'Sugar daddy' sex scandal explodes inside Trump's counterterrorism HQ A top-level Trump counterterrorism official is under investigation amid claims she actively seeks out sugar daddies to maintain her exorbitant lifestyle, the Daily Mail can exclusively reveal.

She was running pockets like the Olympics

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1. Horniness is a national security threat.
2. “ I will love you forever.”

actually looking through Stoller's resume now, and he worked for Alan Grayson and Russell Brand in succession maybe he really did get some quality time with HR

also funny how many guys with hangups about "HR managers" have never once worked anything like an actual job in their life.

What time does the NFL Draft start? The answer may surprise you:

TikTok's Biggest Star Watched His $975 Million AI Deal Fizzle Out. What Happened? In January, Khaby Lame entered into a deal valued at $975 million. Now all parties have gone silent as the industry stands confused.

This is amazing (deragatory)

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Loved ones of a Hyde Park Academy student killed during the school’s dismissal last week are raising funds for funeral expenses and to help his family relocate. blockclubchi.co/4cDAP0F

Dramedy about vice buzzfeed in nyc 08-16 would bang

it pains me to say this but we really do need a prestige HBO dramedy miniseries about the 2008-2016 web publishing industry. this is how my generation can heal
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it's wild that BuzzFeed doesn't really exist anymore. also all the other websites yeah but that one in particular. gen z doesn't understand what BuzzFeed was and there's no real reference point you can give them now

the entire arc of Buzzfeed’s existence was wild. it went through a stage of being viral listicles and personality quizzes & then an era of being some of the best award winning journalism and then an era of being the Try Guys and podcasts & then irrelevant.

Solid record

Oh no now I've been struck my the memory of DeRay McKesson running for mayor of Baltimore on the strength of his online presence and getting 2.6% of the vote in the Democratic primary.

I think this is the thing to remember about Hasan Piker. No one knows who he is.

Expecting an apology from Phil Brooks? Who does this guy think he is, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia?

49ers general manager John Lynch said the team is using AI to evaluate draft picks. “The cool thing is you don’t need to be an expert.”

Good luck to the Niners!

During her ALT: Games feature, @alanahpearce.bsky.social said ‘stop being a snob to yourself’ – by which she meant, stop holding yourself to impossible standards and try/do stuff.

I haven’t stopped thinking about how much I do this to myself, a full 24hrs later.

I keep wondering if I should even bother continuing to cover this stuff because I’m so broke, and then this shit keeps happening. So my reporting definitely has value! Just not for me.

An NYT headline reading: Homeland Security Expands Deportation Fleet With High-End Jets

My headline from April 15 reading: Water is wet, and DHS's 'deportation fleet' boondoggle expands under Markwayne

The hed and dek of my story from February reading: ICE FLIGHTS Noem's luxury 'deportation' jet is the tip of the ICE-berg Kristi Noem's DHS has acquired at least nine new aircraft in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets. Gillian Brockell 26 Feb 2026 - 9 min read

Hey @nytimes.com, I already reported this earlier this week.

And the G650s you mention? I reported on those in FEBRUARY.

You credit NBC News and WSJ for first reporting parts of your story. Please credit me, too.

Started watching the Pitt recently. So amazing.

But it also was striking to see like, only one popular show that seems to actually address things like COVID, mass shootings, houselessness, opioid epidemic etc.

Our media really does for the most part play on escapism and erasure.

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dawg

this is where I come down for a huge proportion of the vibecession debate. Bidenomics was superb on the traditional indicators, but he also oversaw a near total withdrawal of the most generous welfare state in US history. most of that wasn’t his fault, but still

This is a good thread, and it's worth noting that the strategy of complaining that conservative ideas are being ignored *in spite of all the attention is being paid to them* is basic right wing strategy and has been for decades. It's long been the primary way of disciplining media as well.

The circle of death is:

Cut faculty (or non-replace) so you offer fewer classes so fewer people enroll so you cut faculty so you offer fewer classes so fewer people enroll so then the market has spoken.

How Big Tech Lobbied the EU to Hide Data Centers' Environmental Toll The European Commission has adopted industry-drafted language shielding data center emissions data from public view, report Nico Schmidt and Ella Joyner.

Microsoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide the environmental toll of their data centers, Investigate Europe reports in collaboration with Tech Policy Press and other media partners.

lmao they’re doing the gifted kid discourse for internet nazis

As I set out here, think that "Starmer simply unaware" is the most likely fit with his governing style. And that style is why the government is failing.

I think “Starmer is just a balloon with a face painted on it that his handlers attach to a stick and dangle in front of video cameras” was pretty obvious from 2021 or so, and certainly from that Hartlepool by-election onwards.

A screenshot from The Dagger of Amon Ra. The dialog box reads: "It’s too heavy. You don’t have room for it in your purse. It’s not yours. You can’t do anything with the shovel. You have more important things to do than use the shovel. Besides, the shovel is rusted into place."

Modern games: [invisible wall]

Retro games: A six-point presentation on why you are unworthy of this shovel.