Fuck CBS, Paramount, Ellison. This is no "financial decision." It is Trump taking over American media. This is Hungary. This is disgusting.
CBS to Cancel ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Citing ‘Financial Decision’ https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/cbs-cancel-late-show-stephen-colbert-financial-decision-1236464356/

'Democrats must organize urgently for the 2026 midterm elections and avoid a “it can’t happen here” mentality to stop Donald Trump from staging a full-scale autocratic takeover, a Hungarian opposition parliamentarian has said.'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/16/hungary-democrat-authoritarianism

Jeezus, #BrokenPost, how can you use the words "objectivity" and "Fox" in the same headline? Where have you been?
Two Fox reporters got engaged to congressmen. How do you balance love and objectivity? https://wapo.st/3TMCE2e

Bravo.
Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University protester who spent more than 100 days in immigration detention, is seeking $20 million from the Trump administration https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/mahmoud-khalil-seeks-20-million-from-trump-administration-4a9726bc?st=YNnJpB

Churches are no longer churches in the Trump age; they are finally and completely political actors, malign political actors.
I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/politics/irs-churches-politics-endorse-candidates.html?smid=tw-share

The readers, on the other hand, understand what is happening. Here's the Post's AI summary of comments: authoritarianism, dictatorship, "parallels to historical authoritarian regimes." Ja.

Good God. Destroying the Constitution and the rule of law with the compliance of denuded legislatures and courts is not a "winning streak." It is fascism. #BrokenTimes.

The #BrokenPost is about as bad, discovering the end of separation of power and the Constitution but concluding this a "turbocharged executive." No, it is FASCISM.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/04/executive-trump-powers-congress-supreme-court/

In this post, I gather recent receipts on the #BrokenTimes' vendetta against Mamdani, starting with its participation in a right-wing smear and unjournalistic reaction to criticism from within:
https://medium.com/whither-news/the-times-mamdani-vendetta-81fbe6e85116

Good news for news in New Jersey.
New Jersey Legislature and Governor Murphy Dedicate $2.5 Million to Fund the State’s Civic Information Consortium
https://www.freepress.net/news/new-jersey-legislature-and-governor-murphy-dedicate-25-million-fund-states-civic-information

Bret Stephens is the *last* dictionary on earth I would consult for the meaning of anything other than bedbug.
What ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Really Means https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/opinion/mamdani-intifada-israel.html?smid=tw-share

12 damned points. Take that all you fascists and Democratic chickenshits. He is the future. Get with it or be gone.
Zohran Mamdani Wins N.Y.C. Mayoral Primary in Decisive 12-Point Victory https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/nyregion/mamdani-wins-mayor-primary-nyc.html?smid=tw-share

Shameful. First they came for the trans athletes and before you know it, they will come for the scholars...
Penn Agrees to Limit Participation of Transgender Athletes https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/penn-title-ix-transgender-swimmer-trump.html?smid=tw-share

This is a proper headline.
Senate Begins Debating Bill That Would Add at Least $3.3 Trillion to Debt https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/29/us/trump-news?smid=nytcore-android-share

The rule of law, the Constitution, the nation, and democracy are dead.
Live Updates: Supreme Court Limits Nationwide Injunctions in Birthright Citizenship Case https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/27/us/birthright-citizenship-supreme-court?smid=tw-share

This afternoon on Intelligent Machines, we'll talk with my friend Richard Gingras, who just retired from Google. Here's his essay on free speech (with touches of Gutenberg):
The evolution of media and democracy. How we got here. How we might move forward.
https://richardgingras.medium.com/the-evolution-of-media-and-democracy-how-we-got-here-how-we-might-move-forward-534776e1bde2

Alternate headline:
MAMDANI STUNS THE TIMES
Former New York newspaper finds itself out of touch with the city it once covered.
Take that, Andrew and A.G.
#BrokenTimes

And Rupert's bully pulpit is in a sweaty swivet over living in a -- GASP! -- socialist city. Take that, Murdoch Media.

I've been on Chromebooks for a dozen years. I mourned when Google stopped making its models. I think I finally see a worthy successor: the Lenovo Chromeboook Plus 14: Powerful ARM chip able to run AI locally; fanless!; 17 hour battery; 2.7lbs & thin!
https://blog.google/products/chromebooks/lenovo-chromebook-plus-14/

While our media are monomanically focused on Trump and Iran, how many innocent immigrants are being kidnapped by ICE goons in masks without being noticed? Journalists: You're the dog. Trump's the tail. He's wagging you.