Tom McKay
The RNC Is Going to Get Someone Killed
Absolutely no one thought Donald Trump and his re-election campaign would learn their lesson after a plague rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma in June that...
an Unflinching Portrait of a Pizzagater
In 2016, a heavily armed North Carolina man barged into a Washington, DC-area pizza joint, intending to investigate a baseless conspiracy theory that it...
Facebook’s QAnon Ban Is Too Little Too Late
Content and moderation decisions by tech companies are increasingly the focus of unending kicking and screaming—to the point where it’s now essentially a campaign...
AI Beats Air Force Pilot in DARPA’s Simulated Dogfight Contest
Anyone remember the 2005 sci-fi movie Stealth? As far as I can remember, it involves a secret, artificially intelligent U.S. Air Force fighter plane...
Trump Hints He’s Open to Pardoning Edward Snowden
Donald Trump—who once demanded that former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden be executed for leaking classified intel on dystopian surveillance of U.S. citizens—has...
Facebook Bans One Its Largest Qanon’s Groups
Facebook has banned one of the largest groups devoted to the far-right, rabidly pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory, Business Insider reported on Friday.A Facebook spokesperson...
House Dems Say Trump Admin Got Played for Chumps on $644 Million Ventilator Deal
Notably, the April 2020 contract followed Trump’s decision at the end of March to invoke the Defense Production Act to compel General Motors and...
Boris Johnson Calls Anti-Vaxxers ‘Nuts,’ Finally Issues Mask Mandate
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson—whose government is not exactly known for his successful handling of the novel coronavirus pandemic—said he thinks that anti-vaxxers are “nuts”...
Coronavirus Task Force Report Shows 18 States Are in the ‘Red Zone’
As the U.S. shattered records on Thursday with over 77,000 newly confirmed cases and the nation’s death toll has exploded to nearly 139,000, an...
