3+ hour, 54+ min ago   (552+ words) Matthew Woods (@thoughtaken) agreed to take his friend’s little sister for a motorcycle ride. But what seemed like an innocent gesture on social media has summoned Wattpad to his comment section. “Dylan made the tragic mistake of hitting me up,…...

5+ hour, 17+ min ago   (384+ words) In October 2020, from inside the White House, I stopped attending the Coronavirus Task Force meetings. I wrote to the vice president’s office in frustration that I had no time to spend teaching people who were “refractory to facts.” I did…...

5+ hour, 17+ min ago   (204+ words) Not much. I am not seeing the Talaricomania. Campaign signs aren’t determinative, but they’re not nothing. They are simply part of the body of evidence that I’m seeing here on the ground in the Lone Star State that this whole…...

9+ hour, 33+ min ago   (282+ words) “An American diplomat accused of possessing child abuse images was secretly seized from his London home and flown out of Britain by U.S. officials without British police being told,” the Daily Mail reports. Think You Know Politics? A new game…...

10+ hour, 17+ min ago   (129+ words) “Jimmy Kimmel’s interview with James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas’ coming election, already ranks as the late-night host’s second-most viewed YouTube video of 2026, less than three days after being uploaded,” The Wrap reports. “In the…...

10+ hour, 33+ min ago   (306+ words) Rep. Wyman Duggan is expected to run for Jacksonville Mayor, and he just got a big contribution from the company of a local CEO who would like to see Democrat Donna Deegan lose next year. First Coast Energy, the Jacksonville…...

12+ hour, 5+ min ago   (211+ words) The late-night host has explained that his talk with the Democratic candidate didn’t air on ABC due to “threats” from the Federal Communications Commission Jimmy Kimmel’s interview with James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas’ coming…...

13+ hour, 56+ min ago   (246+ words) The University of North Florida (UNF) is getting a grant to help pay for artificial intelligence (AI) utilization in updating research software code. The Sloan Foundation is providing the Jacksonville-based school $105,000 to fund AI assistance in the School of Computing....

14+ hour, 49+ min ago   (123+ words) “Brandon Johnson will seek a second term as Democratic mayor of Chicago, likely facing an uphill battle to stay in office as his opponents have raised millions ahead of next year’s race,” Bloomberg reports. “Ending months of speculation, Johnson announced…...

14+ hour, 50+ min ago   (139+ words) “Well I’ll say this, we’re leading China in AI. We’re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly I want to keep it that way, because whoever wins AI, wins. We can put guardrails in, we can do this…...