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Working Blue

From text messages about women that were exchanged in a group chat of police officers in Eureka, California, between March and August 2020. That bitch at Motel 6 is fucking…

Diss Placed

by Andrew M. Guest,

From insults exchanged by children living in refugee camps near Luanda, Angola, between 2002 and 2003. “ ‘You Traded Your Mother for an Unripe Mango’: Playing with Insults in an…

Après Mots, Le Déluge

by Kabir Chibber,

Fighting for the right to insult the French president

Snark de Triomphe

by Raphaël Meltz,Translated by Ryann Liebenthal,

From insults reportedly made to French presidents, collected in De voyou à pov’ con, by Raphaël Meltz, published in 2012 by Robert Laffont. (See page 38 for an Annotation on…

Below the Belt

From emails sent in June to Michigan state legislator Lisa Brown after she spoke out against a bill restricting access to abortion. Brown ended her comments by saying, “Mr. Speaker,…