Photos of Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol chief who’s become the face of President Donald Trump’s deportation campaign, have gone viral recently because Bovino’s fashion choices make him look like an old school Nazi. But don’t bother asking AI chatbots about the photos. Elon Musk’s Grok thinks that Bovino is a famous female artist dressed […]
Democrats Will Launch a ‘Master ICE Tracker’ to Monitor Misconduct
The Democrats have been largely accused of “doing nothing” in the face of the Trump administration’s unprecedented assault on American legal norms and public benefit programs. Indeed, according to some Democrats, doing nothing is the best course of action. Unfortunately for said Dems, the American people want political leaders who will, you know, lead, and […]
MAGA Judges Insist You Shouldn’t Take Trump’s Social Media Too Seriously
Donald Trump posts the most bizarre social media content of any world leader in the internet age, from AI videos where he’s dropping literal shit on protesters to fake magical beds that cure all disease. But the president’s staunchest defenders want you to believe that we shouldn’t take any of it too seriously. We saw […]
The Young Republicans’ Leaked Chat Isn’t the Future—It’s Now
Politico published an article on Tuesday that revealed leaked chats from leaders of Young Republican groups across the country. The messages included extremely racist and antisemitic rhetoric, comparing Black people to monkeys, and one that simply read “I love Hitler.” And if you read some of the political analysis that’s followed, this is just a […]
Border Patrol Responds Like a Petulant Child to Controversy Over Its Antisemitic Video
A spokesperson for U.S. Border Patrol has finally issued a statement about the antisemitic social media video that the agency posted in August, but was just deleted this week. And in typical Trumpian fashion, the statement is incredibly whiny. Border Patrol, which is part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, first posted a 13-second […]
Border Patrol Posts Instagram Propaganda Video Featuring Antisemitic Slurs
A U.S. Border Patrol video featuring antisemitic lyrics went viral on X on Tuesday after far-right users discovered it had been posted to Facebook and Instagram. The video, which included the lyrics “Jew me” and “kike me,” was deleted from the platforms on Wednesday morning, though it’s not clear whether the offensive content was taken […]
Facebook Removes ICE-Tracking Group Under Pressure From Trump Regime
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Tuesday that the U.S. Justice Department had succeeded in getting Facebook to remove a group on the platform that allowed people in Chicago to alert their neighbors when ICE was in the area. “Today following outreach from @thejusticedept Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox […]
How Scientists Turned Water Into Ice at Room Temperature
For something so common to our daily lives, there’s a surprisingly long list of questions scientists have yet to answer about ice—the solid form of water, seen in iced coffee, the frosty sprinkle on mountaintops, and, of course, extraterrestrial surfaces. Fascinatingly, scientists keep finding entirely new types of ice, adding to the mystery surrounding how […]
Apple Reportedly Bans App Designed to Document Abuses by ICE
For the second time in one week, Apple has removed an app from its App Store that was designed to track abuses by Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Last week, Apple removed ICEBlock, an app designed to allow users to report nearby ICE activity in their neighborhoods. The app, which Trump administration officials […]
Apple Caves to Trump Pressure, Removes App That Let Immigrants Track ICE Activity
Apple removed an app that allows immigrants to track Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity on Thursday night. ICEBlock, an app that was launched in response to President Trump’s anti-immigrant crackdown, was modeled after Google’s crowdsourced traffic app Waze, and it gave users a crowdsourced way to report nearby ICE activity. “We just received a message […]