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Hate Speech, Incorporated: How Social Media Turned Bigotry Into a Business Model
By 2025, it is no longer controversial to say that social media has become a sewer. What’s controversial is admitting that it was designed this way. The polite version is to call it “polarization,” “contentious discourse,” “a marketplace of ideas with some bad actors.” The honest version is that platforms like Facebook and X have
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SNL at 51: Reinventing Reinvention Until It’s Just a Costume Change
Here’s the thing about Saturday Night Live: it is always dying and always about to be reborn. That’s the premise, the pitch, the myth. Every time someone leaves, the show is declared finished; every time someone arrives, it’s hailed as reborn. By now, SNL has spent 50 years on its deathbed and 50 years being
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Katrina at 20: America Remembers, Forgets, and Repackages
Twenty years later, America still doesn’t know how to talk about Hurricane Katrina. Not because there’s nothing left to say, but because the event itself was already so saturated in meaning that everything since feels like a remix. The anniversary observances in New Orleans this August were equal parts solemnity and stagecraft—brass-band second lines echoing
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The Ellen Files: America’s Favorite Dance Host and the Ghost of Toxic Daytime
In the ever-growing genre of daytime television necromancy, few spirits rattle chains as loudly as The Ellen DeGeneres Show. It’s been years since the curtain fell, since the set was struck, since the pastel couches were loaded into some studio storage unit to gather dust beside Tyra’s smize mirrors and Dr. Phil’s paternal disappointment. Yet
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“Law and Order” or Martial Theater? Trump’s Crime Emergency in D.C.
On August 11, 2025, Donald J. Trump declared a “crime emergency” in Washington, D.C., and like every pageant he has ever hosted, it was less about substance than spectacle. With the flourish of a reality TV host in his twilight season, he seized control of the Metropolitan Police Department, flooded the streets with National Guard
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Puff, Puff, Postal: USPS Declares War on Your Vape Pen
In mid-August 2025, while the rest of America was debating whether Barbie deserved an Oscar nomination, the United States Postal Service quietly declared war on flavored fog. That’s right: the USPS—an institution barely able to deliver your Amazon package without routing it through Albuquerque—has suddenly positioned itself as the frontline defender against the scourge of
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“Monsieur Ambassador, Non, Non, Non!”
A Satirical Dispatch from the Franco-American Diplomatic Stage On August 24, 2025, the world witnessed an increasingly rare diplomatic full-stop: France summoned U.S. Ambassador Charles Kushner after he penned a blistering open letter to President Macron. In the Wall Street Journal, Kushner accused France of failing to adequately stem a rise in antisemitism, linking it
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The Great “SNL” Shake-Up: Bye-Bye Glow, Hello Unknown
On August 22, 2025, Lorne Michaels—the architect, wizard, and part-time cryptic oracle of Saturday Night Live—dropped a teaser bigger than any Weekend Update zinger: Season 51 is getting a “for sure” cast shake‑up. No names. No details. Just the promise that the ensemble of SNL’s golden jubilee is dissolving like cheap glitter in rinse cycle.
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Rodeo, Run-ins & Rehab: Lil Nas X’s 6 a.m. “Midnight Remix” in Studio City
Picture it: early morning on Ventura Boulevard, Studio City. The sky is still a bruise. Streetlights flicker like judging eyebrows. A nude man strides down the sidewalk, shoulders thrown back like he just emerged from a Private Jet and Seminoles matchup—and charges at police when they arrive. He’s escorted off in cuffs, hospitalized for suspected
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Chi-Town as a Stage Set: Trump’s War on Declining Crime
On August 23, 2025, the Washington Post reported that the Pentagon is quietly drawing up plans to deploy thousands of National Guard troops to Chicago this September. Because nothing says “public safety” like militarizing a city that just posted the lowest violent crime numbers in decades. Homicides? Down 30%. Shootings? Down 35%. Robberies and carjackings?