Mike Shea

it's missing a full pardon on this list

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The End of Publishing as We Know It Inside Silicon Valley’s assault on the media

Rich Caccappolo, the vice chair of media at the company behind the Daily Mail, fears extractive chatbots are going to obliterate the online publishing business. "My concern is it’s not going to happen in three or five years—I joke it’s going to happen next Tuesday.”

Trump was hoping for a military beauty pageant/Rose Bowl parade spectacle from TV news and instead it's going to be just split-screens galore between that and protests all over the country.

Elon Musk did not leave the Trump administration. He's making a sleight-of-hand show of leaving the Trump administration while still being very much part of it behind closed doors, and yet, reporters who should know better continue to put out shit like this uncritically.

While Republicans shred the First Amendment and rule of law, Democrats in Ohio and elsewhere dawdle • Ohio Capital Journal Freedom of speech, assembly, and due process are being shredded in real time by the felon-in-chief as Republicans on Capitol Hill do nothing. Meanwhile, Democrats in Ohio and elsewhere continue to dit...

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These judges are all teeth and no bite - I’ve given up hope that the judicial system is up for this - we are learning just how weak the judicial system is unless the accused isn’t a govt employee

are you not allowed to live stream during it? it would be great to have that live on tiktok

(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para6 graph (2), no State or political subdivision thereof 7 may enforce any law or regulation regulating artifi8 cial intelligence models, artificial intelligence sys9 tems, or automated decision systems during the 10- 10 year period beginning on the date of the enactment 11 of this Act.

This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years.

from @404media.co

www.404media.co/republicans-...

hahahahahahahaha - at this point, who believes anything he says

Ohio’s HB 6 utility scandal gets true-crime treatment in HBO film “The Dark Money Game: Ohio Confidential” is now streaming on MAX. A Canary Media reporter who’s spent years covering the corrupt energy legislation offers…

if you haven’t watch the Alex Gibney HBO doc about the FirstEnergy scandal yet, i implore you to do so sometime soon

well crafted & engaging & gives a window into dark money’s influence on energy we rarely see on streaming

In November, representatives for the filmmaker Ken Burns reached out to the academy with an offer to screen clips from his new six-part series on the American Revolution at the academy in a private event for a select group of midshipmen. The school accepted and booked the event for April 22. But in late March, the school’s leadership felt that Mr. Burns’s criticisms of Mr. Trump before the 2024 election could cause another outcry from conservative think tanks and Republican members of Congress.

The Naval Academy cancelled a freakin' Ken Burns documentary showing, not because of the content, but because Burns had been critical of Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

Bessent sees de-escalation with China, saying the goal isn’t to de-couple US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday that the trade war between China and the US is unsustainable and that he expects the situation to de-escalate, according to people familiar with his re...

"A larger deal between the two countries may be possible in two to three years, and that would be a huge win, he said."

In the meantime, everyone in America is just supposed to suck it up and go work at Family Dollar until "Happy Days Are Here Again" it appears.

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Amidst Trump's chaos, SCOTUS conservatives are still moving their agenda An important argument sitting starts Monday. Also: The latest on trans-related litigation. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

Over the next two weeks, SCOTUS is hearing three religious supremacy cases — cases backed by Jonathan Mitchell (think, Texas's S.B. 8), the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty (think, Hobby Lobby), and Alliance Defending Freedom (think, 303 Creative and mifepristone).

Do not sleep on these cases.

Facebook and Fox News have destroyed more families in this country than anything else. Algorithms and outrage content have destroyed reason.

“Our client, who was in the middle of seeking asylum, just disappeared.”

Lindsay Toczylowski represents 31-year-old Andry, a gay makeup artist from Venezuela who was flown to a notorious prison by the Trump administration after seeking asylum in the U.S.

MORE: www.cbsnews.com/news/venezue...

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

Wall Street Blew It Investors discounted everything Trump has ever said about trade and tariffs. We’re all going to pay for that mistake.

If you can get past the paywall, this piece explains why Trump's entire plan is delusional. It's all based on a feeling and not a reality.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

NEW: In a court filing this evening, the Trump administration said that it had mistakenly deported a Maryland father to a notorious Salvadoran prison due to an "administrative error." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Trump just signed an executive order banning vote by mail and ordering the defunding of any state that does not follow through with it as well as engage in massive voter roll purges.

There won't be free and fair elections ever again. If you're waiting for 2026, it's already too late.

THREAD: Law firm statements issued in response to Trump’s executive orders targeting lawyers.

(This thread will be updated as additional statements are released. Want to flag something that I missed? DM me, email me at anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org, or send me a message on Signal at annabower.24)

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Researchers find a hint at how to delay Alzheimer's symptoms Now they have to prove it.

An experimental treatment appears to delay Alzheimer’s symptoms in some people genetically destined to get the disease in their 40s or 50s, according to new findings from ongoing research now caught up in Trump administration funding delays.

What the Press Got Wrong About Hitler Journalists accurately reported that the führer was a “Little Man” whom the whole world was laughing at. It didn’t matter.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“The expectation frequently voiced here that failure of his policies would result in large and immediate losses of following for Hitler,” Shackett reported to the State Department, “does not take into account the blindness of great sections of his adherents.”

Russia will ‘undoubtedly’ discuss future Mars flights with Musk, Putin envoy says Proposed talks would again put Musk, a senior adviser to Trump, in outsized and largely unaccountable role in international politics

I mean...what else could go wrong?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

label them as Trump's personal law firm and let them deal with it- but if they caved that fast to pressure, how could any corporation have any faith in them to stand up to tough pressure from opposing council?

WTF

UK Subs detained

So now, Musk would help run Russia's space program AND also run the US space program too? Wow...

Russia will ‘undoubtedly’ discuss future Mars flights with Musk, Putin envoy says Proposed talks would again put Musk, a senior adviser to Trump, in outsized and largely unaccountable role in international politics

Putin plans to hold talks with Elon Musk about teaming up with SpaceX to strengthen and develop Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, and state nuclear corporation Rosatom.