1) Trump is lying. 2) California’s politicians really should have figured out how to speed up the vote counting, this is going to be an inexcusable vulnerability in November.

Big news for us at Montclair State, and I hope this will open up lots of opportunities for students! www.montclair.edu/newscenter/2...

I have a longer thing I'm working on about this, with more data and stuff, but the key thing folks need to know: anyone on the left *CANNOT WIN* with any kind of content on platforms where the right owns the algorithm. Not just in politics — in entertainment media, or anything else.

Ted Chiang on AI: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

Of course. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Striking to me how little reporting there is on this rule proposal, which is maybe the biggest change to American governance in almost a century. And this reporting is … weak. www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...

I’m so sick of this career criminal.

this is the kind of merit that pete hegseth has brought to the department of defense

The whole way the SpaceX IPO has, with the collusion of major stock indexes, been set up as a mechanism to force supposedly safe-investment index funds to pay off everyone who invested in X (post-Twitter) and xAI (Grok), businesses that have never made money and likely never will, boggles the mind.

This is the “I have money to give away on Twitter” guy lmao

As we enter an election season super-powered by lies and the platforms and tech that spread them, @sulliview.bsky.social has sage advice for separating fact from fiction: margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/we-need-tr...

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

CNN is suing Perplexity, accusing it of “large-scale and unlawful copying and distribution” of its copyrighted content and that it had “appropriated the benefits of CNN’s substantial investments in journalism to develop and market competing commercial products” without permission or compensation.

this makes me so fucking mad

danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.

When tech execs tell college graduates to seize 'agency' in an AI future they call 'inevitable,' students hear the contradiction, writes Mark MacCarthy. So does Pope Leo XIV, whose new encyclical warns AI risks becoming “an accelerator of injustice” without protections for workers.

"Local TV stations owned by ABC across the United States blasted the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday for launching an “unlawful, arbitrary and unconstitutional” early review of their broadcast licenses as a dispute between the network and the Trump-controlled agency intensifies."

Pardon incoming

NEW: We obtained a not-yet-public FARA filing revealing how Brad Parscale has directed $13 million from Israel to Republican digital strategy firms run by some of his long time allies/ with @nickclevelandstout.bsky.social theintercept.com/2026/05/28/i...

Lots more here in this fascinating old school internet webpage on dictators putting themselves on money lcamtuf.coredump.cx/leaders/

I wrote this. Google sucks.

Forget the price of gas; have you seen the prices of tomatoes? www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.

This is an extraordinary story, and like a lot of extraordinary stories about wrongdoing and corruption, will become much harder to report if the Trump administration succeeds in requiring NDAs of all federal employees. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-want...

Sonny Rollins plays his saxophone on the Williamsburg Bridge, 1966 📷 David McLane

"Anthropic is the clean coal of AI. And clean coal doesn't exist" - Karen Hao speaking at Hay yesterday.

ChatGPT was never Google’s biggest threat; it was always its own hubris. With Search now being sacrificed on the altar of AI dominance, the time has come for users to get serious about moving off Google services. It’s not only destroying its products; it’s trying to further degrade the web itself.

Calling it Trump’s surrender shouldn’t even be controversial. That’s what it is. He got bored and said whatever, just end this thing.

"What a time to be alive! We are finally freeing you from the rat race and placing you on the rat unemployment line." Read @petridishes.bsky.social's pro-AI commencement speech that 2026 grads will definitely not boo:

I can’t excerpt, every word is perfect

In 1958, Edward R. Murrow warned that radio and television were becoming mere "wires and lights in a box" divorced from their democratic purpose. That prediction is coming true as CBS Radio News, the organization Murrow built into an American institution, shuts down.

these four sexy words again TOP MARGINAL TAX RATE "Restore the top marginal ordinary income tax rate to its pre-2017 level of 39.6% — which, but for Trump’s tax cuts, would have applied to income over $546K this year. Raise the (much lower) top capital-gains rate." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/o...

Bari Weiss offered Anderson Cooper a bigger role at CBS News, but he chose to leave 60 Minutes instead. "I'd prefer less rather than more of you." It's a hard message to miss. I'll say it again: She had no detectable experience in broadcast news. Hers was a political hire. From @status.news:

The implosion of the GOP is only beginning. And it will accelerate. But we can't just sit by and idly watch. We need to keep pushing for accountability—and ultimately for impeachment and removal of the president and his cabinet (of which the vice president is a member).

Tomorrow will be CBS Radio News' last day. It marks the end of an era in more way than one. Our news media should serve democracy, not authoritarians and oligarchy. #CBS www.niemanlab.org/2026/as-goes...

Bezos told CNBC there is "way too much corporate welfare, way too much corporate subsidies" the Trump admin literally JUST redirected billions in infrastructure bill taxpayer subsidies to his LEO satellite broadband company for service he ALREADY PLANNED TO DEPLOY shameless fuck

Among the Jan 6ers eager to get in line for $1.8 billion in government money: a sex offender who bear-sprayed cops www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... @merylkornfield.bsky.social

Kleptocrats are liquidating the US

We cannot allow this precedent to stand

“The president may wish to be considered in the same class as Napoleon or Alexander the Great, but he is in danger of turning himself into the next Mobutu Sese Seko or Mohamed Suharto: a kleptocrat remembered not for his ideas, not for his power, but for his greed.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/o...

the usa is now run expressly by white supremacists who are so ghoulish that this makes them happy

New Quinnipiac poll on Trump and the economy: In April, he was 38% positive, 57% negative. In May, he's 33% positive, 64% negative And among Republicans? He's gone from 9% disapproval in April to 24% disapproval in May. poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

Trump is putting no effort into becoming less unpopular but a TON into putting elements of a coup in place. Some of them may remain invisible, but the ones we can see point to his general approach: violent intimidation + corrupt judges + executive branch and congressional coconspirators + bribes.

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on my birthday I took to the newsletter to write about the AI commencement address backlash, and how growing anger at AI is now irreversibly tethered to justified rage at the extraction class -- whether AI boosters like it or not

Peter Dosa has written the best account I know of the similarities and differences of living under Orban and Trump, with beautifully crafted phrase that will stick in your mind long after you've read it . . . Bravo! substack.com/home/post/p-...

The ahmadinejad thing is unstoppably hilarious. Zoomers don’t know this but it seemed like every day in my teen years CNN was telling me how much this guy was Hitler We apparently wanted to install Hitler, but were too dumb and violent to make it work