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  • The Art of Small Talk (and Why I Sometimes Use It for Chaos)

    The Art of Small Talk (and Why I Sometimes Use It for Chaos)

    My grandfather never met a stranger. I used to think it was just a West Texas thing, but no—it was a him thing. Whether it was the cashier at the grocery store or a couple making out in a parking lot, he had a way of wading into their lives, feet first, like he already

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  • Elon Musk Declares War on Knowledge, Armed Only with Ego and a Lobotomized AI

    Elon Musk Declares War on Knowledge, Armed Only with Ego and a Lobotomized AI

    Just when you thought Elon Musk couldn’t get any more chaotic, he opens his intergalactic mouth and says—no, tweets—that Grok 3.5 (or 4, or whatever number he’s feeling that day) will “rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge.” Not update it. Not improve it. Rewrite it. With “advanced reasoning,” which in Muskland apparently means Reddit-level

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  • Call JD Vance Anything But Competent: The Curious Case of “Jose Padilla”

    Call JD Vance Anything But Competent: The Curious Case of “Jose Padilla”

    Once upon a time, in a country that hadn’t completely surrendered to chaos, calling a sitting U.S. Senator by the wrong name—say, calling Senator Alex Padilla “Jose”—might have warranted an apology. Maybe even a headline. Maybe especially if it came from the newly minted Vice President of the United States. But in today’s America, where

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  • Sergio Gor: The HR Spy Who Ghosted Elon Musk

    Sergio Gor: The HR Spy Who Ghosted Elon Musk

    At first glance, Sergio Gor doesn’t scream “international spy.” He screams “owns multiple vests” or maybe “asks if the coffee is ethically sourced.” But according to Elon Musk, the man quietly running the Presidential Personnel Office might be more than just an ambitious bureaucrat—he could be a sleeper agent planted by Russia to undermine America’s

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  • Medicaid and Social Security Replaced with Thoughts and Prayers (and Other Promises from the Apocalypse)

    Medicaid and Social Security Replaced with Thoughts and Prayers (and Other Promises from the Apocalypse)

    Welcome to the future: where the oceans have risen, the temperature is lava-adjacent, and America’s retirement plan is a half-used candle from Hobby Lobby labeled “HOPE.” In this brave new world, Medicaid and Social Security have officially been replaced with a federal program called Thoughts and Prayers, which is just a pop-up window that plays

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  • Trump Might Start World War III, But Imagine the Horror of Kamala Harris and Her Free Healthcare Agenda

    Trump Might Start World War III, But Imagine the Horror of Kamala Harris and Her Free Healthcare Agenda

    So, Donald Trump is back in the Oval Office, tan lines deepening, hair defying physics, and nuclear codes resting comfortably next to his Diet Coke button. The man is currently eyeballing Iran like it’s a golf course he can bulldoze, muttering things like “We’re gonna do something big, folks. Huge. Maybe even explosive.” And while

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  • The Unofficial Rules of the Gym (According to Someone Who Doesn’t Go)

    The Unofficial Rules of the Gym (According to Someone Who Doesn’t Go)

    I want to be clear up front: I do not frequent the gym. I don’t even infrequent the gym. If the gym were a person, we’d be the kind of estranged acquaintances who wave awkwardly across a crowded room and then both pretend to take a phone call. I have nothing against exercise—I just prefer

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  • The Unseen Side of the South: What My Road Trips Reveal Beyond the Postcards

    The Unseen Side of the South: What My Road Trips Reveal Beyond the Postcards

    When people think of the American South, a particular image springs to mind: magnolia trees, sweet tea, wraparound porches, maybe a fiddle in the background and someone with a syrupy drawl offering you a “bless your heart.” And while those postcards aren’t exactly wrong—hell, I’ve sipped a sweet tea on a wraparound porch in Georgia

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  • Sometimes I Don’t Want to Be the Bigger Person — I Want Revenge and Popcorn (Extra Butter, Extra Petty)

    Sometimes I Don’t Want to Be the Bigger Person — I Want Revenge and Popcorn (Extra Butter, Extra Petty)

    There’s a very specific kind of rage that bubbles up when someone wrongs you and somehow walks away wearing a halo, smiling like they just donated a kidney to a koala. It’s the kind of righteous fury that makes you want to dye your dog neon pink, roll up to their house with a boombox

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  • Five Months In: The Trumpocalypse Speedrun Nobody Asked For

    Five Months In: The Trumpocalypse Speedrun Nobody Asked For

    Well, folks, we’ve done it. We’ve hit the five-month mark of the second Trump presidency, and let me just say: what an overachiever. Most administrations take years to reach full authoritarian collapse, but this one? We’re talking collapse by Memorial Day. If this presidency were a movie, it’d be Mad Max: Mar-a-Lago. Let’s start with

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