“echo” is a weird way to say “are” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

Judge Reyes’s conclusion: “There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. … Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, [Noem] pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).”

Minnesota is full of companies that position themselves as pillars of the local community, Target, General Mills, Best Buy, Cargill, and Land O’Lakes, among them. Have they said anything about ICE's attack on their customers and employees? Not a single one. www.fastcompany.com/91476021/min...

Airbnb cofounder Joe Gebbia helped turn the company into a behemoth by touting its 'Belong Anywhere’ mission. Today, as the country's chief design officer, he’s redesigning how Americans experience the government & cheering on the Trump administration's policies. www.fastcompany.com/91458973/chi...

A must-read message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, Mark and Melissa's children:

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

In the wake of the tragedy at Brown, online conspiracists rushed to pin the horrific mass murder on an innocent Palestinian student. One of them was Shaun Maguire, a partner at leading VC firm Sequoia Capital. www.fastcompany.com/91463942/seq...

Should we be farming and eating octopus? I thought I knew the answer, but the issue much more nuanced that I expected. @clintrainey.com takes a deep dive on what could be the next big commercially farmed seafood www.fastcompany.com/91448602/oct...

Like so many tech stories right now, this is also religion story: a 25-year-old founder who has moved through a Doug Wilson-affiliated church, is now Eastern Orthodox, and "quotes the Bible and Elon Musk in the same breath." By @ainsleyharris.bsky.social: www.fastcompany.com/91448561/thi...

Augustus Doricko might seem like a typical startup founder. He’s raised $31 million in venture capital for Rainmaker, which uses drones to ‘seed’ clouds, bringing water to drought-prone areas. There’s technological wizardry and a world-changing mission. www.fastcompany.com/91448561/thi...

The type designer behind Calibri says the decision to replace his font with Times New Roman as the official U.S. State Department typeface is "hilarious and regrettable." f-st.co/jiypxwR

Exclusive: Hinge founder and CEO Justin McLeod is stepping down. Here's what that means for the 'designed to be deleted' dating app. www.fastcompany.com/91456495/hin...

Prediction markets are drawing in sports fans—and Fanatics wants in. The apparel and collectibles giant its betting its new Fanatics Markets app can capture some of the billions of dollars in trades that Kalshi and Polymarket are seeing. FC has the exclusive. www.fastcompany.com/91452559/exc...

Have we ushered in an era where every time a player mysteriously gets hurt or flubs a pitch, he or she will be greeted with accusations of cheating? The great @jaywillis.net on how prop bets have changed the game. www.fastcompany.com/91429446/the...

"Even as Democrats rally around ActBlue in the face of attacks from the right, they are sharply divided over whether the organization is equipped to handle these blows." @issielapowsky.bsky.social reports on Democratic fundraising giant, which is under siege. www.fastcompany.com/91428737/ins...

NEW: Trump gave the DOJ 180 days to report on supposed fraud at ActBlue. The deadline passed. No report. I spoke with sources about the tumultuous last year inside ActBlue—turnover under its CEO, GOP attacks, and the group's growing ambitions despite it all. www.fastcompany.com/91428737/ins...

When you hear about someone arrested or swept up in an immigration raid, there’s a good chance they’ve ended up at a facility run by Geo Group, the nation’s largest for-profit jailer of immigrants and one of ICE’s biggest contractors. 🧵👇 1/6 www.fastcompany.com/91396722/the...

“…What will convince them? This, and this only: cease to call slavery wrong, and join them in calling it right. And this must be done thoroughly - done in acts as well as in words. Silence will not be tolerated - we must place ourselves avowedly with them.”

Embryo screening startups like Orchid promise to reduce genetic risks & help parents avoid passing on inherited conditions. But are we edging toward designer babies? @ainsleyharris.bsky.social explores the hope & discomfort of genetic optimization. Worth a read. www.fastcompany.com/91396712/sil...

It’s 1995 Week on Fast Company! Here’s my colleague Mark Sullivan on Johnny Mnemonic, a prescient movie I somehow still haven’t seen. www.fastcompany.com/91356470/joh...

💉 Does a pharma company have a responsibility to release a safer drug when it develops one? Do its good works abroad offset its harms back home? @adambluestein.bsky.social looks at what happens when one drugmaker dominates an entire group of patients. www.fastcompany.com/91336445/gil...

"We will erase the national debt by selling illegal green cards to millions of extremely wealthy foreigners who (1) definitely exist and (2) want to move to our budding police state" is the kind of delusional nonsense that only this country's stupidest billionaires could come up with

"In news I am sure will astonish you, Trump and his handlers do not appear to have a firm grasp on the legal intricacies here." @jaywillis.net on the gilded nonsense known as the Trump Gold Card: www.fastcompany.com/91352164/tru...

