Owen McGrann applies the concept of the Dead Internet Theory (>50% of online is now AI-generated slop read by >50% of bot-driven traffic) to how AI will impact the meatspace, real world. It ain’t great… www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-e...

BLANCHE SHIELDS TRUMP: In a newly posted order signed by Acting AG Todd Blanche, the Department of Justice states that the federal government is now permanently barred from pursuing a wide range of tax-related claims and reviews against Donald Trump, his family members, and affiliated companies. 1/

NEW: I’ve written a call to arms. Journalists are being murdered in unprecedented numbers by a Western ally that operates with total impunity. Enough. Publishers & editors have failed us. But if we can’t speak up about this, what is journalism even for? open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Few things buttress my faith in humanity like this loathing. The fact that the AI overlords have so miscalculated what we would think and whether it would matter is fun too. A bit like the Trump Administration's miscalculation of how Minneapolis would respond to invasion by a thug army.

A platform backed by Peter Thiel and advised by Donald Trump Jr. is taking anonymous crypto bets on UK elections, missile strikes and the death of world leaders. In Britain no regulator will touch it A Nerve explainer by @tuckerian.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/polymarket...

the company that made this free deepfake tool raised $450 million 👍 www.404media.co/streamer-rea...

This is the height of corruption. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

BREAKING: Todd Blanche just used the $1.7B slush fund theft to END the IRS audit into trump’s tax returns. Outside lawyers WARNED that would be illegal.

COONS: Will you commit to making reports fully public so Americans know who is getting taxpayer dollars out of this settlement fund? BLANCHE: There are privacy laws that may prevent some of the information from being fully public

The Right needs new talking points and a check on their California Derangement Syndrome. California is the top-performing economy in the US. We dominate in EVERY category — from manufacturing to venture capital, engineering, and research. We are writing the rules of the future.

CBS backlash has pushed Colbert to 2.70 million viewers. Weiss is now faced with canceling the MOST WATCHED PROGRAM in the late-night time slot. Fire her - keep Colbert is the answer.

“The #NAACP launches campaign urging Black athletes, families, alumni & fans to boycott athletic programs in states that ’have moved to erase Black voting representation’”. Hit ’em where it hurts. Just like the Montgomery Bus Boycotts. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... By @adriawalkr.bsky.social

Workers at the SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles have decided to go on strike if federal immigration enforcement agents are deployed at the venue when it hosts FIFA World Cup matches in June and July. www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/...

It's becoming clear why these Tech Billionaires are compelled to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on post-apocalypse end-of-times bunkers… They behave like sociopathic, earth-incinerating monsters, then turn around and whine, “But… You called me a *sociopathic, earth-incinerating monster*!”

NEW: An Oklahoma family was forced to abandon their home after it filled with slick, black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite ample evidence of oil and gas pollution, state regulators say they cannot help.

What if we paid the insurrectionists to beat up the Epstein clients?

NEW: Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for evading income taxes. It hasn’t stopped the FCC from sending him $1 million a year to sell obsolete internet service in Alaska. The money comes from a special government subsidy program. You help pay for it. w/ @adn.com

The United States government just agreed to pay $1.8 billion to the United States president, approved by the president's own personal lawyer who represented him when he was convicted of 34 criminal counts. This is the biggest scandal in all of American political history.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social Elon Musk & other billionaires are seeking to reassure us about AI’s dangers. Don’t believe them We need to strengthen our safety net NOW to protect against AI’s potential dangers, including massive layoffs & increased income inequality www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket for free and share its content with everyone you know. Thanks. bit.ly/4a7l1TR

History has proven that when the dominant form of energy changes, there is often a shift in the global pecking order. We are now in the midst of one such transition as the epoch of petrol starts to give way to an era of renewables. By @jonathan-watts.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

“Believe in the me that believes in you!” Happy Long Beach Pride

Hawaii just enacted a law that effectively neuters Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.

“Please enjoy Colbert’s final shows,” John Oliver told viewers at the end of Sunday's 'Last Week Tonight.' “He’s the f*cking best. Good night, and good luck, motherf*ckers!” Full story: latenighter.com/news/john-ol...

