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Side-Eye Friday: Billionaires Fleeing, UFO Files, and Taylor Swift the “Showgirl”
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Side-Eye Friday: Billionaires Fleeing, UFO Files, and Taylor Swift the “Showgirl”

by Carol MarksMay 8, 2026

Some weeks, I sit down to write Side-Eye Friday and think, “Maybe the country will calm down a little.” Then I open the headlines and immediately see billionaires fleeing socialists, UFO files suddenly reappearing, celebrities…

Side-Eye Friday: Big Tech, Big Government, and a Whole Lot of Nonsense
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Side-Eye Friday: Big Tech, Big Government, and a Whole Lot of Nonsense

by Carol MarksMay 1, 2026

Another week, another batch of stories that make you stop and tilt your head a little. We’ve got the Supreme Court poking at government surveillance, tech elites deciding what you’re allowed to think, a politician’s…

Side-Eye Friday: Aliens, TikTok Diagnoses, NASA Suits, and Starbucks Smiles
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Side-Eye Friday: Aliens, TikTok Diagnoses, NASA Suits, and Starbucks Smiles

by Carol MarksApril 3, 2026

It’s Side-Eye Friday. The headlines are doing what they always do—pushing, spinning, and occasionally drifting into the absurd. All that’s left to do is read them… and raise an eyebrow. 👽 Aliens, Secrets, and “You…

An Americanist Side-Eye: From Mueller Footnotes to White House Gold Bars
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An Americanist Side-Eye: From Mueller Footnotes to White House Gold Bars

by Carol MarksMarch 13, 2026

Another week, another batch of headlines that make you stop mid-scroll and mutter, “You’ve got to be kidding me.” From corrections to the infamous Mueller report footnotes, to New York City spending billions on hotel…

Sunday Side-Eye: The Week That Tried to Upstage the Super Bowl
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Sunday Side-Eye: The Week That Tried to Upstage the Super Bowl

by Carol MarksFebruary 8, 2026February 8, 2026

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…

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…

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…

An Americanist’s Side-Eye Dispatch #005: Gold-Plated Planes, Baby Food DNA, and the Tootsie Roll Trials
The Side-Eye

An Americanist’s Side-Eye Dispatch #005: Gold-Plated Planes, Baby Food DNA, and the Tootsie Roll Trials

by Carol MarksMay 16, 2025

Welcome to An Americanist’s Side-Eye —your weekly roundup of headlines that practically beg for a sarcastic slow-blink. I’ll skim the latest absurdities, flag the nonsense, and toss in a few sharp jabs where they’re deserved.…

An Americanist’s Side-Eye, Dispatch 003
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An Americanist’s Side-Eye, Dispatch 003

by Carol MarksMay 2, 2025May 4, 2025

Welcome to An Americanist’s Side-Eye —your weekly roundup of headlines that practically beg for a sarcastic slow-blink. I’ll skim the latest absurdities, flag the nonsense, and toss in a few sharp jabs where they’re deserved.…

I’m Carol Marks, the voice behind An Americanist. I follow politics, culture, and the way narratives take shape around both. Some of it makes sense. Some of it really doesn’t. That’s usually where I start writing.

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