@inthehands@hachyderm.ioSome works exist only to give us the pleasure of reading the review that pans them. They need only be seen once, by an unfortunate critic, and then never viewed again by human eyes. As a sacrificial offering to the aesthetic gods, this hapless critic channels and then purges all that is ugly in this world, purifying us all in the caustic bath of their wit. https://mastodon.social/@WarnerCrocker/116003101576465477
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeJudge awards British critic of Saudis $4.1 million, finds the regime hacked his devices
https://therecord.media/london-judge-sides-with-saudi-critic-spyware-case
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeJudge awards British critic of Saudis $4.1 million, finds the regime hacked his devices
https://therecord.media/london-judge-sides-with-saudi-critic-spyware-case
@gfriend@mas.toJuris, meet Prudence. With rapier wit at no extra charge,
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/02/03/books/judge-ruling-liam-conejo-ramos-analysis.html?unlocked_article_code=…
@cdarwin@c.imGustavo Petro of Colombia and Donald Trump have had a tense relationship
that escalated into threats by Mr. Trump,
before easing.
Anything could happen at their Feb. 3 meeting.
The meeting between the two presidents
— arranged after Trump threatened Mr. Petro with military action
— is meant to de-escalate tensions, diplomats said.
It is also meant to address topics such as “the fight against transnational organized crime, especially on the border,”…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comColombia's President, an Outspoken Trump Critic, Heads to the White House (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/world/americas/colombia-petro-trump-white-house.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p67#a260202p67
@newsie@darktundra.xyzJudge awards British critic of Saudis $4.1 million, finds the regime hacked his devices https://therecord.media/london-judge-sides-with-saudi-critic-spyware-case
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA third person is sentenced to jail for participating in a murder-for-hire plot, directed by Iran's government, targeting journalist and activist Masih Alinejad (Colin Moynihan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/nyregion/iranian-d…
@cdarwin@c.imA court in Russia on Thursday convicted a pro-war activist and critic of Vladimir Putin of
justifying terrorism and sentenced him to six years in prison.
Sergei Udaltsov, the leader of the Left Front movement that opposes Putin and is affiliated with the Communist party, was arrested last year.
According to Russian independent news site Mediazona, the charges against him stem from an article Udaltsov posted online in support of another group of Russian activists accused of …
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s defense secretary,
Pete Hegseth, said Monday that
the Pentagon will investigate Mark Kelly,
a Democratic senator from Arizona and retired Navy officer,
for his role in making a video reminding service members of their duty to disobey unlawful orders.
In targeting Kelly
-- and another prominent Democratic critic of the administration,
Rep. Eugene Vindman of Virginia,
-- the Defense Department has been co-opted into the president’s norm-shatte…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump critic Jasmine Crockett poised for Senate run in deep-red Texas (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/decision-day-trump-critic-jasmine-crockett-senate-run-house-re-election
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p85#a251208p85
@cdarwin@c.imTy Cobb, an employee of the first Trump administration and a now outspoken critic of the president,
told The Beat on MS NOW Tuesday that the recent shift in Trump’s psychological condition was “palpable.”
That day alone, Trump spent a 90-minute press briefing mumbling to himself over a stack of papers,
alleging that “pirating ships” is the only thing that Somalis succeed at,
claiming that “God is very proud” of his first year back in office,
and alleging that a …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle details steps it is taking to secure Chrome's upcoming agentic browsing features, including a "User Alignment Critic" model that vets AI agent's actions (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/08/gemini-chrome-agentic-security/
@bthalpin@mastodon.socialA prominent critic of the Trump regime was suspended on #Bluesky. Then it turns out it was because she made a joke/cultural reference that they mistook for a death threat.
So po-faced and dim, not offended by excellent dissection of MAG-America.
#sarahkendzior
https://bsky. …
@cdarwin@c.imUntil January, Patrick J. Schiltz,
the chief judge of the District of Minnesota,
had steadily managed one of the federal court system’s heavier workloads with little fanfare.
He was more widely known in the legal community for penning a revered law journal article 27 years ago that advised young lawyers how to become ethical members of an “unhappy, unhealthy and unethical profession.”
But starting this year, as federal agents surged into Minnesota, hundreds of immigr…
@raysofred@discordian.socialI’ve recently been obsessed with the downfall of the Nostalgia critic
@bici@mastodon.social"Google showing a wall of ads before any real results. Facebook promising to “never spy on you,” before evolving into a mass surveillance apparatus. Amazon’s highest-ranked products buoyed by fake reviews."
