Peri Pakroo

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew https://theonion.com/aide-wearily-begins-5th-explanation-of-why-trump-cant-pardon-prince-andrew/

Judge who allowed FBI to search Washington Post reporter’s home rips into Justice Department | CNN Politics A federal judge ripped into the Justice Department on Friday for failing to inform him of the applicability of a law intended to protect journalists from government searches and seizures when it asked...

BREAKING: Judge who allowed FBI to search Washington Post reporter’s home rips into Justice Department for not informing him of the law that explicitly bars raids of reporters

The Supreme Court ruling has helped the family of one man in particular: the architect of Trump’s tariffs himself.

A firm headed by Lutnick’s sons was allowing its traders to purchase the rights to hundreds of millions of dollars of refunds in the event tariffs were struck down. trib.al/JcwQ9MT

LOL just like Bill Barr, self-proclaimed “institutionalist” was going to be a grownup in the room as AG 😂

I would hope so. These “facilities” are de facto concentration camps and a stain on our humanity.

new from me: the Supreme Court's "Don't Fuck Up Our Bag" doctrine is still going strong in the tariffs case

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

The NY Times dutifully reporting that the Supreme Court sided with Trump only 42% of the time and with Biden 54% of the time sort of leaves out the necessary context that Biden was doing normal, completely legal presidential stuff, and Trump was doing insane crimes

Excerpt from SCOTUS tariff decision: Based on two words separated by 16 others in Section 1702(a)(1)(B) of IEEPA—“regulate” and “importation”—the President asserts the independent power to impose tariffs on imports from any country, of any product, at any rate, for any amount of time. Those words cannot bear such weight.

Womp womp

SAFE Initiative Support and Assistance Facility for Experts (SAFE) is an open Call for Proposals in response to threats targeting media organizations.

Submissions open one more week, until 27 Feb 2026 for SAFE initiative funds: Support and Assistance Facility for Experts to support the safety, operational capacity, and resilience of actors committed to combating disinformation and safeguarding democratic discourse. gulbenkian.pt/emifund/bols...

Times like these I really appreciate broken clocks

U.K. action helps expose DOJ coverup:

Feb 7: Bondi DOJ memo: "We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties."

Sept 16: Kash Patel testimony: "There is no credible information, none" that Epstein trafficked girls to other men.

Actively dismantling the tools that help avoid loss and reduce risk seems not so great for prosperity and economic resilience

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

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Not only did they murder hundreds of thousands of people. They also stole the money.

A rabbit in overalls and a goat in pants are sitting on the ground drawing pictures. The rabbit is saying “ART POSES A THREAT TO CORPORATOLRATIC SYSTEMS BECAUSE A PURPOSE OF ART IS TO REMIND THE INDIVIDUAL OF THEIR INHERENT AUTONOMY.”, the goat adds “THEIR HUMANITY.”

Make Art (1/4)

“It's when science implies societal action that people begin to try to reject the science in order to avoid the need for action.”

Leslie Wexner is one of the 10 co-conspirators named by the FBI during the 2019 arrest of Epstein.

He gave Epstein millions of dollars and the $70 million NYC townhouse.

Leon Black gave Epstein over $170 million.

Both men are alive.

How come they've never been asked to testify?

It would be great if the top two stories about the executive branch were not a huge multinational child rape coverup and the establishment of a gulag of concentration camps

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

NYT confirming MS NOW reporting:

Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop.

Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Wild to think of the human mental bandwidth lost to this

I think it should probably be a bigger story that the president of the United States is a raving lunatic

I wish more people were clued in to Substack’s commitment to creating income streams for Nazis. @angryblacklady.blacksky.app has been a most-welcome broken record on this. Here’s another good explainer.

Jeff Bezos had $75 million to bribe Trump for the Melania movie but cut 16,000 jobs at Amazon and is cutting more at the Washington Post today.

And somehow people *dont* want to campaign on the issue of evil billionaires.

This is one of the most important cases that galvanized Black people in the late 40s through the 1950s. Almost every major Black leader had a comment about it. It is also one of the most successful defense committees that was organized in the 20th century. Almost no one knows about it today.

These testimonies are beyond horrifying. It is no exaggeration to say the US is committing crimes against humanity. People are beaten, deprived of medications for chronic conditions, deprived of medical care for acute illness, forced to live in filth, given food unfit for human consumption.

Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed

A huge 89% majority of global people [56% even in the United States] want stronger action to fight the #ClimateCrisis, but mistakenly believe they’re in a minority.

The “silent majority” for #ClimateAction needs to get loud.

People want action. Smart cities need to go much further, much faster.