Government attacking citizens: "chaos", "clash", "squared off", "unrest." Fascism. Chaos in L.A. County as Protesters Clash With Immigration Agents Again

Trump Administration Says National Guard Will Be Deployed to L.A. Protests

Streets of Paramount, Calif., in Los Angeles County were in chaos as federal immigration officials squared off with protesters, using tear gas and ...

Can't wait for the #BrokenTimes new book: "A Thousand Ways to Not Say 'Fascism.'" Return of Wrongly Deported Man Raises Questions About Trump’s Views of Justice

Return of Wrongly Deported Man Raises Questions About Trump’s Views of Justice

For the nearly three months before the Justice Department secured an indictment against the man, it had repeatedly flouted a series of court orders...

#MurdochJournal wants to give credit to Republicans for cutting benefits but adds: "If Musk is upset about this bill adding to the national debt, it’s the tax cuts, not the spending, he should be attacking." https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/republican-spending-bill-elon-musk-criticism-138cd0ee?st=rm5Q91

This is the Trivago version of Mountainhead.

Magazines are dying. I write about why in my book, Magazine. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/magazine-9781501394966/ McClatchy to shutter celebrity magazines In Touch, Life & Style https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/05/31/in-touch-life-and-style-closing/

Theyt *always* project. Under Trump, State Department questions Europe’s commitment to democracy https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/31/trump-europe-free-speech-democracy/

It takes @jessearmstrong.bsky.social and Mountainhead to seriously consider the implications of TESCREAL and the insane faux philosophies of the AI boys because journalists can't bother to Google it.

This is brilliant and it illuminates that slop, hallucination, and reading and copying others' stuff (just like the attention economy) is not an invention of AI or the internet but old media. My $55 adventure in internet factchecking spiky Chinese benches

Now *this* is frightening. I've long said the greatest threat to privacy is not web cookies but government--more than ever this government and this evil empire, Palantir. Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data...

Loser wants sympathy. Ha! FAFO, asshole. Back at SpaceX, Musk says in interview DOGE became D.C.’s ‘whipping boy’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/27/elon-musk-spacex-starship-doge/