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“Cronyism in couture”: Vanity Fair publishes brilliant new portraits, capturing the “hideousness of this administration”
Go grab yourself a cup of coffee (or a shot of tequila) and fire up your computer, because you really must take a few minutes to soak in the new article…
 • Jennifer Sandlin
Boing Boing, December 16, 2025
Epstein's blackmail fortune, Alabama's package theft crackdown, and OpenAI's adult mode
 • Boing Boing
Epstein’s fortune came from scaring billionaires
A New York Times Magazine investigation traces Jeffrey Epstein’s $600 million fortune to a simple con: convince rich men their finances were a disaster…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Aeroflot Flight 6502: when a pilot’s ego killed 70 passengers
On October 20, 1986, a Soviet Tupolev Tu-134 was flying from Sverdlovsk to Grozny with a stopover in Kuibyshev.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Sarah Palin’s eight-year lawsuit against the New York Times ends again
A federal judge has rejected Sarah Palin’s request for a third trial in her libel lawsuit against the New York Times, effectively ending an eight-year…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The woman whose blood made an entire ER collapse
On February 19, 1994, Gloria Ramirez arrived at Riverside General Hospital in California with late-stage cervical cancer and severe heart palpitations.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The Daily Show recaps 2025
The hosts of the Daily Show all sat down in the same place to discuss the shocking trainwreck that was 2025, and we’ve still got two weeks to live…
 • Jason Weisberger
Scientists still can’t explain the star that exploded repeatedly
iPTF14hls is a star that refuses to follow the rules.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Ford dramatically backing away from EVs
As the Trump Administration lowers fuel-economy standards and encourages Americans to reconsider the station wagon, Ford has announced it will absorb a…
 • Jason Weisberger
In Japan, anything can be an anime girl — even your washing machine
Moe anthropomorphism is the Japanese art of turning absolutely anything — countries, diseases, operating systems, warships — into cute anime girls. For…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
When you don’t respect Cobalt 60 it kills you
In a stretch of gruesomely preventable disasters in the late 80s and early 90s, Cobalt 60, a highly radioactive isotope used in industrial radiography…
 • Jason Weisberger
America had laws banning ugly people from public until 1974
From 1867 to 1974, cities across America enforced what are now called “ugly laws” — ordinances that made it illegal for anyone “diseased, maimed…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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