sound just fine. The bill would destroy what's left of our democracy. The only thing it would "SAVE" is white male supremacy. Do better, media.

Looks from here like the Trump regime is hoping Iran will provide a Reichstag fire-type event (look it up) in the U.S. -- see those scary warnings of attacks on California. Why? A pretext to escalate domestic fascism, such as even more direct interference with this year's elections.

With a headline that in a sane world would be in the Onion, but is absurdly realistic in this one, Garrett Graff discusses the Sociopath-in-Chief's insane war of choice: www.doomsdayscenario... You should subscribe to Graff's newsletter...