Joseph Torres
@josephtorr.bsky.social
Media activist, writer, Free Press/Media 2070, News for All the People: Epic Story of Race & the American Media (co-author). Boricua proud.
1. Amazon has built powerful pricing algorithms that have learned how to steer prices upward — not just on Amazon, but across the web. I have a new piece on how these algorithms work, and how they help sustain Amazon’s monopoly.
How Amazon’s AI Algorithms Raise the Prices You Pay
Amazon can steer market-wide prices without ever colluding—exposing a gap in antitrust law that the FTC is now fighting to close.
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"Bolsonaro has begun a twenty-seven-year prison sentence for his role in January 8, while the instigator of January 6 sits in the Oval Office...Should we in the United States try a Brazilian strategy?" spoiler: I answer yes. me, for @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/tru...
Truth Without Reconciliation
Why did Brazil’s democratic institutions hold firm while those in the United States so quickly wilted?
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Denise Oliver-Velez, RIP. Pa’lante, siempre pa’ lante!
Rest in Power ancestor ✊🏾 @deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
Our Beloved Denise is now with the Ancestors…
Rest in power, dear one. So much love and gratitude to you… Update from Devin: https://www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-the-legacy-of-denise-oliver-velez?lid=cau1c80eosdq&utm_medium=email&
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Come check out the forthcoming documentary (work in progress) on the remarkable story of how Puerto Rican activists created the first Latino bilingual public-affairs show on TV (PBS). I am the film's exe producer & will join its director (Christina DiPasquale) & producer for a discussion afterwards.
Another killing by ICE today in Maine. The third government killing of a civilian in less than a week since Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Tyrin Johnson.
The Birthright Citizenship Decision Is More Evidence for Court Reform talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-b...
The Birthright Citizenship Decision Is More Evidence for Court Reform
As you’ve seen, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of birthright citizenship...
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The real headline from the birthright‑citizenship case isn’t the outcome. It’s that four Supreme Court justices signaled they believe a president can effectively rewrite the Constitution through executive order.
For them, it does. They cannot conceive of a world in which someone they think should belong to a suboordinate class has the same rights as them. That's also why they hate the Reconstruction amendments. bsky.app/profile/gabr...
Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · last mo.Justice Thomas, also in dissent, similarly claims that it "devalues" citizenship to recognize the children of "birth tourists and illegal aliens" as citizens. Again, as if the quality of American citizenship depends on who else is a citizen.
The SCOTUS today reaffirmed the guarantee of birthright citizenship. In so doing, it affirms the 1898 SCOTUS decision in Won Kim Ark. United States. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Suddenly, Britain is indicating that it might put the kibosh on Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. www.reuters.com/business/med...
UK leaning towards intervening in $110 billion Paramount-Warner Bros Discovery deal
Britain is leaning towards intervening in Paramount Skydance Corp's proposed $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery , citing concerns over the impact on media freedom and the provision of on-...
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" @sjjphd.bsky.social has created a thorough and necessary survey of Black mediamakers, both past and current, and the landscape of challenges, possibilities and achievements that define their tradition." -- @jelaniya.bsky.social | @harpercollins.bsky.social www.harpercollins.com/products/a-s...
A Second Sight
"I have been waiting for a book like this, and I’m so glad it's here." — Clint Smith, author of How the Word is Passed Since the nation’s foun...
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Ruling against TPS for Haitians, the Trump justices on the Supreme Court have set a new impossible standard for proving discrimination against non-whites: if there is any other reason *in addition* to the racism, the racism doesn’t count www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
FCC Chair Brendan Carr has turned his once-independent agency into Trump's censorship machine. Now he's exploiting his position to target trans representation under the guise of TV ratings. This is just another effort to dismantle free speech and erase DEI. Free Press' Courtney Morrison explains:
Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.
Grok is now in the history manipulation business. And what more important history to distort at this moment than that of the 14th Amendment.
Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · last mo.There is a pernicious and sustained effort to distort the historical record and do violence to the public’s memory.
BREAKING: SCOTUS’s extremist majority has endangered hundreds of thousands of US residents from Haiti and Syria by denying them access to justice as they await asylum. For some, this is a death sentence. For all, it is a travesty of justice. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
US supreme court allows Trump administration to strip Haitians and Syrians of protected status
Decision effects hundreds of thousands of people who have permission to live and work in the US because their home countries are unsafe
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"With fees estimated at about $500mn, it’s probably not surprising that there were few warnings from the Wall Street establishment that the shares might be overvalued." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
SpaceX’s IPO is a display of Musk’s dominance
His unrivalled grip on the public imagination has transmuted into Wall Street gold
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now that's a fucking Space X IPO headline
The world’s first trillionaire is a killer
Elon Musk’s empire of wealth is built on suffering.
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Well if you want to read about how many many years ago there were folks already extremely concerned about the growing editorial power and mainstream legitimization of Bari Weiss. And what happened when they tried to raise alarms, you should really read my book! It’s in there!
A Second Sight: How the Wonder and Vision of Black Mediamakers Push America Toward Freedom
How the Wonder and Vision of Black Mediamakers Push America Toward Freedom
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Peter Thiel’s move to Argentina tells you everything you need to know about how billionaires see the future. But it's important to understand where he got the idea. The Sovereign Individual: Peter Thiel, Argentina, and the Network State. www.thenerdreich.com/the-sovereig...
The Sovereign Individual: Thiel, Argentina and the Network State
Thiel’s passport-collecting spree reflects his apocalyptic psyche. But it connects directly to his politics, which see technology as an “incredible alternative to politics.”
thenerdreich.com
NEWS: In September, the Washington Post fired me in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing. This week, after eight months, I'll be heading to arbitration against the Post to challenge my termination. karenattiah.substack.com/p/my-case-ag...
My Case Against the Washington Post Goes to Arbitration This Week
Eight months after challenging my termination, my case against The Washington Post will finally be heard by an arbitrator.
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Giants OLB Abdul Carter on why he responded critically to Jaxson Dart’s decision to introduce Donald Trump: www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
Clarence B. Jones, lawyer and speechwriter who drafted part of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's “I Have a Dream” speech, has died. He was 95.
Clarence B. Jones, Who Helped Shape ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech, Dies at 95
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This gathering on tech justice and data centre organizing was the most exciting political event I attended this year - so happy the content is now live. I loved being in conversation with the brilliant Jacinta González. Sneak peak reading from mine and @astra.bsky.social's new book!
MediaJustice@mediajustice.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe're LIVE right now! Come join the conversation between our Head of Programs, Jacinta González, and @naomiaklein.bsky.social, followed by a panel of on-the-ground organizers who are fighting data centers. streamyard.com/watch/ETqCBv...
The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”
