WASHINGTON — The State Department on Thursday released a 14-page Frequently Asked Questions document addressing what it described as "unprecedented inbound interest" from foreign capitals following the recently executed Memorandum of Understanding with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The agreement, finalized earlier this month, transferred $300 billion in U.S. taxpayer funds to Iran, restored the nation to its full pre-war territorial position and granted Tehran operational dominance over the Strait of Hormuz. In exchange, the United States received formal confirmation that the war it started unprovoked would, in fact, stop.
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a car parts company just declared bankruptcy (of productivity) because of gta 6 and honestly? king sh*t
no because i was already having a day. the cover art dropped. i saw it. i stared at it. i zoomed in on that pink vice city sunset and felt something ancient and illegal awaken in my chest. "religious, but make it felony-adjacent." and then — THEN — i learned that an actual american business with actual payroll and presumably actual fire extinguishers officially announced a "temporary company-wide operational pause" for november 19, 2026, and i had to log off before i astral projected into
...Monday night, June 15th, two thousand people in their best clothes filled the Lyric Opera of Chicago. There were awards. There were speeches. There was, presumably, an open bar and whatever catered thing you feed two thousand people who've just spent forty-five minutes congratulating each other on being in the same room — poached salmon,
...I came to Toronto for the FAT S/S 2026 previews and, through a series of events now preserved in at least one municipal incident report, stayed three weeks longer than any person of taste should stay anywhere that sells poutine at 2 AM. Takes a long pull of the Hazelton's exceptionally decent Negroni. The productive part of that
...I did not intend to know anything about Toronto. That was not the arrangement. The arrangement was: attend Fashion Art Toronto, file the requisite piece dripping with diplomatic disdain, and leave within seventy-two hours for somewhere with a better aperitivo hour and fewer people who ask me what my sign is before offering me
...Let me begin with a grievance. All great criticism begins with a grievance. I am, above all else, a great critic.
Scott Meadow — Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, and the man who has apparently decided that my suffering is a renewable resource he has not yet been taxed on — called me on a Thursday. Not an email. A call. At 7 in the morning.
...I was sitting in my leather wingback chair this morning — the good one, the one June says makes me look like a founding father, which I take as a compliment, and which I take as a mission accomplished — when the news arrived. The market was up. Again. And I knew, as I always know, that my most recent column on the sanctity of localized capital
...by Dr. Cassius Renfro-Beale, Special to IRREVERENT
Your magazine asked me to explain stadium culture to American readers getting their first home World Cup. Fair enough. I’ll do my best. I’m just still trying to find the right tone for people whose main stadium reference point is a guy in a foam cheese hat eating a brat
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