ukraine’s-great-cyber-heist

DEEP DIVE — For more than a decade, Moscow honed a shadow playbook — blending disinformation, ransomware, supply-chain sabotage, and quiet cyber theft to steal technology and weaken its rivals. That model once gave the Kremlin an edge. But today, in a striking reversal, Kyiv is flipping the script. InContinue Reading

russia-occupied-crimea-faces-empty-pumps-and-shuttered-stations-as-its-roads-falling-silent-under-weight-of-war

Ukraine’s Crimea, occupied by Russia, is running out of fuel. Since 24 September, it has disappeared from gas stations in the peninsula, and not even the most expensive A100 grade is available, KrimRealii reports.  Regular Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil refineries have slashed production and sent prices soaring. Shortages are now reportedContinue Reading

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Love at First Fright by Nadia El-Fassi (bi4bi M/F) Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore (trans M/M) Learning Curves by Rachel Lacey (F/F) The (Most Unusual) Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy by Roan Parrish (M/X) The Lone Wolf Cafe by Sydney Wilder (F/F), Read MoreContinue Reading

media-news-daily:-top-stories-for-09/24/2025

This page hosts daily news stories about the media, social media, and the journalism industry. Get the latest Hirings and Firings, Media Transactions, Controversies, and more. Jimmy Kimmel Returns: Responds to Suspension and FCC Pressure Jimmy Kimmel returned to his late-night show Tuesday after a weeklong suspension, emotionally addressing backlashContinue Reading

there-was-a-big-spike-in-headless-torsos-near-the-charlie-kirk-memorial:-coincidence-much?

A solemn event turned unintentionally saucy this weekend when reports of Grindr outages coincided, perhaps a little too conveniently, with the Charlie Kirk memorial service in Phoenix, Arizona. The Sunday event, attended by tens of thousands of conservative mourners, honored Charlie Kirk, the controversial right-wing commentator and founder of TurningContinue Reading

“his-audience-was-really-the-traitor”

This story was originally published by ProPublica. After a fight with a Black student in a St. Louis suburb left a white student badly injured in March 2024, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey blamed their school district for unsafe conditions, even though the incident occurred after classes and more thanContinue Reading

jimmy-kimmel-and-disney’s-mickey-mouse-democracy

The following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack . Perhaps it was always inevitable that one of the biggest political flashpoints of the The Traitor era would involve late night entertainment. Last week’s abrupt cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel Live! amid pressure from the The Traitor administration was, on its face, a clear cut (andContinue Reading