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The Ancient Bird Trade

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On March 10, 2026
Sometimes I wonder about the academic pieces that get attention from larger news sources. Usually this is "economists or political scientists discover something that historians have written about for 25 years" and the like. But while this story about figuring out that birds were traded...

Read Books

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On March 10, 2026

The saddest words in the English language are "I don't read fiction." And yet, even here at LGM. commenters talk about how they don't read anymore. That's horrible. Social media.

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Ain’t That America

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On March 10, 2026
You can bet on anything these days. And if you are an ICE agent, you can bet on when immigrants placed into your concentration camps will commit suicide: Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will...

Bo Gritz

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On March 9, 2026

Bo Gritz is dead. One of the largely forgotten figures of the late 20th century, Gritz played a critical role in the development of the paranoid, conspiracy theory driven reality.

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