Jeff Milchen

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

From Lula’s victory speech. Hard to argue. 🇧🇷 “We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. We cannot have monstrously large corporations earning millions and billions, paying no taxes to this country and trying to steer our election results.”

As we hear even more absurd defenses for ICE agents concealing their identities, it's a great time to share the fact that being a grade school student in the US is more likely to get you killed than terrorizing diverse communities.

"Daniel Perry conducted searches on killing protesters. He boasted to acquaintances about how he hoped to kill protesters...And then he killed a protester." Then Texas' Gov. Abbot (up for reelection) pardoned him. An absolutely heartbreaking and enraging story that deserves sharing.

One of the most pernicious press failures : “Sanewashing by omission”

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.

Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam. In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...

And now the Arizona Star reports: "Judge orders Arizona man returned from Africa after 'unlawful' deportation." The judge, a Trump appointee, cited news reports in his order. Journalism FTW! tucson.com/news/local/b...

Sometimes a local reporter thinks there is something more to the "suicide" of a pregnant young woman. Laura Crimaldi. kept asking questions. Tomorrow, more than five years later, a onetime police detective goes on trial for her killing. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/05/n...

The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...

The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.

Trump’s Renaming of Lake Ontario Violates Catholic Social Teaching Catholic social teaching protects the right of Indigenous peoples to keep their own names for their own places. mikefoxcatechist.substack.com/p/trumps-ren...

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Mothership, End Citizens United, and Progressive Turnout Project—all of whom relentlessly pummel my phone because their data-scraping flagged me as a Dem donor—are fascist saboteurs. What else would you call entities that drain >80% of donations intended for Democrats?

Miss Candy had outfitted the Blue Angels for 43 years. The Navy was paying her $127,000 per year for the contract. Without telling her, the Trump regime gave the contract to a white man 900 miles away and paid him almost triple. Original post: www.instagram.com/reel/Db8Yh5b...

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.

Cheltenham is closing its Citizens Bank accounts totaling about $9 million after months of organizing from residents concerned about the bank's business with companies running detention centers.

DISGUSTING—META used AI software to identify workers with medical conditions for layoffs. 26 former employees have ‌filed ⁠a ⁠lawsuit accusing META of using AI targeted ⁠people with disabilities, or who took ⁠medical leave, ⁠in selecting people for mass layoffs.

Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 25 days in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave, is now getting all three.

Sums it up nicely

Trump's abuse of power to free a serial rapist is among the most under-reported stories of our time. This should be as widely known as the Epstein/Trump Files.

There are four key TV archives in the US: ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN. This is the footage filmmakers use to tell our history. If Paramount buys Warner Brothers, two of those archives - including 45 years of CNN footage- will be controlled by one company and likely one person, Bari Weiss.

An important thread re both immigrant justice and independent media from a person well worth following.

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

It’s too easy for oligarchs like Jeff Bezos to exploit workers to enrich themselves. It’s time we say enough and make them pay their fair share #boycott

Prosecuting every one of the people involved in this is the moderate position and voters need to be reminding every single Democrat running that this is how it is.

The #BraveOfUS stand up and confront power and that's exactly what @vetsaboutface.bsky.social is doing with 150 veterans and active duty military in the Capitol rotunda right now to demand Congress end this criminal war on Iran.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

For ideological reasons, I moved from Substack to beehiiv and couldn’t be happier. I’m happy to talk to anyone who wants to make a move. Leaving Substack is like planting a tree. The best day to do it was years ago. The second best day is today.

Let it be known that Katherine Johnson was the reason for the first astronauts in space. And now Vanessa Wyche, head of the Johnson Space Center and NASA's highest ranking civil servant, is the responsible for the longest manned space flight in history

The Mamdani administration today announced its own click to cancel rule, to make sure that every subscription transaction in the city is as easy to end as it is to start. The FTC did this in 2023, it was challenged in court & Trump's FTC wouldn't defend it. NYC is doing it themselves.

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office. The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.

NEW: Even by national standards, Pennsylvania has a sky-high rate of people serving life without parole. That's bc it mandates anyone convicted of 2nd-degree murder serve that sentence. The state supreme court just declared that to be cruel—a major ruling written by the Dem chief justice.

To be clear with how I feel about it. Anyone in the military who directs or carries out strikes on desalination plants should be in prison when this is over.

Important reporting by @coloradotimesrecorder.com on ICE facilities not considered official detention centers, but where people can be abducted and imprisoned for up to 3 days...in rooms with with no bed or toilet coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/03/excl... #AbolishICE

In VT, ICE instigated a chase causing multiple wrecks, abducted people not on a warrant, caused day-long chaos...based on ICE claiming to ID a man >50 yards away. vtdigger.org/2026/03/24/i... @interruptcrim.bsky.social @immjustice.bsky.social @leahgreenberg.bsky.social @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

justice alito talmbout it "seriously undermines" voter confidence when a "big stash" of mail ballots arrives and changes the "apparent outcome" sir do you mean when all the votes are counted? bc it sounds like you're just describing when all the votes are counted

Aid to Ukraine from 2022-2026 was a rounding error. We used more in the first two weeks of the Iran war than we provided in the 4 years of aid to Ukraine.

Here's something I wrote in December about how immigration judges aren't real judges--a problem that (like many other problems) the Trump administration is making worse ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

This is a REALLY big deal. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd: “…we are on the ground floor with this day in and day out — looking in the eyes of these folks that, yes, came here inappropriately. But some came here inappropriately only to do better for themselves and their family.”