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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
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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
Publisher’s Note

A Cloistered France

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"The new security perimeter at the Eiffel Tower, designed by architect Dietmar Feichtinger, is intended to be transparent—literally. But it is also a delusion." Read More
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Scientists announced that neurotic people probably shouldn’t colonize Mars. Read More
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Generation X

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An AI-written Microsoft Travel article recommended an Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot. Read More
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Richard E. Maltby Jr.’s Cryptics

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It’s all a game to me: speaking with the master puzzle maker Read More
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A man crashed a stolen garbage truck into a hot tub store on the Dolly Parton Parkway in Tennessee. Read More
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The Lost Child

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“We have to jump on this trend,” an El Salvador funeral home owner said of his new pink, Barbie-themed coffins. Read More
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Joyce Carol Oates

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President Joe Biden’s dog was reported to have bitten seven people in a four-month span. Read More
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Scientism and COVID-19

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Authorities in Berlin searching for a lioness found a brood of “startled piglets.” Read More
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Genetic Responsibility in Nigeria

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Officials attempted to apprehend a 5-year-old sea otter who has been accosting local surfers and stealing their boards. Read More
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New Books

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The Good Witches of Pennsylvania

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A poll was reported to have found that over 40 percent of Americans do not know what July Fourth commemorates. Read More
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“We think that it’s just, air goes through your nostrils and you move. No, there’s a science to breathing.” Read More
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