"It is in these serendipitous encounters with the locals that Fitzgerald's mission is both validated and fructified, as they provide many of the missing pieces of himself that he so desperately seeks. By embarking on what might seem to many like a silly, year-long pilgrimage in search of a Disney cartoon character, Fitzgerald, albeit often verbose and obscene, overcomes some (but not all) of his problems. "
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'American Rambler' is part-memoir and part-history : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/28/nx-s1-5831078/american-rambler-isaac-fitzgerald-book-review

The newsletter strategy aims to bypass these rapidly enshittifying intermediaries and instead establish more direct relationships with subscribers.. . . Although email has undergone some enshittification of its own,b its fundamental nature as a protocol rather than a platform has provided one essential prophylactic to enshittification: the escape hatch. "

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"“Your administration has not explained to the Congress or the American people why you believe the Constitution permits launching a war of this magnitude—including the loss of US servicemembers’ lives, scores of civilians killed in Iran and the broader region, and staggering economic and geopolitical costs—without authorization from Congress as Article I requires,”

Senate Dems Demand Release of Legal Opinion Behind Trump Lie That Iran War Has 'Terminated' | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/iran-war-terminated-trump?share_id=9589251