“Erika Kirk vs. Candace Owens Slop” is the Top Baby Name Predicted for 2026
Pence to Trump: Fire RFK Jr. NOW, Orbán’s Achilles, Democrats Finally Admit ‘Technocratic Tweaks’ Won’t Cut It Anymore, ProPublica Directly Links Trump Budget Cuts to Mass Cholera Deaths in South Sudan, Trump Admin Declares Fentanyl a WMD, Google’s AI Is Straight-Up Stealing Recipes , Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Predicts AI Bubble Will Burst, Leaving Environmental Destruction and Zombie Infrastructure, Merriam-Webster Names ‘SLOP’ the 2025 Word of the Year and a Patriot Front White Supremacists Flash Mob
New Research Shows Bot Army Tried to Paint Taylor Swift as Trumpy White Supremacist, Some Bondi NSPM-7 News, and More
Bot Network Tried to Rebrand Taylor Swift as a MAGA White Supremacist, Hero Tackles Gunman at Hanukkah Event Amid Rising Global Antisemitism, Newsom 2028? Axios Says His Homelessness Record Could Be His Undoing, Netflix-Paramount Deal Faces Bipartisan Antitrust Backlash in D.C, GOP Push to Label Antifa a Terror Group Spurs Authoritarian Alarm Bells, Trump Base Still Loyal, But Broader Electorate Shows Fatigue, Trump's Memo Expands Terror Watchlist to Target U.S. Activists Without Due Process, Pam Bondi Memo: 'Anti-Capitalism' Now a Potential Terror Threat Flag"
Will Trump Legalize Weed or Will Prisoners Still Have to Rely on Drone Delivery? Plus Liam and RFK Jr.
Trump weighs marijuana rescheduling while RFK Jr. pushes men's health initiative. FBI faces scrutiny over antifa designation as NSPM-7 raises free speech concerns. Liam Neeson narrates anti-vax film. MacKenzie Scott gives $7B. Drone smuggles steak to prison.
Bodyshaming Hitler, Building the Perfect Democrat, and an AI Teddy Bear Investigation
Calibri font helped topple a Pakistani government. Video podcasts are homogenizing indie creators. A student defies China's censorship apparatus to recover erased Tiananmen memories. Medieval people named birds after their friends. Energy drinks now linked to early heart attacks in people under 40. Hitler likely had rare genetic condition affecting development. Meteorite smuggling mirrors colonial extraction in the space age.
Boebert Grift Gets Kid Rock Tix, Teen Brains Rot, the New AI Pentagon, and Let’s Go to Mars!
Teens still glued to social media despite bans. MacKenzie Scott positions herself as the anti-Soros for resistance funding. Roman concrete was better than ours, and scientists finally know why. Mars scientists pitch "discovery, not colonization" to save the program from Trump's budget axe. An Antarctic robot just proved we can monitor ice melt in real time. The Right is prepping to criminalize Signal as an "Antifa weapon." And conservative media thinks Soros and Ford are funding European boycotts of US companies doing business in Israel.
Nick Fuentes Admits He’s Never Had Sex, RizzBot Gets Punched, Trump Gets Accused of Mortgage Fraud
AI "Agent" hype builds as Sora fades. Clean energy jobs surpass fossil fuels globally. "Red State Solar" booms despite GOP rhetoric. People over 70 now own 31% of all US wealth, a new record. Dr. Oz's first move at CMS? Telling federal employees to "eat less" in a leaked memo. OpenAI's Sora is flopping, and Sam Altman is already "bored" and moving on to agents. Clean energy now employs more people globally than fossil fuels. Texas Governor Abbott is outsourcing high school curriculum directly to Turning Point USA, and Nick Fuentes just admitted he’s never slept with a woman.
How to Spot AI Animals in the Wild
DOJ says it’s making a list, checking it twice, of domestic terrorists; the number of billionaires goes up; offshore drilling plans go forward; OpenAI funded anti-journalism groups, and tips on how to spot AI animals in the wild.
The December Super Moon Rises and the War on “Terror” Aims Inward
Trump team’s inward-facing “terror” crackdown, DOJ/ICE escalations, California’s insurance crisis, Discord gamifies data, Pantone whitewashes design, UA bans Black student mag, and the Right targets AI bias checks. Plus: World Cup surveillance risks, robot goalies, the Cold Supermoon, and a wobbling AI boom.
Could OpenAI’s financial future hinge on teens making deepfakes?
Rolling Stone recently featured Instrumental and Ekō’s investigation into the potential harms of OpenAI’s video generation platform, Sora2. The piece highlighted some of Sora2’s more problematic content, but, in this here newsletter, we’ll see how the deeper issue is structural.
MAGA 101, AI Toilet is Not End-to-End Encrypted, Aid Cuts Lead to Child Deaths, and More
Trump expands "domestic terrorism" to include political dissent, Hegseth nomination falters over war crime allegations, admin rescinds coal/EV rules, Palantir deepens ICE ties, and "MAGA 101" threatens academic freedom. Americans lose economic confidence despite market highs.
