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  By my reckoning, the New York Times devoted more resources to investigating a legal (if modestly sleazy) move by some Alaska Democrats than the staggering suppression of Democratic voting by the Trump regime and Republicans everywhere. The Times is the trade journal for the rich and powerful.

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  I am extremely hopeful about the outcome of America's elections tomorrow. I'm also extremely skeptical about the polling numbers I'm seeing. Yet a friend with deep knowledge says that -- this time -- the polls are right. Doesn't matter. Vote as if your life depended on it. Because it might.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/117531919080199006 Legacy media (hell, almost all medie) don't bother with context -- a major and perpetual failing.

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  Another grand jury says no to another Trumpist prosecutor's abuse of the legal system. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/grand-jury-declines-indict-former-trump-aide-cassidy-hutchinson-jan-6-rcna603233 It's essential that the public -- potential jurors and grand jurors -- be educated that they can say no to corrupt prosecutors, and serve justice.

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  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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  The Roberts Court, an arm of Trump and the Republican Party, just did its best to tip New Hampshire's Senate election to the Republicans. Flagrant abuse of power, which is the norm at this point for this corrupt court. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/us/politics/supreme-court-new-hampshire-election-student-id.html

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  Remember when Google gave a damn about the environment (or at least pretended to)? No pretenses anymore, it seems: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre

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  The right-wing owners of Scientific American, once the pillar of science writing, have ruined the publication's content and reputation. An incredibly sad situation: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/scientific-american-springer-nature-trump/

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  Meanwhile, Larry Ellison and his pals have locked out of TikTok the account promoting the new, scathing documentary about Elon Musk. Big (Tech) Media is on a censorship rampage aimed to shut down the critics of the escalating right-wing extremism. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/musk-movie-tiktok-banned-theaters-showtimes-1236734308/

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  News stories about the weird and corrupt Kimberly Guilfoyle all seem to mention that she was Trump Jr.'s fiance but don't mention that she was married to Gavin Newsom. Both are relevant or neither is relevant. (Both are.)

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  The pro-crypto legislation didn't pass after all, and some of the credit for this surely must go to Molly White (@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io). She is without question doing the best, most relentless coverage of that irredeemably slimy and corrupt industry -- joined at the hip with the irredeemably corrupt Trump world. And there's ample evidence that her work informs the debate in a significant way.

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  A carpenter friend in California told me today that the price of copper has gone through the roof -- e.g. $100 for a short section of pipe. He said the data centers are hoovering up raw materials in such a frenzy that the cost of essentially all construction materials is insane. I haven't seen any coverage of this angle (apart from IT hardware) in the media, but I guarantee that regular folks have noticed. More Trump-caused damage, and the worst is ahead of us, not behind.

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  The tech oligarchs are rallying around Elon Musk to block a filmmaker from advertising a deeply reported documentary that lays bare what a slimy -- and dangerous -- person Musk is. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/elon-musk-documentary-trailer-rejected-tiktok-youtube-1236710259/ (Meanwhile, Corporate Journalism continues to support him. Of course.)

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  Susan Collins isn't just a pretend-moderate Republican who's supported almost every catastrophic Trump policy and nominee (including all the current radical-right Supreme Court "justices"). She's also corrupt as hell. https://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-susan-collins-navatek-campaign-donations-investigation?ref=levernews.com Fine reporting, as usual, from ProPublica.

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  Latest reminder that you should assume the following about any statement from Trump's ICE/DHS goons claiming to exonerate the regime of bad acts: They're probably lying. https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/dabury-ice-school-bus-arrest-cnn-murphy-22414500.php

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  Ridiculous spam of the day warns me that "Every month you live with tinnitus [ringing in the ears], roughly 3% of your brain cells die off." If so, I've been making do with roughly zero brain cells for at least 30 years. A miracle!

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  Today's "AI" uh-oh: I was inquiring with two chatbots (Claude and Gemini) about best techniques -- to the extent possible -- for removing data from an SSD I plan to sell. Both of them suggested command line (Linux) scripts that would have erased my main laptop drive. Oh sure I trust this stuff...

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  Serial liars like Trump and his apparatchiks have a huge advantage over people who tell the truth, because they can count on journalists to parrot the lies in their coverage, thereby giving equal weight to reality and bullshit. Example: Trump spokesperson quote in this story: https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/alan-ritchson-jack-reacher-novel-die-trying-1236870453/

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  If you use Fastmail for your email, you can now select to have your data reside in the EU rather than the US. If a nation state is out to spy on you, this won't fix much. But it does add a layer of surveillance protection in some ways. https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/16796454162063-Choosing-your-data-residency#howtoswitch

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  The AI panic looks like an orchestrated con: The bosses of these rapacious, sleazy, and infinitely sloppy companies are angling for government permission to be a cartel. This would be followed, as certain as day follows night, by the bailout they all know they'll need when their bubble deflates.

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  Putin-connected Russian oligarch's megabucks gift to Trump Jr. distills Trump world sleaze: flagrant graft and contempt for everyone not connected to by far the most corrupt crew ever in American business/politics. https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-jr-wedding-bankrolled-russian-oligarch-umar-kremlev-putin Great, great reporting by ProPublica.

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  Sheeran's capitulation to right-wing arena owners has so outraged other musicians that they're pulling out -- at great financial cost to themselves -- of his tour. https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/finneas-aaron-rowe-exit-ed-sheeran-tour-protest-macklemore-dropped-pal-rcna597948

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  Constantly, when I read articles on the NY Times website (Firefox in Android), the site pops up annoying "upgrade" offers and demands that I use the app. Is there any way to remove these vandalisms permanently?

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  If you support "age verification" online, you are supporting a system that GUARANTEES privacy meltdowns -- endangering all of us -- because the giant databases of scanned IDs are perpetually hacked by criminals who sell private data. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers-had-a-live-feed-of-every-id-this-verification-company-scanned-for-over-a-year/

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  Google has become an enemy of the open web, and it's increasingly locking down Android to dominate (with Apple) mobile computing. https://keepandroidopen.org/ A once-principled company gets more and more control-freakish, for money and power. Nothing Google does now is surprising, just predictable.

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  The Trump-infected US Postal Service isn't just threatening to wreck mail-in voting. It's under way. So we have to take our ballots to a dropbox or cast them in person. In other words, the regime's election fuckery has worked, while the press ho-hummed as usual. https://www.thurstoncountywa.gov/news/we-are-still-getting-ballots-should-have-counted-primary

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  The odious surveillance company Flock has been teaching police how to spy on Americans who are exercising their First Amendment rights. https://www.404media.co/r/beaca1b1?m=ea6b4c29-f97b-4025-aaeb-1d01a70b3b30

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  Yet another example of the Trump regime and its minions openly defying a court order: https://www.npr.org/2026/09/02/nx-s1-5952211/usps-whistleblower-lawyer-reaction-mail-ballots Also yet another example of a judge doing absolutely nothing about it. The regime is winning its war on the rule of law.

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  “People who have no reverence will destroy a mountain to get the coal out of it or destroy a field to get a crop out of it. They’ll make extravagant assumptions about their own competence and intelligence, and they’ll make extravagant mistakes." -- Wendell Berry. Blog post: https://dangillmor.com/2026/09/01/wendell-berry-r-i-p/

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  Trump regime's despotism grows and grows. Banning a secure email service is just the latest step. https://reason.com/2026/08/27/rubio-uses-terrorism-law-to-ban-secure-email-service/