“Deeply immersed in [Eliezer] Yudkowsky’s ideas, the Zizians took his framework to an extreme, embracing anarchist ideology and actions,” Dr. Nirit Weiss-Blatt, author of the book Techlash, tells Rolling Stone. Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

MUST READ from @tessastuart.bsky.social: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

We never really reckoned with the massive amount of pandemic era fraud. The Minnesota case is just one of many. The Trillion-Dollar Grift: Inside the Greatest Scam of All Time www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... via @rollingstone.com

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, served in a CIA-backed Afghan force unit, known as the “Zero Units.” His unit mate said Lakanwal sought help from a CIA program designed to aid unit veterans. Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

READ @kevinmaurer.bsky.social, who is working on a film about the Zero Unit, according to his source the D.C. Shooter felt abandoned by CIA www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... via @RollingStone

"African grey parrots — roughly the size of a pigeon — are the great apes of the bird world. Their brain is the size of a walnut, but they have the intelligence of young children and are renowned for their freakish ability to mimic human speech..." www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

More than a year into its online ubiquity, something about these two numbers seems to have the world in a chokehold.

A more rational mind will see that pulling on any thread of this story unravels evidence of collective failures stretching across administrations. But this White House is far more interested in crushing dissent, punishing critics, and sowing division. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Many young Afghans who held elite positions working with the U.S. military are now adrift in America. They’ve been left to build a life on the margins of an uncaring society. Read more from @macwbishop.bsky.social: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Excellent piece from Mac William Bishop on the DC shootings: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly. In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

“The historical precedent here is Flint, Michigan. In part because of how slow the response to the crisis has been, and in part because of who’s affected. These are people who have no political or economic power, and very little knowledge of the risk.” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Truth: “Forget the sex; the real scandal here is the crime against language.”

READ @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social: Trump’s Vendetta Against Wind Is Gutting Jobs and Raising Prices www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... via @rollingstone.com

‘The Precedent Is Flint’ www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

It's hard to overstate the thrill of having your reporting grace the cover of Rolling Stone's website. It definitely never gets old. Thanks @rollingstone.com! read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Another dive into the Secret Files of the Gun Industry from @mikespies.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

READ Mac William Bishop: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

A Rolling Stone x WIRE investigation: TikTok Is Obsessed With Parrots. It’s Fueling a Global Black Market A probe into the African-grey trade reveals a web of poachers, egg smugglers, businessmen & multitudes who want a talking bird. Read: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

The Parrot Cartel www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Anatomy of a fake news story: How a largely false story from a well-known fraudster and forger made it all the way to CNN. rollingstone.com/politics/pol... via @rollingstone.com

Was really great to reconnect with Kesha for this interview www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Tough week for tortured metaphors.

Essential work here by Rene Ebersole exposing the sickening details of the international parrot trade. Birds are not supposed to be pets, ever. Please do not buy a pet bird. If you simply can’t live without the poop, noise, bodily harm and destruction, adopt. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Rolling Stone teamed up with Wildlife Investigative Reporters and Editors (WIRE), a nonprofit journalism organization exposing wildlife crime and exploitation of nature. Watch the mini-doc made in association with RS Films here: youtu.be/460m3L9Xwxo

The rising demand for African grey ­parrots and the price for a single bird — as much as $7,000 — drive rampant poaching. An estimated 1.3 million were traded from 1975-2015, but the true number taken was likely far higher because most die in transit. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Parrots aren’t usually compatible with people who have long workdays at the office, kids, and the endless activities that come with them, she says. Her advice to most would-be buyers: “Get a picture of a parrot, paste it on the wall, and just look at it.” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Plus a short doc: youtu.be/460m3L9Xwxo?...

The Parrot Cartel www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Exile in Malibu. Give me a fucking break.

Never Nuzzi it.

Darius Rucker, Mike Mills, and Steve Gorman go deep on their new supergroup — and explain why R.E.M. won't reunite and Hootie's future is uncertain. More: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

COMMENTARY: Trump says his administration's cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs, and to care for veterans, is part of a push to root out fraud. There's no evidence it's as rampant as the president and his allies claim. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Im sorry this is just godawful and gross. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...

I spent many memorable days with Lady Gaga in 2009 and 2011 for two RS cover stories. In between, “a lifetime of stuff” happened, as she puts it – and we finally got a chance to talk about all of it. Here’s my new Rolling Stone cover story, featuring Lady Gaga. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Check out @rollingstone.com's Politics @surf.social custom feed. Pin it to see posts from Rolling Stone editors and writers covering U.S. politics right on your home carousel. 📰 👉 bsky.app/profile/roll... #CustomFeed #USPolitics #Trump

MUST READ new cover story from the great @hiattb.bsky.social. Moving, powerful and revealing, like, you know, a great magazine profile should be. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Trump's plan for Syria really does not seem great. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Spiraling. AI Cults are here: “At some point, it doesn’t matter if the AI is actually trying to start a cult, or is just roleplaying a story about an AI cult, if the cult is actually happening.” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

“History is full of cases where great bands make terrible records, yet history stands speechless at what the Clash accomplished here.” www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

“How unconscionable is it to even think about testing those weapons again, when we know the damage that they cause? We know there are real people who were harmed by those tests. "And I hate to call them tests. They are actual detonations of nuclear weapons.”

“All of the rhetoric flying around about a potential return to testing is really disturbing,” Dr. Emma Belcher, president of the Ploughshares Fund, a nonprofit that works to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, tells @macwbishop.bsky.social. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

“it needs to be a bipartisan issue, this should be the ultimate pro-life issue,” says Dr. Ivana Hughes. “It doesn’t get any more pro-life than preventing the annihilation of humanity and potentially all of life on the planet.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

“The allegations, with their confluence of money, exploitation, and vaunted institutions, are youth basketball’s version of the Jeffrey Epstein files.” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

The gun industry's suicide prevention effort isn't what they say it is, with an industry trade group using deceptive numbers to tout its success raising awareness. Read our exclusive with @thetrace.org www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

READ @mikespies.bsky.social: The Gun Industry’s Suicide Prevention Effort Isn’t What They Say It Is www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... via @rollingstone.com

"We are susceptible to the same forces of fear and greed that have propelled demagogues to power throughout history. In the process,Trump has succeeded in doing what they could not do: discrediting the idea of American exceptionalism in the eyes of the world." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Commentary: We look back at one year since Trump's election on November 5, 2024: "Remember the 5th of November. Respond to it not with exhaustion or despair, but clear-eyed resolve to redeem something useful from the wreckage." Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Just spectacular

Citing her work “hand in glove with the Trump administration” on AI, Sinema argued that the planning commission in Chandler, Arizona, might as well go ahead and greenlight her client’s proposed data center – because soon, once Donald Trump enacts a national AI policy, the city will ….