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Moltbook, the AI social network freaking out Silicon Valley, explained

Did you notice something… weird on your social media network of choice this past weekend? (I mean weirder than normal.) Something like various people posting about swarms of AI agents achieving a kind of collective consciousness and/or plotting together for humanity’s downfall? On something called… Moltbook? Sounds important, especially when the post is written by […]

3 million new Epstein files, briefly explained

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: We have a new tranche of documents from the Epstein files — but not much more clarity.  What do we know? On Friday, the Justice […]

Republicans are normalizing the one reform they should fear most

Utah’s Republican governor, Spencer Cox, signed legislation over the weekend that will add two seats to his state’s supreme court — seats that Cox plans to fill shortly. The law is widely viewed as an effort to move Utah’s highest court to the right after it handed down several decisions that Republicans disliked. In September, […]

Why is Trump so obsessed with the Kennedy Center?

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he will be shutting down the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for two years starting in the summer. Trump claims the shutdown, which comes after a series of high-profile boycotts and cancellations, will allow him to perform “Construction, Revitalization, and Complete Rebuilding” that will make the Kennedy Center […]

Other first ladies had cash grabs. Melania tops them all.

Many Americans are facing severe economic hardship. But not the incoming president and first lady of the United States. In fact, the incumbent first lady has just accepted a media deal that will pay her at least seven times the income of the average American household. The year? 1932. The first lady? Eleanor Roosevelt, who […]