1/ Try not to act shocked when we tell you this, but #$TSLA's expansion of robotaxis to Houston & Dallas is tiny in scale, still in beta, and deeply flawed. #TeslaTakedown

every single company you interact with engages in surveillance monetization of your viewing data because Republicans defanged our regulators and ensure we have no functional modern privacy laws gosh I wonder why Paxton would be singling out Netflix suddenly

Must read piece by @karlbode.com exposes Brendan Carr's intellectual dishonesty and corruption... www.techdirt.com/2026/05/12/a...

I had somehow missed that the fascist surveillance company had cooked up a sad little fashion line for soulless manbaby shitweasels how adorable, you working overtime for the kakistocracy in your robin egg blue frump coat

its very funny to say “i was the hunted now im the hunter” at a mid-day meeting where you fell asleep at your desk

look it's not like poynter presents itself as an arbiter of best practices and journalistic ethics ...

"So while Trump might be fighting on behalf of the fans.." you don't have to include that. It's not true. He had his DOJ launch an "antitrust investigation" into the NFL exclusively because Rupert Murdoch is upset he's losing market share to new streaming alternatives

At @techdirt.com I wrote about how the Trump FCC worked with right-wing friendly ABC broadcast affiliates to make it seem like ABC had violated the law. just the laziest, dumbest attempt at censorship because a comedian made our thin-skinned President mad:

It's wild how the vast majority of polling or electoral opinion journalism doesn't think it's worth mentioning that the average American information diet is a pungent mix of corporatist infotainment and right wing agitprop

wonder what the older Americans information diet looks like and which company or companies dominate it

Sean Duffy’s reality series is getting slammed for all of the obvious reasons, but don’t look past the fact that his show is being sponsored by companies his department oversees and regulates. In other words, it’s not just a political mess, it’s also an ethical one. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Once again, The NY Times finds it's compelled to avoid reality when discussing political figures.

again, i don’t think any of this is necessary. just say that the court was out of bounds, that it may be correct on the definition of “election” but that this technical matter has no bearing on the results of the referendum, which occurred in a free and fair contest.

billionaires are fucking stupid and their propaganda isn't effective, an ongoing series over at the newsletter

all proceeds go to retro computing hardware or cat food

this all began because Rupert Murdoch complained to Donald that Fox was losing market share under these new NFL streaming arrangements our press repeatedly helps Trump pretend that transactional cronyism is good faith consumer-friendly antitrust reform with a focus on "affordability"

his policies on anything are driven largely by whatever terrible rich person was in his ear last this will be converted by the press into a good faith interest in consumer affordability

Full piece here: www.ms.now/opinion/medi...

billionaires are fucking stupid and their propaganda isn't effective, an ongoing series over at the newsletter

well they could always still use that unencrypted Starlink terminal the DOGE boys installed on the White House roof

interesting: on page 3-4 of ABC's filing to the FCC they accuse the Carr agency of working with right wing non-ABC owned affiliates to concoct a scandal surrounding The View's decision to host James Talarico last February (I'll explain) www.fcc.gov/ecfs/documen...

the censorial autocratic zealot who historically loathes corporate accountability and consumer protection suddenly wants to "fix robocalls" by imposing strict new identification requirements on burners surely that's in good faith, and has nothing to do with surveillance

consumers are drowning in debt, it's great

author of famed sci-fi novel Don't Create the Torment Nexus blamed for creation of Torment Nexus

both sides!

nice new mug! (J. Morrison/ @homocats.bsky.social)

“.. most months it’s the No. 1 consumer of water in the county.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

gross

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

fucking brunchlords, man

Keep this man away from journalists, journalism, the internet, and other people’s money.

"Paywalled" is the word you're looking for. They didn't turn it off. The only thing that changed is X now explicitly makes money off CSAM.

I love "brand partnership vehicles"

The US transportation secretary, a former reality TV star, just spent 7 months on a road trip filming a reality TV show instead of doing his job. 1/

More good work by the NYT visual investigative team. However, the headline writers have got to be joking: "Iranian Propaganda vs. U.S. Talking Points" Hegseth, Trump, etc are also clearly doing propaganda and the press should say so. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

"At this point, those agitating against the merger might see their most realistic option being to lobby for conditions on the merger, such as job-protection guarantees or production minimums." who, exactly, would write them so they're meaningful, and enforce them?

Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.

cool how was the MOTORSCKS CRIRLS shop

it's positively adorable that the extraction class thinks they can whine and agitprop their way out of this

don't worry everyone, chuck is on the job!

Trying to build alliances with fascist zealots is like trying to develop an intimate relationship with a running chainsaw. These are not collaborators to find common ground with or debate. Fascism is a purely cancerous, extractive movement that can and should only be destroyed.

LOL, no

if you look closely you can see the faint outline of a backbone starting to form!

The Washington Post is just so profoundly embarrassing now

Trying to build alliances with fascist zealots is like trying to develop an intimate relationship with a running chainsaw. These are not collaborators to find common ground with or debate. Fascism is a purely cancerous, extractive movement that can and should only be destroyed.

I think a lot of people are underestimating just how politically radicalizing this stuff is, when you see what the right is getting away with, including with the blessing of the Supreme Court majority

*raises hand* an unholy generational alliance between corporatism and racist christofascism made possible by a generation of escalating corruption and failing education and journalistic standards?

it's time for Virginia, a solidly blue state, to reckon with why it has a supreme court that has the politics of a deep red state

hey don't forget a corporatist consolidated press financially incentivized to give affluent right wingers endless credibility on all manner of subjects they never had to actually earn

why does this have to be relegated to the opinion section pasty robot boy stumbled ass first into an ad monopoly and hasn't done a single innovative or interesting thing in twenty years