I have hiked the forests that ring this lake. I have walked a dog along its shoreline when the water was the color of wet slate and the gulls were screaming. I have run its paths in July heat and February ice. I know this lake the way you know a neighbor for a lifetime. […]
Month: August 2026
RFK Jr. told CNN and Fox that Lyme disease “almost certainly” came from gain-of-function research. A 5,300-year-old mummy’s genome says otherwise.
Delusional MAGA clown Mike Lindell is crying because he lost by 11 points. In his words, this is an anomaly.
Settle down and pay attention. I have uncovered a statistical relationship so strong, so consistent, and so entirely unexamined, that it demands to be published before someone else takes credit for it. In 1971, the United States licensed the combined measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. Practically every American child born after that year received […]
Todd Blanche spent years defending Donald Trump in criminal court. Hush money, classified documents, the conspiracy to overturn an election Trump lost. Blanche took these cases and built a career on them. Now the Senate has confirmed him as Attorney General of the United States, by a vote of 50 to 49, with only two […]
Somewhere in America right now, a man is craning his neck over a stranger’s shopping cart. He has spotted something obscene. Not a weapon. Not contraband. A box of Trix. The stranger paid with SNAP. The man does the math immediately, the way outrage always does math: badly, and with total confidence. He has decided […]