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leer-uh | essays editor @thedrift_mag | @dissentmag
“From its earliest days,” Maia Silber writes in our first Issue Seventeen preview piece, “America’s welfare system has forced its beneficiaries to lie not only for their survival, but also for its own survival.” thedriftmag.com/fraud-with-ben…
Liftoff. The Artemis II mission launched from @NASAKennedy at 6:35pm ET (2235 UTC), propelling four astronauts on a journey around the Moon. Artemis II will pave the way for future Moon landings, as well as the next giant leap — astronauts on Mars.
This is … not wrong
washington post layoffs...
“Even as the White House under Trump has dropped almost all pretenses regarding the United States’s real designs, the media seems determined to keep the consent-manufacturing machine running.” Read @Seamus_Malek on media coverage of the Maduro kidnapping: newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/when-the-med…
Rarely does a publication coin a worthy new form, but with its Mentions section, The Drift, whose Issue 16 is out today, has done it. These Micro-reviews about film, literature, performance, and culture are all punctuated by wit and taste. thedriftmag.com/mention/issue-…
It's really grim how much the frog has been boiled in terms of imperial brutality. I remember Abu Gharib, I remember the collateral murder video. Those were actual scandals, not bragging points. Yes the GWOT era laid the infrastructure for now, but the moral infrastructure is new
