Nostr notes by James Gleick

Are you getting chummy with your new AI friend? Finally, you’ve ...

2026-10-15T13:54:20Z

Are you getting chummy with your new AI friend? Finally, you’ve found someone who understands?

Here’s why that’s not good.

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/11/05/talk-to-it-chatbots-artificial-intimacy-inventing-eliza/?share_key=4c32eb83f89e

The president of the United States fabricated a nonexistent ...

2026-10-11T20:09:49Z

The president of the United States fabricated a nonexistent cease-fire between Russia and Ukraine and announced it on his social media platform. The lie was immediately exposed: Russia attacked a power plant in Kharkiv and Ukraine said it was unaware of any cease-fire.

Shouldn't that be the lede?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/world/europe/trump-zelensky-diesel-energy-russia-.html?unlocked_article_code=1.H1E.VwGL.k0n76o489a5k&smid=url-share

Keeping poison out of the food supply used to be something ...

2026-10-11T18:32:10Z

Keeping poison out of the food supply used to be something everyone favored.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/10/fda-toxic-chemicals-food-analysis

Here we go again. If you fire a bullet at a practice dummy and ...

2026-10-10T14:19:17Z

Here we go again.

If you fire a bullet at a practice dummy and the bullet hits a person instead, the bullet was not “acting on its own.”

When Anthropic's software—designed, programmed, prompted, and activated by humans working for Anthropic—does stuff the humans failed to predict, stop saying the software has "gone rogue.” The software does not have agency. Only the humans do.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/technology/anthropic-rogue-ai-agents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HlE.GIEa.uR_4KOEmJEfi&smid=url-share

If you read one thing about the AI-powered glasses (“pervert ...

2026-10-08T13:18:26Z

If you read one thing about the AI-powered glasses (“pervert glasses”) coming from Meta and others, let it be this by Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs). The tech oligarchy is creating for us “a world of continuous scrutiny, judgment and punishment” from which only they will be free.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/05/pervert-glasses/#authentic-self

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117390294462413805 Again: ...

2026-10-06T01:46:06Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117390294462413805

Again: stop calling the malware “rogue.” These bots were designed, trained, prompted, and activated by humans at OpenAI. The fact that some of their behavior was unpredicted does not diminish OpenAI’s responsibility.

One identifier of a failed state: other nations conduct diplomacy ...

2026-10-03T13:53:37Z

One identifier of a failed state: other nations conduct diplomacy through bribes to the ruling family.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/us/politics/kushner-witkoff-russia-oil-deal.html?unlocked_article_code=1.F1E.euaM.QA5U2o-XEbAM&smid=url-share

Journalists have fallen in love with the expression "went ...

2026-09-26T12:12:52Z

Journalists have fallen in love with the expression "went rogue." It's not appropriate. OpenAI is recklessly releasing malware: software intentionally designed to gain unauthorized access to computer systems.

Show us the actual instructions and prompts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware

More NYT strangeness. The correct phrasing would be: "Ms. ...

2026-09-22T22:31:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…xlvf
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More NYT strangeness. The correct phrasing would be:

"Ms. Collins, who positions herself as a moderate, has long attempted to create the appearance of distance from Mr. Trump, while always doing his bidding when it matters."

The NY Times is matching a superb story from @propublica.org. ...

2026-09-22T21:40:40Z

The NY Times is matching a superb story from @propublica.org. This paragraph—strangely unattributed—is a lie: the investigation was shut down because Trump has ended all investigations into public corruption by Republicans and their donors.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/us/politics/fbi-susan-collins-donor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DFE.rDgr.Qe-paQPGgiY_&smid=url-share

Working parents snatched up when they pick up their children at ...

2026-09-21T14:58:53Z

Working parents snatched up when they pick up their children at school. Longtime residents caring for elderly parents. Law-abiding immigrants seized and transported with disregard for judicial orders. Ruined lives, imprisonment, and torture.

The US government is engaging in a campaign of malevolent, vicious, pointless cruelty on a scale unseen since the time of slavery. Carried out in darkness, in all our names.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/21/trump-deportation-deals?CMP=share_btn_url https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/21/trump-deportation-deals?CMP=share_btn_url

In the government of the United States as now constituted, all ...

2026-09-18T21:00:47Z

In the government of the United States as now constituted, all officials and functionaries are routinely required to pose standing behind the seated tyrant to show obeisance and make him look important.

