the consolidation of major media institutions by the president’s oligarch friends is obviously bad, but i do wonder about the ultimate impact. it is clear that trump and his allies believe that you can buy up media and pull an orban or a putin. but…

Does anyone have a favorite smoothy recipe to share?

Dozens of #MeToo stories made the headlines in the last few years but the plight of women truckers was generally ignored. The trucking industry often recruits women leaving domestic violence situatons or destitute for other reasons. It promises them a career. communitysentinel.media/2025/09/26/d...

Not only is it a well-funded operation, it also represents how dark money can give people who face mainstream disgrace a "second life" --- as long as they create "news" that suits the purpose of the wallets, they open. ... (contd.)

Inside the Hidden Conservative Network Bankrolling an “Ecosystem” of Right-Wing News John Solomon’s Informing America set out to create an echo chamber to shape public opinion. It’s working. WILLIAM BREDDERMAN AND ANEELA MIRCHANDANI SEPTEMBER+OCTOBER 2025 ISSUE www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

On the massive rightwing media network that Trump #NIH director Bhattacharya is deeply enmeshed with. Bhattacharya did an interview with John Solomon at JTN, smearing Bethesda Declaration signers. Rightwing money then pushed out that message. Read this one 👇

1. Recently a federal judge dismissed a civil rights case alleging that the Californa Civil Rights dept had violated the civil rights of Hindu Americans. What is this about? Stick with me and I'll explain.... asamnews.com/2025/07/30/h...

“We risk reversing a decade of progress,” warns Covered California's CMO Dr. Monica Soni in her critical conversation about the #ACA and the pending Reconciliation Bill in @aneela.bsky.social's latest article on #healthcare for AsAmNews. Read more: asamnews.com/2025/07/01/o...

Ever since Obamacare was passed, GOP has tried to repeal it. They tried a simple repeal, a skinny repeal, a repeal-and-replace, & shutting down the government. They failed each time. Now, warns the CMO of Covered California, they may be on the verge of succeeding. asamnews.com/2025/07/01/o...

Recently Trump signed an EO to enforce English for truckers. Trucking hires lots of foriegn-born drivers and it is bound to impact them. At the same time, English fluency is a safety issue, which has been ignored in recent years. My latest for @asamnews.bsky.social asamnews.com/2025/06/12/s...

David is an amazing editor. I learned a tremendous amount as an intern.

Now here's something odd. Why did a PAC advertising itself as "America First" and promising to reestablish a Christ-focused ideology in America, attract 12 Hindu American donors, some giving large 5-figure donations? There lies a story.... www.dailydot.com/debug/conser...

What does NPIC mean in this context?

Conservative PAC took donations exclusively from Hindu Americans. But the money didn't go to any causes. Instead, after the checks cleared, the PAC turned and trashed the community, calling one prominent Hindu a 'gremlin.' New from @aneela.bsky.social www.dailydot.com/debug/conser...

My interview with a Sikh Separatist This conversation may be difficult to listen to for many. It was difficult for me, as an interviewer. But I'm all about speaking to people we disagree with. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

A constitutional sheriff in northern Idaho shows what the movement is really about: an ideology of sheriff supremacy. I spent 7 months plowing through 7000 pages of FOIA docs to understand how a sheriff in Bonner County ID amassed power in the county. www.dailydot.com/debug/bonner...

This newsletter is a great way to keep tabs on the far right.

A constitutional sheriff led a campaign to take over a whole county—and won www.dailydot.com/debug/bonner... by @aneela.bsky.social

Daily Dot's FOIA internship was the best journalism training I could have hoped for during the end of grad school. And shout out to David as a teacher.

Great article by @aneela.bsky.social about Bonner County Sheriff Daryle Wheeler. It gives a lot of detail about the power Wheeler holds over Bonner County, but it only scratches the surface. Maybe there will be a follow-up piece with more Wheeler improprieties. www.dailydot.com/debug/bonner...

Legal threats, personal grudges, official investigations, clandestine surveillance, the death of a county official. Seven months ago, @aneela.bsky.social sent a FOIA to a small town in Idaho. What came back was the future of the constitutional sheriff movement. www.dailydot.com/debug/bonner...

