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Last activity: 02.03.2026
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Dec 19, 2025The Best Big Media Merger Is No Merger At AllThe state of streaming is… bad. It’s very bad. The first step in wanting to watch anything is a web search: “Where can I stream X?” Then you have to scroll past an AI summary with no answers, and then scroll past the sponsored links. After ...
Oct 27, 2025How “Neutrality” And “Free Speech” Become Excuses For Driving Out The People You Claim To ValueMike Brock’s piece on Sequoia Capital last week laid out a pretty damning case study: a well-respected COO complains about a partner’s Islamophobic posts, senior leadership invokes “institutional neutrality” and declines to act, she resigns...
Oct 14, 2025Techdirt Podcast Episode 434: The New Generation Of Independent JournalistsTechdirt recently passed its 28th anniversary as an independent online media outlet. Once, it looked like such outlets might take over, but then most were scooped up by traditional media or grew into more traditional companies themselves. B...
Oct 1, 2025Disney’s Stupid, Pointless Ban Of Jimmy Kimmel Lost Them 1.7 Million Streaming SubscribersWell, that happened. Disney’s decision to temporarily ban comedian Jimmy Kimmel for no coherent reason came with some very real costs for the Mickey Mouse club. According to journalist Marisa Kabas, Disney lost an estimated 1.7 million subs...
Sep 24, 2025Disney to raise prices on streaming services amid Kimmel pushbackDisney announced on Tuesday it will raise the subscription prices for its streaming services, amid widespread calls for a boycott following Jimmy Kimmel’s abrupt suspension from Disney-owned ABC. The increase is set to go into effect for ne...
Sep 10, 2025The Untold Saga Of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social SecurityThis story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. On Feb. 10, on the third floor of the Social Security Administration’s Baltimore-area headquarters, Leland Dudek unfurled a 4-foot-wide roll of ...
Sep 8, 2025US Open Tells Broadcasters Not To Broadcast Trump Being Booed At The US OpenGood lord, here comes another act of preemptive cowardice in service of ensuring the most powerful man in the world enjoys his appearance before a crowd he can’t control or doesn’t own. Here’s Ben Rothenburg of tennis-focused blog Bounces w...
Jun 20, 2025ICE Tells Agents They Can Start Making Unjustified Arrests AgainIt has never been about removing dangerous criminals — the “worst of the worst” — from the United States. Under Donald Trump, immigration enforcement has been about removing immigrants from the country. Period. That’s the whole thing. (And,...
Jun 3, 2025State Dept. Says Any Foreigner Seeking To Visit Harvard Must Be Vetted For ‘Hostile Attitudes Towards US Culture’Here are your options as a foreigner, whether you live in the US already or are just seeking a chance to enter the country: support Israel’s actions against Palestine or GTFO. The Trump Administration continues to pretend supporting Palesti...
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Parsers VC has collected 15 articles mentioning The Handbasket, among them “The Best Big Media Merger Is No Merger At All” (Dec 19, 2025) and “How “Neutrality” And “Free Speech” Become Excuses For Driving Out The People You Claim To Value” (Oct 27, 2025).

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Yes, The Handbasket is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Mar 2, 2026.