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  • The Hunger Games of Gaza: When Bureaucracy Outpaces Bread

    The Hunger Games of Gaza: When Bureaucracy Outpaces Bread

    On August 22, 2025, the United Nations confirmed what the world has been watching for months but refusing to name out loud: famine in Gaza City. Not “food insecurity.” Not “malnutrition.” Not “grave concern.” Famine. IPC Phase 5—the technical apocalypse of humanitarian metrics. The Famine Review Committee ticked the boxes: The tally: over 514,000 people

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  • English-Only Nation: The Trump-Era War on Multilingualism, Now With Federal Endorsement

    English-Only Nation: The Trump-Era War on Multilingualism, Now With Federal Endorsement

    The Department of Education, in what can only be described as a masterclass in quiet cruelty, has decided that five million English learners across the country are now just a line item too expensive to justify. On August 20, 2025, the department formally rescinded the 2015 “Dear Colleague” guidance—the one that spelled out, in plain

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  • The Disappearing Act of Green Arrow: James Gunn’s DCU and the Case of the Missing Archer

    The Disappearing Act of Green Arrow: James Gunn’s DCU and the Case of the Missing Archer

    If you squint hard enough, you can almost see him: the man in green tights, a quiver full of metaphorical arrows, lurking somewhere in the dusty backlog of Warner Bros. IP rights. But according to James Gunn—the self-appointed town crier of the DC Universe—Green Arrow isn’t so much missing in action as he is missing

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  • Weapons, Freakier Fridays, and the Death Rattle of Sydney Sweeney’s Americana

    Weapons, Freakier Fridays, and the Death Rattle of Sydney Sweeney’s Americana

    The box office has once again delivered its weekend sermon, and America, faithful parishioner that it is, dutifully attended services with popcorn in hand. We were given horror, we were given nostalgia, we were given Bob Odenkirk with bruised knuckles, and—because capitalism cannot function without a sacrificial lamb—we were given Sydney Sweeney’s Americana quietly smothered

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  • The Comedy Coup: South Park, Trump, and the Paramount Problem

    The Comedy Coup: South Park, Trump, and the Paramount Problem

    America has always needed its court jesters. Kings and presidents come and go, ruling with pomp, paranoia, and paranoia dressed up as policy. But the jester—the clown with a knife behind the punchline—never leaves. In 2025, that jester wears a Colorado beanie, carries a construction paper sign, and is contractually obligated to Paramount+ for $1.5

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  • Netflix Giveth, Netflix Taketh Away: A Funeral March for the Shows We Loved

    Netflix Giveth, Netflix Taketh Away: A Funeral March for the Shows We Loved

    The streaming economy is nothing if not biblical: seven years of plenty, seven years of famine, seven executives screaming “cut costs!” while canceling your comfort show. And so, on August 17, Netflix opened the velvet curtain to reveal the latest mass grave of content. FUBAR? Dead. The Residence? Evicted. Pulse? Flatline. The Recruit? Dishonorably discharged.

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  • Nicolle Wallace, Trump’s New Nemesis: When “MSNBC IS DEAD!” Becomes a Campaign Platform

    Nicolle Wallace, Trump’s New Nemesis: When “MSNBC IS DEAD!” Becomes a Campaign Platform

    It always starts the same way with Donald Trump: a half-formed grunt of a post, a cryptic one-word drop (“Bela”), and then the digital jackals descend. A follower serves up a meme, Trump slaps his digital stamp of approval on it, and suddenly we’re all trapped in the world’s saddest reboot of Mad Men, except

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  • My Books – The Song Beneath the Noise

    My Books – The Song Beneath the Noise

    An author’s catalog as orchestra: memoir’s drums, satire’s brass, thriller strings, romance woodwinds, speculative jazz—all carrying one refrain: survival, queerness, resilience. Explore the full lineup on the Amazon Author Page; binge via Kindle Unlimited, including a three-month trial. Different genres, same heartbeat: stories that outsing noise and insist on hope.

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  • The Dust in the Sunlight: Why I Stopped Waiting and Hit Publish

    The Dust in the Sunlight: Why I Stopped Waiting and Hit Publish

    Thank you for being here—for reading to the bottom, for believing longform isn’t dead, for understanding that the dust in the sunlight is not failure but evidence. Evidence that we’ve been moving, living, changing the air. These books are my evidence. I hope one of them becomes yours.

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  • When Big Brother Hires a Hall Monitor: FCC’s ‘Bias Monitor’ and the Death of Media Independence

    When Big Brother Hires a Hall Monitor: FCC’s ‘Bias Monitor’ and the Death of Media Independence

    The beauty—and the danger—of the First Amendment is that it protects the press even when the press is bad at its job. Even when it’s biased, sloppy, arrogant, or out of touch. Especially then. Because the alternative is a press that is only allowed to be “good” according to the standards of the people in…

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