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Dom and Angelina’s wedding photo My Uncle Dom was out of place in my blue-collar family. The husband of my mother’s youngest sister Angelina, he had a college associate’s degree and worked as a quality control chemist for Coca Cola. He did not own a car and took the subway to work every day. Eventually he became a flavor chemist [...]
"Perhaps @Icegov should go check this corner out." That’s how social media influencer and Turning Point USA contributor Savanah Hernandez captioned her October 19, 2025, video on X showing West African vendors selling counterfeit goods on Canal Street. The video has been viewed 5.1 million times. Several days after it went online, ICE agents raided the area and arrested nine [...]
This excerpt from John O'Connor's new book, A Short, Strange Trip: An Untold Story of Magic Mushrooms, Madness, and a Search for the Meaning of Life in the Amazon (pub date April 14, 2026), explores the peripatetic ways of both the author and his subject, the late American mystic and "psychonaut," Terence Mckenna (1946-2000). McKenna, a countercultural figure in the 1970s who [...]
