Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge
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Closer to the Edge
Journalists without caffeine are like drunk tightrope walkers without a netâdoomed, directionless, and seconds away from unceremonious splatter on the pavement of public discourse. When the coffee run
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BANNON 2028
THE CANDIDACY THAT OOZED OUT OF A DIRTY MICROWAVE IN HELL
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/bannon-2028?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
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Starvation as a Weapon, Silence as a Shield
As children wither and hostages decay, the world debates language while bodies collapse.
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/starvation-as-a-weapon-silence-as?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
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Who is Paolo Zampolli?
From catwalks to closedâdoor deals, his story is stitched together in whispers and court filings.
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/who-is-paolo-zampolli?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
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THE DIRT ON DERSHOWITZ
The Man Who Helped Epstein Get Away With It â Then Blamed the Victims
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/the-dirt-on-dershowitz?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
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Dear Senator Wyden,
Donât Let the Billion-Dollar Predator Network Disappear Again
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/dear-senator-wyden?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
3 months ago
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MEHDI HASAN AND THE LIMITATIONS OF NANOTECHNOLOGY
An Intellectual Massacre So Brutal Even the Algorithm Needed a Cigarette
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/mehdi-hasan-and-the-limitations-of?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
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THE SONG THAT SAYS IT ALL
Malvina Reynolds wrote it in 1964. Weâre living it in 2025.
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/the-song-that-says-it-all?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
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Forced to Eat Like Dogs: Trump and Vanceâs America on Its Knees
They lied about immigrants eating our petsânow they force human beings to eat off the floor like strays.
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/forced-to-eat-like-dogs-trump-and?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
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KROME: ICEBOXES AND PEEP SHOWS
Krome Service Processing Center is where America freezes people into submission.
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/krome-iceboxes-and-peep-shows?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
3 months ago
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Go Make Good Trouble
When Silence Becomes Surrender, Raise Your Voice or Get Out of the Way
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/go-make-good-trouble?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
3 months ago
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GET TO KNOW A RUSSIAN OLIGARCH
Weâre about to drop a series so greasy youâll need a burner phone by the end of it.
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/get-to-know-a-russian-oligarch?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
3 months ago
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Go Make Good Trouble
When Silence Becomes Surrender, Raise Your Voice or Get Out of the Way
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/go-make-good-trouble?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
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YOU ZIP-TIED PEOPLE IN WHEELCHAIRS.
Letâs start there.
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/you-zip-tied-people-in-wheelchairs?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
4 months ago
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To Senator Roger Marshall
Let's Talk Basketball đ
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/to-senator-roger-marshall?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
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Is Stephen Miller the Reincarnation of Joseph Goebbels?
Stephen Miller is what happens when Joseph Goebbels gets a LinkedIn profile and a Roth IRA. He is not merely a hardliner or a policy âwonk.â He is the fully realized bureaucratic face of white nationa...
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/is-stephen-miller-the-reincarnation?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
4 months ago
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HABEAS CORPUS AND THE HEINOUS CORPSE
Once upon a time .
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/habeas-corpus-and-the-heinous-corpse?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
5 months ago
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SITH LORDS AND EGO TRIPS: MAY THE 4TH BE WITH WHO, EXACTLY?
There it is.
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/sith-lords-and-ego-trips-may-the?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
6 months ago
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âGET OUT OF MY HOUSEâ: A MESSAGE TO DONALD TRUMP AND THE HOLY MEME BRIGADE.
Editorâs Note:
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/get-out-of-my-house-a-message-to?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
6 months ago
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Snopes, Silence, and the Man Who Named Trump
How a forgotten Facebook post, a deleted news story, and one flawed fact-check shaped the fate of a geopolitical bombshell.
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/snopes-silence-and-the-man-who-named?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
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A Government That Steals Children, A Church That Claps, And a Nation That Watches.
PART 2: THE GATHERING
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/a-government-that-steals-children-05d?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
6 months ago
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DEAR ORANGE MENACE: WHEN BERT AND ERNIE TRIED TO WRITE TO TRUMP
(Scene: 123 Sesame Street, late evening.
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/dear-orange-menace-when-bert-and?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
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A Government That Steals Children, A Church That Claps, And a Nation That Watches.
PART 1: THE KIDNAPPING
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/a-government-that-steals-children?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
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DEPORTED INTO DARKNESS: Trumpâs Regime Vanished Andry HernĂĄndez Romero â And Called It âSecurityâ
He followed every rule.
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/deported-into-darkness-trumps-regime?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
6 months ago
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JERCE REYES BARRIOS
They saw a tattoo. So they threw him into a hell built for monsters.
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/jerce-reyes-barrios?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
6 months ago
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âA Little Rough This Morningâ: The Oklahoma Raid No One Will Own
They came in the dark. Twenty armed men. Faces hard. Rifles raised.
