2025-03-19


celebrity gossip


Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

Musk

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

TechSuck / Geek Bait

Economicon / Business / Finance

Trump

Democrats

  • Top Senate Democrat Schumer postpones book tour for security reasons.

    Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer, who has faced backlash from his party since saying he would not block a Republican spending bill, postponed public events planned for this week for security reasons, according to several venues where he had been scheduled to appear. Schumer sparked anger over last week's decision not to block the Republican spending bill that most Democratic lawmakers said gave President Donald Trump too much power. It was not clear what prompted the cancellation of events in Baltimore and Washington where the New York Democrat was due to speak to promote his new book, "Antisemitism in America: A Warning." A publicity firm handling the events did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

  • Democrats Need to Face Why Trump Won

  • (PDF) Autopen Memorandum

    The warrants we determined to be wet signatures contain significant variations between the signatures. Some warrants spell out the President’s entire first name “Joseph.” Others have only a diagonal line to indicate the letter “J.” Other wet signed warrants have significant variations in the President’s middle initial “R” and “B” in the last name “Biden.” At the time of publication of this Memorandum, the variations of the wet signatures are so severe, that it is unclear whether the same person signed all of the warrants. We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  • Gavin Newsom Is Reportedly Sending Burner Phones to Tech CEOs

Left Angst

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

  • AI-generated CSAM may be protected by first Amend in some cases, judge rules

  • Former Principals of Aerospace Start-Up Charged with Fraud and Tax Crimes

    An indictment was unsealed today charging five former principals of Theia Group Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based aerospace start-up company, with conspiracy and fraud. Theia planned to launch 112 satellites starting in 2022 at a cost of $10 billion to $15 billion. Theia’s principals allegedly originally planned to raise the requisite funds from various nation-states by promising perpetual data and analytics for an upfront payment of $2 billion. However, from Theia’s founding in 2015 through its placement into receivership in 2021, Theia was allegedly unsuccessful in obtaining any funding except for approximately $250 million in loans and investments received from institutional and individual investors and lenders. To secure the funding, Olson, Gallagher, Buscher, Fargnoli, and Swati’s fraud scheme allegedly included making materially false statements about revenue from non-existent government contracts, providing multiple false financial statements, including a fake $6 billion escrow account statement, and making false representations about Theia’s technical capabilities.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

Health / Medicine

  • The New York Times Remains Utterly Dedicated to Telling Only One Story About Mental Illness

    Greenwich, Franklin Roosevelt, the Waldorf and Astoria and the Plaza, fucking debutante balls…. It’s impossible that they don’t know how this all reads, and yet the piece does nothing to address the immense privilege here. There are desultory waves to the broader reality in the form of expert quotes, asking not to overgeneralize, and then those brief notes are drowned out by cheery talk about how Delano is now living her best life and helping others to live theirs by abandoning conventional psychiatric treatment - if they can afford to pay the $600 a month Delano and her partner charge for coaching, natch.

    It’s all a farce. It is a farce that the paper of record keeps holding these utterly unrepresentative figures up as symbols of what mental illness looks like, while they do their liberal fretting routine about medicating people with serious mental illnesses. In the now-infamous NYT magazine piece I linked above, the value of psychiatric medicine is debated purely through the lens of a tiny number of incredibly privileged schizophrenic outliers who, like, live in Sedona and believe in the power of crystals and manage their illnesses from their tasteful adobe homes. Is this a sound way to understand the importance of medication in managing chronic mental illness? No, no it’s not! They ran it anyway. And yes, reading another piece like this made me mad. I confess, I am mad online. But what really fried my noodle was when I realized why this all sounded so familiar.

    The Times piece casually mentions that Delano and her nonprofit were already the subject of a 10,000-word New Yorker profile. And her husband, who runs her nonprofit with her - he’s the aftershave model-looking dude in the picture in the NYT piece, the face of mental illness in a $250 sweater - recently received similarly hagiographic coverage from the Atlantic! Isn’t that extraordinary? That this one couple, pushing a contentious agenda about an immensely controversial subject and making a lot of money doing so, have received universally sympathetic attention in three of the most elite publications in the industry? I find that really something. Indeed, it compels me to ask… fucking why? What is going on here?

  • Americans borrowed $74B last year to cover health care costs, survey finds

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp