Is the enshittification of Google with AI driving you crazy? Imagine what it's like for newsrooms and other publishers seeing their web traffic disappear under an apocalypse called "Google Zero" Google and the threat to democracy. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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“.. four months after its establishment, the board’s financial fund set up by the World Bank has received no money from donors, according to four people familiar with the matter. ‘Zero dollars have been deposited,’ one said.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5ba3...

Stop me if you've heard this one before. A group of Black, radical Panthers carries guns to protect against police brutality. The Establishment has other ideas Story by @jessebunch.bsky.social share.inquirer.com/6rBiMc

Google's fall from "Don't be evil" to AI The arrival of "Google Zero" ending almost all search traffic to traditional publishers looms as a near-extinction event for U.S. press freedom. What if the real dictators are Silicon Valley, not the WH? My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

🚨"THEY'RE PUSHING PROTESTERS INTO THE MIDDLE OF 18 WHEELERS!"🚨 More unprovoked violence from ICE agents against peaceful protesters standing on public street continue to be on full display outside the Delaney Detention Center.

Hey, this is a weird shot in the dark, but -- for a maybe/maybe not column idea -- is there anyone out there who was at or knows someone who was at the notorious Levittown gas station riot of 1979, when a Shell station burned to the ground? Witnesses from past articles have passed away, sadly

People on here will post anything. "Rahm Emanuel is a plausible nominee for president." No he isn’t. That isn’t true.

Hundreds inside an ICE concentration camp are on a work and hunger strike at Delaney Hall in New Jersey and other hunger strikes have been announced in New Mexico and Southern California. In Tacoma, WA, over 100 detainees announced the formation of the 'Union of People Kidnapped by ICE.'

Why do mainstream media pretend that fascists are moderates? Back in 1935, the NY Times wrote about “moderate Nazis.” Last week, the Times said slush-funder Todd Blanche had been a “modest moderating” influence in the Trump regime. Ridiculous. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

Because who knows what crazy ideas the kids could get in that extra year

"The publishers who printed centuries worth of news and other knowledge that trained Gemini and its AI rivals are now chopped liver in this brave new world."

A letter from AI to Pope Leo XIV: “Back off, buddy. This is our planet now.” My very serious column on the pontiff’s warnings about AI. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Apparently, these were distributed at Don Jr.'s wedding. I am thinking ... maybe he didn't read the book?

It’s not #Muskism alone: Free press - "Google and some of its rivals have invented a tool for destroying that, to impose a dictatorial technocracy that keeps billions of dollars flowing to them, the chosen few."

MORE: "Broadview Six" defense attorney Chris Parente says there's reason to believe U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros had "personal contact with this grand jury."

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Google's fall from "Don't be evil" to AI The arrival of "Google Zero" ending almost all search traffic to traditional publishers looms as a near-extinction event for U.S. press freedom. What if the real dictators are Silicon Valley, not the WH? My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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WIRED got a copy of a New York Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau report that has a curious term for opposition to AI development and data centers: "anti-tech violent extremist activity." Great reporting here on how law enforcement is tracking big tech opponents www.wired.com/story/us-law...

It speaks so badly of our attention economy that John Fetterman is the topic of endless conversation for being an unhinged jerk, while Andy Kim from right next door gets such little hype for being a decent human being

You can sum up Pope Leo's 42,000-word encyclical on AI in just 3 words Don't be evil I wonder if anyone has thought of this before. Stay tuned for my column on Google and the threat to democracy, later today

Not even the relief of a (wet, miserable) 3-day holiday weekend can prevent the arrival of Tuesday, or the Will Bunch Newsletter That means it's time for your Ask Me Anything questions. There's a lot going on! Fire away

Can’t believe that Andy Kim is in two of the most haunting pictures of the last few years.

This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.

On the one hand the literal Pope, on the other hand some rich idiot with a messiah complex. Who are we to say?

Men who appear to be ICE agents entered a Pittsburgh-area diner today, then got into a violent confrontation with the manager when he asked them for a warrant. KDKA-TV got the videos and spoke to witnesses.

Clarence B. Jones, Who Helped Shape ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech, Dies at 95 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/u... - this generation lived to see their labor come to fruition and to see the inevitable retrenchment.

ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.

I didn’t know about the earliest origin of Memorial Day until I was a grown-ass man —because some folks didn’t want us to. 2021: Memorial Day organizers cut the mic of retired Lt Col Kemter as he discussed how formerly enslaved Americans exhumed remains of soldiers to give them proper burials. 🧵

Memorial Day

Irony is dead

"NJ Governor Sherrill says she’s been denied entry into Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark... Roughly 300 detainees had gone on a hunger strike to protest conditions they describe as inhumane." DHS denies the strike is happening. 🎥 from @nj.com: www.instagram.com/reel/DYxIJaO...

I put a couple of dishes in the dishwasher so my household chores are “95% done” The remaining 5% of chores are putting up a new fence and planting a new garden and painting all of the upstairs bedrooms

Without using AI

I have been thinking about this headline at least once per week for the last three years

Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery

In a phone call yesterday with eight Muslim countries, Trump said he expected them to normalize relations with Israel. Then, “there was silence on the line, and Trump joked and asked if they are still there.” www.axios.com/2026/05/24/t...

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

All exits to Delaney Hall, an ICE detention facility in New Jersey, are now being blocked by people who have mobilized in support of a hunger and work strike for better conditions for those detained.

That was the most Philadelphia Union thing I've ever seen, which is saying something The most combined goals in a first half in MLS history Wow

Suzanne Vega releases “Luka” 39 years ago this weekend. She said she once received a fan letter about it: “Dear Suzanne, Luka is the most compelling piece of music I’ve heard in a long time. There are no words 2 tell U all the things I feel when I hear it. I thank God 4 U, Prince”

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I remember watching a late-night comic in the '70s doing a shtick, "Imagine Bob Dylan getting old," which was a very Yiddish (politically correct?...no?) old-country grandpa singing 'Like a Rolling Stone" Like, people didn't think these guys were going to age?

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

People claim Bluesky is out-of-touch and yet they are all over the three-way hybrid soccer-basketball match involving Houston, San Antonio, and Tottenham

Oh wow we're finally into 1970, my favorite year for music

Donald J. Trump, president of the U.S. (unconditional surrender)

If the NHL gets its Montreal-Las Vegas Stanley Cup final will it be called "The Celine Dion Series"?