You may have noticed the parade of tech and media billionaires prostrating themselves at the feet of the grifter-in-chief. The political cartoonist Ann Telnaes certainly did—but the Washington Post killed her cartoon. She has resigned.
https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post
Follow Friday Special
Inspired by @pluralistic's great essay today about building an open non-corporate media ecosystem, here's a new Follow Pack titled Newsletters containing eight Mastodon accounts that have excellent independent Newsletters or Blogs that are not on Substack.
Click to download Newsletters-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQ724vJjsQ4RP0KAywj4yhsJ06N9LsVargAapcrepQeqjoWZi9BmARnKOYPA1-LXrp7udY0qYqy-iiD/pub?output=csv
Instructions in reply below on how to import Follow Packs.
See @mastodonmigration.wordpress.com for more on Follow Packs.
Reminder: RFK Jr caused a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people, mostly children.
RFK Jr and his non-profit visited Samoa to lobby the government and spread misinformation that reduced measles vaccination rates.
He may now lead the top US health agency.
then is it plausible these people, with full control of the institutions today and a roadmap to complete immunity for any legal restraints they trample, would tolerate an election in which that is a plausible outcome?
this is why i lose sleep. /fin
Privacy advocates gained access to a powerful tool bought by U.S. law enforcement agencies that can track smartphone locations around the world. Abortion clinics, places of worship, and individual people can all be monitored without a warrant.
The thing you watch for, when boating in Greenland. Hitting one of these with a fiberglass boat at 20 knots will capsize the boat and throw you into 6°C water.
James Gleick
Mastodon Migration
Dr. Lucky Tran 
Steve Randy Waldman
Steve Herman
Politics & Culture Bot