I know some folks don't have much sympathy for Moderna, but RFK Jr's war on vaccines and the science behind them could affect everything from the government's response to avian flu to ground-breaking cancer therapeutics.

Did CEOs ever really believe in ‘doing good’—or was it all just PR? For Fast Company's latest cover story, Jim Surowiecki looks at what's behind the corporate retreat from DEI, ESG, and idea that business can and should be a force for good.

This isn’t just a pharma story—it’s about what happens when ideology starts writing the rules of science. @adambluestein.bsky.social on what went wrong Moderna. www.fastcompany.com/91337309/wha...

Wanna make it in music today? Get yourself a Tiny Desk concert! Love this story by the great @davidsalazar.bsky.social

I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.

After throwing a grenade at Harvard, Trump is off to dinner with 220 of his favorite people in the world: crypto speculators willing to pay for access to the White House. @jaywillis.net takes a look at the president's brazen cash grab www.fastcompany.com/91338783/tru...

I have always viewed Trump’s political career as a grift, and yet, if you’d told me in 2016 that he’d be hosting a private dinner for hundreds of crypto speculators who’d spent $150 million on his memecoin, I would have assumed democracy was on the brink of collapse. Wait, hold that thought

"Trump's preoccupation with ferreting out 'racial handouts' is so all-consuming that he's trying to cut government spending that would meaningfully improve the lives of millions of voters, many of whom cast their ballots for him." - @jaywillis.net www.fastcompany.com/91335032/tru...

Before this year, Target had never given a dime to an presidential inaugural committee. Then, in January, it gave $1 million to welcome Trump back to the White House. (Walmart, in contrast, gave $150,000.) Target followed up by ditching all its DEI commitments. www.fastcompany.com/91320350/tar...

a16z has a new logo to go along with its 'techno-optimism' under Trump. @ctrlzee.bsky.social takes a look www.fastcompany.com/91327237/a16...

If you’re unsettled by the power that Elon Musk wields on Earth, don’t look up. @adambluestein.bsky.social profiles more than a dozen companies that are challenging SpaceX and Starlink and bringing more competition to the skies. www.fastcompany.com/91310407/spa...

Eighteen-year-old Carlos Daniel Terán was taken from his home and shipped to a notorious prison on the charge that he is a gang member. The government hasn't produced evidence supporting the claim, says his lawyer. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

How Trump's tariffs will impact the spice trade. Specifically the business of Brooklyn-based Burlap & Barrel, which sources spices from many of the countries (Vietnam, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, China) that were hit particularly hard. @lizsegran.bsky.social reports www.fastcompany.com/91310971/tru...

As @afarles.bsky.social tells us, we didn’t build this years MIC list in response to the election, but this years selections ended up containing quite a few Elon Musk foils. Bluesky being among them! Check out the full list on @fastcompany.com podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

"There are few people in England I suppose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste. If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/a...

@fastcompany.com just released its annual list of the Top 50 most innovative companies in the world. Let’s take a look! www.fastcompany.com/most-innovat...

The Ctrl-F presidency is working out well

“We will allow the most successful job-creating people from all over the world to buy a path to U.S. citizenship,” Trump said, promising that the 'gold cards' would go “on sale soon,” as if he were a late-night TV pitchman. www.fastcompany.com/91289751/tru...

Well, this isn't reassuring: "Everything that this new administration’s done in the first month regarding H5N1 [bird flu] indicates they don’t take this threat seriously. They’ll be flat-faced when they see this virus take hold and start spreading human to human." www.fastcompany.com/91287407/tru...

"There is no better distillation of Musk’s brand of 'efficiency' than tasking underlings with building a DOGE website full of sloppy, dark-mode versions of free government resources that already exist." @jaywillis.net on Elon Musk's *real* project at DOGE. www.fastcompany.com/91287345/dog...

"When Musk calls X the 'future' of journalism, he isn’t saying he wants people on X to report on the shuttering of USAID or the deaths of the people it serves. He wants people on X to drown out the journalists." @jaywillis.net on X's outrage machine & DOGE. www.fastcompany.com/91278563/elo...

Republicans have been trying to kill the CFPB for my entire adult life, and now that Elon Musk wants to make X your banking app by the end of the year, they might be able to pull it off

Under ordinary circumstances, a social media platform owned by a White House employee announcing imminent plans to enter the financial services business could expect to undergo rigorous scrutiny. Not in 2025. @jaywillis.net on the hollowing out of the CFPB www.fastcompany.com/91272763/tru...

Creating chaos is not leadership

Kim Kardashian's cultural takeover is now complete.

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Shares of K-pop agency #Hybe plummeted on news that #NewJeans was breaking with the company. The breakout girl group made $83 million for Hybe in 2023, via album sales, live events, and brand partnerships with the likes of Apple, Coca-Cola, and Nike. www.fastcompany.com/91238279/k-p...