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"There are hardly five critics in America, and several of them are asleep. "
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Dear saxophonist playing over backing tracks in any restaurant or bar:

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When does the Deep State Strike Back?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

People talk an awful lot about sliced bread, but maybe not enough about liquid soap.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

it's not a coup, people, it's a heist.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Muskrats chewing the wiring of our civil infrastructure.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

wow just logged off and there are problems there too

submitted 19 days ago • 60 comments

every true whaleman sleeps with his harpoon

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

WIRED has been doing vital work. If you’re looking to support good journalism right now, subscriptions are cheap.

submitted 20 days ago • 106 comments

The Framers foresaw this problem and figured legislators' ambition, self-preservation, and self-respect would drive them to act against a tyrant. The Framers didn't expect a majority of Congress would be cowards and fools who cheered it like pigs celebrating the arrival of the butcher.

submitted 22 days ago • 267 comments

This Hannah Arendt quote feels appropriate right now "Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

submitted 24 days ago • 26 comments

"My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare..." continues.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

oh, look, whoever could have imagined that "Software as a Service" would wind up screwing us. Hope you enjoy your new Microsoft (Copilot) and Google (Gemini) writing prompts...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

As with the climate, the American catastrophe has already happened. We are no longer afraid, then; we are *in* the distress we once feared. There’s not an “assault” on democracy, the media, the GOP, rule of law, liberal values. They’ve been vanquished. Our language & routines now have to catch up.

submitted 36 days ago • 6 comments

weird to think that the political thrillers of the coming era will be a battle of goofy vs sleazy.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

The incoming Trump administration is not sending their best. They’re sending people with big problems, and they’re bringing those problems to us. They’re rapists. They’re alcoholics. They’re criminals. And some, I assume, are good people 🤷🏽‍♀️

submitted 80 days ago • 186 comments

Hegseth really brings home how Evangelical Christianity got so much market share in America: it's the religion that asks less of you once you convert

submitted 40 days ago • 59 comments

Three for one Thomas' English muffins? Yes, please, and may the price fixers be damned.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

just saw a really terrible Renoir

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

The man who says, "I regret nothing!" most likely lacks creativity or empathy, either or both.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

fifth day without Coke Zero and I feel like something inside me is dead. Not sure a healthy microbiome can fill the void.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

baffling to me that some people would rather look at stumps than live under trees.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

so I guess "shades of green" is the color of 2025.

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took me some years to appreciate Hoppin' John. I might force down a mouthful or two and one of collard greens, and here now I am drinking the pot likker.

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