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Lauren Theisen

Colorado Avalanche players react after a 2-1 loss against the Vegas Golden Knights

That Was Embarrassing

Patrick Redford

09 June 2023, North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne: Polish author Olga Tokarczuk speaks on the panel at Phil.Cologne, the international festival of philosophy. Photo: Horst Galuschka/dpa (Photo by Horst Galuschka/picture alliance via Getty Images)

The Machines

The Written Word Is Having A Rough Week

Dave McKenna

Diana Nyad speaks at the FEMME Awards 2025 at Terranea Resort on March 20, 2025 in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.

Swimming

Diana Nyad Finally Got Her Plaque

US author and journalist Diana Nyad arrives for Elle's 2023 Women in Hollywood celebration, at Nya Studios in Los Angeles, California, on December 5, 2023.

Lawsuit: Open Water Swimming Expert Rewrote Swimming History To Glorify Diana Nyad

Albert Burneko

The New York Times building is seen on September 6, 2018 in New York. - A furious Donald Trump called September 5, 2018 for the unmasking of an anonymous senior official who wrote in the New York Times that top members of his administration were undermining the president to curb his "misguided impulses." Trump asked if the unsigned op-ed could be considered treasonous, assailed the newspaper for the "gutless" piece and questioned whether the senior official it was attributed to actually existed. "TREASON?" Trump posted in response to the article entitled "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration," which claimed the president's own staff see him as a danger to the nation."Does the so-called 'Senior Administration Official' really exist, or is (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Journalismism

Why Did The New York Times Delete A Notorious Fraudster’s Election Take?

Hundreds of hopefuls try out for the Albany Empires Arena Football League team at Sportsplex Saturday Jan. 27, 2018 in Halfmoon, NY. (Photo by John Carl D'Annibale /Albany Times Union via Getty Images)

Arena Football

Update: Yes, The Newest Arena Football League Is Already Collapsing

A photo of Liz Patrick with her Emmy Award, and with Lee Corso's face clumsily pasted on top of hers.

Media Meltdowns

ESPN Busted In Dumb Scheme To Score Bogus Emmys For On-Air Stars

GRUENHEIDE, GERMANY - MARCH 22: Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the official opening of the new Tesla electric car manufacturing plant on March 22, 2022 near Gruenheide, Germany. The new plant, officially called the Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg, is producing the Model Y as well as electric car batteries. (Photo by Christian Marquardt - Pool/Getty Images)

Capital

You’re Supposed To Be Glad Your Tesla Is A Brittle Heap Of Junk

Israel Daramola

Michael Oher and Leigh Anne Tuohy at the 2009 NFL draft

Michael Oher Says Adoption Story At Heart Of ‘The Blind Side’ Was A Lie

Lisbon , Portugal - 1 November 2022; Changpeng Zhao, Co-founder &amp; CEO, Binance at Centre Stage during the opening night of Web Summit 2022 at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal. (Photo By Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty Images)

Binance Crackdown Reveals How Rigged The Crypto Game Is

Elon Musk and the Cybertruck, in front of a digital readout bragging about the caliber of gunfire it can withstand for some reason.

Get A Load Of This Sorry Piece Of Crap

A grizzled prospector sits in front of a hovel in an old black-and-white photo

This Is So Stupid

In My Day You Couldn’t Fake-Die For Two Years Without Real Commitment

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Chris Thompson

It Is Time Once Again For Math To Tell Us Which Underperforming NBA Teams Are Truly Crud

Tom Ley

Soccer

How Do You Explain A Disaster Like Everton?

At Least One Of These Struggling Eastern Conference Teams Truly Stinks. It’s Math!

DULUTH, MN - SEPTEMBER 30: Michael Lindell, CEO of MyPillow Inc., speaks during a campaign rally for President Donald Trump at the Duluth International Airport on September 30, 2020 in Duluth, Minnesota. The rally is Trump's first after last night's Presidential Debate. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)