Abby Zimet

Oof, so many fails. An abject purge from the Kennedy Center, a tatty Iran deal, a brackish Reflecting Pool, and pay-per-view bloodsport at the People's House rife with lurid jingoism, cheesy fireworks, garish flyovers, honor guards for Nazi thugs, grift vast and brazen, and the crass smear of an iconic woman in the name of “a permission structure made visible” enabling the worst people in the world to act out. The result: “The cringiest collapse of a nation in real time.”

This week, a growing “dignity gap” amidst more busts and botches - war, flu, pools, fans - suggests a faint, nascent shift in momentum back toward we the people.

Bravo to VJayBombs, the ingenious street artists who emblazoned L.A. with projections of ICE hauling off Jesus just hit D.C. to plaster “Guardians

In his latest Freedom 250 triumph, Pres. Fragile Snowflake launched a Great American State Fair in D.C, which is not a state, boasting tens of attendees, no shade or seats, melted ice cream, busted Ferris wheel, $25 pretzels, teenage performers, sorry-ass pavilions often sporting a mere chair, a masturbating MAGA podcaster, and a Spinal-Tap-like mini-Arc-de-Pedo that began disintegrating its first day. No wonder headliner Trump - right again! - giddily proclaimed, “This is the beginning of the golden age of America.”

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Declaring, “I believe in America, I believe in us,” an active duty Air Force major was arrested Wednesday for a non-violent act of civil disobedience after he publicly called for Trump to be impeached, removed and convicted for his scores of impeachable offenses. Citing the “foundational oath” he took to defend the country “against all enemies foreign and domestic” - most vitally a lawless president - Major Jason Watson insisted, finally, “The bill must come due.”

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Hoo boy. Many of us slogged through a July 4 more vigil - “act of purposeful wakefulness” - than celebration as hostages of a dark timeline wherein

What better way to mark the 250th anniversary of a nation founded on lofty ideals now plunged into ugly discrepancies than to double down on hate-and-fear-mongering? Cue a Racist-In-Chief who stays silent when 400 masked Nazis march in D.C. but goes online to assail graduating

In their second fatal shooting of the wrong person in just days - and as his three-year-old daughter watched - ICE thugs murdered a young Colombian husband and father legally working in Biddeford, ME for simply trying to driving away. After state Dems blasted the killing and advocates insisted “this has gone too far,” ICE waited 12 hours to say they fired “fearing for public safety” while “every law enforcement officer in America was scratching their head trying to figure out what that means.”