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Again, Molly White (@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io) is doing by far the best journalism about the massively corrupt cryptocurrency "industry" and how it's a threat to everyone's financial health. Her latest newsletter highlights ways the sleaze includes top politicians, especially (of course) Trump.
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It will surprise no one that American billionaires are having, ahem, second thoughts about the obviously empty promises they made to be serious philanthropists.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/the-billionaires-made-a-promise-now-some-want-out/
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It's worth remembering that the catastrophic Supreme Court Citizens United ruling -- giving billionaires the right to buy elections -- had the support of the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU ignored the predictable consequences, and democracy may never recover.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/us/billionaires-federal-election-campaign-contributions.html
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I do hope that these videos have been archived elsewhere -- they sound like essential viewing to understand the ratfuckery that "DOGE" was doing.
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Big Journalism carries water for Trump as usual, obligingly calling the Republicans' voter-suppression legislation by the name they cooked up to make it sound just fine. The bill would destroy what's left of our democracy. The only thing it would "SAVE" is white male supremacy.
Do better, media.
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Looks from here like the Trump regime is hoping Iran will provide a Reichstag fire-type event (look it up) in the U.S. -- see those scary warnings of attacks on California.
Why? A pretext to escalate domestic fascism, such as even more direct interference with this year's elections.
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All corruption, all the time in Trump world, exhibit 64,549:
Big Journalism has done sporadic coverage of the beyond-epic corruption in Trump world. But occasional stories don't begin to show the breadth and depth of the sleaze. They could learn from this independent piece.
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Mar 09, 2026
The Murdoch family's Fox "News" says sorry-not-sorry for its pure deceit in pretending Trump didn't insult the families of dead soldiers.
This almost certainty was not a "mistake" -- and this vile media company would have to improve to be merely dishonorable.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/08/fox-news-trump-hat-salute-military
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Mar 05, 2026
RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/116178635828161083
This is why blocking ads and trackers is not just a suggestion. It should be a baseline of your online existence.
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Mar 05, 2026
I'm not a fan of Apple, due to its greed, extreme control-freakery and hypocrisy about privacy, among other things.
But it's clear to me that Apple is going to sell huge, huge numbers of its new low-cost Mac laptops. The crap low-end Windows machines from companies like HP are toast.
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Mar 05, 2026
The U.K. accelerates toward police state status, by requiring the equivalent of a license to read and speak online. Worse, it drastically undermines your personal security.
The US is moving this way, too. Wake up, people, because it's almost too late.
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Mar 01, 2026
Rewriting other people's original reporting and clickbait-wrapping the "new" story is not new. But a scumbag operation called "The Daily News Today" is doing it at AI-juiced scale.
Alexios Mantzarlis, one of journalism's expert observers of this stuff, explains here:
Please don't reward ripoff artists.
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Feb 28, 2026
A reminder that the Trump regime and its supporters are racist to the core. https://www.wired.com/story/a-white-house-staffer-appears-to-run-massive-pro-trump-meme-page/
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Feb 28, 2026
The Epstein files coverup could be the cause of a new -- and final -- world war.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/28/dubais-famous-fairmont-hotel-in-flames-after-iranian-air-strike
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Feb 27, 2026
A reminder that Molly White (@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io@mastodon.social) is, by far, doing the best job of covering the endlessly corrupt cryptocurrency "industry" -- her latest newsletter post, replete with Epstein Class dot-connecting, should make you furious.
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-101/
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So it looks like Larry Ellison's going to be pulling the puppet strings at CNN, not just CBS "News" -- another domino falling in the right-wing extremists' war on honest journalism. Neither of those o
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I'm going to post a comprehensive list of the news sources I rely on. Working on it now.
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Feb 27, 2026
Sigh, the New York Times gives a massive amount of op-ed space to an AI founder who (surprise!) loves-loves-loves the technology.
h/t @rdviii@rdviii@famichiki.jp@mastodon.social
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So it looks like Larry Ellison's going to be pulling the puppet strings at CNN, not just CBS "News" -- another domino falling in the right-wing extremists' war on honest journalism.
Neither of those outlets has been remotely perfect in the past. But they're heading toward Fox Lite status now.
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Feb 24, 2026
"A.I. Isn't People"
Another brilliant newsletter post by Rusty Foster:
"I don’t need to know what mechanism underlies human intelligence to rule out the possibility that it’s the same as what a large language model does."
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Feb 21, 2026
All corruption, all the time in Trump world.
The family of one of Trump's most vile apparatchiks -- Lutnick, who lied about his ties to Epstein -- stands to make hundreds of millions, or billions, on the likely refunds of the tariffs the regime illegally collected.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-fix-is-in-lutnick-family-to-make-killing-on-tariff-demise
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Feb 20, 2026
Germany's leader wants to end anonymity online, demonstrating ignorance of both technology and the manifestly good reasons for anonymity (e.g. person with views govt doesn't like, whistle-blowers, etc.).
He, like so many before him, wants you to get a license to speak.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/germanys-merz-calls-real-names-211340863.html
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Feb 18, 2026
George W. Bush uses extremism-friendly platform to pretend to throw shade at Trump. Another con from the second-worst president in American history.
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Feb 17, 2026
This story needs context. Namely: Big Tech owns Ireland's government. If that "sovereign" nation does any serious regulating of Musk's company it will be because other tech companies ordered it to do so.
https://www.dw.com/en/ireland-launches-data-protection-probe-into-groks-deepfakes/a-75997610
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Feb 17, 2026
Federal judges keep ruling that Trump's violent, masked goons are illegally arresting and jailing people, but the regime goes right on doing it.
