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  • Supreme Court to the World: You Can Stay… Until We Find a Plane Ticket and a Country That Doesn’t Know You Yet

    Supreme Court to the World: You Can Stay… Until We Find a Plane Ticket and a Country That Doesn’t Know You Yet

    Congratulations, America. Our Supreme Court just swiped right on international human rights law and ghosted it five minutes later. With a vote of 6-3—because of course it was—they decided it’s perfectly fine to deport undocumented immigrants to countries they’ve never set foot in. The catch? All you need is a “criminal conviction” and a fast-pass

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  • Anderson Allison Cooper and the Enriched Delusion: A Very Stable Tantrum

    Anderson Allison Cooper and the Enriched Delusion: A Very Stable Tantrum

    So here’s to Allison Cooper. May your poise forever expose the chaos. May your reporting cut through the noise. And may your very existence continue to make old men in red hats clutch their pearls harder than their Russian passports.

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  • Make It Work, Darling: My Love Letter to the Gloriously Deranged World of Project Runway

    Make It Work, Darling: My Love Letter to the Gloriously Deranged World of Project Runway

    There are few things in life that bring me as much chaotic joy as Project Runway. I could be deep in an existential spiral, questioning the state of the world, my life, or why I always forget to defrost the chicken—and suddenly, like a rhinestoned angel from Bravo past, Tim Gunn whispers, “Make it work,”

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  • American Healthcare: Now With 20% Less Humanity!

    American Healthcare: Now With 20% Less Humanity!

    A User Manual for Surviving the ER Without Dignity or Insurance Welcome to the American healthcare system! Whether you’ve arrived via ambulance, rideshare, or crawling on your last good limb, this guide will prepare you for your stay in the trauma-scented purgatory known as the Emergency Room. Don’t worry—we’ve streamlined the experience to maximize humiliation

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  • Bee-yond the Beard: Why Food Awards Matter and Who’s Really Stirring the Pot

    Bee-yond the Beard: Why Food Awards Matter and Who’s Really Stirring the Pot

    Once upon a time, if a chef wanted to be taken seriously, they had to toil quietly in the kitchen, perfecting duck à l’orange, whispering sweet nothings to soufflés, and praying some mysterious, trench coat-wearing Michelin inspector would bless their establishment with a star or two (or three, if they had made some sort of

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  • Mykael Zane, Now Hiring: How a Name Can Get You Erased Before You Even Apply

    Mykael Zane, Now Hiring: How a Name Can Get You Erased Before You Even Apply

    I was almost named Mykael Zane Cloud. And by “almost,” I mean I was—for a hot minute. Right until my grandparents, wielding all the subtlety of a segregation-era guidance counselor, decided that name was too ethnic, too bold, too much like someone who might speak Spanish at a PTA meeting or God forbid, ask to

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  • Therapy Speak, But Make It Texan

    Therapy Speak, But Make It Texan

    Setting boundaries, y’all. With a side of queso. Welcome to the dusty crossroads of emotional healing and Southern hospitality, where therapy-speak gets run through a wood chipper of “Well, sugar, we don’t talk about that at the dinner table” and comes out the other side wrapped in a casserole dish. If you’ve ever tried to

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  • The Silent War: My Battle Against Unsolicited Advice (and How I Mostly Lose)

    The Silent War: My Battle Against Unsolicited Advice (and How I Mostly Lose)

    I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you’re the kind of person who starts sentences with “You know what you should do?” — please know I’m already plotting my escape. Politely. Silently. With a smile so tight it could slice through granite. Unsolicited advice is the glitter of social interaction. It shows

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  • The Price of Doing the Right Thing: A Life-Long Scarlet Letter for Telling the Truth

    The Price of Doing the Right Thing: A Life-Long Scarlet Letter for Telling the Truth

    I’m not a thief. I’m not a bad person. I’m not perfect either, and I’ve made my share of mistakes. But I have always tried to live with integrity. I’ve chosen honesty over convenience, truth over spin, even when it wasn’t the easy road. I’ve gone without food before asking someone for help. When I

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  • Bomb, Boast, Blame: Trump’s Favorite Wartime Tradition Is Turning on His Own

    Bomb, Boast, Blame: Trump’s Favorite Wartime Tradition Is Turning on His Own

    You can always tell a Trump presidency is back in full swing when he drops bombs one day and burns bridges the next. After launching a surprise airstrike on Iranian nuclear facilities—without Congressional approval and with all the subtlety of a toddler with a matchbook—Trump took a victory lap so wide it flattened anyone who

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