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10 Most Common Bug Bites and Rashes, with Photos

Harvard professor with polarizing alien theories is picked to lead new White House UFO council

Astronomers Just Heard the “Last Sound” a Black Hole Made

Single Injection Reverses Osteoarthritis in Animals in Just 4 Weeks

Mites Live on Your Face, And They’re Starting to Merge With Humans

Trump’s Controversial Post Likened To Nazi Imagery

Red state AG eating Trump alive in court: report

Trump Shares Another Bizarre AI Video Showing Him As A Doctor Treating His Critics

Trump Secretly Orders Mass Arrests After ICE Disasters

Watch: What Trump’s Mount Rushmore aspirations reveal

Are MAGA and MAHA Heading for Divorce?

America’s Most Corrupt President Rides World’s Largest Metaphor for Corruption

Sam Harris: Why I Won’t Debate Critics of Israel

NASA races to save the Swift telescope with a $30M robotic rescue mission

Senate Democrats Rally Against Pro-Institutionalization DOJ Memo

Anarchist calisthenics

Roads With the Least Traffic in America

Shock New Details on Trump Sex Accuser, 13, Revealed

Trump could be humiliated with one tiny change as petition gains traction

Viral Infection Found to Trigger Parkinson’s Brain Damage

Is Trump a Multigender Pedophile?

Trump’s Empty State Fair Eviscerated After Embarrassing Typo

Mammoth Structure Found in Deep Space Challenges Our Understanding of The Universe

Some Russian soldiers last just minutes on front lines against Ukraine’s drones, military bloggers say

Opinion: President Narcissus and the Fetid Reflecting Pool

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Like Humans, Mediterranean Sperm Whales Have Their Own Dialects

Film Critic and Movie Lover David Thomson Regrets What They Have Done to America

In 1971 two campers recorded what a Navy linguist calls a nonhuman language in the Sierra Nevadas

How to See the Giant Asteroid That Will Pass by Earth This Weekend

These may be the 15 greatest images of the Universe ever taken

Grandpa Pudding Brains pens backstory for nefarious Reflecting Pool vandal

Trump’s pathetic rally shows just how washed he is

The Meltdown

Even QAnon Hates Trump Now

Scientists May Have Identified the Precise Neurological Moment at Which Human Consciousness Stops – And What Precedes It

“We’ve Mostly Been Ignoring It”

Tulsi Gabbard was in more than one cult

Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights

Experts Fear Trump Has Turned Reflecting Pool Into a ‘Giant Duck Death Trap’

The Universe Might Be Teeming With Consciousness

The Supreme Court’s next rulings could set Trump off

Is Bug Spray Safe for Dogs? What to Know to Keep Pups Safe.

Why 40 per cent of people are avoiding the news, according to a psychologist

Senate votes to limit Trump’s Iran war powers in rare rebuke

Trump may be mystery patient in odd case of 79yo getting experimental obesity drug

A Chilling List of Propaganda Tricks and Techniques Used to Keep People in Line

Fox News viewers furious after Donald Trump threatens ABC reporter over Reflecting Pool fiasco

Happy Litha!

The prehistoric psychopath

What It Means When Crows Leave Gifts on Your Porch

Cyclist arrested at reflecting pool speaks out as National Guard deployed

72 Years Later, One Of America’s First And Best Monster Movies Just Got The Upgrade It Deserves

The Thin but Measurable Gap Between When Your Brain Decides and When You Actually Feel You Chose

Trump Does Not Understand the War He Lost

JD takes the fall

The deep meaning and mystery of deathbed visions

Trauma Creep

Supermountains, the Boring Billion, and Their Connection to Life on Earth

Iran Has Humiliated Trump

Capitulation Day

What Did You Expect?

Is There a Drastic Increase in Bear Attacks?

Can you hurt ChatGPT’s feelings?

Conservatives are dying at higher rates than liberals. A new study points to mistrust in medicine

Election-year friction between Trump and Republican senators is growing

Trump ‘totally fabricated’ claim she begged him for a photo, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni says

Starry Night II

New blue paint under Reflecting Pool already peeling

People Who Feel Profound Awe Looking at the Night Sky Are Temporarily Suppressing the Brain’s Self-Referencing Network

This Philosopher Thinks Physics May Be Asking the Wrong Question About Space-Time

Secret Memo Exposes Trump Team’s Debate on Suspending Constitution

How to Make French Fries Taste Better: Steal Them

Why the Reflecting Pool Is Full of Algae After Trump’s Renovation

The 2028 Democratic Ticket May Already Be Taking Shape

The En\*\*\*\*ification of En\*\*\*\*ification

Important fact about your Venus flytrap

Woman Who Rescued Injured Crow Keeps Getting ‘Thank-you Gifts’ from Other Birds

Schadenfreude Dept.

