I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?” www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

Oh, we are COOKED.

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone. But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

Nobel Peace Prize, my ass.

When other presidents would be in the situation room, Trump in Mar a Lago took to social media to link the Iranian bombardment with the Big Lie. Trump posted an article asserting that “Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump, and now faces renewed war with United States.”

Jesus Christ they're running the war from Mar-a-Lago www.reuters.com/world/us/top...

And then they asked me about pizzagate and UFOs 😂😂😂😂

So she was forced to testify about crimes against young girls by men not being forced to testify. Got it. 🤡

After DEMANDING that Hillary Clinton's testimony on the Epstein scandal be held behind closed doors, and even threatening her with contempt for her insistence that reporters be allowed in, the GOP has been sending out photos and info to far-right influencers. Hypocrisy is the GOP brand.

Here’s a thought for James Comer. There IS a First Lady who has had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. And it’s not Hillary Clinton. It might be worthwhile for Comer to subpoena the First Lady who actually knows Epstein. You know, just to see what she knows.

Speaking of Elizabeth Holmes, she and Trump must be squabbling over the pardon price or she has yet to deign complete fealty to him. 🤮

okay, this is funny, though

Best piece I’ve read about the difference is @h0d3r.bsky.social’s 2015 piece “the web we have to save.” hoder.com/en/posts/4 An internet of feeds is, I think, meaningfully distinct from an internet of links. Social network sites in the 00s were still links-not-feeds. (I’d say more but mega-tired)

Sowing fear of "ICE at the polls!" could do more to suppress votes than any actual ICE at the polls. Here's an explanation of the right's strategy on this, along with my recommendations for what to do instead of playing along. katestarbird.substack.com/p/effective-...

Happy President’s Day to the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama!

Zohran genuinely loves the people of his city and wants the best for them. It’s astonishing how much we’ve all been starved of that by our leaders.

for better or worse, this will probably be the most successful and compelling argument by communities against ICE concentration camps being built: (from this piece: archive.is/eGsQf)

a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

I don't know if it's really clear, outside of coverage of Mpls and pockets of organizing elsewhere, that hundreds of thousands of people are actively and at every level of society fighting our government as it abducts and imprisons and torments our neighbors.

Spotted on the London Underground….the Brits don’t miss 🎯!

This image of Epstein survivors being ignored by US Attorney General, Pam Bondi, should be the moment when our collective morals lock into place and we ALL think, “this is not just.”

If there are any survivors of sexual assault out there, don’t worry, Pam Bondi wants you to know the stock market is doing GREAT!

Wait, THIS is young Anton Chekhov? This? Good lord. Let that gun go off, daddy

Donald Trump Jr, who has exactly zero experience or competence in manufacturing or defense, has received more than $600,000,000 in contracts from Pete Hegseth's "Department of War."

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

When women support each other, incredible things happen

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

NO KINGS BUT BRODY KING #AEWDynamite

If you sleep during democracy, you wake up to authoritarianism.

one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things

same ethos as Elon buying Twitter or Ellison buying TikTok. sure, they’d prefer if people actually buy the propaganda they produce, but just destroying the outlet is still a positive outcome for them

Please don't report this as a straightforward business story; it's a story about coercive social transformation being imposed by people so rich they've ceased to see the rest of us as legitimate stakeholders in our own lives

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

WHAT'S up me hearties it be thy boy Ahab, with the biggest ounce of gold giveaway ever hath ye seen on the channel. Swerve not thy fixed purpose to attend this one, guys! But first I must tell ye the tale of SQUARESPACE, who be thy sponsor today

Federal Judges have a very real and well-established reason to fear doxing and violence and yet I doubt anyone thinks it would be acceptable for them to preside from the bench in a hood.

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and the data center down the road causes power outages every couple days. But at least now I have an AI-based avatar to help me with my healthcare.

Such blatant corruption — which the media will, of course, totally ignore.

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

Trump's new pick for Fed Chair makes an appearance in today's Epstein Files release:

Nick Shirley and others like him are reminiscent of yellow journalism of the 19th century, updated and turbocharged by social media algorithms. Read more: www.theverge.com/news/869824/...