In this today’s blistering dispatch: 1. Trump’s Carbon-Football-Field-Sized Grab for IntelPresident Trump has orchestrated an unprecedented power play — converting over $8.9 billion in CHIPS and federal funds into a 9.9–10% equity stake in Intel, procured at a discounted $20.47/share, with no board control
Final day of our serenity sampler. Today is about gentle reset, not reinvention. We’re lining up small dominoes so Monday falls in your favor. Political heat returns tomorrow—scorcher forecasted—so let’s stock the emotional fridge. The 3-2-1 Reset * 3 things you can definitely do this week (tiny
Saturday Edition: The Lazy Gourmet’s Weekend (Minimal Effort, Maximum Day two of our peace-and-quiet tour. We’re keeping it tasty, practical, and a little cheeky. Monday, we return to our regularly scheduled fire-breathing. Today? We eat well without turning the kitchen into a war zone. Three Fast Wins for
Welcome to our three-day vacation from the circus. No politics, no outrage, just small delights you can actually do between now and the next cup of coffee. On Monday, we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled, gloriously opinionated programming—promise. For now: exhale. The 5-Minute Getaway (you can do
🎨 Trump vs. Museums: Because History is Just Too Woke Ladies and gentlemen, pull up a folding chair and a glass of boxed Chardonnay because the former president has done it again. Just when you thought we had reached peak absurdity, Donald J. Trump, patron saint of grievance politics, has decided
Let’s be clear: Nick Fuentes isn’t the worst conspiracy theorist in the room—he’s merely the most performing one. Yet even the dingiest spotlight can illuminate truths. His latest rant—that JD Vance was “planted” by a clique of elites, including Peter Thiel, Tucker Carlson, and Elon
The Trump International Fan Club: European Chapter Apparently, European leaders have decided that the best way to survive the Trumpocalypse is not through diplomacy, not through values, not even through reason—oh no. Their weapon of choice? Shameless, boot-polishing flattery so over-the-top it makes Marie Antoinette look humble. Macron: “Donald,
This wasn’t just a security breach, documents obtained by NPR from a hotel guest who found them on a printer revealed something even more disturbing: a planned luncheon in honor of Vladimir Putin. The menu literally read, “In honor of his excellency Vladimir Putin.” It gets worse. Trump intended
Alright, let’s set the stage. Sean Charles Dunn, 37 years old, armed with nothing but a Subway sandwich — possibly a six-inch, possibly a footlong, we may never know — finds himself facing a felony charge. Not for embezzlement, not for grand theft auto, but for daring to introduce a deli
Section 1: The Body Count That Keeps on Climbing Ah yes, Vladimir Putin, the man who thinks he’s reviving the Russian Empire but is really just auditioning for the world’s worst butcher shop. Since February 2022, his “special military operation” has produced at least 13,883 dead Ukrainian
So here we are, watching the slow-motion train wreck that is Donald Trump’s foreign policy cosplay, this time with none other than former KGB agent and full-time autocrat Vladimir Putin—on Alaskan soil. Yes, the same Alaska that used to be part of Russia until we bought it fair
Below written by Heather Cox Richardson August 11, 2025 (Monday) President Donald J. Trump’s big announcement today at his press conference—to which he showed up late—was that he is assuming control over the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department and deploying more than 100 agents from the