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saying this after shitcanning half the staff and appointing partisan appartachik Bari Weiss as editor in chief is like "Putin Promises Territorial Integrity for Ukraine"
Wow, Matt Taibbi lost his SECOND defamation suit in a few months.
I wonder if that means he gets TWO speaking slots at that FIRE conference.
CEO said a thing!
INVESTIGATION: 🚨 A Polymarket exec used a personal PayPal account to pay major political influencers like Riley Gaines and Brian Krassenstein, who then hyped how "accurate" Polymarket is at predicting outcomes.
We uncovered $350,000+ flowing to influencers this way
www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
Incredible line from a grand juror in the Broadview 6 case, who had just asked the prosecutors why they get "unlimited tries" to indict people they don't want to indict:
"I heard this case like last week and I thought it was a crock of shit then and I still think it is."
Bari Weiss will be head of the FCC for the Baron Trump presidency
www.nytimes.com
The company’s chief marketing officer, Matthew Modabber, used a personal PayPal account to send money to content creators, according to records reviewed by POLITICO.
the only solution will be to pass terrible legislation written by their lawyers legalizing all of their worst behaviors while boxing out smaller and foreign competitors and criminalizing open source
sorry I don't make the rules
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Tim Onion
brunchlords can only fail upward
it's physics!
CEO said a thing!
his bulbous ego isn't capable of de-escalation and he's too stupid to understand how anything works, so Iran is just going to dog walk him toward the midterms while Axios publishes a story a week parroting false claims that "a deal is close"
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nypost.com
CBS News boss Bari Weiss is likely to gain editorial oversight of CNN if and when Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is approved, according to a report.
If seeing Matt Taibbi get kicked in the dick by a federal judge is your particular jam, he's done it again. This time his defamation suit against Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove is DOA.
Westfall Act's a bitch, man. And so are you!
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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AI sci-fi doomsday scenarios exist to misrepresent what modern software is capable of, and spook lawmakers into embracing terrible laws, written by rich and terrible men, that will free them from over...
