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The Trump Administration(s) aren’t simply content to declare satire dead. Trump’s reappearance in the Oval Office demands we dig up the corpse and desecrate it.
And while we’re desecrating that corpse, why not desecrate a few national landmarks? That’s the pitch from the National Park Service under Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. Spring-boarding off Trump’s revisionist history-enabling “...
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This week, we’ve got a cross-post episode of Mike’s appearance on Kevin Williamson’s How The World Works podcast. Kevin conducted a wide-ranging interview that covers some of the earliest days of Techdirt, the blog’s evolution, and many of the important topics we cover today — and you can listen to the whole conversation here on this week’s episode.
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I’m going to say something that will make many of you deeply uncomfortable: our culture has confused ironic detachment with intelligence. We’ve mistaken cynicism for sophistication, distance for depth, and the refusal to commit to anything for wisdom itself.
This is killing us.
Not metaphorically. Not in some abstract cultural sense. It is literally destroying our capacity to respond to the...
The cops are rioting and the military is swarming. That’s how things are going in Los Angeles, despite anything resembling a “violent protest” being confined to a few blocks near federal buildings in the downtown area.
ICE, meanwhile, continues to carry out Trump’s mass deportation plans by acting like drug cartel members. Agents wear masks, refuse to identify themselves, drive unmarked cars...
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The Supreme Court just gave the Trump administration a green light to traffic humans to random countries around the world—including war zones where migrants face torture, slavery, or death. And they did so while offering literally zero explanation for why this is legal or constitutional.
In a shadow docket ruling yesterday, the Court stayed a lower court order that required basic due process...
When last we checked it with the feckless execs at CBS/Paramount, they were preparing to pay Donald Trump tens of millions of dollars to settle a completely bogus lawsuit designed to bully the media giant into compliance. CBS desperately wants the Trump administration to sign off on their pointless $8 billion merger with Skydance. Trump desperately wants CBS to stop doing any real journalism and...
By now, it is common knowledge that RFK Jr. had a brain worm that consumed a portion of his brain. It’s actually not as rare or crazy as it sounds at first blush, mind you, but it’s also not terribly common in the United States. And, at the end of the day, a worm ate part of his brain, resulting in some health and memory issues he had as a result of the loss of brain mass.
Kennedy appears to be...
After months of what can only be described as government kidnapping, Mahmoud Khalil is finally out of detention and released on bail. The Columbia grad student and green card holder was detained by ICE for the heinous crime of participating in pro-Palestinian protests—or as Marco Rubio apparently sees it, having opinions Rubio doesn’t like. It took a federal judge basically telling the government...
What a surprise. The most intellectually dishonest people in the nation still have the biggest bullhorns. That’s why a regular-ass drug raid that occurred in Tucson, Arizona somehow makes headlines in New York City. Here’s the New York Post, disingenuously reporting the (Arizona) news:
A massive raid on a suspected cartel member found in Arizona with a huge stockpile of drugs and guns was...