The internet broke the news business. Platforms ate the ad dollars, then turned newsrooms into dependents. Now, when regulators lean, those same gatekeepers decide what survives.

The chickens have come home to roost.

👉https://open.substack.com/pub/toddcop/p/from-kimmel-to-prior-restraint-the

Nepal is on fire over censorship. America’s erosion is quieter: boos muted, watchdogs in newsrooms, tech giants on bended knee. The First Amendment is bending too—maybe for good.

👉https://substack.com/inbox/post/173257736

They're rioting just 30 miles from me. But no one is panicking.
In Northern Ireland, they've seen what happens when governments escalate instead of de-escalate. Thirty years of conflict taught them that heavy-handed crackdowns don’t calm tensions .

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Social Darwinism is back—and America won't emerge on top. We’re gutting science, pushing out talent, and calling it strength. The world is watching—and hiring.

I wrote about how cruelty-as-strategy is costing us the future.
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Hot and prune skin for the win!

Misogyny isn’t creeping into classrooms. It’s already running the show. Fueled by Tate, Trump, Musk—and our silence.

What’s happening in our schools isn’t subtle. It’s systemic.
And it’s fixable—if we stop pretending it’s not there.

www.toddcop.com/post/the-alg...

Talk about journalistic malpractice. No one told them? They needed an invitation?

BREAKING: The Social Security website now keeps office hours. Because nothing says “modern digital infrastructure” like a federal website that clocks out at 1am and sleeps in on Sundays.

At this point, the Pony Express might actually be more available.

McCarthyism didn’t die. It adapted. What we’re living through isn’t imported authoritarianism — it’s a homegrown reboot, updated for the algorithm age.

McCarthyism 2.0 — Rebranded, Digitized, and Still Dangerous

Read it here: www.toddcop.com/post/mccarth...

JD Vance out here doing his best impression of a history dropout. Slamming the UK as a ‘random country’ that ‘hasn’t fought a war in 40 years’—meanwhile, British troops were literally dying alongside Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan.

THIS is where I will spend my money.

Ah yes, it’s all coming back— the stomach-drop moment every news alert hits, the nagging feeling of teetering on a cliff’s edge, the weight of the world precariously balanced on a single, trembling finger.

Good times. Real core memory unlocked energy.

No.

Always