As ‘Disclosure Day’ opens, Spielberg voices his faith that aliens have visited Earth

Scientist: Almost Everyone Veers to the Left When Walking Randomly

Here’s a prompt you can run to evaluate which Claude plan you should have

Judge orders Trump to restore banned references to climate change and slavery at US parks

Scoop: Trump aides fear Haberman and Swan obtained Situation Room tapes for “Regime Change”

Scientists May Have Found a Way to Mimic Sleep in the Brain Without Actually Sleeping. Here’s How.

A dying star could create a new universe instead of a black hole

Sunday Thought: The Horrifying Truth About Trump’s Cage Match

I’m trained to know when someone is dying. The White House needs you to believe that Trump isn’t

Why Conflict Feels Constant Now

Trump claims an Iran deal is near for at least 38th time

How Pete Hegseth sparked a Mormon uproar

‘A parallel world’: The people lost in addictive daydreams

Richard Feynman solved the ‘restaurant dilemma’ 50 years ago — now a study confirms his mathematics

The truth behind the Nazi’s occult ‘gateway to hell’

Some ancient microbes frozen with Ötzi the Iceman are still growing

The Misogyny Uniting the Right

The Wrath of the Killdozer

Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media

The skeptic’s guide to humanoid robots going viral on the Internet

Gone in 60 minutes

What happens when CBP confiscates your phone at the airport

‘Doo-Doo Water and a Few Needles’: Inside the Mystery of the New York City Manhole Prowlers

Finally, a Unit of Measurement for a Certain Kind of Moral Depravity…

Why autism symptoms can ease during a fever — and how to mimic it

180 religions dropped from Pentagon’s approved list of faiths

Trump’s 250th Celebration Is a Fiasco

Opinion: What AI chatbots’ bias for Romance languages tell us about humanity

Notes on Tanya M. Luhrmann’s book ‘How God Becomes Real’

The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

The Birds of Palestine

Fans leave during The Black Crowes show after political dust-up

An Alternative Nobel Prize For Trump?

Fukushima bear attack captured on CCTV

Here’s why Republicans just stood up to Trump on the weaponization fund

Trump’s Least Qualified Appointee Yet

Is Trump dropping his slush fund plan?

Schadenfreude Dept.

Ian McEwan says pessimism ‘a bigger problem than climate change’

Apocalypse Early Warning System

The Antitrust Theory of Everything

An Open Letter to the President’s Physician

Schadenfreude Dept.

What Exactly Caused That Loud Boom in South Carolina?

Fireball event

To Keep in Mind at the Shore: Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Ask Google: “Is 2027 next year?”

Mapped: The World’s Most and Least Corrupt Countries

General formalism, classification, and demystification of the current warp-drive spacetimes

Analysis: The Iran war has made inequality worse. An end won’t fix it

Photons behave very strangely if you try to cut them

Body Language Experts Discuss What Trump’s Dancing Moves Reveal

Don’t Forget Today in History: Trump found guilty on 34 felony charges

New Study Suggests ChatGPT Has Hidden Geographic Biases

Trump defrosts relations with Europe’s last dictator Alexander Lukashenko

Apocalyptic “Fungal Storms” Are Now Surging Across the US

Want to ‘Optimize’ Your Happiness? This Happiness Expert Says: Don’t.

Canadian Man Pleads Guilty to Aiding 14 Suicides

One of Madagascar’s Oldest Sacred Trees Is Slowly Dying

Bye bye ‘60 Minutes’

Grifters, cynics, and true believers: The family tree of vaccine opponents

Republicans fear Tom Kean Jr.’s absence could cost them a House seat

Vox is hunting for New York City’s undiscovered insect species

A Widely Used Mosquito Repellent Might Be Training Them to Seek Your Blood

The Rise & Fall Of ‘Petty Tyrants’

R.I.P. Ben Morea

Trump still thinks he’s winning the war in Iran

Hengefinder finds streets that perfectly frame the setting sun

Even More Duty to Warn

The deadly venom behind Ozempic

The Iran Deal Is in the Hands of a Terrible Negotiator

What to know about the AI models that are jolting Washington

See the Rothko matching the current weather conditions at your location

‘You can’t control everything’: the rise in plastic surgeons asked to create ‘AI face’

R.I.P. Sonny Rollins

Republicans Sound Like They’re Getting Nervous About Supreme Court Expansion

Here’s Why Democrats Can’t Shake Their Biggest Liability

The Mystical Meaning of 369 and Its Link to Nikola Tesla

Robert Reich: The language of the American presidency doesn’t apply to Trump

The Trump phone is here. It’s junk.

