@reason.com recently covered the amicus brief we filed on behalf of 73 former service secretaries, retired admirals and generals explaining the critical First Amendment stakes for all veterans when the administration tries to punish critics.

Just checked and the final Anthropic status update is in place with # of claims received. 440,490 claims received means roughly something like $2678 per work ($1339 when split between publisher and author).

It’s not journalism; it’s show business. It’s narcissism. It’s tone deaf. It’s inconsistent with everything that journalism is supposed to be.

“One member of the Secret Handshake (who declined to identify himself but provided convincing evidence of his participation in the anti-Trump sculpture project) stressed the power of humor and engagement over simple provocation.” Amen. wapo.st/4mMa9zv

But … pocket squares! And self-congratulations!

That all of this was done live in a single shot will be forever incredible youtu.be/8MPbR6Cbwi4?...

WSJ split screen.

Or put another way: Why is a possible pardon of Maxwell EVEN A POSSIBILITY? Why?

NOT A DONE DEAL WBD shareholders just rubber-stamped Paramount megadeal—but even THAT showed stress: they rejected Zaslav's $886M golden parachute The real gatekeepers now? State AGs & @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov & other state AG's are already investigating This merger has a long road ahead

“…people don’t care that he was a child molester. Literally, people just don’t care.” For decades and still, Hollywood has made gazillions off of Jackson. That’s why. Similar to Hollywood enabling and looking the other way when it comes to director Bryan Singer. I mean, you’re talking…

with David Ellison's bizarre dinner "in celebration of the First Amendment" and "honoring the Trump White House" tonight, here is a timeline of how Ellison is destroying the First Amendment (1 of 3)

“Can you send a link to that GQ piece?” A buddy asks. I cannot. Because said piece published before Conde acknowledged digital. So nothing from GQ years on web. Actually, nothing from Premiere (dead), Details (dead), Philly Mag. Pretty much 1st 2 decades of career just…print. No digital trace.

Potentially seismic implications for cases that are nonstarters because of the Feres Doctrine. Cases like defense contractors responsible for medical malpractice death and injury of active-duty servicemembers. www.wspa.com/news/nationa...

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Comer is going to do whatever he can to get Maxwell a pardon. He knows that is what Trump wants him to steer this to. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

“In addition to ignoring untold numbers of sick and wounded personnel, the Pentagon has undercounted the dead during the Iran war.”

Yes, *huge* scandal—at least, in any other administration. This one holding either Rubio or Loomer accountable seems unlikely. The reporting work here is really commendable. It stands out as the kind of reporting that is rare: digging, researching, cross-referencing. Not just he said, she said.

But, hey, pocket squares at that WH correspondents dinner is really gonna set’em straight, right?

“About 7 in 10 Americans describe the national economy as poor and think the country is headed in the wrong direction.” Is it possible that Trump’s favorability is polling lower than Covid? apnorc.org/projects/few...

Yo, the space laser lady is suddenly … making sense.

Prince at Webster Hall is the one I wish I saw live. The whole set is killer. But this snippet is extra extra. youtu.be/muyaWFQzlsQ?...

BREAKING: Republicans, furious at Democrats for doing thing they wanted to do but couldn’t do, now insist thing they wanted to do is un-American

I’ll say this about Trump: If his metric of success for the Iran War is knocking Epstein out of the news, well, Mission Accomplished.

Evidently, crackerjack journalist Sean Hannity over at the honorable Fox News knows what’s going on inside Iran’s leadership. Has the details.

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The Chavez-DeRemer family … eh … arrangements … make the plots and subplots of HBO’s DTF look like a Hallmark holiday special.

Yes has officially overtaken No after a large drop in Fairfax. We don't anticipate this No to retake the lead at any point tonight.

In the immortal words of Tupac Amaru Shakur: "(I made a G today), but you made it in a sleazy way."

