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No, Florida Man Matt Gaetz, sunscreen does not cause cancer. But that lie is spreading online after he platformed anti-vaccine epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher on his show.

Watched Wanda Sykes' May special on @netflix.com last night, and she has a few jabs at Lindsey Graham in there. Prescient.

Did you know investigators in New Mexico ran a sting operation with a fake teenager that caught Meta allowing children to be targeted by sexual predators?

Have you paid attention to the case New Mexico has brought against Meta? It's...chilling.

That was a super interesting listen. An important reminder about how important journalism is both big and small scale.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Or...a neither thing?

Elon Musk is very focused on pronatalism. He’s criticized the decline in birth rates, calling it the world’s biggest “crisis”. And he's taking it upon himself to do something about it.

Did you hear us on On The Media this week? So cool to be featured there.

JD Vance made up a horrific and racist lie about a group of people, and now those people will be deported because the Supreme Court refuses to acknowledge, let along regard as disqualifying, the clear racial bias of this administration.

If you have checked it out yet -- here's the uncut video of my live interview with Ashley St. Clair about Grok, sexualized deepfakes, Elon Musk, and her recent MAGA past.

One of the many interesting things Ashley St. Clair told me about Elon Musk: that he changed noticeably after she became pregnant with his child. "He became angrier." She says he also wanted to have a "legion" of children with her and asked her to have a C-section to make the baby's head bigger.

I cannot understand why these guys are so afraid of questions. As Don Draper once said, "That's what the money's for!"

Here's the full, uncut video of my interview with Ashley St. Clair: open.substack.com/pub/question...

Last week, I interviewed former MAGA influencer and the mother of one of Elon Musk's children, Ashley St. Clair, in front of an audience. Backstage afterwards, Ashley laid into me over the questions I asked. She demanded that we not release the interview publicly and to speak to our lawyers.

Savage.

Where's the petition? I'll sign. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

This line in the iconic overnight ode to the Knicks in @nytimes.com is about my daughter's best friend. (Proof attached.) Humbling to brush against history and have it memorialized in the hometown paper.

After 16 years in power, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán was recently voted out in a stunning landslide. Suddenly, democracy-loving Americans are looking to Hungary for inspiration, instead of as a cautionary tale. How did Hungarians do this?

love joshua henry's look...and speech...and his hug with caissie levy backstage after both their wins.

Nice acknowledgement from Caissie Levy (best actress in a musical!) of her kids' babysitters for helping her do her job.

I've seen Ragtime, Giant, and Salesman. After some years away, I feel like I'm finally back in a decent theater groove this year.

This "dream job" is to work with me! We're hiring at Question Everything. We need a top-notch narrative audio reporter. Please apply, we'll be closing applications soon.

From Status. CBS News denies these assertions. So either three acclaimed career journalists are lying, or the news organization that produces the most watched program in TV journalism, 60 Minutes ,is lying. A journalistic nightmare.

Sitting at a restaurant near Greenwich. Banker dude next to me is telling the story of how Peter Thiel bankrolled Hulk Hogan to sue Gawker into ruin. He’s relishing it. Says he worked on the deal to buy Gawker out of bankruptcy. “For pennies on the dollar!” he guffaws.

Woman next to me at the bar paying for an IPA with exact cash and drinking it through a straw while talking on the phone about the lawsuit she’s trying to win. She’s happy.

The Pulitzer Prize Board is still fending off a lawsuit from Trump… meanwhile the judges in the case are getting promotions from the president. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/q...

In reference to his son: "He's a person who I've known for a long time". This is exactly waht my mother-in-law, who has severe dementia and lives with me, says about family members every day. This is not Trump being self-absorbed. This is cognitive impairment.

A standard fact-checking process would have caught this. Remarkable that a book about truth wouldn't bring on a fact-checker; then again that's usually on the author to cover out of pocket. Really publishers should bear the responsibility of providing fact-checking.

After listening to @brihreed.bsky.social's podcast about how propaganda pushers are learning to use AI to delude AI, including Claude who they consider the best of the bunch, I'm a primary source guy: www.bbc.com/news/busines...

This Musk/OpenAI outcome is disappointing. I wish we got a jury ruling on the central question of the case — did Altman & co pull a fast one in converting a nonprofit to a for profit? The public has a big interest in the answer to that question.

ChatGPT spews false claims about the news more than 30% of the time; Grok and Gemini do it about 40% of the time. That's according to the most recent testing by @newsguard.bsky.social, a fact-checking company that monitors the trustworthiness of chatbots.

Everything about this is so depressing -- the Virginia court loss, sure, but the fact that the country is engaged in a mass midterm gerrymandering fight in the first place, and under a decimated Voting Rights Act. I can feel the democracy being sucked out of the land like the breath from my lungs.

Rümeysa Öztürk just went back to Turkey even after winning her deportation case. The government kept browbeating her and she had enough of America. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/q...

This is bad for democracy and bad for magic.

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"The ruthless efficiency of capitalism, applied to the pursuit of truth." This is how Kalshi described prediction markets to us this week. I don't mind the concept -- in our peak capitalist inferno, fighting fire with fire. But does it hold up in practice?

One more clear data point for why we have to fiercely defend Times v Sullivan.

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

Taylor Little is suing Instagram for addicting them as an 11 year old, which they say led to an eating disorder, daily self harm, and suicide attempts. Meta says social media addiction isn’t real (despite certainly making it sound real in their internal documents.) What do you think?

Has there ever been something this brutal done to examaine the breakdown in trust in journalism? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...

Consequences for corruption. That's what we need. Consequences, consequences, consequences.

The recent social media trial in LA was a David & Goliath case. A 20-year-old named Kaley sued Meta and Google for addicting her to their apps as a child and won -- despite the legal armor of Section 230. One of her lawyers told me how they pulled it off.

There are 60,000 copies out there of the first edition of Andrew Lownie's book Entitled, which contains lines about Melania Trump and Jeffrey Epstein that HarperCollins removed from later printings, after mysteriously apologizing to the first lady. We have one in our office.

Janelle Monáe performing right now at Freely Fest, Freedom Forum's celebration of the first amendment: www.youtube.com/live/zYQcjZf...

There's officially too much news.

We are a rogue state.

Thank you - it's huge news amid a bunch of huge news, and important to take some time to understand the ins and outs of it. We'll be covering it next week as well with one of the most affecting interviews I've done in a long time -- with one of the young people currently suing Meta and others.

LOL.

How did a 20 year old beat the Goliaths of Meta and Google in court last week for harming her as a child? I talked to her lawyer about the novel case they mounted and the damning evidence they extracted from inside the companies. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/q...