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My Quarrel with a Gay Automaton

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By Shaan Sachdev, Gary Indiana
| BOMB Magazine Verified
Last fall, a man was changing next to the locker I normally use at my East Village gym. I’d seen him once before, when we’d locked eyes near the showers and then again by the hair dryers. The man’s eyes were blue. His dark brown hair was slicked back in a single globose swoop, and his sharply manicured beard was, like my own, faintly flecked with gray. His arms were extremely, almost implausibly muscular.
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Flying While Brown and Bearded

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By Shaan Sachdev
| The Nation Verified
The Weekend Read / November 22, 2025 Flying While Brown and Bearded The director of the FBI and the mayor of the largest city in America now look like me. When will TSA stop singling us out? Ad Policy (Getty Images) The immigration officer held out his hand for my passport. He was large and red-faced, with graying hair and not much neck. Behind him lay a crumpled Dunkin’ Donuts bag.
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Mainstream Media Beat the Drums for War With Iran Original

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By Shaan Sachdev
| ZNetwork
As Gaza continues to crumble and Gazans continue to starve, one might have been forgiven for expecting our mainstream press to cover the United States’ and Israel’s lurch toward war with Iran cautiously, minding the exorbitant costs of vindicating state violence. A close survey of five national news organizations’ coverage of the bombings of Iran, however, reveals reflexively hawkish tones and tactics reminiscent of media reportage in the months preceding Iraq’s invasion twenty-two years ago.
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