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Summer is here. So I figured I’d share a lovely poem by Mary Oliver.

“Wild Geese”

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

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DUMPSTER FIRE - EPISODE #320

The Vibe Shift Is a Lie

America is turning 250 and the birthday party is already a mess — every artist booked for the Freedom 250 celebration dropped out, but don’t worry, Vanilla Ice to the rescue. Bridget breaks down what the collapse says about the “vibe shift,” why woke is crawling out of hibernation, and why normie Americans still don’t want to be lectured - by anyone. Also: Democrat Graham Platner’s never-ending scandals, UFC fights on the White House lawn during Pride Month, and the Donald Trump buffalo in Bangladesh who is apparently Bridget’s spirit animal.

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WALK-INS WELCOME - EPISODE #393

The Left Turned on the Jews. Now What? | Batya Ungar-Sargon

Bridget sits down with Batya Ungar-Sargon — journalist, author, and deputy opinion editor at Newsweek — for a wide-ranging conversation about her new book, The Jews and The Left, about American Jewish history and the political realignment happening in real time. They dig into how Jews became so deeply identified with the Democratic Party, why October 7th forced a reckoning for secular Jews who had barely thought about their identity in decades, and what it means that the loudest antisemitism right now is coming from the Left rather than the Right.

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DUMPSTER FIRE - EPISODE #321

Billionaires Are Building Bunkers and Boobs Are Back

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are building a $1.4 billion luxury eco-resort on a Cold War bunker island in Albania — and locals are responding with Molotov cocktails. Bridget breaks down the corruption probe, why Ivanka should not have gone on a podcast to talk about this, and why every billionaire quietly building a bunker on a remote island should maybe read the room. Also: Hunter Biden went viral on X with an AA joke, boobs are officially back, and Spencer Pratt is still in the LA mayor’s race, but just barely.

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The internet is dying and so are we

There is a lot of proof that the internet is dying. People aren’t burned out of politics, although that’s part of it. They are burned out from going “is this real?” No one has the bandwidth to become an investigative reporter for each post.

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A Love Letter to the Sane Women Holding It Down

Bridget Phetasy

Mar 22

I’ve been wanting to write this for a while because, more often than not, I find myself doomscrolling, screaming “NOT ALL WOMEN!” It seems like most of the women represented in media are, for lack of a better word, insane. I blame the algorithms for elevating the craziest of us. So this is for you—the woman reading this who has been quietly holding it t…

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America Tried To ‘Fix’ Men For Two Decades. Here’s What It Got Instead.

America spent two decades trying to “fix” masculinity. It nearly broke the country — and the guys who complained the loudest about it turned out to be the ones with the least ability to fix it. America needs manly men — not men who are afraid of their masculinity, and not men who only talk about it.

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My six-year-old recently asked me to define “gesture,” and I felt flustered because I had so much to say. I told her that a gesture is when you reach out to someone. But why? Why reach out to anyone?

Gesture expresses the impossibility of speaking. It rises from performance, from repetition that captures the meaning of an event, a motion, a sound, a crisis, a spectacle. Gestures serve as expressive forms, true symbols. A life without gesture lacks personality and music. Gesture expresses the impossibility of speaking. Here’s a lovely and confusing quote from a lovely and confusing writer, Giorgio Agamben: “An epoch that has lost its gestures is, by the same token, obsessed by them; for men from whom all authenticity has been taken, gesture becomes destiny. And the more gestures lost their ease under the pressure of unknown powers, the more life became indecipherable. And once the simplest and most everyday gestures had become as foreign as the gescic­ulations of marionettes, humanity — whose very bodily existence had already become sacred to the degree that it had made itself impenetrable­ — was ready for the massacre.”

To live as a human being demands vulnerability, love, disgust, contradiction. The swell of a melody, the wash of a chord, the simplicity of enjoying rain.

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DUMPSTER FIRE - EPISODE #318

Hasan Piker Won’t Shut Up

Twitch streamer and communist LARPer Hasan Piker has been subpoenaed by the US Treasury over his Cuba trip — and instead of lawyering up, he immediately went on a livestream and started spilling everything. Bridget Phetasy breaks down the Piker legal saga, why the far left has always been allowed to play by different rules, and what it means that Elon’s baby mama ended up on a communist’s livestream giving away hoodies. Also: a meditation on Podcastistan, the nihilistic slop economy, and why livestreams are the laziest form of entertainment ever invented.

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THE JEREMY BOREING SHOW

Tucker and Jon Stewart Are Running the Same Grift

The defining illness of new media isn’t bias. It’s audience capture — and a generation of hosts on both the left and the right have stopped trying to lead an audience and started trying to be picked by one. Bridget Phetasy has watched it happen, written about it, and shed followers for refusing to play along.

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WALK-INS WELCOME - EPISODE #392

The DoorDash Generation Can’t Feed Itself | Courtney O’Dell

Bridget Phetasy sits down with Courtney O’Dell, food blogger and creator behind Sweet C’s Designs, to dig into the viral DoorDash discourse that exploded online and ask the obvious question: how did we end up with a generation that genuinely doesn’t know how to feed itself? They get into why convenience culture has replaced basic life skills with helplessness, what food blogging actually looks like as a career, how AI is changing the industry, and why the simple act of cooking dinner might be one of the most underrated forms of self-sufficiency left.

