Chris Lavergne
I’m the Founder of Thought.is and the Publisher of Thought Catalog.
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Michelle Obama Brought Barack to Tears at the Opening of His Presidential Center, Telling Him Standing by His Side Has Left Her in Awe
Michelle Obama paused mid-speech to make her husband look her in the eye. “Barack, you gotta look at me,” she said.
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This Is the First Time Biden, Obama, Bush, and Clinton Have Ever Posed Together for a Photo
Biden, Obama, Bush, and Clinton posed together in Chicago’s Jackson Park ahead of the dedication ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center.
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Bruce Springsteen Says He Wants to Find “Common Ground” with the Fans Who Walked Out Over His Trump Criticism
Springsteen made the comment while accepting the Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award at Tribeca’s “Storytellers” event on June 13, with Bono presenting and moderating the conversation.
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Just Weeks Before He Died, Oliver Tree Explained Why His Family Wouldn’t Inherit a Cent of His Fortune
Oliver Tree Nickell died on June 14 in a helicopter crash in Rio de Janeiro. He was 32.
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Taxpayers Won’t Fund UFC Freedom 250’s $60 Million White House Production, Dana White Says. TKO Expects to Lose $30 Million
UFC Freedom 250 is set for June 14, 2026, with seven fights on the South Lawn, a fan fest on the Ellipse, and a Zac Brown Band concert built around Trump’s 80th birthday and the 250th anniversary of the Declaration…
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Fake Pilot, Real Talent: Former Air Canada Captain Flew Passenger Jets For 17 Years On A Fake License
Geoffrey Wall, 59, retired from Air Canada in 2025 after a 27-year career and what looked like a clean run to the top. Peel Regional Police now say almost half of that career was a fraud.
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What Comes Around Goes Around: Gen Z Is Bringing Back Tanning Beds, Which Are Classified as Carcinogenic to Humans
The World Health Organization puts indoor tanning beds in the same cancer-causing category as cigarettes, asbestos and plutonium.
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Why Did Bishop Betray Alamo in ‘Euphoria’?
Warning: Massive spoilers for the last episode of HBO’s Euphoria. Ali (played by Colman Domingo) storms in armed and in military gear seeking revenge after Rue’s death from fentanyl-laced pills Alamo gave her.
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Trump’s Treasury Officials Pushed to Put His Face on a New $250 Bill, Even Though Federal Law Says Living People Can’t Appear on US Currency
According to a Washington Post report, two Treasury political appointees, US Treasurer Brandon Beach and senior adviser Mike Brown, repeatedly pressured staff at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to prepare prototypes for a $250 banknote featuring Donald Trump’s portrait.…
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Fashion Brands Are About to Discover Their Next Growth Market: Dressing Humanoid Robots
Robots need clothes for the same reason humans do, how they’re dressed changes how people feel about them. A humanoid in exposed metal reads as cold industrial machinery.
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Brad Pitt Called “Cut” on His Own Scene. Quentin Tarantino Told Him: “Never Again In Your Life Will You Ever Cut A Camera…”
Bruce Dern is 89, the father of Laura Dern, and a two-time Oscar nominee who has been working in Hollywood since the early 1960s.
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Pope Leo Xiv’s First Encyclical Is About AI, and He Puts It in the Same Moral Category as Nuclear Weapons.
Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical today, and its central demand is that artificial intelligence be “disarmed.”‘ The document is called Magnifica Humanitas (“Magnificent Humanity: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence”).
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The Pentagon Posted Its 2nd Declassified UFO Data Dump, And It Looks Like We Haven’t Been Alone For 77 Years
The files were posted to WAR.GOV/UFO this month as the second batch in a rolling declassification Congress ordered in 2022. The most striking thing isn’t any single sighting. It’s what the reports have in common.
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Jeff Bezos Thinks Every Other AI CEO Is Wrong About Jobs.
Bezos said this Wednesday morning on CNBC’s Squawk Box, sitting across from Andrew Ross Sorkin inside Blue Origin’s rocket factory in Merritt Island, Florida. He’s one of the only people running a frontier AI company saying this.
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It’s Official: the U.S. And NASA Are Building a Permanent Base on the Moon
The plan is called Moon Base, and NASA formally unveiled it at its “Ignition” event on March 24, 2026.
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Cuba’s President Warns There Will Be a “Bloodbath” If the US Attacks Cuba.
Díaz-Canel posted the warning on X a day after Axios published classified intelligence showing Cuba’s drone buildup.
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Jeff Bezos Says a Nurse Making $75,000 Shouldn’t Pay a Dime in Federal Tax.
Jeff Bezos went on CNBC’s Squawk Box Wednesday morning and pitched an unscripted tax idea: wipe out the federal income tax for the bottom 50% of earners.
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Claude Has Been Telling Users to Go to Sleep Mid-Session, but It Can’t Actually Tell What Time It Is
Sam McAllister is a member of staff at Anthropic, the company that builds Claude. He joined from Stripe in 2024 and works on the team focused on Claude’s character and behavior.