The American Condition Remains Unstable.
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Late-stage experiments in power, decline, and the paperwork that accompanies both.
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DepartmentPolitics
FiledJohn Herring
The United States government concluded that the central purpose of the modern state is not infrastructure, defense, housing, education, disaster relief, affordable fuel, healthcare or the job market. It is ballrooms. …
DepartmentBreaking News
FiledJohn Herring
A small art collective calling itself the Fentanyl Players is staging still-life photography across sidewalks and parks by costuming people locked in the city’s familiar standing fentanyl stupor. Members of the troupe drape period clothing, adjust props, and tuck symbolic objects into subjects’ arms and waistlines while they remain upright, motionless, and unaware.
DepartmentCrime
FiledJohn Herring
An 11-year-old boy was briefly pursued through a Pennsylvania Family Dollar this week by a black bear that wildlife officials now believe may have been responding to prolonged economic displacement. Initial reports described the bear as “agitated but focused,” moving quickly through the seasonal aisle before pausing near a display of heavily discounted snack foods. …
DepartmentEnd Of The American Experiment
FiledJohn Herring
President Trump referenced the idea of people being “hung” today, prompting an immediate nationwide administrative ceremony in which the phrase was folded, labeled, laminated, and placed gently into the government’s “Locker Room Talk” drawer. The process, practiced and efficient, begins when a politically alarming phrase enters public space and is immediately softened by analysts using specialized …