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DUMPSTER FIRE - EPISODE #319

Thomas Massie Lost and It Wasn’t Israel’s Fault

Thomas Massie lost his Kentucky primary by 10 points and immediately blamed Israel. Bridget’s not buying it. She breaks down why Massie lost his own constituents, why Israel derangement syndrome is the new woke, and why the anti-woke comedians who’ve gone down this road are starting to sound exactly like the people they used to make fun of. Also: Trump trolling the right by saying he’ll run for prime minister of Israel.

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The internet is dying and so are we

There is a lot of proof that the internet is dying. People aren’t burned out of politics, although that’s part of it. They are burned out from going “is this real?” No one has the bandwidth to become an investigative reporter for each post.

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A Love Letter to the Sane Women Holding It Down

Bridget Phetasy

Mar 22

I’ve been wanting to write this for a while because, more often than not, I find myself doomscrolling, screaming “NOT ALL WOMEN!” It seems like most of the women represented in media are, for lack of a better word, insane. I blame the algorithms for elevating the craziest of us. So this is for you—the woman reading this who has been quietly holding it t…

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America Tried To ‘Fix’ Men For Two Decades. Here’s What It Got Instead.

America spent two decades trying to “fix” masculinity. It nearly broke the country — and the guys who complained the loudest about it turned out to be the ones with the least ability to fix it. America needs manly men — not men who are afraid of their masculinity, and not men who only talk about it.

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President Trump released the UAP Files, and aliens might be real, so we should talk about your hair. It’s made primarily of keratin, a protein built from amino acids containing carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, and sulfur. None of these elements originated on Earth.

So, where was your hair before you were born? In outer space (who knows how far), since before the Sun. Atoms that survived a supernova. Cooked at 180 million degrees Fahrenheit. Next, these pieces of your future self journeyed through the deathly void, until they encountered a collection of gas and dust larger than our solar system, the force field of a black hole. And this mysterious structure compacted the atoms into rock that wandered around the cosmos for God knows how long, guided by God knows what, till it eventually landed on Earth. The atoms lived inside this rock and waited for you to be born. Billions of years of waiting. Until you ate them and used them to make hair. Carl Sagan described it as being made of star stuff.

You are the subject of this gorgeous sonnet by 18th-century Romantic poet William Wordsworth: The Stars Are Mansions Built By Nature’s Hand. You participated in your own creation. And now you wear the last breath of a star on your head like jewelry.

DUMPSTER FIRE - EPISODE #316

A Data Center Murdered My Family

Commencement speakers got booed this weekend for mentioning AI — by the same graduating class that used ChatGPT to write their papers. Bridget Phetasy breaks down why the anti-AI panic is just climate anxiety with a new face, why Bernie Sanders and AOC’s plan to ban data centers is the worst idea in recent memory, and why China is absolutely loving every minute of our meltdown.

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WALK-INS WELCOME - EPISODE #391

The Dark Side of America’s Therapy Obsession | Jonathan Alpert

Bridget sits down with Jonathan Alpert, therapist and author of Therapy Nation: How America Got Hooked on Therapy and Why It’s Left Us More Anxious and Divided, to dig into something most mental health professionals won’t say out loud - that the therapy industry may be making people worse, not better. They cover how therapists are trained to validate rather than challenge, why the explosion of diagnoses tracks more with social media trends than actual illness, and how therapy culture has quietly become one of the most divisive forces in American life. They also discuss political bias in the consulting room, therapists coming between parents and their kids, how to tell the difference between good therapy and bad therapy, and how Jonathan was nearly de-licensed for an op-ed he wrote in the New York Times in 2012, arguing that if therapy isn’t working, you should probably leave.

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DUMPSTER FIRE - EPISODE #315

The Death of Late Night and Why Nobody Cares

Stephen Colbert’s Late Show aired its final episode tonight, ending a decade-long run that cost CBS roughly $40 million a year and alienated half the country. Bridget Phetasy breaks down how Trump derangement syndrome turned late-night television from a unifying institution into a smug resistance rally — and why no one is actually sad to see it go. Also: the case for Dumpster Fire to fill the slot.

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THE SPECTATOR

The internet is dying and so are we

There is a lot of proof that the internet is dying. People aren’t burned out of politics, although that’s part of it. They are burned out from going “is this real?” No one has the bandwidth to become an investigative reporter for each post.

THE SPECTATOR

Geriatric Mommy

A Love Letter to the Sane Women Holding It Down

Bridget Phetasy

Mar 22

I’ve been wanting to write this for a while because, more often than not, I find myself doomscrolling, screaming “NOT ALL WOMEN!” It seems like most of the women represented in media are, for lack of a better word, insane. I blame the algorithms for elevating the craziest of us. So this is for you—the woman reading this who has been quietly holding it t…

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THE DAILY WIRE

America Tried To ‘Fix’ Men For Two Decades. Here’s What It Got Instead.

America spent two decades trying to “fix” masculinity. It nearly broke the country — and the guys who complained the loudest about it turned out to be the ones with the least ability to fix it. America needs manly men — not men who are afraid of their masculinity, and not men who only talk about it.

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