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Daily Deal: DevDojo Pro, Premium Content, Tools, and Courses for Devs

4 days 1 hour ago
This DevDojo Pro subscription gives you access to a set of tools to help you build your next great idea. Start with the Page Creator, where you’ll find Tailwind CSS Page Builder, a tool for crafting beautiful landing pages. Then, move on to Wave SAAS Starter Kit, where you’ll learn how to build your Software […]
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Trump’s FCC Starts Harassing Public Broadcasters With Bogus Investigations

4 days 7 hours ago
If you hadn’t noticed, consolidated corporate media hasn’t been meeting the challenges of the current moment very well. There’s generally two reasons: one, these media outlets tend to reflect the interests of generally white, older, male, right wing ownership, which broadly thinks authoritarianism is a fair price to pay for some tax cuts, deregulation, and […]
Karl Bode

The Consequences Of An RFK Jr. HHS Appointment Are Smacking Our Children In The Face

4 days 16 hours ago
The reemergence of measles, a disease once declared officially eradicated in the United States, didn’t start with the second Trump presidential term. It didn’t even begin with Trump’s first term. Instead, it started through an unholy alliance between far-right, often religious groups that have pitched the vaccines as either unnecessary or dangerous combined with a […]
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New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder

4 days 23 hours ago
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just made a move that will protect bad patents at the expense of everyone else. In a memo released February 28, the USPTO further restricted access to inter partes review, or IPR—the process Congress created to let the public challenge invalid patents without having to wage million-dollar court battles. […]
Joe Mullin

Trump’s Secret Police Are Now Disappearing Students For Their Op-Eds

5 days ago
For years, we’ve been hearing breathless warnings about a “campus free speech crisis” from self-proclaimed free speech warriors. Their evidence? College students doing what college students have done for generations: protesting speakers they disagree with, challenging institutional policies, and yes, sometimes attempting to create heckler’s vetoes. This kind of campus activism — while occasionally messy […]
Mike Masnick

Trump Continues Tanking Civil Rights In Hopes Of Scoring A First-Round Autocracy In The Next Election

5 days 1 hour ago
The beatings will apparently continue, whether or not morale improves. The Trump Administration’s latest move from far-right towards open fascism involves, unsurprisingly, the gutting of more government components tasked with ensuring the federal government doesn’t treat civil rights like privileges only afforded to those who can afford them… or anyone else willing to lick the […]
Tim Cushing

Daily Deal: The 2025 Canva Bundle

5 days 1 hour ago
The 2025 Canva Bundle has six courses to help you learn about graphic design. From logo design to business cards to branding to bulk content creation, these courses have you covered. It’s on sale for $25. Note: The Techdirt Deals Store is powered and curated by StackCommerce. A portion of all sales from Techdirt Deals […]
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Even If Those Weren’t War Plans In Hegseth’s Signal Chat, They Were War Crimes

5 days 3 hours ago
When the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg revealed this week that senior White House officials had accidentally added him to their Yemen bombing planning session on Signal, he did something remarkable: he actually protected operational security better than the officials themselves did. While Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and others now insist “Nobody was texting war plans,” the […]
Mike Masnick

MLB Misplaces Its Spine & Alters Language To Its Diversity Programs

5 days 16 hours ago
Were it not so obviously the product of something nefarious, it would be entertaining to watch how private companies react to the Trump administration’s declaration of the end of all things DEI. The truth is that Trump’s reach for this sort of thing simply doesn’t extend past the federal government, legally speaking. That doesn’t mean […]
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Otherwise Objectionable: The Internet At Risk

5 days 21 hours ago
Imagine an internet where every website faced an impossible choice: either carefully review every single post before it goes live (making them essentially TV stations), or allow absolutely everything with zero moderation. This nightmare scenario wasn’t hypothetical — it was exactly what the infamous Stratton Oakmont v. Prodigy ruling threatened to create, before Section 230 […]
Mike Masnick

Announcing The Winners Of The 7th Annual Public Domain Game Jam

5 days 23 hours ago
It took us a little longer than usual this year (we’ve been swamped with other projects including the Kickstarter for our new card game) but the time has finally arrived: we’ve chosen the winners in our seventh annual public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1929! There were so many great entries this year, and […]
Leigh Beadon

The Collapse Of Republican Seriousness

6 days ago
Few moments better illustrate the GOP’s descent into constitutional incoherence than Senator John Curtis’s appearance on Meet the Press this weekend. In a display of breathtaking historical illiteracy wrapped in pseudo-constitutional rhetoric, Curtis characterized President Trump’s threats to impeach a federal judge who ruled against his deportation orders as—wait for it—“what our founders intended.” This statement deserves to be […]
Mike Masnick

Lawsuit Filed Over The Bombing The Houthis Group Chat

6 days 1 hour ago
If you’re going to plan military operations over Signal, you probably shouldn’t accidentally add a journalist to the chat. And if you’re going to do government business over Signal specifically to avoid federal record-keeping laws, you definitely shouldn’t get caught doing it. Yet here we are: A day after we learned that top Trump administration […]
Mike Masnick

Daily Deal: The 2025 Embedded Systems Engineer Mastery Bundle

6 days 1 hour ago
Embedded systems are at the heart of modern innovation, powering everything from smart devices to automotive technology. This Embedded Systems Engineer Mastery Bundle has 10 courses to help equip you with the skills to design, program, and implement microcontroller-based solutions. Gain hands-on experience with Arduino, PIC, and ESP32, master C programming for embedded applications, and […]
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FCC’s Carr Openly Admits He’ll Block Mergers Of Companies That Refuse To Kiss Trump Ass

6 days 7 hours ago
Instead of doing things like protecting consumers or market competition, Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr has spent his first few months in office abusing agency authority to threaten companies that refuse to kiss the Trump administration’s ass. A cornerstone of those efforts has been to leverage merger approvals to get companies to support core administration […]
Karl Bode

Contempt Continued: Rubio, Bondi Attempt To Stonewall Court Inquiry With Bullshit ‘State Secrets’ Response

6 days 16 hours ago
In Mike’s thorough post yesterday on the topic of the Trump administration’s naked contempt for judicial oversight, the main theme and takeaway from it was a simple one: this authoritarian regime would much rather waste everyone’s time trying to play procedural and semantic games with the courts than actually participate in honest deliberations with them. […]
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