Boy, what a great piece of writing. Your style is so totally your own and your voice is so non-mainstream media. You put me in the scene in such a compelling way, but always through your own eyes, your own sensibilities. You are a treasure to us all.
UFC Freedom 250 does come across as mostly harmless. and a week later it's been largely forgotten. Just one more spectacle from a regime that produces little but spectacle and cruelty.
Well shoot, it's paywalled now
As always, archive.org is a friend to all
https://web.archive.org/web/20260616200951/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/06/trump-white-house-lawn-ufc-freedom-fight.html
Paywalled on Slate as well for me.
Shoot
https://web.archive.org/web/20260616200951/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/06/trump-white-house-lawn-ufc-freedom-fight.html
Thanks Laura, appreciate your insightful writing.
Laura! by far the best reportage I've read on the event, head and shoulders above the vague clucking. Witness > commentary.
re: paywall: archive.is
Ah... you finally mentioned how much the Giant Texas Weiner cost! 😆
Boy, what a great piece of writing. Your style is so totally your own and your voice is so non-mainstream media. You put me in the scene in such a compelling way, but always through your own eyes, your own sensibilities. You are a treasure to us all.
Paywalled when I got to it
Shoot
https://web.archive.org/web/20260616200951/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/06/trump-white-house-lawn-ufc-freedom-fight.html
Yeah, I'm still getting the message that I need to subscribe to Slate Plus.
Shoot--https://web.archive.org/web/20260616200951/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/06/trump-white-house-lawn-ufc-freedom-fight.html
UFC Freedom 250 does come across as mostly harmless. and a week later it's been largely forgotten. Just one more spectacle from a regime that produces little but spectacle and cruelty.