A man arrested after police found pipe bombs in a vehicle has frequently posted conspiracies about the 2020 election, Covid-19, and immigrants.

Morgan Spurlock, the filmmaker and former CNN series host whose McDonald’s documentary “Super Size Me” was nominated for an Academy Award, died of cancer complications Thursday, according to his family.

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has been interviewed in Pirate Wires by Mike Solana about social media and why he left the Bluesky social network site and the Bluesky company board. [Pirate Wires, archive] Solana works at Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, so Pirate Wires is the sort of reactionary twaddle you would expect from such a background. The “culture” section, goodness me. Dorsey got Bluesky started, originally as the reference implementation for a distributed protocol to serve as a new backend for Twitter. He supplied a pile of cash and hired the original team. The thing that really upset Dorsey: Bluesky users demanded moderation and Bluesky put it into place. Yeah, that was the whole issue.

Training to violently assault protestors this week went bad for the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office, when chemicals used for crowd control leaked into the air around Portola Elementary School, affecting more than a dozen students and at least one adult. Tara Moriarty, director of communications for the Sheriff’s Office, said the agency was doing a routine training session for crowd control tactics inside a structure on an isolated section of the San Bruno Jail property. “Unfortunately, gas from inside the structure drifted outside to a nearby elementary school where teachers and students reported experiencing symptoms including burning sensations in the eyes, nose, and throat,” Moriarty said. “The San Francisco Sheriff’s Office and other Bay Area law enforcement agencies have been conducting training at this site for more than 20 years. This is an unprecedented situation that we take very seriously.”

But the evidence points to key differences in the brains of our species and those of Neanderthals that allowed modern humans (H. sapiens) to come up with abstract and complex ideas through metaphor – the ability to compare two unrelated things. For this to happen, our species had to diverge from the Neanderthals in our brain architecture.

The shocking revelation this week about how the Nittany Lions treated a suicidal player is indicative of a broader epidemic in the sport, where team physicians routinely side with coaches over players’ medical needs. After a Penn State football player attempted to kill himself by jumping out of a window, and while he was receiving consequent psychiatric care, head coach James Franklin and athletic director Sandy Barbour allegedly attempted to get the player medically disqualified from the team—thus revoking his college scholarship—to open up another scholarship they could use to recruit another player for the next season. So testified Dr. Pete Seidenberg, the team’s former primary care physician, on Tuesday in the civil trial of a lawsuit brought by Dr. Scott Lynch, who was Penn State’s director of athletic medicine until he was fired—wrongfully, he alleges—in 2019.

Google’s new AI Overview feature is telling users a whole bunch of wrong answers.

President Joe Biden trails Donald Trump by approximately one point in national polls, according to FiveThirtyEight. The gap is larger in most of the so-called swing states, including Pennsylvania (2.1 per cent), Arizona (4.3 per cent), Georgia (6.1 per cent), and Nevada (seven per cent). Moreover, in both 2016 and 2020, most polls ended up understating Trump’s support. This year, the head-to-head polls and Biden’s unpopularity have made many Democrats anxious about the coming election, but that feeling does not appear to have pervaded the White House. Axios reported last week that, “in public and private, Biden has been telling anyone who will listen that he’s gaining ground—and is probably up—on Donald Trump in their rematch from 2020.” (The Axios story says this sense of optimism is also shared by his “team.”) One of the most prominent Democrats who seems to share Biden’s sense of optimism is Simon Rosenberg, a longtime Party strategist who runs the Substack Hopium Chronicles, and who is known to share good polls and good vibes with his audience on Twitter. During our conversation, which has been edited for length and clarity, we discussed Trump’s polling numbers, whether the polls were really wrong in the 2022 midterms, and whether it is concerning that the White House is not more concerned.

Companies in the oil, hotel, meat and other sectors are price-gouging the US public. They’re not hiding it, either

The Justice Department has filed a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and parent company Live Nation Entertainment, accusing them of running an illegal monopoly over live events in America and driving up prices for fans.

The Netzah Yehuda battalion has a dedicated U.S. nonprofit to support its operations — whose president Stephen Rosedale is supporting AIPAC’s political agenda.

Across the country, the Republican Party’s rank-and-file have turned on the GOP establishment. In Michigan, this schism broke the party — and maybe democracy itself.

Deranged crank, Angela Stanton King, a former Trump supporter who joined the campaign in December, was a high-profile figure in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s circle.

The Department of Justice will call for the breakup of Live Nation and Ticketmaster in an antitrust lawsuit set to be filed on Thursday, according to Bloomberg News and the New York Times. The lawsuit is expected to claim that Live Nation has taken abusive steps to squash competition in the live event ticketing space.

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Iago, surprised.

The private event, which was billed as a policy discussion hosted by two tech founders, occurred a month after the FBI seized Adams’ electronic devices.

College administrators are bracing for the new reality of sharing revenue directly with athletes as part of the terms of the House settlement agreement. For a year now, Drew Weatherford has worked in the shadows across college athletics. He’s held clandestine meetings with representatives from upwards of 50 Football Bowl Subdivision programs — dozens of athletic directors, a few university presidents, even some school board members and chief financial officers. There were phone calls from his office, Zoom chats in hotel lobbies and in-person gatherings at coffee shops. Most of them unfold in similar fashion. Gregarious and charming with a sweeping white smile, Weatherford, the former FSU quarterback-turned-private capital investor, presents a slide deck detailing a project that he and co-partner Gerry Cardinale of RedBird Capital Partners launched last year. Their goal is quite simple: Infuse instant cash into major college athletic departments. “No school has said, ‘No, that is not something we would consider,’” Weatherford said.

Department of Conservation fines 50-year-old after seeing footage of stunt on social media, and described his behaviour as ‘a blatant example of stupidity’

More people were killed by U.S. law enforcement in 2023 than any other year in the past decade — and it's increasingly happening in small towns and rural areas.