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In Pennsylvania, a 32-year-old self-published author of dystopian science fiction who recently sued the United States over his student-loan debt used a machete to behead his father, who had been a federal employee for 20 years, and then posted a video of himself holding the head in a clear plastic grocery bag as he called for the execution of all government workers. Read More
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The president of the Philippines used a taxpayer-funded helicopter to fly to a Coldplay concert. Read More
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Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a resolution stipulating investigation into human rights abuses before additional U.S. aid is disbursed to Israel; the measure was rejected. Read More
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Tunnels were discovered beneath a Hasidic synagogue in Brooklyn; a rabbi called the group of men who had dug the illegal structures and later clashed with police “rogue, and, frankly, unwell youths.” Read More
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An Alaska Airlines flight made an emergency landing after a door-size section of the plane blew off 10 minutes after takeoff. Read More
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An Amazon warehouse in New York asked its employees if they were facing financial hardship during the holiday season and encouraged them to write to the company’s mascot, an orange blob named Peccy, to fulfill their “holiday wishes.” Read More
Publisher’s Note

One-State Solution

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Absurd? Utopian? Not more so than “the two-state solution,” which has become a cynical trap advocated by hypocrites. Read More
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The House passed an $886 billion defense bill, which set a new record for military spending and included measures that the House Armed Services Committee said would “end wokeness in the military.” Read More
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In Rainier, Washington, a candidate for city council did not cast a ballot in his own election and then lost by one vote. Read More
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A government official in Paraguay resigned after he signed a “memorandum of understanding” with a fictional country. Read More
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A far-right politician who was once banned from visiting the United Kingdom owing to the extremity of his his anti-Islam views won the largest number of parliamentary seats in the Dutch election. Read More
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Donald Trump’s campaign said that those who compare his rhetoric to that of fascist dictators would be “crushed.” Read More
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Pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian demonstrators brawled outside Los Angeles’s Museum of Tolerance. Read More
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Several people who attended ApeFest in Hong Kong were diagnosed with welder’s eye. Read More
Publisher’s Note

Violence in Pictures

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“Of course, I advocate for ‘reality’ as much as possible, in the hope that exposure to violence, especially to the real consequences of war by way of brutal images that lay bare both death and injuries, will make the world wiser.” Read More
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Scientists studied the ways in which sperm defy Newton’s laws of motion. Read More
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Pulp Fiction

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In the stacks: on the tristate collectors of yesterday’s future Read More
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A New Orleans tattoo shop owner was cleared of charges in a ransom plot to turn the Jefferson Davis memorial chair into a toilet. Read More
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It was reported that a Kansas teacher and stand-up comedian had been fired for TikToks in which he described “crop dusting” students with “big milky lactose intolerant farts” and teaching them that Abraham Lincoln was the inventor of the car. Read More
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Several Amish people were reported shunned after the U.S. government’s Wireless Emergency Alert test revealed that they had phones. Read More
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A Chucky doll was handcuffed and arrested in Colombia after a man used it to intimidate robbery victims. Read More
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Party Fouls

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Insurgents stand against the DNC Read More
Publisher’s Note

A Digital Coup

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"Zuckerberg fancies himself the pharaoh of the Web. He uses it to act beyond all regulatory limits, in defiance of national borders and democratic principles." Read More
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An Australian tested local regulations by naming her son Methamphetamine Rules. “He’s a very chill child,” the mother said. “So not anything like a meth user.” Read More
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Colorado representative Lauren Boebert was ejected from a performance of the musical Beetlejuice after vaping, using her phone to record the show, and stroking her companion’s crotch. Read More
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From the Audio Archive: Rachel Kushner

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Revisiting our 2018 interviews with Lidija Haas and Rachel Kushner Read More
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A New Jersey business owner was arrested for using a drone to dye people’s swimming pools green. Read More
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Hamed Esmaeilion

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The life of an Iranian-Canadian writer and activist in exile Read More
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A San Francisco official was forced to resign after he offered a tour during which participants could “get close and personal to the doom and squalor” of the city. Read More
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The Gen X Novel

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Reading Zadie Smith’s 'The Fraud' as Gen X literature Read More
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