Ali Breland

Yesterday, a user on X saw a viral post of Timothée Chalamet celebrating courtside at a Knicks game and had a simple question: Who was sitting next to him? The user tapped in Grok, X’s proprietary chatbot, as people often […]

J. D. Vance doesn’t look like himself. In recent days, memes have spread across social media in which the vice president’s face has been Photoshopped to give him cartoonishly chubby cheeks. He looks like a bearded baby or Humpty Dumpty.

For all the norms Donald Trump flouted in his first term, his approach to filling out his administration was familiar. He rooted around the same sets of professions as his predecessors, hiring lawyers, CEOs, academics, and military leaders, among others.

Last week, between posting photos of himself and slashing the federal bureaucracy, Elon Musk found the time to make some penis jokes. The world’s richest man briefly changed his display name on X to “Harry Bōlz,” apparently after learning that

Elon Musk spent Christmas Day online, in the thick of a particularly venomous culture war, one that would lead him to later make the un-Christmas-like demand of his critics to “take a big step back and FUCK YOURSELF in the

His endgame with X is now clear. Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic. Sources: Bloomberg / Getty; Getty. December 20, 2024, 11:45 AM ET After months of negotiation, Congress was close to passing a spending bill on Wednesday

Gavin McInnes, a co-founder of the Proud Boys, was extremely upset with me. He started listing things that I should feel (ashamed and terrible about myself) and that he wished would happen to me (trouble sleeping at night). “You should,”

Political violence is no longer confined to the radical fringe. An image of Luigi Mangione December 11, 2024, 5:53 PM ET It is tempting to think of political extremists as those who have had their brain flambéed by a steady

Marc Andreessen has been feeling pretty good since Election Day, and at the end of November, he went on The Joe Rogan Experience to say as much. Sitting in the podcast studio, grinning, Andreessen told Rogan that he was “very

The X exodus is weakening a way for conservatives to speak to the masses. An image of an exit sign with the X logo November 23, 2024, 7:30 AM ET Since Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022 and subsequently turned