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Stars ditch Trump's "Freedom 250" concert series after they realize he's behind it
Rob Beschizza, Boing Boing
The Freedom 250 concert series, pitched as a "Great American State Fair" to take place on the National Mall over 16 days in July, looks like an enjoyable American birthday boozathon featuring a variety of contemporary and oldschool musical acts. When its Trum…
May 30, 2026, 1:44 AM
Judge orders Trump's name removed from the Kennedy Center
Rob Beschizza, Boing Boing
President Trump had his name added to the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, having stacked its board with cronies, then closed the center for "renovations" after credible performers began giving the fabled institution a wide berth. — Re…
May 29, 2026, 9:48 PM
Where is the Board of Peace's aid cash for Gaza?
Séamus Bellamy, Boing Boing
Freezer burn, plastic glasses, jumbo shrimp and Trump's Board of Peace. Y'all know an oxymoron when you read one. Guess which one of these three contradictions has failed to come through on providing billions of dollars of aid to Gaza? — Read the rest The po…
May 29, 2026, 4:56 PM
Here's the $250 bank note with Trump's mugshot on it
Rob Beschizza, Boing Boing
Introducing a forthcoming hypothetical $250 bill featuring President Trump's mugshot, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent seemed unable to suppress a faint air of amused dégoût — though it might be argued this is simply his customary manner of addressing other h…
May 28, 2026, 10:24 PM
Morris Day and Young MC nope out of Trump-linked festival
Jason Weisberger, Boing Boing
Continuing to bust moves, Young MC has joined Morris Day in walking away from Trump's big MAGA-palooza. The Trump-linked Freedom 250 festival, part of the planned Great American State Fair on the National Mall, is already shedding performers. However, after …
May 28, 2026, 6:23 PM
The Good Liars tried selling Trump bibles and got no takers
Grant St. Clair, Boing Boing
If you're not caught up on Trump's God Bless the USA Bible, let me give you a quick rundown: it's a King James Bible with the Bill of Rights and the lyrics to a Lee Greenwood song stuck in the middle. — Read the rest The post The Good Liars tried selling Tru…
May 28, 2026, 5:14 PM
Investigator found 40 White House sites hidden behind one private Cloudflare gate
Ellsworth Toohey, Boing Boing
An investigator who writes as The Drey Dossier dug through public web-certificate records and found 40 federal-looking websites all registered to the White House. Among them: a working copy of vote.gov, a passports.gov, and other agency staging sites. (The re…
May 27, 2026, 11:16 PM
Raising many questions, Grandpa Pudding Brains says he's "studied" circumcision for a long time
Jason Weisberger, Boing Boing
America's ongoing experiment in handing microphones to cranks took another turn when RFK Jr. floated the thoroughly debunked claim that early circumcision doubles autism risk, prompting Donald Trump to claim expertise on the matter as only he can: "I've studi…
May 27, 2026, 12:27 AM
27,224 people pre-ordered the Trump Phone
Rob Beschizza, Boing Boing
Sz´The Trump Phone was supposed to be made in America, but ended up being a white-label knockoff of something or other. If it finally exists (if not as a shipping product quite yet), the talent behind it might want to work on their security skills: a security…
May 26, 2026, 4:12 PM
Grandpa Pudding Brains pauses Memorial Day tribute to workshop a joke about dead soldiers named Donald
Jason Weisberger, Boing Boing
At Arlington National Cemetery, in a speech ostensibly honoring Americans who died in military service, Donald Trump somehow veered into a strange little stand-up routine about how many of the dead shared various first names while pausing to note, with his te…
May 26, 2026, 3:47 PM
OpenAI needs a 26x revenue increase to justify its buildout
Ellsworth Toohey, Boing Boing
J.P. Morgan ran the numbers on the AI buildout: to clear a 10% return on current capital expenditure, the sector needs to generate roughly $650 billion a year in revenue. The actual run-rate is about $25 billion. The five biggest hyperscalers — Amazon, Alphab…
May 25, 2026, 11:58 PM
US lost 4 million tourists in 2025 — and the World Cup won't fix it
Ellsworth Toohey, Boing Boing
Eighty million more people traveled internationally in 2025 than the year before. But they weren't coming to the United States. CNN's analysis of the tourism collapse: roughly 4 million fewer international visitors and $14 billion in lost spending — a 5.5% dr…
May 25, 2026, 9:43 PM
