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  • The Things We Forgot: A Queer Return to the Scene of the Crime

    The Things We Forgot: A Queer Return to the Scene of the Crime

    Amazon Author Page | Read the Book — Free with Kindle Unlimited In a town where casseroles are a currency and judgment is passed through prayer requests, The Things We Forgot is a love letter to survival—quiet, messy, unspectacular survival. It’s a story where nobody says the right thing, people apologize through behavior not words,

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  • We May Experience Some Mild Turbulence… and Existential Terror

    We May Experience Some Mild Turbulence… and Existential Terror

    It was a typical day in American aviation: peanuts, Biscoff cookies, and a 500-foot death drop to avoid being turned into fuselage confetti. Yes, folks, Southwest Airlines—known for open seating, punchy safety announcements, and landing in cities you didn’t actually book—has outdone itself once again. This time, by narrowly dodging a mid-air collision and turning

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  • I Didn’t Believe in Elon. I Believed in His Grift. And Now My Retirement Is Circling the Drain in a Cybertruck.

    I Didn’t Believe in Elon. I Believed in His Grift. And Now My Retirement Is Circling the Drain in a Cybertruck.

    Let’s be clear: I didn’t invest in Tesla because I thought Elon Musk was a genius. I invested because I thought he was shameless. Here was a man who could sit in a press conference sounding like a malfunctioning TED Talk chatbot, then turn around and wink at Trump and watch the stock price soar.

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  • Rest Easy, Prince of Darkness: A Farewell to Ozzy Osbourne

    Rest Easy, Prince of Darkness: A Farewell to Ozzy Osbourne

    I wasn’t a diehard fan. I didn’t memorize lyrics or follow every twist in his tour dates or tattoos. I didn’t grow up with Black Sabbath posters on my walls or devil horns in the air. But when I heard the news—Ozzy Osbourne has passed away—I felt something cave in anyway. That’s what happens when

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  • America Redefines “Public Benefits” to Mean “Not for You” — Immigration Policy Just Got a Rebrand

    America Redefines “Public Benefits” to Mean “Not for You” — Immigration Policy Just Got a Rebrand

    This week, the U.S. government took a long, squinting look at the phrase “public benefits” and said, “What if… we didn’t?” In a move so bureaucratically cruel it could’ve been dreamed up by a focus group trapped in a DMV at gunpoint, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has officially expanded the definition

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  • Coincidence Is Classified: MLK Files Released Just as Epstein Heat Rises

    Coincidence Is Classified: MLK Files Released Just as Epstein Heat Rises

    After 56 years, countless Freedom of Information requests, and one too many performances of Lift Every Voice and Sing by institutions that once tried to wiretap his grief, the federal government has finally—finally—released the MLK assassination files. Well. Sort of. They’ve been “released” in the way your emotionally unavailable ex “opens up” during arguments: technically,

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  • Beyond the Headline: Unpacking the Gaza Conflict’s Long-Term Impacts

    Beyond the Headline: Unpacking the Gaza Conflict’s Long-Term Impacts

    A deeper look into the long tail of trauma, bureaucracy, and selective compassion Somewhere between your third scroll past an Instagram infographic and the seventh “breaking news” chyron that wasn’t, Gaza kept happening. And while the rest of the world moved on to Taylor Swift ticket drama and the return of pumpkin spice fascism, a

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  • While You Were Here: A Love Letter to Daisy, the Girl Who Saved Me

    While You Were Here: A Love Letter to Daisy, the Girl Who Saved Me

    There’s a kind of poetry in loss—a slow, unexpected elegy that weaves through the days, a mournful melody that reminds you that even in absence, someone can fill your life with meaning. While You Were Here isn’t just a story about grief; it’s a fictional memoir about living—and sometimes barely surviving—with Daisy, the little chihuahua

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  • War, What Is It Good For? Apparently…Global Distraction and Defense Contracts

    War, What Is It Good For? Apparently…Global Distraction and Defense Contracts

    If you’ve felt a strange global vibration lately, no, it’s not Mercury in retrograde or your ex trying to manifest you back through a dream journal. It’s the reverberation of yet another season of Earth: Total War, now streaming live from Ukraine, Sudan, Haiti, and anywhere else with two opposing factions, dwindling hope, and a

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  • Second Term, Second Verse: Dumber, Meaner, Somehow More Orange

    Second Term, Second Verse: Dumber, Meaner, Somehow More Orange

    Let’s begin this enchanted retread with a little déjà vu: Donald J. Trump, once again sitting in the Oval Office—this time without even pretending to read the Constitution. It’s not a reboot, friends. It’s a bloated sequel nobody asked for, written by Facebook uncles and powered by supply chain rage, Bud Light boycotts, and the

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