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Another Friday. Another batch of headlines that feel like America accidentally left the television on while the country wandered into the kitchen looking for aspirin. This week gave us UFO footage over Michigan, Stephen Colbert’s…
I do not know exactly when Americans became comfortable filming themselves crying in parked cars, but apparently we all agreed to it somewhere along the way. Every day the internet serves up another emotional breakdown…
The more Hakeem Jeffries steps in front of a microphone, the more his bitterness and anger toward conservatives and much of America spills out. This week Jeffries declared MAGA voters need to be “broken.” That…
Ronald Reagan once famously warned that the nine most terrifying words in the English language were, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Zohran Mamdani is openly rejecting that warning altogether, brushing it…
Over the past few years, Americans have slowly gotten used to hearing phrases like “UAP,” “nonhuman biologics,” and “unexplained aerial phenomena” tossed around by Congress and the Pentagon like this is somehow normal now. We’ve…
This latest Field Notes from Victory Girls Blog feels right at home here at An Americanist, too. Kamala Harris lost the election and somehow came away thinking America’s system is what needs fixing instead of…
I have followed the Sall Grover case in Australia off and on for years, and the latest ruling is outrageous. An Australian court ruled that a women-only app must include a biological male who identifies…
The New Villain Class I made it about three paragraphs into Katherine Stewart’s piece in The New Republic before I started feeling like I was watching the trailer for a political horror movie instead of…
Another week, another collection of headlines that feel less like real life and more like somebody fed America into an AI chatbot running on Red Bull and unresolved trauma. This week gave us alleged Iranian…
When Anna Paulina Luna went on television claiming the CIA had removed boxes of JFK and MKUltra documents from Tulsi Gabbard’s office, she had to know exactly what kind of reaction those words would trigger…