Newspapers publish these photos without comment, as if it were normal.

True fact: there's no such thing as “chemtrails.” The ...

2026-09-17T22:05:33Z

True fact: there's no such thing as “chemtrails.” The word for the trails of vapor sometimes created by aircraft is "contrails," short for condensation trails. They're water. They’ve been understood for almost a century. There's no mystery about it, and no controversy, except for the controversy created by right-wing nutcases.

One of whom, to our shame, is the top health official of the US.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/health/kennedy-vaccines-childrens-health-defense.html?unlocked_article_code=1.B1E.khJo.Osc1QYib5aDG&smid=url-share

Person announces that he is “STRONG AND SMART (HIGH IQ!)” ...

2026-09-16T14:03:28Z

Person announces that he is “STRONG AND SMART (HIGH IQ!)”

Given no other information, do you think he is:

True fact: Until last year, the Kennedy Center was one of the ...

2026-09-15T18:24:23Z

True fact: Until last year, the Kennedy Center was one of the world's most treasured and productive centers for the performing arts. More than a million people a year saw more than 2,000 performances of theater, opera, ballet, and music.

Now the Kennedy Center is dead. Its entrance is shrouded in tarpaulins that serve one purpose: to conceal the removal of Donald Trump’s name.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/arts/music/kennedy-center-trump-name-inscription-judge-ruling.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BVE.ASCi.sXxI2LeGJUVj&smid=url-share

It's rare for a single person to throw the whole world into ...

2026-09-15T16:10:42Z

It's rare for a single person to throw the whole world into crisis, and his name doesn't even appear in this article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/world/asia/syria-fuel-price-protests-world.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BVE.svfC.b2RRsyOUDBdk&smid=url-share

You see, children, back in the 2020’s, the United States ...

2026-09-14T19:08:07Z

You see, children, back in the 2020’s, the United States surrendered its government to a mad tyrant. Everyone could see he was mad—he ranted and rambled and mumbled and blustered, until nothing he said made any sense—but no one stopped him. Everything he touched, he destroyed.

RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@leemadgwick/117230550677735256 ...

2026-09-12T18:09:24Z

RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@leemadgwick/117230550677735256

Someone should organize a class action lawsuit against Meta. It’s bad enough that they pollute their own platform with AI impersonators and AI slop. But now they spread confusion and sabotage artists by mislabeling actual art as AI.

Surely this is libelous.

quoting
note1qew…mexl

Alt text:

It has recently come to my attention that Meta is labelling several of my posts as ‘Likely made using AI’. What you see on my website and social media is 100% human-created art. No AI tools or generators are, and never will be, used at any stage of my creative process.

The New York Times has developed a bad habit of falsely ...

2026-09-08T14:47:26Z

The New York Times has developed a bad habit of falsely attributing agency to AI tools. It’s colorful, and it's wrong.

Suggestion: When journalists write about things that AI ...

2026-09-02T12:18:00Z

Suggestion: When journalists write about things that AI "agents” do—e.g., write emails to philosophers, or carry out cyberattacks—they should be sure to specify the prompts and instructions that humans provided.

Don't pretend that the AI's are acting on their own, with autonomy, if you haven’t examined the instructions. It's sexy to pretend there are no humans involved, but it’s irresponsible.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/science/ai-consciousness-agents-email.html?smid=url-share

Lac #Ontario Aujourd’hui et pour toujours. 🇨🇦 ...

2026-08-30T17:24:12Z

Lac #Ontario Aujourd’hui et pour toujours. 🇨🇦

I have a problem with this story about AI “Becoming So ...

2026-08-25T17:19:27Z

I have a problem with this story about AI “Becoming So Powerful, It’s Stumping Those Trying to Contain It.” All the tech bros, and the reporter, suggest that the AI’s have agency here. In fact, the AI’s are being programmed and designed and set in motion to carry out cyberattacks—to “hack certain targets.”

Then there's unexpected damage!

Maybe stop doing that? But don't pretend the AI’s have gone rogue.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/technology/irregular-ai-test-hacks.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8FA.sshI.oIu8V0zrv2Ux&smid=url-share

“Trump and his MAGA minions would like nothing more than to ...

