On the theme of corruption, @karlbode.com's tireless work on exposing the ongoing broadband boondoggle -- perpetrated by Republicans, exploited by techno-fascists, and obfuscated by major media and pundits like Ezra Klein -- is staggering: karlbode.com/its-the-corr...

Year 5 of Russia’s 3-day war. Russian authorities have started to place mobile toilets along the waiting lines for fuel in the Russian capital and elsewhere. „Everything is under control.“

entire media cycles rise and fall on this otherwise largely unremarkable rich man repeatedly saying incorrect things

The funny thing here is she’s presenting this as an out-of-the-box, shake things up gamut when it’s like the first thing every right wing us media outlet does. Hire a bunch of Brits from the Fleet Street/Murdoch world. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This Danville, VA city council candidate made a very dramatic video about sidewalks and public safety, and I love it and him. Worrying about a possible milkshake duck situation, I looked at his FB page, but he seems ok. Juneteenth celebrations, community outreach, Methodists. A solid old gent.

my contempt for the New York Times leadership became really baked in when they let him set their front page coverage for weeks.

absolutely fucking not.

brunchlord puff interviews in the New York Times ain't gonna help you, kid

The tyranny of Zohran Mamdani using tax dollars to provide services benefitting the people paying taxes chill me to the bone and demonstrate the rank selfishness of his political project, “we pay the taxes so we should get something out of it” Self-absorbed egotism, that’s all it is.

Om Malik was a generous, funny, and genuinely kind human being. He helped and encouraged me many times over the years, and that's not something I find myself saying often (ever?) about people in the VC space.

"Carr doesn’t want this to ever see an actual courtroom. He just wants to intimidate corporate media giants, censor valid speech, and then bask in the adoration of the misinformed and deluded," @karlbode.com writes about Brendan Carr's bullying campaign against ABC. www.techdirt.com/2026/06/25/g...

The Tea Party was a top-down astroturfed marketing campaign to rebrand the right wing of the GOP to a something that wasn't associated with George W. Bush's toxic Presidency. The extent to which it was an "insurgency" or "anti-establishment" is wildly overstated.

lol does this article really not mention that Clarence Thomas was in house counsel for Monsanto, the Roundup manufacturer?

In case you missed it, I wrote about how Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk hijacked billions of dollars in taxpayer money intended to provide future-proof fiber internet access

These are the actions of an authoritarian regime, where their agents come to intimidate you if you share public information about how they have killed American citizens

She has a neck the size of an adult human, legs that are just as long and an unforgettable coat. And she’s missing.

Would be good to get all the members of SSCI who voted to confirm her as DNI on the record about this reporting.

“and so it’s almost like a confession – as though the words on the pamphlet are: 'We worship the devil, signed, antifa’.” @reproutopia.bsky.social quoted in @lexmcmenamin.com's incredible new story

I see people characterize the student protests against Israel as failures, and I really don’t think that’s true. They may not have toppled the U.S.-Israel alliance or ended the genocide, but they have helped usher in a generational turning point in attitudes toward Israel and Palestine

guy who oversaw the DNC managing to lose an election against an extremely unpopular convicted rapist, responding to a popular movement within his party with enthusiasm behind it and a message that is actually resonating with voter and winning elections: Nooooo ewww go awayyyy ewwww noooo

you people need to show more respect for the political machinery that lost to donald trump twice

Amazon Prime Day is my favorite holiday! The entire U.S. press becomes glorified blogspam for a single retailer owned by one of the planet's richest men for no coherent reason, with nobody in any position of editorial power thinking it's at all gross or unethical

Trump cancels signing of bipartisan housing bill, demanding voter-ID provision - www.cnbc.com/2026/06/24/t... (a democracy if you can keep it)

and by "war" we mean "merge into even bigger, shittier companies"

sure is funny how right wing billionaires keep buying up media outlets, converting them into right wing propaganda mills, and driving journalists into exile

In case you missed it, I wrote about how Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk hijacked billions of dollars in taxpayer money intended to provide future-proof fiber internet access

The New York Times seems surprised that the guy the Trump FCC installed to make sure CBS remains friendly to the interests of right wing oligarchs doesn't actually help anybody

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Over at @theverge.com, @seangon.bsky.social and I wrote about how billionaires hijacked a generational $42.5 billion program intended to dramatically improve internet access. Republicans stripped away all affordability and equity requirements, and are turning it into a slush fund.

Indeed, all one hears from Maine to Spokane are the whispered comparisons of Zohran Mamdani to Karl Lueger, the activist antisemitic mayor of Vienna in the early 1900s.

He will 100% vote Republican in 28.

Employees at Scientific American were told today that the magazine has been sold to LabX Media Group, the outfit that runs Discover Magazine and IFLScience. And that means -- of course! -- editorial layoffs. The media mass extinction rolls ever onward.

Everyone from SciAm should be hired again, but the # of jobs in journalism – especially sci/enviro journalism – has been plummeting, and freelance wages haven't risen (not even with inflation) since at least the 90s. Science media is getting quieter, even if you don't notice it all at once.

The AI bubble needs to pop—and there is a choice between two paths that can be taken to recover from the potential financial fallout, the author Cory Doctorow tells @cwarzel.bsky.social. Watch Galaxy Brain: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPQN...

Womp womp

I would rather lobotomize myself with a wooden kitchen spoon

How stupid, corrupt and incompetent can you be?

One of my "favorite" dumb Musk things is his deeply held belief that other people aren't real. One of his first moves after taking over Twitter was to try to fire "ghost employees," of which he thought they were many. He's a murderous bigot but he also thinks Fake People are robbing him blind.

Great read. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

NEW: Thiel's Dialog society privately told members their data was stolen in a cyberattack. But WIRED found it was just readable to anyone on a misconfigured web page. Its lawyers sent us a legal demand to hand over the data. We passed.

If you can afford another newsletter,I'd like to strongly suggest you subscribe to @karlbode.com 's newsletter Fine Print,where you will get an analysis of how the great tech revolution we were promised went awry& learn more about the dreadful one the main stream media largely ignores or covers up.

“Robert Chang, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine school of law and executive director of its Fred T Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, called the verdict ‘frightening’. ‘By this logic, any protest could be a conspiracy,’ he said. ‘The goal posts keep moving.’”

meanwhile this guy continues to be amazing

just gettin' started

“Your broadband isn't shitty and expensive because we love bureaucracy and are allergic to building abundance, it's because the government is too corrupt to function.”

the associated press is held up as a gold standard of journalism but it's increasingly just silly, credulous fluff nothing this frozen TV dinner empire heir turned foppish propagandist says is relevant or means anything

I don’t want to hear another word from establishment Dems about cooperating with Republicans. Don’t want to see another stupid bipartisan photo about “seersucker suit day” on the Hill. Nine people who protested ICE at a detention camp were just sentenced to 50-100 years in prison. WAKE TF UP.

do you guys understand how cool this is? do you have even an inkling of how massive a quality of life improvement this can provide?

Ezra Klein sucks, episode 7,000:

giant baby brendan carr is very upset that ABC is starting to form something vaguely resembling a backbone