Dan Gillmor

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Big Journalism never fails to demonstrate its fecklessness. As the Democrats (finally!) fight back against the Republicans' attacks on voting, journalists are trotting out their SOP "both sides" framing.

Top-down journalistic reform is impossible. It'll have to be from neighborhoods out.

The Cost of the GOP’s Medicaid Cuts: ER Bills for States and a Spiraling Oral Health Crisis

Dentist Dr. Tara Prasad thinks a lot about the logistics of homelessness...

TPM - Talking Points Memo
In the case of Oriana Korol, the clarinetist who was bowled over by ICE goons last year and the charged with assault, the jury has hung and Judge Immergut declared a mistrial. Looks like DOJ will try again next month. Outrageous waste of money.

The corrupt Roberts Court isn't even pretending to hide its racism and partisan goals. In-your-face hypocrisy and lies are the means to the corrupt court's rancid ends.

https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-gop-lit-the-match-the-supreme-court-banned-the-fire-department/

The GOP lit the match. The Supreme Court banned the fire department.

The foundation of our democracy is burning to the ground. It did not begin with Donald Trump, but he stoked the flames. The conservative Roberts Court did not light the match, but it has repeatedly declared fire hydrants, sprinklers and smoke detectors illegal.

Democracy Docket
We've come to an icky time in security when the concern about using outdated, unpatched software starts to become overshadowed by the fear of downloading some backdoored update.

“The public will be astonished to learn that in the British justice system a protester can now be convicted of criminal damage for disrupting an arms factory and then be sentenced as ‘terrorists’ without having been convicted of terror charges and with this having been kept secret from the jury.”

#UKPol #Protest #PalestineAction

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/12/palestine-action-activists-elbit-protest-terrorist-connection-ruling

Palestine Action activists in Elbit protest could be sentenced as terrorists

Judge’s ruling was not disclosed to jurors in two trials and can only now be revealed after reporting restrictions lifted

The Guardian

🚨🔔 Job alert: The Tor Project is hiring a Senior Android Engineer to design, build, and ship privacy-preserving features used by people all over the world. Mentor teammates and shape architectural decisions.

If technical depth + real impact is your thing, we'd love to hear from you.

👉 https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/senior-android-engineer/

The Tor Project | Privacy & Freedom Online

Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.

Web history disappears when it can’t be preserved.

Today, many publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving parts of the public web, putting decades of digital history at risk.

Tell publishers: don’t block the Wayback Machine. Sign the petition ➡️ https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

#WaybackMachine

Tell New York Times, The Atlantic, and USA Today to keep the crucial work of journalists in the Wayback Machine!

Fight for the Future

News organizations are increasingly blocking the #WaybackMachine even as their reporters still depend on it 📰

In PRESERVING THE WEB IN THE AGE OF AI, @mark, Director of the Wayback Machine at the #InternetArchive, explains how major newsroom staff rely on archived web history because their internal archives often miss the deeper public record.

🎧 Listen on the Future Knowledge #podcast ⤵️
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/preserving-the-web-in-the-age-of-ai
📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026

DOJ has subpoenaed WSJ for its sources on the story about the warnings Dan Caine gave Trump before he ignored all those warnings and started a war anyway. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...