Mastodawn

I just watched Alex Padilla get thrown to the floor and cuffed after trying to ask Noam a question at a presser.

The Senate is meant to be only second to the House of Representatives in power in our system of Democracy. They are fewer, older, and meant to be the wise body of the government, serving longer than presidents, and running less often than reps.

If you're waiting for the sign that things have gone too far, it's passing you by.

America is neither safe nor free.

Ryan Singel May 25

Quinn Norton May 23

New from me, for Emptywheel: https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/22/digital-fascism-is-still-just-fascism/ A look at how the ICC & Karim Khan case foreshadows digital fascism, and how that's just fascism, for everyone. Plus a nod at how to break free: the tools, infrastructure, and what it would take to do it.

Digital Fascism is Still Just Fascism - emptywheel

The Death of the Internet and Karim Khan’s Inbox The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan is not having a good year, and neither is the ICC in general. It was never an easy job, going after people who commit Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. The ICC tries to prosecute crimes in opposition to […]

emptywheel

Ryan Singel May 24

Ted Han ★ 韓聖安 May 23

It should be said, and doing this in their free fucking time as a volunteer effort too.

> And we ordinary people are all out here in the feeds trying to piece it together in our heads.
https://mas.to/@kissane/114558323930891999

Erin Kissane (@kissane@mas.to)

I don't think it's possible to be where we are in #uspol (and in the global authoritarian slide) without our information ecosystems being such a mess. There's a ton of work to do on the distribution side of the problem, but also on the info-making side: Even great newsrooms aren't built to make the kind of knowledge we need in this moment, bc what they make are endless streams of atomized stories. And we ordinary people are all out here in the feeds trying to piece it together in our heads.

mas.to

Ryan Singel May 21

Ars Technica May 20

Under anti-vaccine advocate RFK Jr, FDA to limit access to COVID-19 shots
FDA will require big, pricy trials for approvals for healthy kids and adults >65.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/05/under-anti-vaccine-advocate-rfk-jr-fda-to-limit-access-to-covid-19-shots/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Under RFK Jr., COVID shots will only be available to people 65+, high-risk groups

FDA will require big, pricy trials for approvals for healthy kids and adults…

Ars Technica

Ryan Singel May 16

James Comey goes voluntarily to an interview with the Secret Service over a dumb tweet?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/16/politics/comey-interviewed-secret-service

Gotta hand it to James Comey for sticking to the bit of being someone who has never learned when not to talk

Former FBI Director James Comey is being interviewed by the US Secret Service

Former FBI Director James Comey was escorted by US Secret Service agents to their Washington Field Office on Friday afternoon for an interview, according to law enforcement sources.

CNN

Ryan Singel May 15

404 Media May 15

CBP Seizes Shipment of T-Shirts Featuring Swarm of Bees Attacking a Cop

🔗 https://www.404media.co/cbp-seizes-shipment-of-t-shirts-featuring-swarm-of-bees-attacking-cops/

CBP Seizes Shipment of T-Shirts Featuring Swarm of Bees Attacking a Cop

The shirts will be returned to China or will be “destroyed under CBP supervision."

404 Media

Ryan Singel May 15

Daniel Swain May 15

I just created a quick map depicting which portions of the United States are now (as of today) or will imminently be (by early June) without 24/7 local National Weather Service coverage (per Washington Post reporting). #CAwx #CAfire #CAwater #ORwx #AKwx #WYwx #KSwx