Common Task, or What Transgender Lives Reveal About Our Transhuman Future
For nearly a quarter-century, a gaunt, unpaid-by-choice librarian named Nikolai Fedorov cataloged books by day at Moscow's Rumyantsev Museum and, by night,...
The Rock Star Who Killed Her Own Party: Charli xcx's Anticelebrity Turn on Music, Fashion, Film
Charli xcx was the party for two years. "Brat summer" was a full-blown media event—a lime-green fever that took over political campaigns, group chats, and...
Rubio's State Dept. Blacklists AOC, Bernie, Amazon Workers as Cuban Agents
The State Department just published a 100-page report arguing that Ben & Jerry's ice cream guy, the Amazon Labor Union, and sitting members of the United...
Hegseth Gutted the Pentagon's Civilian Casualty Team From 40 to 9 People Then Bombed a School
Pete Hegseth dismantled the Pentagon's civilian protection unit, slashed its staff by 77 percent, and scrapped the database used to track civilian deaths in...
Google Is Quietly Deleting Thousands of ICE Detention Reviews
Thousands of people detained by ICE, or their desperate family members, took the time to leave Google Maps reviews of immigration detention facilities...
Cancer Patients Must Prove They're Dying Correctly to Keep Medicaid
The Trump administration has found a new way to take healthcare away from dying people, and it is almost elegant in its cruelty. A rule just issued by the...
House Republicans Subpoena Breakthrough News, Proving They've Run Out of Ideas
The Republican-led House Ways and Means Committee has issued a subpoena to Breakthrough News, a left-leaning independent media outlet, because apparently the...
Tribal Nations Built AI Moratoriums While Governors Were Still Googling 'Data Center'
New York Governor Kathy Hochul made national headlines on July 14 when she signed a one-year pause on data center construction, becoming the first governor in...
Taco Bell's Shredded Lettuce Is Giving People Explosive Diarrhea in 5 States
The CDC's official description of cyclospora infection includes the phrase "frequent and sometimes explosive bowel movements," which is exactly the kind of...
Florida Let a Teacher Convicted of Sex Abuse Open a Private School With Public Money
A Florida teacher lost her license a decade ago after sexually abusing a 16-year-old student. Last year, she opened a private school. The state knew. The state...
Melbourne Is the World's Priciest City for Beer and Smokes, and Australians Are Shrugging
Congratulations, Melbourne. You have beaten every other city on earth at something, and that something is making a beer and a pack of smokes eye-wateringly,...
Cameroon Says Companies Hid $680B in Gold Tax. Yes, Billion.
Cameroon just announced it is going after roughly $680 billion in unpaid tax and customs revenues from its gold sector. That number is not a typo. The...
ICE Hired a Guy His Own Family Says Never Should Have Had a Gun
An ICE officer shot a Colombian man in Maine this week. His own relatives told the Associated Press he struggled with serious mental health issues since early...
ICE Shooter Had Suicide Attempts, Bipolar Diagnosis, and Threw Boiling Water at His Wife Holding Their Baby
The ICE officer who shot and killed a 25-year-old Colombian man in his car in Biddeford, Maine this week threw boiling water at his ex-wife while she was...
Trump Cited a CIA Report That Directly Contradicts His Own Claim
Donald Trump stood in front of the country during a prime-time White House address and cited a CIA report as proof that Venezuela manipulated its elections....
Xi Tells the World AI Shouldn't Be One Country's Toy, While Building China's AI Empire
Xi Jinping stood in front of more than a thousand Chinese tech firms on Friday and declared that artificial intelligence 'should not be a solo performance by a...
Indonesia's Trans Women Are Being Hunted in the Streets While Cops Ghost the Press
Mobs of up to 20 people are chasing, beating, stripping, and throwing bottles of urine at transgender women in Bogor, Indonesia, while the local police chief...
Taco Bell's Shredded Lettuce Is Giving People 'Explosive' Diarrhea Across 5 States
Nearly 1,000 people in Michigan alone are suffering from a parasitic illness that causes what health officials are clinically describing as 'explosive'...
ICE Agents Handcuffed a Man at Vegas Airport, Then Pulled Up Their Hoods and Fled
Two plainclothes ICE agents handcuffed a screaming man on the floor of a Las Vegas airport terminal, then pulled hoodies over their faces and walked away when...
