I am very late to the party ... This is from 2006!

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-nasa-spen/

https://www.thetimes.com/article/c82d28d4-ea9c-4bff-bd67-40cb0e503d53?shareToken=0cd620f70f6a8308fc10efe2507668b9

Have you seen the recent stories on socials, of random people being arbitrarily detained at the US border ?

Most famously, 2 women (a Brit and a Canadian), imprisoned by a system that apparently rewards by the quantity of people successfully detained.

Here, the Canadian tells her story, and gives a voice to the many ...

https://medium.com/@jasminemooney/youre-not-a-criminal-but-you-re-going-to-jail-my-ice-detention-story-as-a-canadian-citizen-08b4fa77a15c

https://mrwint.github.io/winter/writeup/writeup.html

https://archive.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/08/19/bizarro_world/

☠️  🕸️

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgr5nen5gxyo

Mishal Husain interview: Elon Musk on Political Spending, the Tesla backlash, AI regulation and DOGE’s success rate.

EDIT: also available on podcasts platforms ('The Big Take') and audio-only here on YouTube.

This is a 'gift' link to a paywall article on Bloomberg (so it could expire at any time).

If you like these freebie news articles (behind a paywall), there's a BlueSky channel that posts many of them daily >

https://bsky.app/profile/davidsacerdote.bsky.social/feed/aaaixbb5liqbu

Unsure if that link will work (or the one below) but the feed is called 'Gift Links/Gift Articles' by ‪@davidsacerdote.bsky.social‬

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o4s55v3tsfph6whswxccpsia/feed/aaaixbb5liqbu

This is interesting... 

When babies felt no pain

http://archive.today/HbvrX

https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-real-salt-path-how-the-couple-behind-a-bestseller-left-a-trail-of-debt-and-deceit

Sheesh... (NSFW) 

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/what-happened-virginia-giuffre-husband-family-epstein-zr2cxwrlh