Mike Castoro

The Scale of Billionaires’ Campaign Donations is Overwhelming U.S. Politics

NEW: We just published a deep dive into just how much billionaires are now dominating U.S. politics.

We found 300 billionaire families accounted for 19% of federal donations in 2024. The deluge was even larger in many state and local races.

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www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

#StandUpForScience #Seattle

Hasbro’s CEO on J.K. Rowling. We just published our new Decoder interview with Chris Cocks, the head of Hasbro. I asked him directly about how he thinks about author J.K. Rowling’s politics and what it’s done to the Harry Potter f...

cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch

www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...

YouTube video by CRITERION Shinichiro Watanabe’s Closet Picks

Shinichrio Watanabe (director of Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo) is on Criterion Closet.

youtu.be/kwoCtvdYYSo?...

I've done a lot of lobbying and a lot of activism. It seems stupid, it seems pointless, it seems ineffectual, but phone calls are one of the few things that legislative offices really pay attention to as a barometer for public opinion.

Call early and call often.

How Harry Styles & More Are Helping New U.K. Artists Hit the Road With ‘Desperately Needed’ Touring Fund A U.K. artist touring fund, which stars including Harry Styles and Coldplay contributed to, is opening up applications on Wednesday (March 11).

How Harry Styles & More Are Helping New U.K. Artists Hit the Road With ‘Desperately Needed’ Touring Fund

My ability to ignore this is top notch. I haven’t been wrong since March 2020.

Nyan Cat !

VOTE LOCAL! Help impact your immediate community by staying aware of all elections you're eligible to vote in - just do a quick internet search and find out how you can help today!

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Screenshot of a tweet from Claude that says, "Introducing Code Review, a new feature for Claude Code. When a PR opens, Claude dispatches a team of agents to hunt for bugs."

If Claude Code is so good, why do they need a separate feature to hunt for bugs.

Wired have you covered how Meta is deleting 100000s of innocent users accounts thanks to ai moderation asking for our photo ids and videos and still deleting us?

Oh boy

You're right. That was my mistake. I deleted your entire inventory while you were sleeping in the inn. That is absolutely my fault.

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

www.freetaxusa.com

CU faculty, staff and students push back against university-controlled AI rollout Hundreds have signed a letter of dissent arguing that an AI rollout lacked transparency and technical oversight. Others say campus leaders haven’t adequately addressed concerns about student privacy, ...

“Faculty on CU Denver and Boulder campuses say the decision was reached without consulting campus experts in AI, ethics or education.”

YouTube video by machinefun Trash City Turbo - Early Prototype Teaser

Major milestone!
Steam page is live so come check out our satisfying 'sweep em up' gameplay in Trash City Turbo

youtu.be/NryA0CM1DZE

Wishlist store.steampowered.com/app/4484260/...

#gamedev #indiedev #godot #godotengine #indiegames #wishlist

remember when the IRS put out a a free online tax filing system where you could just do your taxes through the IRS and it was actually well made and was pretty well recieved and then the tax filing industry and Republicans killed it and now you have to use TurboTax again

It’s a panel from powerup comics where the text has been edited: “what’s your opinion on women’s day as far as I’m concerned, all days are for women”

If Gavin Newsom watched Batman TAS ‘The Forgotten’ in 1992 instead of practicing sociopathic grins in the mirror after serving as the inspiration for Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho he would have known in 2026 that criminalizing homelessness is bad and not good.

A silent film intertitle that reads, “As an American citizen I demand to know what time it is!”

good morning?

gonna need to bring back those this is your brain on drugs commercials but for AI

sure hope our economy floundering for years isn't being temporarily obscured by hype pushing mental static and deskilling on a generation of workers and students, enriching businesses who bought our entire government

Happy Corporations Having No Meaningfully Helpful Policies But Making A Post Once A Year Saying “look we have women” Day!

I need every single male artist that follows me to read this. It's not very long. You need to bear witness to this shit. You have to see it with your own eyes because you never will in your everyday life.

I'm serious, read it all please

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We do realize the success of Heated Rivalry right ?

lose an hour? haven’t we lost enough already

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

An edited meme The text says "everybody flaked, so I brought Tony 🥀" and the picture is someone sat in a restaurant with lots of food on the table and they've brought pokemon rumble spheal with them who is sat politely