John Cook
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Tucker Carlson: Democrats arrested Trump because 7 years ago he said Bush lied about Iraq
On his Twitter show, Carlson said the arrest was "always going to happen" because Trump said "the one thing you're not allowed to say." → Read More
Actually Trump was indicted on 37 counts, not 7
Thirty-one of the charges against Trump are over alleged violations of the Espionage Act for "willful retention of national defense information." → Read More
Supreme Court rules — just barely — that racial gerrymandering still violates voting rights
The decision comes as a surprise to court watchers who expected the Supreme Court to gut the Voting Rights Act. → Read More
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. compares Elon Musk to patriots who died fighting in the American Revolution, blames anti-depressants for mass shootings
RFK Jr. also laid the blame for the massive increase in mass shootings not on guns, but on pharmaceutical companies for marketing antidepressants. → Read More
We found Jeffrey Epstein's other little black book from 1997. Search all 349 names in our exclusive database.
Found in the 1990s and recently retrieved from a storage unit, the book connects Epstein to Melania Trump's best friend and other prominent figures. → Read More
Jeffrey Epstein set Elon Musk's brother up with a girlfriend in effort to get close to the Tesla founder, sources say
Two sources said Jeffrey Epstein set Kimbal Musk, the brother of Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, up with a member of his entourage. → Read More
Source: Jeffrey Epstein ordered 3 couples in his entourage to get married
Business Insider has learned of a previously unreported marriage between two women in Jeffrey Epstein's entourage — one a US citizen, the other from Eastern Europe. → Read More
Source: Jeffrey Epstein ordered 3 couples in his entourage to get married
Business Insider has learned of a previously unreported marriage between two women in Jeffrey Epstein's entourage — one a US citizen, the other from Eastern Europe. → Read More
Source: Jeffrey Epstein ordered three couples in his entourage to get married
Business Insider has learned of a previously unreported marriage between two women in Jeffrey Epstein's entourage—one a U.S. citizen, the other from Eastern Europe. → Read More
Jeffrey Epstein and Sen. Dianne Feinstein's husband were co-investors in an exclusive private equity fund
Business Insider found ties between multi-millionaire convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein and the spouses of prominent political figures. → Read More
Like Mike Flynn, Monica Crowley Worked as an Unregistered Foreign Agent
In January, Monica Crowley, a former Nixon acolyte expected to be nominated to the incoming Trump administration’s National Security Council, removed herself from consideration after revelations that she had plagiarized significant portions of her doctoral thesis and a 2012 book. Two months later, Crowley was back in the news with a new job, having filed paperwork with the Justice Department… → Read More
Thirteen Women's Strike Protesters Arrested at Trump Tower
Thirteen members of the International Women’s Day Strike were arrested outside of Trump Tower in Manhattan this earlier this afternoon, according to the NYPD. → Read More
How Facebook Extracts False Confessions From Publishers
Most publishers of news and information have policies governing their relationships to advertisers. Generally speaking, these policies are tailored to suit the goals of those publishers and the expectations of their audiences. Some publishers feel comfortable working closely with advertisers to generate stories and videos that appeal to those advertisers, others, such as Gizmodo Media Group, do… → Read More
Kanye West Thinks His Wife's Stupid App Is a Rip-Off
Fatherhood changes a man, which explains why Twitter oracle Kanye West took a charmingly domestic turn tonight, warning parents everywhere of the dangers that stupid little iPad games present when placed in the hands of children: Those stubby little fingers will click on those colorful in-app purchase buttons, racking up charges to daddy’s iTunes account. → Read More
Nick Gillespie is a Rich Son of a Bitch
Nick Gillespie, a leather-jacket-wearing 51-year-old libertarian with a remarkable head of hair, is attacking hapless New York Mayor Bill de Blasio as a rich “fat cat” in the Daily Beast, because de Blasio made $217,656 last year (not to mention $65,000 in rental income). All told, that’s five times the median household income in New York. De Blasio poses as a working class hero, Gillespie… → Read More
Here Are the 'Career-Ending' Marco Rubio Rumors BuzzFeed Wants to Write About Without Writing About
BuzzFeed, your go-to source for lists of animals, snuff videos, and racial superiority propaganda, has posted a fascinating new political story about the persistent personal rumors dogging Sen. Marco Rubio. Well, "about" might not be the right word. The story, by McKay Coppins, is premised on the existence of the rumors, and clearly relies on reporting and interviews during which the rumors were… → Read More
Why Won't the Post Name CIA Counterterrorism Chief Michael D'Andrea?
The Washington Post reported this morning that, pursuant to CIA Director John Brennan's vaunted re-organization plans, the chief of the agency's counterterrorism center has been unceremoniously reassigned. The newspaper declined to report this name, however: Michael D'Andrea. → Read More
Here Are All the White House Pool Reports
Much of the mundane, day-to-day media coverage of the president's activities is conducted under an arrangement that Matthew Yglesias has called a "mutually agreed upon plagiarism pact"—the pool report. Convention dictates that a reporter bear witness to essentially everything the president does outside the White House, but it would be logistically unworkable and economically inefficient for each… → Read More
CIA Source: Putin Has the Flu
Russian president Vladimir Putin, who has not been seen in public since March 5 and is feared in some panicky circles to have died or worse, has the flu, a CIA source tells Gawker. Or at least that's what the CIA thinks. → Read More
Do You Use "Butt Wipes" And If So What the Fuck Is Wrong With You?
The New York Times has seen fit to promote the efforts of an attention-seeking "viral" marketing firm to sell "butt wipes" to adult humans, to wipe their butts with. The firm, Dollar Shave Club, claims that "51 percent of guys use butt wipes." This is a vile and pernicious falsehood. No one uses butt wipes. Don't use butt wipes. → Read More