The Pick Up Pigeons, who have collected more than 16,000 pounds of garbage since its founding in 2023, have found diaries, boxes of onions and psychedelic mushroom chocolate.
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TIM CRAIG THE WASHINGTON POST,
Arkansas Online,
5 Apr. 2026
The diaries also included criticism of the Great Leap Forward, an industrialization program championed by Mao from 1958 to 1961 that caused a famine estimated to have killed as many as 40 million people.
The records pulled back a curtain on favor-trading and frank communications in a chummy elite that looked past Epstein's 2008 guilty plea to solicitating prostitution from an underage girl in Florida.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
3 Apr. 2026
The forthcoming scorecards are just one way the group plans to track the public-lands voting records of Wyoming lawmakers.
Closer images reveal a more substantial structure with a pointed roof, made from logs and foliage, housing a log table and several bags, rope and a helmet hanging from the rafters which are covered by a plastic tarpaulin.
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Laura Sharman,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
The logs are precision-fitted, showcasing the artistry of traditional log construction.
But the loud complaints about the Iran war emanating from the far right are not insignificant — for instance, from podcasters Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly and political journals like The American Conservative.
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David M. Drucker,
Mercury News,
7 Apr. 2026
There’s no such thing as having too many journals, so a personalized journal, along with a colorful new pen or two, would be perfect for creative types.
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Joseph Erbentraut,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 Apr. 2026
Preliminary reports indicated that a Toyota Camry, driven by a 45-year-old Joliet woman, was stopped southbound on Springfield Avenue at West Jefferson Street, waiting to turn right onto westbound Jefferson Street.
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Jeramie Bizzle,
CBS News,
5 Apr. 2026
Neither SpaceX nor Musk has yet publicly commented on the reports.
Now, though, with the widespread circulation of magic manuals, grimoires, and related compendia—with the recording, on paper, of words, spells, histories, stories—witchcraft has taken an irreversible step into the exoteric realm.
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Kristen Roupenian,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
These substances have long histories of use in Traditional Chinese Medicine, says Naidoo, but are today rarely consumed in their raw form.
The manosphere is a catchall term for websites, forums, blogs and influencers promoting a particular kind of hypermasculinity, from the belief that women and feminism are the cause of men’s problems to calls to legalize rape.
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Miriam Eve Mora,
The Conversation,
3 Apr. 2026
The push coincides with an emerging Christian subculture, from churches allowing congregants to tithe with digital coins to blogs promoting bitcoin as biblically sound.
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