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Empathy in action (oxygen/Getty Images)

There's more than one empathy crisis

Andi Zeisler
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - AUGUST 28: U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) (C) speaks during a press conference at City Hall following a mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School on August 28, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. According to Minneapolis Police, a gunman fired through the windows of the Annunciation Church at worshippers sitting in pews during a Catholic school Mass, killing two children and injuring at least 17 others. The gunman reportedly died at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

Omar to Mace: Stay off X if you're drunk

Alex Galbraith
Florida's Republican state Sen. Randy Fine speaks with the media after winning the 6th District race to replace GOP former Rep. Michael Waltz, who is now President Donald Trump’s national security adviser on April 01, 2025 in Ormond Beach, Florida. Mr. Fine beat his Democratic opponent, Josh Weil. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

"Bigot": Dems call for Fine to resign

Alex Galbraith
Former President Barack Obama isn't shying away from addressing current issues of division and cruelty. Even when it involves him directly. (Kyle Mazza / Getty Images)

Obama calls out Trump's racist ape video

CK Smith
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The cost of protecting kids online

Jelinda Montes
A makeshift memorial for Alex Pretti outside of the Department of Veteran Affairs in Washington, D.C. (Mandel NGAN / AFP via Getty Images)

Even the quilters are protesting ICE now

Heather Digby Parton
This photo illustration displays a post by Donald Trump on Truth Social, with a map of Greenland in the background. (Photo illustration by Cheng Xin/Getty Images)

A fake presidency, with real fascism

Andrew O'Hehir
ANKARA, TURKIYE - NOVEMBER 7: In this photo illustration, Elon Musk's photo is displayed in front of Grok logo on a phone screen, in Ankara, Turkiye on November 7, 2023. (Photo by Muhammed Selim Korkutata/Anadolu via Getty Images)

AI is undressing women, children

Mariel Padilla - The 19th
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Chappell Roan performs on Day 3 of Outside Lands Festival 2024 at Golden Gate Park on August 11, 2024 in San Francisco, California. (Steve Jennings/FilmMagic/Getty Images)

Roan walks back Bardot tribute

Alex Galbraith
"Get me out of here" (Obbchao/Getty Images)

In 2025, we all wanted to be raptured

Coleman Spilde
President Donald Trump at the White House on Sept. 29, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump bashes Reiner in memorial post

Alex Galbraith
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The antidote to the Trump doomscroll

Alex Galbraith
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Sabrina Carpenter during the BBC Radio1 Big Weekend at Stockwood Park, Luton. Picture date: Sunday May 26, 2024. (Ian West/PA Images via Getty Images)

WH responds to Carpenter slam

Alex Galbraith
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AI fuels a new wave of political lies

Davina Hurt, Ann Skeet
Elon Musk and X, formerly Twitter, logo. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Has social media's reckoning arrived?

Sophia Tesfaye
Dolly Parton attends Dolly Parton's Rockstar VIP Album Release Party with American Greetings on November 16, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images for American Greetings)

Parton: "I ain't dead yet"

Alex Galbraith
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President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance after Trump signed an executive order on TikTok. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's TikTok deal is not what it seems

Sophia Tesfaye
The boundaries of boundaries (We Are/Getty Images)

Set boundaries, don't weaponize them

Andi Zeisler
Donald Trump uses a cellphone aboard Marine One before it departs Leesburg Executive Airport. (Photo by Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images)

Trump's Chicago meme is fascist bait

Alex Galbraith
Vice President JD Vance speaks to the press following a tour of the multiagency Federal Joint Operations Center at the Wilshire Federal Building on June 20, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Vance on RFK Jr. critics: "Full of s**t"

Blaise Malley
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A robot using artificial intelligence is displayed at a stand during the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, on May 30, 2024. (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

Is "clanker" a slur?

Alex Galbraith
Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes performs during Coachella 2010. (Photo by Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images)

The worst of all time?

Alex Galbraith
Sydney Sweeney attends the premiere of "Eden" during the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival at Roy Thomson Hall on September 07, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario. (Emma McIntyre/WireImage/Getty Images)

Sydney Sweeney, registered Republican

Alex Galbraith
TikTok logo displayed on a phone screen is seen through broken glass. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Police charge teens over TikToks

Aliyya Swaby - ProPublica
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