marsupials Watch the first 10 minutes of the Communist Kangaroo film Thom Dunn

History Castro's supercow got a state obituary and a marble statue Ellsworth Toohey

History A stunt pilot doing loops around the Soviet propaganda megaplane crashed into it, killing 45 Ellsworth Toohey

History The Vietnamese monk who ate only coconuts and built a Coconut Kingdom Ellsworth Toohey

china China secretly trained Russian troops, and some have since fought in Ukraine Séamus Bellamy

spiders Spider's mouth infected by Kyle Rittenhouse Séamus Bellamy

animation This 1980 Czech animation is circles all the way down Popkin

china Chinese official used ChatGPT like a diary, exposing campaign to harass dissidents Séamus Bellamy

trump Canada's Carney tells world how to survive Trump's America Séamus Bellamy

hypocrisy Karoline Leavitt casts stones from the imagined safety of her glass house Jason Weisberger

Technology AI vending machine lost $1,000 to social engineering Ellsworth Toohey

Games Yet another spiritual successor to "Disco Elysium" has hit the indie market Grant St. Clair

Release the files Grandpa Puddin' Brains gives another bad history lesson Jason Weisberger

election interference Trump threatens NYC it'll get the "very minimum," like Melania Jason Weisberger

"Progressive populist" Graham Platner has Nazi totenkopf tattoo Rob Beschizza

politics The Good Liars do No Kings Grant St. Clair

Suspicious deaths Yet another Russian falls out yet another window Jason Weisberger

politics Kirk murder suspect arrested: never voted, no coherent politics, just toxic memes Rob Beschizza

literature "If you were to recite a single page, dogs would drop dead" — a review of the most boring book in the world Mark Frauenfelder

trump Apple's authoritarian-pleasing antics have alienated me Séamus Bellamy