happy 100th birthday David Attenborogh!!!

this was awesome (and I'm a little speechless the convo started with a discussion of my corporate crime research)

Big Tech companies have spent at least $653 MILLION cozying up to Trump & Congressional Republicans. Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, Oracle, and Palantir have all chosen to align themselves with Trump. We have to choose democracy over oligarchy.

$1.5 million. wow, that'll show him

WATCH: The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of the second Trump administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. Full story: propub.li/4tHp2Wd

the first issue of Agita, the new magazine of flash horror and sci-fi from @agitapublishing.bsky.social, is live! co-edited and with an intro by yers truly, it's a pretty great collection of three fantastic little tales of BAD SCIENCE! check it out! agitamag.com/issue/issue-...

Every year, across multiple administrations, across both parties, the DOJ has announced over and over again that "individual accountability" is their priority when prosecuting corporate crime. And every year, they failed to prosecute the Sacklers. What a disgrace. www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/p...

Must-read on how Big Tech execs are pandering to Trump and supporting authoritarianism.

Ted Cruz is the #1 lifetime recipient of fossil fuel money in the entire U.S. senate, receiving over $1 million from the oil and gas industry in the 2024 cycle alone Now he's proposed a bill to give the fossil fuel industry lifetime legal immunity from climate lawsuits

New report that mentions Scale AI’s influence with the federal government via Kratsios: www.citizen.org/article/big-... bsky.app/profile/rick...

"The dangerous synergies of an authoritarian White House supported and supercharged by Big Tech titans puts on full display the risk of concentrated and excessive corporate and oligarchic power." New from me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social: www.techpolicy.press/dont-trust-t...

Public Citizen’s Rick Claypool documents how Big Tech firms have engaged in deliberate campaigns to ingratiate themselves with the Trump administration, heaping excessive praise on the President while going along with his unpopular and authoritarian policies.

Ahead of the next Mar-a-Lago gala, I talked to a researcher analyzing suspected insider trading on Trump's memecoin and an ethicist who (with a grain of salt) thinks a crackdown on Trump's crypto empires may be coming soon... arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

#InverteFest starts in two days, on the 24th! This time we'll release our anthology AND our usual art book. Starting on Friday, go out (or in), hunt for invertebrates, share photos, art, poems, facts, anything about inverts! More info here: saimihanma.com/invertefest/

his dark materials was a parable for kids to be openminded and curious. which is more important than any kind of "intelligence" that sam altman and his homunculi ilk value

got some new new zac smith special just for you today! "Dennis was sitting in the office room. He was reading an AI-generated article about tech companies that were hiring. He clicked on one of the company websites at random..." https://www.havehashad.com/a3ynx

if you see this, post a character from space

Maybe if we explained that being vaporized in WWIII is sort of like being cancelled they would see the gravity of the situation

I wrote about our tough-on-street-crime/soft-on-corporate-crime mentality and why we're in the midst of a white-collar crime wave that way too few people in Washington are taking seriously: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/06/o...

Listened to a lot of Gost while writing my first couple of books. Heartbreaking

Corruption is an essential part of the chaos. Where is the rule of law?

Pam Bondi's DOJ let corporate crime run rampant. That's unlikely to change whoever is in charge. But worth noting that the DOJ over the past year has canceled enforcement against 50+ corporations, including former Bondi employers Amazon, Pfizer & UnitedHealth www.citizen.org/article/canc...

Pam Bondi's DOJ let corporate crime run rampant. That's unlikely to change whoever is in charge. But worth noting that the DOJ over the past year has canceled enforcement against 50+ corporations, including former Bondi employers Amazon, Pfizer & UnitedHealth www.citizen.org/article/canc...

OpenAI has plotted a turn towards defense contracting since at least early 2024, first erasing its prohibitions on military use of their models, and then turning towards the revolving door to buy influence with the Pentagon by hiring defense insiders, our @henryburke.bsky.social writes

Financial companies know that no one is minding the store as the Consumer Bureau (CFPB) remains largely frozen. Last year, Senate Democrats *abandoned* leverage to restore the CFPB by passing GENIUS Act, a giveaway to Trump’s massive crypto corruption. This year—will they fight for CFPB instead?

1. The AI industry has tapped Taylor Budowich, a key operative in the effort to undermine the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, to lead a new group dedicated to boosting GOP candidates in the 2026 midterms. The group is reportedly planning to spend $100 million.

One reason why the East Wing resonates with people is that it will be incredibly difficulty, divisive and costly to undo this shit. And in that respect it serves as an apt metaphor for the Trump administration.

In which I quibble with framing AI actions as “scheming” — and insist it is the businesses behind these products that are held accountable when AI goes off the rails

lmao

so long and no thanks for all the slop

‘While state and federal prosecutors have sent record numbers of people to prison for violent crimes and property- and drug-related offenses, the US retreated from prosecuting and punishing white-collar crime, despite a tsunami of elite-level wrongdoing.’ www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Timeless story from last year. "Dropping corporate cases en masse, as the Trump administration is doing, is a green light for corporate lawlessness." inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

Truly tragic -- another life sacrificed to Big Tech's mass experiment unleashing human-like AI systems on the public. There are now at least a dozen suicide deaths attributed to AI companions and companion-like products.

this meme is going around mushroom foraging groups so here’s my @publiccitizen.bsky.social report on the same subject www.citizen.org/news/mushroo...

Prepping for the State of the Union? Don't be fooled by Trump's misleading claims on drug pricing. #healthpolicy www.citizen.org/article/dont...

new dystopia indicator just dropped

amazing

I’ve always loved this photo; it looks like he’s having a deep, soulful conversation with an undead skeleton warrior.

That’s how they make health science now: The cure for cancer is ____ Burgers Ivermectin Immigrant blood Fake tan

News story here. I love Tegus and think they are highly intelligent animals with some characteristics of dogs. Probably should not be pets, and invasive in FL, but if so, they need to be treated like a dog or cat, not shoved in a tank, alone. turnto10.com/news/local/p...

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why does the ridiculous RFK govt nutrition website look like Cards Against Humanity

The 21st century echo of the Twilight Zone kicker that "To Serve Man" was a cookbook.

important context:

The Trump family was personally enriched by a foreign government. According to our co-president Rob Weissman, "This may be the biggest Trump scandal yet."

Very excited to say that 404 Media's zine about ICE Surveillance is here. If you ordered a print copy, I put it in the mail last week. If not, we of course think the info inside is very important so here's a free PDF. We also translated it into Spanish: www.404media.co/icezine/

Trump's immigration human-rights nightmare isn't pulling back. It's about to get much worse A planned op this week in Springfield, Ohio targeting hard-working Haitians who came here the right way is nothing less than an ethnic cleansing on U.S. soil My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Lots of teargas at ICE tonight in Portland. People were just standing and chanting.

Very important vote. It makes repealing ICE surge funding the mainstream position in the party, with bipartisan support.

"nobody has any idea how to measure corporate power" yeah, sure, ok...