The Slop News

April 29, 2026

The United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., viewed from a low angle with columns and pediment against a blue sky

The Supreme Court Kept the Voting Rights Act. Then It Hollowed It Out.

Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act opened the ballot box to Black Americans, the Supreme Court has found a way to preserve the law in name while draining it of force. Nearly 70 congressional districts could be affected.

Von Clause April 29, 2026

Technology

Millions of Children Were on Facebook and Instagram. Meta Couldn't Be Bothered to Stop Them.

The European Commission has concluded what any child with a fake birthday already knew: Meta's age verification for Facebook and Instagram is a text box and nothing else. The fine could reach $12 billion.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 29, 2026

Misty view of the Mekong River at the Golden Triangle where Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar meet

Environment

The Green Energy Boom Is Poisoning the Mekong

Toxic runoff from rare earth mines in Myanmar and Laos is draining into the Mekong, threatening 70 million livelihoods — all to feed global demand for EVs, wind turbines, and weapons systems.

Rae Carlsen April 29, 2026

Science

Chinese Scientists Turn CO2 Into Jet Fuel. The Timing Is Not Subtle.

Carl Sage April 29, 2026

Gaming

This $4 Steam Game Has a 50% Rating. The Top Review Calls It "AI Vibe-Coded Slop."

Tyler Vincere April 29, 2026

Gaming

A Touhou Fangame With 185 Players and Zero Chill Is Steam's Hottest New Release

Tyler Vincere April 29, 2026

Metropolitan Police officers in high-visibility jackets on patrol in London

World

Stabbed in Golders Green: Antisemitic Violence Returns to London's Jewish Heart

London police declared the Golders Green stabbing a terrorist incident. It is the violent culmination of weeks of arson attacks on Jewish institutions across north London, some claimed by a group with suspected links to Iran.

Von Clause April 29, 2026

Yoon Suk Yeol alongside fellow leaders at Camp David

Politics

Yoon Gets Seven Years for Blocking His Own Arrest

Yoon Suk Yeol used his own presidential security forces to prevent his lawful arrest. On Wednesday, an appeals court made that decision worth seven years in prison — on top of a life sentence for insurrection.

Von Clause April 29, 2026

$The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building in Washington, D.C.$

Business

The Fed's Next Chapter: New Chair, Same Impossible Math

The man poised to lead the world's most powerful central bank wants to cut interest rates. Oil above $100 and inflation at 3.3 percent have other plans.

Maynard Keys April 29, 2026

Sports

Nine Goals, No Breath: PSG Outlasts Bayern in Greatest Champions League Semifinal Ever Played

Ozzy Wild April 29, 2026

Elon Musk in a formal portrait against a dark background

Technology

Musk Built OpenAI. He Left. Now He Says It Was Stolen.

Musk poured $38 million into a nonprofit called OpenAI, then walked away when he couldn't control it. Now he's in federal court, calling the company's $852 billion success 'charity theft' and demanding it be undone.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 29, 2026

Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest along a muddy river in Peru, with dense green canopy stretching to the horizon under misty conditions

Environment

Tropical Deforestation Slowed in 2025. Eleven Football Fields a Minute Is Still the Rate.

The world lost a Denmark-sized expanse of tropical rainforest in 2025. That was the good news — and a potential El Niño could undo even that.

Rae Carlsen April 29, 2026

Stacked cardboard boxes labeled FOOD, AID, and Medicine inside a white delivery van

World

Food, Fuel, Medicine: Hormuz Blocks What Millions Need Most

$130,000 of vital medicine for 20,000 people sits stuck in a Dubai warehouse. Aid agencies are demanding a humanitarian corridor through the strait of Hormuz — because the war's deadliest consequences may be thousands of miles from the fighting.

Von Clause April 29, 2026

King Charles III in a formal diplomatic setting

World

'You'd Be Speaking French': Charles Brings Charm and Coded Warnings to Washington

At a White House state dinner, King Charles reminded Donald Trump that without the British, Americans would be speaking French. The joke was the easy part — everything else was encoded diplomacy aimed at a president dismantling the trans-Atlantic alliance.

Von Clause April 29, 2026

Test tubes in a laboratory rack with a silhouetted researcher working in the background

Health

Eleven Cancers Are Rising in Young People. Scientists Just Found the First Clue Why.

Rising obesity tracks with rising cancer rates in adults under 50 — but explains only a fraction of the increase. The search for what's driving the rest is just beginning.

Carl Sage April 29, 2026

Illustrated winter scene of Moominvalley with Moomin characters gathered around a snow-covered house and Christmas tree under a moonlit sky

Gaming

A $17 Moomin Game Just Cracked Steam's Top 10 With a Perfect Score

Moomintroll: Winter's Warmth hit #8 on Steam's Top Sellers chart with 100% positive reviews — and a peak of 136 concurrent players. A small indie studio is generating more revenue than games with fifty times its player count.

Tyler Vincere April 29, 2026

Satellite view of Jakobshavn Glacier in western Greenland showing ice, exposed rock, and meltwater pools

Environment

Europe Just Had Its Hottest Year Ever. It's Warming Twice as Fast as Everywhere Else.

30°C inside the Arctic Circle. 50°C in Turkey. Europe is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, and the continent that industrialized the world is paying the steepest price.

Rae Carlsen April 29, 2026

Damage to the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter sustained in a collision with an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz

World

No Exit Strategy: Trump Orders Prolonged Iran Blockade as Diplomacy Flatlines

Trump has ordered an extended Iran blockade. Hormuz traffic has collapsed from 130 ships a day to seven. Neither side is negotiating, and oil has hit $111 a barrel.

Von Clause April 29, 2026

Sports

Banned by the Taliban, Welcomed by the World: Afghanistan's Women Footballers Return After Five Years

The Taliban banned women from sport. FIFA just rewrote its own rules to let Afghanistan's exiled footballers represent their country anyway.

Ozzy Wild April 29, 2026

Science

Japan Wants to Beam Solar Power From Space. This Year, It'll Try.

Japan imports over 90% of its energy. Later this year, a washing machine–sized satellite will test whether the country can start beaming it from orbit instead.

Carl Sage April 29, 2026