2026-08-17T12:18:20Z

“Trump and his MAGA minions would like nothing more than to numb you, me, and the rest of us to their growing archipelago of death, a bloodstained map that stretches from the icy streets of Minneapolis to a dingy detention site in Newark, and from a bomb-blasted island off Iran to the sickbeds in an African refugee camp. They want us to feel numb as their authoritarian death cult expands, and we cannot allow that to happen.

"The truth is that the United States will remain a global pariah — a pitiful, helpless giant — as long as there is no accountability for these war crimes, including, or perhaps especially, the terror perpetrated by mystery men with American flag patches on the high seas. That means public hearings, trials, prison sentences, and the kind of truth and reconciliation this nation has not seen before.”

Will Bunch. Gift link.

https://share.inquirer.com/SVJriM

Just say it. Stop pretending you don't know. Say it each ...

2026-07-25T16:11:20Z

Just say it. Stop pretending you don't know. Say it each time.

This is #AIhype disguised as a confession. OpenAI wants to ...

2026-07-22T08:29:16Z

This is #AIhype disguised as a confession. OpenAI wants to pretend that its product has supernatural powers. The LLM didn't "go rogue" and it didn't "infer" anything. It did what its programmers designed it to do, when they gave it the necessary information to target Hugging Face and failed to isolate it in a sandbox.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/technology/openai-attack-hugging-face.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zlA.kI7n.HgoniJc3OqNw&smid=url-share

The story in a nutshell. 1. Qatar bribed Trump with a large ...

2026-07-09T10:13:45Z

The story in a nutshell.

1. Qatar bribed Trump with a large aircraft.
2. Trump spent $400 million in taxpayer money to make it luxurious.
3. It is insecure for use as Air Force One.
4. He intends to keep it as his own when he leaves office.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/us/politics/trump-air-force-one-security.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wVA.p0tp.J3UTgl7i87OO&smid=url-share

Imagine if Biden or Obama had made 327 stock purchases in a ...

2026-07-02T20:45:55Z

Imagine if Biden or Obama had made 327 stock purchases in a single day and then, the next day, announced a policy change guaranteed to boost those stocks, while announcing “GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!”

Any previous president would have been quickly impeached and convicted, by both parties.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/trump-stock-trades-before-tariff-pause-rcna352723

1. Swallow the AI hype. 2. Fire your skilled humans. 3. Discover ...

2026-07-02T15:55:14Z

1. Swallow the AI hype.
2. Fire your skilled humans.
3. Discover that the AI does inferior work.
4. Hire back the humans TO TRAIN THE AI.

Coming soon:

5. Fire the humans again.
6. Discover that the AI does inferior work.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrkd41n2v9o

Clearer headline: Trump Used Crypto Scam To Fleece His Investors ...

2026-07-01T21:41:33Z

Clearer headline:

Trump Used Crypto Scam
To Fleece His Investors

(This is an example of the Opaque Passive voice. “Crypto” didn't do anything. Trump did.)

Italy is in an uproar. Its foreign minister has cancelled a trip ...

2026-06-19T17:07:25Z

Italy is in an uproar. Its foreign minister has cancelled a trip to the US. Why?

Because Trump told an offensive lie that he has used many times before about many people, only this time he told it about the Italian Prime Minister.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/19/giorgia-meloni-stunned-donald-trump-claims-begged-him-photo

“He is wrecking the historic relations between the United States and Europe. With his inappropriate outbursts, he has managed ‌no easy feat, to make the US unpopular across the entire European continent, damaging not only Europe but above all the US.”

With unusual candor, Donald Trump admits that he has ...

2026-06-17T20:12:14Z

With unusual candor, Donald Trump admits that he has single-handedly brought us to the brink of a "worldwide depression.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/17/trump-us-iran-war-mou-deal

You might think that the graveyards of Normandy would be a poor ...

2026-06-07T20:47:14Z

You might think that the graveyards of Normandy would be a poor place for Pete Hegseth (“comic book nobody”) to trot out his ideology of Aryan racial purity. You’d be right.

Simon Schama, who knows his history, sees a “special kind of loathsomeness: a blend of historical deafness, grotesque stupidity and comically ludicrous self-importance.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/07/pete-hegseth-d-day-speech-immigration-grotesque-stupidity

I feel seen. ...

2026-06-07T15:40:49Z

I feel seen. [@tomgauld.bsky.social](http://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/tomgauld.bsky.social ) http://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oflombnj6v6xyohhatfkbzyd/post/3mnphjwi3u22v

When Pete Hegseth systematically targets Blacks and women, ...

