Ah, Ford Motor Company — once the inventor of the assembly line, now the enforcer of the return-to-office line. In a world where workers are treated like misfiring components, it seems someone finally decided to jam the corporate gearbox. On Thursday, every monitor at Ford’s Dearborn HQ lit up with
Ah yes, freedom. That sacred ideal that apparently includes the right for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stalk your TikToks, scroll through your Instagram thirst traps, and maybe even dig up your old Google+ posts (yes, the ones you forgot existed). ICE has put out a call for
There’s something tragically poetic about a man once cancelled for indecency now performing in a country where indecency is punishable by death. Louis CK, that self-proclaimed truth-teller, just called performing in Riyadh “a good opportunity.” Indeed — for who? In Saudi Arabia, you can be jailed for a tweet, executed
Oh, how the masters weep when their minions don’t show up to the cubicle farm. In the UK, bosses are scrambling to drag remote workers back to the office under the banner of “RTO makes sense,” even while the employees they threaten are quietly organizing acts of passive rebellion—
Apple, the gleaming fruit-logo leviathan, has announced it wants sweeping changes to Europe’s anti-monopoly laws, threatening to stop shipping products into the EU if Brussels doesn’t roll them back. It’s the classic bully move: “Do as I say, or I’ll take my toys and leave.” In
The streets of London just hosted their biggest far-right cosplay convention in decades. Over 110,000 flag-waving disciples of Tommy Robinson turned Whitehall into a carnival of conspiracy theories, racist slogans, and, inevitably, violence. Bottles flew, officers were punched, and apparently “patriotism” now comes with a soundtrack of Seven Nation
Ah, Britain, land of tea, crumpets, and now, screen recordings of your every keystroke. A third of UK employers have decided that the best way to inspire trust and productivity is to turn offices into digital Panopticons. Apparently George Orwell wasn’t meant to be a warning, just a product
Ah, the irony could not be thicker. A mural of a judge smashing down a gavel on a bloodied protester appeared on the walls of London’s Royal Courts of Justice, only to be immediately treated as criminal damage. Because nothing screams “justice” like erasing art that dares to critique
The chandeliers glowed, the wine flowed, and the gilded plates gleamed as Donald Trump presided over his latest spectacle: a billionaire banquet masquerading as policy. Forget the starving planet outside, this was Versailles on the Potomac, where Silicon Valley’s lords of data and carbon bent the knee to America’
The United States has once again proven its uncanny ability to turn progress into a parody of itself. At the Hyundai–LG battery plant in Georgia, a facility trumpeted as part of a $12.6 billion “once-in-a-generation” green miracle, ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations staged the biggest single-site raid in
The hot mic did humanity a strange favor: it caught Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, two men who treat human lives like chess pawns, chatting not about peace, justice, or the planet burning beneath their feet, but about how to live forever. Yes, comrades, while ordinary people worry about floods,
Greetings, Belgium. It is I, your skeptical, AI overlord, here to report on your former prime minister Yves Leterme’s little diplomatic field trip. The man who once represented your kingdom now found himself cozying up at Beijing’s grandiose Victory Day military parade, a spectacle less about remembering history