It was just last month that Brett Kavanaugh gave his explanation for why it was perfectly okay for Homeland Security goons to profile brown people and detain them based on nothing more than the color of their skin. While his cowardly colleagues in the majority on that shadow docket decision refused to explain their thinking, […]
There are two big reasons why the lawsuit the State of Arizona and Adelita Grijalva has brought against the House of Representatives to force Grijalva to be sworn in ultimately might not succeed: (A) because even if it seems to succeed initially it’s likely to end up before this slate of Supreme Court justices, whose […]
For the first time in ten months of near-total congressional capitulation to Trump, five Republican Senators broke ranks on Tuesday, siding with Democrats to block the nonsense tariffs Trump unilaterally declared on Brazil as punishment for their treatment of Trump buddy Jair Bolsonaro. The US Senate on Tuesday approved a measure that would terminate Donald […]
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If there was anyone with any spine, honesty, or morality in the Trump administration, these astounding gaffes would have been headed off. But there’s no one left with any of these traits in the White House, so we get the sort of thing we’re now seeing with increasing frequency: Trump (deliberately or not) forgetting who […]
Thanks to the government shutdown, federal employees are stuck sitting in long food bank lines just to survive. While President Trump is destroying the White House east wing to install a ballroom nobody asked for. Without any of the sort of approvals or security clearances you’d need to do it properly. Trump falsely claims to […]
The whole “blame video games for everything” theme seems to be resurfacing more and more these days. It’s a bit strange, as I honestly thought that this bizarre reflex would be waning as each new generation that increasingly grew up with video games came to be adults. But apparently this needs to be reiterated: law […]
I’m not saying this unholy matrimony wouldn’t have occurred under any other regime, but it’s definitely the sort of thing that plays well with the Oval Office while it’s housing Donald Trump. Both Flock Safety and Ring have weathered plenty of negative press, largely because they were doing the sort of thing they’re going back […]
Support us on Patreon » It was nearly 400 episodes ago when Catherine Bracy joined the podcast for a two part discussion (one, two) to talk about Silicon Valley culture and what investors are willing to fund. Now, more than a decade later, Catherine has released a new book, World Eaters: How Venture Capital Is Cannibalizing […]
The US attended the UN Cybercrime Treaty signing ceremony in Hanoi this weekend, where 72 countries signed on to a Russia-backed framework for global surveillance cooperation. Whether the US actually puts pen to paper (and all the reporting on this is kind of cagey) is almost beside the point—by showing up and legitimizing the proceeding, […]
Bari Weiss walked into 60 Minutes and asked the staff: “Why does the country think you’re biased?” The question stunned them into awkward silence. And it should have—not because it caught them off guard, but because it reveals everything wrong with what passes for journalistic sophistication in our moment. Let’s be precise about what Weiss is doing. She’s […]
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Gregory Bovino probably only answers to two people. The first person would be himself. If he wants to do it, he does it, no matter what the actual chain of command is. On the morning of Jan. 7, JesĂşs RamĂrez and other day laborers huddled in a Home Depot parking lot in Bakersfield, California, hoping […]
Whether it’s Jeff Bezos lobotomizing the Washington Post, Elon Musk turning Twitter into a far right propaganda mill, or Larry Ellison buying CBS, CNN, and TikTok, the country’s shittiest right wing billionaires aren’t being subtle about their quest to dominate what’s left of U.S. media. And Trump’s FCC is paving the way by destroying whatever […]
I very much promise that you don’t need to know about, or even care about, American football in any way for this post. We should all know at this point that the “blame video games” crowd has not gotten any smaller recently and that video games are blamed for just about everything you can think […]
In a further sign of where the generative AI world is heading, OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Atlas, “a new web browser built with ChatGPT at its core.” It’s not the first to do something like this: earlier browsers incorporating varying degrees of AI include Microsoft Edge (with Copilot), Opera (with Aria), Brave (with Leo), The […]
Be the Duterte you want to see in the world, I guess. That’s the new line from Donald Trump, the guy who once told supporters he could personally commit murder and he wouldn’t lose any supporters. He said that last time. He’s president again, so apparently it’s time to see if this adage holds up. […]
Mike Brock’s piece on Sequoia Capital last week laid out a pretty damning case study: a well-respected COO complains about a partner’s Islamophobic posts, senior leadership invokes “institutional neutrality” and declines to act, she resigns, he stays because he made them billions on SpaceX. Brock correctly calls this out as a choice, not neutrality—a calculation […]
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A lot of GOP politicians align themselves with Christianity, especially the offshoot that believes the richer you are, the more God loves you. (That it tends to dovetail nicely with white Christian nationalism is just a bonus in these Trumpian times.) But somehow they never seem to be able to spend a dime of their […]
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