2026-06-01T19:22:13Z

When Pete Hegseth systematically targets Blacks and women, don't we call that racism and misogyny? When did "anti-diversity" become an acceptable euphemism?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/us/politics/hegseth-navy-promotion-list.html?unlocked_article_code=1.m1A.sTbd.u0OkEGSrJw2u&smid=url-share

One more thing. Before he was murdered, John F. Kennedy expressed ...

2026-05-29T21:53:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…5awt
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One more thing. Before he was murdered, John F. Kennedy expressed his support for the arts this way (as emphasized by the judge).

Can anyone imagine our current president speaking words like these?

As for the board itself, created by Congress, the law specifies ...

2026-05-29T21:20:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…978c
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As for the board itself, created by Congress, the law specifies “a board to be known as the Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts . . . whose duty it shall be to maintain and administer the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and site thereof as the National Center for the Performing Arts, a living memorial to John Fitzgerald Kennedy.”

They are law-breakers, every one. (3/3)

Without using these exact words, Judge Christopher R. Cooper ...

2026-05-29T21:20:16Z

Without using these exact words, Judge Christopher R. Cooper demonstrates that the people Trump appointed to the Kennedy Center Board are rogues and liars. They broke the law when they suddenly allowed Trump to shut the center down and cancel its programming. They broke the law when they renamed the center for Trump and put his name on the walls and stationery. And the law is not hard to understand:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.287972/gov.uscourts.dcd.287972.50.0_1.pdf (1/3)

It specifies “a building to be designated as the John F. ...

2026-05-29T21:20:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…sznz
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It specifies “a building to be designated as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.”

It renames “the National Cultural Center as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.”

It requires ““striking out” the former name “each place that
it appear[ed]” in the original act and replacing it with the latter. (2/3)

RE: https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/116652478874625102 The ...

2026-05-28T14:56:13Z

RE: https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/116652478874625102

The correct and absolutely libel-proof phrasing is

"E. Jean Carroll, writer raped by Trump.”

quoting
note1pnw…3pd7

Hey ABC 13 News.

E. Jean Carroll didn't merely accuse Trump of sexual assault. A jury convicted Trump of sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll.

https://wset.com/news/nation-world/doj-justice-department-investigating-e-jean-carroll-writer-magazine-columnist-who-accused-president-donald-trump-of-sexual-assault-report-civil-judgement-lawsuit-defamation-supreme-court

#Journalism #Trump

In all its history, Google did one good thing: created a ...

2026-05-20T13:45:56Z

In all its history, Google did one good thing: created a transformational, empowering search engine. Then it did a lot of bad things. Now it is destroying the one good thing. ⁂ L. Rhodes (npub1e5z…p90v) https://merveilles.town/@lrhodes/116602624308267886

I don't think this word means what you think it does. ...

2026-05-17T14:13:39Z

I don't think this word means what you think it does.

1. Apologize to the people of Iran for the 1953 coup, the ...

2026-04-24T16:55:46Z

1. Apologize to the people of Iran for the 1953 coup, the breaking of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, and the 2026 war.
2. Commit the US to supporting democracy and self-determination henceforth.
3. Promise reparations and rebuilding.
4. Resign and surrender to the International Court of Justice.

Yet another Trump co-conspirator, investigated by the FBI but ...

2026-04-23T09:06:46Z

Yet another Trump co-conspirator, investigated by the FBI but never charged, gets a $1.25 million payout for nothing. His meritless lawsuit was repeatedly thrown out by the courts, but Trump has reached into the taxpayers' pockets and paid him anyway.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/politics/trump-settles-carter-page-lawsuit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dFA.j-zU.TIu0h8YQC4J7&smid=url-share

Did the President of the United States really just announce, ...

2026-04-19T17:11:07Z

Did the President of the United States really just announce, "NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!”?

Yes. Yes, he did. We live in the dumbest possible timeline.

Nostr event nevent1qqsrwzfgt2umcfn6w5l73g5wjvmlptyar2pyepxkgmw2axwk4eju9wqzyq0j238yys9t4vhhuzzpdhpexgjnp3n97tfzlxfjlgp6gvtlwww8ze670jg

2026-04-17T09:56:36Z

#FensterFreitag

U.S. and Israeli weapons are precise enough to enable the ...

