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Trump mocks MAGA loyalists and ‘declares his donors stupid’ in latest cash grab: analyst
President Donald Trump has made an “urgent” plea for his MAGA followers to donate to him — and revealed what he really thinks of his loyal supporters, an analyst pointed out on Wednesday. Trump has made his latest attempt to pull in donations using a “MAGA survey” with a “triple-dog-dare-you maneuver that conveys urgency,” wrote…
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Antisemitic straphanger rips out subway rider’s hair in horrific attack on packed train: ‘Jews are eating kids’
A raging woman spewing antisemitic hate targeted a Jewish rider on a Big Apple subway Sunday, shouting in the packed train car “Jews are eating kids,” according to the victim and shocking video. The suspect was shouting her furious rhetoric against Jewish people on a C train around 2:15 p.m., the victim, a 23-year-old Upper…
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The biggest bombshells from Netflix’s ‘Michael Jackson: The Verdict’ documentary
Netflix is exploring Michael Jackson’s 2005 child molestation trial and the media circus that surrounded the court proceedings in a new three-part docuseries. “Michael Jackson: The Verdict,” released Wednesday, revisits the legal saga with new interviews from key figures in the case, including members of the prosecution and defense, journalists who covered the four-moth trial…
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I Think, Therefore I Am Getting Paid by an AI Company
Philosophy has long suffered an unfortunate reputation as pedantic and abstruse. In one of the most prominent debates of the 20th century, philosophers spent a great deal of energy arguing over what the means. Paul Graham, the legendary tech investor, studied philosophy as a college student, which seemed “an impressively impractical thing to do,” as…
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The Gustavo goodbye express keeps rolling
Our streets are garlanded with “Gracias, Gustavo” banners and billboards. The Walt Disney Concert Hall shop has become a Dudamel-torium, aisles bursting with Gustavo T-shirts, hoodies, tote bags, refrigerator magnets and this and that. Not everything is tacky. The extra-large “Die Walküre” T-shirts sold out early, unfortunately. In the past week, Gustavo Dudamel’s sort-of penultimate…
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Markwayne Mullin’s hearing plunges into chaos: ‘Everybody calm down!’
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin turned his first House budget hearing into a shouting match Wednesday, repeatedly interrupting a Democratic congressman grilling him over his use of what the lawmaker called an $80 million luxury jet — forcing the Republican chairman to threaten to shut the whole thing down. Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA) came loaded for…
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Elon Musk and America’s Far Right Stoke Anger Over Murder of UK Teen
Protests over the December murder of an 18-year-old descended into violence in the UK on Tuesday, as influential figures on America’s far right sought to exploit the situation to claim it was evidence of widespread antiwhite racism. Police were attacked with rocks and flares outside Southampton Central Police Station and arrests were made after hundreds…
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USC faculty groups vote to unionize and university vows to challenge it
A different kind of momentous election result has landed — this one at the University of Southern California — as a majority of more than 1,800 faculty members voted to unionize, adding to a growing labor movement among higher-education faculty in the state and nationwide. But before the vote count ended shortly before midnight Tuesday,…
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Trump DOJ launches fierce fight to keep one official off the witness stand
The Trump administration is deploying aggressive legal tactics to prevent its top customs official from appearing in court under oath to explain why $166 billion in illegally collected tariffs remain undispersed to businesses owed refunds. According to the New York Times, the administration is actively resisting a court order mandating full refunds, creating the possibility…
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The Supreme Court’s new decision tilting the midterms toward Republicans, explained
Here’s a familiar story. On Tuesday night, the Supreme Court handed down a decision that will almost certainly give the Republican Party an additional seat in the US House of Representatives. Not all of the justices disclosed how they voted, but the decision appears to have come down 6-3 along partisan lines — that is,…