Dan Gillmor
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When journalists carry water for the Trump regime by calling its Ukraine-surrender-or-else order a peace plan they are committing pure malpractice.
But they're all doing it.
At least put "peace" in quotes, ok?
But they're all doing it.
At least put "peace" in quotes, ok?
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 AM
When journalists carry water for the Trump regime by calling its Ukraine-surrender-or-else order a peace plan they are committing pure malpractice.
But they're all doing it.
At least put "peace" in quotes, ok?
But they're all doing it.
At least put "peace" in quotes, ok?
In every financial bubble, apoiogists for the reckless spenders say "It's different this time."
Read between the lines here, and you're seeing echoes of that always-wrong justification for the unjustifiable.
Read between the lines here, and you're seeing echoes of that always-wrong justification for the unjustifiable.
3 analysts on why AI debt isn't a bubble
AI companies are turning to debt markets to fund data centers. But analysts say this new wave of bonds aren't bubbles
qz.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
In every financial bubble, apoiogists for the reckless spenders say "It's different this time."
Read between the lines here, and you're seeing echoes of that always-wrong justification for the unjustifiable.
Read between the lines here, and you're seeing echoes of that always-wrong justification for the unjustifiable.
All corruption, all the time in Trump world, Exhibit 54,299:
‘Witkoff needs a psychiatrist’: Europeans fume at Trump’s plan to profit from frozen Russian assets
Diplomats and officials react with outrage to new details of the U.S. peace plan, warning it could wreck their efforts to help Ukraine survive the war.
www.politico.eu
November 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
All corruption, all the time in Trump world, Exhibit 54,299:
US Border Patrol's abuses long predate the Trump regime, but are increasing by orders of magnitude now. Here's some excellent AP reporting on just one way the government spits on civil liberties:
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM
US Border Patrol's abuses long predate the Trump regime, but are increasing by orders of magnitude now. Here's some excellent AP reporting on just one way the government spits on civil liberties:
Just in case you had the slightest doubt about what Elon Musk is doing with X/Twitter, look at this brief thread. He is one of the true monsters of our era, and he uses X/Twitter to guide his fellow right-wing extremists to ever-more-extreme places.
If you are still there, you should be ashamed.
If you are still there, you should be ashamed.
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Just in case you had the slightest doubt about what Elon Musk is doing with X/Twitter, look at this brief thread. He is one of the true monsters of our era, and he uses X/Twitter to guide his fellow right-wing extremists to ever-more-extreme places.
If you are still there, you should be ashamed.
If you are still there, you should be ashamed.
It's so difficult to pick the story that uniquely demonstrates how low and corrupt our "mainstream" media became in the past generation, but the New York Times' recent love letter to Olivia Nuzzi has to be in the running.
November 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
It's so difficult to pick the story that uniquely demonstrates how low and corrupt our "mainstream" media became in the past generation, but the New York Times' recent love letter to Olivia Nuzzi has to be in the running.
The deeply anti-semitic Trump regime tells Coast Guard to stop classifying the swastika as a symbol of hatred.
www.seattletimes.com...
www.seattletimes.com...
November 21, 2025 at 3:53 AM
The deeply anti-semitic Trump regime tells Coast Guard to stop classifying the swastika as a symbol of hatred.
www.seattletimes.com...
www.seattletimes.com...
This is an important document, about the growing entanglement of Big Tech's most evil people/companies and the US government -- and increasingly, the EU.
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 21, 2025 at 1:52 AM
This is an important document, about the growing entanglement of Big Tech's most evil people/companies and the US government -- and increasingly, the EU.
Musk's megalomania would be amusing if he wasn't such a danger to almost everyone else.
Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says
Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
www.404media.co
November 21, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Musk's megalomania would be amusing if he wasn't such a danger to almost everyone else.
AI-generated "evidence" is infecting the legal system. Until judges come down HARD on the the lawyers doing this stuff -- and until some of the lawyers are disbarred -- these sleazebags will poison the system completely.
