Monthly Archives: July 2022

Ex-cult member Ginni Thomas may have fallen back into old habits with QAnon-backed conspiracy theories

Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sits with his wife and conservative activist Virginia Thomas while he waits to speak at the Heritage Foundation on October 21, 2021. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is a former cult member. Her history as an anti-cult activist raises questions about…

GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger says he felt ‘dirty’ voting for Trump in 2020, but at the time he wanted to ‘have credit with the base’

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., listens as the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol holds a hearing in Washington, DC, on June 16, 2022. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Adam Kinzinger says he felt “dirty” after voting for Trump in the 2020 presidential election. Kinzinger, who has become a vocal Trump critic,…

Luxury rental buildings offer co-working spaces, private suites and podcast booths to lure tenants working from home, report says

Phone booth at Mastercard NYC Tech Hub Crystal Cox Luxury residential developments are wooing tenants with co-working spaces, per The New York Times. Office suites, podcast booths, and cubicles are being offered so residents can work from home. One executive told The New York Times that providing such amenities is like having a pool. Luxury…

White House doctor says Biden probably has the contagious Omicron BA.5 COVID variant but his symptoms ‘continue to improve’

US President Joe Biden prepares to remove his face mask at the White House complex on December 23, 2021 in Washington, DC. Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images White House doctor Kevin O’Connor said on Saturday that Biden likely has the Omicron BA.5 variant. Biden tested positive for COVID-19 last week and has been experiencing mild…

Democrats troll Trump by greeting him with a mobile billboard showing clips of Fox News announcing his election loss, report says

Former President Donald Trump reacts before addressing attendees during the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit on July 23, 2022. Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP Photo The DNC trolled Trump with a billboard campaign outside a Turning Point USA conference on Saturday. The mobile billboard circled Tampa and stopped outside the conference center ahead of Trump’s speech….

GameStop’s NFT marketplace appears to remove an image that referenced a defining moment of the 9/11 attacks

Thiago Prudencio/Getty Images GameStop’s NFT marketplace appears to remove an image depicting a man falling from a building. “Falling Man” was captured by AP photojournalist Richard Drew as part of a series of images. The platform reportedly approves each NFT creator. GameStop’s non-fungible token marketplace appears to have removed an image referencing a defining moment…

PlayStation 3: chasing the 1080p dream, part three – Gran Turismo 5 and the indie explosion

Welcome to the third part in the biggest DF Retro episode we’ve ever produced – a year-by-year look at how 1080p gaming fared on the PlayStation 3. Launched in 2007 touting its then-exclusive HDMI digital interface, Sony layered full HD gaming on top of its Cell processor and RSX ‘Reality Synthesizer’ as key selling points…