Voter fraud conspiracies are like methamphetamine running through MAGA veins, stirring up equal parts passion and paranoia.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Mar. 2026
The drumbeat of Christian war imagery has ignited dangerous conspiracies about Jews, such as Tucker Carlson’s contention that the Chabad-Lubavitch sect of Judaism secretly started the war.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
25 Mar. 2026
Also, there were no formal sororities at the U of C at all until Alpha Omicron Pi came to campus in 1985.
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Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
The dancers will execute styles practiced by historically African American fraternities and sororities, traditional African dances and an array of contemporary styles, according to The Hemmens website.
To him, the vision seemed right — not in the specific locations activated by various themes but in the sense that our neuroanatomy did seem to parse the world by subject, tangles and folds of neurons lighting up in response to clouds of ideas.
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Eric Boodman,
Vulture,
25 Mar. 2026
At just 918 square feet, the house rejects sprawl entirely—the design stacks, overlaps, and folds in on itself.
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Jessica Chapel,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Mar. 2026
Thomas Pynchon’s latest novel, Shadow Ticket, set in 1932 Milwaukee, takes place in a landscape of industrial ghosts, strike-breakers, fascist sympathizers and absurdist cabals.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Dec. 2025
With a story of secret cabals and a child born to rule, Dumont projects the nasty prejudices and bureaucratic rigors of local politics, the tangles of family allegiances, and the tender grunge of young lust into divine and diabolical clashes run from celestial and subterranean castles.
Violence perpetrated by gangs resulted in at least 1,424 people killed and 790 injured; operations against gangs led by security forces, meanwhile, caused at least 3,497 deaths and 1,742 injuries; attacks against gangs by self-defense groups have caused at least 598 deaths and 76 injuries.
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Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
24 Mar. 2026
He was set to be imprisoned at the Salvadoran mega-prison CECOT, despite a judge's 2019 order that blocked his deportation there on the grounds that he could be harmed by local gangs.
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