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Best Albums of 2025

Sleep Token – Even in Arcadia After you listen to an album an absurd number of times, it ceases to be music and instead becomes part of your soul. That’s what happened to me with this album this year. I had tried to get into Sleep Token before, but it never took. The combination of chunky guitars, trip-hop beats, jazz piano, and back-of-the-throat vocals was off-putting at first. Then…

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The Second Amendment is No Long Relevant to America

Emotions are high right now after yet another child massacre by a lunatic with a gun, but this isn’t really about that. Let’s consider the facts instead. The Second Amendment as written and ratified ensures “the people” have the right to “keep and bear Arms” in order to protect “the security of a free State” through “a well-regulated Militia.” Militias at the time the amendment was written were…

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What to the American under fascism is the Fourth of July?

The U.S. Capitol Building on January 6th, 2021. [Photo: Brent Stirton/Getty Images] In 1852, Frederick Douglass gave a speech titled “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?” in which he savaged the hypocrisy of celebrating “independence” in a nation built by and at that time still reliant on slave labor. I do not attempt to match his argument or eloquence, but I find myself pondering a similar…

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Declaration 2.0

249 years ago today, a group of Americans voted to declare their independence from a foreign tyrant with a list of 27 grievances he had committed against them. Today our very own domestic tyrant has committed at least 19 (and counting) of those very same atrocities. Don’t believe me? Here they are: ✅ He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. The…

Best Albums of 2024

Charli xcx – brat Less an album than a cultural movement. Charli captured lightning in a bottle, start to finish. Her albums have always had bangers, but this album is one, on a biblical level. And it wasn’t contained to the music. Brat green was everywhere this year. Presidential candidates were brat. Cable news was decidedly not brat, though they tried, bless their hearts. Rarely can an album…

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Best Albums of 2023

Zach Bryan – Zach Bryan It’s fitting that the best country album of the decade is complained about by country fans as “not country.” Which is fine, since in a sense it’s not. With no steel guitar, no recycled hip-hop beats, no derivative Nashville production, no MAGA nostalgia, the breakout album from this Oklahoma bad boy is more western than whatever country has become, which is what makes it…

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Best Albums of 2022

Tove Lo – Dirt Femme Sweden’s fiercest pop queen goes independent and makes what might be the best album of her still brief but already legendary career. The early combination of “2 Die 4” + “True Romance” + “Grapefruit” are some of the most simultaneously catchy, inventive, and intensely personal songs of 20th Century pop so far. Beyonce – Renaissance Queen B returns from a several-year break…

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RINGS OF POWER trailer breakdown

IT’S HERE!!! It’s a LOT. First off, the narration is NOT from Galadriel this time. It’s likely from one of the Harfoots (early ancestors of Hobbits), played by Markella Kavenagh. An interesting choice that gives the first real look at the series a more appropriate sense of curiosity and wide-eyed optimism. “Haven’t you ever wondered – what else is out there?” Well, let’s found…

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RINGS OF POWER: Character poster breakdown

Amazon dropped 23 anonymous closeup character posters for their first LORD OF THE RINGS series, The Rings of Power, yesterday, and needless to say, Tolkien fandom exploded. Lots of people have speculated about who each pair of hands belongs to, and Fellowship of the Fans has spy reports confirming about half of them. I’m going to do my best to fill in the blanks about the rest. I’ve cropped the…

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Best Albums of 2020

After a novel pandemic, economic collapse, racial strife, and an interminable election this year, time lost all meaning. Music became a solo medium, no longer for collective public consumption by public health necessity. All that made the good stuff connect on a whole new level. This is the good stuff:

Fiona Apple – Fetch the Bolt Cutters

Dropped without warning one month after most of the…

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Everyone is Looking at the Wrong Part of the Polls (Just Like in 2016)

The right-wing narrative after 2016 was that all the polls were wrong. They weren’t. The left-wing narrative after 2016 was that we have to fix the polls and not rely on them for our expectations. And that’s true!

But this year, much of the discussion on the polls has been about the wrong thing. Everyone is paying attention the margins – how much Biden or Trump leads – and looking past their…

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The Environmental Disaster (and Opportunity) of Hurricane Laura

An uprooted tree near my home that took a utility pole with it.

The human cost of natural disasters is easy to see; we suffer them regularly. What’s not always as apparent, at least from a wind storm, is the cost to nature itself in the wake of catastrophes spawned from it. Having witnessed first hand the wrath of the worst storm to hit Louisiana in more than 150 years, Hurricane Laura, I have…

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Amazon's Lord of the Rings series has cast several non-white actors, and Very Online people are upset.

Beregond, a Gondorian soldier, depicted with dark skin in Lord of the Rings Online

This week Amazon Studios finally announced (most of) the cast for their blockbuster Lord of the Rings prequel series. The cast is a lot of unknowns, a couple Game of Thrones veterans, and mostly young actors.

Some people are upsetthat the cast seems to be more like a teenage melodrama than a high fantasy…

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Best Albums of 2019

Billie Eilish – When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? The 2010s found its Kurt Cobain in the form of a tiny California teenager in baggy shirts and fluorescent hair dye. Her sound is a combination of Lorde and Lana, but her sound, produced by her brother, Fineas, is transcendent and unique. The ’20s are going to be Billie’s to conquer if she wants it.

Dermot Kennedy – Without Fear An Irish…

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The Ubiquitous Lie of Justin Amash's Voting Record

The Ubiquitous Lie of Justin Amash’s Voting Record

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/justin-amash-libertarian-presidential-run

While reading this excellent long-form profile of Justin Amash’s recent quitting streak and where he goes next, I came across this whopper from a GOP consultant in his state.

For a time, said Sellek, Amash fit that desire for a congressman who got stuff done—he was quite good at spending time in his district…

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Democrats want to scrap the Electoral College so candidates will campaign in all 50 states. They already do.

One of the many ideas around which Democratic presidential candidates are rapidly coalescing is the elimination of the Electoral College, our system for electing the president. They have several arguments in support of their proposal, but the primary one is that because of the “red” and “blue” nature of most states, candidates only campaign in a handful of swing states and ignore the rest of the…

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These US senators no longer qualify as legislators

The job of the House of Representatives and Senate is to pass legislation and send it to the President for approval. It is not the job of legislators to only pass legislation that the President says he will sign. The Constitution specifically allows Congress to make laws that the President doesn’t sign by overriding his veto with a supermajority in both houses.

The recent Shut-Show, the…

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