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/bo
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump critic George Conway files papers for U.S. House bid in New York (Hannah Knowles/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/22/george-conway-congress-campaign-new-york/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p111#a251222p111
@cdarwin@c.imOver the past five years,
as Trump’s most notorious acolyte in Congress,
#MTG had adopted his unrepentant pugilism as her own.
⭐️“Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you’re wrong,”
she told me in her Capitol Hill office one afternoon in early December.
“You just keep
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialApple Daily founder Jimmy Lai is found guilty of colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiring to publish seditious articles (Kanis Leung/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-jimmy-lai-ve…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump critic George Conway files to run for NY House seat (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/22/george-conway-ny-house-seat-nadler-00702755
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p56#a251222p56
@cdarwin@c.imToday is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
He was born January 15, 1929.
He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
He was just 39 years old.
While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader,
he also championed the cause of the poor and organized the Poor People’s Campaign
to address issues of economic justice.
Dr. King was also a fierce critic of U.S. foreign policy an…
@cdarwin@c.imDr. Ralph Abraham has spoken against Covid shots and ended mass vaccination campaigns.
Now he's in a position to make national health decisions.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/controversial-louisi…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe New Yorker adds Jason Zengerle and Ruby Cramer as staff writers for politics and Jon Allsop as a contributing writer; Emily Nussbaum will be theater critic (Michael Luo/@michaelluo)
https://x.com/michaelluo/status/1998423522524426421
@cdarwin@c.imBy now you’ve seen Trump’s big speech at Davos.
The slurring,
the confusing of Greenland and Iceland,
the nonsense about wind power,
and the racist smearing of Somalis before the whole world
—it was an unmitigated disaster.
But things got worse when Trump’s propagandists spun it all as a world-historical triumph:
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt unleashed an extraordinary stream of obsequious praise,
absurdly declaring that
…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comIraq War critic, Venezuela mission defender: Vance's foreign policy journey (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/11/jd-vance-venezuela-america-first/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p22#a260111p22
@cdarwin@c.imTrump has been an outspoken critic of Biden’s use of the autopen to conduct executive business,
going as far as to display a picture of one such device in place of a portrait of his predecessor in a new “Presidential Walk of Fame” he created along the West Wing colonnade.
His Republican allies in Congress last month released a blistering critique of Biden’s alleged “diminished faculties” and mental state during his term that ranked the Democrat’s use of the autopen among “the gr…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration plans to allow new oil and gas drilling off the California coast for the first time in roughly four decades
The proposed lease sales in the Pacific Ocean would primarily be off Santa Barbara County, Calif.,
where a small amount of drilling is already occurring, according to two of the people familiar with the Interior Department’s draft plan
@cdarwin@c.imWhen the executive branch puts their fingers on the scales of justice
and says, ‘I’m going to punish you for your viewpoint,’
everybody in the bar should start heckling.
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/11/man-wh
@cdarwin@c.imOn Monday, Jasmine Crockett announced her bid to unseat Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) in next year’s election,
a move that took place just hours after Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas) dropped out of the race to run in a newly drawn House district.
The congresswoman,
a frequent critic of Donald Trump,
accompanied the announcement with a 45-second clipwhere she stares in silence and eventually cracks a smile as audio of the president’s insults toward her plays throughout.
@cdarwin@c.imThe biggest surprise of Donald Trump’s first year back in office is 🆘 how quickly America’s institutions capitulated to
“the bully”,
said Michael Steele, a former chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) turned arch critic.
But with the midterm elections for Congress looming, Steele predicts a resounding Democratic victory
amid a hunger among voters to hold the president and his allies accountable for threatening democracy.
Steele, 67, was the first Blac…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s White House is taking on the role of media critic and asking for help from “everyday Americans.”
Over the Thanksgiving weekend, the White House launched a web portal it says will spotlight bias on the part of news outlets,
targeting the Boston Globe, CBS News and the Independent as its inaugural “media offender of the week.”
It’s the latest wrinkle in the fight against the First Amendment
-- what Trump, in his first term, labeled “fake news.”
The Republi…
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump on Sunday told reporters that the heads of American oil companies were informed of the US military’s attack on Venezuela—even before it took place.
Trump’s admission sparked condemnation because the administration refused to consult with US lawmakers about the operation, citing fears of a leak that would compromise operational security.
