‘Rationalist Fleet’: Before killings linked to fringe group, ‘Ziz’ led fateful tugboat voyage to California
Before string of killings linked to fringe group, Jack ‘Ziz’ LaSota led fateful tugboat voyage from Alaska to California ...
Sterling Morrison quit the Velvet Underground. One of his next stops? The Houston Ship Channel
Sterling Morrison's life playing guitar in the Velvet Underground took a very interesting turn in Texas. He became a tugboat ...
Supply Chain4d
Panama Refutes U.S. Claim of Deal to Cut Canal Fees
They’re making an important, institutional statement from the entity that governs United States foreign policy based on a ...
In These Times15h
Federal Workers Rise up Against Musk, Trump and Drastic Cuts
Chris Dols was one of hundreds who flooded to the streets of Washington, D.C. this week to protest the shutdown of the ...
Inside the Zizians, a radical California-based vegan cult now linked to 6 violent deaths
After a Border Patrol agent was killed in a shootout in Vermont in January, the apparent outlines of a grander conspiracy ...
Fast Company on MSN15d
The U.S. desperately needs icebreaker ships. The one it has is a design failure
It’s now been a dozen years since the Aiviq set out on its first mission to Alaska ... designed for a specific role: as a tugboat that could tow Shell’s 250-foot-tall polar drill rig, the Kulluk, ...
How did a German math genius get drawn into a ‘cult' accused in coast-to-coast killings?
Ophelia Bauckholt was killed in a shootout with U.S. Border Patrol agents in northern Vermont — an unlikely end to a life that held so much promise.
This Icebreaker Has Design Problems and a History of Failure. It’s America’s Latest Military Vessel.
The builder of the icebreaker Aiviq has given more than $7 million to political campaigns, parties and committees since 2012. Under pressure from Congress, the Coast Guard purchased the vessel late ...
The Financial Times11d
Have America’s industrial giants forgotten what they are for?
Harvard’s Gulati singles out the fifth-generation family-owned Swiss food processing ... Dave Whorton, author of a new book ...
A Wall Street trader disappeared, then wound up dead in a U.S. Border Patrol shootout
Ophelia Bauckholt was killed in a shootout with U.S. Border Patrol agents in northern Vermont — an unlikely end to a life that held so much promise.
Milwaukee Magazine8d
Nobody Knows Whose Responsibility it Is to Clean Up Milwaukee’s S.S. Minnow
The DNR, Coast Guard, city and county all say removing the boat isn’t their responsibility. So, who’s is it? Well, nobody ...
The New York Times29d
12 Actually Useful Things You’ll Be Glad You Have in Your Junk Drawer
These AAA batteries powered a toy tugboat for 2 hours ... Plus, when they’re not in use, you can take them out of your devices, juice them back up, and store them in your junk drawer, so ...