Screenshot of New York Times including the sentence “As one savings bank officer said, ‘we’re selling the wheel and calling it a shmerd.’”

This doesn’t have anything to do with fascism, but my choice for word of the day from the New York Times, October 16, 1975, is “schmerd.”

Small cardboard box displaying expiration date of 20 March 2018

Would this be considered hitting rock bottom? Drinking instant coffee that expired in 2018.

What can I do to fight this coup? If you look, there are people resisting at every level. Blockades of freeways. American Bar Association urging an end to...

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