President Trump deleted a blatantly racist video clip portraying Barack and Michelle Obama as apes after an outcry that included members of his own party, reports the New York Times.

The 62-second clip, set to "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," spliced in the Obamas depicted as apes near the end of a video promoting conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. — Read the rest

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Here's my latest installment in my ongoing series, "Cute Animals You Should Know": the Northern Luzon cloud rat. The adorable ratty creature is endemic to the northern section of Luzon, the Philippines' largest island. Looking at it, you might not recognize it as a rat, as, first, it's huge, and, second, it doesn't really look like a rat. — Read the rest

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There's nothing like a bit of faux existential dread to rip you from the grip of actual the-fall-of-the-rules-based-order existential dread. Given how many platforms it's been ported to, I'm shocked I'd never heard of The Exit 8. If the game is anywhere as cheeky and doomful as the trailer for its film adaptation, its developers can have all of my gaming money for the month. — Read the rest

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An employee at Highmark whose drink "smelled and looked like semen" told police, who placed a hidden camera, with her permission, to monitor the mug she used. They allegedly filmed a manager taking and returning the mug with fresh deposits, twice, and he was taken into custody. — Read the rest

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Over the last few months, I've found Google's Pixel 10 Pro Fold to be a pretty sweet productivity machine, which, as an added bonus, makes my music sound better than it ever did on any iPhone or iPad I can recollect. — Read the rest

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Colossal Biosciences, the genetic engineering company that claimed to have resurrected the extinct dire wolf, is creating a biovault to preserve the genetic material of endangered species. The tissue and cells of up to 10,000 species will be sequenced and preserved, and the genomic data will be open-sourced. — Read the rest

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A watchdog group is asking the Justice Department to explain why communications from Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, and FBI Director Kash Patel don't appear anywhere in the 2 million+ pages of Epstein files released to the public, Axios reports. — Read the rest

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While nothing will ever top the picture-perfect selfie taken by a macaque with a stolen camera, a sled dog in Greenland is vying for at least the top five list of animal photography.

An Associated Press crew on a shoot in Ilulissat, Greenland, discovered that a 360-degree camera was missing. — Read the rest

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When it comes to reportage on terrible things, there are few journalists I trust more than Spencer Ackerman. He's been writing about the world working very hard to bleed itself to death since the early 2000s. The quality of his work has led to his being employed by Wired, The Daily Beast, and The Guardian to watch the politics and mechanisms that try very hard to do us dirty and to talk about them in a way we can understand. — Read the rest

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On the night of February 5, President Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video on Truth Social that depicts Barack and Michelle Obama with their faces superimposed on the bodies of apes in a jungle setting. The Obamas appear for a second or two near the end of a roughly one-minute clip that otherwise pushes false claims about 2020 election fraud, reports the New York Times. — Read the rest

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No-one knows what U.S. Senator Ron Wyden is referring to in his short letter to CIA director John Ratcliffe, but all agree that it's scary.

"I write to alert you to a classified letter I sent you earlier today in which I express deep concerns about CIA activities," is the entirety of the letter, but for pleasantries. — Read the rest

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Two comic books that cost a dime apiece in 1940 just sold for $13 million combined.

Heritage Auctions announced a private sale pairing the highest-graded Batman No. 1 (CGC 9.4) with the second highest-graded Superman No. 1 (CGC 8.5, Mile High pedigree). — Read the rest

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Bitcoin is edging up this morning, but after yesterday's rout has still lost all the gains of the second Trump administration. It's at $66,217, barely half of its october peak at $123,857. No, what's going on with Bitcoin?, asks CNN's, David Goldman. — Read the rest

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The Information reports that chip giant Nvidia is skipping a planned refresh of the 5000 series GPUs and delaying the next-gen 6000 series until 2027. With RAM in short supply and its own silicon essential to the AI boom, there simply isn't the capacity to get them on the shelves. — Read the rest

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With the very long-awated Baldur's Gate 3, a classic computer role-playing series not only took off again but went into orbit, scoring game of the year awards and a vast army of players and fans. So it's only natural the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy would head to the screen. — Read the rest

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Welcome to Gilead! At this morning's National Prayer Breakfast, Jeffrey Epstein's special friend Donald Trump announced that on May 17, 2026, "we are going to rededicate America as one nation under God" in a ceremony on the National Mall. — Read the rest

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Interstellar travel — the kind in Star Trek, Star Wars, Dune — will never happen. The fantasy "exists on the exact same level of plausibility as wizards," argues Jason Pargin, author of John Dies at the End. Not because science lacks imagination, but because the distances involved are so absurd that no amount of future technology could overcome them without literally breaking the laws of physics. — Read the rest

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Crediting his failure to sleep on Air Force One to his hyper-vigilance, rather than sundowning, "stable genius" Donald Trump seems to believe he does a better job of detecting inbound threats than radar.

