Mike Shea

Rich Caccappolo, the vice chair of media at the company behind the Daily Mail, fears extractive chatbots are going to obliterate the online publishing business. "My concern is it’s not going to happen in three or five years—I joke it’s going to happen next Tuesday.”

Elon Musk did not leave the Trump administration. He's making a sleight-of-hand show of leaving the Trump administration while still being very much part of it behind closed doors, and yet, reporters who should know better continue to put out shit like this uncritically.

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This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-...

if you haven’t watch the Alex Gibney HBO doc about the FirstEnergy scandal yet, i implore you to do so sometime soon well crafted & engaging & gives a window into dark money’s influence on energy we rarely see on streaming

The Naval Academy cancelled a freakin' Ken Burns documentary showing, not because of the content, but because Burns had been critical of Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

Over the next two weeks, SCOTUS is hearing three religious supremacy cases — cases backed by Jonathan Mitchell (think, Texas's S.B. 8), the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty (think, Hobby Lobby), and Alliance Defending Freedom (think, 303 Creative and mifepristone). Do not sleep on these cases.

“Our client, who was in the middle of seeking asylum, just disappeared.” Lindsay Toczylowski represents 31-year-old Andry, a gay makeup artist from Venezuela who was flown to a notorious prison by the Trump administration after seeking asylum in the U.S. MORE: www.cbsnews.com/news/venezue...

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

NEW: In a court filing this evening, the Trump administration said that it had mistakenly deported a Maryland father to a notorious Salvadoran prison due to an "administrative error." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

THREAD: Law firm statements issued in response to Trump’s executive orders targeting lawyers. (This thread will be updated as additional statements are released. Want to flag something that I missed? DM me, email me at anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org, or send me a message on Signal at annabower.24) 🧵⬇️

An experimental treatment appears to delay Alzheimer’s symptoms in some people genetically destined to get the disease in their 40s or 50s, according to new findings from ongoing research now caught up in Trump administration funding delays.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... “The expectation frequently voiced here that failure of his policies would result in large and immediate losses of following for Hitler,” Shackett reported to the State Department, “does not take into account the blindness of great sections of his adherents.”

WTF

UK Subs detained

So now, Musk would help run Russia's space program AND also run the US space program too? Wow...

Putin plans to hold talks with Elon Musk about teaming up with SpaceX to strengthen and develop Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, and state nuclear corporation Rosatom.

If this becomes law, there'd be just 2 GOP senators in states where a Dem governor could fill a vacancy with a Dem (ME & PA). A GOP gov could pick a Republican to replace 10 Dems (2 each in GA, NH, NV, VA, & VT). KY & NC require same-party appointees, & WI requires a special election (5 Rs total)

This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position. Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money. He was not dead.

The idiots that voted for this are taking their America First to America Last

Members of the DOGE squad lied and tried to force their way into the downtown D.C. headquarters of U.S. African Development (USADF). The DOGE squad was accompanied by Peter Marocco — a Trump toady and member of the MAGA mob who illegally entered the U.S. Capitol during the…

More of this, please! Chicago is on fire, letting Musk know they are not on board with his billionaire power grab. Let's continue pushing to make Tesla the next corporate pariah. Well done, Chicagoans, for using your voice to let him know what you think of his takeover of our government.

This isn't meant as a defense of Dem leaders, but: Wanna know one reason why they're so scared? Last night, JESSE WATTERS did 4.5M viewers at 8 p.m. Not only did he double MADDOW (2M) and do 6x CNN and 5x MSNBC at 8, he beat SURVIVOR (4.3M) and everything on TV in the hour other than CHI MED (5.8M)

Folks are frustrated with Dems in Congress right now. Here’s my solution - get the hell out of DC and hold some hearings. I love town halls, but we need to focus on people right now. Have folks come testify about how these cuts are affecting them. Get local media there. Make it real.

"We cannot leave the security of Europe in the hands of voters in Wisconsin every 4 years." - France Minister for the EU

Welp...a lot of well-off, Trump-voting-cuz-of-401s tourists are gonna get spat on over in Europe this summer ...might want to start saying you're Canadian and get that "ou" vowel sound down

When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Whew! Catching #TheWeekend feels like therapy—because at least some folks in the media are saying what needs to be said. They’re having the same conversations we’re having. @michaelsteele.bsky.social ,Sir 🔥 (I of III)

This is a high ranking US official, a DCOS, retaliating against a news wire over an (objectively correct) editorial decision.

A very, very petty man trying to get Pulitzers revoked from two journalists whose story he didn't like. I expect Trump's money machine to try to ground the Pulitzer board into submission (hopefully they won't have to cave). www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

Musk Enlists Ari Emanuel Among Investors In (seemingly obvi doomed) Bid to Take Over OpenAI www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus... flip.it/kytv.g Neither AfD or the nazi salute was too much for Ari Emanuel? Will every Endeavor & WME client/company ask Emanuel why he’s STILL in biz with Musk?

Interesting, Ari Emanual and his firm Endeavor are in on this deal. They're the ones that withheld funding from down ballot democrats until and unless Biden dropped out of the race three months before the general election. I'm sure it's unrelated. www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...

The key coder is 25 yo Marko Elez. He wiped his LinkedIn, locked his X account. He is on github. github.com/markoelez "Musk Cronies Dive Into Treasury Dept Payments Code Base" talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-...

Reason why they want access to tax returns is to blackmail and publicly shame opponents and disobedient GOP members- the usual response would be for lawsuits to be filed but by then the public damage is done by the release of information or behind-closed-doors threats- so how do Dems go on offense?

@jimacosta.bsky.social www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YNKp1S/. la freeway being shut down by protests

a bunch of posts about abortion pills vanished from Instagram. Meta put them back after we asked what was happening: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...

Um. What did I just watch?

Before whatever is about to happen happens: There will be a lot of reporting and commentary about executive orders. Much of that reporting, at least initially, will regurgitate what the White House *says* the orders do as opposed to what they can *actually* do based on the text and controlling law.

So you think Russia is winning in Ukraine? The Bright bright red is what Russia took in 2024. Almost nothing, and it cost them hundreds of thousands dead. Slava Ukrainii

1. CAUGHT ON ZILLOW Popular Information has identified dozens of LA landlords who jacked up rents by as much as 100% after the fires started and thousands of people lost their homes. California's price gauging law prohibits increasing rent by more than 10% during a state of emergency

I reported and blocked three blatant Russian trolls posing as angry American “former Democrats” blaming Ukraine for the fires or similar. They have deployed on Bluesky. Look for them with no profile pic, almost nothing but reply posts, and the same crappy Russian cartoons. Report, block, hide.