Jun 27, 2023
Welcome back to the Pirate Wires Morning Report.
THIS ISSUE: top venture deals, TikTok COO steps down, vv important cage match updates, grim signals in commercial real estate, the inscrutable coup in Russia, the Starbucks LGBTQ decoration ban that never happened part II, and Solana’s lead story, in which he is once again asking: what the hell is going on at the Washington Post?
Also — and real ones already know — episode two of the Pirate Wires pod dropped Friday. Watch it on YouTube, or listen on Spotify. You should also follow us on Instagram.
black lives matter activists pushed for bodycam legislation in the 2010s expecting proof of racist policing. instead, the footage now more often exposes violent, unstable perps.
months after charlie kirk's assassination, the christian right is turning to the occult for answers while fitness influencers and biohackers use astrology as a lifestyle guide
one man’s account of how the prominent substacker helped radicalize his wife and blow up their marriage