AI-generated evidence showing up in court alarms judges
AI’s growing abilities to create realistic videos, images, documents and audio have judges worried about the trustworthiness of evidence in their courtrooms.
www.nbcnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:54 AM
AI-generated "evidence" is infecting the legal system. Until judges come down HARD on the the lawyers doing this stuff -- and until some of the lawyers are disbarred -- these sleazebags will poison the system completely.
All corruption, all the time in Trump world, exhibit 65,303:
Trump pardon of crypto billionaire sparks concerns over his use of the pardon power
President Trump pardoned the billionaire founder of the largest crypto exchange in the world, Binance. It's raised questions about conflicts of interest and the president's use of the pardon power.
www.cbsnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
All corruption, all the time in Trump world, exhibit 65,303:
All corruption, all the time in Trump world, Exhibit 56,783:
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.
www.propublica.org
November 17, 2025 at 12:19 PM
All corruption, all the time in Trump world, Exhibit 56,783:
Trump has gotten away with everything else. Why does anyone expect a different outcome if (when?) the Epstein files show that he was an active pedophile? His cult will just believe the lies, and rationalize the truth.
www.mediamatters.org...
www.mediamatters.org...
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Trump has gotten away with everything else. Why does anyone expect a different outcome if (when?) the Epstein files show that he was an active pedophile? His cult will just believe the lies, and rationalize the truth.
www.mediamatters.org...
www.mediamatters.org...
This piece by ProPublica, about the consistent deceit emanating from the Murdoch family's primary U.S. media outlet, is chapter and verse why that propaganda outlet should ALWAYS be referred to as Fox "News" --
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence was misleading.
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
This piece by ProPublica, about the consistent deceit emanating from the Murdoch family's primary U.S. media outlet, is chapter and verse why that propaganda outlet should ALWAYS be referred to as Fox "News" --
This guy runs the Windows unit at Microsoft, and he's telling you that the company intends to infiltrate "AI" into every aspect of the operating system.
If you use Windows, this is an injection of a living, self-replicating virus into your digital existence.
Yes I use Linux.
If you use Windows, this is an injection of a living, self-replicating virus into your digital existence.
Yes I use Linux.
November 13, 2025 at 12:51 AM
This guy runs the Windows unit at Microsoft, and he's telling you that the company intends to infiltrate "AI" into every aspect of the operating system.
If you use Windows, this is an injection of a living, self-replicating virus into your digital existence.
Yes I use Linux.
If you use Windows, this is an injection of a living, self-replicating virus into your digital existence.
Yes I use Linux.
Jason Sattler: Vance is fine with Nazis in the Republican Party, but Big Journalism remains pretty much clueless about the danger this uniquely awful vice president poses to the nation.
JD Vance now leads the GOP. And he wants the party to welcome Hitler lovers.
And the press refuses to reckon with what this means.
www.thefarce.org
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Jason Sattler: Vance is fine with Nazis in the Republican Party, but Big Journalism remains pretty much clueless about the danger this uniquely awful vice president poses to the nation.
All corruption, all the time in Trump world: Trump family's cryptocurrency operations brought in $800 million in cash and many times that amount in paper profits just in the first half of this year.
www.reuters.com/inve...
Reuters is doing superb investigative reporting these days...
www.reuters.com/inve...
Reuters is doing superb investigative reporting these days...
Inside the Trump family’s global crypto cash machine
The U.S. president’s family raked in more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found. Much of that cash came from foreign sources.
www.reuters.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:51 PM
All corruption, all the time in Trump world: Trump family's cryptocurrency operations brought in $800 million in cash and many times that amount in paper profits just in the first half of this year.
www.reuters.com/inve...
Reuters is doing superb investigative reporting these days...
www.reuters.com/inve...
Reuters is doing superb investigative reporting these days...
In almost every way at this point, the corrupt Roberts Court -- formerly known as the Supreme Court -- is a policy-enforcement arm of the Trump regime. Latest example:
www.npr.org/2025/11/...
www.npr.org/2025/11/...
November 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
In almost every way at this point, the corrupt Roberts Court -- formerly known as the Supreme Court -- is a policy-enforcement arm of the Trump regime. Latest example:
www.npr.org/2025/11/...
www.npr.org/2025/11/...