Wrote about Arsh Dalla -- a man on India's Most Wanted list. He was picked up in Canada on a minor crime. Tried to portray here how Sikh separatist politics is entwined with notions of sacrilege. #arshdalla #arshdala sikhnation.substack.com/p/who-is-ars...

Wrote about Arsh Dalla -- a man on India's Most Wanted list. He was picked up in Canada on a minor crime. Tried to portray here how Sikh separatist politics is entwined with notions of sacrilege. #arshdalla #arshdala sikhnation.substack.com/p/who-is-ars...

In my latest for Asian American News, congressman Ro Khanna, who represents Silicon Valley, calls for an FBI investigation of the death of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji. Balaji's parents have not accepted the official verdict of suicide, calling it foul play. asamnews.com/2025/01/18/r...

The Indian government completes its investigation on the Pannun murder plot. Unnamed in report, but they appear to blame R&AW official Vikash Yadav for going rogue. He was arrested for an unrelated extortion offence in Dec. 2023. But he has vanished. asamnews.com/2025/01/16/i...

Yet another strong tremblor #earthquake

That was a strong shake in SF #earthquake

It's #January6th, and there's a renewed conversation about how Trump turned the shame of the Capitol attack into a point of pride. An important piece of the puzzle was the Antifa lie. 🧵 theoddpost.com/2022/08/10/h...

Fantastic new research project from Stuart

Baby chimps sleep just like human babies, it turns out, with their arms raised high above their heads. Except human baby heads are bigger so the arms barely reach the top of their heads

Indian food is so varied that it's a real tragedy that most restaurant menus look identical to each other and offer the same set of two dozen mish-mash dishes. It's like having restaurants that offer "European food" instead of Italian, German, Spanish, etc.

I wrote about Musk. The LA Times owner got mad. The free press is in a coma. open.substack.com/pub/virginia...

🧵There are 45 days until Inauguration Day, and I’m working on updating the Capitol Riot Map—an interactive visualization of the more than 1,500 individuals arrested or charged in connection to January 6th. Follow this thread for updates, and explore the interactive visualization: capitolriotmap.com

the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment

Weird to get a tsunami warning ... stemming from a 7.0 earthquake in Eureka

With the dizzying set of acronyms floating around the subject of Syria, I found this to be a useful primer of the various groups and what each of their deals is. www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12...

Fellas, I don’t post here a lot but you should absolutely know this // help me spread the word! Violent crackdowns are happening in Tbilisi, Georgia. We are fighting for our lives here. Please, please, please help us spread the word.

I wrote about Russ Vought last year. Read it. He is an avowed Christian nationalist and has many extreme ideas. www.salon.com/2023/05/27/m...

Republicans like Ken Paxton and John Cornyn may have been snubbed for cabinet seats. But Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s appointments this week provide new supporting evidence of my pet political theory: D.C. isn’t the capital of Republican politics. It’s Texas. thebarbedwire.com/2024/11/21/t...

Is the #Modi government’s digital policy at a crossroads? Tech Policy Press Fellow @ambersinha07.bsky.social chronicles digital policymaking in India during the last 10 years of the Narendra Modi-led government and looks ahead for what could be next.

Here's something people who are not Indian do not seem to understand: Mahatma Gandhi was not related to the prime minister Indira Gandhi. Heard many misunderstand this. People think she was his daughter or niece. Sheer coincidence they shared a name.

Sadly, London Breed is falling down. #SFELections.

I think after NBC ended his beat Ben Collins became The Joker

not saying anything groundbreaking here, but I really think "politics as a form of content to be served up and consumed like all other forms of content" has been an enormous, underrated disaster in terms of giving folks the illusion of being informed while essentially being gamed like a drug addict

Nick Fuentes's Groyper Discord server was killed due to extremist content.

Just like our media, our social media also appears to be fragmenting.

We live in a populist moment driven by social media algorithms and in this kind of moment demagogues rule.

Since Nick Fuentes is in the news due to his "your body my choice" comment here's what I wrote about him last year. www.dailydot.com/debug/what-i...