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“Locked and Loaded” for Someone Else’s Streets, While Ours Are Still Cracking
When foreign policy becomes a midnight post and democracy is optional paperwork. President Donald Trump went to Truth Social and announced that the United States is “locked and loaded and ready to go” if Iranian authorities violently suppress the latest wave of protests spreading across the country. The phrasing was familiar, theatrical, and deliberately vague,
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MTV Finally Turned Off the Music, and Let the Epitaph Roll
The channel that taught America how to watch sound signed off with a joke that stopped being funny decades ago. MTV ended its last remaining 24 hour music video channels by playing “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the same song that launched the network in 1981. It was meant to feel clever, full circle, maybe