Maine Dem Debate Moment: 'I'm a Songwriter' Is Her Senate Pitch
A Maine Democratic Senate candidate was asked what qualifies her to serve in the United States Senate on Thursday night, and she answered, in part, that she is...
Trump's Midterm Speech Was a 2020 Rerun Nobody Asked For
Donald Trump gave a primetime address to the nation this week and spent it relitigating a six-year-old election he lost. With November's midterms approaching...
ICE Agents Say Traffic Stops Are Safer — Trump Agreed Before the Bodies Were Cold
Two ICE officer-involved shootings happened in a single week. The Department of Homeland Security responded by pausing vehicle stops. Then Donald Trump got on...
Walz Pardoned a Child Rapist to Stop Deportation. Rubio Deported Him Anyway.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz used his clemency powers to pardon a man convicted of repeatedly raping a 10-year-old girl, apparently in an effort to prevent his...
Trump Cuts Foreign Journalist Visas to 240 Days, Chinese Press Gets 90
The Trump administration just decided that foreign journalists covering the United States should get eight months to do their jobs, down from five years, and...
Britain's Getting Its 7th PM Since 2016 and He's Never Held a Press Conference
Andy Burnham was declared leader of Britain's Labour Party on Friday, making him the country's prime minister-in-waiting until Monday, when Keir Starmer...
Lindsey Graham, 71, Dies: From 'Stinkball' to Trump's Lap Dog
Lindsey Graham, the senator who stole beer off strangers' tables as a child, spent forty years in public life, and somehow managed to be both a profile in...
8 Dems Fight to Inherit the Throne of a Guy Who Just Imploded
Graham Platner is gone, disgraced, out of the Maine Senate race. And yet, on Thursday night, eight Democrats stood on a stage and competed over who loves his...
Hegseth's 'High-T War Dept' + Vance's Corn Dog Secret = America
The United States is currently fighting a rebooted war with Iran, and the Secretary of Defense's big strategic innovation is mandatory testosterone screening...
Trump Held a Primetime Address to Show Zero Evidence of Voter Fraud
Donald Trump commandeered primetime television Wednesday night to warn America that its elections are vulnerable to being "rigged and stolen" -- and then...
Trump Says China Rigged 2020. China Says He's Making It Up.
Donald Trump stood in front of the country Thursday night and told them China spent years trying to destroy his presidency, that the intelligence community...
GOP's Third 'Big Beautiful Bill' Is Already Falling Apart
Republicans just finished congratulating themselves on the one-year anniversary of the 'big, beautiful bill' and have already started breaking each other's...
Trump Gives Primetime Speech Blaming China for 2026 Election Loss He Hasn't Had Yet
Six years after losing to Joe Biden, Donald Trump took to primetime television to relitigate 2020, accuse China of stealing it from him, and declare the entire...
NBA Boss: GOP Turned Caitlin Clark Into a 'Political Football'
NBA commissioner Adam Silver went to a panel event in New York this week and said the quiet part out loud: the relentless national debate about fouls committed...
Putin Jails His Own Fanboy After Anti-War Manifesto Goes Viral
Ilya Remeslo spent years being exactly the kind of loyal, loudmouth blogger the Kremlin loves. He attacked dissidents on demand, even testified against Alexei...
Trump Demands Networks Lose Licenses for Not Airing His Speech
Donald Trump gave a primetime televised address Thursday night, and three of the biggest networks in America looked at their schedules and said, no thanks....
The Fed Came to Wisconsin to Find Out Why Americans Still Buy $400 Wrenches
Some people get their ashes stored in miniature Snap-on toolboxes. That sentence is true, and it tells you almost everything you need to know about why the...
ICE Grabbed a Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Mid-Amazon Route
A man who escaped a Chinese government crackdown on human rights lawyers, filed for asylum in the United States, and spent the last several years delivering...
Big Tech's AI Super PAC Has Millions to Burn Before November
Silicon Valley has decided that buying Congress is actually a pretty good investment. According to Axios, pro-AI super PACs are sitting on millions of dollars...
A Player's Butt Ended a World Cup Dream. FIFA Thinks This Is Fine.
An Iranian player scored a World Cup goal. FIFA's video referee system reviewed it. The goal was disallowed because the player's butt was in an offside...
ICE Shot a Man Going to Work. The 'Meth' Was Salt.
