A police department in Florida used “decoy” Flock cameras that an officer 3D-printed at home to “bait” would-be vandals. Police officers monitored the fake cameras for days, then charged a man with three felonies after he cut down and destroyed one of the plastic devices. The police department in question refuses to release any information about how the decoy operation was devised or carried out and claims there is zero paper trail whatsoever about the operation.

Millions of people tune in to the conservative commentator each week — and several of them told The 19th why they trust her, what they’re skeptical of and how her views influence their own.

Plastic bottles and agricultural waste can be converted into consumable cookies via genetically engineered yeast. The team members behind the initiative are currently awaiting institutional approval so they can taste the product.

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Ontario is filled with ghost towns, abandoned farming villages, workers’ camps, and rural hamlets. Most emptied out slowly, over years of decline. Others had their futures stamped out for them. Only the fortunate are resurrected, preserved, and remembered. Some, like Wesleyville, have never stopped resisting their own destruction.

Thinking about the poison, which is derived from giant monkey frogs, and then seeing the creatures dotted hither and thither as you go about your daily life would be taken by most people as a funny coincidence.

However, there are those to whom this is a clear sign that they need to dab their flesh with the venom and then vomit their guts into a bucket, in the name of a ceremonial ritual that supposedly cures almost any ailment (naturally, there’s no clinical evidence for these claims).

Developers of proposed Vancouver data centres asked Prime Minister Mark Carney for business commitments as they prepared to unveil their project, according to documents from the IJF’s Open by Default Database.

A December 2025 memo for the prime minister said Telus and Vancouver property developer Westbank planned to ask Carney for “government support,” including by committing the federal government to using a certain percentage of the new project’s capacity.

On 24 August 2024, the Trump administration started “Operation Economic Outcast” in order to totally isolate the Islamic Republic of Iran, along with any country that enables Iran’s economic survival in the global economy. This is not merely an economic onslaught against the Iranian regime and the people of Iran; it is an assault on the global energy economy, which is crucial for the survival of millions of people across the globe. It threatens countries that depend on Iran’s natural gas and oil or are otherwise connected to Iran. It also threatens to remove countries from the US dollar system if they facilitate or engage with Iran.

For years, social media firms were virtually untouchable in the courts. They enjoyed broad immunity from litigation thanks to a controversial piece of US law known as Section 230, which stipulates that social platforms, as hosts of third-party content, are in most cases not liable for that content.

But in 2024, Carl received a note from the Social Media Victims Law Center, a firm, established in 2021 in Seattle, that represented thousands of families like the Burkes—families who had lost children to sextortion, fatal TikTok challenges, and fentanyl-laced drugs sold over Snapchat. SMVLC’s founder, an attorney named Matthew Bergman, and his team were mounting an all-out offensive against social media, not by attacking Section 230 but by sidestepping it. Instead of focusing on content, they were pursuing a novel legal theory: that the platforms themselves were negligently designed, stuffed full of features and algorithms that addict and harm teenage users. Carl understood that, if the courts validated this theory, it would represent a chink in social media’s armour—a way to hold Big Tech accountable for its role in what happened to Harry. So he wrote back. He wanted in.

Last week, President Donald Trump nominated anti-choice physician Heidi Overton to lead the FDA. Overton has long attacked abortion. In 2022, she lauded the overturn of Roe v. Wade as an opportunity to “choose life through a democratic process.” She also called abortion medication “dangerous to women,” despite scientific consensus that the pills are safe and effective. If confirmed, Overton would oversee the agency’s highly-criticized “review” of mifepristone’s safety that began in June under ex-FDA chief Marty Makary.

Finally getting back into my sketchbook for some traditional art.

Alongside recent news of tragic outcomes in untreated postpartum psychosis, postpartum depression (PPD) and anxiety are significantly more prevalent—affecting one in five new mothers—and in urgent need of treatments. Mebufotenin, a psychedelic with a long history, offered surprisingly positive results in a recent trial (Johnson et al., 2026). PPD and postpartum mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs, which encompass PPD) are difficult to treat, yet affect both parent and infant—and frequently an entire family.

Here, we aim to review the larger context of the murder of Corey Ruiz, exploring the political tensions in Madison, the history of the city’s treatment of unhoused Madisonians, and how political organizers and non-profits have failed to get to the root of these issues by making impotent demands. Police violence towards the unhoused community in Madison and towards people of color is rampant in the city; the execution of Corey Ruiz is a continuation and escalation of that violence. Corey’s execution, recorded in cell phone footage, was horrific, and his blood will forever stain the hands of city officials, legislatures, and politicians, as well as the police who carry out their orders.

So last evening, I instructed our negotiators to return to Ottawa. We cannot accept what they’ve offered, and we will not give what they’ve asked. Over the past year, the US has imposed a series of tariffs that violate its commitment under our agreement with them in Mexico, so-called CUSMA. The United States has continually changed the rationale for these actions, from fentanyl to taxes on US tech giants, to certification of US aircraft, to the sharing of tolls of a bridge that Canada built and paid for, to our dairy policy, to provincial decisions not to sell American alcohol during the trade war, to a television advertisement that quoted Ronald Reagan, to smoke from wildfires while they threatened our communities.