Trump Looked at Jon Husted's A$$, and Now We All Have To
"I don't do this with men very often." Very often. Basically, the locker-room talk has entered its Top Gun/Heated Rivalry era.
The science fiction writer
Lawrence Winnerman
Lawrence Winnerman is a science fiction writer in Fort Wayne, Indiana. After twenty-five years leading technology programs at Amazon and Microsoft, he was chief operating officer of Blue Amp Media. In his Substack publication, The Hinge & The Near Field, he writes about AI and democracy and is serializing his novel Light Shines Through. He co-hosts The Daily Whatever Show.
Stories by Lawrence
Susan Collins’s Allies Can’t Find Maine with a F@#king Map
A GOP super PAC aimed its Troy Jackson attack ad at the wrong Portland, 3,000 miles off. Basically, the grown-ups are not in charge.
May Their Memories Be a Blessing (to Nobody)
Ukraine hit Yandex three times in four days. The reply guys went quiet. We have questions.
Ukraine Took Out the Bot Farm’s Servers, and Twitter Is F@#king Delightful Again
A bot-traffic chart flatlined at zero, Yandex’s status page called a fire “power interruptions,” and my mentions are nothing but people. Real people! Yippee-ki-yay.
Hegseth Wants You to Watch a Man Get Shot: F@#ked Up Friday
The chat had to choose between a public execution and a deepfake marketplace. Nobody won.
You Have Died of Dysentery
The Oregon Trail disease is back, it's an STI now, and the CDC filed it under food poisoning.
Trump Keeps Committing Treason Live on Camera
Article III defines exactly one crime. He is committing it on tape, to applause.
Trump Called Two American Cities a “Small Price.” Hurricane Isaias Would Like a F@#king Word.
Twenty-six days before the midterms, the Gulf is about to send Republicans an invoice. Some might call it karma, but lives are at stake.
Ottumwa, Iowa Invited Religious Freedom and Got Exactly What It Ordered
A Satanic invocation sent a pastor into curse control. The warning had already been delivered.
Trump Renames Artificial Intelligence After the One Thing It Isn’t Yet
The executive order tells every federal agency to say “Super Intelligence,” then assigns someone to figure out what that means
TDWS: So There's a Russian Plague...?
Dana calls Lawrence for the scoop--and you all get to listen in.
Russia Built a Building That Says ANTI-PLAGUE. Then It Had a Plague.
Six days, a dead lab tech, two hundred people in quarantine, and not one official who will say the word.
Win the Senate, Lose the Court: The GOP’s Lame-Duck F@#k-You
Alito left the door open. Republicans have walked through that door before
A 13-Year-Old, a Judge, and No Lawyer Plus an AI Torture Chamber & the Cornell 7: F@#ked Up Friday
The chat voted through tears, and nobody won this one.
Trump Made a 13-Year-Old Be His Own Lawyer. It’s Exactly as F@#ked Up as It Sounds.
No lawyer, two bad choices, and a deportation order for a kid who told the judge, “I have no one.”
September Was Normal, Obviously
The Daily Whatever Press presents our monthly Unhinged But Accurate story recap for September 2026. (Everything is fine; why do you ask? 😳)
The Right Just Discovered Tillamook’s Halal Cheese. They’re About 10 Years Late.
The cheese didn’t change. A vegetarian enzyme did its job in 2016, and America’s outrage machine just declared jihad on cheddar.
Effed-Up Friday: Don Jr., Brendan Carr, and a Dead Whale
Dash MacIntyre and Ellie Leonard join Lawrence Winnerman to pitch the week’s worst news: Don Jr.’s oligarch wedding, Brendan Carr, and a memo on dead whales.
TDWS: Effed-Up Friday with Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
We couldn’t even fit in all the crazy news this week
Parents! Don't Do This.
We know you’re worried about your baby in college. Still--just, no.
Effed-Up Friday with Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.—This Friday, Sept 18
Effed-Up Friday with Julie Roginsky
A very special episode of the show to commemorate the 25th anniversary of September 11
A Legion of Children Before the Civil War
From Elon Musk? Ew, no. Just….Ewwww.
