Abby Zimet

With no grown-ups in sight, a feckless war lurches and whipsaws on, run by a regime full of clowns, drunks, losers, grifters all steadfastly defying the will of the people. Trump rants, Hegseth lies, Rubio punts, and a shameless Ka$h Patel, who actually likes to spell his name that way, is gifting bottles of personally branded bourbon - “KASH PATEL,

In a triumphal move back toward democratic rule, Hungary's new leader Péter Magyar took his oath of office Saturday in a “regime-change” ceremony

Oh man. Same old clown show, awash with boondoggles, each more cringey than the last. As the mad man-child deconstructs DC and slaps his hideous face and name everywhere - historic buildings, fascist arches, garish statues, possibly imaginary gold phones - others have taken his lead with their own patriotic spinoffs. Cue “Fuck You” upgrades, a

In retrospect, Sunday's taxpayer-funded blasphemy fest to “rededicate” America as a Christian nation though it's not and never was looks ever more obscene amidst an unholy regime's mounting crimes and abuses. Its sectarian shit-show - ICE milled, vendors urged, “WIVES SUBMIT,” zealots screeched “We welcome Jesus!”, speakers attested God is grateful for the ballroom - queasily shaped a now-250-year-old America into the kind of country it sought freedom from.

Another Memorial Day of boasts, insults, “self-defense strikes,” cheap clichés from a Secretary of War Crimes prattling about unnecessary dead “delivered

After the greatest comeback in NBA finals history - 29 points! - “the greatest shot in Knicks history” - Anunoby's last-second tip-in - some divine

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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