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Fresh Hell
July 09, 2021
The Forever Poké War With little fanfare, the United States withdrew the last of its remaining forces from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan—from which the military waged an unconscionably expensive war for nearly two decades—last week. But the digital traces of the occupation ...

Fresh Hell
July 02, 2021
Ketchup on the Good News As millions of Americans prepare to fire up their grills to celebrate our god awful, god-fearing nation’s forging in the fires of racist violence 245 years ago, the refined minds of Insider have a word of advice: “Just because you can cook outside ...

Fresh Hell
June 25, 2021
One of These Things is Not Like the Other Pop quiz: Anarchists, socialists, and neo-Nazis represent which terrorist ideological category? Tick tock, tick tock, time’s running out, dear reader. What tenuous thread could possibly link these three groups, which, at first glance, ...

Fresh Hell
June 18, 2021
The Supreme Court Says YAASS, Honey, to Homophobia   It’s been a banner week for the nation’s highest court. On Thursday, three opinions issued forth from that marble sarcophagus of justice that, among other things, upheld corporate America’s god-given right to never be ...

Fresh Hell
June 11, 2021
Goodbye to All That For far too long, millennials, when not busy eviscerating the raisin and canned tuna industries, have been living like “bourgeois royalty” courtesy of benevolent investors who have, for years, subsidized the immiseration of millions of workers (millennial ...

Fresh Hell
May 28, 2021
You, the Bounty Hunter  Internal documents recently obtained by Motherboard demonstrate the depths that Citizen—a social network for reporting crime that was tellingly first christened “Vigilante”—is willing to go to hook its users. People who download the app are ...

Fresh Hell
May 21, 2021
We Love the Gays! But Only When the Gays Are Nice! Over the years, the New York Times has worked hard to build up a rapport with a certain subset of the homosexual community: those cash-flush and coddled specimens bred to flash their immaculate dental work in wedding ...