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Putin on Your Pants

by Konstantin Borisovich Kudryavtsev, Alexei Navalny,

From a December 2020 telephone conversation between Konstantin Borisovich Kudryavtsev, an FSB agent, and Alexei Navalny, a Russian opposition leader whom Kudryavtsev attempted to assassinate on an airplane in August…

MAGA Carta

From a video recorded in October 2020 by a shopkeeper in Liverpool, England, documenting an encounter with local police officers. shopkeeper: Can I help you? officer 1: The area’s not…

Spit Take

by Ludvík Vaculík,

From A Czech Dreambook, published last month by Karolinum. Vaculík, a Czech dissident, was the author of “Two Thousand Words,” a June 1968 manifesto that called for the democratization of…

Red Tape

From explanations given by the Chinese government for why certain artists and celebrities are banned from entering or performing in the country. Behaving badly in social lifeAssociating with countercultureUsing profanity…