Donald Trump appeared to come out in defense of TikTok, the social media platform facing a potential ban by Congress, in a flurry of posts late Thursday on his social media platform Truth Social. The platform, it should be noted, experienced a widespread outage as the former pres … | Continue reading
Truth Social, the social media platform launched by Donald Trump in 2022, suffered a widespread outage on Thursday. And it’s unfortunate timing for the former president. He was right in the middle of furiously tweeting (or Truth-ing, to use the site’s tortured parlance) about Pre … | Continue reading
Palaeontologist Donald R. Prothero squares up to the tough task of explaining how life and climate have shaped each other over the 4.5 billion years of Earth's history. Amazingly, his book mostly succeeds | Continue reading
We chew through the primary results and brace for a Biden v. Trump rematch. Plus: TikTok, Supreme Court sanity, and much more. | Continue reading
Elon Musk met with Donald Trump in Florida this past Sunday, according to a new report from the New York Times. And while it’s not clear what the two men discussed, news of the meeting comes as Musk has ratcheted up his rhetoric against illegal immigration and Trump looks for new … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2024 Morning Joe flogged four meaningless clips: Citizens, can we talk? Donald J. Trump has been making lunatic statements ever since he and Melania descended the escalator in June of 2015. Strike that! At that time, he'd already been making crazy statements for … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2024Morning Joe flogged four meaningless clips: Citizens, can we talk?Donald J. Trump has been making lunatic statements ever since he and Melania descended the escalator in June of 2015.Strike that! At that time, he'd already been making crazy statements for so … | Continue reading
John Halpin in Persuasion: Donald Trump made an entire career out of whining about the mainstream media and still lives on nuggets of outrage dispensed to the faithful about how unfairly the media covered his glorious rule and the election he says was stolen from him. Democrats c … | Continue reading
“The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously restored Donald Trump to 2024 presidential primary ballots, rejecting state attempts to ban the Republican former president over the Capitol riot.” – The Boston Globe - - -The nation’s temperature is running hot, and tensions continue to f … | Continue reading
"A flurry of new 2024 presidential election polls have a common thread: Republican frontrunner Donald Trump is leading incumbent President Joe Biden in a hypothetical November matchup," CNBC reports."In four separate surveys released over the weekend by The New York Times/Siena C … | Continue reading
I was never a good student; I drove my public school teachers mad and dropped out of two colleges without attending class much. I was too distracted and messed up to learn. Now, well into my 70s, photography has inspired me to learn and work hard at it. I spent two hours with my … | Continue reading
In the past few months, we’ve seen a deepfake robocall of Joe Biden encouraging New Hampshire voters to “save your vote for the November election” and a fake endorsement of Donald Trump from Taylor Swift. It’s clear that 2024 will mark the first “AI election” in United States his … | Continue reading
Donald Trump supporters are creating and sharing AI-generated images of the former president with Black voters. The photos appear to be an attempt to inflate Trump’s popularity with the Black community, which may be irreparably harmed by his ties to white supremacist groups, but … | Continue reading
Climate policy has been all over the place lately thanks to pressure from interest groups, pre-election jitters, and the plausibility of a re-elected President Donald Trump laying waste to existing climate policy.But further in the future, beyond the ups and downs of electoral po … | Continue reading
Ankush Khardori: "The Supreme Court seemed to drop a bomb this week when the justices agreed to hear Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution for trying to overturn the 2020 election. But the fallout may not be as clear-cut as it seems.""Almost immediately after th … | Continue reading
Erica Goode in Undark: AUTHORS DON’T GET to choose what’s going on in the world when their books are published. More than a few luckless writers ended up with a publication date of Sept. 11, 2001, or perhaps Nov. 8, 2016, the day Donald Trump was elected. But Charan Ranganath, th … | Continue reading
This recent Donald Trump speech has prompted a lot of discussion on both traditional and social media: Trump: People who don't speak languages. We have languages coming in to our country, nobody that speaks those languages. They're truly foreign languages. Nobody speaks them pic. … | Continue reading
In his 2023 State of the Union speech, President Joe Biden referred to the 2020 election as the “greatest threat” democracy faced “since the Civil War.” During his 2016 election bid, former President Donald Trump promised that he could “make America great again.” Barack Obama cla … | Continue reading
"You have to see the writing on the wall, you have to see the hole in the ship. And if you don’t see the hole in the ship, we’re all going to go down."-- Nikki Haley, telling the Wall Street Journal that Republicans will lose if they nominate Donald Trump. | Continue reading
A confused Donald Trump kept up his threats of retribution during this weekend's conservative confab | Continue reading
“Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump and his party are scrambling to contain the fallout from a conservative Alabama court ruling that prompted some state providers to suspend in vitro fertilization treatments.” — Reuters - - -Life begins at conception. Therefore, we … | Continue reading
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2024Here's what one blue army found: This past Saturday, presidential candidate Donald J. Trump delivered a remarkable keynote address at the annual CPAC political gathering.C-Span's videotape can be seen here. Warning! The tape is almost two hours long—and i … | Continue reading
by Akim Reinhardt What do we know about vampires? They are selfish to a degree that is sociopathic They are consumed by vanity They roar against anyone who contradicts them Their skin is oddly discolored They demand sycophantic followers All they care about is fucking, feeding, a … | Continue reading
