The first few months of the Trump administration have seen a quick divergence between those who are quick to bend the knee to unconstitutional, authoritarian, censorial demands from Donald Trump, and those with the spine to actually stand up and say “fuck that.” While it’s important to call out and shame those who cave, it’s […]
The Trump administration has just claimed an astounding new power: the ability to deport lawful permanent residents based on their “expected beliefs” (including perfectly “lawful” expected beliefs). This isn’t speculation or hyperbole — it’s the explicit thought-police justification Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave in immigration court documents for trying to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a […]
Away goes more talent. And away goes another obstacle standing in the way of Kristi Noem’s DHS and Donald Trump’s plans to rid this country of as many immigrants as inhumanely possible. One acting commissioner — one with 38 years experience — has already resigned because of the DHS’s desire to use tax records as […]
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The Trump administration has settled on a terrifying new legal theory: they can declare anyone a “terrorist,” ship them to an offshore torture camp without due process, and courts can do nothing about it because it’s “foreign affairs.” This isn’t speculation — it’s the actual argument they’re making to justify their “accidental” trafficking of Abrego […]
Back in March Trump illegally fired the Federal Trade Commission’s two Democratic Commissioners. With a captured Supreme Court and a 3-2 agency majority, Trumpism could have already done whatever it wanted at the FTC, so firing the two Democratic Commissioners was just scorched Earth; like applying napalm on the site of a nuclear strike. Real […]
It’s just three months since the Chinese company DeepSeek released its R1 reasoning model. In that time, its global impact has been dramatic: An article in Fortune magazine described how DeepSeek had “erased Silicon Valley’s AI lead and wiped $1 trillion from U.S. markets.” It also immediately raised serious privacy issues in the EU. The […]
Warning bells should have been going off in your head long before RFK Jr., a noted vaccine skeptic for several decades, was confirmed as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. We’re in the first few months of Trump’s second term, but already there are several health issues stemming from Kennedy’s efforts. There […]
Here’s a law no one has ever needed, being offered up by a legislator no one needs. Authored by Texas Rep. David Lowe (R- North Richland Hills), the bill— HB 3958—would give the Texas Attorney General the ability to seek hefty penalties for museums that are deemed to promote obscene material. The bill defines “obscene material” based on […]
In a stunning White House appearance that should alarm anyone who cares about constitutional rights, democracy, the rule of law or anything of the sort, Donald Trump and Salvadoran dictator Nayib Bukele openly defied a Supreme Court order while discussing plans to expand El Salvador’s notorious detention system to imprison US citizens without due process. […]
In an unforced error that will only burnish ICE’s reputation for being a brawn operation that’s talked itself into believing it’s a brains operation, ICE briefly let the American public know it was no longer willing to let illegal ideas to enter (or even exit) the United States. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s job is to […]
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For a brief moment last week, Donald Trump acknowledged what everyone already knew — that the US government could bring Abrego Garcia home from the El Salvador torture facility known as CECOT, where he was wrongly sent in what the administration claims was an “administrative error.” But within days, Trump’s administration was back to mocking […]
In recent years the Garmin line of smartwatches had an advantage over an increasingly crowded smart watch field. Unlike Google/FitBit, they were avoiding hiding a lot of features behind annoying subscription paywalls. Looking to goose quarterly earnings and give investors that impossible, sweet, perpetual growth they crave, Fitbit has been increasingly putting more and more […]
It’s been a while but we’ve got a double-winner this week from Thad, with a comment that took both first place for insightful and second place for funny, in response to the 9-0 Supreme Court ruling about Abrego Garcia: Wow, I never realized that Thomas, Alito, and all three of Trump’s appointees were Marxists. In […]
Today, we’re kicking off our series of posts about the winners of this year’s public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1929! We’ll be going through all six winners in no particular order, starting today with the winner in the Best Remix category: Accoutrements by Nora Katz. Nora Katz is one of our returning winners […]
Many of you may be familiar with the brilliant writer A.R. Moxon, writer of the excellent “The Reframe” newsletter. Last year, he moved The Reframe from Substack to Ghost, and has now written about that experience. It’s an interesting read that we thought many here might enjoy as well, and Moxon was kind enough to […]
Instead of doing things like protecting consumers or telecom and media market competition (you know, his purported job), 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, or harass telecom companies that aren’t sexist or racist enough for […]
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Abrego Garcia is being held incommunicado in a foreign torture camp. As far as anyone knows, he has no idea that he is the subject of a Supreme Court ruling and a high-profile legal battle to get him home. He likely doesn’t even know if his family, or anyone else, knows where he is. We […]
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