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I’m the Private Messaging App Signal, and the Trump Administration Is Ruining My Brand
“These galumphing Trump admin clowns have absolutely obliterated my image with the kind of staggering incompetence you usually see only from mating giant pandas and Heinz Doofenshmirtz.” -
Choose Your Own Adventure (Endings Only)
“Pg. 72: In a world of apocalyptic warfare, drone massacres, and nuclear devastation, there is no market for Lisa Frank–inspired iPhone cases. Your microbusiness fails.” -
Templates for Thanking President Trump
“I’ve always dreamed that I could be [USED TO JUSTIFY / USED AS COVER FOR / BLAMED FOR] [TRANSPHOBIA / IMPRISONING PEOPLE BASED ON THEIR BELIEFS OR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN / ANY HUMAN ERROR OR SOCIAL PROBLEM IN THE ENTIRE WORLD].” -
I Just Turned Forty, and Steely Dan’s Entire Discography Mysteriously Appeared on My Phone
“I awoke to a sharp, unsettling sensation, as though something in the universe had shifted and my very DNA had been altered. The low, almost imperceptible hum of a Fender Rhodes electric piano reverberated through my bones.”
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April 21, 2025Getting Ahead of It: JD Vance Almost Definitely Didn’t Kill the Pope
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April 25, 2025This Five-Hundred-Word Bumper Sticker on My Tesla Explains Why I’m Not a Bad Person
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April 9, 2025US News & World Report’s Best Remaining Colleges, 2028
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May 5, 2025Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
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April 23, 2025I Love You More Than Anything, but I Would Rather Die Than Talk to You on the Phone
Interviews, Essays, and Excerpts
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May 5, 2025Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
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May 2, 2025Excerpts from The Believer: An Interview with Delroy Lindo
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May 1, 2025Short Conversations with Poets: Derek Mong
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April 25, 2025Excerpts from The Believer: 16
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April 24, 2025Reviews of New Food: Sunshine La Croix
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April 22, 2025An Excerpt from Rachel Deutsch’s Graphic Memoir The Mother
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April 18, 2025Excerpts from The Believer: Resurrector: “Like a G6”
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May 1, 2025Open Letter to the Guy with “Dad” in His LinkedIn Headline
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April 30, 2025Our University Is Replacing DEI with Vibes and Vaguely Diverse Stock Photos
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April 30, 2025This Bank Robbery Is a Safe Space
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April 29, 2025Don’t Worry, We Were Prepared for Our Policies to Be Extremely Unpopular, Because They Are Very, Very Bad
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April 29, 2025How Far We’ve Come in Trump’s First 100 Days
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