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.
In Mexico, the cartels have been using drones to attack each other or Mexican law enforcement.
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Rebecca Santana,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Oct. 2026
Plot summary Set in 1980s West Texas, the film follows Vietnam War veteran Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), who happens upon the bloody aftermath of a desert shoot-out resulting from a drug deal gone wrong between American and Mexican cartels.
The future of fit combines foot scanning technology, 3D foot data and AI, giving brands, retailers and consumers the intelligence to achieve a better fit.
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Fairchild Studio,
Footwear News,
19 Oct. 2026
Farming jobs evaporated as technologies, from fertilizers to combines, enabled greater productivity, automation, and consolidation.
Most of Iran’s regional neighbors field militaries armed by the US but have slowly begun diversifying their arsenals and formalizing new military alliances amid concerns over Washington’s commitment to defending its allies.
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Mostafa Salem,
CNN Money,
26 Oct. 2026
This bipartisanship on attitudes about AI and data centers appears also to show up in alliances on the ground and, in some cases, in new organizations with a focus on thwarting data centers.
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Barbara A. Trish,
The Conversation,
26 Oct. 2026
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