NEW: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding the agency release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read messages from encrypted chat apps www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

Truly amazing to get a literal sack full of fifty grand in cash from the FBI and then nothing else happens

[at your friend's funeral who just lost her husband] I got mines!

Seeing people who are just not wired for anything but rage and schadenfreude try to figure out the performance of grief is genuinely anthropologically fascinating

this is actually my great frustration of walking around in new york.

One of the most common (now waning) criticisms I see of independent, journalist-owned media is that they don't have the resources, know-how, or ability to do big projects, serious reporting, or do things like file lawsuits. We and other outlets are proving that's not true ... you can just ... do it

New: We have just sued ICE to demand it turns over a secretive spyware contract that it refuses to release: www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

This story is worth a read, but it's so frustrating to see, since I know virtually everyone quoted in it (and the author) and ... there were *lots* of people warning of these coming dangers. Andreessen became a baby about his feelings long before taking offense to the slight from the Biden admin.

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

cartoonists handing the same 5 dollar bill around the Small Press Expo but it's the entire economy somehow

One indelible image of this capture is from Trump’s second inauguration, where a decisive quorum of tech’s elite, after dutifully kicking in million-dollar checks, occupied front-row seats. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/silico...

The community still overwhelmingly leans left. But with few exceptions, its leaders are responding to Donald Trump by either keeping quiet or actively courting the government. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/silico...

It should be the best of times for the tech world, supercharged by a boom in artificial intelligence. But a shadow has fallen over Silicon Valley.

He’s stopped fact-checking and spends time at Mar-a-Lago. And it isn’t just Zuckerberg—a whole cohort of billionaires place their companies’ fortunes above the well-being of society. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/silico...

A snapshot of Silicon Valley in 2025 is Mark Zuckerberg, now a MAGA-friendly mixed martial arts fan who doesn’t worry much about hate speech on his platforms and complains that corporate America isn’t masculine enough.

do we think it's good that entire economy is based on the same entities passing money back and forth on speculative investment without anyone making anything that someone outside the loop is buying

That's a LOT of current/former Disney talent. @thr.com $DIS www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/j...

OLIVER: “I’d argue @disney & Bob Iger need to stand by @jimmykimmel and his staff — history is also going to remember the cowards who knew better. Giving the bully your lunch money doesn’t make him go away, it just makes him come back hungrier each time.” 🎯

Just wondering- when is the huge stadium memorial for the 855 innocent American children who were killed in school shootings since 1966?

find me another Dem that wouldn't be too afraid to do this. seriously.

No immigrant has ever sacked me, or cut my wages, or offshored my job, or closed my hospital, or stopped my mum's disability benefits, or crashed the economy. Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.

OLIVER: “In Russia, when Putin rose to power, TV satirists were among his first targets… Putin was driven to madness by how he was mocked on a puppet show… the lesson is it’s not safe to let one show slide because there are currently others.”

This story has been updated to reflect that these rumors are not true. So let’s make them real. See y’all Friday morning at 1930 Beach Street!

NEW: Another state seeks to join the abortion pill lawsuit that won't die. Louisiana asks Judge Kacsmaryk for permission to join case against FDA alongside Texas and Florida. Repped by fleet of Alliance Defending Freedom lawyers; ADF filed original 2022 suit storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Is it Christian to publicly call for the murder of all homeless people? That's what Brian Kilmeade did on Fox a week ago. He still has his job.

Remember that MLK said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

New: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

Fed up with élite corruption and widening inequality, a youth-led movement toppled the Nepalese government in 48 hours. What happens next?

It was pretty apparent in the Signal leaks the the president is absent in almost every discussion and that we have real issues in unity of command but man www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“Stop the Count”: food-insecurity version. 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

Speaker after speaker at this memorial is explicitly likening him to Jesus Christ. (Slain in early 30s, etc.) Don't know how this goes over with people raised in other faiths. Having been raised as a church-going Protestant Christian, I say: What the hell! This is not how Christians talk.

And by the way, almost every single Neo-Nazi I track on a daily basis believes strongly that Tucker was talking about Jews. Message received.

@washingtonpost.com editorial board has endorsed Trump’s idea to reoccupy Bagram air base. This is madness, and certainly evidence of that paper’s continuing obsequious fawning over the administration’s worst ideas.

I joked the other day that all the Post's editorials are just "what if this bad thing were actually good," and will you look at that

Trump has being talking about reinvading Afghanistan since 2021

Tom Homan Has Learned His Lesson By Susan Collins

Absolutely not.

The US congress passed a bill to designate October 14 as Charlie Kirk remembrance day. Forcing Americans to celebrate and honor a hate-filled extremist isn't right. So we're saying: If the government has decreed he must be remembered, we'll make sure he's remembered as he was.

There's a principle at stake. Also a cash grand prize!

Dr. Kevin Nadal, Distinguished Professor @ CUNY's John Jay College (w/other orgs), shows some history of the US committing genocide in the Philippines. When I have too many IG slides to crosspost, I'll post the first one and then link to the rest (w/ commentary). www.instagram.com/p/DM0Kvnvx_3...

I wrote a bit about how Filipino and Native Hawaiian colonial subjects used early community journalism to resist and respond to U.S. imperialism, part of a larger study into how community journalism can help us navigate digital imperialism: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Maria Ressa going on the Daily Show and being like, "we tried to warn you [colonizers] this shit you created is bad and self-destructive [but you never listen brown people and women]" is basically the story of "western civilization" in a nutshell

Most Americans don’t know that the U.S. violently colonized the Philippines in 1898, through 1946. An estimated 600k Filipinos were killed in the years after U.S. annexation, to crush resistance to colonial rule.

This gets a paragraph, if that, in high school US history.

Well-oiled machine. Only the best people. etc. etc. Super great business environment.

There is no Constitutional prohibition against taking a $50,000 cash bribe, so it's hard to see what kind of law Tom Homan might have broken. by Jonathan Turley

lot of people immediately able to grasp why this is bad still making excuses for posting on twitter

this is… not how it works. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Our mistake when we wrote _Calling Bullshit_ was to assume that people would deliberately abuse the flexibility of quantitative metrics to mislead. We devoted inadequate attention to people making up complete and utter nonsense with no possible grounding in fact.