Cracker Barrel Says They're Going Back to Old Logo After Backlash

TMZ Staff, TMZ

The tribe has spoken ... and Cracker Barrel is listening ... because the restaurant chain says it's ditching a new logo design that caused a ton of outrage and backlash. Cracker Barrel just announced they are switching back to their original logo,…

The Natural Endpoint of Trump’s Falsehoods

David A. Graham, The Atlantic

Someday, the president may need the American people to believe something he says—and they won’t.

Trump Weighs in on MAGA’s Latest Online Crisis: The Cracker Barrel Logo

Lucas Ropek, Gizmodo.com

The administration is doing impressive things on social media.

‘Less Fun Than a Barrel of Crackers’

John Gruber, Johnmccoy.org

Header image: S.O. Grimes general store, Westminster, Md., c. 1900. Image via Library of Congress. Another day, another shot fired in the culture wars: this time, the internet is losing its collect…

Trump Baselessly Claims It Must Be ‘Something Artificially’ Causing Autism

Yahoo Entertainment

The Armed Takeover of US Cities by the President Is Not a “Distraction”

Jason Kottke, kottke.org

Jamelle Bouie on Democratic politicians who maddeningly cannot recognize and acknowledge what is going on in the country. From

Nick Fuentes Is Having a Moment

Ali Breland, The Atlantic

No matter how far the 27-year-old influencer pushes his bigotry, his influence continues to rise.

Too MAGA For MAGA: Ryan Walters Preps For Criminal Defense, Gets Shunned By Linda McMahon

Timothy Geigner, Techdirt

The volume of stories about Ryan Walters, State Superintendent of Oklahoma, seems to be increasing. Walters is a Christian Nationalist by name, though the first of those words goes against all of what I learned about Christianity as a Catholic minor and curio…

Trump’s Right-Wing Socialism

David A. Graham, The Atlantic

The president is embodying the type of big government that right-wing politicians and thinkers have been warning about for a century.

Tim Walz Doesn’t Mince Words on Trump: ‘These Are Fascist Policies’

Ryan Bort, Rolling Stone

Tim Walz didn't mince words on Donald Trump at the Democratic National Committee's summer meetings in Minnesota, calling his policies "fascist."

Marc Maron Takes Aim at Netflix, Bill Maher, Dave Chappelle: ‘Fascism Is Good for Business’

Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone

On Pod Save America, Maron explains why he severed ties with Bill Maher and finds the consistent platforming of controversial comedians on platforms like Netflix to be considerably dangerous

Trump Stooges Keep Helping The President Indulge In His Vindictive Crime Fantasies

Tim Cushing, Techdirt

Even though Trump says it’s about the crime rates, it’s not actually about the crime rates. Just like he used the hallucination that the entirety of Los Angeles was under siege by “violent” protesters to justify sending in the troops, the reality was that any…

Fox News Blasts ‘South Park’s Trump Parody While Claiming That MAGA ‘Knows How to Laugh at Itself’

JM McNab, Cracked.com

They would laugh if it wasn’t so obviously unfunny

'From outgroup hate to ingroup love': How political crises cause a shift in viral online content

University of Cambridge, Phys.Org

While previous research shows outrage and division drive engagement on social media, a new study of digital behavior during the 2024 US election finds that this effect flips during a major crisis—when "ingroup solidarity" becomes the engine of online virality.

8 TV And Movie Female Presidents To Distract You From Reality

Jamie Lerner, Thoughtcatalog.com

These women killed it as the leaders of the free world.

Trump Goes Mask Off With Chilling Comment About Dictators

Edith Olmsted, The New Republic

Donald Trump claimed the American people are asking for a dictator—and he seems more than happy to give them what they want. While signing executive orders in the Oval Office Monday morning, Trump whined that people were up in arms after he suggested that he …

Juries Desperately Need More Moms. Here’s How to Make That Happen.

Michelle Mikhels, Slate Magazine

Abraham Lincoln once said that “the greatest service of citizenship is jury duty.”

“Who’s going to take care of your child?”: Parents reel from Trump ICE crackdown

Russell Payne, Salon

Republican policies are pushing a strained child care industry to a breaking point.

Trump loyalist pushes ‘false alarm,’ and it backfires spectacularly: ‘Seek help’

Rachel Cohen, nj.com

The congresswoman said it was "terrifying" as a mother of a student.

DOGE Targeted Him on Social Media. Then the Taliban Took His Family.

Avi Asher-Schapiro and Christopher Bing, ProPublica, Gizmodo.com

How DOGE left Mohammad Halimi’s life in tatters.

“We Are the World,” January 6th Style

Charles Bethea, The New Yorker

In a Miami studio where the Eagles and Bob Marley recorded, a choir of pardoned Capitol rioters tries to “reclaim” the national anthem, Charles Bethea writes.

Only One South Park Episode From The 2020s Has Entered IMDb's Top 10 List

staff@slashfilm.com (Witney Seibold), /FILM

South Park has been on the air for over 25 years, but of the series' best episodes, IMDb users have determined only one post-2020 is worthy of the top 10.

Trump has no basis to deploy troops to Chicago: Top Democratic US lawmaker

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker also accuses Republican US president of pushing to 'manufacture a crisis' to abuse power.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

Leigh Beadon, Techdirt

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Heart of Dawn with a comment about the idea that ICE and the Trump administration are stupid: You don’t abduct people and put them in concentration camps (foreign or domestic) by simply doing somethi…