Occasionally on social media, I will come across a post in which someone binge-watched six-part HBO Series Chernobyl. The person is invariably staggered by the miniseries and the sickening and engrossing recitation of the calamity that took place at the nuclear power site outside of Pripyat, Ukraine on April 26,
This feature on our FBI Director begins as most such profiles should, with a SportsCenter style recap of weekend action. On Sunday February 22, 2026, the United States Men's Olympic hockey team closed out the 25th Winter Olympiad held across several venues in Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
On Friday February 20, 2026, the Supreme Court of the United States at long last found that the President's use of the emergency national security powers of the IEEPA law were improperly conceived as a tool of economic policy (I would say coercion). It formed a coda to
Segrey Brin bought a mansion in Tahoe on the Nevada side. Mark Zuckerberg decamped to the Chlamidya Cove, I mean Indian River Island outside of Miami. The Silicon Valley vulture capitalists are threatening to join. They'd all rather wave to each other from their city-block sized compounds. "
A set of posts on the Threads App platform was favorably received so I have gathered them here to provide them in one place and one article for you. I am just like you. I am concerned and worried for the country and am trying to use my powers of
Two weeks before the Iowa caucuses in the winter Trump traveled to an arena in Sioux Center, Iowa on January 23, 2016. Trump was visiting Dordt College, a small unremarkable Christian college to give one of his, by-then, typical rally speeches. As NPR described it at the time: With less
Portland, Oregon is a lovely city three hours of south of where I live. Unfortunately, I haven't visited Portland enough. That's entirely on me. But thanks to IFC's Portlandia helmed by indefatigable duo Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, we all feel a certain kinship
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Thousands of officers working for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are deployed throughout the State of Minnesota to purportedly conduct immigration sweeps at the behest of President Trump. He has signaled an impatient desire to enforce a faster deportation process for illegal immigrants, whom he deems "the worst
The World Cup Draw is just another odd public spectacle befitting our absurd times. If a spectacular and lavish gala "could have been an email," surely it is the grandiose announcement.
On December 3, 2025, President Donald Trump pardoned Tim Leiweke, a sports and entertainment executive. Leiweke lead the Oak View Group, a prominent developer that completed the redevelopment of the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Washington. The venue hosts celebrity musicians and is the home of the Seattle Kraken NHL