Chris Lavergne
I’m the Founder of Thought.is and the Publisher of Thought Catalog.
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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. A follow-up news conference is scheduled for May 26 with Administrator Jared Isaacman, acting exploration chief Lori Glaze, and Moon Base program executive Carlos García-Galán. Where is it going? The lunar South Pole. Permanently shadowed craters…
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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. He called the threat of US military aggression “an international crime” and said Cuba has the right to defend itself “against a military onslaught.” The arsenal is more than 300 drones, including Shahed-136 loitering munitions and Mohajer-6 variants.…
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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. “1% of taxpayers pay 40% of all the tax revenue; the bottom half pay only 3%,” he told Andrew Ross Sorkin from Blue Origin’s facility in Merritt Island,…
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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. When users started flagging that Claude kept telling them to log off and rest, he described the behavior on X as “a bit of…
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Trump Brought 17 CEOs to Beijing, but Only Musk and Huang Got Seats on Air Force One
Seventeen American CEOs flew to Beijing with Trump on May 13. Larry Fink of BlackRock. Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone. Kelly Ortberg of Boeing. Jane Fraser of Citi. Larry Culp of GE Aerospace. David Solomon of Goldman Sachs. Sanjay Mehrotra of Micron. Cristiano Amon of Qualcomm. Brian Sikes of Cargill. Plus senior executives from Visa, Mastercard,…
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A Federal Agent Compared a UFO to “the Eye of Sauron” in the Pentagon’s New UAP Report
The Department of War released a major batch of declassified UAP files today on war.gov/UFO. Buried in the dump is a 4-page slide deck dated 5.08.2026, the same day as the release. The deck appears to have been prepared specifically for the unsealing. Titled “Western US Event,” it walks through 4 distinct UAP sightings reported…
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Senior Intelligence Official Says Orbs Flared up around His Helicopter, Came within 10 Feet of the Rotor, Then Broke off to Chase Fighter Jets
The Department of War dropped the first tranche of declassified UAP files. The release is the opening batch under President Trump’s PURSUE program, the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters. One redacted SECRET/NOFORN witness statement is the most arresting document in the bundle. Titled “USPER Statement About UAP Sighting,” the report is a…
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Emma Chamberlain’s Met Gala Dress Is Inspired by Her Favorite Van Gogh and Munch Paintings
The custom Mugler gown was hand-painted by artist Anna Deller-Yee, covered in vibrant brushstrokes of red, blue, green, and yellow that run the full length of the dress. Chamberlain and her stylist Jared Ellner sent designer Miguel Castro Freitas a stack of art references, including works by Van Gogh and Munch, then spent 3 hours…
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Trump Joked at a Palm Beach Dinner Friday Night That the United States Could Take Cuba with a Single Aircraft Carrier Parked 100 Yards Offshore.
Friday night, May 1, Trump was the keynote at the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches’ 50th anniversary dinner at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, honoring former Florida Rep. Dan Mica. He pivoted off-script to Cuba, where Mica’s family is from, telling the room Cuba would be “taking over almost immediately” but the…
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Spirit Airlines Is Dead after 34 Years, They Shut Down at 3 a.m. On May 2, 2026
The infamous Spirit Airlines is now dead, and it’s actually a bit sad. At 3 a.m. Eastern on Saturday, May 2, the company that built itself on $39 fares and yellow planes and a willingness to charge you for printing your own boarding pass turned off its booking system. The wind-down notice went up on…
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Tennis Can Extend Your Life By A Decade, Pickleball Likely Offers Similar Life Extension Benefits
A study of roughly 80,000 British adults confirmed the finding. Racket sports lowered all-cause mortality by 47% and cardiovascular death by 56%, beating swimming, aerobics, running, and cycling. Three mechanisms stack on top of each other. The first is interval training built into the game. Every rally mixes explosive sprints, lateral cuts, decelerations, and sustained…
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Grimes, Pop Singer and Elon Musk’s Ex, Says AI Will Be a Bigger Deal than Jesus
Grimes sat down with sci-fi author Nnedi Okorafor for Interview Magazine to talk about her new album Psy Opera. The conversation got weird fast. By the end of it, her publicist had to physically step in and cut her off before she said something that would get her deported. Here are the four most alarming…
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Trump’s Tax Cuts Gives Breaks to Tipped Workers, Overtime Workers, Seniors, & Business Owners, but White Collar Workers with College Degrees Don’t Benefit
Happy Tax Day! LOL, yeah right! Here is the breakdown of what the new tax code means. Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on July 4, 2025. The law expanded or created deductions for 5 specific groups: workers who earn tips, workers who earn overtime, retirees over 65, small business owners, and investors.…
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The 10 Best ‘Sky High’ Quotes To Celebrate The Superhero Movie’s 20th Anniversary
"There is no smoking on school grounds. Or freezing, or bursting into flames."
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10 Years Of Joy, Sadness, And Everything In Between: 10 ‘Inside Out’ Quotes That Made The Film Unforgettable
"Take her to the moon for me. Okay?"
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Wait, Seth Rogen’s Apple TV Show Is Actually So Funny
The Studio is like a hybrid of Entourage, Inherent Vice, and Hacks. I don’t exactly know when Seth Rogen started annoying me to the high heavens. He certainly was funny back in the day and a great actor. But I guess I found Sausage Party unwatchable, and looking at his IMDB lately, he’s just been…
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Prison Planet Theory Perfectly Explains The Silly Finale Of ‘Severance’
The Prison Planet theory, popularized by metaphysician Robert Monroe, suggests that Earth is a prison designed to harvest negative human energy, known as “loosh,” to sustain interdimensional beings. Severance contains striking parallels to this concept and the prison planet theory might be key to understanding all the weirdness (and let downs/flaws) in the finale, and…
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What Is Cold Harbor? 4 ‘Severance’ Theories
Cold Harbor = The Answer Cold Harbor seems to be the secret to the whole Severance plot. But what is it? Here are a few fan theories summarized that seem reasonable enough. The Resurrection Project Theory Cold Harbor represents Lumon’s effort to bring Gemma back from death. The project may be a fitting codename for…