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in the actual real world secret police are disappearing americans on behalf of an openly white nationalist government but george packer’s latest is a novel about a world beset by woke totalitarianism
What Happens When an Empire Falls? This Novel Has Some Ideas.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak
October 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
first day without using adblockers in a long time (maybe a decade?). what a nightmare. i had no idea how much garbage i wasn't seeing.
March 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Professional bigot Anita Bryant dead today at the tragically advanced age of 84.
January 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Maus author Art Spiegelman’s next comic will be about Gaza, in collaboration with Joe Sacco. He thinks he will struggle to find a publisher in the United States.

“I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”
Art Spiegelman Won’t Shrink Back From Controversy
The artist has illustrated more than one contentious New Yorker cover in his career, chronicled in a new film, and his next project will be no less gutsy.
hyperallergic.com
December 28, 2024 at 3:00 AM
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Some of us are old enough to remember "black helicopters." A militia movement thing. Now the country's so crazy an entire political party has cracked.
December 15, 2024 at 10:50 PM