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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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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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Top 10 Most Absurd Things That Have Happened So Far in 2025 (And It’s Only July)
Well, it’s official: 2025 has politely asked 2020 to hold its drink and then shoved it down a flight of metaphorical stairs. We’re barely halfway through the year, and already the timeline reads like a rejected Black Mirror writer’s fever dream. From AI scandals to legislative cosplay, here’s your semi-comprehensive list of the ten most
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We Met in the Fire: What Holding Pressure Says About Love and Burnout
Read it here → Holding PressureAuthor Page → Brandon’s Books on Amazon What happens when survival and connection can’t coexist?When showing up for a patient means bleeding out in the process?When you want to let someone in, but your trauma has a waiting room with no open chairs? That’s what I asked myself when writing
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“Make Me President, Daddy”: A Spin Doctor’s Descent Through the American Spectacle
Read now on Kindle UnlimitedExplore more of my work: Amazon Author Page I didn’t write Make Me President, Daddy to mock a man. He does that to himself. I wrote it to eulogize a country that laughed its way into the grave. This book started as a scream I couldn’t get out during the first
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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.
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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Unpacking the “One Big Beautiful Bill”: How Congress Plans to Save You (and By You, We Mean Billionaires)
Ah, the smell of freshly printed legislation. Notes of performative optimism, charred loopholes, and a faint aftertaste of lobbyist cologne. Congress has emerged from its biannual nap to deliver what they’re calling the “One Big Beautiful Bill”—a tax and spending package so shiny, so sweeping, it’s practically Botox for the economy. But like most things
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Coldplay, Cheating, and Capitalism: The Astronomer Scandal Was Written in the Stars
Let’s set the scene: Gillette Stadium. The lights are low. The band is Coldplay—because of course it is. “A Sky Full of Stars” crescendos like the emotional climax of a mid-2000s rom-com. And right as the chorus hits, the jumbotron zooms in on two people who look like they’ve just discovered physical touch. Only it’s
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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