We need media that tells the truth in times of war. Media consolidation undermines that goal. My latest for @freepress.bsky.social spells out the particular dangers of Paramount Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros. and calls on state AGs to investigate it.
A report copublished by WIRED sparked a probe into opt-out pages hidden by data brokers. Now congressional Democrats say breaches tied to the industry have cost people tens of billions of dollars. www.wired.com/story/data-b...
Strongly recommend this excellent piece. It actually understates the US failure: Brazil and S. Korea aren’t outliers. Quite the opposite. Since 2010, 31 democracies have convicted or banned leaders from office. Accountability is the democratic norm. America is the sole outlier.
Data Center Dems need to wake the fuck up and realize that siding with Mark Andreessen and Elon Musk and Peter Thiel is political suicide, in addition to being just plain wrong.
Katie Britt never votes against Trump, but the press really wants to make this image happen.
this is a great brief and it appropriately ends with a killshot: the simple observation that if trump's meaning held, the birthright clause would not have overturned dred scott, the one thing it was absolutely meant to do.
There's nothing "uncertain" about it. Larry Ellison is building an autocrat-friendly propaganda machine and whatever shaky journalism originated from this place will soon be dead.
Will be live on YT in 30 minutes to talk about how not 3 months ago Larry Ellison was talking about the White House about pulling *specific CNN anchors off the air.* From @hugolowell.bsky.social:
truly despicable - and totally illuminating about a key element of the anti-europe, anti-democracy, white supremacist trump agenda. americans should understand that robinson promotes, incites, & represents hate.
Commentary: Out-of-state investors buy up manufactured home parks, then implement aggressive rent hikes on residents who own their homes but rent the land beneath. As eviction rates climb across the state, homeowners need protection from these practices. minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/25/m...
The stories in here of what DHS officers are doing to children who are still making the journey to the southern border to seek protection is appalling. One teenager says he was threatened with "a dog and a stun gun" into signing away his right to seek protection in the United States
Seems bad that the Democratic Party was more willing to risk the obliteration of our democracy than to tell the perpetrator of a genocide to stop.
"Anything they don't like, they want to control and they want to censor." - FCC Commissioner @agomezfcc.bsky.social
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/after-colbert-says-cbs-blocked-interview-fcc-commissioner-weighs-in-on-equal-time
A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.
For the first time since @projectsaltbox.bsky.social launched their DHS warehouse acquisition tracker, the number of canceled sales is higher than any of the other warehouse-related figures. We've reached a tipping point, folks.
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Suddenly remembering the years Blackburn spent screaming about how net neutrality was "the government takeover of the Internet."
Irish Data Protection Commission was asked today in Committee: have you ever taken a GDPR decision on Google?
Answer... No.
Ireland is responsible for supervising Google's data use across the whole EU. It has produced no decisions.
Kudos @sineadgibney.bsky.social for asking the question.
Her claim that Apple News is biased toward liberal outlets is, you'll be shocked to learn, completely fabricated.
A dodgy right wing "media watchdog" just unilaterally and arbitrarily claimed a whole bunch of outlets were liberal
including WAPO, which is tripping over itself to please the right
right wingers basically own most media now but you'll notice it's never enough
There's always some more completely made up "liberal bias" to weed out
He's right.
And here's what else you should know about the Wall Street takeover of the housing market. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9TO...
How much money did Coupang have to spread around to get the royal treatment of Congressional Republicans? I'd wager only 0.01% of Americans have even heard of Coupang and now Congress is waging a war on its behalf.
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The state of Maryland sued the Trump administration Monday to try to stop plans to convert a warehouse into an immigration detention facility.
We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
Standing up to the small stuff might put you at odds w/ social trends. It might cause friction between you & your peers. It might threaten your employment prospects. It will be *socially uncomfortable*.
That's why the train gets going: by the time it's socially acceptable to say No, it's too late.
The time to prevent the thing from happening is *early*, as it is gaining steam. These things always start small, with efforts to weaken the norms against discrimination, with casual, unreflective slurs. They start with wedge policies (not gays, just gay adoption! not trans, just sports!).
But here's what I keep returning to: by the time the gov't is organized, tyrannical, & rounding up the marginalized, it's pretty much too late. By that time the remedies are often armed rebellion or invasion by another country or, at the very least, extended general strikes. Cat's out of the bag.
Welp.
Two issues I'm pondering. One is that you can't move this many people without inflicting tremendous physical and psychological harm on those deported and on society itself. The second is that left in place for years, mass detention on a whole new level will be normalized. It rarely vanishes. [1/3]
Data center fights are hyperlocal but depend on opaque global supply chains + geopolitical resource grabs. How do data centers connect with critical minerals and electronics manufacturing, and what makes these connections palpable? Hannah Lipstein + I wrote about this @techpolicypress.bsky.social
