Matt Jordan

S/M Spectacle of Cruelty for ratings and profit.

Sections of the U.S. Constitution Missing from Government Website Articles I, Sections 9 and 10 are inaccessible on Congress-run portal, raising concerns over transparency and public access.

Article I Sections 9 & 10 of the U.S. Constitution—which limit presidential power over tariffs and protect habeas corpus—have disappeared from Congress’s website. They claim a coding error is to blame.

They have moved on to the catchphrases in the the next book promotion.

This is real I shit you not

Literally millions will die because of the shuttering of USAID (for all of its faults). Millions more will die (versus the policy status quo) if we undermine progress in creating new mRNA vaccines, which could save us during the next pandemic and much more.

This is what media sanewashing our insane president looks like, courtesy today of ABC, CNN and The NY Times:

In a digital world where historical context is eliminated, essays like this are the remedy.

Alden Global Capital fails in its attempt to get its tentacles on The Dallas Morning News A late bid to disrupt its sale to Hearst is foiled by a fourth-generation newspaper owner turning down more money.

You have probably read too many news items about hedge funds draining the lifeblood out of newspapers. Some of you have lived it with your own paper's demise. Treat yourself, then, to the story of one hedge fund's complete defeat.

Alden Global Capital is the name. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/alde...

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV? The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is “wind-down” operations. What does this mean for public radio and TV?

I gave an in-depth interview with my hometown Chicago Tribune about what’s going to happen to NPR and PBS, and how cutting public media is part of a broader anti-democratic ideological project.

"Heard it in a love song," Marshall Tucker Band

Normalizing graft and corruption, GOP style

It would have lasted longer, but the captured KAYFABE shills had to move on to another gloss on news from our collective Potemkin village.

Michael Roth is pitch-perfect:

"The White House has determined how students should be disciplined at a private university. This is massive overreach. This is an assault on the independence of civil society in America. And conservatives, liberals, moderates, they should all be concerned..."

Trump's brain rot Cabinet How right-wing internet conspiracies are an integral part of his second administration.

"To even remotely understand what Kennedy is talking about requires one’s brain to be thoroughly bathed in the corrosive acid of the right-wing internet..." 🛟 Sociology

Oh look— @MarshaBlackburn, who survives on lobbyist money like a vampire, finally found a group she wants to block from lobbying: TEACHERS

the right are quite literally doing the meme rn about the gdp report

The AI explosion means millions are paying more for electricity Across much of the eastern U.S., electricity bills have jumped. The reason? Data centers required for AI and other tech wonders are driving up electricity demand.

As the boom in data centers leads to price hikes in residential electricity bills, “their proliferation seems likely to anger an even larger swath of the public,” @washingtonpost.com reports. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The Real Demon Inside ChatGPT AI chatbots strip language of its historical and cultural context. Sometimes what looks like a satanic bloodletting ritual may actually be lifted from Warhammer 40,000.

"AI companies used what amounts to the collective history of our species to create software that obscures its very richness and complexity."

www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

The GOP’s New Voter Suppression Architect Read more here.

Those of us in the pro-democracy camp can no longer afford to play by the traditional rules. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

The paper that Upton Sinclair called "the organ of world capitalism" sane-washing and normalizing the vindictive whims of the mad king.

Behind the Curtain: Top AI CEO foresees white-collar bloodbath Hardly anyone is paying attention.

I mean, the CEO of Anthropic flat out said a few weeks ago that AI is aimed at killing off entry level jobs and spiking unemployment as high as 20%. This is the AI promise. And the leaders who are supposed to be mindful of such disruptions are inexplicably slobbering all over the models to get more.

AI integration initiatives are spearheaded by administrations with little input from faculty members and other campus community members, including staff and students. High levels of concern arose around AI and technology procurement, deployment, and use; dehumanized relations; and poor working and learning conditions. Seventy-one percent of respondents said decision-making and AI initiatives are overwhelmingly led by college or university administrations, and many respondents described administrators exerting great effort to introduce AI into research, teaching, policy, and professional development with little meaning­ful input from faculty members, staff, or students. Examples include the development of institutional AI tools, workshops on teaching and detecting plagia­rism, and subscribing to AI tools for students (such as Grammarly, marketed as an “AI writing partner”) without involving faculty members or students in the decision-making process. One respondent noted that “admin doesn’t seem to care about or value faculty input on this or any other topic” and hoped for “more faculty involvement in determining how AI and tech generally are used.”

The @aaup.org report on AI is so hugely important. Among other key takeaways is the fact that most AI programs have been introduced by administrative fiat and by circumventing meaningful faculty, student, & staff consultation.

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As the Trump regime chokes science and health research in America, the rest of the world is making progress.

After we shared that post about @axios.com saying Trump “crushed his first six months in historic ways”🤔

It came to our attention Axios is owned by Cox… which is currently looking for approval from the Trump regime to combine with Charter… 😬

Herr Goebbels Angered By Anti-Nazi Wit Comedians Banned For Humorous Remarks on Leaders --The Montreal Star, 4 Feb 1939

1939

This column on U.S. concentration camps is the one I hoped I’d never write | Will Bunch Andrea Pitzer literally wrote the book on concentration camps. I talked to her about how they came to America.

Epstein matters, but there's a much greater story of American moral depravity that ought to be leading the news

America is building an archipelago of squalid concentration camps. No one knows where this will end. The time to scream 'Never again'? Now!

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/us-c...

The surveillance is the point. The data collection is the point. And there are but so many customers for everyone’s data. With this subscription and data collection model, Big Tech is inevitably going to be an arm of police surveillance.

more evidence for “a bunch of AI cultists dismantled large parts of the federal government because they believed that their LLMs were intelligent and could do the work better” thesis