Elon Musk is hitting back where it hurts. Just hours after Donald Trump dismissed him as a “train wreck” for launching a new political party, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO returned fire by reviving one of the right’s most radioactive conspiracy obsessions: the Jeffrey Epstein files. In a series of cryptic and mocking posts on X (formerly Twitter), Musk...
In 1896, Cambridge scholar and author M. R. James found English verses within a 12th-century Latin sermon in a Peterhouse Cambridge collection. James and another colleague identified the verses as excerpts of a lost romantic poem, dubbing it The Song of Wade. Little did they know that the discovery would trigger almost 130 years of fierce debate...
It seems meme stocks are back, and this time, the latest craze was sparked—somewhat accidentally—by a Canadian hedge fund manager named Eric Jackson. About three weeks ago, Jackson’s firm, EMJ Capital, bought shares of Opendoor Technologies, a San Francisco–based company that buys and sells homes online, at around $0.70 apiece. Since then, the...
This week, a 21-year-old Norwegian tourist claimed to have been turned away from entry into the U.S. after border patrol found a meme of a bald, puffy JD Vance on his phone. The government has since disavowed the man’s claims, but that hasn’t stopped the internet from taking the opportunity to remember just how much they love that meme. The tourist...
In his June 21 televised address from the White House, President Donald Trump declared that the U.S. had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program following airstrikes on three of its nuclear sites. The word was meant to project power, certainty, and victory. Instead, it has gone viral for all the wrong reasons. Within days, “obliterated” morphed into an...
Millions of Trump meme coins could flood the crypto market starting this week, potentially reshaping the future of one of the most controversial cryptocurrencies in circulation. Entities affiliated with President Donald Trump now have the right to sell a large portion of the meme coin named after him, $TRUMP, starting Wednesday July 17. The move...
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