Getty Image Today’s MAGA conservatives are a famously untruthful bunch, led by a guy who keeps getting sued for defamation. But there’s one lie that’s stranger than most: They’ve been painting New York City as a crime-ridden Boschian hellscape that’s slipped back to its gritty 1970s low point. Guess what? It’s not! It’s arguably the …
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A Fox News Segment Trying To Make Seattle Look Like A Post-Apocalyptic Hellscape Backfired Spectacularly
Fox News Republicans sure don’t like American cities these days. Conservative commentators have been trying to paint the nation’s metropolises as postapocalyptic hellscapes that have relapsed to 1970s conditions. They usually go after New York City, despite it being probably the safest it’s ever been in its 400-year history. On Monday, Fox News took on …
Elon Musk’s ‘free speech’ paradise turned Twitter into a hellscape
This story was originally published on Passionfruit. Analysis. Since Elon Musk, the tech CEO, billionaire, and self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist,” took over Twitter in October 2022 for $44 billion, the site seems to have become the center of a never-ending swell of toxicity, controversy, and jank. The site’s own headlines have become major news—like the …
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Hasan Minhaj Quit The ‘Hellscape’ That Is Twitter Live On ‘The Daily Show’
After Elon Musk purchased Twitter for an unfathomable amount of money, a lot of people vowed to quit the platform. Most didn’t (Mastodon is emptier than a Chick-fil-A on Sunday), but Hasan Minhaj has. It took awhile, but the moment of “f*ck this, I’m done with the app crashing and bots and whatever the hell …
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The ‘Kindred’ Trailer Seeks To Do Octavia E. Butler’s Time Travel Hellscape Proud
Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred is almost fifty years old and timeless. It’s the quintessentially American novel, so it had to be daunting to approach the work for an adaptation. Judging from the trailer for the FX series from showrunner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Watchmen), it’s hewing close to the letters on the page. In the series (and …
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