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When the spotlight comes with steel. ararubyan.substack.com/p/stand-up-... If this gave you a laugh—or at least an eye-roll—send it to a friend. And if you want more of these landing in your inbox, subscribe away.

Meanwhile at Quantico ararubyan.substack.com/p/meanwhile... If this brightened your scroll, share it with a friend. And if you’d like the next one to find you instead of the other way around, subscribe.

Slavery was our tradtion for far longer than freedom. So what? ararubyan.substack.com/p/tradition... Please share this with a friend—and if you’d like more posts like this, consider subscribing yourself.

The Golden Bachelor: Roses & Regrets ararubyan.substack.com/p/good-luck... Please share this with a friend—and if you’d like more posts like this, consider subscribing yourself.

Two-thirds of its detainees are gone, and DHS says, “don’t panic.” ararubyan.substack.com/p/alligator... Know someone who’d enjoy this? Share it their way. And if you haven’t subscribed yet, I’d love to have you along.

When “order” becomes the excuse to suffocate votes. ararubyan.substack.com/p/2026-ball... Send this to that one friend who needs it. And hey, if you’re not subscribed yet, fix that! :)

ararubyan.substack.com/p/banana-re... When your prosecutor signs her own homework. (PSST--If this broke up your doomscroll, share it with a friend. And if you’d like a little more interruption like this, subscribing does the trick.)

ararubyan.substack.com/p/the-creep... When your prosecutor signs her own homework. If this broke up your doomscroll, share it with a friend. And if you’d like a little more interruption like this, subscribing does the trick.

ararubyan.substack.com/p/the-map-t... How a fourth-grade lesson revealed the world was still under construction.

Know someone who’d enjoy this? Share it their way. And if you haven’t subscribed yet, I’d love to have you along. ararubyan.substack.com/p/america-w... Trump’s immigrant letter turns a living experiment into a heritage exhibit.

If this made you think, pass it along to a friend—and if you’re not subscribed yet, now’s a good time. ararubyan.substack.com/p/stop-flap... Humanoid robots are Silicon Valley’s $5 trillion distraction

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ararubyan.substack.com/p/americas-... Trump’s government doesn’t need to pass one — they’ve already built it (Think of this as a chain letter, only without the curse. Pass it to a friend, and if you’re not subscribed yet, hop on.)

If it waddles like Mussolini, it isn’t poultry. (Think of this as a postcard from me to you. If it made you smile, pass it along—and if you’d like the next one delivered straight to you, subscribe.) ararubyan.substack.com/p/duck-duck...

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ararubyan.substack.com/p/the-state... A brief history of missed exits on the Palestinian highway to nowhere. Please subscribe and share with a friend.

ararubyan.substack.com/p/settlers-... A patriotic myth disguised as a crime scene: Immigrants, slaves, and the inconvenient truth. Please subscribe and share with a friend

ararubyan.substack.com/p/stop-fund... Democrats don’t need to “win” a shutdown—they need to redefine it.

ararubyan.substack.com/p/israelis-... Stripping the word back to what it first meant: survival, not slogans.

ararubyan.substack.com/p/the-ai-pa... Why smashing Wi-Fi won’t save higher ed from itself What happens when the cure is harsher—and dumber—than the disease?

ararubyan.substack.com/p/trump-sil... A late-night gag became a First Amendment funeral. Trump didn’t just cancel a comic. He weaponized the FCC, cowed a network, and showed how fast free speech collapses when corporations kneel.

ararubyan.substack.com/p/trumps-tw... David Brooks turns Bannon’s bar fight into a book talk.

ararubyan.substack.com/p/history-t... Dada had art, Groypers have memes — and politics pays the price

ararubyan.substack.com/p/too-soon-... The Markarian Stories

ararubyan.substack.com/p/the-last-... A Play in One Act: Jefferson's Final Accounting SCENE: The private study at Mar-a-Lago, past midnight. TRUMP enters from stage right, alone, gesturing toward his reflection in the darkened French doors.

ararubyan.substack.com/p/consensus... The mob doesn’t get to write the Constitution Amy Coney Barrett’s bumper sticker for judicial abdication

ararubyan.substack.com/p/a-gulag-w... Angola State Prison’s Camp 57 isn’t justice. It’s theater, starring Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as a bargain-basement strongman, backed by ghosts and a press-ready podium.

ararubyan.substack.com/p/history-t... Dada had art, Groypers have memes — and politics pays the price

ararubyan.substack.com/publish/pos... PART TWO: Permission to Break Your Own Heart

ararubyan.substack.com/p/the-tree-... PART ONE: In a burned house where impossible things grow, a son finally understands his father's sacrifice

ararubyan.substack.com/p/the-unifi... Journal of Applied Internet Semiotics, Vol. 1, No. 0

ararubyan.substack.com/p/disneys-n... Space Mountain, Meet Smallpox

ararubyan.substack.com/p/the-court... The Scene: Versailles by the Potomac

ararubyan.substack.com/p/jobs-repo... The August jobs report showed just 22,000 new hires—the first since Trump fired the BLS chief. The palace rituals kept going. The economy did not.

ararubyan.substack.com/p/theocracy... If you want church-state fusion, the Founders would like a word with you. America Was Never a Christian Nation

ararubyan.substack.com/p/trumps-pe... Trump brags he’s ended “seven to ten wars” since January. In Ukraine, the bombs still fall, Europe is baffled, and America’s president is lost in his own pudding brain.

ararubyan.substack.com/p/chinas-pa... Xi’s Vegas-villain limo steals the show.

Why Elon Musk Is Wrong About Sensors Elon Musk has made a bold claim that has shocked the world of self-driving cars. He says that adding extra sensors, such as lidar and radar, to autonomous vehicles actually makes them more dangerous, not safer.

ararubyan.substack.com/p/robots-do... Why English Majors Still Matter

ararubyan.substack.com/p/sen-cassi... He paused the movie while the theater burns. Bill Cassidy, Louisiana’s human question mark, might finally be choking on the RFK Jr. Kool-Aid he’s been sipping for two years.

ararubyan.substack.com/p/an-argume... A One-Act Play: The Odd Couple Edition

ararubyan.substack.com/p/mockery-a... You can paint your face blue instead of red, but aren't you just juggling for clicks? Trump broke politics. Are Democrats about to break themselves trying to beat him?

ararubyan.substack.com/p/senators-... Soft-Blocked by God, But Still Clicking on Random YouTube Videos: The Fourth, the Fifth, the Minor Fall, and the Major Lift

ararubyan.substack.com/p/the-mirac... “When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck. When you invent the plane, you also invent the plane crash.” — Paul Virilio

ararubyan.substack.com/p/the-dicta... When a politician says “I’ll break the rules for you,” you’re the mark. “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” (Benjamin Franklin)

ararubyan.substack.com/p/the-deepf... Part 2 of 2

ararubyan.substack.com/p/the-deepf... Part One: The Discovery

ararubyan.substack.com/p/trump-fir... Trump’s purge of the Fed has begun. Lisa Cook’s the test case. Powell’s the target. The dollar is suddenly a campaign prop. We’re all passengers on this plane—and the pilot’s drunk.