Turning the National Prayer Breakfast into a partisan war-mongering event was also an interesting choice. — Read the rest

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For 80 years, Minute Maid has sold orange juice and lemonade (including the pink stuff) as concentrate, with each 12-ounce can of freezing slush yielding 48 ounces of drink, give or take. Today parent company Coca-Cola said it will discontinue sales in the U.S. — Read the rest

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In 2011, Yale computer science professor David Gelernter emailed Jeffrey Epstein about a job recommendation for an undergraduate, describing her as a "v small goodlooking blonde." Asked this week if he regretted anything about his association with the convicted sex offender, Gelernter replied: "Nothing." — Read the rest

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Italians are very familiar with what happens when masked thugs wield unchecked power, and they don't want to go backwards. The IOC has had to plead with fans not to boo Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who have oddly chosen to arrive with ICE as part of their protection detail. — Read the rest

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LaMonte McLemore, the bass voice behind some of the most joyful pop music of the late 1960s, has died at 90. He passed away Tuesday at his home in Las Vegas, surrounded by family, after suffering a stroke, reports the Guardian. — Read the rest

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On October 24, 2011, venture capitalist and Bill Gates advisor Boris Nikolic emailed Jeffrey Epstein about a meeting with 4chan founder Christopher Poole. "How did you like moot?" he asked, using Poole's username. "I liked him a lot. I drove him home, he is very bright," Epstein replied. — Read the rest

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Gavin Newsom is California's slickest retail politician and conservative media's favorite coastal elite. The Daily Show covers Newsom's highly probable rise, family ties, and bulletproof hair.

The Daily Show doesn't crown Gavin Newsom as a savior or condemn him as a menace. — Read the rest

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According to new reporting from NPR, the U.S. Public Health Service has been quietly sidelined inside ICE detention centers, leaving medical care understaffed, unaccountable, and increasingly outsourced to the lowest bidder.

Unsurprisingly, medical care at ICE "detention centers," or more accurately, concentration camps, has been eroded from its previously thin levels to a system so frustrating that the medical staff are quitting. — Read the rest

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Asked a simple and humane question: why she thought it was appropriate to use people freed from Hamas captivity to promote her movie, Melania Trump once again demonstrated her soulless grift and deflected, treating human trauma as set dressing for a personal brand op. — Read the rest

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The body count keeps rising. Brad Karp, chairman of elite law firm Paul Weiss, resigned last night after his correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein surfaced. Peter Mandelson, former British ambassador to the U.S., quit the House of Lords as London's Metropolitan Police opened an investigation. — Read the rest

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Shaped by glaciers, earthquakes, and fires, Yosemite National Park will also survive influencers treating it like a personal stunt show. Especially when the influencers' clips make it obvious who was BASE jumping without a permit.

Federal prosecutors allege that Jack Matthew Propeck violated park rules by using a parachute to descend into Yosemite Valley on Oct.

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James Comer has spent months demanding the Clintons testify about Jeffrey Epstein. Now that Hillary Clinton has agreed to a February 26 deposition, she's added a twist: put it on live TV.

"You love to talk about transparency," Clinton wrote on X, directly tagging the House Oversight Committee chair. — Read the rest

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Tourists have been defecating in private gardens in Fujiyoshida, Japan, and "raising a fuss when residents pointed this out." That behavior, along with trespassing, littering, and opening strangers' doors to use their bathrooms, has prompted the town to cancel its annual cherry blossom festival. — Read the rest

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AI datacenters are gobbling up all the RAM and the storage and the graphics chips too, and gamers get stung hardest. Not only is the cost of building a system soaring, but the forthcoming Steam Machine from Valve is being delayed. — Read the rest

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A 45-year-old MAGA hat wearer has been arrested after getting out of his truck to fight teenage girls at an anti-ICE protest in Buda, Texas.

Chad Michael Watts was charged with two counts of assault causing bodily injury after police determined he was the "primary aggressor" in a confrontation with students from Johnson High School on Monday, reports KXAN. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: For just $34.97 (reg. $219.99), Microsoft Office Professional 2021 gives you the desktop Office apps for one Windows PC, with no monthly fee.

Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows is only $34.97 (reg. $219.99), and it's for anyone who's tired of software turning into a subscription treadmill, especially when all you need is for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations to open correctly, edit cleanly, and export without drama. — Read the rest

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New York wants to put a kill switch on your 3D printer. The state's 2026-2027 executive budget bill (S.9005 / A.10005) would require all 3D printers sold in New York to include "blocking technology" — software that scans every print file through a "firearms blueprint detection algorithm" and refuses to print anything flagged as a potential gun part. — Read the rest

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Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, is among the many powerful people who appear in the Epstein Files, which detail (among other things) their meetings and communications with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. For Bill, they also describe unpleasant outcomes, including a sexually transmitted infection, a putatively diseased penis, and a suggestion (from Epstein) that Bill considered feeding his then-wife, Melinda Gates, medication without her knowledge. — Read the rest

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Back in 1817, philosopher Jeremy Bentham created a table showing how the same human impulse could be described in wildly different ways depending on your perspective. In one column, he'd write "gluttony" - harsh and judgmental. In the next, "love of the pleasures of the social board" - suddenly it sounds rather civilized, doesn't it? — Read the rest

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Famed actress Lauren Bacall was the longtime face of High Point instant coffee, a decaf brand from Folgers, and appeared in numerous advertisements volubly enjoying it. The clip below compiles the moments of maximum appreciation.

Instant decaf enjoyers haven't been able to get High Point since the 1990s, but here you can watch all seven TV spots in their entirety. — Read the rest

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Well, here's something you don't see every day — an opera-singing doggo! Meet Charlie, a Golden Doodle, who goes by "Super Famous Charlie" on social media (where he's described as "Your Fav Singing Goldendoodle"), who sings opera alongside his human mom, who is a bona fide opera singer herself. — Read the rest

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This June, Oni Press is releasing Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1, a fresh, stand-alone gateway into Matt Kindt's paranoid psychic-espionage universe.

Former Mind MGMT agents (the ones who survived the extra-governmental agency) are living quiet, fabricated lives underground. — Read the rest

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I came across the stunning sea urchin photography of Anders Hallan. The way all the urchins are lined up in a grid makes them look like delicately painted confections. Hallan also has incredible close-up photos on his page, showing delicate details of sea urchins you wouldn't normally see this clearly. — Read the rest

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This video shows a baby giraffe with a serious case of the zoomies. Nothing's cuter than a wobbly baby giraffe running around at full speed. If you need a palette cleanser after reading grim news, this video is pure silliness and joy. — Read the rest

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Painter Jan Van Kessel didn't slack off when it came to his signature. His name becomes the entire subject of this painting, shared by the PDR. The painting features his name spelled out by beautifully rendered worms, bugs, and snakes that twist and contort into each letter. — Read the rest

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Turns out your yawn is doing way more than signaling boredom or fatigue - it's actually reorganizing the flow of fluids in your brain in ways scientists never expected.

Researchers at Neuroscience Research Australia recently placed 22 volunteers in MRI scanners and had them yawn, breathe deeply, and suppress yawns to examine what was actually happening inside their heads. — Read the rest

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There's an obscure federal law that might nullify the TSA's new $45 fee for flying without REAL ID. The Paperwork Reduction Act requires federal agencies to get Office of Management and Budget approval before collecting information from the public. The TSA's fee form? — Read the rest

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This week marks the 50th anniversary of Bill Gates' infamous "Open Letter to Hobbyists," in which the 20-year-old accused early computer enthusiasts of theft for copying his BASIC interpreter. "Most of you steal your software," Gates wrote in 1976. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Give your belongings some permanence with this pack of three KeySmart SmartCards, now just  $89.99 (reg. $119.97). 

With the KeySmart SmartCard with Wireless Charging (3-Pack), losing your wallet will become a thing of the past. It's an ultra-thin tracker that connects directly with Apple's Find My app. — Read the rest

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Eight women have publicly made allegations of sexual assault, misconduct, abuse, and coercion against Neil Gaiman, according to the LA Times. Now, Gaiman has broken his year-long silence on the accusations, calling them "completely and simply untrue" in a lengthy statement posted Monday. — Read the rest

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The current "cease-fire" in Gaza was sold to the world as the beginning of a long-term peace process that would stabilize the region, foster reconstruction, and provide a solution to generations of bloody fighting. Israel accepted the framework, but somehow, dead civilians after military strikes are still commonplace. — Read the rest

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Republican hopes to maintain control of Congress have entered the Find Out phase.

Faced with losing control of the House over his unpopular policies, Donald Trump pressured Texas and other states into gerrymandering Democrats out of office. California reacted by voting to redistrict Republicans out of their jobs in response. — Read the rest

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Steve Bannon wants ICE agents surrounding polling places this November. "We're going to have ICE surround the polls come November," Bannon said on his War Room podcast Tuesday. "We're not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again." — Read the rest

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