The dust hasn’t settled quite yet on the 2026 midterm elections, but as the air clears it is obvious those concerned about the direction our country was going showed up to offer a powerful rebuke to Donald Trump, Christian nationalism…
The power of claiming elections are rigged
There was a time when saying a federal election was rigged would have been an extraordinary political claim. In the 2000 presidential election, with the outcome hanging by a chad and resting on only a handful of votes in Florida,…
‘We don’t mind the killing; we just don’t want to watch it’
Donald Trump has cancelled the planned public livestream of Nidal Hasan’s execution. The decision comes a few days after Trump began privately expressing doubts about the decision, which was spearheaded by self-styled Secretary of War and Crusader wannabe Pete Hegseth….
Fake trans mailers and texts aim to scare Texans to vote for Paxton
In an apparent attempt to stoke anti-trans sentiment leading up to midterm elections, Texas is being inundated with purposefully inflammatory trans rights flyers from an unknown sender. The flyers purport to help transgender minors in unsupportive homes find support but…
Pete Hegseth’s gospel of violence
The last widely recognized public execution in the United States took place on Aug. 14, 1936, in Owensboro, Ky. Rainey Bethea, a 22-year-old Black man, was hanged before an estimated crowd of 20,000 people. Bethea had been accused of raping…
Elon Musk’s Grok sues Minnesota for right to keep ‘nudifying’ images
xAI, owner of the Grok chatbot and image generator, is suing the state of Minnesota to defend its right to produce and host nonconsensual AI-generated nudified images. Of course, that’s not exactly how xAI words it. Instead, they present themselves…
Let’s look more closely at the claim 2,300 trans athletes have ‘stolen’ gold medals
“Trans athletes have ‘stolen’ nearly 2,300 gold medals from women and girls in the US” blared the New York Post headline. The official social media accounts for the U.S. Department of Education picked up the story, sharing a screenshot of…
Dead or alive is the wrong question about Mitch McConnell
Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky sits in a wheelchair strapped into an accessible van, flanked by staff members, absently staring straight ahead. Reporter Desiree Townsend calls out to him, “Sen. McConnell, do you want to go to work?” McConnell slowly…
How AI has made child sexual abuse more prevalent
It all begins with a single screenshot from Instagram, Snapchat or some other social media. The photo itself is nothing remarkable — a casual selfie, a holiday memory, a sports photoshoot, a prom photo. You know the kind. Billions of…
Now complementarians are upset about Meryl Streep voicing Aslan
The internet is ablaze with the news that Greta Gerwig has cast Meryl Streep as the voice of Aslan in the upcoming adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ The Magician’s Nephew. It’s a decision that has been met with an overwhelming evangelical…
About those White House website arcade games
The White House has launched an online arcade featuring possibly vibe-coded knockoffs of five retro-classic arcade games modified to promote pro-Trump MAGA themes. And yes, it’s everything you would expect: Poorly made, copyright-infringing, creatively and morally bankrupt nostalgia bait that…
Who killed Jason Arday?
On March 6, 2023, sociologist Jason Arday became the youngest Black person to be appointed as a Cambridge University professor. Three-and-a-half years later, on Aug. 14, 2026, he was found dead in a manner police called “unnatural” but “not suspicious.”…