Just gonna say it now, I will have zero shorts out today! (Heck, I’ll probably re-write the description tomorrow)
Somehow this script was over 5k words, and I had to cover everything from midnight judge meetings, open defiance of court orders, Kash Patel gifting ghost guns to foreign officials, fandom drama, and a CEO turning an old meme into a nazis dog whistle over the course of 3 days!
We're covering a lot today, from weirdly inept, though no less dangerous, authoritarianism in the US, admittance of a war crime… I almost miss getting to reference press releases instead of DOJ X posts. Oh, also Itch payout concerns, and a featured story Of Banally nested evil around that Visa job posting.
Sure, call your reps, see if they answer the phone. But, first, call and email Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and Stripe. Tell them, respectfully, those customer service folks didn't do shit to you, what you want and what you will do if you don't get it.
Stop letting white suprematists and Nazis decide what artist is allowed to eat or have a roof over her head because making a phone call or writing an email is hard.
A journalist’s life has been threatened for 51 days straight for the “crime” of reporting on a fascist as well as the creeping air of queerphobic rot seeping into a multi-million dollar industry she covers.
It’s being treated as “drama”