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/a-little-rough-this-morning-the-oklahoma?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
6 months ago
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âYOU FOLLOW ME.â
100 DAYS INTO THE MOST DANGEROUS REALITY SHOW EVER AIRED
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/you-follow-me?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
6 months ago
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DEPORTED FOR DRIVING: THE ERASURE OF FELIPE ZAPATA VELĂSQUEZ
The United States educated him.
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/deported-for-driving-the-erasure?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
6 months ago
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ELBOWS UP
PART ONE: THE BREAKUP
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/elbows-up?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
6 months ago
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INCOMMODING
The Arrest of Rev. Dr. William Barber II
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/you-arrested-a-prayer?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
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Closer to the Edge
Journalists without caffeine are like drunk tightrope walkers without a netâdoomed, directionless, and seconds away from unceremonious splatter on the pavement of public discourse. When the coffee run
https://buymeacoffee.com/closertotheedge
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THE TRIAL OF MOHSEN MAHDAWI: AMERICA ON THE WRONG SIDE OF ITS OWN WORDS
Mohsen Mahdawi didnât show up to start a fight.
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/the-trial-of-mohsen-mahdawi-america?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
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MOMODOU TAAL
How America Breaks the Brightest Before the World Can Hear Them Speak
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/momodou-taal?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
6 months ago
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To Whom It May Concern at Google News
Introducing Rook T. Winchester
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/to-whom-it-may-concern-at-google?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
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THE MONSANTO MODEL
Surveillance, suppression, and a $63 billion cautionary tale for the ages
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/the-monsanto-model?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
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æ„æŹăźçăăăž
To the People of Japan
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/be5?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
6 months ago
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KASH PATEL WANTS YOU TO TRUST HIM
Inside the most dangerous public-private âpartnershipâ in modern U.S. history
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/kash-patel-wants-you-to-trust-him?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
6 months ago
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THE 12 MONKEYS ADMINISTRATION: TRUMP REPLACES COVID FACTS WITH STATE PROPAGANDA
The virus killed millions. Now the truthâs on the run.
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/the-12-monkeys-administration-trump?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
6 months ago
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SIT DOWN, DIAPER DON.
THE REVOLUTION DOESNâT NEED YOUR PERMISSION.
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/sit-down-diaper-don?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
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MALIGNANT ORIGIN: THE DISEASE IN THE WHITE HOUSE
How Trump Hijacked the COVID Lab Leak Theory to Spread a Far Deadlier Virus â Himself
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/malignant-origin-the-disease-in-the?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
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JD VANCE SEEKS FORGIVENESS AT THE VATICAN.
(SATIRE)
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/jd-vance-seeks-forgiveness-at-the?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
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STATE-SPONSORED KIDNAPPING AND THE GOLD-TRIMMED SHRUG
THE SUPREME COURT SPOKE.
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/state-sponsored-kidnapping-and-the?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
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FIRE ON PASSOVER
âCanât pay rent?
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/fire-on-passover?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
6 months ago
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WHOLLY LAWLESS: HOW TRUMPâS DEPORTATION DEATH SQUAD KIDNAPPED A FATHER AND DUMPED HIM IN A TORTURE PIT
THEY STOLE HIM.
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/wholly-lawless-how-trumps-deportation?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
6 months ago
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MICHAEL MOORE ISNâT DONE FIGHTING â AND HEâS CALLING US TO THE STREETS
Michael Moore still believes in the power of people with cardboard signs.
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/michael-moore-isnt-done-fighting?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
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Sign Here, Or Starve: Trumpâs DEI Purge Turns Civil Rights Law Into a Weapon of White Grievance
The Trump administration has discovered a bold new use for the Civil Rights Act of 1964: reverse-engineering it into a club to bludgeon schools, states, and private companies for acknowledging racism ...
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/sign-here-or-starve-trumps-dei-purge?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
7 months ago
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SOUTH KOREA FACED A COUP.
The people filled the streets. The court removed the president. Now itâs our turn.
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/south-korea-faced-a-coup?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
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THE WAR ON PENGUINS AND POLAR BEARS: HOW TRUMPâS TARIFFS TURNED COLD
When the Trump administration announced a sweeping new tariff policy this week, few expected it to include some of the most remote, uninhabited, and ecologically fragile places on Earth.
https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/the-war-on-penguins-and-polar-bears?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3br6a9
7 months ago
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HELL ON EARTH
Inside the Trump Regimeâs Mass Detention NightmareâWhere Women Are Chained, Men Die in Custody, and the Machine Keeps Grinding
https://substack.com/@closertotheedge/note/p-159937911?r=3br6a9
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JD VANCE HEADS TO GREENLAND WITH BAGGAGE â EMOTIONAL, DIPLOMATIC, AND POSSIBLY UPHOLSTERED
Vice President JD Vance is heading to Greenland this Friday, March 28 â his first visit to the remote island, and arguably the most awkward diplomatic excursion since Napoleon tried to negotiate from ...
https://substack.com/@closertotheedge/note/p-159961782?r=3br6a9
7 months ago
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