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An Eazy-E classic is now a country ditty
This country/gangsta rap mash-up is a lot of fun:
 • Jason Weisberger
FCC Chair wielding equal-time rule in service of Trump’s agenda
“These are MAGA airwaves now,” seems clear enough that no one has to doubt FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s intent to keep an already reeling media landscape…
 • Jason Weisberger
Whiskey Pete invites a white supremacist to the Pentagon
There is no longer any pretense or desire to pretend to be anything but what they are.
 • Jason Weisberger
The “brain isn’t done until 25” factoid is based on a funding cutoff
You’ve seen the claim on TikTok, in parenting forums, and in roughly a million Instagram infographics: “Your brain isn’t fully developed until you’re…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Your chronic constipation might be caused by mucus-eating bacteria
Your colon is lined with a layer of mucus.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Michael Pollan thinks your chatbot has fewer feelings than a houseplant
Pollan’s new book, A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness, goes after a favorite Silicon Valley assumption: that if you build a machine complex…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Ice Barbie wants another airplane
Citizens are dead. Her department is unable to be funded, and Kristi wants a new plane.
 • Jason Weisberger
MTG says she’s “not in a cult” after Trump brands her a “low IQ traitor”
“I don’t worship a man, I’m not in a cult, and I refuse to fight for a team that refuses to win.” That’s former Rep.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
“Stupidity on steroids” — three U.S. states want your 3D printer to snitch on what you print
Three states are now trying to make 3D printers police themselves.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Grandpa Pudding Brains and the escalator of doom
Amid his odd ramblings and bizarre insistence that his wife is a movie star, convicted felon, and addled old man, Donald Trump gave another embarrassing…
 • Jason Weisberger
The Moon is shrinking and getting wrinkles
The Moon is wrinkling like a drying apple.
 • Mark Frauenfelder
Cats on synthesizers make gloriously weird internet music
Amid awful news, mudslinging, and AI slop, it’s great to remember what the internet truly excels at: memes and cats.
 • Jennifer Sandlin
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