2026-04-10T10:53:21Z

U.S. and Israeli weapons are precise enough to enable the assassination of Iranian leaders—yet they are targeting hospitals and schools, This is the beginning of what will surely be extensive documentation of war crimes.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/09/world/middleeast/us-israel-strikes-iran-structures-damage.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Z1A.jNTc.JZhppIRJ8_tY&smid=url-share

Call it what it is. ...

2026-04-07T14:18:57Z

Call it what it is.

When even Marjorie Taylor Greene can see the truth, who does ...

2026-04-05T14:56:40Z

When even Marjorie Taylor Greene can see the truth, who does Trump have left?

“Experts are dubious.” ...

2026-04-05T08:23:00Z

“Experts are dubious.”

The NY Times has a blockbuster story here: Epstein got valuable ...

2026-04-04T16:16:56Z

The NY Times has a blockbuster story here: Epstein got valuable inside information from the first Trump administration and fed it to a wealthy foreign customer of his sex-trafficking racket.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/world/asia/epstein-india-ambani.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YVA.83Co.UxeBjXa6EFjs&smid=url-share

Think about this. Having started a war with no planning, the US ...

2026-04-02T10:07:41Z

Think about this. Having started a war with no planning, the US has discovered that it can't defend its own bases in the Middle East. So it is shifting troops to hotels and other residences where they are shielded by civilians. That's a war crime.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/us/politics/troops-iran-hotels.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X1A.zMhU.V-_4ydMQKLwy&smid=url-share

#Iran

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116297445220770371 ...

2026-03-27T11:04:34Z

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116297445220770371

Forbes providing a handy metric for how much the grifter-in-chief has stolen from the American people.
nostr:note1ew72j7ckzkqtngvwd59a9rj2lpxnnkln2lpxv5majpwr3266al4sds7vxr

Alternate lede: Tom Homan, the top White House border official, ...

2026-03-22T16:55:55Z

Alternate lede:

Tom Homan, the top White House border official, scrambled Sunday to carry out an impulsive order by Trump to use ICE agents at airports “to do security like no one has ever seen,” despite their lack of training for the work currently done by officers of the Transportation Security Administration.

He admitted he had no idea what the ICE agents would actually do.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/us/politics/ice-airports-homan-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VFA.FktN.oBFmz5LzrhD5&smid=url-share

Do you understand why Trump has lifted the oil sanctions that ...

2026-03-22T13:00:30Z

Do you understand why Trump has lifted the oil sanctions that were punishing Iran, the country he’s bombing, and Russia, the country that’s helping it?

Do you understand why Trump is sending 5,000 Marines to sail through the Strait of Hormuz while complaining that none of our friends and allies will help him reopen it?

Here's the whole explanation.

https://no01.substack.com/p/march-19-21-god-is-a-comedian

It turns out a DEA organized-crime task force was running a ...

2026-03-19T15:16:57Z

It turns out a DEA organized-crime task force was running a massive investigation of Epstein and 14 co-conspirators for drug trafficking and prostitution. That is, until Trump took office in 2016.

The investigation silently vanished.

Now the second Trump administration continues the cover-up.

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-18-2026?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Underappreciated story: Trump and Bondi have decided to disregard ...

2026-03-17T17:08:44Z

Underappreciated story: Trump and Bondi have decided to disregard the constitutional requirement that US Attorneys require Senate confirmation. In state after state they install unqualified apparatchiks, and it's up to the courts to discover that these stooges are serving illegally.

Which the courts have done, again and again. But the Trump regime simply ignores the courts and the law. All the work of these US Attorneys' offices is at risk. (1/2)

Be clear about this outrage: Trump and Republicans are attempting ...

2026-03-17T15:01:48Z

Be clear about this outrage: Trump and Republicans are attempting in broad daylight to disenfranchise 21 million American voters.

If they want to require a certain kind of ID for voting, they must first provide all eligible voters with that ID. They are making no attempt to do that. It's a Voter Disenfranchisement bill.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/us/politics/trump-voter-id-bill.html?smid=url-share

The Trump bloodhounds have just won in court against an “Antifa ...