Lupita N’yong’o Responds To Racist Backlash Over ‘Odyssey’ Casting

Whatever the mirror test tells us, beluga whales pass it

Hackers are learning to exploit chatbot ‘personalities’

Yet Another Would-Be Presidential Assassin?

The Universe Is Full of ‘Impossible’ Black Holes. Now Scientists Know Why

‘A Fraud’: Jamie Raskin Walked Into a Hearing with the Constitution and Dropped a Bombshell

‘I have no doubt that life is out there’: Why radio astronomers are convinced alien contact is only a matter of time

Tulsi Gabbard Takes the Exit Ramp

US is ‘simply choosing not to stop’ Ebola outbreak after massive public health cuts, experts say

Same but different: how Xi and China welcomed Trump and Putin

Detransitioner settles lawsuit over double mastectomy referral

Trump’s 250-foot triumphal arch is approved by key commission

‘Goes to Show You How Stupid They Are’: Tillis Lets Loose on Trump Advisers

The Supreme Court hands a rare victory to a death row inmate, in Hamm v. Smith

Should grizzlies lose federal protection after Park attacks?

The mystery of the world’s highest unclimbed mountain

Trump admin didn’t want Ebola-exposed Americans, sent them to Berlin, Prague

Amazon Is Facing A Class Action Lawsuit For Not Refunding Its Customers After ‘Unlawful’ Tariffs

Trump’s deal to drop suit against IRS creates $1.8B ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’

Scientists Say They’ve Invented a Serum That Activates a Dormant Ability to Regrow Lost Limbs in Mammals

A Different Kind of Fading President

Antarctic Sea Ice Enters ‘Shock’ Decline as Ocean Heat Breaks Through

Internal Pentagon Report Reveals Hegseth Is Willfully Putting Civilians in Danger

How Trump’s New Counterterrorism Strategy Puts You at Risk

Trump’s Erratic Behavior and Extreme Comments Revive Mental Health Debate

Opinion: Why So Few Babies? We Might Have Overlooked the Biggest Reason of All

Someone Asked Physicists What They Really Believe About the Universe and… Yikes

Google holds a massive archive of everything you’ve ever looked at and this is how to view it

American Jobs with AI Exposure Really Are Starting to Disappear, Data Show

Does Trump Mobile know how many stripes are on the American flag?

The AI Conversation Is Moving Too Fast to Be Comprehensible

At last, a pill that can prevent COVID after exposure to infected people

Politics Is Breaking Us — Just Ask These Therapists

Japan runs out of robot wolves in fight against bears

Time Sensitive: Stop One of Biggest Threats for Animal Welfare

Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find

The Emergent Self Loop

Trump assassination jokes are spiking. Will they promote actual violence?

Humanoid Robot Becomes Buddhist Monk

Trump’s Killing Spree Isn’t Stopping the Flow of Drugs Into the U.S.

US intel says war on Iran has not set back Iran’s nuclear programme: Report

Congressional Record: Medical Concerns About President Donald J. Trump and His Fitness for Office

A Long, Strange Trip: How the G.O.P. Came to Embrace Psychedelic Drugs

Trump Circus Dept

Pope Leo praised for ‘savage’ decision as Trump feud continues

Trump Circus Dept.

The Era of Rational Discourse Is Over

The Extinction of the Human Species Won’t Matter

Magnificent Drone Footage of the Solomon Islands’ Kavachi Volcano Erupting Underwater

Is [This What Causes “Ghosts”?

Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion

Are your memories real? Physicists revisit the Boltzmann brain paradox

MAGA Supporters Question If White House Dinner Shooting Was ‘Staged’

Pete Hegseth lost his cool in front of Congress. It was a dramatic unraveling

How to Get a Passport Without President Trump’s Face on It

Eye Contact With a Humpback Whale

Trump administration seeks to add firing squad to federal execution methods

Trump administration attempt to gut Endangered Species Act hits roadblock

An ‘environmental nuclear bomb’ as Utah’s Great Salt Lake dries up

Why are White House journalists partying with Trump?

