Riley MacLeod

A man with the government has been at the last two hearings relating to the contempt claim. Both times, he sat in the section of the courtroom open only to parties and counsel. Although not at counsel’s table, Littman and Jean Lin, the other Justice Department lawyer present at both hearings, has repeatedly consulted with him during both hearings. After today’s hearing — and after not being able to figure out for myself who he was after the last hearing — I asked him who he was. I had my press pass visibly displayed and identified myself as a reporter. He said he didn’t want to do that. I suggested that he must be a government official or employee, sitting where he was, and, if so, I asked incredulously if he really was not going to tell a reporter at a hearing who he was. He said no. Then, the people leaving — myself included — got to the elevator. Littman, Lin, mystery man, and two other people sitting with mystery man on the government side of the courtroom during the hearing on Wednesday were getting into the elevator. Some of them were already in the elevator. When I stepped in, mystery man said he would wait for the next elevator. Everyone else then got out of the elevator. Left in the elevator alone, I looked at these five adults — all of whom I believe have to be government employees, hence, paid by the public and allegedly working for the public — and was some combination of bemused and appalled. “You are all ridiculous,” I simply said. The door closed.

And, the story of the mystery man.

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hm relatable

Some post-script that didn't make this piece:

A whole heap of expired websites with high authority can be used to rank well on Search. Buy em up, get their authority. That happened to the dormant Australianaid website.

In 2023, it campaigned for aid.
In 2025, it began listing Best Online Casinos.

Announcing Powering News: Free resources for worker-friendly newsrooms Support for journalists who want a voice and a vote in their newsroom, plus the first newsroom database launches.

Finally getting the time to sit down with this project (which we contributed some information to) and there is SO much useful stuff for people considering starting outlets, really cool!
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The White House just posted a video mixing real footage from the Iran strikes with a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

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What's fun about being a business' money guy is when the accountant sends you a host of tax forms to review and then you have to sit there pretending you understand them enough to review them

How embarrassing would it be to write back asking which lines I need to care about?

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In a statement to news outlets, Google said that “Gemini is designed not to encourage real-world violence or suggest self-harm. Our models generally perform well in these types of challenging conversations and we devote significant resources to this, but unfortunately AI models are not perfect.” “In this instance, Gemini clarified that it was AI and referred the individual to a crisis hotline many times,” Google continued. “We take this very seriously and will continue to improve our safeguards and invest in this vital work.”

oh well thank goodness

Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges A wrongful death suit against Google alleges that the tech giant's AI urged a Florida man to arm himself and steal a robot body for it.

Reading this article while a big "Ask Gemini" button sits in the top of my browser and the whole thing tries to run rampant through my Gsuite is... something
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War With Iran? A Blood Moon on Purim? For Some Christian Influencers, That Can Mean Only One Thing: The End Times On Sunday, two days after President Donald Trump ordered the start of...

So if you want to understand the end-times theology Weinstein is alleging was promoted to troops by their commanders, read this piece I published this morning at @talkingpointsmemo.com:

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/iran-bl...

foley artists have the coolest job

Bettors wagered $54 million on Khamenei’s death. Now they’re not getting paid. Kalshi, a prediction market site, has sparked outrage after freezing $54 million in bets on the death of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, citing a rule against profiting from death.

New: I talked to the traders who bet Khamenei would die.

One, an Israeli ex-pat, would've won $63,000 before Kalshi froze the bet: “I was booking my trip to Courchevel.”

“American commercial immorality on steroids," @chrismurphyct.bsky.social told me

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The NWU logo sits at the top left corner; toward the top is the words "NWU STANDS WITH" next to an image of a raised fist; underneath it reads "the Washington Post Guild, the Washington Post Tech Guild, and the NewsGuild"; at the bottom is a black and white image of a person holding a sign that reads "Free Press" and covering their face with a blown up face of Jeff Bezos, the word "Greedy" pasted on his forehead"; the full image is on a beige background [Image adapted from a February 2026 photo by user Sdkb on Wikimedia Commons]

