The corporations using America’s 250th birthday to buy influence

Corporate sponsors lining up to "celebrate" America's 250th while buying access and goodwill in the same breath; this is what regulatory capture utterly looks like when it's dressed up in red, white, and blue. Pay to play isn't the exception anymore: it's the operating system.

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The Justice Department Hasn’t Taken Its Usual Steps to Protect the 2026 Election

The “steal” is coming www.notus.org/2026-electio...

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"...the government should never be hosting sporting events because uh there's more room for corruption and we already have a corrupted government and so that's my thoughts on it is that the government is supposed to protect us not entertain us... "

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Fairness doctrine - Wikipedia

Reagan's 1987 repeal of the Fairness Doctrine didn't just change TV news — it broke it. Removing the legal requirement for balanced coverage opened the floodgates for partisan cable networks, opinion-as-news, and talk radio rage machines. We're still living in that wreckage today.

AG Todd Blanche: Trump 'Absolutely' Would've Went to Prison

You don’t say… www.mediaite.com/politics/ag-...

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the true reason C++ always wins

New Jersey won - but did it? I7fE...

I love Jersey.

Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.

Sen. Bernie Sanders Introduces Abolish Super PACs Act

Sanders & Lee introduce a bill to ban super PACs and end unlimited political spending. One can hope.. Z_n6...

SpaceX IPO: Nice Try Though

a deeper dive

The SpaceX IPO... It's Worse Than You Think

SpaceX is going public at the largest valuation in history and your 401(k) will automatically buy it. No vote. No warning. Just passive index funds quietly transferring wealth from your retirement to early insiders.

Democracy was nice while we sort of had some

Disable Chrome AI, Optimization Guide On Device Model

Using Chrome? Don't want extra models on your machine you didn't ask for? Here's how to remove these resources draining infestations: marko.tech/journal/disa...

QUINTANILLA: According to the filings, the president has been trading some Intel in the quarter JIM CRAMER: Yeah, uh, yeah, hmm FABER: Got nothing to say? CRAMER: Uh, uh, yeah, whoa, yeah. FABER: Don't worry. We're not having technical difficulties, but we gotta go

The Billionaires Influencing Trump's Iran Policy

Kompramat dragging us all down with him via @moreperfectunion.bsky.social

Supreme Racism. A political cartoon by Bob Whitmore about the Voting Rights Act and the U.S. Supreme Court.