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Driver plows into toll booth, killing longtime attendant, before driving truck into ocean
A woman who allegedly reeked of alcohol plowed a truck into a toll booth, killing the longtime attendant — a grandmother — before driving into the ocean, according to police and wild footage from the scene. Deanna Harrell, 35, smashed into the booth at Daytona Beach Shores Monday at about 40 miles per hour, likely…
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Val Kilmer dubbed ‘worst human being’ by director 1 year after actor’s passing: I’ll ‘speak ill of the dead’
Adam Marcus claimed Val Kilmer was the “worst human being” more than a year after the actor died from pneumonia. The director, who worked with the late “Batman Forever” star in the 2008 action thriller “Conspiracy,” took to Threads over the weekend in a now-deleted post to call out Kilmer. “#MicroIntellectMonday to that time when…
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There Is Already a Word for the Deep Moral Failures of AI
For the past few years, I’ve been troubled by a word, and that word is sin. I keep reaching for it, because it seems to be the only term strong enough to describe the new forms of dehumanization that artificial intelligence has introduced—even though calling something a sin sounds embarrassing to me, like throwing salt…
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No single person should have the power to launch nuclear weapons
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” — Donald Trump, April 7, 2026 Too often, we sip our morning coffee while reading a bizarre Truth Social post by President Trump, often posted between midnight and dawn. His missives inevitably become grist for that evening’s late-night shows. The jokes can be…
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GOP candidate for pivotal Senate seat blurts admission about Trump’s war
Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA), the presumptive Republican nominee for Iowa’s critical US Senate race, has acknowledged that Donald Trump’s unpopular Iran war threatens her electoral prospects — a candid admission captured on audio and reported by Politico. During a one-on-one conversation with voters at a public meet-and-greet in Webster County last Thursday, Hinson expressed hope…
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The Strange Appeal of the Solitude Influencer
Lana Isa has 195,000 followers on Instagram, for videos that mostly consist of her shuffling around her quiet, tidy apartment. She slides a premade pizza into the oven, pours herself a wineglass full of Diet Coke, and settles in on the couch. Or she plays a crackling fake fireplace on her TV screen, dims the…
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How a deep-ocean desalination startup hopes to rewrite California’s water future
An elephant standing full weight on a smartphone. That’s the pressure 1,400 feet underwater that a startup hopes to use to push seawater through ultrafine filters and make drinking water off the coast of Malibu — without much of the controversy that surrounds desalination. Desalination plants are notoriously large electricity users. Some have natural gas…
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Trump vendetta has left GOP ripe for ‘scary’ extremist coup: expert
The conventional wisdom on Rep. Thomas Massie’s primary loss in Kentucky last month is that the election was a referendum that settled the question of who controls the Republican Party: It’s Donald Trump. But for the anti-Israel and anti-interventionist flank of the MAGA movement that calls itself “America First,” Massie’s loss marks the emergence of…
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Inside the all-masc lesbian and translesbian revue electrifying L.A. nightlife
At around 1 in the morning at the Sassafras Saloon in Hollywood, four masc lesbians in cowboy hats and chaps were dancing on top of the bar while bartenders attempted to continue making espresso martinis beneath them. One performer crawled into the crowd and between the spread legs of an audience member, licking the air…
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‘Worst-kept secret at the White House’ revealed by senior official: ‘Mutual destruction’
A senior Trump administration official revealed Tuesday what they called “one of the worst-kept secrets at the White House,” one that has left President Donald Trump “livid and paranoid” but persists due to an assurance of “mutual destruction,” Zeteo reported Tuesday. Back in April, Trump “loudly demanded” to know who in his administration had leaked…