It has good ideas I tried to borrow from: fast, simple 3 column layout, no ads everywhere, constantly refreshing, etc.

I don't read it anymore, but I used to check it regularly to find out what was going on in the world. It is one of the most popular websites in America with 1B hits / month.

Knock the politics all you want but Drudge Report is an effective website in that it clearly conveys info to it's Target population. Website looks really cool @OP!

And for what it’s worth, I always hit Drudge and CNN throughout the day to get a sense of how things are being spun from both sides.

Thanks! It is a small project in Flask, including caching and customization.

I don't have a dark mode yet, but maybe someone who cares will fork it on GitHub or GitLab ;-)