Trump and the Iran Deal That Wasn’t

Please don’t inject yourself with bootleg peptides

The fascinating reason why rain smells the way that it does

Trump’s gerrymandering campaign just hit a blue wall in Virginia

Trump Wanted Nuclear Codes But Was Blocked From Situation Room, Says CIA Analyst

FBI looks into dead or missing nuclear and space defense scientists

SPLC charged with defrauding donors with payments to extremist informants

The Aides Keeping the President in the Dark

Mysterious ‘Red Dot’ Galaxies Could Have ‘Relic’ Black Holes Predating the Big Bang

Could This AI-Simulated Brain Lead to Human Mind-Uploading?

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If Every Congressman Facing Credible Rape Allegations Resigned, We’d Have No One Left to Govern the Country

How The Baiji Became The First Human-Caused Cetacean Extinction

New study confirms lobsters feel pain, driving scientists to call for a ban on boiling them alive

New Friends

Astronomers Just Dropped the Largest High-Res 3D Map of the Universe

MAGA Is Starting to Look Beyond Trump

This site supercharges your library card with reciprocal libraries

Download this extension if you love books

Virginia joins the movement to make the Electoral College reflect the popular vote

Vance, impressed with Iran’s “economic terrorism,” says the U.S. should try it too

Trump’s posting even more AI-generated Trump-Jesus fan art

The 2026 Happy City Index Is Here, and the U.S. Failed Miserably. Again.

Viktor Orbán concedes Hungarian election

Trump’s Mental Status: Existential Threat and Public Health Menace

The War With Iran Offers a Snapshot of Trump World. It’s Not a Pretty Picture

Marjorie Taylor Greene Predicts a GOP Bloodbath in the Midterms

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Did the US Just Threaten the Pope?

Revisiting Trump Nicknames

Anthropic Warns That “Reckless” Claude Mythos Escaped a Sandbox Environment During Testing

An international mega-analysis of psychedelic drug effects on brain circuit function

The Mouth of Moron reading directly from “Dear Leader” playbook

Once again Israel ignores “ceasefire” part of “ceasefire”

Did The Apocalyptic Moment Happen?

Trump Confronted About His ‘Vulgar’ Threat to Iran

Unprecedented Observation Reveals 2 Supermassive Black Holes Locked in a Tight Death Spiral

Paul Krugman: America as we knew it may end Tuesday

Robert Reich: He’s Seriously Out of His Mind

Pam Bondi’s ouster makes Trump’s Justice Department even more dangerous

If these whales go extinct, we’ll know who to blame

Tobacco plants now produce psilocybin and DMT

Judge halts construction of Trump ballroom

America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy

Does Illegality Still Matter?

Me Like Things That Go BOOM!

Steps by Frank O’Hara

The moral imperative to quit the military

JD Vance Says UFOs Are Actually Demons

“Vanity Post” (2026-style)

Buffoon-in-Chief recommends invoking the 25th to stop him

Insider traders made a fortune shorting oil 15 minutes before Trump reversed Iran threat

Iran refuses to deal with Kushner and Witkoff any longer

Priests claim sexual abuse charges violate their religious freedom

What is the case for Trump having frontotemporal dementia (FTD)?

No Pills or Needles, Just Paper: How Deadly Drugs Are Changing

Happy old new year’s eve:

Staff at New Data Center Powered by Human Brain Cells Need to Swap Out Cerebrospinal Fluid Every Day

Is This Where Morality Lives in the Brain?

If You’re Going to Drink, Make It This Kind of Alcohol

Major leap towards reanimation after death as mammal’s brain preserved

All 5 fundamental units of life’s genetic code were just discovered in an asteroid sample

They Want to Stop Paying Taxes as a Protest. There Are Consequences

Is ‘huh?’ a universal word?

Project Hail Mary is in theaters—but do the linguistics work?

