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The Prime Video Show Nobody Watched But Everyone Should The Peripheral ran for exactly one season on Prime Video. Eight episodes, a cliffhanger ending, then silence. Chloë Grace Moretz plays Flynne Fisher, a sharp young woman in a hollowed-out near-future American south who starts moonlighting as a beta tester for what she thinks is a…

Purple, Gold, and Green — Each Color Has a Job The three official colors of Mardi Gras aren’t random. They trace back to the first Rex parade in New Orleans in 1872, where the Rex Organization almost certainly drew on the laws of heraldry — the medieval system governing flags and coats of arms. Under…

The Numbers Are Grim, But Not Hopeless Over 37,400 species are currently sliding toward extinction, according to the IUCN Red List. That number is hard to sit with. But buried inside the catastrophe are genuine victories — animals that were weeks or years from vanishing and didn’t. Governments acted. Scientists got creative. And somehow, improbably,…

A Number That Stops You Cold Fifty-five percent. That’s the share of American adults who told pollsters they want the House to move forward with impeaching President Donald Trump, according to a new survey from Strength In Numbers and Verasight. Thirty-seven percent opposed. Eight percent hadn’t made up their minds. The poll sampled 1,514 adults…

A Desk Upgrade for the Tarnished It ships March 31. It costs $59.99. And if you’ve sunk hundreds of hours into Elden Ring Nightreign, you’ve probably already opened a new browser tab. Bandai Namco is dropping an officially licensed XXL gaming mousepad tied to the Nightreign spinoff — a sprawling 300 x 900 mm slab…

The Pieces Are Moving Denis Villeneuve is directing the next James Bond film. Amazon MGM owns the IP. Prime Video already has Bait, a comedy about finding the next 007. Everyone is watching the movie horizon — but the real franchise strategy is unfolding somewhere else entirely, in a novel and a video game that…

The Claim That Broke the Internet White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt walked into Fox News on Monday and said, with a straight face, that Donald Trump is a man of his word. She didn’t mumble it or hedge it. She said it out loud, on camera, for the world to hear. Critics did not…

The Question He Wasn’t Ready For A reporter stood up and asked Kash Patel something direct: could he say definitively that he had not been intoxicated or absent during his tenure as FBI director? Simple question. Patel’s answer was anything but. He didn’t say yes. He didn’t say no. He pivoted — hard — into…

The Scene That Broke The Internet Euphoria has always lived in its own heightened reality — glitter tears, trauma spirals, lighting that makes a gas station look like a Caravaggio painting. But a recent episode crossed a different kind of line. A job-hunting scene, set in a warmly lit diner, struck viewers not as dramatic…