How close are we to outright fascism? This close.
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Feb 16, 2026
The Trump regime is routinely telling US judges to go screw themselves -- ignoring and violating court orders, and flagrantly spitting on people's constitutional rights.
So far, not even one regime apparatchik has been held accountable in any serious way.
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Feb 14, 2026
Dump Discord, now.
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Feb 14, 2026
Totally sick of pearl-clutching legacy-media journalists discovering -- to their amazement, it seems -- that Trump really hates the press and dissent, and runs a regime that is doing everything in its considerable power to stamp out speech it doesn't like.
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Feb 12, 2026
Gallup polling organization joins the quislings, announcing it'll stop doing presidential approval surveys, not coincidentally just when Trump's negatives are super-high.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5733236-gallup-stops-presidential-approval-ratings-polls/
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Feb 11, 2026
If you have a Ring (Amazon) camera, you are -- or will become -- a tool of the surveillance state. Is that really what you want to be?
https://www.404media.co/with-ring-american-consumers-built-a-surveillance-dragnet/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter&attribution_id=698b47cbe724d10001786209&attribution_type=post
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Feb 10, 2026
Trump has so thoroughly brought Big Journalism to heel that NBC makes a transparently hollow denial that it covered up the Olympic audience's booing of JD Vance. The denial is a pathetic but telling lie. It tells us a lot about the network's disintegrating integrity.
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Feb 03, 2026
Cory Doctorow: "America is not great. It has been gutted by the Epstein class, who robbed us blind, raped our kids, and are now selling us shitcoins and chatbots and the spectacle of protesters being shot in the streets."
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/02/corprophagia/#that-makes-me-smart
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Feb 02, 2026
Chapter and verse of Big Journalism's epic failures in the Trump era -- and what's most disheartening is that our top "news" organizations have made it plain they have zero interest in even admitting, much less repairing, the damage they have caused to our nation.
https://newrepublic.com/article/205913/media-malpractice-trumpism-project-2025
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Feb 02, 2026
ICE/CBP are criminal agencies, staffed by violent criminals, and gleefully dispatched against Americans by a vicious president and his apparatchiks. It's far worse than most of us understand.
Garrett Graff has done the homework and lays it out here:
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountability-for-ice-and-cbp?utm_source=www.doomsdayscenario.co&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=accountability-for-ice-and-cbp
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Jan 29, 2026
Yet another federal judge blasts Trump regime for lying and ignoring court orders -- and, as usual, does absolutely nothing about it.
Bottom line: Trump is winning his war on the judicial system.
https://archive.ph/JhZ5j
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Jan 29, 2026
Almost everything about Trump's "Board of Peace" smells of corruption, and Dave Troy's discovery of extremely weird trademarking of the name adds to the reek.
https://america2.news/board-of-peace-trademark-filings-reveal-its-murky-legal-status/?ref=america-2-0-newsletter
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Jan 28, 2026
Dan Froomkin, one of America's top press critics, dissects what looks like a short-lived internal rebellion by New York Times reporters and editors who -- all too briefly -- told the simple truth about the Trump regime's murder of an American citizen in Minneapolis.
https://criticalread.substack.com/p/moments-of-bravery-and-cowardice
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Jan 26, 2026
A reminder that the Trump regime lies about absolutely everything. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/23/mahmoud-khalil-palestine-protest-rubio/
When you see any statement from this corrupt government, you must ASSUME it is a lie.
And we need, collectively, to educate everyone -- especially people serving on juries -- of this reality.
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Jan 24, 2026
Hey, US TikTok users, did you know that one of the worst of the vile techlords -- Larry Ellison, who's totally in bed with Trump -- now has control of your personal data from that site?
And his minions will help decide what you see there.
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Jan 24, 2026
Canada Prime Minister Carney's Davos speech was the wakeup call the free world needed. Trump's response was beyond contemptuous, thereby proving Carney's point.
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Jan 20, 2026
Mozilla is asking for your opinion about what it's doing, and the survey appears to be aimed at getting you used to the idea that "AI" will become an integral focus area.
I told them that I want Mozilla to focus SOLELY on improving Firefox and Thunderbird, with zero AI in the product.
https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201
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Dec 31, 2025
"The reason it is important to identify the Court as corrupt is because it is in fact corrupt."
Essential commentary from Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo, one of the news sites that is doing the journalism we need right now.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-latest-defenses-of-scotuss-corruption-only-make-the-case-against-it/sharetoken/d7bf45cf-5baf-4556-a9a1-c6929ed6cc21
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Dec 20, 2025
Trump, Musk, Rubio, and their henchmen destroyed USAID -- directly causing hundreds of thousands of deaths, mostly children. The apparatchiks celebrated while bosses lied about what they'd done.
I can't overstate my incandescent rage at these monstrous people.
https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan
#pitchforks
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Dec 11, 2025
Trump regime wants to force ALL visitors to the U.S. to install government-controlled spyware on their phones, and submit detailed personal data -- even DNA, apparently -- to the authorities.
(If they're trying to wreck tourism, including the World Cup, this is the way.)
https://papersplease.org/wp/2025/12/10/cbp-wants-all-visitors-to-install-and-use-its-smartphone-app/
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Nov 21, 2025
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.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-generated-evidence-deepfake-use-law-judges-object-rcna235976
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Oct 03, 2025
Cowardice at Apple: https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/apple-takes-down-ice-tracking-app-after-pressure-from-ag-bondi
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Sep 29, 2025
Google deletes history: https://www.thebriefing.ie/google-just-erased-7-years-of-our-political-history/
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