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Life During Trumptime — 2/16/26 - 2/22/26
Whole milk, Cringe Minaj, and the Vibe War with Iran begins.
Feb 23
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Matthew Gault
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A Killer True Crime Fandom & Islamic State’s Digital Caliphate
Things have gotten very surreal in the dark corners of the internet.
Feb 20
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Matthew Gault
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Life During Trumptime — 2/9/26 - 2/15/26
This President’s day I’m thinking of America’s other rotund split term Commander-in-chief, Grover Cleveland.
Feb 16
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Matthew Gault
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The Horror of AI Generals Making Command Decisions
May 23, 2025
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Crawl Out Through the ‘Fallout’
Apr 19, 2024
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Vanessa Guillén and the Importance of Speaking Up
Oct 1, 2025
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On Spectacles of Cruelty
Dec 19, 2025
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‘Goliath’s Curse’ and the Surprising Benefits of Societal Collapse
Oct 31, 2025
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The Cult of Rationalism in Silicon Valley
Mar 21, 2025
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Life During Trumptime — 2/2/26 to 2/8/26
I’m starting a little writing project on the side to help keep me sane over the next three years.
Feb 9
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Matthew Gault
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When Americans Became ‘Splendid Liberators’
America spent most of the 19th century at war with itself.
Feb 6
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Matthew Gault
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Puffins, Zyn, and ‘Polar War’
Greenland fever has faded for now but it will return.
Jan 30
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Matthew Gault
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Online Culture Is the Whole Culture
There was a time, just before the pandemic, when folks would say “Twitter isn’t real life” as a means of dismissing the horrors of social media.
Jan 16
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Matthew Gault
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How We Thought the First Year Would Go
On January 28, 2025, I sat down with Aram Shabanian to talk about how we thought the first year of the Trump administration would go.
Jan 9
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Matthew Gault
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On Spectacles of Cruelty
And a happy New Year.
Dec 19, 2025
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Matthew Gault
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Google’s Former CEO Is Dancing in Ukraine
Earlier this year journalist Ben Makuch caught a glimpse of Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, dancing at a club in Kyiv.
Dec 12, 2025
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