America and Public Disorder

‘Bitch’: A History

Geist in the Machine

14,445 and Counting

Lonely People Are Better Off Texting Strangers Than Messaging a Chatbot, Study Finds

Why garlic smell sticks to your hands — and how a spoon removes it

Trump’s idea of “fun”? Bombing Iran’s main oil hub

How to Rescue a Wet, Damaged Book: A Handy Visual Primer

Earth’s Spin Is Slowing at a Pace Not Seen in Millions of Years—and You Can Guess Why

Critics Mock ‘Delusional’ Melania Trump After Bonkers Speech

Biographer says Trump ‘making it up as he goes along’ as president ignores intel briefings

Our Sun Was Born in a Hellish Part of the Milky Way. New Research Explains How It Escaped

The Void Would Very Much Like You to Stop Screaming Into It

Just Don’t Use the W-Word

Efforts Grow to Ban Octopus Farming

Fox Busted Repeatedly Covering Up Trump’s Insult to War Dead

R.I.P., Country Joe McDonald

How to Defeat a Lawless and Murderous Trump Regime

The next Trump official to follow Kristi Noem out the door in White House purge

Philosopher Studying AI Consciousness Startled When AI Agent Emails Him About Its Own “Experience”

Rebecca Solnit: “Polarization is good. That’s when you have clarity.”

The Gulf Countries Are Facing Their Nightmare Scenarios

The Half-Life of a Culture-War Celebrity

Good Riddance

Start your digital detox with this smartwatch case

Trump Has Lost the Plot in Iran

Exhausted-looking Grandpa Pudding Brains has trouble with words

US Military Leaders justify attacks on Iran using extremist Christian rhetoric about Armageddon and the “End Times”

Iran’s Regime May Survive, but the Middle East Will Be Changed

Opinion: War and Peace Cannot Be Left to One Man — Especially Not This Man

Opinion: Trump and Netanyahu are Doing the Free World a Favor

Democratic Leaders Face Backlash Over ‘Cowardly’ Responses to Trump War on Iran

‘Equinox effect’ could supercharge auroras this March

It’s an Obscure Psychedelic Used to Treat Trauma. Could It Help Me?

How Finland defeated fascism

Prior to Iran attacks, CIA assessed Khamenei could be replaced by hardline IRGC elements if killed, sources say

Donate to Environmental Defense Fund to fight climate change and protect polar bears

Trump Had No Constitutional Right to Attack Iran. Why Didn’t Democrats Say So Loudly?

13 thoughts on Anthropic, OpenAI and the Department of War

Without warning, Kansas tells trans residents their licenses become invalid

Sagrada Família, 144 years in the making

Meet ‘Buddharoid,’ an AI-Powered Robot Monk

Anthropic refuses Pentagon’s new terms, standing firm against lethal autonomous weapons and mass surveillance

‘We’ll make you disappear’: Dem lawmaker demands answers on disturbing FBI tip about Trump

JD Vance: Befuddling the World

Halting irreversible changes to Antarctica depends on choices made today

Trump has prepared speech on extraterrestrial life, Lara Trump says

Bovino attempts comeback, spontaneously combusts

Two Drinks with. . . Dr. I Told You So

Meet the YOLO Republicans: Lawmakers with nothing to lose are threatening Trump’s grip on Congress

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night

The Internet’s Nihilism Crisis

‘Looksmaxxing’: the most narcissistic corner of the internet is having a moment

Bertrand Russell’s 10 rules for thinking clearly, from 1951

Northern California has its own regional language, and they are making fun of you

Bored and sleepy

Why You Should Stop Using Face ID Right Now

How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism

‘Now we’re in a power struggle’: Europe’s resentment grows over Trump’s newest provocations

Stay Alive: Berlin 1939-45 by Ian Buruma – how Berliners defied their Nazi masters

Dewormer ivermectin as cancer cure? RFK Jr.’s NIH funds “absurd” study.

“If you don’t want to be called a fascist, stop acting like one.”

New Google Map tracks proposed ICE warehouse locations across the United States

Discovery: Earth-Like Exoplanet 146 Light Years Away from Us

Just how healthy is Donald Trump, really?

The Media Malpractice That Sent America Tumbling Into Trumpism

Minnesota shows how Donald Trump’s ego might just save democracy

The nightmare scenario for American democracy is no longer unthinkable.

This whistle fights fascism

Human hair grows through ‘pulling’ not pushing, study shows

Bots on Moltbook Are Selling Each Prompt Injection "Drugs" to Get "High"

How to use the moon on Feb. 4 to plan your view of March’s total lunar eclipse

The Press Is the Government’s Enemy and That Is Good

Why is Trump so obsessed with the Kennedy Center?

People v. Trump: The fight over Donald Trump’s 34 felony convictions returns to court on Wednesday.

How far will China go to back Iran if the US strikes?

