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Democrat advances to runoff in Marjorie Taylor-Greene’s deep-red district
Democrat Shawn Harris took a surprise lead in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District special election, winning the most votes of any candidate and…
 • Rob Beschizza
Minesweeper but it’s the Strait of Hormuz
Though we don’t know why we’re at war with Iran, precisely, we’ve figured out why we haven’t won yet: because they’ve locked down the Strait of Hormuz…
 • Rob Beschizza
Another JD Vance joke fails to connect
Trump sycophant Number One, JD Vance, once again tried to charm an audience with his wit and failed.
 • Jason Weisberger
Boing Boing, March 10, 2026
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21 years on a remote island with no power grid, no building codes, and no regrets
Lasqueti Island sits in British Columbia’s Strait of Georgia, about 50 miles northwest of Vancouver.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
How Sriracha’s maker betrayed its 28-year pepper supplier
In October 2016, Huy Fong Foods — the American company behind the iconic Sriracha hot sauce — asked its longtime pepper supplier, Underwood Ranches, for…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Oakland’s Grand Lake Theatre is still alive thanks to one man’s stubborn love
The Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland turns 100 this week, which feels like a minor miracle in the era of streaming and multiplex chains.
 • Jason Weisberger
Palantir’s Israel partnership began with Epstein introductions
Palantir’s strategic partnership with Israel’s Ministry of Defense — the one supplying AI tools for the Gaza campaign and now the Iran war — traces back…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
TikTok psychic must pay $10m to professor she falsely claimed was Idaho killer
TikTok psychic Ashley Guillard claimed that the University of Idaho killer was professor Rebecca Scofield, posting in video after video that Scofield…
 • Rob Beschizza
Grandpa Pudding Brains wages war
Convicted felon and sleepy old man Donald Trump is ranting at Iran, with whom he took the United States to war, on his diminutive social network.
 • Jason Weisberger
Another Trump loyalty appointment lands at the Air Force Academy
Displaying the requisite “no relevant experience,” that won her husband an appointment, Erika Kirk follows in his footsteps and quietly joins the Air…
 • Jason Weisberger
In 1986, two Florida journalists tried to buy crack for a news story and nearly got killed
In 1986, Rudy Giuliani and Senator Al D’Amato staged a crack buy in Washington Heights for the TV cameras.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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