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  • No Kings Day: America’s Most Patriotic Middle Finger

    No Kings Day: America’s Most Patriotic Middle Finger

    The founders would have loved this. Not the powdered wig cosplay or the “Don’t Tread on Me” truck decals that confuse tyranny with speed limits—but the idea that millions of Americans could, in 2025, look at a would-be monarch and collectively say: nope. This October 18, No Kings Day returns. And if June was the

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  • The Land Of The Free-Fire Zone: AMERICA’S NEW FEDERAL STREET THEATER

    The Land Of The Free-Fire Zone: AMERICA’S NEW FEDERAL STREET THEATER

    If the original American dream was that you could own a home, plant a tree, and not get gassed by your own government on a weeknight, that fantasy met its final act this month in the East Side of Chicago. A red SUV, a white SUV, a handful of agents playing Fast & Furious: Sanctuary

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  • The Death of Facts: How Ring Wing America Replaced Reality with Programming

    The Death of Facts: How Ring Wing America Replaced Reality with Programming

    There was a time, not all that long ago, when America had one reality. It wasn’t perfect, but at least it was shared. We all tuned in to Walter Cronkite or Peter Jennings or Dan Rather. The evening news would come on, everyone would collectively lower their voices, and for thirty blessed minutes the country

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  • Trump’s America Rediscovers Measles and Other 19th-Century Hobbies

    Trump’s America Rediscovers Measles and Other 19th-Century Hobbies

    Congratulations, America. We’ve finally done it. We’ve brought back a disease that modern medicine already defeated when bell-bottoms were still a gleam in disco’s eye. Somewhere, Jonas Salk is shaking his head in the afterlife, muttering, “I leave you people alone for sixty years and you start playing Oregon Trail again.” According to NPR, the

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  • Orwell Meets New Trump Reality: 2 + 2 = Whatever the Algorithm Says

    Orwell Meets New Trump Reality: 2 + 2 = Whatever the Algorithm Says

    Somewhere between your tenth doomscroll of the morning and your third attempt to remember which war we’re supposed to care about this week, PBS quietly aired the most important documentary of the decade — Raoul Peck’s Orwell: 2+2=5 — and almost no one noticed, because there wasn’t a trailer trending on TikTok. It’s a film

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  • Outbreak of the RFK Jr. and Russ Vought Virus: No CDC Employees Left To Treat It

    Outbreak of the RFK Jr. and Russ Vought Virus: No CDC Employees Left To Treat It

    If you ever needed proof that America has officially become a satire written by a malfunctioning chatbot, behold: the CDC accidentally fired itself during a government shutdown. Not metaphorically. Not “downsized for efficiency.” Literally—hundreds of our nation’s top epidemiologists, lab chiefs, and field investigators got layoff emails mid-pandemic prep because someone in Washington pressed “Send

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  • The Sheikhs of Idaho: How We Accidentally Let Qatar Build a “Not-a-Base” Base in the U.S.

    The Sheikhs of Idaho: How We Accidentally Let Qatar Build a “Not-a-Base” Base in the U.S.

    There’s a new kind of foreign investment in America—one that comes with F-15s, a ten-year commitment, and a PR team insisting it’s definitely not a base. This week, the Pentagon proudly unveiled plans for a Qatar-funded “training complex” at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, which will host Qatari pilots and their U.S.-made fighter

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  • The Great Halftime Faceplant: Turning Point USA Declares War on Bad Bunny (and Loses Before It Starts)

    The Great Halftime Faceplant: Turning Point USA Declares War on Bad Bunny (and Loses Before It Starts)

    The Super Bowl halftime show used to be about pyrotechnics, wardrobe malfunctions, and the occasional left shark dancing off-beat. Now it’s a referendum on whether America can tolerate hearing a language other than English for more than three minutes. Welcome to 2026, where Bad Bunny will headline the official NFL halftime show—and Turning Point USA,

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  • The Riyadh Comedy Festival Where the Joke Is You

    There’s a new punchline in Riyadh this week, and it isn’t coming from the mouths of Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Bill Burr, or Pete Davidson. It’s the sound of cash registers ringing, echoing louder than any laugh track, in a hall where more than fifty Western comics are performing for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

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  • When Abbott Becomes the Paint Censor: Texas’ Rainbow Crosswalk Crackdown

    When Abbott Becomes the Paint Censor: Texas’ Rainbow Crosswalk Crackdown

    In Texas, the fight for highways has become a battleground for identity. On October 8, 2025, Governor Greg Abbott issued a sweeping order: purge “political ideologies” from state and local roadways. He threatened to freeze city and state transportation funds and suspend TxDOT agreements if municipalities didn’t obliterate all nonstandard pavement — a threat directed

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