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Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge

Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge

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Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge @fearandloathing.bsky.social · Mar 4

If you enjoy fearless reporting with a side of dark humor, keep us caffeinated. Because if we go down, all you’ll be left with is the mainstream media’s idea of “news”—and nobody deserves that.

Closer to the Edge

Journalists without caffeine are like drunk tightrope walkers without a net—doomed, directionless, and seconds away from unceremonious splatter on the pavement of public discourse. When the coffee run

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Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge @fearandloathing.bsky.social · Aug 8

THE CANDIDACY THAT OOZED OUT OF A DIRTY MICROWAVE IN HELL

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Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge @fearandloathing.bsky.social · Aug 8

Starvation as a Weapon, Silence as a Shield

As children wither and hostages decay, the world debates language while bodies collapse.

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Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge @fearandloathing.bsky.social · Aug 7

Who is Paolo Zampolli?

From catwalks to closed‑door deals, his story is stitched together in whispers and court filings.

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Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge @fearandloathing.bsky.social · Jul 30

THE DIRT ON DERSHOWITZ

The Man Who Helped Epstein Get Away With It — Then Blamed the Victims

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Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge @fearandloathing.bsky.social · Jul 30

Dear Senator Wyden,

Don’t Let the Billion-Dollar Predator Network Disappear Again

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Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge @fearandloathing.bsky.social · Jul 23

MEHDI HASAN AND THE LIMITATIONS OF NANOTECHNOLOGY

An Intellectual Massacre So Brutal Even the Algorithm Needed a Cigarette

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Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge @fearandloathing.bsky.social · Jul 22

THE SONG THAT SAYS IT ALL

Malvina Reynolds wrote it in 1964. We’re living it in 2025.

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Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge @fearandloathing.bsky.social · Jul 22

Forced to Eat Like Dogs: Trump and Vance’s America on Its Knees

They lied about immigrants eating our pets—now they force human beings to eat off the floor like strays.

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Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge @fearandloathing.bsky.social · Jul 22

KROME: ICEBOXES AND PEEP SHOWS

Krome Service Processing Center is where America freezes people into submission.

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Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge @fearandloathing.bsky.social · Jul 20

Go Make Good Trouble

When Silence Becomes Surrender, Raise Your Voice or Get Out of the Way

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Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge @fearandloathing.bsky.social · Jul 20

GET TO KNOW A RUSSIAN OLIGARCH

We’re about to drop a series so greasy you’ll need a burner phone by the end of it.

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Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge @fearandloathing.bsky.social · Jul 17

Go Make Good Trouble

When Silence Becomes Surrender, Raise Your Voice or Get Out of the Way

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Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge @fearandloathing.bsky.social · Jun 27

YOU ZIP-TIED PEOPLE IN WHEELCHAIRS.

Let’s start there.

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Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge @fearandloathing.bsky.social · Jun 27

To Senator Roger Marshall

Let's Talk Basketball 🏀

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Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge @fearandloathing.bsky.social · Jun 27

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 “wonk.” He is the fully realized bureaucratic face of white nationa...

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Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge @fearandloathing.bsky.social · May 13

HABEAS CORPUS AND THE HEINOUS CORPSE

Once upon a time .

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Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge @fearandloathing.bsky.social · May 6

SITH LORDS AND EGO TRIPS: MAY THE 4TH BE WITH WHO, EXACTLY?

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Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge @fearandloathing.bsky.social · May 6

“GET OUT OF MY HOUSE”: A MESSAGE TO DONALD TRUMP AND THE HOLY MEME BRIGADE.

Editor’s Note:

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Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge @fearandloathing.bsky.social · May 6

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.

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Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge @fearandloathing.bsky.social · May 3

Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge @fearandloathing.bsky.social · May 3

A Government That Steals Children, A Church That Claps, And a Nation That Watches.

PART 2: THE GATHERING

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Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge @fearandloathing.bsky.social · May 3

DEAR ORANGE MENACE: WHEN BERT AND ERNIE TRIED TO WRITE TO TRUMP

(Scene: 123 Sesame Street, late evening.

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Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge @fearandloathing.bsky.social · May 3

A Government That Steals Children, A Church That Claps, And a Nation That Watches.

PART 1: THE KIDNAPPING

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Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge @fearandloathing.bsky.social · Apr 30

DEPORTED INTO DARKNESS: Trump’s Regime Vanished Andry Hernández Romero — And Called It “Security”

He followed every rule.

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Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge @fearandloathing.bsky.social · Apr 30

JERCE REYES BARRIOS

They saw a tattoo. So they threw him into a hell built for monsters.

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