Tim Karr

Making bank on the potential for human annihilation: www.politico.com/newsletters/... Very #LateCapitalism

Seven of the ten are owners of major media outlets and/or tech platforms. All of those seven have gotten into bed with the Trump administration in some way (as we documented in Free Press' Media Capitulation Index)

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

BASH: The worry is that we end up in a situation where President Trump tries to overturn the election and the result of that could be like what we saw after January 6-- BLANCHE: Stop it! You gotta stop it with that! That's crazy BASH: This is a president who has a history

The expectation is that Fox should be pure pro-MAGA propaganda. And it is, for the most part. But that's not clearly enough to appease the flailing autocrat. www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...

Jan. 6 was just the prelude to Nov. 3: www.cnn.com/2026/10/23/p...

So brave, Sundar! 🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔

Trump and Musk are clearly not capitulating to Putin for anyone's benefit but their own:

Fake ladies and real threats - Brazil is on the front lines of the technofascist wars. Pay attention... @astra.bsky.social @democracynow.org

Ellison media is taking horserace-styled election coverage to its illogical conclusion. www.status.news/p/cbs-draftk... #LateCapitalism

The Somali guy hopping on the school bus to save the children even as Stephen Miller wants to denaturalize and deport him is a metaphor for our time.

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: No Kings organizer Ezra Levin SOUNDS ALARM after Meta suspended the movement’s Instagram during nationwide protests. LEVIN: “We might be seeing something similar from Meta in our country right now.” “We're not gonna stop organizing against this regime.”

Are these the men you want to dictate our future? deadline.com/2026/10/elon...

“The country is facing overlapping crises: the rise of fascism, the climate emergency and corporate oligarchy. And the only way out of these crises is for everyday people to be civically engaged,” said @reprabb.bsky.social. "These bills are a major step forward for an informed Pennsylvania."

Doing his level best to help Boss Trump steal the midterms by scaring our nominally free press from sharing public polls that show GOP candidates slipping even further behind: thedesk.net/2026/10/fccs...

So Russia is doing midterm dirty work for the Trump GOP. Meanwhile in Moscow, Trump's envoy praises Putin as a "humanitarian," while the White House undermines Zelenskyy's efforts to protect Ukrainian civilians from Russian missile and drone strikes. Yes, Russia, Russia, Russia. #QuidProQuo

X owner Elon Musk touted the supposed success of Community Notes as rationale for his elimination of Trust & Safety teams and other fact-checking systems at the cesspool. But Notes is failing (perhaps by design) as the midterms rapidly approach: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/xs-communi...

The Trump-MAGA freakout over Senator Elissa Slotkin's call for real oversight of Trump is complete horseshit, and every Democrat and journalist should be loudly saying so. This is how MAGA baits MSM into elevating propaganda into "controversy." New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2168...

Kaplan was the chief architect driving Meta's shift to the MAGA right — with Zuckerberg's full approval, of course. www.axios.com/2026/10/20/j...

Reuters reports the order to restrict Ukraine’s Starshield service came from inside the White House, citing two US officials and a Western official. A senior US official said Trump did not make the request. Kyiv was reportedly told it was a White House decision. #Ukraine

"The regime aims to normalize white supremacy while complicit media owners continue to profit from Latino communities," writes @rlivier.bsky.social. "They want our labor and consumer dollars while relegating us to the margins." www.freepress.net/blog/how-sky...

Even a Trump-appointed judge can't abide the First and Fifth Amendment violations indicated in White House efforts to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the "people's house." @attorneynora.bsky.social with receipts: www.freepress.net/news/court-e...

"Across the country, communities couldn’t be clearer about their demands in the face of the frenzied data center build-out: more public oversight and community control, not less." -- @ruddock.bsky.social @freepress.bsky.social www.foodandwaterwatch.org/press/2026/1...

Tuesday: New White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia praises Trump for his "incredible" economic agenda "for the people." Wednesday: The latest actual numbers on inflation tell a completely different story. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...

Your occasional reminder that nine out of ten unvaccinated people who come into close contact with a person with measles will become infected. I've screengrabbed this CDC information should RFK, Jr. et al decide to take it down as measles spreads across the U.S. www.cdc.gov/measles/abou...

"Journalists should be held to a higher standard when it comes to helping normalize & fund fashy-friendly platforms like Substack or X," writes @karlbode.com in a piece that scorches @caseynewton.bsky.social & @gruber.foo for selling out to Musk to feed their bottomless need for online engagement.

This was my last straw too. One of his myriad Great Replacement/white supremacist tweets crossed my feed and I thought: “How the hell can I justify donating free labor that helps increase this guy’s wealth & relevance even infinitessimally?”

Data centers have become bona fide military targets, owing to AI's role in spreading wartime propaganda/disinformation and in locating enemies and guiding missiles to their location. Wild story: mashable.com/tech/ukraine...

Trump pressured Guilfoyle to resign for the sort of blatant corruption Trump himself is know to engage in. And to think she was a couple of "I dos" from becoming a member of the Trump-family mafia: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

For the millionth time: These mergers enrich a few centi-millionaires and billionaires while impoverishing the rest of us. Trickle-down economics isn't. cordcuttersnews.com/skydance-is-...

If we're indeed living in an "attention economy," where your time and focus is currency, ignoring certain people (including clickbait peddlers M3gyn K3lly and Rh3in Amach3r) is your superpower. Use it wisely.

"The only sustainable way to keep mega-billionaires from having so much power, so much ability to degrade democracy, is for them not to be so wealthy," writes @pkrugman.bsky.social. "A society that contains a class of ultra-wealthy oligarchs is well on its way to becoming a full-blown oligarchy."

Here's the podcast I did with @sportshotchris.bsky.social and @karlbode.com earlier this week, where we were UNBUFFERED as the title sugests, but where @freepress.bsky.social and I were also un-tagged in this initial post. 😄

Jeff Bezos launches his public-relations campaign to paint billionaires as salt-of-the-earth, good-for-democracy Americans. It didn't go well: oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/bezos-defe...

This interview goes off the rails, but it exposes base corruption and extortion as the motivations driving Trump-administration appointees and officials. www.mediaite.com/media/news/k...