My Adventures at a Camp for Transgender Men
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Randi strolls around the dining hall on the first day of camp wearing a worn leather holster on his belt, but no gun. Instead, he’s packing an STP (“stand to pee”) device that, in case it isn’t obvious, helps men without penises urinate while standing up.…
As California Burns Again, Survivors Return Home to Total Devastation
“We hadn’t even gotten off the ground yet,” he said. “Now it’s in the ground.” It’s not the expensive espresso machines, the cars, or the kitchenware that Harper is most upset about. It’s the items that can’t be replaced: snow globes his children made for him out of old peanut butter jars, and his wife’s…
Intel Community Says North Korea Is Deliberately Deceiving Us
Yonhap News/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After the summit in Singapore, reporters asked President Trump how fast we could expect progress on denuclearization. “It will go pretty quickly,” he said. “The timing will go quickly….it’s going to go very quickly. I really believe that it’s going to…
The Lorax, a Holocaust Prophecy DVD, and Other Weird Stuff People Have Sent Rick Perry
An individual whose name was redacted and company listed as unknown gave Perry a hardcover copy of Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax, the urgent tale of a mustachioed environmentalist creature who speaks for the trees when greedy industrialists chop them down. The next month, Perry proposed staggering cuts to the Energy Department’s budget, including completely eliminating…
The Pentagon Just Gave up the Pretense of Deterring Conflict
U.S. Department of Defense Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a shift that defied twenty years of precedent, the US Department of Defense changed the mission statement on its website recently. Instead of using its 2 million staff members to “deter war,” as has been its stated mission since the Clinton administration, the department will “provide…
Up Is Down and Red Is Black: Federal Deficit Edition
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s the federal deficit by month for the past three years: As you can see, the deficit through April is bigger than both of the last two years—and since April is tax-collection month and it went poorly this year, the FY18 year-end deficit is likely…