I'm about to take a two-ish week sabbatical so I can (once again!) rewrite the Trump chapter of my *Enshittification* book (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, October 2025), and so that I can get my (thankfully very treatable) cancer irradiated:
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While I'm away, here are some things I'd like to call your attention to. First, some good news: the Washington Post Tech Guild just won a historic union vote with a giant majority, despite the vicious union-hating owner of the *Post*, a Mr Jeffrey Preston Bezos:
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Washington Post Tech Guild overwhelmingly votes to certify union in historic election | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA
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Even *more* good news: the GOP have ratfucked *themselves*, doing the work that our Democratic Party leaders can't or won't do. In overruling the parliamentarian in a bid to arrogate to themselves the power to kill California emission standards, Republican Senators have opened the door for Democrats to seize 10 hours of debate time for *every single change Trump makes to federal regulations. These debates take precedence over *all* Senate business.
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They can even go back in time and demand 10 hours of floor debate on every agency action for the past 60 days. Basically, that means that Senate Dems can tie up the Senate until the 2026 mid-terms and beyond:
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Will they? I mean, it's the kind of tactic Mitch McConnell would have leapt at without even bothering to fully raise the lid of his sarcophagus. Chuck Schmuer? I dunno.
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Senate Democrats Have Been Handed a Tool to Stop the Big Beautiful Bill
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Maybe if we gave him a ping-pong paddle with some stylish sans serif text invoking each debate?
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That's some good news I'm going to take with me into my coming break. I've really cleared my calendar for this time off, finishing up my CBC podcast "Understood: Who Broke the Internet?" just in the nick of time:
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The series prompted Harrison Mooney to do a long, fantastic interview with me for *The Tyee*, which sets out the series' thesis and call to action very well:
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If you're as pissed off about enshittification as I am and you happen to live in NYC, there's a support group for you! This week, I heard from a reader who's organized a monthly open mic "Evening on Enshittification," where attendees present and learn about different kinds of enshittification, from AI to dating and beyond:
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RSVP to An Evening on Enshittification | Partiful
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And if you're on the other coast, you can catch me TOMORROW in Seattle at the Cascade PBS Ideas Festival, where I'll be onstage with the folks from NPR's On The Media:
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If a couple weeks without me is too much, please consider dialing into my virtual keynote for Fediforum on June 5:
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Cory Doctorow at Cascade PBS Ideas Festival
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And of course, when I get back, I'm going to be finishing off my tour for *Picks and Shovels* with gigs in Portland, London, and Manchester:
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I've got a packed schedule in Portland: first, I'm doing a keynote at the Teardown conference on Friday, June 20:
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Followed by a bookstore event with bunnie Huang at the Lloyd Center Barnes and Noble:
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Author Signing with Cory Doctorow
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And a library gig on June 20 in Tualatin:
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Londoners, you can catch me at the How To Academy on June 1, where I'll be doing a Canada Day book event with the amazing Riley Quinn, showrunner for Trashfuture:
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And then I'm doing a bookstore event in Manchester at Blackwells on July 2:
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Followed by a July 4 keynote for the Co-operatives UK Congress in Manchester:
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HEY #SEATTLE! I'm appearing at the Cascade PBS Ideas Festival THIS SATURDAY (May 31) with the folks from NPR's On The Media!
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Dems actually do their job and represent the people. They are being paid by the same folks that are funding the #gop
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