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Welcome to Another Winter of Severe Illness and Death!
Forget COVID and run-of-the-mill viral respiratory illness. The "Super Flu" is here—and experts want you doom-scrolling from beneath three blankets.
 • Jenna McCarthy
Apparently Puppies Are No Longer the One Thing We Can All Agree On
I sure hope none of my readers did something so awful as gift your children perfectly adorable pets for Christmas
 • Jenna McCarthy
Minnesota Forecast: 40 More Miles of Fraud
This week's political weather brought to you by an intrepid 23-year-old YouTuber
 • Jenna McCarthy
Hunter Biden Claims “Laptop from Hell” Never Existed
Oh, and the dog ate his rent check and the crack fairy planted all those videos in his accidentally public Dropbox.
 • Jenna McCarthy
From Punchlines to Politics: How Late Night Lost the Plot
Turns out when your "jokes" are nothing but partisan jabs, viewers notice.
 • Jenna McCarthy
FAFO: The Target Bully Edition
A viral harassment, an accidental hero, and the internet’s favorite plot twist.
 • Jenna McCarthy
Trump Speech Has Cardiologists* Alarmed
*Well, just that one guy—but wow, is he getting play.
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The Church of Peer Review and the Holy Doctrine of Shut Up
Jab-addict Paul Offit won't debate vaccine safety for a million bucks (but trust him, they're safe, okay?)
 • Jenna McCarthy
MAGA Wants Candace Owens to Stop Asking Questions
The movement that built its brand on skepticism isn’t handling internal scrutiny very well.
 • Jenna McCarthy
Trump Makes a High-Profile Hollywood Murder About... Trump.
What? You’re surprised?
 • Jenna McCarthy
ProPublica’s Chlorine Dioxide Panic, Explained
A case study in pre-baked conclusions, regulatory parroting, and pretending that reading the FDA website counts as reporting
 • Jenna McCarthy
Subscriber Spotlight: Artist Without an Off Switch, Heather Burns
(She’s kind of a big deal.)
 • Jenna McCarthy
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