Reading archive 2025-08-26

Modern Dentistry Is a Microplastic Minefield: Dentists and orthodontists depend heavily on plastics and are beginning to weigh the tradeoffs.

Jacqui Heinrich is drawing attention at Fox News: The 36-year-old senior White House correspondent made waves for her harsh account of Trump’s summit with Putin: “She is not afraid of pissing off the base.”

ChatGPT is an energy guzzler. These things you’re doing are worse.: AI services have earned a reputation as energy-hungry beasts. But what about the other emissions in our digital lives?

America Tips Into Fascism Today is different than before. - "American fascism looks like the president using armed military units from governors loyal to his regime to seize cities run by opposition political figures and it looks like the president using federal law enforcement to target regime opponents. 

"American fascism looks like the would-be self-proclaimed king deploying the military on US soil not only not in response to requests by local or state officials but over — and almost specifically to spite — their vociferous objections."

Eleanor Holmes Norton keeps a low profile as Trump takes aim at DC: The 88-year-old congressional delegate has mounted a back-seat response to the most serious federal threat to the city’s government in 30 years.