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The Sunday Snooze: Fascism Has Happened Before, So We Don't Need To Worry About It

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A resident pauses in the kitchen doorway on Aldermere Street Thursday morning, apparently uncertain how to proceed.

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This One Thing Done Every Morning Will Kill You and Everyone You've Ever Met

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By Claire Beaulieu · Apr 16, 2026

The Third Street sinkhole on Tuesday, its viewing platform GoFundMe now at $3,400, its legal status newly complicated.

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Consolidated Finality Partners LLC Files Formal Objection to Third Street Sinkhole Litigation, Citing 'Redundancy'

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School Board Approves Both Competing History Curricula in Unprecedented 'Dual Track' Compromise

Students will learn one of two incompatible versions of local history depending on classroom assignment. Testing accommodations forthcoming.

By James Okonkwo · Mar 4, 2026

A bronze plaque reading 'In This Location, Commerce Once Occurred' stands near the corner of Pacific Avenue and Sixth Street on Wednesday.

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Capitalism, 250, Dies After Decades-Long Battle With Neoliberal Policy

Survived by shareholder value, a 7-tier agility lattice, and approximately 400 lobbyists

By Margaret Huang · Mar 8, 2026

Rear Admiral Christine Yeoh speaks at a press availability at Gnu Harbor Naval Base on Tuesday, confirming that the base is supporting 'operational requirements' without specifying what those requirements are.

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U.S. Completely Obliterates Iran Nuclear Weapons Program for 12th Consecutive Day

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By James Okonkwo · Mar 9, 2026

Close-up, slightly overhead shot of a few loose-leaf notebook pages spread on a worn school desk, filled edge-to-edge with dense teenage handwriting in multiple ink colors, featuring a rough hand-drawn map of an island with coastline details and a naval base sketched in the north, alongside a hand-drawn timeline with an arrow stretching back toward a label at the far left — soft overcast light filtering through a classroom window illuminates the pages, pencil smudges and correction marks visible throughout, the margins crowded with annotations and small doodles.

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School Board Moves to Suppress Unauthorized Third Curriculum Assembled by Students from Traded Notes

Hybrid history document, described as 'alarmingly coherent,' circulating among seventh and eighth graders at Founders' Memorial High School

By Claire Beaulieu · Mar 4, 2026

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