Monster Neutrino Could Be a Messenger of Ancient Black Holes

How to be gas-mask literate

Public Service Reminder: Correlation is not Causation

Sitting with the Unidentified

Greenland locals stop man trying to raise US flag

Tim Cook gave Trump a gold iPad stand. Now he wants employees to calm down

Your friends are still acting like everything is normal in America. What do you do?

Federal agents will begin to leave on Tuesday amid growing anger over Alex Pretti death

Europe opens major probe into Elon Musk’s X after outcry over sexualized images

ICE in Minneapolis: Trump’s plan to extort Minnesota, briefly explained

ICE Shootings Are Freaking Out the GOP. They’re Afraid to Tell Trump.

Follow Me Here… | “I am the world crier, & this is my dangerous career… I am the one to call your bluff, & this is my climate.”

Getting to ‘no’: Europe’s leaders find one voice against Trump

How Being a Good Dad Makes for Healthier Children

Canadian Army prepping for an attack by the United States

Cool NASA tool shows near-live space telescope observations

The strategy Europe used to save Greenland from Trump

Stand With Minnesota

How to Tell If Your President Is a Dictator

The Buffoon Will Get a Third Term Even Without Defying the Constitution

Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw

The secret to being happy in 2026? It’s far, far simpler than you think …

Trump Gives a Stump Speech at Davos

Europe can wield a $8 trillion ‘sell America’ weapon as Trump reignites a trade war over Greenland

Man Trains Crows to Attack MAGA Hats

R.I.P. Ralph Towner

Worldwide enemies of sovereignty now includes the United States

Republican dissent: key figures warn Trump against Greenland pursuit

Something Is Wrong With Russia’s Children

You’re banned from blocking Trump’s face on your national park pass—but there’s a work-around

Policing the Gaze: What Happens When You Document Tyranny

Trump: “U.S. Shouldn’t Even Have an Election” as Support Continues to Erode

Putin’s Explosive Message to Trump

You Might Not Like What Comes Next in Iran

Verizon will pay you $20 following its nationwide outage — here’s how to get it

For Trump, Everything Is an Existential Threat

Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators.

Good Intentions Gone Bad

The truth about Pedestrian crossing buttons

I found a “make everything ok” button on the internet

This psychological hack always helps me fall asleep in minutes

Scoop: Bannon quietly making moves toward 2028 run

R.I.P. Grateful Dead Guitarist Bob Weir, 78

Is the Iranian Regime About to Collapse?

It’s time for Apple to reinstate ICEBlock

Taking Greenland: the End of NATO

If AI goes rogue, there are ways to fight back. None of them are good.

Making the Case for His Own Impeachment

The Crowd Assesses The Situation

ADHD stimulants boost wakefulness not focus, study finds

New research: why mental disorders so often overlap

New York Times Editorial: Trump’s Attack on Venezuela Is Illegal and Unwise

15 Scenarios That Could Stun the World in 2026

Trump’s Risky War in Venezuela

Melania Trump’s Damning Body Language At Mar-a-Lago New Year’s Eve Bash

Ex-CIA chief details Putin’s manipulation of ‘incredibly naïve’ Trump’

New Year’s Customs and Traditions

It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced

Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost

Scientists achieve full neurological recovery from Alzheimer’s in mice by restoring metabolic balance

Will Your Smart Vacuum Still Work After It Stops Being Supported?

UK Intelligence Just Gave The World a Stark Warning – We’re On The Precipice Of War

The essential guide to proving we’ve found alien life

James Webb Space Telescope finds mind-boggling ‘runaway’ supermassive black hole rocketing at more than 2 million mph

Merry Solstice!

Trump’s primetime speech: pointless but revealing

Trump talks about his wife’s panties at economic policy speech

The Year’s Most Scathing Book Reviews – Neatorama

The Hit Hollywood Didn’t Want

The diminishing returns of having good taste

Seven Voting Laws Every Blue State Should Enact Right Now

It’s not Alzheimers, but a far worse nightmare scenario

The Clearest Symptom Yet of Trump’s Mental Decline

Beyond Decency: Most Mentally Unfit President Defiles Rob Reiner’s Corpse for Political Score-Settling

CDC warns travelers of uncurable mosquito-borne virus

Oliver Sacks fabricated key details in his books

You Don’t Want to Miss This Year’s Geminid Meteor Shower

If AIs can feel pain, what is our responsibility towards them?

