Cory Booker finally got married, and the internet did what it does best. It took a wholesome wedding announcement and immediately turned it into a referendum on his sexuality. The hashtags were predictable; the jokes were recycled; and the years-old whispers about Booker being gay were suddenly trending again, as if 2025 were 2013 with […]
London: Britain’s most prestigious literary prize is getting a younger sibling. Booker Prize Foundation announced Friday it is setting up the Children’s Booker Prize alongside its existing awards for English-language and translated fiction.Like its sister prizes, the children’s award comes with a 50,000 ($67,000) purse. It will open for submissions early next year and the […]
Tempers flared on Capitol Hill as FBI Director Kash Patel endured his first Senate oversight hearing, trading insults and shouting over lawmakers in a session that often resembled a political brawl more than a policy review. What was billed as a chance to examine the bureau’s handling of crime and national security quickly became a […]
“If it looks like a Nazi salute and smells like a Nazi salute, but one guy’s a tech billionaire and the other is a Democrat senator, only one of them ends up being banned in Berlin.”Welcome to yet another episode of Who Gets Cancelled Today?—where the rules are made up, the outrage is algorithmic, and […]
US senator Cory Booker (Video grab from X @nicksortor) A gesture made by US senator Cory Booker at the California Democratic convention on Saturday is drawing widespread comparisons to a similar move by Elon Musk earlier this year, and now, Musk himself has weighed in.Booker concluded his speech to delegates with an extended-arm gesture that […]
