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

I like all these groups suddenly being active on media consolidation all of a sudden. I spent a decade watching people yawn when the subject was brought up previously

JUST NOW: Rep. Todd Warner walks into the house to strip majority Black Memphis or representation wearing a trump flag as a cape as Rep. Camper of Memphis looks on Video: www.instagram.com/reel/DYCuFmt...

i hate that older Black people have to live through this shit again. i think about my mom, who integrated schools and had white girls be shocked that she didn't have a tail. and my grandfather, who served in a segregated army unit; human enough to serve, not human enough to die next to anyone white.

Musk, Yaccarino. xAI & X are subject of judicial probe ie criminal investigation in France… www.cnbc.com/2026/05/07/f... paris prosecutor’s statement linked in story

"legal uncertainty" = they collaborated with the corrupt Trump administration to illegally ignore media consideration limits

War is peace

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

I wrote about all the useful idiots (like Matt Stoller and Ro Khanna) that told us we could strike useful alliances with fascists and how disastrously wrong they were

Rep. Justin Jones burning a Confederate flag during the special session on Tennessee redistricting Jones: “It’s a form of Jim Crow terror — this is about race. This is about power. This is about silencing communities that have historically been excluded”

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.