Switch 2 Nintendo Direct: Everything announced

The wait is almost over, Nintendo fans.  During today’s Nintendo Direct event livestream, we received a slew of information about Nintendo’s new upcoming console, Nintendo Switch 2. Mashable has compiled every single detail that was shared, including a release date. Here’s everything Nintendo announced: Switch 2 release date The Switch 2 officially has a release … Read more

DOGE Lands at NEH – TPM – Talking Points Memo

DOGE has made landfall at the National Endowment for the Humanities. They are demanding roughly $175 million out of an annual grant budget of just over $200 million and fire about 80% of state. In internal conversations the new bosses apparently speak of “select opportunities” soon to be offered to favored organizations. That sounds to … Read more

Trump’s tariff strategy is a surefire loser

At this writing, President Trump plans to impose sweeping new tariffs on imports from around the world. We’re told that “Liberation Day” tariffs will raise $6 trillion in federal revenue over the next decade, plus another trillion from automobile tariffs. But the only true “liberation” will be us Americans — consumers and taxpayers — being … Read more

U.S. revokes visas of Mexican band members accused of ‘glorifying’ drug kingpin

MEXICO CITY — The U.S. State Department has revoked the visas of musicians in a popular Mexican band after the group flashed big-screen images of the notorious Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as El Mencho, reputed leader of the powerful Jalisco New Generation cartel. The band, Los Alegres del Barranco, projected a likeness of the secretive capo during … Read more

Corinne Found the Perfect Way to Rebel Against ‘The Bachelor’

This post reveals “plot” points of episode 10 of The Bachelor season 21. According to the fabricated lexicon of The Bachelor, the show’s characters do not participate in a mere televised dating competition. They have been brought together, instead, on an emotional adventure that the show refers to, infallibly, as “a journey.” The Bachelor’s insistence … Read more

The Consequences of the Signal Breach

This week, The Atlantic reported that Trump officials shared military-attack plans in a Signal group chat and inadvertently included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined him to discuss. In the Trump administration’s insistence that the information in the “Houthi PC small group”—including the exact times American … Read more

State of the World from NPR : NPR

Members of the the Druze Military Council, paramilitary group in Sweida, Syria on the 8th of March, 2025. Emily Garthwaite for NPR hide caption toggle caption Emily Garthwaite for NPR The new government in Syria, formed after the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad, is working to disband local militias to form one national army. But … Read more

Boeing CEO admits “serious missteps” : NPR

Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg testifies before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Wednesday about current and planned changes the company is making, including safety. Jose Luis Magana/AP hide caption toggle caption Jose Luis Magana/AP Under sharp questioning from U.S. Senators Wednesday, the CEO of Boeing acknowledged a lax safety culture existed at … Read more

The battle for Mosul is over, but this hidden ISIS danger could lurk for years

MARCIA BIGGS: The former commander of coalition forces in Iraq, Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend, recently listed 81 locations where bombs were dropped, but had not yet exploded. Facilities used to make weapons were often on the list of high-value targets for the coalition. So now those places are twice as likely to contain dangerous items. … Read more