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Six French museums have been burgled since the beginning of September—one of them twice. / The Wall Street Journal [$]
Brussels (mostly) bans bicycles in its 124-acre car-free zone. / Bloomberg CityLab
Italy investigates citizens alleged to have taken sniper “safaris” to Sarajevo three decades ago. / BBC News
A photojournalist from Texas has been held by ICE since October for nothing more than his Instagram posts and likes. / Forever Wars
“Whether the Democrats ‘won’ the shutdown in some objective sense isn’t really important for forward-going politics.” Twenty-eight thoughts from a longtime Hill staffer. / Matt’s Five Points
The White House skews DoorDash data to claim inflation has been tamed. “Withholding reliable data is a tool dictatorships use to keep people in the dark.” / The Handbasket
Connections exist between environmental contamination and reproductive harm, “but that’s not what anti-abortion advocates are pursuing.” / Undark Magazine
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“I was on the wrong side of social media—less so now, but it still does affect me.” Brief interviews with “real-life” teenage girls. / Bustle
See also: The University of Miami is said to be rife with competing “micro-influencers,” where the grift is apparently ruining their college experience. / The Washington Post [$]
Why it’s so hard to fix Penn Station, explained in interactive architectural renderings. / The New York Times [$]
Tesla needs to sell 12 million cars in the next decade—amid other milestones—to make Elon Musk a trillionaire. / rest of world
Many celebrated economists previously taught “that competitive markets cause technological progress to stagnate.” / Noema
Ulkar Aghayeva: A beautiful experiment is not just a reflection of human ingenuity but also efficient science. / Asimov Press
A 72-year-old digital nomad suggests that Americans not pack their domestic hell when traveling abroad. / Too Old for This Sh*t
Unrelated: Is collective nudity disappearing in the United States? / The Atlantic [$]
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