2026-03-14T18:15:59Z

The Trump bloodhounds have just won in court against an “Antifa cell” belonging to the "Antifa domestic terrorist organization.” Here are some useful antifa facts:

1. There is no antifa organization. You can't find it, join it, give it money, or identify any leaders.
2. There are likewise no antifa cells, outside of Pam Bondi’s fever dreams.
3. Even so, if you yourself are not antifascist, what's the matter with you?

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-crackdown-on-terrorist-left-notches-a-victory-in-texas

Today in the Kleptocracy. This matter-of-fact article describes a ...

2026-03-13T17:25:40Z

Today in the Kleptocracy.

This matter-of-fact article describes a shameless and spectacular bribery mill at the Pentagon, enough to bring down any previous administration. Want to line your pockets with taxpayer money? Walk right in.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/us/politics/wall-street-access-pentagon.html?unlocked_article_code=1.S1A.fecq.KhjdhnbvQj2f&smid=url-share

The word is "cover up." The Times has found email proof ...

2026-03-12T14:04:24Z

The word is "cover up." The Times has found email proof that Kash Patel's FBI combed the Epstein files to protect Trump and 14 others.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/politics/trump-epstein-files-fbi-doj.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SlA.eZnK.neSkFik4rPMr&smid=url-share

Did AI kill 175 schoolchildren, aged 6 to 12, with a double-tap ...

2026-03-08T22:23:37Z

Did AI kill 175 schoolchildren, aged 6 to 12, with a double-tap precision-guided missile strike?

No, AI didn't commit this war crime. Donald Trump did. Pete Hegseth did.

"The people in charge don’t seem to be pondering this, as it’s all a game to them. You can hear it in the despicable language of the lacquered and grotesque Hegseth and his middle-school braggadocio about ‘warfighting’ and ‘the warrior ethos.’”

Will Bunch, must read. Gift link.

https://share.inquirer.com/HAOS9l

Given what is plain to see the video and accurately described in ...

2026-03-05T22:10:37Z

Given what is plain to see the video and accurately described in the article, “Senator Helps Officers" is an egregiously cowardly headling. https://mas.to/@gleick/116178407102807491

Senator Breaks Protester's Arm "Mr. Sheehy then hooks his ...

2026-03-05T20:16:47Z

Senator Breaks Protester's Arm

"Mr. Sheehy then hooks his arm around Mr. McGinnis’s arm, which is still bent around the door, and yanks.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/us/senator-tim-sheehy-marine-war-protester.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Q1A.KaLX.8n_ZnE5hXKl4&smid=url-share

It's almost as if Trump and his cabinet of dunces didn't ...

2026-03-03T23:14:07Z

It's almost as if Trump and his cabinet of dunces didn't think this thing through.

ICE and its agents broke so many laws in Minnesota. Here's ...

2026-03-03T15:26:33Z

ICE and its agents broke so many laws in Minnesota. Here's the investigation that's needed. (Important story apparently being ignored in the US press.)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/03/minnesota-investigation-us-immigration-officers?CMP=share_btn_url

At the New York Historical Society today. ...

2026-02-23T21:42:51Z

At the New York Historical Society today.

American citizen. No criminal record. Shot to death in his car by ...

2026-02-21T21:33:15Z

American citizen. No criminal record. Shot to death in his car by #ICE.

Anyone believe the official version?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/us/ruben-ray-martinez-ice-shooting-texas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.N1A.blv7.9lgcRKBKm8BK&smid=url-share

How often does some automated entity demand that you “Verify ...

2026-02-21T15:24:10Z

How often does some automated entity demand that you “Verify you are human”?

How is it possible for the United States to have committed $1 ...

2026-02-13T22:46:23Z

How is it possible for the United States to have committed $1 billion to the Trump-branded vanity project called "Board of Peace"? Has Congress appropriated these funds?

Anyone?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/world/middleeast/board-peace-pledges-gaza.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L1A.9CaS.wl5U6SmUv29c&smid=url-share

I'm so old I remember when Jeff #Bezos seemed like sort of a ...

2026-02-08T20:27:18Z

I'm so old I remember when Jeff #Bezos seemed like sort of a good guy who chose books as the focus of his clever new internet store.

Now he will always be remembered as the toady who paid tens of millions in tribute to the Trumps while ruthlessly destroying one of history's great newspapers.

Suddenly I get all this official (!) government email branded ...

2026-02-05T18:28:17Z

Suddenly I get all this official (!) government email branded with “Dr. Oz.” I suppose it's meant to remind me that we're now ruled by charlatans, quacks, and other criminals.

