Last week the ghouls of DOGE came to gut NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) by firing all the probationary employees, because they were the easiest to fire. It was terrible, but it won’t be their last visit. I wanted to take a moment to focus on this small and amazing agency because in all the chaotic headlines, outrageous speeches, and feral conduct, it’s easy to miss how consequential the Trumpist destruction of NOAA will be, if no one can stop it. Americans, and to a degree the whole world, depend on the nerdy, devoted folks at NOAA to keep the fish biting, the crops abundant, the land peaceful, and their homes and businesses safe and dry.

The Farinellis' High River, Alta., home was targeted early Tuesday morning by a vandal. Both their vehicles sustained damage, including broken side mirrors and a ripped-off door handle. A chunk of concrete was also thrown through a front window of their home. “It’s a shame. Like that. Thou shalt love thy neighbour,” said Garrett Farinelli. “I understand the tension and drama, but we’ve been here for four years, flown the flag for two years.”

Imagine that Tim Walz had blurbed a book praising Mao Tse-Tung as a model for leadership in these troubled times—firm hand on the tiller, knew how to get things done. It would be a headline in every newspaper, the major topic on every talk show. The scandal would go on for weeks. It could decide the election. As it turns out, there’s a real-life case of super-extremist book-blurbing by a vice-presidential candidate, but unless you came across Michelle Goldberg’s excellent New York Times column or an item in USA Today, you probably haven’t heard much about JD Vance’s endorsement of Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (And How to Crush Them). Unhumans is a far-right call to arms by Jack Posobiec and his ghostwriter Joshua Lisec, with a foreword by Stephen Bannon. Who is Jack Posobiec? He’s a far-right propagandist and trickster, best known for promoting conspiracy theories like the Great Replacement, Stop the Steal, and Pizzagate—the proto-Qanon hoax that claimed Hillary Clinton and other top Democrats were engaging in child sex trafficking in the basement of a Washington, DC, pizzeria. (The restaurant has no basement.)

It’s literally just Fetterman and a handful of strategists who won’t put their name on it.

Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.

On Donald Trump’s first day in office, the Department of Defense announced a spate of hires, including 26-year-old Kingsley Wilson, who will serve as the Pentagon’s deputy press secretary. Wilson is the daughter of Steve Cortes, a longtime Trump advisor and right-wing commentator who promotes Latinos moving to the political right. Wilson is also a Trump 2020 campaign alum, and until taking the job at the DoD, ran digital media and communications for the Center for Renewing America, a pro-Trump think tank founded by Project 2025 architect Russell Vought. She’s also an overt internet troll with a long history of bigoted, xenophobic, and deliberately provocative shitposting. Wilson in many ways embodies the face of the new Trump administration: she’s worked in the MAGA world for seemingly her entire, very short career; besides her roles in the Trump campaign and at the Center for Renewing America, she also served as the national committeewoman for the DC Young Republicans. She also briefly worked at Gettr, the social media platform founded by former Trump aide Jason Miller and with deep links to fugitive Chinese mogul Guo Wengui. When she wasn’t doing any of that, Wilson was busy reeling off an endless tweets excoriating immigrants and trans people, advocating for what she called “zero immigration and mass deportations,” and bemoaning the “death of the West,” a term popularized by Pat Buchanan and often used by nativist, isolationist, and white nationalist groups to argue that immigration dilutes “Western” culture.

The Democrats had a chance to do something bold last night. Almost all of them blew it.

"We ended up with some absolutely adorable mice that have longer, woolly, golden-colored coats," Shapiro says. The mice also have fat similar to the mammoth, Colossal says, enabling them to survive in cold weather.

They're not trying so hard to hide it anymore.

The account, followed by JD Vance, previously boasted of being a white supremacist.

Ernst, an Iowa Republican, is one of the most influential voices in Congress on military topics. Ethics and military experts say her relationships with top Air Force and Navy officials created potential conflicts of interest.

Business leaders are paying as much as $5 million to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1 million apiece to dine with him in a group setting.

Harry Segal, senior lecturer in the Psychology Department and in the Psychiatry Department at Weill Cornell Medicine, says Trump’s awkward display at his rally was another clear sign of mental decline. Big surprise.

The U.S. Forest Service stewards 193 million acres of public lands from Alaska to Florida. So why is it so overworked and understaffed?

President Donald Trump’s long-threatened tariffs against Canada and Mexico went into effect Tuesday, putting global markets on edge and setting up costly retaliations by the United States’ North American allies. Starting just past midnight, imports from Canada and Mexico are now to be taxed at 25%, with Canadian energy products subject to 10% import duties. The 10% tariff that Trump placed on Chinese imports in February was doubled to 20%, and Beijing retaliated Tuesday with tariffs of up to 15% on a wide array of U.S. farm exports. It also expanded the number of U.S. companies subject to export controls and other restrictions by about two dozen.

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that all federal funding will stop for colleges and schools that allow "illegal" protests and that agitators will be imprisoned or sent back to the country they came from.

A Utah man who made millions at a young age is facing criminal charges accusing him of taking an elderly woman's money and not paying her bills, resulting in the utilities to her house being turned off.

Many in the anti-vax community turned on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Monday after President Donald Trump’s health secretary penned a column endorsing the vaccination of children against measles. At least one conservative influencer, Linda Catalina, asserted Kennedy was “no different” than former Joe Biden health adviser Anthony Fauci or “anyone else from the old regime.”

They're tiny, blobby, butt-shaped, and glow in the dark. What the heck are they? Scientists are still figuring them out.

The shadow president is gutting America’s vast humanitarian aid system. Millions may die.