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Jack Mirkinson
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Deputy Editor, Splinter
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Where’s the leaked backstage audio? Every episode should release it. That’s better than the show!

I’ve been listening to a lot of Brexit stuff since that major vote about a week, week and a half ago. It’s both batshit insane fascinating but also a bit cathartic in that, hey, America isn’t the only one that’s well and truly fucked!
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Really. How does anyone create a name for a group, and no one just stop for a second and throw it into google. Read more

Right!? Now my sweet paneled van with the mural of a wizard doing MAGIKS can’t say ‘THE GRAND WIZARD’ in huge NEON LETTERS. Life is cruel. Read more

You know what’s the most punk thing you can do? Go from being part of a hacker collective and punk rock band to becoming a clean-cut center-right Democrat who actively throws the left under the bus in policy, takes fossil fuel money even when promising not to do that, and remaking yourself as progressive in time for Read more

Please do strike. Let all those complain about big government enjoy their e.coli tainted salads, their salmonella infested wood chip battered chicken nuggets and may they all have to pay the entirety of their own hospital bills. May their worried family members have to take a bus or train because planes can’t fly when Read more

Well-written, clear, and concise. Brothers and Sisters in arms with you, my fellow civil servant. Read more

If I and many of my co-workers were to “call in sick” it would have a severe impact on those who did show up to work. Besides, I took an oath to come in as an essential worker. I understand the problem and wish there was more that I could do but this particular option isn’t going to work. Read more

This shutdown is the GOP’s wet dream. They are shrinking the government by brute force. Yes it’s also open sabotage against the nation, but they’re still getting paid, right? Read more

I tell you what, if those TSA employees would work to rule for a day this thing would end.  Read more

As a fellow employee working without receiving pay, I agree we need to do something, but we can’t strike. We can follow the laws that our government is not following and win in the courts, which we will. We can help craft new laws to keep this from happening again. And we can take our case to the American people to Read more

What can we as regular citizens do to support our federal workers in this aim? I’ve found some local food banks that are designating supplies for federal workers & their families — it’s in the teens here this weekend with a huge snowstorm on the way, not exactly the best time to be unable to pay one’s heating bill — Read more

If only Fred were still alive to cover for this. Read more

Well, except it IS going the same way: nobody coming to work, angry minorities, and a whole month and counting without a paycheck. Read more