Journalism has just been getting shredded. Over and over, never ending. Journalism and the rule of law. Lose those two things and, welp ... A republic, if you can keep it.

"Condé’s traditional magazine infrastructure certainly hasn’t helped those brands modernize or compete in the influencer age." True. And while the executives have made and make those business decisions, when those decisions don't work out, they rarely layoff themselves.

*The Democratic establishment is “still existing in this world where they think that if you know the rules the best, you’re going to win,” he told me. “When the other side is just beating you over the head with the rule book, it doesn’t matter.”* This is a good piece. www.notus.org/perspectives...

These Palantir Techno "Republic" 22 points read like something from the script of "Mountainhead 2: The Bros Do Davos." It is soaked with a soulless certitude and more than a bit frightening considering the influence of the authors.

Every word of this, of course, is accurate. The vexing reality-challenge is everyone who will read perspectives like this already recognizes this; reaching those who avoid or do not believe this is where we are is the thing.

Yeah, just wait until families start trying to take summer vacations. Road trips will be nearly as costly as domestic flights. Forget about international trips.

One, 2, 3, 4, 5—dogs spilled from his SUV, tongues out, drooling, tails wagging…6, 7, 8, NINE. Like slap happy clowns. “Sometimes I need to check the car to make sure I have them all.” Doesn’t own a dog, himself. “People keep telling me I need a dog. Really? I mean, look.” Into the hills he went.

There was a time when the president inspired pride instead of exhaustion. I miss that more than I can say.

Thank God the President is a stable genius.

400,000 Arizonans have been kicked off of SNAP since January and the AP is running a story featuring a white woman who thrice voted for Trump and got her feelings hurt by something he said.

There’s the underlying/overarching reality that Trump and his FCC have “captured” or otherwise cowed much (most?) media, when actual journalism already was consolidating, vaporizing, struggling. So if you’re counting on mainstream media/journalism to report and amplify truth/hold power accountable…

“When he was about 26 he told me he didn’t want to live past 35: we’re all lucky that we had a couple more decades with him.” The Greatest. Word “genius” gets thrown around a lot. Legit musical genius this dude. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

Elon Musk basically accused Trump of being a pedophile and then got dinner with him again a few months later. Joe Rogan acted shocked and dismayed about ICE and Iran and now he’s standing behind Trump in the Oval Office. These guys only care about holding onto power through any means necessary

Pieces like this are a kind of a Rorschach test: Each of us applies our own subjective perspective. For me, yet another example of everything comes down to the personalities involved. It’s not policy, ideology or law—it’s personality. Someone’s agenda born of their own…subjective perspective.

“For the first time in modern American history, the machinery of the federal government — which is meant to serve our democracy — is being turned against our elections.” A powerfully stark assessment of our Moment in a single sentence. The whole analysis provides context and the way out.

Some journalists, apparently grasping the fact that the dinner will make them look like toadies, will wear “​​pocket squares and pins with the words of the First Amendment … Pathetic.

www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic... Good read on dude behind the Nexstar/Tegna merger which should be stopped. (Paywalled, but included with AppleNews.)

Been holding onto this scribbled envelope for 8 years. It's been tacked to my office cork board since the day executives at Hearst killed the story Alex French and I reported on Bryan Singer and the men who alleged he had raped or sexually assaulted them when they were minors.

And with people atop the DOJ willing to appease Trump at this point for an eventual pardon — someone(s) at the DOJ might be kinda buying their pardon in advance with taxpayer money.

Every single person Trump installed at every agency that exists to protect our national security is a compromised, emotionally unstable tool. Trump has alienated our allies, installed these soft-brained, lackey tools and thus left America one giant soft target, and our enemies know it.

Thank God for Tribe and for journalists with the pad & pen. youtu.be/s7G-ZmuDxUs?...

This is valuable @wired.com reporting on prominent DOGE operatives and their fates. Where are they now? Some still inside our government, sadly for us. www.wired.com/story/where-...