Spoofing Caller ID For Fun and Profit
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Wall Street Journal has a piece today about how robocall scammers make money from Caller ID. I had to read it a couple of times before I got it, but apparently it works like this: Scammer calls me. My carrier automatically makes a Caller…
Scott Pruitt Is Sleeping Great These Days on a Trump Mattress
For chrissake, Scott, it’s just a relabeled Serta mattress. Try to contain yourself.Trump Home Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s the latest on our nation’s hardworking EPA chief: In mid-September, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator’s director of scheduling and advance, Millan Hupp, contacted the Trump International Hotel in Washington with…
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Baker Who Refused to Make a Same-Sex Wedding Cake
People demonstrate outside the Supreme Court on the morning of oral arguments in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission in December.Brian Cahn/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Supreme Court ruled on Monday in favor of Jack Phillips, a Colorado baker who had refused to make a cake for…
Apple May Not Be Quite as Outraged About Privacy as Tim Cook Pretends
Christoph Dernbach/DPA via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here is Apple CEO Tim Cook two months ago, slamming Facebook for its invasions of user privacy: “We’ve never believed that these detailed profiles of people, that have incredibly deep personal information that is patched together from several sources, should exist,”…
Most Americans Don’t Know Anyone Who’s Transgender. “Pose” Could Help Change That.
Actresses Mj Rodriguez, from left, Dominique Jackson, designer Christian Siriano and actress Indya Moore attend the premiere of FX’s “Pose”.Photo by Brent N. Clarke/Invision/AP/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Pose, the new series on FX that debuts on June 3, is a revelation. It shows that trans people can…
Kris Kobach Just Went on Parade With a Machine Gun
Pete Marovich/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It is tradition for candidates for political office to spend their weekend mornings marching in small-town parades, shaking hands and kissing babies. But on Saturday, Kansas Secretary of the State Kris Kobach—who is seeking the Republican nomination for governor—did it with a twist:…