Trump Calls For The Arrest Of J.B. Pritzker, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson
Here is a brief timeline of events that got us here. Chicago has had a decline in violent crime and murders over the course of the last several years, with…
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: With Great Platforms Come Great Responsibility
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts,…
America Is Now The World’s Sundown Town
This is who we are now. We are the country that makes people who aren’t white leave the country because they’re not white. And this is according to this administration’s…
Rand Paul: FCC chair had “no business” intervening in ABC/Kimmel controversy
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) slammed Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr for policing speech after the FCC chair pressured ABC into suspending Jimmy Kimmel. Carr’s statement that ABC must take…
DOJ aims to break up Google’s ad business as antitrust case resumes
Google is back in court, hoping to avoid a painful breakup of its advertising business. US District Judge Leonie Brinkema has already ruled that Google operated an illegal monopoly in…
Disney reinstates Jimmy Kimmel after backlash over capitulation to FCC
Jimmy Kimmel is going back on the air. ABC owner Disney today issued a statement saying that Jimmy Kimmel Live will return on Tuesday. “Last Wednesday, we made the decision…
iFixit tears down the iPhone Air, finds that it’s mostly battery
As is now a long-standing custom, iFixit performed a full teardown of the latest iPhone—this time, the newly launched iPhone Air. These teardowns got pretty routine for a while, as…
Anti-vaccine groups melt down over RFK Jr. linking autism to Tylenol
Health Secretary and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday evening announced that the use of Tylenol (aka acetaminophen, paracetamol) during pregnancy is linked to autism—an unproven assertion that…
NASA names 24th astronaut class, including prior SpaceX crew member
NASA has named its new group of astronaut candidates. The space agency on Monday introduced the four men and six women who comprise its 2025 trainee class during a ceremony…
How to fight censorship, one Disney+ cancellation at a time
In 2024, the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled to defend a pretty obvious idea about free speech: viz., that the government cannot punish people or companies simply for saying things…