Palantir Goes Mask-Off For Fascism. It Won’t End Well. Earlier this month, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that “Palantir Technologies (PLTR) has proven to have great war fighting capabilities and equipment. Just ask our enemies!!!” — n…

www.techdirt.com/2026/04/20/p...

The Missouri v. Biden ‘Settlement’ Is A Fake Victory For A Case They Lost Last week, Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri got into a heated exchange during a Senate hearing with Stanford’s Daphne Keller. Schmitt, who, as Missouri’s Attorney General, originally fi…

www.techdirt.com/2026/03/27/t...

Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.

Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.

But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.

Trickle down hoax.

Court To Bondi: Demanding Platforms Censor Speech And Bragging About It On Fox News Is, In Fact, A First Amendment Violation For the better part of five years, we’ve been treated to an elaborate performance about the unprecedented constitutional horror of “jawboning.” Jim Jordan held hearings. Missouri&…

www.techdirt.com/2026/04/20/c...

Always every accusation, an admission of what they wish they were doing to you.

Deezer says 44% of new music uploads are AI-generated, most streams are fraudulent AI tracks account for a small fraction of Deezer streams, and most are demonetized for fraud.

arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/d...

Gross. Just gross. As if we needed more reasons to not pay real people who spend their entire lives dedicating to refining their craft.

Of all of Schrodinger's doors we have collectively opened as a society. We have consistently picked the worst ones.

Where Are America's Leaders? On January 6th, 2021, when Trump incited an insurrection, America's corporate leaders rushed to distance themselves from

On January 6th, 2021, when Trump incited an insurrection, America's corporate leaders rushed to distance themselves from him.

Today, as Trump destroys our democracy at home and stages more coups abroad, they're sucking up to him to pad their own bottom lines.

US opens refund portal to start paying back Trump's illegal tariffs Importers can now request refunds, two months after Trump's Supreme Court loss.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Funny how everyone who already got paid for higher prices gets their money back and the general public gets screwed. Where's my refund? I've had to pay tariffs that doubled my shipping cost from Japan multiple times and am now paying 5000+ yen/month for storage.

A First Amendment Legend Eviscerates Brendan Carr With Substance And Style We’ve been covering Brendan Carr’s censorial ambitions for a long time now. When Trump first picked him to chair the FCC, we warned people that the “free speech warrior” bra…

www.techdirt.com/2026/04/17/a...

web.archive.org/web/20250912...

Today is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Remind you of anyone?

Trump Still Pretending The Most Dangerous Domestic Terrorists Are People Who Don’t Like Fascism Just to be clear, when I refer to “Trump” in terms of his administration, I’m referring to the collective hive mind of dangerous enablers he employs. Trump, by himself, is incapab…

www.techdirt.com/2026/04/17/t...

The Right Wing Origins Of Age Verification Laws Don’t Disappear Just Because They’re Going Bipartisan. I think it’s important to understand that, despite claims to the contrary, age verification is, inherently, a right-wing effort. While it’s currently true that age verification laws are…

www.techdirt.com/2026/04/16/t...

Something like 50% of Oregon's BEAD money is now going to useless expensive non forward thinking garbage like Starlink. Rather than the majority going to support a future proof technology like Fiber.

Also to remind people. Space X during the FCC's shoddy broadband map rollout claimed they already served many of the addresses they are getting a handout for. (Like mine). If you tried to sign up of course it said they didn't.
So which is it?

www.oregon.gov/biz/programs...
Thanks to the administration of fascists a bunch of BEAD money is just another feckless handout to one of the biggest corporate welfare queens. Space X. Tell me, what localized infrastructure does Space X have to build out to to justify the check.

All But 3 Of The 4,499 Refugees Admitted To The US Under Trump Are White South Africans We’ve got a throwback administration that wants to bring us back to halcyon days of early 1950s America, that preceded Supreme Court-ordered school desegregation. If it could, I’m sure …

www.techdirt.com/2026/04/16/a...
Shocking with how racist they are? No. And all based off of what are basically conspiracy theories despite the facts showing the majority of rural crime victims in SA still being Black and not White.

To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain LLM use is the most demoralizing problem I’ve faced as a college instructor.

arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Ad firms settle with Trump FTC over claims they boycotted conservative media FTC aims to stamp out brand-safety standards that hurt Breitbart and Musk's X.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Ah the free speech for me not for thee govt.
Spineless cowards, the lot of them. The 1A means you don't have to give your business to anyone if you don't want to, for any reason.
It's the same reason why conservatives crying like babies over Bud Light wasn't illegal

And funny how the paid protestors and inciters of violence always turn out to be conservative fascist thugs. And not "AnTiFa"

Trump has launched three more boat strikes this week, bringing the total death toll to 177.

Remember: No judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're taking Trump's word for it.

This is murder. We must not lose sight of this lawlessness.

Hegsbreath accused of blasphemy 😱🙄🫢🥸
What a brown nosing schmuck for a sKKKumbag.

Cops like this give all the good cops out there who aren't scumbags a bad name and muddy the image of what LE is supposed to be.

Armed Off-Duty Cop Tried to Incite Violence at a High School Anti-ICE Protest The armed and masked off-duty Phoenix, Arizona, cop said he wanted to get kids at a high school ICE protest arrested.

theintercept.com/2026/04/15/h...
More and more evidence so many are unfit to serve.

The party of "fiscal responsibility"

This is a choice.

RFK Jr. forces FDA to reconsider 12 unproven peptides after 2023 ban There doesn't seem to be new safety or efficacy data, but Kennedy touts them anyway.

arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

If there were ever a more disingenuous man to exist to gain power to destroy the healthiness of so many people.

If only all of his own potentially dangerous garbage subject to the same arbitrary nonsense as actual evidence based decisions.

Murray: "We should be sending money to our schools, not buying more missiles that Trump can fire on schools in Iran. This budget would rob our families and burden our grandkids with mountains of new debt, and for what? So Trump has more bombs he can threaten to end civilizations with?"

Good morning ☕

Omg. We're really living in the Age of Ignorance and Dumbfuckery. 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

BIZARROCOMICS.COM Facebook.com/BizarroComics Dist S King Fatues QDaN PRaRO. m 1.314 aNDy COWaN SUDDENLY, ANDY REALIZED HE WAS IN A SHINGLES BAR

😅