The Democrats who engineered and/or voted for the odious shutdown deal are even more cowardly and reckless than anyone could have imagined. See this:
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue for Jack Smith Searches (1)
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government.
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:52 AM
The Democrats who engineered and/or voted for the odious shutdown deal are even more cowardly and reckless than anyone could have imagined. See this:
The BBC's Trump speech error was stupid. It doesn't change the reality: Trump led the Jan. 6 insurrection, and his call for "peaceful" action was gaslighting bullshit.
But the BBC's cowardice in the face of a massive, totally bad-faith right wing mob attack is suicidal.
But the BBC's cowardice in the face of a massive, totally bad-faith right wing mob attack is suicidal.
‘Make no mistake – this was a coup’: the extraordinary downfall of the BBC’s top bosses
The whirlwind that started when Deborah Turness came under attack at a board meeting is part of a wider political story, some say
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The BBC's Trump speech error was stupid. It doesn't change the reality: Trump led the Jan. 6 insurrection, and his call for "peaceful" action was gaslighting bullshit.
But the BBC's cowardice in the face of a massive, totally bad-faith right wing mob attack is suicidal.
But the BBC's cowardice in the face of a massive, totally bad-faith right wing mob attack is suicidal.
Josh Marshall, among the most astute political observers, has thoughts on the Democrats' cave-in. Yes, he says, they caved in -- but in key ways they still won.
I'm skeptical of this argument, but hope he is right about the longer-range effect.
I'm skeptical of this argument, but hope he is right about the longer-range effect.
A Quick Take on Team Cave’s Big Win
I have what I suspect is a somewhat counterintuitive take on the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Josh Marshall, among the most astute political observers, has thoughts on the Democrats' cave-in. Yes, he says, they caved in -- but in key ways they still won.
I'm skeptical of this argument, but hope he is right about the longer-range effect.
I'm skeptical of this argument, but hope he is right about the longer-range effect.
Canadian martial arts nazis: www.cbc.ca/news/cana...
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Canadian martial arts nazis: www.cbc.ca/news/cana...
Trump world's brazen, pure corruption is disgusting and devastating to our nation. It's also the culmination of liberal democracy's kowtowing to wealth for decades.
A new generation of Democrats could win by taking down the billionaires, on behalf of the rest of us.
A new generation of Democrats could win by taking down the billionaires, on behalf of the rest of us.
Liberal Elites Kicked the Door Wide Open for Trump’s Flagrant Corruption
The president’s corruption is audaciously out in the open, but decades of letting the wealthy play by their own rules enabled him.
theintercept.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Trump world's brazen, pure corruption is disgusting and devastating to our nation. It's also the culmination of liberal democracy's kowtowing to wealth for decades.
A new generation of Democrats could win by taking down the billionaires, on behalf of the rest of us.
A new generation of Democrats could win by taking down the billionaires, on behalf of the rest of us.
The right wing's bad faith brigades saw a photo that they wanted to believe mocked Charlie Kirk's murder. It didn't, but they didn't care, and they've done enormous damage to countless people who have no recourse. Pure scumbaggery, and standard operating procedure.
One photo, a deluge of threats: Inside the Arizona high school turned upside down by right-wing activists
A group of math teachers — some of whom were fans of Charlie Kirk — had their lives turned upside down this week over false accusations about a Halloween photo.
www.nbcnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The right wing's bad faith brigades saw a photo that they wanted to believe mocked Charlie Kirk's murder. It didn't, but they didn't care, and they've done enormous damage to countless people who have no recourse. Pure scumbaggery, and standard operating procedure.
This essay muses wisely on the New York Times' relentless insistence on false balance -- a big-media standard that, sadly, amounts to business as usual malpractice.
It'll help you see the need to rebuild honest journalism from the ground up.
It'll help you see the need to rebuild honest journalism from the ground up.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This essay muses wisely on the New York Times' relentless insistence on false balance -- a big-media standard that, sadly, amounts to business as usual malpractice.
It'll help you see the need to rebuild honest journalism from the ground up.
It'll help you see the need to rebuild honest journalism from the ground up.