The bottom line? Federal law enforcement asserted primacy over all media distribution, a situation normally only found in tinpot regimes | Continue reading
From FBI to DNI the DNI to "OGA," the full thread on Twitter and its intelligence partners | Continue reading
A few delirious reflections at a crazy month's end | Continue reading
American officials keep insisting they won't negotiate with Russia, but now they're also leaking a belief that Ukraine can't win. Is this 4-D chess, or cluelessness? Or is there no plan at all? | Continue reading
A New York Times story pinning an assassination on Ukraine was a blockbuster, but why was it made public? How news in the "Information Warfare" age has become incomprehensible | Continue reading
In scrubbed piece about Edward Snowden, the Bezos Post offers a preview of how history will be re-written | Continue reading
The current Trump investigation is just the latest chapter of a long-brewing civil liberties nightmare. | Continue reading
Negative media attention and the martyring effect of Internet censorship are the best friends Donald Trump ever had, but press antagonists are doubling down for 2024 | Continue reading
An unstable encounter with a $50 billion stablecoin | Continue reading
Albeit with new wrapping and new jargon, crypto has been infected by the same old problems of insider finance | Continue reading
While the media world wept over Amber and Johnny, a lawsuit filed by a feminist group over prison sexual abuse remained earth's most ignored scandal | Continue reading
A series of moves against media outlets by PayPal shows the next step in speech control: confiscation. Why won't the company answer questions? | Continue reading
The Great Elon Musk panic of 2022 is revealing a big fat boatload of blue-check hypocrites | Continue reading
More and more, we're told outright war isn't just necessary and right, but the thing that will solve America's existential problems | Continue reading
Let's fly the first black woman to the moon, but send the checks to Jeff Bezos! On the congressional hustle that perfectly captures 2022 America | Continue reading
Interview with the award-winning investigative reporter, now at Substack, who had six years of shows removed by YouTube over the weekend | Continue reading
In an inane sequel to the Harper's Letter fiasco, a New York Times editorial ignites a fury proving its anodyne thesis | Continue reading
From free speech to "spheres of influence" to our passion for endless war, we've become the doublethinkers 1984 predicted | Continue reading
Denouncing truckers for "unacceptable views," Canada's Prime Minister skipped town rather than face evidence of his own unpopularity. Is neoliberalism finally cracking? | Continue reading
The fact-checkers who flagged Paul Thacker's British Medical Journal article about a Pfizer subcontractor for Facebook admitted they police narrative, not fact | Continue reading
The resignation of Jack Dorsey is the latest plot point in the story of the Internet's transformation, from democratizing tool to instrument of elite control | Continue reading
A year of pronouncing the "Kenosha shooter" a murderer could have serious real-world consequences | Continue reading
As the country again prepares to go to war with itself, this time over a high-profile trial, a bigger story goes unnoticed | Continue reading
Notes on a "realigning" election | Continue reading
Interview with David Sirota, creator of the new Audible podcast series about the aftereffects of the 2008 financial crash, produced by Oscar-winner Alex Gibney's Jigsaw Productions | Continue reading
The press tries and fails to hype a crisis into existence over Dave Chappelle's new Netflix special | Continue reading
While press flocked to a different protest in Hollywood, a five-day protest of Joe Biden's environmental policies got ugly | Continue reading
"The jab" is just the latest story to be reported as mantra | Continue reading
When political narrative replaces faith, truth becomes heresy | Continue reading
When Rachel Maddow, Rolling Stone, and others jumped on a dubious report of ivermectin overdoses, it was just the latest in a string of moral mania mishaps | Continue reading
On the road from stirring symbol of hope and change to the Fat Elvis of neoliberalism, birthday-partying Barack Obama sold us out | Continue reading
Antifa's influence may be exaggerated, but it's not a mythical Snuffleupagus, either, as they showed in attacking reporter Maranie Staab from our partner News2Share this past weekend. | Continue reading
MSNBC rails against the "fantastically corrupt elite" on the ground that ruined the Afghan mission, but the real corruption was our own | Continue reading
As the Taliban waltzes into Kabul, the look of surprise on the faces of top officials should frighten us most of all | Continue reading
Can history itself violate community standards? | Continue reading
Covid-19 cases are rising, but the "Pandemic of the Unvaccinated" blame-game campaign is the worst way to address the problem | Continue reading
National Public Radio complains about a media figure who tells people "what their opinions should be" and uses political "buzzwords" | Continue reading
Authoritarian arrogance is handing a ratings bonanza to the onetime Daily Show target, who laughs: "It was easy to be Lenny Bruce in 1963." | Continue reading
YouTube's decision to demonetize podcaster Bret Weinstein raises serious questions, both about the First Amendment and regulatory capture | Continue reading
A potential Covid-19 treatment has become hostage to a larger global fight between populists and anti-populists | Continue reading
Canceled on campus for speaking his mind, he's now going through a sequel at the hands of Silicon Valley | Continue reading
At the worst possible moment, Internet censorship has driven scientific debate itself underground | Continue reading
At the worst possible moment, Internet censorship has driven scientific debate itself underground | Continue reading
"The Division of Light and Power," the new book by Dennis Kucinich, is an epic chronicle of American corruption | Continue reading
In which a leading American paper quietly excises an inconvenient historical detail | Continue reading
Fact-checkers are great, but the media business keeps trying to solve its credibility problem by misrepresenting what they do | Continue reading
When the face of a traditionally low-margin business starts collecting private jets, it's time to head for the exits | Continue reading
Bounced from Apple over complaints about his book Chaos Monkeys, the author questions the wisdom of conflating your entire "political, moral, and religious being with your professional persona." | Continue reading