Update: The Los Angeles City Council approved a $300K settlement payout to journalist camacho and an activist group Aug. 14, after suing them to claw back photos of police officers Camacho had received through a public records request.  pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/…

Trump ally Michael Flynn appeared on a podcast hosted by antisemitic conspiracy theorist Jake Shields. Flynn praised Shields and called himself a "big fan." angrywhitemen.org/2024/09/05/mic…

There you have it: Rob Rundo has signed a plea agreement & will admit to conspiring to violate the Anti-Riot Act w/other members of the Rise Above Movement during a spate of violence at several 2017 protests in CA Next court appearance TBD documentcloud.org/documents/2509…

I don’t exactly have a high opinion of conservatives but I will admit I do not expect “no we are literally getting paid by Russia” and “actually Hitler, yes that it Hitler, was the good guy” to drop at the same time

Great work by The Guardian's Alice Herman covering Lion of Judah/Joshua Standifer's efforts to undermine our elections. It's telling that Standifer casts criticism as anti-Xn... What business does a Christian ministry have gathering election fraud data? theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

Internet archive dead, twitter barely functioning as a plartform to find and archive information, Facebook filled with slop and everything else largely being a glorified catalogue. Time to quit your compsci course and pivot to becoming a librarian

BREAKING: My fall LGBTQ reporting & virus classes were cancelled & I’m not allowed to teach at Medill while I’m “investigated.” Whatever happens, I’ll be fine— like Medill, I “write boldly & tell the truth fearlessly”— but I’ll neither stay nor go quietly.x.com/democracynow/s…

News: Blaze Media has fired Lauren Chen, who was linked to Russian influence operation semafor.com/article/09/05/…

So according to Blaze Media, this was fine angrywhitemen.org/2024/05/06/bla…

Tim Pool on his future after an indictment alleging that Russia paid him $100K per video: "It will be the exact same show it's always been and will continue to advance whatever it is we are advancing. And it's totally independent and whatever."

Thread. Northwestern as an alum, going after a professor like this for speaking out and standing with students is troubling. And Professor Thrasher is right about “faux objectivity” in journalism. Be truthful, not neutral.

Google will put $15 million to support journalism initiatives in CA. Meanwhile the Russians (allegedly) spent $10 million on ONE media company to target the 2024 election Ok.

Darryl Cooper, the podcaster who blew up online for Hitler apologia? JD Vance follows him dailydot.com/debug/jd-vance…

my dissertation, which i'm supposed to finally finish this weekend, is about how these specific ideas about gender got baked into Silicon Valley and its conception of entrepreneurship in the 1990s. absolutely wild to see it playing out in the present

2 Virginia Guardsmen Are Running a Rural Anti-Government Militia | Military.co military.com/daily-news/202…

Also appearing at the JD Vance / Charlie Kirk rally at Generation Church in Mesa yesterday was disgraced Pastor Mark Driscoll, who was previously ousted from his own church and pastor org. due to abusive behavior before opening a new church in Scottsdale.

...Is Cenk Uygur aware that Stonetoss is a white nationalist cartoon?

NPR has identified the attacker of an Arlington National Cemetery worker. Michel Picard.

"Those who work bullshit jobs are often surrounded by honor and prestige; they are respected as professionals, well paid, and treated as high achievers" - David Graeber

I feel like if people are unable to solve the mystery of “why am I getting paid six figures per YouTube video” then they may not be equipped to provide useful analysis on more complex political and cultural issues.