Between The Gilded Age returning on HBO and Trump literally bombing Iran, I’m feeling the full-body whiplash of trying to live a normal life while everything around us quietly (and sometimes loudly) falls apart.

From Gaza to AI, from pop culture distractions to the dead silence of so-called progressives, this episode is about the dissonance of being alive right now. The absurdity of flipping between headlines about war crimes and Housewives casting news. The guilt of laughing in one tab while watching suffering in another. The privilege of logging off… and the responsibility of not looking away

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