Dan Gillmor
Dan GillmorTrump, Musk, Rubio, and their henchmen destroyed USAID -- directly causing hundreds of thousands of deaths, mostly children. The apparatchiks celebrated while bosses lied about what they'd done.
I can't overstate my incandescent rage at these monstrous people.
https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan
#pitchforks
Dan GillmorO hive mind: Can you point me to 501(c)(3) nonprofit news organizations that are explaining the depth and breadth of Trump world corruption? The "mainstream" press is doing such an abysmal job on this, and I want to donate to journalists who get why this is so important to flag for public notice.
Dan Gillmor“I understand I’m just an independent developer—the kind of person Google doesn’t care about" -- developer whose accounts were wiped by Google for what the company later, but only after being contacted by a journalist, admitted was an unfounded, machine-decided "violation".
https://www.404media.co/a-developer-accidentally-found-csam-in-ai-data-google-banned-him-for-it/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter&attribution_id=6939854c7ce61e0001620dc5&attribution_type=post
Dan GillmorBluesky demanded my birth date. I gave it someone else's birth date because screw that.
Dan Gillmor
Dan GillmorBy utterly amazing coincidence, a company backed by Trump son's VC firm got a $620 million military contract.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/company-backed-by-donald-trump-jr-s-firm-nabs-620m-government-contract/
Dan GillmorCommitting war crimes or outright murdering people, or both. That's what the president of the United States and his military henchmen are doing on the open seas, in your name and with your tax dollars.
Read this from one of our best national security journalists:
https://www.forever-wars.com/pete-hegseth-and-adm-mitch-bradley-belong-in-prison/?ref=forever-wars-newsletter
Dan GillmorThe endless saga continues: Bigger news outlet pretends it's breaking a story that was reported earlier by someone else, often a solo publisher.
It's grossly unethical -- and it's so common that journalists take it for granted. They should take the honorable path.
https://dysruptionhub.com/opinion-when-local-tv-breaks-the-story-you-already-reported/
Dan GillmorThe Atlantic magazine aspires to be one of the top places to find quality information. It often is. But it needs to apologize for its role during the early Covid years, when it published BS -- and helped pave the way for RFKjr et al to wreck the public health system.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/if-the-atlantic-wishes-to-write-more-about-the-origins-of-maha-it-will-be-brave-enough-to-turn-it-spotlight-on-itself/
Dan GillmorLatest spam/phishing wave in email purports to be an invoice or receipt for a service or product, with a PDF attachment. It's always from a sender I don't recognize.
Not certain if it's malware, but I delete and report. You should, too.
In any case, DO NOT OPEN the attachment, ever.