A very strange video appearing to show large objects being thrown out of a window at the White House went viral over Labor Day weekend. President Donald Trump was asked about it during a press conference on Tuesday, and he insisted it must be AI. Curiously, White House staff told Time magazine it was just […]
Trump’s New Plan for Medicare: Let AI Decide Whether You Should Be Covered or Not
Donald Trump says he is Making America Great Again, which seems like it might be code for: making everything shittier, less affordable, and less efficient. Certainly, when it comes to the realm of public services, the White House seems to be doing everything in its power to make the century-old social welfare programs—like Social Security […]
The CDC Implosion Continues as Staff Stage Unprecedented Walkout
The real-time collapse of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has picked up the pace. Following the government’s attempted firing and pressuring of several senior CDC officials to step down this week, CDC staff staged a dramatic display of support for its departing leaders this afternoon. The action was a direct response to the […]
Gavin Newsom’s Bizarro-Trump Schtick Gets Even Weirder With a Memecoin
Gavin Newsom, the Democratic governor of California, has spent recent weeks mimicking Donald Trump’s style online. Newsom’s team is filling his social media channels with all-caps screeds and vainglorious pronouncements that sound like the president, even rolling out merchandise like red hats that say “Newsom Was Right About Everything.” The strategy has been polarizing, to […]
Karoline Leavitt Makes Hilarious Mistake While Defending Bullshit on Covid Vaccines
The White House is stacked with some of the dumbest people on the planet. But at least sometimes we can get a chuckle out of it. President Donald Trump’s top spokesperson, the 28-year-old Karoline Leavitt, was asked by reporters Thursday about changes to government policies on vaccines, which will make it harder for Americans to […]
CDC Director Denies Report She’s Been Fired by Trump Regime (HHS Says She’s Out)
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Susan Monarez, was reportedly fired on Wednesday after she resisted changes to covid-19 vaccine policies, according to the Washington Post. But her lawyer says she hasn’t been officially notified of the termination, throwing a curveball into an already chaotic news cycle at the CDC. […]
Trump Weighs in on MAGA’s Latest Online Crisis: The Cracker Barrel Logo
The declining restaurant chain Cracker Barrel recently made the unfortunate decision to rebrand its sign, which—if you’ve ever hung out at a strip mall on the side of a freeway—you will probably recognize. The old sign, which we are now being told is “iconic,” previously featured a mascot known as “Uncle Herschel” (based on the […]
The White House Is Going to Put Government Statistics on the Blockchain (Yeah, We Don’t Know Why Either)
Remember back in 2017 when Bitcoin’s price soared and companies started promising to add everything to the blockchain? It was an embarrassing era, since blockchain technology has very few practical purposes that can’t be solved by a regular, old-school database. But it sounds like the White House just got the memo and wants to usher […]
Trump Says China Convinced the World ‘Let’s All Do Magnets’
Donald Trump was all over the place during two press conferences at the White House on Monday, where he rambled about his fascist vision for the country. But there were some points of levity, including when the president tried to explain how China became a leader in rare earth minerals. Or at least that’s what […]
Much of the World Stops Sending Mail to U.S.
Do you have a package coming your way from overseas? (I do, it’s a gift, and I’m very annoyed.) Hopefully it’s not urgent, because it’s going to be a minute before that thing gets to our shores. Questions surrounding the Trump administration’s ongoing tariff regime, including a policy to end an exemption from taxing small […]