An increasingly detailed picture of former President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda is emerging — one that would make the near-daily shocks of his norm-shattering first White House tenure look tame. | Continue reading
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2024A second friend quickly joined in: As it seems to have turned out, Donald J. Trump didn't get to sixty percent. Nikki Haley didn't make it to forty.Each candidate fell a smidgeon sort of a statistical goal. The official totals seem to go like this:South C … | Continue reading
Joe Biden gives the media a desperately needed lesson about Donald Trump. | Continue reading
Donald Trump delivered a speech at the National Religious Broadcasters convention Thursday night in Nashville that touched on all his greatest hits. The Democrats are “evil,” the U.S. is now a “Communist state,” and Hungary’s authoritarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, is a “stro … | Continue reading
As a climate-concerned citizen, one of the most discouraging things about Donald Trump’s all-but-inevitable confirmation as the 2024 Republican presidential nominee has been thinking about parallel universes.I don’t just mean the ones where the conservative Supreme Court has a sh … | Continue reading
In a YouTube video yesterday, Michael Popok explained the differences (in New York State law) among a "verdict", a "decision and order", and a "judgment", in the context of the latest stage of Donald Trump's civil fraud case. Those intricacies are an interesting aspect of the soc … | Continue reading
El dirigente republicano utilizaría todas las armas legales posibles contra la prensa, según el ex editor ejecutivo de... | Continue reading
Shortly after being fined $350 million (more than $450 million, including interest) over fraudulent business practices and then booed at Sneaker Con, former President Donald Trump traveled to Waterford, Michigan, where he said some incorrect things about electric vehicles. Even b … | Continue reading
If you asked an astrophysicist what is yet to be discovered in the universe, there’s a good chance they’d paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld: It’s full of known unknowns. Read more... | Continue reading
Have you seen on social media that Kid Rock and Jason Aldean are canceling their New York tour dates? The story, which is going viral on X, insists the musicians are doing it to support Donald Trump after a New York judge ordered the former president to pay $355 million last week … | Continue reading
Happy President's Day! This weekend former President Donald Trump made a surprise appearance at Sneaker Con, a sneakerhead convention, in Philadelphia. Trump was there to announce the launch of Trump Sneakers, a line of kicks led by the $400 "Never Surrender High-Top Sneaker."Lim … | Continue reading
The World OpenAI releases a new tool to generate "realistic"-looking video from text prompts. Russian opposition figure Navalny has died in prison. Donald Trump ordered to pay almost half a billion dollars in his NY fraud trial. Madame Web is terrible and nobody is surprised. I s … | Continue reading
Donald Trump made an appearance at Sneaker Con in Philadelphia on Saturday to announce a new website that sells Trump-branded sneakers for as much as $400. But if you take a close look at the fine print, this isn’t part of Trump’s effort to become president again. It’s purely a w … | Continue reading
Letitia James, after New York’s $350 million fine on Trump: The scale and the scope of Donald Trump’s fraud is staggering. And so too is his ego, and his believe that the rules do not apply to him. Today we are holding Donald Trump accountable. We are holding him accountable for … | Continue reading
A New York judge has ordered former President Donald Trump and executives at the Trump Organization to pay nearly $364 million. | Continue reading
Migrants and refugees flooding into Europe have presented European leaders and policymakers with their greatest challenge since the debt crisis. The International Organization for Migration calls Europe the most dangerous destination for irregular migration in the world, and the … | Continue reading
Infinite Craft is the breakout browser game of the year. Everybody is playing it, and everybody is making Donald Trump […] The post How to make Spongebob Squarepants in Infinite Craft appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
Tucker goes to Moscow and has a blast. Biden’s mental faculties draw suspicion and defenses. Plus: Jon Stewart, Donald Trump, Rachel Dolezal, Huma Abedin, Cori Bush, and more. | Continue reading
When former President Donald Trump exited the Oval Office in January 2021, he left behind a record of environmental rollbacks unrivaled in modern U.S. history. Over his 1,461 days as commander-in-chief, Trump replaced, eliminated, or otherwise dismantled more than 100 environment … | Continue reading
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) gave the green light on Thursday for a merger between Donald Trump’s social media company and the special purpose acquisition company that will allow it to become a publicly traded company, according to a new report from the Wall Stree … | Continue reading
Alongside just about everything else you can make in Infinite Craft on the Neal.Fun website we shouldn’t be surprised that […] The post How to make Donald Trump in Infinite Craft appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
Plus: In defense of Joe Biden. . . and Donald Trump. | Continue reading
Joe Biden recently said "the president of Mexico" when he meant "the president of Egypt". A couple of days earlier, he said "Mitterand" when he meant "Macron". Of course this fed into the flurry about his age, which was both-siderized by references to Donald Trump's calling Victo … | Continue reading
In this episode, Ed and Jonathan, a Jew in LA and Jonathan a German in Berlin, reflect on current political events and their personal relation and experience with it: The rise of the far-right AfD in Germany, mass protests against it, and how Germany deals with the past in genera … | Continue reading
Donald Trump’s months-long effort to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election culminated on a single, now-infamous day: Jan. 6. But there was an alternate scenario gamed out by Trump’s lawyers — one… | Continue reading