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Men are going to extreme lengths for physical perfection — beware 5 trends that can destroy your health (and make you ugly)
How far would you go to become a “Chad” — or even just a “high-tier normie”? Spend five minutes scrolling “looksmaxxing” forums and you’ll see users trading tips on how to escape being deemed “subhuman” at any cost. Welcome to “hardmaxxing,” the outer edge of the internet where physical attractiveness is treated as something to
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Life Isn’t Easy in the OnlyFans Economy
On-screen, the actor Elle Fanning has the cherubic, moon-eyed guilelessness of a storybook princess or an animated woodland creature, the kind that belies a character much more tenacious than she first appears. In the new Apple TV series Margo’s Got Money Troubles, based on the 2024 novel by Rufi Thorpe, Fanning plays an imaginative and
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Drug courts fail women, but there’s a solution
When Susan Burton lost her 5-year-old son after he was struck by a police vehicle in Los Angeles, her grief drove her into addiction. Crack cocaine became her way to cope, and California’s response was to lock her up again and again. Over two decades, she was incarcerated six times, released each time without treatment,
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The only three people Trump listens to have him trapped in a ‘quagmire’: MS NOW panel
Donald Trump’s Iran problemis not going away and maybe worsening, and he can thank the only three people who seem to have his ear, according to the panel on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe.” With the Strait of Hormuz still caught up in a stranglehold as a result of the president’s unprovoked war on the Middle
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LAFD’s culture of obedience runs deep. Firefighters say they fear retaliation from bosses
As firefighter after firefighter testified about their actions during the Lachman fire, a clear theme emerged — the Los Angeles Fire Department’s culture of absolute obedience. One told a boss about red hot coals and smoldering ash. Another warned that warm weather increased the risk of a flareup. After taking their concerns to superiors, they
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Nobel winner sounds alarm over Hegseth’s ‘loyalty tests’: ‘Should terrify every American’
Pete Hegseth’s new directives for US military personnel are undermining the standard set by previous administrations, a Nobel Prize winner has argued. Hegseth has implemented a contentious grooming standards directive that authorizes military members to receive government-funded laser hair removal treatments while restricting eyelash extensions and certain nail polishes, justified “in support of Army readiness.”
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Prince Louis grins in adorable birthday portrait as royal turns 8
Prince Louis is 8! Kate Middleton and Prince William celebrated their youngest child’s birthday by posting a new portrait via Instagram. The little one was all smiles on a boat in the sweet snap, posing with his arms crossed in a blue half-zip pullover. Prince Louis celebrated his 8th birthday on Thursday. @princeandprincessofwales/Instagram The little
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The Lost Promise of Stewart Brand’s Futurism
Stewart Brand changed my life. At my local library as a teenager, leafing through the massive 1980 edition of the Whole Earth Catalog—the countercultural guide to ideas and tools that Brand originally launched in the late ’60s—I felt as if I’d stumbled across the best book in the world. It introduced me to the architect
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Are you still hoping to buy Olympic tickets? LA28 shares terms for second ticket drop
Thousand-dollar tickets and hundreds of dollars in fees shocked some hopeful Olympic fans this month, but they did not keep LA28 from boasting strong sales in the committee’s first ticket drop. LA28 announced Thursday that it sold more than 4 million Olympic tickets during the first ticket drop. The private organizing committee will have a
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Trump is a ‘failed fascist’ because one thing keeps him from succeeding: historian
President Donald Trump has all the impulses of a fascist autocrat — but there’s a key weakness that stands in the way of achieving his goals of reshaping the nation, historian and professor Timothy Snyder told The Daily Beast. Specifically, he argued, Trump and his inner circle are just too greedy and distracted by their