A 52-year-old father of three was driving to work in Houston on July 7th when federal immigration agents stopped his car, shot him, and left him dying in the...
Trump's Primetime Speech Blames China for 2020 — His Own Intel Said Otherwise
Donald Trump stood in the White House Thursday night, in front of his assembled cabinet, with no journalists allowed to ask questions, and delivered a...
ICE Suspends Traffic Stops After Its Own Agents Got People Killed
ICE has suspended traffic stops following deadly shootings, which is the kind of sentence that should make every American stop whatever they are doing and read...
Anthropic Is Hiring People to Stop Its Own AI From Ending the World
Anthropic, the company that has publicly warned its own technology might destroy civilization, is now hiring 32 people specifically to prevent that from...
Israel Is Literally Holding a Dead Body Hostage
Israel has informed its own court system that it is refusing to return the body of a Palestinian man who died in Israeli detention, because the corpse might be...
Hochul Hits Pause on Data Centers. Every Dem Gov Is Taking Notes.
Kathy Hochul just did something no governor in the country had done before: she hit a hard pause on data center expansion across the entire state of New York....
Trump's Personal Lawyer Wants to Run the DOJ He Already Broke
Todd Blanche spent years keeping Donald Trump out of prison. Now he wants the keys to the entire Justice Department, permanently. His confirmation hearing...
Iraq Found $10.6M Hidden in a Drain. That's Just the Start.
Someone in Iraq's oil ministry stuffed ten million dollars in American and Iraqi currency into a rainwater drainage pit and hoped nobody would check. They...
Man Robbed a Bank With a Stolen Kitten and Lost Both
A man in Beltsville, Maryland allegedly stole a three-and-a-half-month-old tuxedo kitten named Magnolia from a pet store, carried her across a parking lot, and...
Mystery Buyer Drops $50M on T. Rex While Museums Watch Helplessly
Someone with $50 million burning a hole in their pocket just bought a 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex, and they don't want you to know who they are. The...
Trump's 'Really Big' Election Speech Is Exactly What You Think It Is
Donald Trump, a man who has now been president twice and still cannot stop relitigating an election he lost six years ago, will deliver a primetime address...
Want to Tour America? That'll Be $3K, a Year of Waiting, and Good Luck
The average wait time for the U.S. government to process a performing artist's visa petition is now eleven and a half months. The government won't accept...
America's Busiest Airport Shut Down 4 Hours So Iraq's PM Could Ride Past It
On Tuesday, more than 300 flights were delayed and at least 126 were outright canceled at Reagan National Airport because the Iraqi prime minister's security...
Abu Dhabi's AI Gov App Just Does Your Paperwork Without Being Asked
The government of Abu Dhabi has built an app that renews your national ID, pays your parking tickets, books your doctor's appointments, and handles your...
Amy Coney Barrett Wore a Bulletproof Vest Home and Had to Explain It to Her 12-Year-Old
Amy Coney Barrett sat before Congress on Tuesday and described putting on a bulletproof vest before going home, then trying to explain to her 12-year-old son...
FBI Subpoenas NYT Reporters at Home Over Qatar Jet Story
Federal agents showed up at the homes of New York Times journalists on Friday with subpoenas, the direct result of an eight-hour White House meeting where the...
New Fed Chair Says 'Inflation's a Choice' While It Sits at 3.5%
Kevin Warsh walked into his first congressional testimony as Federal Reserve Chairman on Tuesday with a bold message: inflation is a choice. Great. Someone go...
Barrett Told Her Kid What a Bulletproof Vest Was. SCOTUS Did That.
Amy Coney Barrett brought a bulletproof vest home from work, set it on her bedroom table, and her 12-year-old son walked in and asked what it was. That...
Fed Chair Warsh Tells Congress Absolutely Nothing About Rates
The Federal Reserve chairman walked into Congress on Tuesday, sat down in front of the American people's elected representatives, and told them essentially...
Hegseth's Navy Beard Meltdown Is Exactly as Pathetic as It Sounds
The Secretary of Defense of the United States of America boarded a Navy warship, spotted some beards, and had a meltdown. According to a CNN report cited by...
Inflation Drops to 3.5% — Then Trump Blew Up the Strait of Hormuz
For one brief, shining moment on Tuesday morning, the economic news was actually good. Then, roughly in the same news cycle, Donald Trump announced he was...