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Back in May, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt offered what might be the single most audacious statement of the Trump era—and that’s saying something:
I think everybody – the American public believe it’s absurd for anyone to insinuate that this president is profiting off of the presidency.
Anyway, in unrelated news, Donald Trump just filed a lawsuit against his own IRS, demanding...
According to new data from the US Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), streaming video subscription prices jumped a whopping 29 percent year over year. That’s compared to the 2.7 percent jump in consumer costs seen more generally across other goods and services.
Of course BLS doesn’t explain why streaming video prices are soaring at such a dramatic rate. It’s something we’ve...
I’ve been talking about the Stop Killing Games movement for some time now, so important is its mission to me. This collection of volunteers focused on video game and cultural preservation is attempting to whip up public support for legislation to achieve those goals. Currently focused in the EU, the campaign is built primarily on legislating the following rules:
Games sold must be left in a...
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We always knew the narrative was false. The administration’s insistence that Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) was somehow an international menace always rang hollow — just another way to disappear brown people into an El Salvadoran torture prison.
For months, it’s been clear the intelligence doesn’t back the claims made by the deliberately stupid leaders of the Trump administration. A leak...
History never repeats exactly the same, which is how it can be hard to recognize when it is indeed repeating—too many little things may be different the second time around for subsequent events to be a perfect twin of the previous. But it’s the big things that often reappear in similar ways that are meaningful. As they are here, which is why it’s time to recognize: for all intents and purposes,...
This week, a major trial kicked off in Los Angeles in which hundreds of families sued Meta, TikTok, Snap, and YouTube, accusing the companies of intentionally designing their products to be addictive (though Snap and TikTok both settled on the eve of the trial) . From the Guardian:
For the first time, a huge group of parents, teens and school districts is taking on the world’s most powerful...
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Let’s open with a joke:
Mr. Bovino said Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and Border Patrol agents were probably more experienced at handling young people than “any domestic law enforcement agency.”
“I will say unequivocally that we are experts in dealing with children,” he said. “Not because we want to be, but because we have to be.”
Granted, the punchline is weak and the person...
Last year we reported how Verizon executives happily agreed to be more racist and sexist in exchange for Trump DOJ and FCC approval of their $20 billion merger with telecom giant Frontier Communications. Verizon embarrassingly said they’d cull race and gender equality initiatives, and try harder moving forward to protect downtrodden white people from the scary monster that is diversity.
But...