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Rapist who faked own death reportedly dead again
Nicholas Rossi fled the United States after faking his own death, hoping to avoid prosecution on rape charges.
 • Rob Beschizza
Judge orders Huntington Beach to add more democracy to its democracy
A judge has ordered Huntington Beach to adopt ranked-choice voting after finding that the city’s at-large elections diluted Latino voting power, which…
 • Jason Weisberger
Boing Boing, June 26, 2026
Farewells, dust mite matters, and a cow named Melania
 • Boing Boing
A man got 30 years for moving boxes of left-wing zines
Daniel Sanchez-Estrada didn’t attend the Fourth of July protest at the Prairieland ICE detention facility in Alvarado, Texas.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
That time road rage met a 6’8” guy named Gary with a machine gun
The gun was fully automatic. The legal nightmare was manual, expensive, and slow.
 • Jason Weisberger
Leon Black’s Epstein testimony ends with Congress demanding receipts
The Epstein paper trail remains less a trail than a gated community with lawyers.
 • Jason Weisberger
Woman lying on beach run over by the person theoretically guarding lives
A woman lying on the sand at Half Moon Bay’s Francis Beach was struck and run over by a lifeguard vehicle, because apparently even relaxing on the beach…
 • Jason Weisberger
Trump’s “Great American” state fair opens with busted rides and a cow named Melania
There is no better metaphor for Trump’s America 250 than a fake plant representing Connecticut.
 • Jason Weisberger
A computer the size of a star would nest Dyson spheres like Russian dolls
In 1997, Robert J.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
In 1971 two campers recorded what a Navy linguist calls a nonhuman language in the Sierra Nevadas
In 1971, Ron Morehead and Al Berry set up camp in the Sierra Nevada mountains to record evidence of Bigfoot.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Russia has 44 secret cities with 1.5 million people that don’t appear on public maps
Russia currently has 44 publicly acknowledged closed cities with a combined population of approximately 1.5 million people.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
In 1942 Los Angeles fired 1,440 anti-aircraft rounds at nothing
At 2:25 a.m.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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