New York City Mayor Eric Adams has issued a warning to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and others protesting the indictment of former President Donald Trump: “Be on your best behavior.” In a press conference on Monday, the mayor called out the Georgia congresswoman by name ahead of her planned …
Read More »Trump Protesters MIA Outside Manhattan Courthouse — For Now
A lone protester stood outside Manhattan’s courthouse on Monday afternoon, a thin showing in anticipation of former President Donald Trump’s scheduled arraignment on Tuesday. While the area outside of the 100 Centre Street courthouse was flush with reporters — who started lining up across the street around 2:45 PM to …
Read More »MTG Uses '60 Minutes' Interview to Call Democrats Pedophiles
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was interviewed by Lesley Stahl on 60 Minutes Sunday. The program was criticized for spotlighting the divisive congresswoman, who has touted conspiracy theories and called for more guns in schools even in the wake of tragedy, including following the school shooting in Nashville last week …
Read More »Silicon Valley is Spending $925 Million To Suck All the Carbon From the Air
THE TECH INDUSTRY is no stranger to moonshot ideas. But its most consequential climate gambit is aiming a little lower: specifically, the atmosphere. Four major tech companies have partnered to form Frontier, a $925 million fund to pay companies to pull carbon from the sky. The money will be spent …
Read More »Trump Keeps Slamming Judge His Own Lawyer Has 'No Issue With'
Donald Trump can’t stop bashing the judge who will preside over the Manhattan district attorney’s case against the former president. “The Corrupt D.A. has no case,” he wrote Sunday night on Truth Social. “What he does have is a venue where it is IMPOSSIBLE for me to get a Fair …
Read More »Inside Trump's Demands for a High-Profile Surrender: 'It's Kind of a Jesus Christ Thing'
Donald Trump insisted on turning his Tuesday arraignment into a spectacle, and he’s going to get his wish. A law enforcement official tells Rolling Stone that the former president was offered a chance to surrender quietly and be arraigned over Zoom. Instead, Trump opted for a midday, high-profile booking at …
Read More »Fungus Meat? Lab-Grown Halibut? Meet the Scientists Growing Your Next Meal
IN THE CORNER of IndieBio NY’s open workspace sit four guitars. Well, technically they’re acoustic and electric hollow-body and solid-body guitars — and a keytar. The instruments aren’t there just to keep the startup founders who come through IndieBio’s six-month program entertained. They also represent a culture of progressive thinking. …
Read More »Trump Continues to Raise Millions Off Indictment
Trump’s 2024 campaign has turned the former president’s criminal indictment into a massive cash grab. Jason Miller, a senior adviser to the former president, announced on Monday that the campaign has raised more than $7 million in the three days following his indictment. The Trump campaign launched a full-frontal fundraising …
Read More »This Simple Math Problem Could Be the Key to Solving Our Climate Crisis
T he climate crisis is many things: a test of whether we can overcome the vast gulfs between the Global North and the Global South, a challenge to a political system geared toward short-term thinking, a lens that magnifies past injustice and future deprivation. But it’s also, at heart, a …
Read More »Dan Crenshaw Wants to Solve School Shootings with 'More Guns'
In the wake of yet another school mass shooting — this time in Nashville, Tenn. — Rep. Dan Crenshaw asserted that putting more guns in schools would prevent these tragedies from occurring. “If we had a minimum of two armed guards or police officers at every single school in America, …
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