Text on a beige background pulled from NWU's statement at nwu.org/wapo-layoffs

Text on a beige background pulled from NWU's statement at nwu.org/wapo-layoffs

Text on a beige background pulled from NWU's statement at nwu.org/wapo-layoffs

NWU, alongside @wgaeast.bsky.social, condemns the layoffs at the Washington Post & joins @postguild.bsky.social, @wapotechguild.bsky.social, & @newsguild.org in their demand that Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Post and one of the richest men on Earth, reverse them. Full statement: nwu.org/wapo-layoffs

Hello everyone. I come with the sad news that as you are no doubt already aware, we're saying goodbye to several of our friends and colleagues here at Eurogamer. Leaving us are Tom Orry, our editorial director; our video team of Ian Higton, Zoe Delahunty-Light, and Alix Attenborough; Alex Donaldson, our editor-at-large; and Will Judd, who worked across Digital Foundry, hardware and deals. I'll start with Tom, who over the past year-plus had made himself a hugely valuable source of advice, expertise, desert-dry humour and world class poker faces (I think we just about made him laugh once, for a moment, on his final day). Tom initially began the role when Tom Phillips was our editor-in-chief here, mostly working away diligently in the background in a two-Tom-tandem doing editorial director things, before taking on a more prominent role on the site itself over the past 11 or 12 months, gracing us with some signature console nostalgia and unjustifiably intense Project Gotham Racing enthusiasm. Tom, Dom, Alex and I, along with the rest of the team, worked together closely on what a 'new Eurogamer' might look like last year, and his experience in running multiple games media sites was consistently our rock to lean on. While he may have initially seemed an outsider of sorts compared to Eurogamer chiefs of old - at least to some on the surface, coming from his 20-plus years across our sister sites VG247 and USGamer, and before that the cult-favourite site he founded in our once-rival VideoGamer - I can't stress enough how much Tom 'got' Eurogamer. His goal was for us to be at the heart of the big stories that mattered most to our readers with original, diligent reporting and on-the-button commentary, and that will absolutely continue. In immaculately on-brand, limelight-dodging Orry style, Tom opted to sneak his farewell into this past weekend's What We've Been Playing column, but I'll be damned if he gets away with it that easily. Sorry Tom. Here's what he had to say…

From myself and the whole team at @eurogamer.bsky.social, a very fond farewell and huge thank you to our friends and colleagues (thread).💙

I am going endlessly, furiously insane over these things
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Come for the blog, stay for the sound effects

I just got a pop-up ad while attempting to log out of Quickbooks, if that would also do you

Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC The video-game publisher no longer plans to put out PC ports of PlayStation games such as ‘Ghost of Yotei’

NEW: Sony no longer plans to release PlayStation games on PC, sources tell Bloomberg News, a major shift in strategy that sees the console maker returning to exclusivity after six years of flirting with multiplatform.

Ghost of Yotei and Saros are not coming to PC. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

*attenborough voice* the rapacious financial backers of the live-service video game, frustrated by the fledgling's inability to interest 100,000s of players immediately post-launch, turns quickly against its own young. the market is a harsh and unforgiving environment, layoffs an inevitable outcome

The US is banning TikTok, could Fortnite and League of Legends be next? | This Week in Business This Week in Business is our weekly recap column, a collection of stats and quotes from recent stories presented with a…

Worth remembering Biden laid some groundwork for this with the TikTok ban: www.gamesindustry.biz/the-us-is-ba...

as a man who is 5'1 on a good day, i literally refuse to believe this is a height a person can be

sorry i don't follow this sport, is this picture actually real

I will grant you that reporting and writing are two different skills, but I *want* to edit the story my reporter wrote--I am in it to edit *people*, they are my people, I want to edit *their* story, what is the fucking point otherwise

Highguard didn't have to fail

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So does Jared Kushner get all the studios here or what

this is a good thread keep going

This is an incredible piece of journalism that I can't recommend enough. It's further proof why you need to support independent media

Yahoo is selling Engadget to Static Media The consolidation of iconic internet publishing brands continues apace

Yahoo sold another one of the tech sites it acquired via AOL / Verizon over the years, this time Engadget. Last year, it sold TechCrunch. Nice lil scoop from @davidpierce.xyz: www.theverge.com/tech/888364/...

All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.