Category: You Should See This
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We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable. – POLITICO
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Link: The two of us are humanitarian surgeons. Together, in our combined 57 years of volunteering, we’ve worked on more than 40 surgical missions in developing countries on four continents. We’re used to working in disaster and war zones, of being on intimate terms with death and carnage and despair. None of that prepared us…
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To Blur Or Not To Blur: Exposing Finland’s Lakeside Neo-Nazi Meetup – bellingcat
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To Blur Or Not To Blur: Exposing Finland’s Lakeside Neo-Nazi Meetup – bellingcat A group of Finnish neo-Nazis and a few international friends have convened once again in Finland’s picturesque lake district for a secretive summertime festival. via bellingcat: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/07/11/to-blur-or-not-to-blur-exposing-finlands-lakeside-neo-nazi-meetup/ But just a short time later the video had been taken down, edited and reuploaded.…
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The Bleak, Nihilistic Show Russians Can’t Stop Watching – The New York Times
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The Bleak, Nihilistic Show Russians Can’t Stop Watching The streaming hit, “The Boy’s Word,” about youth gangs in the last years of the Soviet Union, says grim things about the national mood. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/magazine/the-boys-word-russians.html The streaming hit, “The Boy’s Word,” about youth gangs in the last years of the Soviet Union, says grim things about…
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How a Homegrown Teen Gang Punctured the Image of an Upscale Community | The New Yorker
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How a Homegrown Teen Gang Punctured the Image of an Upscale Community The authorities didn’t seem to pay attention to the Gilbert Goons until one boy was dead and seven others were charged with murder. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/07/01/how-a-homegrown-teen-gang-punctured-the-image-of-an-upscale-community A group of older guys followed them. Because they were “tall and strong-looking,” one of…
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The Problem With Erik: Privilege, Blackmail, and Murder for Hire in Austin – Texas Monthly
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The Problem With Erik: Privilege, Blackmail, and Murder for Hire in Austin A spoiled heir to an auto-dealership empire responded to a blackmail attempt by ordering two murders. Four years and a jury trial later, what motivated his ruinous decision remains a mystery. via Texas Monthly: https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/erik-maund-blackmail-murder-for-hire-austin-car-dealer/ But on March 1, 2020, as the world…
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Kanye West Bought an Architectural Treasure—Then Gave It a Violent Remix | The New Yorker
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Kanye West Bought an Architectural Treasure—Then Gave It a Violent Remix How the hip-hop star’s beautiful, dark, twisted fantasy turned a beach house in Malibu, designed by the Japanese master Tadao Ando, into a ruin. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/17/kanye-west-tadao-ando-beach-house-malibu How the hip-hop star’s beautiful, dark, twisted fantasy turned a beach house in Malibu, designed…
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The West Coast’s Fanciest Stolen Bikes Are Getting Trafficked by One Mastermind in Jalisco, Mexico | WIRED
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The West Coast’s Fanciest Stolen Bikes Are Getting Trafficked by One Mastermind in Jalisco, Mexico “We have people stealing all over the world.” A digital sleuth named Bryan Hance has spent the past four years obsessively uncovering a bicycle-theft pipeline of astonishing scale. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valleys-fanciest-stolen-bikes-trafficked-mastermind-jalisco-mexico/ “We have people stealing all over the world.” A…
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Ecuador’s Risky War on Narcos | The New Yorker
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Ecuador’s Risky War on Narcos Does President Daniel Noboa’s campaign against drug gangs imperil the democracy he claims to defend? via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/24/ecuadors-risky-war-on-narcos Does President Daniel Noboa’s campaign against drug gangs imperil the democracy he claims to defend? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/24/ecuadors-risky-war-on-narcos
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Why Is Everyone on Steroids Now? | GQ
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Why Is Everyone on Steroids Now? Across the internet and in gyms everywhere, body-modifying drug use has become ubiquitous, effective and… normal. Can this really be a good thing? via GQ: https://www.gq.com/story/why-is-everyone-on-steroids-now My curiosity about this sudden ubiquity helps explain how I came to meet Nick, 33, a handsome white guy, comprehensively tattooed, dressed in…
