Senior editor at The Atlantic.
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Author of ALMIGHTY, a book on the bomb: http://amzn.to/35PAusZ
Mr. Dan Zak
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Another Trump casualty: “Shear Madness,” forced to end its 39-year run tonight. wapo.st/4ujxDxM
The public comment portal for Trump’s “triumphal arch” is open until June 15: parkplanning.nps.gov/commentForm....
On global temperature inching closer to body temperature:
"The more the world’s conditions mimic our bodies', the more likely fungi are able to overcome this thermal barrier that’s protected us for millions of years." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Julia W. Howe, while submitting a certain poem to The Atlantic: “I am sad & spleeny, & begin to have fears that I may not be, after all, the greatest woman alive. Isn’t this a melancholy view of things? But it is a vale, you know. When will the world come to end?” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
“…a DOGE official working with the Department of Homeland Security described the goal of declaring 2.7 million living people dead: making immigrants so miserable that they self-deported or went to Social Security offices for help, where they could be arrested.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
A Jan. 6 rioter has been hired to work inside a Pentagon office that requires a top-secret clearance and manages highly classified military operations: wapo.st/437arYG
"'The leader knows that people are going to be more likely to be loyal if they don’t have many other career options, so when I say losers, I kind of mean it literally.'" www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...
Developer of bunker HOA said he chose Igloo, S.D., bc it was far from "known nuclear targets." But seems like it's on the eastern edge of the triangle of ICBM fields; & what about westerlies? Good or bad placement, @nukestrat.bsky.social, @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social? www.wsj.com/us-news/a-lu...
“Flesh-eating” bacteria is spreading. Infectious fungi are emerging. Microbiomes may never be the same. Are we ready?
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Vanilla Ice to TMZ: “I don’t even vote, so I don’t even care."
Hooray for America at 250. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/a...
A former Social Security executive said the plan, which was not carried out, would have used a death database to pressure immigrants to leave the country.
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The Trump administration’s appointment of Elias Irizarry, who was 19 at the time of the Capitol attack, has alarmed some in the Defense Department.
"Tilly’s creation is equal parts Cyrano de Bergerac and Tootsie. And it may end up as Fight Club — or worse, Oppenheimer — but it started as A Star Is Born.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/m...
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They went to South Dakota to ride out the apocalypse at a ‘5-star’ bunker compound. They’re already at each other’s throats with HOA-style grievances.
