James Gleick
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Author. Chaos, The Information, Time Travel. Other work can be found at . My new history of the telephone will appear in November. On the open social web I'm gleick@mas.to.
Clearer headline: Trump Used Crypto Scam To Fleece His Investors (This is an example of the Opaque Passive voice. “Crypto” didn't do anything. Trump did.)
This is (as the law mandates) the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. But there's a coverup: a petty little man is using tarps to block the name. He can't handle the truth.
This author—caught using AI to make up quotes for his book about the dangers of AI—has the gall to say it proves him right. You can't trust him, so you can't trust anyone. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...
No need to attribute this to Abbas Araghchi. A blockade is, in point of fact, an act of war. If its aim is to cause civilian suffering, it is also a war crime. (Cf. Cuba.)
Paid agents of the US government arrested this woman and this girl, Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar and her daughter, Milena. Their crimes? None. Dr. Bolivar, born in Venezuela, in an emergency-care physician in McAllen, Texas, an impoverished place desperate for doctors.
When even Marjorie Taylor Greene can see the truth, who does Trump have left?
The NY Times has a blockbuster story here: Epstein got valuable inside information from the first Trump administration and fed it to a wealthy foreign customer of his sex-trafficking racket. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/w...
The word is "cover up." The Times has found email proof that Kash Patel's FBI combed the Epstein files to protect Trump and 14 others.
Launched an unprovoked war that is murdering civilians, throwing the world economy into chaos, wreaking destruction with no limits and no known purpose, and ... he's at his private golf course.
Grift, self-aggrandizement, and self-dealing. Democrats must rise up and make clear that they will never approve this daylight robbery of taxpayer money.
U.S. District Judge Fred Biery finds that Trump and his apparachiks are demonstrating “the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty”; that they “know no bounds and are bereft of human decency.” And adds, “the rule of law be damned.” He attaches a photograph to his ruling.
Readers of the New York Times might think this is a picture of Trump announcing an attack in Nigeria. Actually, Trump didn't bother to get out of bed. His “announcement” was an incoherent social media post. This is a file picture (Trump announcing an imaginary warship that will never be built).
Today crazy gramps says “I want to play admiral!” So all the other inmates dress up and make pictures and put on a little party. What will crazy gramps want to play tomorrow?
Epstein-Trump photos "disappear." It's a mystery! Whatever could have happened? Or: Justice Department Flouts Law, Suppresses Evidence Of Trump-Epstein Collusion
These are workers removing the signage for Adolf Hitler street in 1945. This seems like a good day to remember.
Today in the Kleptocracy: the "Trump" gold and platinum cards. Can someone explain how Trump claims the authority to waive US taxes for the benefit of foreign oligarchs and money launderers? They will happily pay a "gift" of $5 million to avoid paying hundreds of millions in taxes.
It's December 2025, the Trump regime is engaged in a vicious and lawless pogrom, destroying the lives of immigrants and children of immigrants, creating a reign of terror and cruelty, and the New York Times assails ... Biden. For not being tough enough on immigrants. I won't link to it.
I imagine Judge Currie gnashing her teeth at this framing in the NY Times. She ruled with utter clarity that Lindsey Halligan was unlawfully appointed as US Attorney and “has been unlawfully serving in that role since September 22, 2025.”
Words matter. When the NY Times says Trump is "float[ing] the possibility of finding a way to circumvent the 22nd Amendment," they are saying it's just a small matter. No biggie. In fact, he is threatening to FLOUT, VIOLATE, or DEFY the 22nd Amendment. It's an emergency.