It’s pretty weird that Elon did that tweet about how Trump is in the Epstein files and that’s why he won’t release them and then he deleted it, and as far as I know never said “I was lying” and now he’s just hanging out with Trump again and I guess no one can ask him about that

Cogent explanation. Not exaggerated, unfortunately.

From the article: Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output." www.404media.co/email/641a21...

holy fuck, this thread is a journey

not sure I would have guessed that particular set of celebrity parents would produce an awesome kid

Unless there’s an indictment under seal, I think it’d be preferable for reporters to say “prosecutors are expected to seek an indictment in the coming days.” Based on the public evidence, I’m not convinced we should expect the grand jury to return a true bill. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, says her experience in federal detainment could only be identified as “human trafficking.” And she’s not staying quiet about the women she was forced to leave behind. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...

I do my best to conduct myself at all times by a simple creed: "Live your life so that Isaac Chotiner never has cause to request an interview with you."

oh my god lol -- Trump calls for UN workers to be arrested because his escalator didn't work yesterday

Holy shit, is he trying to grift his way into Nazism!??!?!?

Found the original Cow Clicker “design document,” including a fully-conceived basically final cow sketch (and a bunch of seemingly complicated ideas that thankfully never got implemented).

Isaac Chotiner has invited me to sample some delicious Amontillado wine and I don’t know guys but I think I’m going to come out of this interview seeming like *quite* the wine expert

That will definitely do it.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

“nationalist and patriots” he’s holding a white power flag.

If I want to be carried off by a giant bird, that's my business, word book.

These are the kinds of treatments grifters sell to parents to try and "cure" autism and anyone who claims they can is a lying piece of shit.

"Reject the smear campaign — join the schmear campaign."

Can Tanya Harding's Ex-Husband Save Figure Skating?

"kristi noem and corey lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together" absolutely cursed sentence

lol this is not what I had in mind

NEW: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding the agency release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read messages from encrypted chat apps www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

I think if you're GWAR, having Libs of TikTok introduce you to her entire dingbat audience is probably the best thing that could possibly happen

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

This is *stunningly* disingenuous, and the fact that Singal continues to enjoy a career writing at the highest levels about a topic that he either unwilling or incapable of discussing honestly is such an indictment of the Anglo-American prestige media.

The Economist is trash, Exhibit #1857362

...FYI several ppl commented that The Economist doesn't name authors for many articles. which seems fine if it's a short news summary, but not in the case where it's one writer's interpretation of a study. especially when the interpretation is 180º different from the researchers' own conclusions!

The theory is the Economist has a single editorial voice. Which of course means that in this case it has decided to align its editorial voice with Jesse Singal's, which isn't a surprise given literally all of their trans coverage in the last couple years

Aftershock!

This is all true btw

gosh, who saw that coming

I regret to inform you that Gwar has pushed the boundaries of good taste.

Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

I'm losin it at the crow definitely knowing when it won, too, throwing its head back with a smile and struttin like aaaayy das right!

excited to get back to not watching jimmy kimmel by choice instead of by fiat

well that was a doozy. 4.8 centered only a couple miles from here.

Not the point of this powerful pic, but I can’t get past the armored-up ICE guy in … Vans. Like, if you need all that combat armor, wouldn’t you need to protect your feet? It seems like SUCH a tell about the cos-play of the armor, and how it is meant purely as intimidation.

It was egregious at the time, and in retrospect, NBC News chasing and then bringing Megyn Kelly into the fold looks like one of the major events in the downfall of the big news organizations. How any serious news outfit could want this person to be their public face is beyond me.

Uhhhh am I missing something or is this not just two minutes of Charlie Kirk getting thoroughly pwned (including by himself)???

Our mistake when we wrote _Calling Bullshit_ was to assume that people would deliberately abuse the flexibility of quantitative metrics to mislead. We devoted inadequate attention to people making up complete and utter nonsense with no possible grounding in fact.

Dear gestapo trash:

If the concern is authoritarianism, I struggle to think of more than a very few things a state can do that are more intrusive of human rights, dignity and freedom than forced pregnancy.

“I await P.S. Brook’s reply.”

My strongest belief is that there should have been an Elric TV show that was done with Gerry Anderson puppets.

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part.

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.