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The Politics of the Kids’ Table: A Survival Guide for the Holidays
The cranberry sauce is shaped like the can. The turkey is dry enough to be used as attic insulation. The tension in the room is vibrating at a frequency usually reserved for bomb disposal units or hostage negotiations. Welcome to Thanksgiving in America. We are gathered here today to worship at the altar of “Family
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Red Scare 8.0: How Idiots Still Don’t Understand The Difference Between Socialism and Communism
Why You Should Probably Google Words Before You Scream Them at Thanksgiving Dinner Welcome, patriots, comrades, and confused centrists. Grab a beverage—preferably one produced by a worker-owned cooperative or a ruthless multinational conglomerate, depending on your vibe—because we are about to embark on a journey. A journey into the heart of darkness. By “darkness,” I
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No Good Deed and the Critics: Why ‘Wicked’ Is the Tragedy We Deserve
The lights went down in the theater, and for a brief moment, the collective anxiety of the world—the elections, the economy, the general sense that we are living in the final season of a poorly written reality show—suspended itself in the dark. I sat there with Matthew, my fiance and designated emotional anchor, and our
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The FEMA Administrator Vanishes During a Flood, and Suddenly We’re All Supposed to Pretend This Is Fine
America asked for a functional disaster agency, and the administration handed us a shrug in a windbreaker. There is a particular stillness that happens right before the government announces a resignation. You can almost hear the PowerPoint slides being frantically re-saved under new filenames, the comms staff muttering into their sleeves, the soft metallic clang
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Marjorie Taylor Greene: The Redemption Trap and the Rage Machine
So here is the question that refuses to be polite. Does everyone deserve a redemption arc. The storybook says yes. The sermon says forgiveness is a commandment. The friend you confided in after the worst year of your life says it depends. The criminal code says it is complicated. The internet says never. And the…
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Prestige TV, Claire Danes, and One Very Suspicious Neighbor Who Definitely Knows How to Wield a Metaphor
Netflix’s The Beast in Me proves that nothing says date night like grief, queer family trauma, a maybe murderer next door, and Claire Danes pacing her kitchen like she is waiting for ghosts to RSVP. There is a particular joy in prestige television that manages to be both a warm blanket and a sharpened blade.
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Trump’s MAGA: From “Save the Children” to “Hoax, Move On”
When receipts finally pointed inward, the outrage machine swapped sirens for excuses. There is a particular silence that follows a scream. It is not peace. It is calculation. For years, MAGA’s media ecosystem trained its audience to chase phantoms through pizzerias and Instagram posts, to read secret codes on menus, to believe that a ring
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Greg Abbott Files for Reelection, Texas Should File for a Restraining Order
Greg Abbott has announced, with the confidence of a man who has never once been held accountable for the weather, the grid, the cruelty, or the highway-level carnage of his own governance, that he will run for governor of Texas again. Texans did not ask for this. Texans did not pray for this. Texans did
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Trump White House Halloween You Can’t Unsee: Voldemort, Maleficent, and the Budget Ring of Power
Under the glitter and smoke, the costumes translate into deregulation, propaganda, and cuts that land on real people. There are holidays that ask for reverence, others that ask for ritual. Halloween asks for honesty. Put the thing you want on your face and watch the room tell you who you are. At the White House,
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Trump Wants to Hear the Desert Scream Again: The Sound of Nuclear in a Country That Forgot What Fallout Smells Like
There’s a certain poetry to it, really. A president who once bragged about acing a dementia test now wants to bring back nuclear testing, apparently to prove he can still make something explode. In a pre-summit flourish that left even his own defense officials blinking through radiation metaphors, Donald Trump announced that he had directed