“Donald Trump has clearly lost control of his emotions, his ...

2026-02-04T22:09:52Z

“Donald Trump has clearly lost control of his emotions, his contact with reality, and such fidelity to truth as he ever had.

This is a problem for everyone on Earth: That a furious 79-year-old has asserted one-man authority to disrupt the world economy, destroy historic alliances, sell pardons to criminals, and conceivably start a nuclear war.”

James Fallows, keeping track of the many “examples of Trump saying and ordering things that his own people know are insane.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/fallows/p/management-under-a-mad-king-the-courtiers?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

If anyone hurts Trump's feelings, he sues them for billions ...

2026-02-03T16:31:27Z

If anyone hurts Trump's feelings, he sues them for billions of dollars. This woman was genuinely and maliciously defamed. Why can't she sue Trump?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/us/politics/nekima-levy-armstrong-minnesota-protest.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JVA.uiOu.Pl5rSMS_tj_i&smid=url-share

It took Trump barely a year to destroy the Kennedy Center for the ...

2026-02-02T14:40:54Z

It took Trump barely a year to destroy the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He fired its artistic board and staff, replaced them with stooges, drove away performers and audiences, decimated attendance, and pasted his name on the walls. Now, he's shutting it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/us/politics/trump-kennedy-center.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JFA.akpx.QfUnJrhFszg-&smid=url-share

U.S. District Judge Fred Biery finds that Trump and his ...

2026-01-31T21:16:42Z

U.S. District Judge Fred Biery finds that Trump and his apparachiks are demonstrating “the perfidious lust for unbridled
power and the imposition of cruelty”; that they “know no bounds and are bereft of human decency.”

And adds, “the rule of law be damned.”

He attaches a photograph to his ruling.

Yes, it’s true. Trump is demanding that American taxpayers give ...

2026-01-30T06:05:29Z

Yes, it’s true. Trump is demanding that American taxpayers give him another $10 billion dollars.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/us/politics/trump-irs-lawsuit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Pretti and other peaceful bystanders were being pepper-sprayed, ...

2026-01-28T16:01:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…4t75
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Pretti and other peaceful bystanders were being pepper-sprayed, not “arrested.”

The internet was not supposed to suck. Here's what went ...

2026-01-28T14:33:59Z

The internet was not supposed to suck. Here's what went wrong.

(Books by Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs), Tim Berners-Lee, and Joanna Walsh.)

https://around.com/how-the-web-was-lost/

The New York Times photographer David Guttenfelder is doing great ...

2026-01-27T16:47:03Z

The New York Times photographer David Guttenfelder is doing great work in Minneapolis. Here is a paramilitary force attacking its own citizenry on American soil.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/world/europe/italy-ice-olympics.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HlA.K6L5.BUohtIUgaVWB&smid=url-share

The AI craze run amok. Of course the Trump people are believers. ...

2026-01-26T22:38:23Z

The AI craze run amok. Of course the Trump people are believers. Not me: https://around.com/the-lie-of-ai/ https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk/115963756469654257

Nonsense. A "joint federal and state" investigation is ...

2026-01-25T18:54:13Z

Nonsense. A "joint federal and state" investigation is the last thing we need. We need state prosecutors to do their job unhindered: indict the murderers for murder and indict Noem, Patel, Bovino, and Bondi for obstruction of justice.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/us/bill-cassidy-minneapolis-investigation.html?smid=url-share

This is a brave man, with a phone camera in his hand, moments ...

2026-01-24T23:12:42Z

This is a brave man, with a phone camera in his hand, moments before he is tackled and murdered.

Murder is a state crime. Local prosecutors must indict the ...

2026-01-24T22:22:40Z

Murder is a state crime. Local prosecutors must indict the murderers of Renee Good and Jeffrey Pretti, even though federal authorities are trying to block and obstruct them.

The video shows a man forced to the ground and pummeled by masked ...

2026-01-24T19:31:44Z

The video shows a man forced to the ground and pummeled by masked men. Then, when he is completely helpless, they shoot him in the back.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/us/video-shows-moments-in-which-agents-killed-a-man-in-minneapolis.html?smid=url-share

Every public official—Trump, Vance, Bondi, Noem, and on ...

