What, the shift to "free markets and personal liberties" didn't boost the underlying business? RE:
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Some news: The Washington Post is preparing to cut newsroom staff even after several high profile exits. Bezos’ new opinion editor has privately ...
This paragraph effectively gives the game away. Loper Bright was decided just last year, and the GOP celebrated, because it effectively stripped the Executive Branch of basically any power not explicitly handed over by Congress. Which they wanted. When a Democrat was President. But suddenly... RE:
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The full 9th Circuit just voted NOT to rehear en banc the panel decision in Newsom v. Trump re: federalized troops in Los Angeles. (The motion for ...
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Mike Johnson doesn't know sh*t
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I need a supercut of Johnson saying "I don't know the details." Seems like he's got a lot of free time on his hands these days. Maybe, I don't know...
Just remembering when Musk banned a ton of people (mostly journalists) for pointing out that he banned the ElonJet account, and he (and many of his vocal supporters) argued that merely mentioning the existence of ElonJet was doxxing and designed to harm Musk. Seems like a bit of a double standard. RE:
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Pretty rich of Ted Cruz to be hauling Google and Meta execs before the Senate to talk about "Joe Biden's jawboning" literally days after Pam Bondi admitted she calls Meta to have them remove groups, and as Trump says the new TikTok should be 100% MAGA [www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/10/part...](
U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation
Part II of Shut Your App: How Uncle Sam Jawboned Big Tech Into Silencing Americans
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a ful...
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U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation
Part II of Shut Your App: How Uncle Sam Jawboned Big Tech Into Silencing Americans
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a ful...
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Excuse me what? The RIAA is now funding NCOSE to file bullshit amicus briefs before the Supreme Court?!? That is way more fucked up than even usual RIAA nonsense. Let me explain... https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreifl2iqvrtvml63zizl7hm47ncbzr33ndttge3wic3236w2s5wkg2m
The incredible part here is that Starr had a reputation as someone the DoD would go to to leak stuff. She was a reliable voice for telling the DoD's (distorted, misleading) narrative. And even she's like "yo, wtf" RE:
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Barbara Starr, who covered the Pentagon for decades, says the announcement is "beyond odd" and that the preexisting press corps "still is working e...
Call me crazy, but I don't think it's good when the President gets to decide to just take a quarter of a billion dollars of taxpayer money. RE:
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Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
Trump Demands $230 Million In Taxpayer Money For Being Prosecuted—And His Own Lawyers Get To Approve It There are levels of corruption, and the...
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A friend who took investment from Sequoia a while back told me he had reached out to partners there to say he'd never consider Sequoia again so long as Maguire was still a partner. The way they keep defending him as "oh well, we let everyone hold their own opinions" is a cop-out. RE:
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