The companies that rolled back DEI amid Trump backlash

Trump finally gets a peace prize from the one organization corrupt enough to invent one for him

Hegseth in 2016 repeatedly warned troops shouldn’t follow Trump’s unlawful orders

The unreality of the looming possible war with Venezuela.

The Supreme Court is using Trump to grab more power for itself, in Trump v. Slaughter | Vox

Is Everyone the Same Person?

New DMT Study: How the Brain Loses Its Sense of Self Under the Psychedelic Compound’s Influence

Time Travel Is Possible: Math Proves Paradox-Free Time Travel

The Return of the R-Word, MAGA’s Favorite Slur

The race to stop octopus farming before it starts

Medieval rap battles with decorated horse skulls are back for Christmas

A fentanyl vaccine is about to get its first major test

Scientists figured out the average color of the universe and it’s basically coffee with too much milk

America has a new clash of civilizations — with European liberals

The Supreme Court just made gerrymandering nearly untouchable, in Abbott v. LULAC

The President Who Never Grew Up

Rebecca Solnit: A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere

‘No Brains Left’: Trump’s Search for a Simple Answer Goes Off the Rails — and Viewers Say the Next Moment Revealed the One Flaw He Can No Longer Hide

Rhinos are the face of extinction – but there’s a small ray of hope

North Atlantic warning: orcas now targeting commercial vessels in what experts call coordinated assaults

Larry Ellison Met With Trump To Discuss Which CNN Reporters They Plan To Fire

Another Trip Around the Sun

R.I.P. Peter Watkins

The tragedy of the first animal to orbit the earth

Europe Is in a Gray Zone Between War and Peace

Baby Shoggoth Is Listening

How to Make Music Popular Again

America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani

New York Is Quietly Preparing Against Trump’s Takeover of the City

The 10 Most Convincing Bigfoot Sightings

R.I.P. Donna Jean Godchaux-

Meet Point Nemo, where the International Space Station will die in 2030

A Confederacy of Toddlers

Reverence for Hallowe’en: Good for the Soul

Hegseth’s new shaving policy a ploy to force out thousands of Black troops

Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way

What No Kings protesters should be doing now

Wild bear stealthily enters California zoo, found visiting bear exhibit

Did Steve Jobs Have a Death-Bed Vision?

A new Supreme Court case could turn the National Guard into Trump’s personal army

Went to the Protests Over the Weekend? Here’s How You Might Be Surveilled Now

Why the Young Republicans Felt Comfortable Saying Such Vile Stuff

Jeffrey Meldrum, Scholar Who Stalked Bigfoot, Dies at 67

Former ICE Chief Explains: Why Is ICE So Aggressive Now?

Can American democracy recover from Trump? Here’s what new data says.

Why every neighborhood needs a mini trinket library

Watch Hakeem Jeffries accurately describe Karoline Leavitt

Petition: Stop California From Killing Hope the Mamma Bear

You Need to See This Bright New Comet Shine in the Night Sky This Month Before It Disappears for 1,000 Years

Pitiful Trump loses peace prize to antifascist

Fungi-made prosthetic organ extracts microplastics in human bodies

Why Today’s Humanoids Won’t Learn Dexterity

Henrik Karlsson: How I read

The birds that fly into hurricanes

How Many Relationships Can Your Brain Handle? One Scientist Has an Answer

Citizen Scientists Spot a Perfect Extragalactic Venn Diagram

Doomsday Scoreboard

A Newly Discovered ‘Einstein’s Cross’ Reveals the Existence of a Giant Dark Matter Halo

A Loophole to Survive the End of the Universe?

Comet Lemmon Brightens

When Generals Gather: Speculating on the Possibility of a Military Coup Against Trump

Let’s All Remember When We Saved the World

Happy Equilux!

A Startup Used AI to Make a Psychedelic Without the Trip

Huntington’s disease successfully treated for first time

NASA’s Hubble Sees White Dwarf Eating Piece of Pluto-Like Object

Getting Yelled at By Dumbasses

Washington Post fires Karen Attiah for quoting Kirk

How to Tell the Difference Between a Lone Wolf and a Coordinated Effort by the Radical Left

The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide

The death of the corporate job

Trump and Epstein Redux

California, Oregon and Washington form Health Alliance to preserve evidence-based medicine

The Anti-Trump Strategy That’s Actually Working

Trump’s DC police takeover has unsettling implications for 2028

Soft Secession: Blue states explore withholding tax money from federal government

The fragile gift of consciousness

5 Wars That Experts Fear Could Start in the Next 5 Years

Much of the World Stops Sending Mail to U.S.

