"CEO said a thing!" journalism is now utterly pervasive, and includes parroting billionaire and CEO claims with a total disregard for whether or not anything being said is actually true.

Trump's second term corruption has caused generational and potentially irreversible damage to public safety and corporate oversight. The establishment press, with scattered exception, couldn't care less.

For several years Substack has been accused of coddling white supremacy and fascist ideology for cash. And despite several major scandals and a mass defection of ethical authors, there's little serious indication that's going to change.

America's richest assholes have a very unsubtle plan: they want to buy up what's left of major media companies, create a massive safe space for the extraction class, then befuddle and divide the electorate with race-baiting agitprop.

As a telecom policy reporter for many years, I've seen this cycle play out many times: a politician calls for deregulation, claiming it will result in vast innovative utopias. The reality is often quite different...