The Brownshirts in DOGE have been so successful up to this point that imitators have been emboldened. #buildtheresistance #antifascism #noligarchs https://missionlocal.org/2025/02/sf-maga-hats-doge-access-files-city-hall/
Men in MAGA hats, DOGE shirts demand access to files at S.F. City Hall 

Three men purportedly impersonating employees of DOGE, Elon Musk’s federal task force to cut spending, were refused City Hall access today.

Mission Local
Democrats And The Price Of Protection

While democracy burns, corporate America is busy checking the wind direction. Google renames the Gulf of Mexico to flatter a wannabe autocrat’s ego. Business leaders draft contingen…

Techdirt
All of your favourite unelected bureaucrats have met in Davos again

This gathering was every bit as entertaining as the last one

Normal Island News
The Broligarchy: The Who’s Who of the Silicon Gilded Age

On The Intercept Briefing podcast with Tech Policy Press’s Justin Hendrix: how a new inaugural era of class unity in tech and politics is taking shape.

The Intercept
There’s No Such Thing as a Good Billionaire

Democrats want us to believe that there is some cohort of “good billionaires” who can be relied upon to fight for political progress. But as the right-wing turn of tech billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk suggests, this is nonsense.

Trump Puts Drug Trafficker Who Allegedly Contracted Killings Back on the Street - emptywheel

After releasing a bunch of men who violently assaulted cops on his first day in office, Trump released Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht. on his second.

emptywheel
Marc Andreessen Seems to Think Hillary Clinton Was Actually President

The New York Times made a sneaky edit to its own transcript to make Andreessen sound more coherent.

Gizmodo
Opinion | A Tech Overlord’s Horrifying, Silly Vision for Who Should Rule the World

It’s no mystery why Marc Andreessen thinks people like him should be in charge. But how did he get so many of the rest of us to sign on?

The New York Times
The Trump Administration Will Function as an Oligarchy of Billionaires and Tech Bros

Donald Trump is staffing his administration with billionaires and crypto dudes, creating a government that serves only the wealthy.

Teen Vogue
The Trump Administration Will Function as an Oligarchy of Billionaires and Tech Bros

Donald Trump is staffing his administration with billionaires and crypto dudes, creating a government that serves only the wealthy.

Teen Vogue