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Business as Usual: A Two-Shooter Monday in the Land of the Free
There’s a uniquely American efficiency to how we process mass shootings. As if the country were run by a bureaucratic vending machine that now just spits out blood instead of soda. Insert thoughts. Receive prayers. Try again tomorrow. Today’s patriotic performance art featured not one but two active shooter incidents. First, the Grand Sierra Resort
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Budget Balanced, Children Buried: Austerity’s Most Efficient Program Yet
This week, the free market claimed another quiet victory as reports emerged that 652 Nigerian children have died of malnutrition—an achievement brought to you by the miracle of international funding cuts and the global community’s ongoing commitment to staring directly into a fire and commenting on the smoke. Doctors Without Borders, the organization still laboring
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Let Them Eat Optics: Gaza Starves While World Leaders Host a Photo Op
In a powerful show of concern, several world leaders have finally taken a bold, unified stand against the most dangerous enemy in the Gaza conflict: bad press. After months of airstrikes, blockades, and performative diplomacy, President Donald J. Trump emerged from his golf cart to announce that yes—“real starvation” is happening in Gaza, and yes—it
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Burnt Toast, Bad Timing, and the Right Person Anyway: Why After the Toast Isn’t Just a Love Story
Amazon Author Page | Read After the Toast Romantic comedies are supposed to be light, right?Flirty glances. Cute mishaps. Big gestures and bigger payoffs. But what if the romance starts with a panic attack at a wedding? What if the laughter comes with grief? What if the meet-cute includes the wrong twin and a slice
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If Love Were Enough: A Novel for Everyone Who’s Loved Someone Across the Silence
Amazon Author Page | Read If Love Were Enough How do you stay in love with someone who is no longer close enough to touch—but still close enough to haunt every version of your day? If Love Were Enough isn’t about a breakup. It’s about that slow, aching fade before the breakup. The quiet corrosion
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When Random Stops Feeling Rare: What Another Walmart Tragedy Reveals About Us
There’s a point in any crisis-saturated society where the words stop hitting. “Man stabs 11 people at Michigan Walmart. Six in critical condition.” You read it. You blink. You scroll. It’s not that we don’t care—it’s that we can’t process it anymore. The shock we’re supposed to feel has calcified into something else. A dull
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Murder, He Mumbled: Bryan Kohberger Gets Life Without Parole While America Gets Another True Crime Spectacle
Well, justice has been served—lukewarm, over-syndicated, and with a familiar aftertaste of televised grief. Bryan Kohberger, the man who believed criminology was a personality type, has officially been sentenced to life without parole for the brutal murders of four Idaho college students. And somewhere in America, a Netflix producer just got a second wind. The
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The Algorithm Can Smell Your Authenticity—So Make It Cry
On Brand, Off Script, and Just Vulnerable Enough to Sell Something Let’s be honest: in 2025, “storytelling” has become the avocado toast of branding—everywhere, wildly overpriced, and weaponized by people who swear their morning routine involves a gratitude journal and a $400 candle. But here’s the thing: storytelling still works. Not because audiences are gullible,
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This Isn’t the Breakdown We Paid For: The American Concert Experience, Now With Bonus Trauma
There was a time—not long ago—when you could attend a live show and expect nothing more than $18 beers, overpriced parking, and the existential dread of being the oldest person in the crowd wearing glitter. That was the pact. You show up, the band plays, you lose your voice, maybe your dignity, and you limp
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American Idol Judge Gives Final “No” — to Life
In a chilling twist worthy of a Lifetime movie scored by Ryan Seacrest’s ghostwriter, a music supervisor for American Idol and her husband were found dead in their upscale California home this week. A 22-year-old suspect—who sources say has never made it past Hollywood Week—has been arrested. Authorities are calling it a “targeted killing,” though