Ali Breland
Mother Jones
Washington, DC, United States
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“Racial Intolerance” and “Hate” Are No Longer Banned on Coinbase
After helping spark tech's backlash to Black Lives Matter, the crypto platform gutted its anti-racist safeguards. → Read More
The Website That Wants You to Kill Yourself—and Won’t Die
How the trolls on Kiwi Farms hounded people to commit suicide and created the online culture we have today. → Read More
The Website That Wants You to Kill Yourself—and Won’t Die
How the trolls on Kiwi Farms hounded people to commit suicide and created the online culture we have today. → Read More
Trump’s Dinner Fiasco Was a Win for Fascists Playing the Long Game
His guest, white supremacist Nick Fuentes, is trying to bend conservatism to his will. → Read More
They Weren’t Rich But They Wanted to Invest. Then They Lost Everything on FTX.
The amateur investors who trusted the crypto platform have lost a shot at financial stability. → Read More
Election-Denying Secretary of State Candidates Got Crushed
One of the biggest threats to fair elections fizzled out. → Read More
Elon Musk Responded to a Senator the Only Way He Knows How
Shitposting. → Read More
Funding Fringe Candidates in Republican Primaries Is Still a Terrible Idea
Creating a Democratic hate incubator is dangerous. → Read More
All the Twitter Teams Elon Musk Has Cut (So Far)
Human Rights, Disinformation, Ethical AI are priorities no more. → Read More
Elon Musk Made It His Job To Make Himself Look Dumb
Keep posting. → Read More
Elon Musk, and Maybe You, Misunderstand The Problem with Twitter
Let's talk about the echo chamber. → Read More
Greg Norman: A Portrait of a Choke Artist as an Old Man
Norman has reminded us that he is, both on and off the golf course, a loser. → Read More
“It’s Potentially Illegal”: As Crypto Crashed, Coinbase Stopped Some Notifications
The exchange's emailed price alerts ended right when customers may have needed them the most. → Read More
Requiem for a Dark Brandon
Brandon took down the best meme that ever happened to him and in the process stopped a fascist one, too. → Read More
The Police Failed, Says a Texas Congressional Report on Uvalde Mass Shooting
400 officers were present. → Read More
Once Again, Ted Cruz Says the Supreme Court Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage was “Clearly Wrong”
The right-wing attack on rights has been obvious for some time. → Read More
How Many of Joe Manchin’s “Energy Sector” Donors Does It Take to Screw In an Apocalypse?
This is not a good sign for the Biden agenda—or the future, or democracy. → Read More
Who Exactly Is Trapped in an “Echo Chamber”?
Complaining about bubbles isn't about information—it's about politics. → Read More
Mass Shootings and Our Never-ending Doomcycle
The horror in Uvalde, Texas is a reminder of all the outrage that came before and changed little. → Read More
Is “Dark MAGA” Actually Anything?
In an attempt to expose new online right-wing communities are we just creating them? → Read More