Sunday Side-Eye: The Week That Tried to Upstage the Super Bowl
SUNDAY SIDE-EYE: THE WEEK THE NEWS CROSSED THE GOAL LINE… AND THEN LANDED IN THE END ZONE OF ABSURDITY It’s Super Bowl Sunday — the biggest TV event of the year and basically a national…
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Bad Bunny, Shock Value, and the NFL’s Fake Promise of Unity
Commissioner Roger Goodell insists the Super Bowl halftime show will be about bringing people together. That line gets recycled every year. It never holds up. The league does not pick performers known for playing it…
Don Lemon Arrested, Celebrity Protests Heat Up, and Super Bowl 2026 Ad Hype Begins
It’s been a minute since we last did an Americanist Side Eye, and honestly, the news has been begging for it. Between Don Lemon’s arrest in Minnesota, celebrities staging protests, activists carving political messages into…
Dan Bongino and the Myth of the “Black-Pillers”
Dan Bongino Discovers A New Villain: "Black-Pillers" - Conservatives Who Question Him Dan Bongino has decided that the real threat to the movement is not the Left, the media, or Washington bureaucrats. It is conservatives…
2025: The Year America Lived in Two Completely Different Realities
If aliens landed in 2025 and turned on American cable news, they’d think we were running two separate countries — with different facts, different villains, and totally different levels of panic. So instead of arguing…
Trump Renamed the Kennedy Center and Watched the Meltdown
Trump Found a Bigger Room for the Joke We were still enjoying Trump’s latest round of trolling. The plaques aimed at former presidents landed exactly where they were meant to. Some of those presidents are…
Dan Bongino Quit the FBI After Nine Months. The Tough-Guy Act Didn’t Last Long.
Dan Bongino Didn’t Leave the FBI. He tapped out. Dan Bongino is resigning as FBI deputy director after less than a year on the job, and the official language already feels like a parody. He…
Friday Side-Eye: Powerball Pain, Gladwell’s Lie, and Trump’s MAGA Gulf
Friday Side-Eye Roundup 🎰 Louisiana family misses $1B Powerball jackpot by one number, collects $150K instead One number. That’s all that separated this Louisiana family from joining the billionaire class. Instead, they’re stuck with a…
Taylor Swift’s Engagement, JD Vance’s ‘What If,’ and the Week’s Strangest Headlines
The Americanist Side-Eye: Friday’s Absurdities at a Glance It’s Friday, which means time to pour the coffee, sharpen the sarcasm, and take a hard side-eye at the news cycle. From Taylor Swift’s stock-market sway to…
Coldplay Affairs, Cancelled Comedians, and Zohran’s Prison-Free Utopia
Coldplay Affairs, Cancelled Comedians, and Zohran’s Prison-Free Utopia It’s Friday, which means it’s time to gather around the bonfire of American absurdity and toast a few headlines. Let’s side-eye our way through the latest in…