How it Happens Here

It’s been a pretty appalling week for the United States of America. Which is saying something. The Trump administration has ordered ICE to arrest and incarcerate everyone attempting to cross the border and is subsequently separating children from their families,…

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Gina Haspel and the 87%

A little over a week ago, in the wake of mass outrage over the confirmation of Gina Haspel, avowed torturer as the new Director of the CIA, I asked myself a question. Then, I asked 71 of my closest friends.…

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For the Love of Dichotomies!

Remember The Dress? That’s the question that’s prefaced many a fluffy thinkpiece in the last 48 hours as the purported audio version of The Dress was unleashed upon the Internet: a three-second sound-clip which sounds, of all things, like either…

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Let’s Talk About Norms, Baby

Content warning: language, sex and sexual encounters, sexual coercion, rape and rape culture In thinking about how I would compose this post, which is largely about Aziz Ansari and his exposure in the recent, universally-read Babe.net article, it occurred to…

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Stalin Condemns Trump, Lauded by Democrats

Moscow, Russia (AP) — In a surprising reversal today, former Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin held a press conference to lambast current American President Donald Trump. “For too long have I stood by and watched as Trump ruins the American ideal…

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White Supremacy and America’s Legacy

Hi, I’m Storey and I’m a white guy. Hi, Storey. Admitting you have a problem is the first step, right? Not being in denial that your behavior, your personhood, is contributing to the problems and detriment of those around you.…

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Record 4 Million French Voters Resist Binary Runoff

The headlines about France today correctly report that previously unelected businessman Emmanuel Macron crushed legacy politician Marine Le Pen in yesterday’s runoff for the French Presidency. This was expected and unsurprising, though the media wanted to treat it like a…

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The Health of a Nation

Last night, I had a dream that I was in an airplane and it was landing and I kept looking up front at the cockpit and wanting to see outside but it was blocked, just this blue door and white…

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