David Auerbach

Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders The tech giants agreed to extraordinary terms to clinch a lucrative contract with the Israeli government, documents show

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie it's not a distraction

stop calling everything a distraction youtube.com/shorts/yyFjN...

Inside the Memphis Chamber of Commerce’s Push for Elon Musk’s xAI Data Center In the face of intense public opposition, the city’s Chamber of Commerce has gone to unusual lengths to promote Musk’s xAI facility: sending out a mailer, for the first time in recent memory, that inc...

For Black Memphis residents already burdened by pollution, the gas turbines that powered Musk’s supercomputer raised concerns.

The Chamber of Commerce downplayed fears by claiming 9 government agencies oversee the facility. That’s not exactly true.

By @wendicthomas.bsky.social, w/ @mlk50.com

Old Soviet joke for today:

A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.

After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”

“I’m looking for the obituaries.”

“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”

“Not the one I’m looking for.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...

the republican party hates public goods and wants to force feed you and your family slop produced by its billionaire allies

Shamelessness is their superpower.

for many of the worst people in our politics, the only real belief they have is that it should be illegal for us not to like them

maybe there's still some good left in this world after all

Google search's AI summary is like the loud confident idiot in the room who doesn't always know the answer to your question but HAS TO be the first one to reply to it.

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun

Rest in peace Tom Lehrer

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‘My songs spread like herpes’: why did satirical genius Tom Lehrer swap worldwide fame for obscurity? In the 1950s and 60s, his songs stunned and delighted listeners with their irreverence, wit and nihilism. Then he gave it all up to teach mathematics. Lehrer is still alive at 96 – so I went in search...

97 is a good age, but still sad news that the lyrical master Tom Lehrer is gone.

Growing up in the 1970s, his songs were probably the closest thing my family had to hymns.

2024 interview: ‘My songs spread like herpes’: why did satirical genius Tom Lehrer swap worldwide fame for obscurity?

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun - with intro

The OG sexy, sarcastic nerd icon ... the Earth will miss you, Tom Lehrer. #rip www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDE...

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

@aoc.bsky.social
No caption needed.

The President—who uses antisemitic slurs—is building concentration camps and an enormous secret police force.

Ya know, maybe this is just because I’m Jewish, but I wish the political opposition and the media made a bigger deal about it!

The New York Times’ editorial decisions make more sense when you remember their publisher is a fifth-generation owner who was handed the paper as a birthright while the managing editor was a Harvard legacy whose father founded Staples.

They’re very firm believers in the meritocracy, you see.

I obsess over the NYT because they normalize fascism while setting the agenda for Corporate News, while maintaining legitimacy with Democrats & independents, which makes them uniquely dangerous to US.

a good indication of how bad the NYT reporting on Zohran’s college application was is that it got zero pickup from other mainstream publications yesterday. the only coverage was from the Times, the Post, and some right-wing slop farms

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I'm sorry you had to delete your posts about the Times running a substanceless smear story against the Democratic mayoral nominee that came from a Nazi. I know the Times standards don't permit them to talk about the stories they get from Nazis.

So who gets to chastise them for violating journalism standards?

Trump's argument for the elimination of the estate tax is that the heirs of the super rich will no longer have to go beg a predatory Jewish banker for a bridge loan to overcome cash flow problems associated with the $15 million dollar estate they're about to get.

The Story Behind Jared Kushner’s Curious Acceptance Into Harvard ProPublica editor Daniel Golden wrote a book a decade ago about how the rich buy their children access to elite colleges. One student he covered is now poised to become one of the most powerful…

“His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it. We thought for sure, there was no way this was going to happen. Then, lo and behold, Jared was accepted.”

More on how the rich buy their children’s way into elite universities with massive, tax-deductible donations (published 2016):

Rep. @aoc.bsky.social on ny1 : “People are going to get sick and go hungry… They’re giving people crumbs and taking away the whole loaf… One of the saddest days in 🇺🇸 history.”

I didn't think I was yelling that loud here in NC.

this is why i am pretty confident there will not be a meaningful attempt to do an end run around mamdani. a lot of elite cuomo support seemed to be based on “well, he’s probably going to win and he’s a vindictive asshole and i don’t want to be on his bad side.”

"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"

If the president does it, it's not a leak. He's just telling you.