Our most-read article of 2025.
(Originally published Juily 17, 2025.)
“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is spaced. A dash with no spaces on either side? That must be AI-generated writing. Case closed.”
— Joseph Mellors, Inside Higher Ed
Before alleging fraud in Minnesota’s Somali community, right-wing YouTuber Nick Shirley built a following with anti-immigrant clips.
The post Right-Wing YouTuber Behind Viral Minnesota Fraud Video Has Long Anti-Immigrant History appeared first on The Intercept.
Are Israel and the Trump admin planning to revive the dystopian Gaza Humanitarian Foundation scheme that spawned famine and death under cover of humanitarian aid? In its bid to continue the genocide in Gaza, Israel has banned 37 international aid organizations from entering the decimated, militarily occupied coastal enclave. This leaves only five humanitarian groups still able to operate inside Gaza. At the same time, one of the US mercenary firms responsible for securing the notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites which were […]
The post As Israel bans aid orgs in Gaza, notorious mercenary firm seeks “Targeter” first appeared on The Grayzone.
The post As Israel bans aid orgs in Gaza, notorious mercenary firm seeks “Targeter” appeared first on The Grayzone.
Our 2nd most-read article of 2025.
It’s so easy to label people these days. From the way folks have been talking, you’d think everyone falls into two buckets: those who voted against the mayor who promised to blow up the city and those who voted for the mayor who promised to blow up the city. And now that the mayor, whom I voted for, is blowing up the city, as he promised, I’m one of many people who are being unfairly blamed for something I didn’t want. Okay? I didn’t want the mayor to blow up the city like he mentioned many times; I just wanted him to fix the old bowling alley like he promised in passing once. Anyone saying I’m partially responsible for the explosions is just a sign that they have no argument.
In the early hours of 29 January 1996, three peace activists cut through the perimeter fence of the Warton Aerodrome of British Aerospace (now bae Systems) in North West England. They proceeded to gain access to military hangar 358, and meticulously damaged the radar and targeting systems, cockpit, nose cone, and metal panels on a […]
Visual evidence of our planet’s curvature is relatively recent
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A burned-out parent is a less emotionally real parent
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These feathery gas detectors became beloved pets in the dark depths
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It has a surprising cerebral signature
The post Here’s What’s Happening in the Brain When You’re Improvising appeared first on Nautilus.
Our 3rd most-read article of 2025.
Originally published May 9, 2025.
Julie Owens, who bravely tugged on a tankini in mid-January in order to chaperone her twins to an indoor water park. After nearly swallowing a wet Band-Aid in the wave pool, Owens—in a show of tremendous valor—merely dry heaved thrice.
Hannah Robertson, who not only took her eleven-year-old to Sephora but also bought the pubescent child a sixty-five-dollar jade roller and a twenty-five-dollar toner, all without once rolling her eyes or mentioning the patriarchy.
The December 24 drone strike in Venezuela is the latest in a long tradition of CIA interventions in Latin America — which often lead to destabilization and blowback.
The post CIA Was Behind Venezuela Drone Strike, Source Says appeared first on The Intercept.
Engineers had been trying to solve this problem for 40 years
The post This Robot is Tinier than a Grain of Salt appeared first on Nautilus.
