WASHINGTON — The House gaveled in on a sleepy Tuesday morning two months ago now, spent eleven minutes in session, and passed the Coordinated Hierarchical Agency for Oversight of Subtraction Act — the C.H.A.O.S. Act — by a vote of 312 to 116, with six Democrats voting present and one congressman from Ohio voting "shruggie emoji," which the clerk entered into the record as "present."
The bill created a new federal agency whose sole statutory purpose is to identify, coordinate, and eliminate still-functional government programs, departments, and the staff who run them. It passed without a single hearing, without a CBO score, and without any member of the majority having read past
...Vessel, Chicago: A Review of a Man Playing a Character in a Room Full of Mirrors
The hostess at Vessel wears all black and speaks in a register normally reserved for the reading of wills. She leads you through a corridor where the walls are raw concrete poured in deliberate, expensive imperfection, past a shelf holding a single ceramic vessel — the vessel, presumably, the restaurant's one honest gesture toward its own name — and into a dining room so aggressively atmospheric it feels like walking into someone's MFA thesis after it negotiated a liquor
...BYLINE: Madison Garcia
i am literally screaming. not in a good way. not in a bad way. just in a i have consumed too much content and now my brain is buffering kind of way.
it is wednesday. summer game fest week is barely forty-eight hours old. i have already watched sony gaslight me for sixty
...I am writing this from Room 614 of a mid-tier Manhattan hotel, where the air conditioning unit outside my window emits a low, rhythmic hum that I have chosen to interpret as the death rattle of the American meritocracy. The ice machine down the hall has been broken since Tuesday. The mini-bar contains a single bottle of cranberry juice and a
...The $5 Billion Tariff Refund Is a Vindication of Sound Money (And Also, Incidentally, of Me)
By Tuck Chimes | IRREVERENT | Business & Economy
Let us, for a moment, set aside the noise. Let us set aside the aggrieved howling from the White House counsel's office, the frantic appeals briefs, the
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