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After returning to office, President Trump gutted an FBI team taking on public corruption, killing a massive cash-for-contracts investigation into Lindsey Graham and Jim Clyburn. / ProPublica
As the White House ramps up allegations of noncitizen voting, an interactive explanation of how claims of widespread fraud in 2024 fell apart. / Mother Jones, The New York Times [$]
Kathryn Baecht: “Only a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun who’s trying to stop another good guy with a gun who’s jumping out of his vehicle to run and stop a bad guy with a gun…” / McSweeney’s
Why were France’s supermarket fridges attacked? Possibly because France has more exposed refrigerator dashboards than the rest of the world combined. / IPinfo
As life becomes less affordable for more Americans, boarding houses are on an upswing after falling out of favor—and in some areas banned—a half-century ago. / Vox [$]
Rare in medieval Britain, rabbits were reserved for the aristocracy until the plague killed so many people that practically anyone could acquire one. / Phys dot org
Unrelated: An oral history of the “Amazon Coat,” as seen on every fashion editor in New York City in early 2018. / New York Magazine
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Americans who believe in God or attend church and “trust science and reason more than their churches’ teachings” are more likely to believe in ghosts and curses. / The Conversation
In a study, participants who viewed an image, and later an AI-altered version of the same image, were more likely to misremember—and confidently, no less—the original image. / Gizmodo
Researchers find that the unique ways humans’ brains have developed, compared to those of apes, have made us uniquely susceptible to Alzheimer’s. / The Atlantic [$]
From the archives: When dementia gets its grip on a father who always loved slasher movies, a daughter struggles to hold on—if only to the ghost of recognition. / The Morning News
MapQuest adds a “Surveillance Layer” to reveal locations of license plate readers and other outdoor surveillance cameras. / Bluesky
Add this to the list of the many, many things that can run Doom: an espresso machine with a tiny screen. / Wikipedia, GameSpot
Some thoughts on Roger Corman’s four-year, eight-film Poe cycle, which cemented Vincent Price’s horror persona and provided an early boost for Jack Nicholson. / Horror Film History, TCM
An archive of vinyl and cassettes of “obscure, little-known, or previously unknown music that isn’t on the internet anywhere else.” / Internet Archive
The generative documentary Eno, which changes every time it’s shown, is now available (in an unchanging version) on Apple TV and Amazon. / Gary Hustwit