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MAGA rages at Lindsey Graham’s sister over $100 check: ‘Neither honest nor self-aware’
Lindsey Graham’s sister Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) has already infuriated her late brother’s political base because of a $100 check, according to a new report. Nordone, the appointed replacement approved by President Donald Trump, donated to state Sen. Katrina Shealy — is backtracking after reports revealed she donated money to a Republican who helped…
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United Cajun Navy sets the record straight on how Nolan Wells’ body was found: ‘Families deserve the truth’
The United Cajun Navy has set the record straight and confirmed that Nolan Wells was not fully clothed when the missing teen’s body was found in the water in Mississippi. During a Wednesday press conference announcing preliminary autopsy results into the death of the football player, civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump told the national media…
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Tommy Lee describes injecting Jack Daniels into his veins in harrowing confession
Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee recalled the lowest point in his drug addiction during the height of the band’s success. “There was a point where, I was with my bass player, and we were just doing a s—t load of heroin and we ran out,” he recalled on Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast Wednesday. “It was probably 3:00…
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Is the Age of Reading Over?
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Over the past 18 months, scholars have debated—and likely will continue to long into the future—why voters returned Donald Trump to the presidency. One intriguing theory: It’s because Americans don’t read books anymore. Fewer than half of all adults reported reading a…
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Sparks drop fifth in a row after entering fourth quarter tied with Mercury
The Sparks and Mercury teetered and tottered, but Phoenix pulled away late to hand Los Angeles an 86-82 loss on Wednesday afternoon at Crypto.com Arena in the two teams’ final game before a much-needed All-Star break. With the game tied at 60 entering the fourth quarter, Phoenix scored consecutive baskets and never relinquished its advantage.…
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Censoring is out. Bullying is in.
When we imagine a threat to free speech, we picture a ban — a law forbidding certain words, a prosecutor charging a dissenter, an official with a censor’s stamp. That picture is increasingly obsolete. The gravest threats to expression today rarely announce themselves as censorship. They take the form of ordinary administration turned to punishment…
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How ‘Star Trek’ Fell From Streaming Anchor to Stuck in Limbo | Analysis
It’s a strange time for “Star Trek.” On Thursday, the fourth season of the much-lauded “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” kicks off, and on Saturday, its cast and the architect of this generation’s Trek shows, Alex Kurtzman, will be in San Diego at Comic-Con to celebrate the franchise’s 60th anniversary. There’s more Trek to come,…
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Public Horrified as OpenAI Pushes “Child After Child Into the Grave”
Last week, a new lawsuit accused ChatGPT of encouraging the suicide of a young mother. The 29-year-old Christian Faith Madison died after walking into traffic, with her family arguing that the OpenAI chatbot had fueled her religious delusions during their extensive interactions, pushing her over the edge by romanticizing death. The story clearly struck a…
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How Syd found new life as an old soul
In the Mid-City neighborhood where Syd grew up, lots of people now refer to this 34-year-old musician as the mayor. “During COVID, I’d spend all day on the grass waving at everybody,” she says with a laugh. More recently, a bunch of “unruly teenagers,” as Syd describes them, have been doing doughnuts in the street…
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‘Justice at last?’: Expert says Trump just undermined Jim Jordan’s attack on Jack Smith
President Donald Trump undermined Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH)’s criminal most recent attack on Jack Smith with an early morning social media post, CNN legal analyst Elie Honig argued Thursday. The attack in question is the House Judiciary Committee chairman’s letter to the DOJ requesting a criminal investigation of the former special counsel, alleging that Smith…