New from me: dozens of members of the Ammon Bundy-founded People's Rights Network ran for precinct level GOP positions in Oregon this week, and they have been coordinating their political activities for years on a radio network theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

I have never an a reporting experience quite as unsettling as my day with the Collins family in Pennsylvania theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/a…

Today we're launching Sequencer, a writer-owned science publication. The three best science journalists I know (Max G. Levy Dan Samorodnitsky Shi En Kim, PhD) and I are putting our experiment out into the world, and we hope you'll follow along: sequencermag.com

I shouldn't be laughing but...

the pro-natalist couple hits their children theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/a…

At least 66 members of far-right group, Ammon Bundy’s People’s Rights Network, in rural Oregon standing for office. theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

An extraordinary case of police 'psychological torture' in Fontana, CA: When Thomas Perez reported his elderly father missing, cops brought him in for a 17-hour interrogation + coerced him to falsely confess killing his dad.

His dad was alive.

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Scoop: I obtained the contract Samsung requires independent shops to sign to buy phone repair parts from them.

It requires:

- 'Daily' dumps of customer data
- The 'immediate destruction' of any phones a shop comes across that has third-party parts

404media.co/samsung-requir…

I have a story in The Guardian today about 'MAGA Communism', a 'ludicrous' movement championed by Jackson Hinkle and streamer Infrared — which has been getting attention from some powerful people, including Alexander Dugin and Alex Jones

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New from me: details on Conservative Partnership Institute events, including trainings for Hill staffers at their $7m Maryland ranch, and midwinter getaways at Florida resorts for Freedom Caucus congresspersons theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

There’s a kind of person who is the reason that blocks and bans exist. They also argue loudest that blocking is evil, and you’ll be stuck in a filter bubble if you deprive yourself of their sparkling wit. You should block these guys faster than anyone. davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/202…