He cannot be clearer. There is no difference to him between bombing random fishermen on boats and shooting Americans protesters in the face

NEWS Elon Musk and others LOSE their bid to duck depositions in DOGE litigation. Judge doubts protections for "high-ranking government officials" for multiple reasons. It's unclear they ever had that status, and Musk "left government service." Doc buff.ly/uhpSOTz

today's report: our "adopt a rent" venmo campaign paid 43 families rents who were at risk of evictions, including several moms of 4+ children this is the way to get rent paid fast. like. 1000x better than any other way.

Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event

NEW: The unfathomable Minnesota transcript that must be read, as it tells the reality of America today. "I am not white, as you can see," Julie Le — a government lawyer — told a federal judge on Tuesday. "And my family's at risk as any other people that might get picked up too ..." Law Dork:

We are seeing the convergence of all of these tactics across media, and the absolute purge at the @washingtonpost.com of some 300 staff and entire news divisions at one of this nation’s greatest newspapers while an open ideologue has been handed CBS’s reins are signs of a democracy in deep decline.

As terrible as what is happening right now to journalism, we actually should dismantle the romantic myths we have of the press in America. I teach in my class about colonial press censorship, and then how the independent press was a tool for the wealthy, white power holders to maintain dominance.

That Jeff Bezos's Amazon gave Brett Ratner, someone photographed with Jeffrey Epstein and in the Epstein Files, $75 million to make a doc about Melania Trump, while he chooses to destroy The Washington Post, says about all you need to know.

I think some people may have thought i was exaggerating the extremely gendered maga perceptions of liberal weakness. I offer this as a rebuttal. bsky.app/profile/radl...

This is one reason I keep trying to remind people of the power that we have. That we have *always* had. Not because I’m in denial, but because I know history. I’m no sophisticated intellectual, but I do know we’re going to win even though the bad shit is really terrible right now.

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

This is how Sen. Ron Wyden clues the public into activity that he finds extremely alarming. He does a press release about a letter he sent to the director of the CIA that basically says, 'I want to make sure you saw the classified letter I sent early today.' www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Small scoop here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Last week, lawmakers in both the House and Senate renewed their push to pass the SAVE Act, introducing multiple new versions of this awful bill that could prevent more than 21 million Americans from voting. Tell your senators to stop this attack on the freedom to vote: bit.ly/4tmVIor

ICE at the polls! Bannon is basically yelling “fire” in a crowded theater here. His objective is to cause chaos (and suppress votes on the left). And it’s already working. This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose. Let me explain & offer some advice.

"Every once in a while, you have to smile. Roger Ailes used to tell us that." Remember when Megyn Kelly helped bring Ailes down at Fox News for sexually harassing her? Now here she is referencing him approvingly to the vice president to defend Trump's misogyny. www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...

NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:

This is like people thinking Musk is trying to optimize Twitter for revenues. THEY WANT CONTROL AND POWER.

Like people in actual media aren’t getting this??? I genuinely think folks are simply in denial. Because this is an absolutely absurd take. bsky.app/profile/watt...

Is Trump finally figuring out that the Koch operation (Leo/McGahn) really picked “his” Supreme Court justices; that Trump was their chump. Trump the chump! Hysterical.

It's hard not to feel like a crazy person when I've been shouting about this at the top of my lungs for 5 or 10 years (even back on the platform where I nominally had half a million followers) and ... nothing happens. (I know @chrislhayes.bsky.social knows, but I'm not sure why it never resonated.)

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

there is an object permanence crisis in american news media

For those keeping score at home:

Hochulmentum meter just broke

I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.

A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

NEW: The FBI has been unable to access a Washington Post reporter’s seized iPhone because it was in Lockdown Mode, a sometimes overlooked feature that makes iPhones broadly more secure, according to recently filed court records.

If only the mainstream press had really unpacked what “mass deportations now” was actually promising if only we had national consensus about the cruelty, inhumanity, and historic atrocity implied by that little slogan it’s so clear these people did not even understand what they were asking for

It’s absolutely maddening to see Reddit and TikTok reading emails in which men frequently admit serious crimes, with real victims, looking for hidden clues and codes like it’s a fucking scavenger hunt.

"Draw down"...another military term. They truly believe they're at war.

[Miller] gushed about creating “vast holding facilities” built on “open land,” which would enable Trump to escalate the volume and speed of deportations to unprecedented heights. Trembling with excitement, Miller vowed: “President Trump will do whatever it takes.”

They always say this is to protect the privacy of the people who are fired. This is bullshit. They don't care about the people who they fired; that's why they fired them. They hide the names of the fired people to limit their own legal exposure. They fired these 'rebuked' employees for defiance.

Deep internet lore the Black woman who helped stop misinformation on Pinterest, brought about sunshine laws Was fired for race and gender Only the white woman got a settlement it was bragged about as a women’s victory!! She’s lovely and on a farm and I love that for her

"power holds no value unless it is exercised"

Another round of dark headlines this am. @wsj.com @financialtimes.com @nytimes.com

Mercy. www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...

NEW: Elon Musk's X is awarding Nick Shirley—the creator who boosted the fraud allegations that led to ICE's Minneapolis surge—$100,000 for his "coverage. x.com/XCreators/st...

As news of investigations into X break and a certain tech mogul has temper tantrums, remember that Musk lashing out at global internet regulators is nothing new. open.substack.com/pub/wicziped...

Here’s a useful reminder of what our federal courts SHOULD be doing to uphold our constitutional traditions:

Thinking about how some people went from “lean in” to “trad wife” in a mere decade.

My favorite genre of Epstein emails are powerful people emailing WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN about how MeToo has gone too far and the woke mob must be stopped.

I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

Self-owning tech industry

I’m on the board of the EFF, but I’m also on the board of the Lower East Side Girls Club. There’s only one reason folks mention an org when they’re disagreeing with a post of yours on here, and it’s “I hope this gets that org to end its relationship with you!” Do you want to escalate to that level?

Last week, the NYC tech community celebrated 30 years of "Silicon Alley", a silly name for a very real community that's done amazing work. But now we're at a crossroads, and we'll have to decide if this community will keep its soul. A bellwether for all of tech: www.anildash.com/2026/02/03/n...

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

When writer and tech entrepreneur @anildash.com first heard about Wikipedia, his reaction was: “Well… good luck to those guys.” That was 25 years ago. Now, he recognizes Wikipedia’s unbelievable collective generosity and reflects on how it’s adapted to each new era of the internet.

Manhattan Boro President Brad Hoylman is the first politician I have seen try and do something about the fact far right propaganda outlet Newsmax is streaming in NYC cabs. www.instagram.com/reel/DUJvtcY...