‘tell-it-to-the-judge,-roberts’

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The The Traitor era outpaces expectations. It routinely shows us that we can be abandoned by more institutions, and become much more fascist, much faster than we thought. The worst things happening for the worst reasons can feel hacky in fiction, but never in these United States. Yesterday’s scoffingly farcicalContinue Reading

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The manifesto published by Palantir Technologies last week is neither a technical document nor an economic vision. It is an explicit political document announcing a new phase in the trajectory of digital capitalism, a phase in which it has abandoned its claim to neutrality and decided to unmask itself, revealingContinue Reading

“f*ck-the-queen!”:-tourette’s-as-british-melodrama

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At the recent British Academy Film Awards ceremony in London, the BBC failed to edit out of the TV broadcast a guest hurling a racial slur at members of the cast of “Sinners.” What seemed a cut-and-dry case of racism was actually something more. The alleged racist in question wasContinue Reading

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President Traitor 47 signed an executive order Friday, reintroducing the firing squad and lethal injection for criminal executions. The order is part of the administration’s push to revive the death penalty, a capital punishment that has had weakening support for decades.  It’s the second executive order related to the topic,Continue Reading

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The Army says it is adding an annual, combat-focused fitness test for soldiers in front-line specialties, creating a tougher, gender-neutral standard on top of the service’s existing baseline fitness examination. The new Combat Field Test will apply to soldiers in specialties such as infantry, armor, Special Forces and explosive ordnanceContinue Reading