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Cake day: June 23rd, 2024

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  • I’m beginning to feel there’s a fundamental disconnect between the vocabulary of everyday people and the words journalists use. I can only imagine how the dialogue goes around a journalist’s house.


    “Honey, have you heard about the Winstons?”
    “No, why?”
    “Fred from accounting SLAMMED they’re planning to move to Wisconsin.”
    “Oh, I see. Did you GRILL him about where exactly they’d be going?”
    “Yeah, I HAMMERED him with questions until he MELTED down. IN TEARS, he SCREAMED at me, ‘Yeah, somewhere near Madison.’”
    “…screamed?”
    “You know… politely.”



  • This whole week has been fucking bonkers, I’ll tell you what. It’s Project 2025 in full fucking swing; the entire country is off Medicaid (or maybe not); all grant money is frozen (or maybe not); half the populace is to be deported (or maybe not)c and now this. Or maybe not. It’ll obviously be challenged in the courts.

    The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.

    —Christopher Hitchens