Greg Milner

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.

I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...

One of the weirdest things about sycophancy in the Trump era is that you have to pretend to be much stupider than you are.

Lately I find myself just feeling angry that GenAI exists. I guess it was inevitable, but it feels like it's going to do a lot of damage. No way to put the toothpaste back in the tube. I'm surprised by how much this bothers me.

You really can't identify a set of rational interests that are controlling present-day politics - or even consistent, irrational interests. Just spasms, driven by the need to clamber to the top of the attentional food chain, inside your bubble of choice. The oligarchs themselves are not exempt.

Meet Crumb, Button, and Clover. A friend in the Bay Area found them behind a gas station. Unfortunately, she isn't able to keep them, so if she can't find someone to adopt them, they will be going to a shelter. Can you help me find them a home? They are in good health and very tame.

The McMenamins Edgefield Amphitheater is a ridiculous venue. People shouldn't go there and bands shouldn't play there.

Here is something I can’t understand.

@whstancil.bsky.social I’m sorry you’re going through all this. It’s really awful.

At @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social, Paul Campos argues for ADHD as a political metaphor. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/05/the-...

Some of the stupidest, most venal people in the world have an outsized effect on our lives, and their influence reverberates across the years. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

The U.S. Supreme Court, tomorrow:

I live in Minnesota and I want the federal government to stop trying to kill us. And hurt us. I want them to stop attacking us. It sucks. We’re just trying to live our lives and take care of each other and we don’t deserve all this. I kid around sometimes here but I’m not kidding now.

I’m listening to “Imperial Bedroom” for the first time in forever. Just impeccably recorded. It’s a strong argument that Geoff Emerick, more than anyone, was the mythical “fifth Beatle.”

Really excited to see Descendents open the Super Bowl. Finally getting their due!

My parents moved to Portland a few months ago and just got tear-gassed for the first time.

Do we even know the identities of the men who shot Alex?

Respect to the woman in the pink coat.

What makes these protests so unique is they aren’t a response to something that either already happened or is happening somewhere else. The things people are in the streets protesting in Minneapolis are happening right now, right in front of them, repeatedly.

A long time ago I lived in Minneapolis. It’s such a great place, and I’m really proud of how the people who live there are responding to this ICE occupation.

It's SO disheartening to see an ICE officer who murdered a woman have their GoFundMe raise $650k+ in days while I am fighting for my life. What does that say about this country and its priorities? Sorry. I'm tired & not feeling well tonight. I'd be so grateful if you could SHARE this. ❤️ #FuckICE

Well, .1 percent through the year and nothing to show for it. Think I’ll just write this one off.

@erikloomis.bsky.social Nice Sam Goody entry in the grave series. I was thinking Tower Records founder Russ Solomon would be a good grave to cover, but I can’t figure out where it is, though I’d guess somewhere in or near Sacramento.

A cry rises up from the crowd: “IN-TER-VIEW! IN-TER-VIEW!”

Gonna end every skeet from now on with REPEAT THIS INSIGHT.

It’s the obvious orchestration that really gets me. Schumer obviously managed the votes so nobody up for election in 2026 had to vote to reopen.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

The sole disappointment today is that I wish I saw signs commenting on the Supreme Court. Never forget that it’s the Roberts court that is giving Trump his crown.

Downtown Portland. Today was my daughter’s first protest. We didn’t make it through the entire march, but I was proud of her.

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight. Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Something that’s always amazed me about the strip is how Trudeau has characters in place to respond to just about anything happening in the world.

It's important to remember when GOP Reps and Sens are yelling about the 'violent left' that they routinely tell reporters and colleagues how theyre afraid to do this or that because their own supporters routinely threaten violence agains them.

Our era in a nutshell.

Erik Loomis says what needs to be said. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/the-...

Oliver North is three degrees from Jim Morrison.

One of the things that makes me miss New York.

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Cut to the Supreme Court using the shadow docket to rule that ICE may deny all access to Room 101.

@smith.senate.gov Just wanted to thank you and your staffers for calling out Mike Lee.

Good thread from someone in Portland. She’s absolutely right about the political complexity and weirdness of Portland.

There’s a non-trivial chance Trump will demand Manhattan be turned into a maximum-security prison from which nobody can escape.

From @mjtoma.bsky.social. I wish more articles about Musk put what he’s doing in such stark terms. For all the destruction, the outrage has been muted. newrepublic.com/article/1947...

We should all take a moment to thank Jon Chait and his ilk for spending years warning us about how the left is the greatest threat to free speech on college campuses.

Happy One Month Anniversary to this story.

but her emails

Democrats: please take advantage of this. Don’t wait to see how it polls just do it.

I plan to try, as much as possible, not to begin articles I write with: “In [month] [year], [person you’ve never heard of] [did something prosaic, like flying into a city or putting on a coat and leaving the house or opening up a web browser].” We’ll see how that goes.