“We are out of the patience business. Patience is the enemy now. Patience is what people w/ power ask of people w/o it, and it gets asked again every time another court ruling or another statute or another “norm” is used to lock the door a little tighter.” betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

Wait. So banning abortion didn't decrease abortions and it only made them more deadly? WEIRD.

Sure looks like Republicans redrew the map in Tennessee to stop Memphis from sending Justin J. Pearson to Congress, who is/was poised to win the primary after fighting like hell against Elon Musk's methane-spewing data centre monstrosities in South Memphis. Craven, desperate and racist as hell.

So much attention has been paid to the Musk v. Altman trial. But real accountability for the AI industry will not come from a billionaire mudfight. It will come from the movements around the world resisting the empires of AI. My op-ed for @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/technology/c...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

One year after our original essay appeared, @astra.bsky.social and I are thrilled to reveal the North American cover of our forthcoming book END TIMES FASCISM - and the Fight for the Living World. On bookshelves Sept 15th and now available for pre-order. Canada: is.gd/RNravu US: is.gd/U3nR3H

Here’s our Guardian article (published April 2025) that set us on the path to this book.

Austerity for thee, ballroom for me. FDR gave up his presidential yacht after Pearl Harbor. Carter turned down the White House thermostats during the energy crisis. Trump wants a $1B ballroom. #Velshi www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

Always make friends with dogs.

Buttigieg on Duffy: "I love roadtrips. I love America. I actually took a taxpayer-funded roadtrip lasted about 7 months. It was in Afghanistan. This is something very different. To make roadtrips unaffordable & then go around celebrating your own roadtrip is actually why people are frustrated about"

The Religious Right is desperate these days to pretend that "Christian Nationalism" is (1) a recently-invented term and (2) a pejorative invented by their enemies, but neither of those claims is remotely true. Here's a short thread, but I'm sure other historians will have examples too.

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

“Democracies across the planet are now threatened by an extremist movement that breaks laws, spreads lies & threatens violence to maintain markets for oil, gas & coal that would otherwise be replaced by cheaper renewables.” By @jonathan-watts.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Trump's insecure and childish inability to ever admit to making a mistake is really going to catch up with him on this very public, obvious mistake. He's making possibly the worst verbal flub in American presidential history even worse by stamping his little feet in foolish defiance.

May 16, 2026

In addition to a wanton taxpayer cash grab, the settlement would “waive an IRS audit of Trump, his family & his businesses…more than $100m in back payments on a *single* Chicago property,” were the IRS be forced to surrender what Trump owes us. Thx also to @samtlevin.bsky.social & @propublica.org!

The Pentagon has quietly dismantled a program it is legally required to operate to prevent and respond to civilian deaths in US military operations, according to its internal watchdog. Read more ⬇️ w/ @catebrown.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I love and respect this scientist. Carl Sagan answers a question about creation vs evolution.

“.. the programme has not provided a single dollar of cover.” @financialtimes.com #Hormuz www.ft.com/content/eaba...

Chinese newspaper cartoon (Today... 😂 )

Today, I offered an amendment that would have shut this scam down. My amendment would've prevented self-dealing by public officials — including the President & members of Congress — who own or promote digital asset companies, including crypto. Every Republican voted against it.

3-year-old Teslas fail inspections more than any other 3-year-old car in the Finnish market by multiples. Top 3 worst: 1. ⁠Tesla Model Ys saw 62.7 % failures. 2. ⁠Tesla Model 3s saw 58.7 % failures. 3. ⁠Dacia Dusters saw 23 % failures. Nearly all other car models had under 10% failure rates.

If you subscribe to Paramount+, unsubscribe. Something you MUST watch? Check out BitTorrent. 🏴‍☠️ *cough* For academic purposes. Pray Oracle goes bankrupt soon for its wanton overspending on planet-burning AI server farms. cf. the above if/when the Warner/Paramount deal rolls thru #BoycottParamount