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Dan Bongino and the Myth of the “Black-Pillers”
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Dan Bongino and the Myth of the “Black-Pillers”

by Carol MarksJanuary 7, 2026

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
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2025: The Year America Lived in Two Completely Different Realities

by Carol MarksDecember 30, 2025

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
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Trump Renamed the Kennedy Center and Watched the Meltdown

by Carol MarksDecember 19, 2025

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.
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Dan Bongino Quit the FBI After Nine Months. The Tough-Guy Act Didn’t Last Long.

by Carol MarksDecember 18, 2025December 18, 2025

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
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Friday Side-Eye: Powerball Pain, Gladwell’s Lie, and Trump’s MAGA Gulf

by Carol MarksSeptember 5, 2025

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
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Taylor Swift’s Engagement, JD Vance’s ‘What If,’ and the Week’s Strangest Headlines

by Carol MarksAugust 29, 2025August 29, 2025

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
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Coldplay Affairs, Cancelled Comedians, and Zohran’s Prison-Free Utopia

by Carol MarksJuly 18, 2025

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…

Trump’s Royal Visit: Can He Take Harry and Meghan Back to the King?
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Trump’s Royal Visit: Can He Take Harry and Meghan Back to the King?

by Carol MarksJuly 14, 2025July 14, 2025

Trump’s Royal Visit is just a few short months away. Dear Mr. President, I have one simple request. Please take Harry and Meghan back with you, deliver them straight to the King, and leave them…

Side-Eye Friday Round-Up: Best Snark on This Week’s Insane Headlines
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Side-Eye Friday Round-Up: Best Snark on This Week’s Insane Headlines

by Carol MarksJuly 11, 2025

It’s Friday, so you know what that means — time for another Side-Eye Friday Round-Up from An Americanist. Every week, we round up the headlines you can’t escape and serve them back with a big…

Joe Biden, Memoir Machine and Global Helpline
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Joe Biden, Memoir Machine and Global Helpline

by Carol MarksJuly 3, 2025July 4, 2025

Another Joe Biden Memoir will be hitting bookstores soon, because you know, there's not much time left. How many memoirs does one old man need? Apparently, at least three — if you’re Joe Biden. Because…

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I’m Carol Marks, the blogger behind An Americanist—a clean, no-nonsense space where politics, culture, and common sense meet. I write with a sharp eye and a dry wit, calling things the way ordinary Americans see them, not how elites wish we did. I don’t dress up the truth, I don’t follow the narrative, and I’m here to cut through the noise. If you’re tired of being talked down to, you’re in the right place.

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