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How subtraction, not addition, may have been the secret to Egypt’s pyramids
Every few years, someone comes up with a new "this is how the pyramids were built" theory.
 • Jason Weisberger
Federal judge rules DOJ can’t be trusted
When the Justice Department is treated as an untrustworthy adversary, it is no longer defending the Constitution.
 • Jason Weisberger
Invasive and ineffective: DHS’s facial recognition system
The Department of Homeland Security has switched to a mobile facial recognition system that combines two of the worst qualities a government
 • Jason Weisberger
Valid papers, no crime, indefinite detention: ICE’s American promise
This for-profit system of immigrant incarceration needs more fodder, and this is not the only person disappeared into it.
 • Jason Weisberger
The human cost of the UK’s anti-trans turn
Brits can argue about intent all they want. But when policy changes are followed by funerals, the math is no longer theoretical.
 • Jason Weisberger
Florida says it found Roundup’s active ingredient in widely sold breads
Roundup is the household herbicide equivalent of Agent Orange.
 • Jason Weisberger
Cannabis users’ brains look younger, big study finds
Cannabis users’ brains look younger than their age would predict, according to a brain imaging study of more than 25,000 UK Biobank participants aged 44…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The National Park Service sets its sights on California’s busiest beaches
There are certain sections of Venice Beach, Mr. Trump, I wouldn't advise the United States Armed Services to invade.
 • Jason Weisberger
Gentleman puts search and rescue workers at risk for no reason
I trust the search and rescue team's response is billed directly to the driver, and that his insurance refuses to help.
 • Jason Weisberger
Maxwell pleads the Fifth at Epstein deposition, then her lawyer asks Trump for clemency
Ghislaine Maxwell appeared virtually from a Texas prison today for her…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The bacteria-in-a-bottle thought experiment that explains why we’re bad at seeing disaster coming
Albert Bartlett was born in Shanghai in 1923, worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, got his PhD from Harvard, and spent his career as a physics…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
State Department is deleting all X posts from before Trump’s return — even from Trump’s first term
The State Department is removing all posts from its X accounts made before January 20, 2025 — and that includes posts from Trump’s own first term.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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