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The Last WTF: Marc Maron, Barack Obama, and the Funeral for American Adulthood
There’s a particular tone you can hear only in the voice of a man who has seen the apocalypse, accepted it, and still shows up for soundcheck. Marc Maron has been that voice for sixteen years—equal parts therapy session, post-mortem, and open-mic confession booth—and on October 13, 2025, he turned off the mic for good.
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When the Cult of Personality Goes Biblical: Trump as the Antichrist (From An Atheist Who Doesn’t Believe in Such Things)
There’s an old superstition that when the world begins to eat itself, a showman appears to tell it the apocalypse is just a ratings opportunity. Even if you don’t believe in God, hell, or horned beasts rising from the sea, you have to admit that Donald Trump’s recent “peace deal” in the Middle East reads
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Sugar High or Crash Diet? How Sorkin Says AI Is Fueling America’s Next Reboot: 1929 Stock Market Crash
You knew it would happen: someone on 60 Minutes lifting it all up, peering into the neon smog of 2025, and muttering, “I think it’s a bubble.” That someone was Andrew Ross Sorkin. As markets wobble after tariff threats, Sorkin told Lesley Stahl that today’s economy is being propped up by an AI sugar rush—hundreds
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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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The AI Bubble Is Eating the Economy Alive (and Still Asking for Dessert)
There’s a fine line between innovation and collective delusion, and we are currently sprinting across it in a pair of $2,000 AI-branded sneakers financed at 22 percent APR. Fortune’s latest interview with Morgan Stanley Wealth Management CIO Lisa Shalett reads less like financial analysis and more like a desperate intervention at an industry support group.
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$2 Trillion in Market Value and Trump’s Truth Social Post Walk Into a Bar
If the stock market had a safe word, it would’ve screamed it yesterday. In a single trading session, nearly $2 trillion in U.S. market value evaporated after President Donald Trump decided to use Truth Social like it was a nuclear launch console, announcing a 100% tariff on all Chinese imports and tighter export controls. CNBC
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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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Tariff Tango: Trump’s “100% China Tax” Threat and the Market’s Murmur of Mayhem
If you ever wondered how quickly a global economy can go from “steady simmer” to “rolling boil,” welcome to the October 2025 edition. Beijing quietly dropped new export controls on rare earths. Trump responded by threatening a blanket 100 percent tariff on all Chinese imports beginning Nov. 1 (or “sooner,” depending on China’s mood). He
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Glitter, Glam, and Grand Larceny: The Real Housewives of Insurance Fraud
In what can only be described as a collaboration between Law & Order: SVU and Real Housewives of Potomac, NBC News reports that Dr. Wendy Osefo and her husband, Edward, have been arrested in Maryland for allegedly staging a home burglary to collect a fat insurance payout. Yes, you read that right. Another week, another
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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