Peter Thiel’s move to Argentina tells you everything you need to know about how billionaires see the future. But it's important to understand where he got the idea. The Sovereign Individual: Peter Thiel, Argentina, and the Network State. www.thenerdreich.com/the-sovereig...

NEWS: In September, the Washington Post fired me in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing. This week, after eight months, I'll be heading to arbitration against the Post to challenge my termination. karenattiah.substack.com/p/my-case-ag...

Giants OLB Abdul Carter on why he responded critically to Jaxson Dart’s decision to introduce Donald Trump: www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Clarence B. Jones, lawyer and speechwriter who drafted part of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's “I Have a Dream” speech, has died. He was 95.

This gathering on tech justice and data centre organizing was the most exciting political event I attended this year - so happy the content is now live. I loved being in conversation with the brilliant Jacinta González. Sneak peak reading from mine and @astra.bsky.social's new book!

The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”

The U.S. is reportedly seeking to indict Raúl Castro, the 94-year-old former president of Cuba and brother of Fidel

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

What Disney is facing is not a series of coincidental regulatory actions but a sustained, coordinated campaign of censorship and control. As I told their new CEO, the fight ahead may not be easy, but the law, the facts, and the public are on their side.

WATCH: The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of the second Trump administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. Full story: propub.li/4tHp2Wd

"The Roberts Court operates in a completely legal-free zone. They're going to reinterpret the 15th Amendment. They're going to reinterpret the Voting Rights Act. They're going to override the will of Congress just because they want to. And they're daring someone to stop them and so far no one has"

I do frequently wonder what the average citizen of the U.S. knows about Reconstruction. As Du Bois would later point out, the backlash of lost cause propaganda didn’t just create mass disinformation about the civil war itself, but about the opening for actual democracy that briefly came after it.

My latest is up! open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

As Vernon Jordan said in 1981, “Intent to discrminate is impossible to prove.” It took 45 years but the Supreme Court chose that impossible standard today. www.nytimes.com/1981/11/16/o...

None of us take pleasure in being right: But we are in the Second Nadir. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

I encourage you to read the 1901 final Congressional speech of George Henry White, who would be the last Black man in Congress for 30 yrs.This “is perhaps the Negroes’ temporary farewell to the American Congress; but…phoenix-like he will rise up some day and come again… blackpast.org/african-amer...

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

There are people still living who fought — and watched their compatriots be murdered — for the passage of this act and to attempt to democratize America. To see it completed felled in the span of their OWN lifetime is just absolutely devastating.

We're coming, DC! @emilymbender.bsky.social and I will be talking about our book The AI Con on Monday, hosted by the Center for Digital Ethics and moderated by Laura DeNardis. Hope to see you there! events.georgetown.edu/digital-ethi...

Over 500 journalists have signed this letter asking the White House Correspondents Association to meet the moment and demonstrate opposition against fascism and this fascist government. whcapetitionapril25.tiiny.site

Jacinta González from @mediajustice.bsky.social has been sharing important findings about Palantir's role in US deportations and will be one of the presenters at our April 28th webinar, Data Activism in the Age of Trump. Register here: www.concordia.ca/cuevents/art...

The financial structure underwriting the global AI race deserves as much scrutiny as the technology itself, Hera Hyeonseo Lee writes.

Fascists hate to be called out as fascists. Too bad. Coming soon: The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy. Yes, they are fascists. Yes, they must be crushed. Please pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

Not a dime of taxpayer money or govt contracts should go to Palantir.

in the dead of night, House GOP leadership is trying to not just extend but possibly expand government surveillance powers — and incredibly, @jahimes.bsky.social is working to help them do it

@freepress.bsky.social was outside of Paramount today during CBS upfronts to show advertisers what they’ll be supporting with their ad buys this year.

Tim Cook's go-along enthusiasm for Trump's fascism is "an active choice," writes @karlbode.com. "Trying to 'engage' with fascism is like trying to have an intimate emotional relationship with a running chainsaw." karlbode.com/tim-cook-is-...

Journalistic malpractice and democratic betrayal.

Jeff Bezos' Washington Post editorial board endorsed Pam Bondi as a "qualified" and "serious" pick for Attorney General. Nowhere in the endorsement did they mention that she's a former Amazon lobbyist. Another reminder that billionaire control of our media is a threat to democracy.

The notion that AI companies can fund something that will truly hold them accountable is absurd on its face. AI donations to nonprofits scare rather than impress me. We need money out of policymaking. It always leads to the corporate interests coming before the public interest.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... bsky.app/profile/robe...

Looks like a guy who used to oppose government censorship. What happened to him?

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico jury finds Meta's platforms are harmful to children's mental health and imposes $375 million penalty.

From ISSUE NO. 10: “Trump’s second presidency has been devoted to demolishing anti-discrimination policies based on the absurd claim that they are unfair to white people, especially white men, who are now the real victims of racism.” @keeanga.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

The newest edition of @hammerandhope.bsky.social is now out! Find the entire issue here. A few highlights: hammerandhope.org

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

For further context: Carr admits he doesn't view the FCC as an independent agency. He wears Trump's gilded face as a lapel pin. Trump posted an image of Carr as his pet pitbull today, and Carr responded by growling at his critics to prove him right.

Brendan Carr needs to be removed from office. For his gross abuses of government power. For sucking up to Trump rather than defending free speech, press freedom and the Constitution. And because he doesn’t know the difference between a TV station and a newspaper.

Makes you wonder if Trump called his FCC chairman to direct him to threaten media institutions since the war he started is so unpopular with the public.

What a great coincidence that this image is driving around Hollywood displayed on a billboard truck right very now.

So if anybody -- state attorneys general, Democratic politicians, sentient beings -- doesn't understand why Paramount Skydance's takeover of Warner Bros./CNN is a huge problem, Pete Hegseth is here to explain it to you. Stop the propaganda. Block this merger.

Big Tech and Big Media donated some $63 million to a Trump-aligned nonprofit that was set up to help finance Trump's presidential library. Now the nonprofit has disappeared and with it the money. Three guesses on where it's gone. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

From my colleague, @ruddock.bsky.social: "Research from UC Riverside and Cal Tech estimates that across the US, public health costs related to air pollution from data centers’ energy infrastructure has surpassed $5.5 billion over the last five years."

We identified 12 shootings by federal agents that led to the deaths or injuries of citizens & immigrants since Sept. Nearly every time, the Trump admin blamed the injured and dead. Experts say this apparent lack of accountability demands that local authorities step up to investigate federal agents.

History teaches us that a free press cannot exist under mass surveillance. Nor can free speech survive in a chokehold. As @josephtorr.bsky.social says: Surveillance was never about safety. It's about maintaining social control in the service of white supremacy. We've been here before. 🧵 >