thus always to tyrants

Month: August 2026

Sharpie King

I have hiked the forests that ring this lake. I have walked a dog along its shoreline when the water was the color of wet slate and the gulls were screaming. I have run its paths in July heat and February ice. I know this lake the way you know a neighbor for a lifetime. […]

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The Shot Heard ‘Round the Honor Roll

Settle down and pay attention. I have uncovered a statistical relationship so strong, so consistent, and so entirely unexamined, that it demands to be published before someone else takes credit for it. In 1971, the United States licensed the combined measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. Practically every American child born after that year received […]

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The Client Never Changed

Todd Blanche spent years defending Donald Trump in criminal court. Hush money, classified documents, the conspiracy to overturn an election Trump lost. Blanche took these cases and built a career on them. Now the Senate has confirmed him as Attorney General of the United States, by a vote of 50 to 49, with only two […]

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The Neighborhood Gruel Committee

Somewhere in America right now, a man is craning his neck over a stranger’s shopping cart. He has spotted something obscene. Not a weapon. Not contraband. A box of Trix. The stranger paid with SNAP. The man does the math immediately, the way outrage always does math: badly, and with total confidence. He has decided […]

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