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Kurt, Dave and Chris:
First let me apologize for taking a couple of days to put this outline together. When I spoke to Kurt I was in the middle of making a Fugazi album, but I thought I would have a day or so between records to sort everything out. My schedule changed unexpectedly, and this is the first moment I’ve had to go through it all. Apology.
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First let me apologize for taking a couple of days to put this outline together. When I spoke to Kurt I was in the middle of making a Fugazi album, but I thought I would have a day or so between records to sort everything out. My schedule changed unexpectedly, and this is the first moment I’ve had to go through it all. Apology.
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The mind-blowing proposal letter Steve Albini sent to Nirvana
While most of the coverage of Musk's wrecking crew has focused on the broccoli-haired Gen Z brownshirts who are wilding through the server rooms at giant, critical government agencies, Tkacik homes in on their boss, Tom Krause, whom she memorably dubs "the Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets" (I told you... See more
Cory Doctorow • Pluralistic: “The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets” (07 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Mr. Johnson has not paid Ms. Southern the $150,000. In his YouTube video, he said he would set up a trust so payments from “his accuser” for his legal fees would go toward her medical expenses. Emails viewed by The Times showed he opened the trust last year, then closed it without putting money into it.
Last summer, Ms. Southern filed a complaint ag... See more
Last summer, Ms. Southern filed a complaint ag... See more
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Krause's isn't a canny operator who roots out waste: he's a guy who tears out all the wiring and then grudgingly restores the minimum needed to keep the machine running (no wonder Musk loves him, this is the Twitter playbook)
Cory Doctorow • Pluralistic: “The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets” (07 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Cernovich is perhaps the best member of the New Right when it comes to understanding how the Cathedral works and exploiting its own rules. In November 2017, Cernovich uncovered proof that John Conyers—who had served fifty years in Congress—was a “serial sexual predator.”
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
The Nation obtained internal company records showing that in the face of potential criminal charges the Kochs had launched an emergency strategy aimed at buying political leverage. In Oklahoma, where the grand jury was meeting, they made donations to key politicians, including Senator Nickles. Around the same time, Nickles recommended the appointme
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Kent Peterson on Substack
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he recruited and paid at least one new minor to appear after he'd flipped for Eichenwald.