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Albert Burneko

Politics

President, Extremely Normal Brain-Wise: Pope Weak On Crime, Also I’m Dr. Jesus Christ

Dave McKenna

New UFC Ad Rebuilds The White House

Patrick Redford

Spencer Weiner 805–653–7527 –– – (left–r) Steve Galbraith and Kim Cuevas, United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Archaeologists, search burn area near Lions camp in Rose Valley. The Forest Service regularly researches ruins, or other artifacts revealed in Wilderness areas after wildfires. Members of U.S. Forest Service Archeological team are in areas of the Sespe Wilderness to check on the condition of rare Native American rock art and other artifacts that may have been damaged when the wolf fire raged through the area last week.

The Great Outdoors

The Trump Administration Is Killing The U.S. Forest Service So It Can Also Kill U.S. Forests

Tom Ley

I Guess We’re Just Waiting Around To See If This Demented Psychopath Kills Everyone

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Chris Thompson

Tiger Woods is seen leaving Martin County Jail in the back of an SUV.

Golf

A Very Sweaty Tiger Woods Called Donald Trump After His Car Wreck

This Election Is Too Darn Important To Be Left To Merciful Salad Eaters

Barry Petchesky

ATLANTA, GEORGIA - MARCH 23: Travelers stand in long lines at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on March 23, 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia.The travel disruptions continue as hundreds of TSA agents quit or work without pay during a partial government shutdown. U.S. President Donald Trump said ICE agents will be deployed to U.S. airports on Monday, with border czar Tom Homan in charge of the effort.(Photo by Megan Varner/Getty Images)

ICE Agents Deployed To Nation’s Swamped Airports To Stand Around And Do Nothing

Cubans gather in front of their houses during a blackout in Havana on March 16, 2026. Cuba suffered a widespread power cut on March 16, 2026, according to the national electricity company, against the backdrop of a severe crisis on the island caused by the US energy blockade. (Photo by ADALBERTO ROQUE / AFP)

Donald Trump Is Strangling Cuba To Death

Trump To World: Please Help Me Un-Shoot My Own Leg Off

The Ticketmaster logo is displayed on a smartphone screen in this photo illustration. Ticketmaster's parent company, Live Nation Entertainment, currently faces a major antitrust trial in the United States, where regulators accuse the live-events giant of monopolizing the concert ticketing and promotion market, allegations the company denies, in Brussels, Belgium, on March 5, 2026. (Photo by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto)

Capital

Live Nation Gets To Keep Its Monopoly Thanks To Trump’s Department Of Justice

Billy Haisley

U.S. President Donald Trump places the FIFA Peace Prize around his neck after receiving it from FIFA President Gianni Infantino (R) at the FIFA World Cup 2026 Official Draw at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts December 05, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Soccer

Iran Plans To Boycott World Cup Due To FIFA Peace Prize Winner’s Murderous, Unprovoked War

David Roth

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives ahead a meeting with Paraguay's Foreign Minister Ruben Ramirez Lezcano at the State Department in Washington, DC on December 15, 2025.

Report: President Donald Trump Is Giving “All The Boys” Dress Shoes That Don’t Fit Right

As Best We Can Tell, Kristi Noem Is Now A Green Lantern Or Some Shit

Donald Trump wearing his stupid hat in the situation room at Mar-a-Lago

Donald Trump Can’t Even Pretend To Explain The Plan For Iran

Samer Kalaf

This picture obtained from Iran's ISNA news agency shows the site of a strike on a girls' school in Minab

Regime Change Is Blowing Up A School Full Of Children

Lauren Theisen

The U.S. Olympic men's ice hockey team arrives for U.S. President Donald Trump's State of the Union

Olympics

The U.S. Hockey Men Spoil The Fantasy

Kash Patel watches the gold medal hockey game

Kash Patel Thinks He’s On The Team

Israel Daramola

Photos of Nicole Good (L) and Alex Pretti are placed among flowers at a makeshift memorial in the area where Pretti was shot and killed by Federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota

How Much Longer Can The Politics Of Grievance Sustain Itself?

Séamus Malekafzali is a New York-based journalist and writer primarily focusing on the politics of the Middle East.

Séamus Malekafzali

Donald Trump looks on as Lindsey Graham talks in the foreground.

Lindsey Graham Has Waited Decades For The Chance To Obliterate Iran

Protesters take cover behind overturned trash containers as a line of federal agents forms a barricade across a downtown street during clashes following the fatal shooting of a demonstrator earlier in the day, on January 24, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Federal Agents Kill Again; Gunmen Still At Large

Justin Ellis

How Do You Justify Abducting A Child?

Gavin Newsom, looking like a gross sleazeball

Gavin Newsom Has Nothing To Offer

A single bullet hole can be seen on the driver’s side of the windshield of a vehicle that a woman was shot and killed in by federal officers on Portland Ave. in Minneapolis, Minn. on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026.

Journalismism

CBS News Is The Trump Administration’s New Laundromat

Federal Agents arrest a man during an Immigration Enforcement Operation in Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN, U.S., January 13, 2026.