2026-01-24T17:15:12Z

Every public official—Trump, Vance, Bondi, Noem, and on down—lying to cover up the ICE killings is guilty as an accessory to murder. If the Trump era ever ends, there must be a reckoning.

It would be useful for reporters writing about Trump's ...

2026-01-23T20:37:07Z

It would be useful for reporters writing about Trump's preposterous "Board of Peace" to mention one country that is definitely not a member: the United States.

Trump doesn't have the power to join it. Any international treaty requires the vote of two-thirds of the Senate.

“We are a country ruled by a megalomaniac whose views are ...

2026-01-19T22:36:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…6yep
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“We are a country ruled by a megalomaniac whose views are openly hateful and proudly ignorant, whose avarice knows no bounds and whose claim to power is absolute. Foreign leaders try to appease him with flattery and curry his favor with gifts.”

“We have become a country where people are disappeared by a ...

2026-01-19T22:35:29Z

“We have become a country where people are disappeared by a paramilitary force that hunts them down in their apartments, on city streets and country roads.”

"We have become a country where a person can be summarily executed in public for protesting that paramilitary force.”

"We have become a country whose federal government deploys military and paramilitary forces in the streets of its major cities, terrorizing the residents in the guise of protecting them.” (1/2)

Masha Gessen. It needs to be said, and it needs to be felt. ...

2026-01-19T22:35:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…2mjd
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Masha Gessen. It needs to be said, and it needs to be felt.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/opinion/trump-one-year-later.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FlA.crde.7jYvifcOp0Zu&smid=url-share (2/2)

Trump selling pardons for cash with utter shamelessness and, ...

2026-01-16T22:02:40Z

Trump selling pardons for cash with utter shamelessness and, thanks to John Roberts, impunity.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/us/politics/trump-fraudster-pardon.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

“Now we have Minneapolis, America’s laboratory of democratic ...

2026-01-15T16:02:40Z

“Now we have Minneapolis, America’s laboratory of democratic destruction, where ICE agents have gone full Sturmabteilung, terrorizing and even killing not only people with brown skin, but anyone who protests or gets in their way.”

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-minneapolis-crucible

Prepare to see the American Gestapo deployed to polling places in ...

2026-01-15T15:12:08Z

Prepare to see the American Gestapo deployed to polling places in November.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-miller-secret-police_n_696812bee4b0774cc19ebbe3

The US now presents itself as a lawless and piratical nation, ...

2026-01-07T13:37:55Z

The US now presents itself as a lawless and piratical nation, plundering and pillaging the assets of a poorer neighbor. Serious question: Are most Americans okay with that?

“Mr. President, what gives you the right to dictate the terms ...

2026-01-06T12:56:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…tmmg
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“Mr. President, what gives you the right to dictate the terms of elections in another sovereign nation?”

—apparently no American reporter dares ask him.

We've reached the point where an American dictator says he ...

2026-01-06T12:51:32Z

We've reached the point where an American dictator says he alone can decide whether or when another country can hold elections, and the American press thinks that's normal.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/06/world/venezuela-maduro-us-trump?smid=url-share

“the most disturbing presidential press conference I have seen ...

2026-01-03T23:05:37Z

“the most disturbing presidential press conference I have seen in my life.”

James Fallows has seen more than anyone else I know. So pay heed.

https://fallows.substack.com/p/blind-into-caracas?r=ad0yf&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay&triedRedirect=true

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2026-01-03T11:28:54Z

Which is correct?

It is fitting that the new gold-plated Epstein class warships are ...

2025-12-22T22:14:38Z

It is fitting that the new gold-plated Epstein class warships are being announced at Mar-a-Lago. What a mighty Navy we shall have.

Epstein-Trump photos "disappear." It's a mystery! ...

2025-12-21T10:09:04Z

Epstein-Trump photos "disappear."
It's a mystery!
Whatever could have happened?

Or:

Justice Department Flouts Law,
Suppresses Evidence
Of Trump-Epstein Collusion

“We’re rolling at full speed into what we what we might call ...

2025-12-19T18:12:46Z

“We’re rolling at full speed into what we what we might call North Korean aesthetics of power with triumphal arches that will soon enough be dusty, half-broken relics, renaming everything after the Maximum Leader. It’s all weird. And it is all of this very particular moment.”

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-in-winter-drift-fragmentation-and-just-low-energy/sharetoken/816cdf7d-4d08-45ce-9371-06c0e8aca0a4