Life During Trumptime — 2/16/26 - 2/22/26

Whole milk, Cringe Minaj, and the Vibe War with Iran begins.

Feb 23 • 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 • Matthew Gault

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1:22:27

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 • Matthew Gault

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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 • Matthew Gault

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When Americans Became ‘Splendid Liberators’

America spent most of the 19th century at war with itself.

Feb 6 • Matthew Gault

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1:05:00

January 2026

Puffins, Zyn, and ‘Polar War’

Greenland fever has faded for now but it will return.

Jan 30 • Matthew Gault

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56:36

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 • Matthew Gault

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1:24:46

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 • Matthew Gault

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1:02:39

December 2025

On Spectacles of Cruelty

And a happy New Year.

Dec 19, 2025 • Matthew Gault

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52:56

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 • Matthew Gault

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1:09:00

‘Capitalism Is a Series of Regime Changes’

Another week and another Angry Planet about the horrifying systems that rule our lives.

Dec 6, 2025 • Matthew Gault

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48:02

November 2025

The US Government’s AI Grand Bargain

The White House is portraying the race to adopt AI as an existential crisis.

Nov 21, 2025 • Matthew Gault

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