Stephen Colbert follows up Late Show finale by hosting Michigan public access program
Ruben Bolling, Boing Boing
On July 1, 2015, shortly before taking over "The Late Show" on CBS, Stephen Colbert unexpectedly spent an hour at midnight guest-hosting a public access television show in Monroe, Michigan, "Only in Monroe." Matt Solomon, at LateNighter, explains: "There's a…
May 25, 2026, 6:42 PM
Trump Mobile data breach may affect far more than its own customers
Séamus Bellamy, Boing Boing
As Rob mentioned on Friday, the Trump phone can't be found in the wild: the only models out there, as far as any outlet can see, were the units sent to nerds like me for review. But to make up for it, the company selling the things thought they'd do the Trump…
May 25, 2026, 6:38 PM
Trump not committing to attending son's wedding: "not good timing for me"
Rob Beschizza, Boing Boing
President Trump will "try" to attend his son Donald Jr.'s wedding to socialite Bettina Anderson, but the timing is "not good" for him. Responding to a reporter at the White House, he pointed out that the Iran war "and other things" are already on the schedule…
May 22, 2026, 1:50 PM
Democrats finally release 2024 autopsy, somehow forget to examine the body
Jason Weisberger, Boing Boing
After months of treating its 2024 election autopsy like the Ark of the Covenant, the Democratic National Committee has finally released the document, only for it to emerge as a 192-page error-strewn bundle that reportedly omits interviews with Kamala Harris, …
May 21, 2026, 6:17 PM
Police sue to stop Trump's apparent Jan. 6 loyalty rewards scheme
Jason Weisberger, Boing Boing
Nothing says law-and-order presidency like a possible rebate program for political violence. Having offered up a scheme that seats Donald Trump more as a comic book criminal and less like the sitting President of the United States, Police are suing to stop hi…
May 21, 2026, 5:58 PM
Trump phone is years-old knockoff with wrong number of stripes on U.S. flag logo
Rob Beschizza, Boing Boing
Imagined as an original made-in-America smartphone, but realized as a made-elsewhere knockoff, the $500 Trump Phone is finally here. It's an Alibaba-tier variant of the years-old HTC U24 Pro and has an American flag with the wrong number of stripes on it. — R…
May 21, 2026, 1:47 PM
Tennessee man jailed 37 days for a Trump meme wins $835,000
Ellsworth Toohey, Boing Boing
Larry Bushart, a Tennessee retiree who spent his career in law enforcement, will receive $835,000 from Perry County and Sheriff Nick Weems to settle the federal civil rights case he filed last December, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression anno…
May 21, 2026, 12:29 AM
DOJ quietly slips Trump what looks a lot like permanent audit invisibility
Jason Weisberger, Boing Boing
"What could he possibly be hiding?" is, admittedly, not the reassuring question we're all thinking. While Todd Blanche was apparently busy testifying before the Senate about other matters, the Justice Department reportedly posted a one-page addendum that — if…
May 20, 2026, 6:01 PM
China secretly trained Russian troops, and some have since fought in Ukraine
Séamus Bellamy, Boing Boing
China has done a lot to appear impartial whenever Russia's invasion of Ukraine comes up. Maybe "impartial" is the wrong word: the People's Republic of China has even talked up the idea of finding a peaceful outcome to the war. But it looks like all that has b…
May 20, 2026, 4:36 PM
Greenlanders offer Trump envoy the universally understood finger gesture for "no to annexation"
Jason Weisberger, Boing Boing
In what appears to have been a pilot program for "colonialism, but make it weirdly condescending," Trump emissary Jeff Landry reportedly tried to win over Greenlanders with MAGA merch and cookie promises, receiving in return a remarkably clear statement of lo…
May 19, 2026, 7:16 PM
The Norwegian Dawn cruise ship flunks health inspection
Jennifer Sandlin, Boing Boing
Fruit flies, mold, and refrigeration failures, oh my! Cruise ships sure are having a moment. Just in the first half of 2026, norovirus outbreaks sickened 115 people on the Caribbean Princess in early May, dozens on the Oceania Insignia in early April, and at …
May 19, 2026, 4:46 PM
WHO declares global health emergency over Congo Ebola outbreak
Séamus Bellamy, Boing Boing
The Democratic Republic of Congo has been hit by an outbreak of Ebola. According to the African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, the outbreak was discovered in the northeast of the African nation. It's not the first time that the country's citizens…
May 18, 2026, 7:39 PM
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