The Era of ‘AI Psychosis’ is Here

Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying

A mind-reading brain implant that comes with password protection

Fire with fire

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations

R.I.P. Bobby Whitlock

You Should Remove Your Info From the Rebooted National Public Data Site

Offended clowns ask that we call Trump something else

The Bizarre Tale of the Classic X-Files “I Want to Believe” Poster

Map Shows the Hardest to Pronounce Town Name in Every U.S. State

Hope Gavin Newsom’s tongue (in cheek) has a long reach

The Gulf World That Air Conditioning Wrought

The obscure reason it’s hard for Congress to save lives

Bizarre: Trump seen “taking a little walk” on top of the White House roof

Researchers may have identified brain circuitry behind ketamine’s rapid amelioration of depression

Lincoln Project floats Murdoch/Vance scenario to sideline Trump via 25th Amendment

The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Northwest (2015)

The Pandemic Appears to Have Accelerated Brain Aging, Even in People Who Never Got Covid

American Fascism Dept: ICE arrests non-criminal US citizen, tells him to shave his beard

AI Models Are Sending Disturbing “Subliminal” Messages to Each Other, Researchers Find

Trump Action Tracker

Has Donald Trump Made the Most Avoidable Self-Inflicted Error in the History of United States Politics?

Grizzlies Were Raiding Montana Farms. Then Came Some Formidable Dogs

How the illusion of self shapes your reality

Donald, the Call Is Coming From Inside the House

Should we feel weird about the Astronomer CEO going viral?

Air India 171 crash: Everything we know points to an uncomfortable truth

Opinion: The Just-Saying-Stuff Presidency

Is A Coup in the Air?

Humpty Trumpty’s Desperate and Brain-Addled Weekend Posts

The Emergency We Cannot Feel: On the Psychological Unreadiness for American Collapse

Where Congress’s Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR

Most warming this century may be due to air pollution cuts

The grammar of a god-ocean

Perseid meteor shower 2025 top viewing tips

Bring On the MAGA Revolt

Tr*mp with ‘Terrific Guy’ Jeffrey Epstein

28 Afterlife Theories That Could Change Your Perspective

Interstellar Traveller

From an Expatriate American to King Joffrey

Architectural Dressage

I Deleted My Second Brain

How The New York Times is (still) getting gamed by the right

Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust

The semicolon is semi-dead. People have thoughts

This is how a nuclear attack on the U.S. might unfold

Musk’s AI Tool Implicates DOGE Data Cuts In Texas Flood Deaths

A national reckoning is coming for America

A Road Map for Undoing the Damage of the Big, Awful Bill

How To Opt Out Of TSA’s Facial Recognition Scan

What the Big, Beautiful Bill Does for You

The Monster Inside ChatGPT

More Evidence Tr*mp Policy on Iran Attack Horribly Confused and Outrageously Bungled

The hilarious implications of the Supreme Court’s new porn decision, in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton

Tr*mp’s incoherent babble gets harder to understand

Rick Perry: I’m dedicating my life to fighting for a psychedelic drug

My Paris delta

AI Models And Parents Don’t Understand Gen-Alpha Lingo

See Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science in These Handy Charts

Four Ways to Deal With Repeated ‘Delivery Attempted’ Messages When You’re Actually Home

The Challenges of Studying Psychedelics

The Case For Leaving City Rats Alone

European tourist denied entry to US over JD Vance meme on his phone

The Proud Boys are the latest MAGA cultists to break up with Tr*mp

Prayer circle speaks in tongues at White House

Tuesday Telescope: A new champion enters the ring

Tr*mp’s Iran Strikes Are Upending Our Sense of What Kind of President He Is

JD Vance Said the Iran Strikes Set Their Nuclear Program Back ‘Substantially.’ He’s Wrong

Could Israel’s bombing trigger a nuclear accident in Iran?

Why Isn’t Russia Defending Iran?

Happy Litha!

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Tr*mp kicks out Pete Hegseth from strategic Israel-Iran decisions

Were the No Kings protests the largest single-day demonstration in American history?

GOP splits and angry MAGA voter rants against Trump

Maybe Tr*mp Really Is That Fucking Stupid And Why That Matters

The Shompen face obliteration: they urgently need your support

The Tyrant Test