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January 24, 2026 at 11:50 PM

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January 24, 2026 at 9:05 PM

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Board of Peace - Season 1

January 24, 2026 at 7:45 AM

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I deleted TikTok today. Not because I hate dancing teenagers or feral recipes, but because the new data agreement read less like “terms of service” and more like a hostage note written by an algorithm with tenure. 🧵⬇️

January 23, 2026 at 4:22 PM

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Its 1 pm and I'm looking at water lilies by Monet....in fucking Kansas....after seeing a semi load of ice vehicles being unloaded....might be time to find another country

January 19, 2026 at 7:05 PM

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Detroit Wasn’t the End — It Was the Dress Rehearsal

There’s a strange rhythm to American collapse.

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November 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM

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The American Boil: Are We Ripe for Our Own “Freedom Fighters”?

By God, you can smell it in the air — that acrid stink of a country gnawing on its own bones, half-mad from propaganda and half-dead from civic rot.

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October 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM

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Race, Power, and the Big Con: Why America Never Nuked Its Own Confederacy

By the time you’ve finished your first cup of bitter black coffee, the circus tent is already on fire.

September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM

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The Great American Hustle: Charlie Kirk and the Cult of Turning Point

It all began in some suburban garage, 2012, a pale teenager with a haircut like a Mormon youth pastor screaming that “big government sucks.” He called it Turning Point USA — though the only thing turn...

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September 11, 2025 at 1:18 AM

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Sunshine, Silver, and Swamp Hustlers: Florida’s Gold Currency Fever Dream

Florida has done it again.

August 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM

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The Capital Coup: Trump’s Dictatorship Dreams, Militia Madness, and America on the Brink

Welcome to the American nightmare—an unholy cocktail of authoritarian overreach, militarized madness, and political theater worthy of the worst acid trip you never wanted to take.

August 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM

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The Great Abstinence Conspiracy: How a Broken Sex Ed System Protects the Powerful and Dooms Our Kids

There’s a crooked game being played behind the closed doors of American politics — a game of secrecy, shame, and outright manipulation — and it’s hiding in plain sight under the guise of “abstinence-o...

August 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM

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Free Speech and the Flaming Chainsaw: Trump's Warped First Amendment Rodeo

“Nobody’s ever fought harder for free speech than me.

August 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM

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"The 99% Trap: Surveillance, Push Notifications, and the Last Bastion of Digital Sanity"

Somewhere between the fever-dreams of Orwell and the corporate wet dreams of Silicon Valley, a letter landed in Washington like a hot rock hurled through a cathedral window.

August 4, 2025 at 6:17 AM

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The Last National Jackpot: How America Could Still Steal Norway’s Playbook Before the Lights Go Out

We’re not out of oil, but we’re damn near out of time.

August 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM

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How to Organize and Win in a Red Hellscape: A Step-by-Step Field Guide for the Brave, the Broke, and the Blue

Introduction: Where the Wild Things Vote

August 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM

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The Water’s on Fire and the Robots Are Thirsty By Someone Who’s Been Paying Attention While Everyone Else Was Reposting Dog Filters

There’s a monster in the server room and it’s got a drinking problem.

July 31, 2025 at 8:20 PM

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The Utopia Hustle: Why Every System Is Rigged and What to Do About It Anyway

Let’s get one thing out of the way:

July 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM

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When Trump Pulled the Plug: America’s Energy Mess and What It Costs You

Imagine waking up in mid‑2025 to discover your electric bill has turned into a monster—demanding tribute for every flick of the switch.

July 30, 2025 at 12:25 AM

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Rot at the Root: How Stagnant Towns Are Killing the American Dream

By the time a town realizes it's dying, the vultures are already in the trees.

July 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM

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Welcome to Banana Republic, U.S.A.: America's $0.59 Addiction and the Bodies Buried Under It

America, baby.

July 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM

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Welcome to the Bypass: How the North American Super-Corridor Killed the Working Class

There it was in black-and-white bureaucracy: a new $120 billion trade corridor connecting Mexico to Canada without so much as a piss stop in the United States.