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The Strange Case of Anna Stubblefield – The New York Times
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The Strange Case of Anna Stubblefield (Published 2015) She told the family of a severely disabled man that she could help him to communicate with the outside world. The relationship that followed would lead to a criminal trial. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/magazine/the-strange-case-of-anna-stubblefield.html She told the family of a severely disabled man that she could help him to…
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The Titan Submersible Disaster Shocked the World. The Exclusive Inside Story Is More Disturbing Than Anyone Imagined | WIRED
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The Titan Submersible Disaster Shocked the World. The Inside Story Is More Disturbing Than Anyone Imagined A year after OceanGate’s sub imploded, thousands of leaked documents and interviews with ex-employees reveal how the company’s CEO cut corners, ignored warnings, and lied in his fatal quest to reach the Titanic. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/titan-submersible-disaster-inside-story-oceangate-files/ A year after…
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Fighting Trump on the Beaches | The New Yorker
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Fighting Trump on the Beaches Biden’s fiery D Day speech in Normandy warns against the ex-President’s isolationism, while Trump is back home, targeting “the enemy within.” via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/fighting-trump-on-the-beaches As I write this, it still seems insane, unimaginable, that these are sentences about a once and possibly future American President. But they are…
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Anatomy of a Murder – The Atavist Magazine
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A Vigilante Murder in Minnesota How a shocking crime divided a small town. via The Atavist Magazine: http://magazine.atavist.com/anatomy-of-a-murder-grand-marais-minnesota-larry-scully-levi-axtell/ The residents of Grand Marais have had a lot to discuss in recent years. A suspicious fire that destroyed the historic Lutsen Lodge. The suicide of their neighbor Mark Pavelich, a star on the 1980 U.S. Olympic…
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Donald Trump Is Guilty in His New York Hush-Money Trial | The New Yorker
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Trump Is Guilty, but Voters Will Be the Final Judge The jury has convicted the former President of thirty-four felony counts in his New York hush-money trial. Now the American people will decide to what extent they care. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/10/trump-is-guilty-but-voters-will-be-the-final-judge To return an unstable and malevolent authoritarian to the White House risks…
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Why the Summer Could Be Disastrous for Ukraine | The New Yorker
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Why the Summer Could Be Disastrous for Ukraine Amid a new advance by Russian forces, Zelensky faces enormous challenges in marshalling the equipment and the manpower necessary to keep them at bay. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-the-summer-could-be-disastrous-for-ukraine The Russian leadership is now starting to think of the war like, This is a four-year war and…
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The Case to End College Football
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The Case to End College Football Big-time college football is one of the most egregious sites of economic exploitation in U.S. society today, the authors argue. via Sportico.com: https://www.sportico.com/leagues/college-sports/2024/case-to-end-to-college-football-1234779221/ Ted Tatos and Hal Singer have calculated that Black football and men’s basketball players lose out annually on a $1.2 to $1.4 billion racial transfer of wealth…
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How Kid Rock Turned Into A Republican Mouthpiece And Trump’s MAGA BFF
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How Kid Rock Went From America’s Favorite Hard-Partying Rock Star to a MAGA Mouthpiece Kid Rock, a.k.a. Bob Ritchie, used to bring together rock, country, and hip-hop fans with his eclectic music. Now his MAGA politics are dividing fans. via Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/kid-rock-republican-mouthpiece-trump-maga-bff-1235019530/ Two days after meeting with Ritchie at his house, I’ll see this…
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A Nazi’s Chilling Photos Show How He Wanted to Remember Auschwitz | PetaPixel
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A Nazi’s Chilling Photos Show How He Wanted to Remember Auschwitz The banality of evil. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/05/22/a-nazis-chilling-photos-show-how-he-wanted-to-remember-auschwitz/ Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich wrote about the Nazi photo album in their 2018 play, Here There Are Blueberries. The award-winning play’s title highlights the carefree berry-eating put to photographic film just outside the site of the…