Mother Jones MagazineThe Secret History of Santacon, America’s Most Hated Christmas Party
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The Art of Truth in an Age of Lies
The USA PotatoThe Art of Truth in an Age of Lies
“All art is propaganda,” George Orwell wrote in 1940. “On the other hand, not all propaganda is art.” That, in Orwell’s view, was a lost understanding: clear to Victorian authors like Dickens; obscure to his contemporaries of the late 1930s, who were too coy or deluded to square “art for art’s saking in the ivory […]https://murica.website/2025/11/the-art-of-truth-in-an-age-of-lies/
The Secret History of Santacon, America’s Most Hated Christmas Party
In the winter of 1996, a cadre of police officers met an airplane as it landed in Portland, Oregon. Santa Claus had come to town. It was the early years of what would come to be known as Santacon, and the plane carried a contingent of pranksters aiming to create a bit of Yuletide mischief. […]https://murica.website/2025/11/the-secret-history-of-santacon-americas-most-hated-christmas-party/
“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” Invites You to Look Directly at a Woman’s Rage
“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” Invites You to Look Directly at a Woman’s Rage
What happens when a mother is pushed to the brink, when stresses both tedious and extraordinary break her beyond recognition? What happens is that she might look a lot like Rose Byrne. That might seem impossible, given that Byrne is, after all, a beautiful A-list actor. The suggestion even borders on cruelty. But her knockout […]Trump’s Energy Policies Are Laughable. This Samuel L. Jackson Ad Proves It.
Trump’s Energy Policies Are Laughable. This Samuel L. Jackson Ad Proves It.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Standing alone on a rocky coastline wearing a seaman-style knit hat, Samuel L. Jackson reaches into a snack bag and gazes intensely through binoculars. Wind turbines spin ominously on a watery horizon. “Motherfucking wind farms. Loud, ugly, harmful to nature,” the Pulp Fiction actor says. […]
Stefan Bohacek30 years of hacking the planet.
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The Key Missing Piece to the Megahit “Adolescence”
In March, the fictional TV miniseries Adolescence became a surprise global sensation. Its story centers on the Millers, a working-class family of four in England whose world is upended when 13-year-old Jamie Miller—a bright, soft-spoken schoolboy—is arrested for murder. Jamie is accused of fatally stabbing a female classmate, Katie, apparently after being radicalized online. Through […]https://murica.website/2025/09/the-key-missing-piece-to-the-megahit-adolescence/