Increasingly, his mind was preoccupied with extremist views and conspiracy theories, including secret government cabals and false-flag operations.
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Connor Sheets,
Los Angeles Times,
24 July 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.
Similarly to De Soto, residents in Emporia, El Dorado, Ottawa, Osawatomie and Edgerton have formed their own coalitions and circulated petitions to ban data centers in their respective communities.
—
Taylor O'Connor,
Kansas City Star,
22 Sep. 2026
Both parties emerged from the progressive era as messy coalitions of diverse constituencies and interests, not uniform ideologies.
Massive stockpiles of methamphetamine smuggled onto the islands by cartels have spurred a widespread addiction crisis, seen as a key driver of an HIV epidemic that Fiji recently declared a national emergency.
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Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
30 Sep. 2026
The work largely involves searching for clandestine body dumping grounds in rural, isolated parts of the state where drug cartels are active.
For one, note the differing scales on the Y-axes – this is mostly about the shape of a year rather than magnitude of moves.
—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
6 Oct. 2026
AbdulSalam Mohammed, president of the Abaad Studies & Research Center and an adviser to Yemen’s Information Ministry, told the Washington Examiner that government forces are currently focused on defending against the Houthis along three main axes.
—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
4 Oct. 2026
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