There are no ‘girl pushups’ — (All of the names in this piece have been changed. Well, except my own.) I had just taken the helm as interim director of the neighborhood summer children’s swim team after an abrupt exit by the previous leader. It was late in the planning season and our swim team board…

Sham candidates, state interference, and corrupt voter influence reveal the GOP as masters of deception — The GOP would have you believe that widespread election fraud is the reason for at least 250 newly proposed laws in 43 states socialized to curtail widespread election fraud. Voter impersonation, ballot petition fraud, registration fraud is wild. …

Walmart’s brutal self-own actually poises them to battle Amazon — “We fail our customers today,” reads the first bullet in a slide from a Walmart planning deck to improve customer omnichannel experience, first obtained and reviewed by Insider. That brutal honesty and transparency set the tone for their project, codenamed Project Glass, which aims to stop losing customers to online…

But that’s not the most creepy part of the recommendation algorithm — There I sat, scrolling through my Facebook feed, scanning updates from friends, groups, and sponsored ads for monthly murder mystery boxes, beer mugs crafted from baseball bats, and useless crowdsourced products. I mean, who needs an AI-powered flight control system for paper airplanes — technology that’s so sophisticated it can…

CPAC 2021 Republican stage resembles Nazi SS insignia — Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to speak today at the Conservative Political Action Conference, commonly known as CPAC, to close out a four-day medley of leading GOP keynote speakers. …

They dropped support of gender equality and inclusion in a matter of hours — On Thursday, Hasbro announced changes to the nearly 70-year-old Potato Head brand. The iconic toy consists of a plastic body and small holes where various accessories could be plugged to create limitless forms: A Mr. Potato Head with glasses, smiles, and varieties of footwear and hair among them. The brand…

“We proudly take responsibility,” say Trump supporters — Yesterday, during a hearing about the January 6 Capitol riot, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) revived a conspiracy theory from January, stating that “provocateurs” and “fake Trump protesters” were to blame for the violence, destruction, and death. His evidence, gleaned from an article authored by J. Michael Waller in The Federalist…

As retold by Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi — The following is an adaption of the classic fable “The Scorpion and the Frog,” as retold in an abridged timeline of the second impeachment of Donald Trump. In the lead roles are Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the U.S. …

Recipe reveals how ‘influencers’ spark online division and real world extremism — In July 2019, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) claimed that they had “no evidence of Russia actively carrying out information operations against pizza toppings,” but that didn’t stop the agency from using the benign controversy as a teachable moment; demonstrating how easily actors with nefarious intent foment unrest…