Dan Gillmor
An example of why I've come to despise Big Journalism:
This NBC News story -- Trump saying he's not involved in Warner Bros. Discovery takeover contest -- is pure stenography. It never mentions that Trump lies about absolutely everything, or that he's already been involved.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/media/trump-netflix-paramount-fight-warner-bros-rcna257476
Dan Gillmor
Cory Doctorow: "America is not great. It has been gutted by the Epstein class, who robbed us blind, raped our kids, and are now selling us shitcoins and chatbots and the spectacle of protesters being shot in the streets."
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/02/corprophagia/#that-makes-me-smart
Dan Gillmor
Yet another blatantly obvious coverup from the Trump regime, this time in DHS's shape-shifting story about prison videos it now claims never to have recorded.
Remember: You should always presume these people are lying.
Dan Gillmor
Please note that the Trump regime continues to flagrantly, illegally withhold the Epstein documents and plainly has no intention of releasing them (at least until the apparatchiks can destroy/doctor the incriminating stuff).
Dan Gillmor
Pathetic Democratic leadership tells members of Congress to be chickenshits and not go to Minneapolis to support the people standing up to Trump's fascist goons.
Dan Gillmor
The new head of the Ellison family's CBS "News" is adding more commentators (mostly from the right wing, it seems) and firing actual journalists.
Sad to watch a once-fine organization sliding into the same category as the Murdoch family's odious Fox "News" --
Dan Gillmor
You'd think that every news report of Trump's dispatch of Tom Homan to Minnesota would prominently remind people that Homan was caught on video taking $50,000 in cash, plainly an intended bribe.
Sadly, you would be wrong. I'm still looking for any mention of it.
Reminder: https://newrepublic.com/post/200788/tom-homan-50k-cash-bribe
Dan Gillmor
At Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall has more must-read context re the invasion of American cities by Trump's militarized, brutal, and (so far) unaccountable forces.
They are military in every way but what the government calls them. This has profound implications.
Dan Gillmor
Canada Prime Minister Carney's Davos speech was the wakeup call the free world needed. Trump's response was beyond contemptuous, thereby proving Carney's point.
Dan Gillmor
Yet another reminder that when it comes to data privacy, Microsoft cannot be trusted -- and, worse, its management is an eager ally of the fascists who run our government.
Dan Gillmor
Trump's secret police says it will invade your home without a judge-signed warrant. https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrests-warrants-minneapolis-trump-00d0ab0338e82341fd91b160758aeb2d
Any doubt that the corrupt Roberts court will rubber-stamp this?
(Never mind Congress, where the majority party utterly loathes the Bill of Rights, except the Second Amendment.)
Dan Gillmor
So-called "mainstream" (legacy) journalism is so mired in cowardice and irrelevant tradition that even now it refuses to call things what they are. That's why we so desperately need to follow the work of people like Garrett Graff. Example:
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-how-trump-changed-ice-and-cbp-into-a-fascist-secret-police
Dan Gillmor
Mozilla is asking for your opinion about what it's doing, and the survey appears to be aimed at getting you used to the idea that "AI" will become an integral focus area.
I told them that I want Mozilla to focus SOLELY on improving Firefox and Thunderbird, with zero AI in the product.
Dan Gillmor
All corruption, all the time in Trump world, Exhibit 64,704:
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/17/business/trump-financial-disclosure-netflix-warner-bros
And as usual, Big Journalism tiptoes around it, using the standard "concerns" and "raises questions" hedges to avoid stating the blatantly obvious reality. Pathetic, but that's the norm.
Dan Gillmor
US Big Tech is conspiring with European (and American) fascists to wreck the EU's ability to even modestly regulate this rogue industry, which has unparalleled -- and growing -- power over people's lives.
Fascism and tech are an unholy, and maybe unstoppable, alliance.
Dan Gillmor
We need to stop calling techlords like Mark Zuckerberg (and Tim Cook, et al) "cowards" for their nuzzling up to Trump.
Call them what they are: supporters of America's metastasizing fascism. And for god's sake, stop supporting their businesses.
https://apnews.com/article/meta-dina-powell-mccormick-trump-adviser-bce6b207f1754284f9b922b0ea8ec7bf
Dan Gillmor
Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) implores non-US governments to understand that they can fight Trump's wave of economic destruction -- and help average Americans in the process -- by repealing insane laws that enforce technology lock-in and reward Big Tech:
See this in the Guardian:
Dan Gillmor
"We are far past the stage of permissiveness with white-supremacist violence inside DHS. We are at the stage of active, enthusiastic commission of it."
Big Journalism doesn't get it, because it doesn't want to. So we have to rely on independent reporting that does.
Dan Gillmor
"Ponzi America is breaking down. It's run out of suckers." -- Cory Doctorow
Dan Gillmor
This New York Times video journalism -- caution, it's graphic -- about Trump goons' murder of a Minneapolis woman is essential. No both-sides bullshit when one party -- the regime and its vile propagandists -- is relentlessly and provably lying.
I'm often hard on the Times for its relentless failures to properly cover this regime, but this piece is the real thing.
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