99 Percent Books

08/06/2025

So, Meta has 72 BILLION to spend on capital expenditures but nothing to compensate publishers or content creators for use of their work in training their AI platform?
Glad to see a "Rise of the Techno Nerds" awakening in whistle blower land.

The tech giant is sidestepping guardrails that websites use to prevent being scraped, data show, in a move whistleblowers say is unethical and potentially illegal.

07/29/2025

Borowitz and other dark humor is really the only type worth it's salt in commenting on our rapidly devolving "free speech" mediascape.

The newest chapter in the debasement of the American media.

07/24/2025

Seth Abramson's Proof series is impeccably resourced. This piece brings forward some questions that are exceptionally relevant in today's discussion of the Epstein files.

WARNING: This report includes disturbing accounts of sexual misconduct from an eyewitness—namely, dead pe*****le and human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump’s best friend for over a decade.

07/09/2025

Thanks again Chief Justice Roberts for this one and sooo many others.

In a special Legal AF interview, conservative icon and defender of the Constitution, former Judge J. Michael Luttig joins Michael Popok for a candid and hard...

07/09/2025

Our country gets more terrifying almost by the hour.
Corruption quotient? The scale on the meter is no longer valid.
Respect for the health and well being of the citizens? LOL, sure, maybe they'll put together a "concept of a plan" sometime in the next century.

DHS is redirecting FEMA money to create a slush fund for ICE detention centers.

06/11/2025

We can still stop this.

06/11/2025

Stand up to the fascism now or rue the day you didn't

06/08/2025

Jim Acosta is really creating excellent new programming to up the pressure on the fascists. Way to go.

Come behind the scenes of the epic town hall.

06/04/2025

Kudos to Savannah State University's Estuary Creative Writing Club, SSU's liberal arts student group which produces the student-led literary magazine bearing the same name, for their amazing win! They beat out Rice and Yale for first place! Way to go.

The Association of Writers and Writing Programs named Savannah State's Estuary student literary magazine to its top prize for 2025.

05/25/2025

This is such a poignant and brutally honest assessment of the sacrilege of having someone as thoroughly disgusting as Trump speak at West Point. I can't imagine what those young people must have been thinking as they stood at attention to watch his buffoonery. Just grotesque.

Picture someone you love who died serving this nation, or even someone you’ve never met.

05/20/2025

The traitorous acts by the Trump admin multiply by the day.

Prosecutors dismiss charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka but accuse Rep. McIver with assaulting officers

04/24/2025

Such a loss. When you can't count on "60 Minutes" to be an honest broker, what in the MSM can you count on?

He is trying to save the institution by walking away