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Comics and stories that entertain you first and haunt you later.

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The Billionaire’s Sarcophagus

What do you buy when you stop believing in the future?

What It Feels Like to Lose an Election

The crowd disappears. The cameras pack up. And tomorrow, someone has to collect the yard signs.

Why Does Everything Important Feel Like Nothing?

Small talk used to be my superpower. Then I built a life that never required it.

Who Is Vermont For?

I've beens going to public hearings across Vermont. The rooms are angrier than anything I expected.

The Toy Aisle Has a Gambling Problem

Blind boxes, loot boxes, foil packs, and the habit we're teaching our kids.

Nobody Wants to Talk About Who Owns All the Houses

It's not a conspiracy. It's not greed. It's a memory of fluorescent hallways multiplied by seventy million.

How the United States Became Two Countries

Deplatforming was supposed to be a quarantine. It functioned like segregation and built a second internet.

Every System Eventually Eats Its Own Children

The kids didn't leave because of housing costs. It's more fundamental than that.

The Reflection You'd Rather Not See

On loving America at 250 while its most famous mirror cracks, peels, and turns green.

When Local News Dies, Something Awful Moves Into the Empty House

It looks like journalism. It isn't. And it's already shaping who you'll vote for.

I Found the Worst Sleep Hack in the World

AI slop knocks me out in ten minutes and I don't remember my dreams anymore.