Sorry but the scandal here is very clearly the government denying other people the toilet paper they need

I had to read 3 grafs into this story before realizing they meant a baseball bat and not a furry little flying squirrel-style guy www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...

NewsGuard has identified three instances of X’s AI chatbot Grok confidently — and falsely — stating that Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Read the full report in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/xs-grok-cl...

SAG-AFTRA stands in solidarity with the Condé United and NewsGuild of New York union members who were retaliated against for questioning the closure of Teen Vogue.

NY Attorney General Letitia James joined a Condé Nast union rally, protesting recent firings that followed a staff confrontation with HR.

Not body- or nerdshaming anybody, but saying this is copping to having never played sports.

Friends, I have acquired a steam oven! Where is the best place to get high-quality recipes (better than the demos that come with most steam ovens)? I love all breads and pastries but also veggies and meats and fishes and pulses and, well, all noms… #breadsky

The gov shouldn’t be able to access our thoughts at scale. Full stop. But could “chatbot privilege” shield tech cos from accountability by keeping *their* speech private too? This argument assumes chatbot convos are a social good we want to protect. Are they?? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...

…why is the AI Ben Shapiro?

New: "Trump Media Lost $54.8 Million Last Quarter—And Is On Track To Lose Far More" Revenue was $972,900—about what Taylor Swift brought in over 15 minutes on her Eras Tour. with @danalexander21.bsky.social for @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

Exchanges in Washington, D.C., and Virginia have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider, allowing his family’s business to earn revenue from sales on federal property.

bro are you fucking kidding me

This story should win awards. The details! The sourcing! Goddamn.

Let it be known that my proposed hed for this was "Elon Musk’s Trillion-Dollar Pay Plan Makes Perfect Sense If You’re High On Ketamine"

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who is liveblogging arguments rn?

"Trump’s Gutting Of The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Is Leaving The Public Vulnerable To Abuses" Jeff Kauflin for @forbes.com

Interesting that we’re not (yet) seeing this behavior in places where Republicans could face electoral consequences for it.

when your cat falls asleep on you and then his little paws pitter patter on your arms as he runs around in his dream 🥹

I cannot get over the 11 iced coffees

Donald Trump Jr. in 2021: “Those Hunter no-show no-experience board seats didn’t come without an expected return!” Donald Trump Jr. in 2024: Gets $2.8M in stock for joining an advisory board that didn't exist until he joined it. New: me, for @forbes.com 1/

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

a fun thing to consider is that China, and probably Russia, almost certainly have the ability to post from the president's Truth Social account. they just know that they only get to use that *once*.

Hahahah the art

Rule of Law Alert: Trump’s authority for country-specific tariffs comes from the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which doesn’t mention tariffs—but does require a national emergency. An ad showing that Reagan opposed tariffs surely is not a national emergency. (It may be a personal one)

People see Ds as ineffective because they accept limits on their power (eg Biden with student loans). They see Trump as effective because he ignores those limits. But if “effective” leaders are those that ignore limits on their power, then we are in a *bad* place. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...

I made a verison of this argument last month in the NYT. We absolutely need more transparency about what messages tech giants are pushing on us and why. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/o...

New: "Trump Crypto Partner Suspends CEO With No Explanation After Stock Falls 74%" me, for @forbes.com 1/

wow. welp. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

Just published: "Trump’s White House Demolition Isn’t His First Time Leveling A Building — Or Ignoring Preservationists" me, for @forbes.com

Update: TikTok sent us a comment saying our story “deliberately distorts and sensationalizes how we respond to legal requests.” They again did not answer our Qs about whether they’re sharing data with ICE, or why it is no longer their policy to tell you before they give the government your data.

hell yes

TikTok quietly changed its policies to make it easier to share user data with government and regulatory authorities, and weakened promises to inform users (Emily Baker-White/Forbes) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

New from me: TikTok ignored repeated questions about whether and how they share data with ICE. Also, earlier this year, they quietly updated their policies about what happens when law enforcement asks for your data. 1/ www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

no no no no no I do not want to watch the NYT on endless scroll no www.axios.com/2025/10/21/n...

Thinking bout this right now for no real reason— “When Donald Trump Razed the Bonwit Teller Building, He Promised the Met Its Art Deco Friezes. A New Book Details How He Pulverized Them Instead”

if you’re in line to leak another nazi group chat, stay in line!

well this rules

My review of the excellent “Every Screen on the Planet: the secret story of TikTok” by @ebakerwhite.bsky.social is in the Financial Times this weekend! @ftweekend.com Gift link here:

really weird pivot to video vibes here like, the whole point of podcasts is that you can listen to them while doing other things?

The popularity of video podcasts is a deep, deep mystery to me. "Watch a podcast on Netflix" are you f'ing insane? At this point we're just doing low-budget talk shows! Why do people like this?

NEW: Abu Dhabi’s MGX is suddenly everywhere in Trump’s Washington— 📱 TikTok’s possible new US ownership 💰 A $2B Binance deal using Trump’s stablecoin 💻 A 51% stake in Intel’s Altera unit—and US taxpayers own 9.9% of Intel Me, for @forbes.com 🎁🔗

jawboning www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

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I’m betting this is just an enforcement error. But also: TikTok is only online today because Trump has ordered his DOJ to not enforce the law banning it, so the company certainly has an incentive not to cross him.

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

This is such a weird framing — nobody “loses” the Nobel Peace Prize! It’s not like he was in the postseason for Nobels or something; he “lost” only as much as, like, your mom did.

New from me in @foreignpolicy.com: how the US has gone from leading a global push against transnational repression, to proactively supporting it: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/08/t...

Where else can you see Tim Berners-Lee, @brewster.kahle.org @maryroach.bsky.social @ebakerwhite.bsky.social @mikeisaac.bsky.social Shaka Senghor, Steven Pinker and many others this week? Details & tickets: commonwealthclub.org/events

New: Abu Dhabi fund MGX told me it picked USD1—a Trump family–linked stablecoin from World Liberty Financial—to put $2B into Binance, citing its “compliance history.” USD1 had just launched. me, for @forbes.com 🪙🍼🤷 1/