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A Rush of Blood to the Head Turns 24. Still No Pulse.
Read more . . . →Twenty-four years ago today, Coldplay released A Rush of Blood to the Head. It still sucks. This was Peak Coldplay, which is like being the tallest building in Winnipeg. You can see it from far away but nobody flew there on purpose. The album gave us “The Scientist” and “Clocks,” two songs that have been emotionally weaponized by every university orientation video and Grey’s Anatomy death montage since 2002. Chris Martin played piano like he was apologizing for something he hadn’t done yet, and twenty-four years later I still don’t know what it was. The whole record sounds like a...
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Crowd Control
Read more . . . →Eight men in body armour, one woman with a thermos and a folding chair. Guess who’s winning.
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Your Mailbox Just Became a Checkpoint
Read more . . . →The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 yesterday to let Trump’s mail voting executive order move forward. The one that creates a federal voter eligibility list and puts the Postal Service and the Department of Homeland Security in charge of deciding whose ballot gets delivered. Two months before the midterms. A federal judge blocked the whole thing in June because it’s flatly illegal under existing election law. The Court didn’t say it was legal now. They said the government can start building the machine while everyone argues about whether the machine should exist. By November, the argument won’t matter. This is the...
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Green Flag, Empty Plate
Read more . . . →Yesterday Donald Trump took a lap around downtown Washington in an armored limousine, waved a green flag, and 150,000 people watched open-wheel race cars tear down Pennsylvania Avenue at 160 miles per hour. The Freedom 250 Grand Prix, part of the America 250 birthday bash, turned the National Mall into a racetrack. Meanwhile, buried in a report nobody covered on a Saturday: SNAP enrollment dropped from 42.2 million to 36.6 million in twelve months. 5.6 million people lost food assistance in the same year the president turned the capital into a speedway. Arizona alone lost more than half its recipients....
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Plate Charge
Read more . . . →Five thousand a plate to end hunger. The lobster was excellent, thanks for asking.
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Two Years of We Pray and Nobody Answered
Read more . . . →Two years ago today, Coldplay released “We Pray.” It still sucks. They crammed Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna, and Tini onto one track and still managed to produce something with the emotional depth of a wellness app notification. Four artists who could each carry a stadium solo, reduced to garnish on a track focus-grouped into existence by a committee chasing the “unity” tag on Spotify. Chris Martin out here collecting features like they’re loyalty points. The single charted, obviously, because Coldplay at this point is less a band and more a purchasing habit. Then it disappeared, which is the kindest...
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The Deal Was Never a Deal
Read more . . . →Trump spent three days telling everyone he had a deal with Canada. Posted about it on Truth Social. Floated resurrecting a dead oil pipeline as a victory lap. Then late last night, the talks collapsed, and at midnight 50% tariffs landed on $20 billion in Canadian imports: lumber, electronics, clothing, furniture, dairy, booze. The USMCA, the trade agreement he personally signed in 2020, says none of this is supposed to happen. His trade rep blamed Canada for “walk backs.” Carney said the US changed terms at the last minute that were “unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of...
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Grand Opening
Read more . . . →He evicted them in March and cut the ribbon on their soup kitchen in August. Vertical integration.
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The Ref Works for Management Now
Read more . . . →The agency that exists to protect your right to organize just got handed to the people who spent their careers making sure you can’t. Senate confirmed two Trump picks to the National Labor Relations Board on August 7th, locking in a 3-1 Republican majority. One of them is a former chief labor counsel for Boeing. Yes, the Boeing currently under investigation for retaliating against workers who reported safety defects. Trump already fired the general counsel who was actually enforcing the law. A federal judge ruled he illegally fired the board chair. The administration shrugged and kept going. The NLRB is...
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We're Number One
Read more . . . →Federal disaster response, visualized. The rescue basket was over budget so they sent morale.
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