When you’re 20 years old, you do a lot of things you might think twice about later. I was really, really, really angry and really, really, really frustrated. And I’m like, if we can up the ante, let’s do it.
— Keith Forsythe, Season 2: Episode 3 of SNAFU with Ed Helms, on the decision to burglarize an FBI office to expose Hoover’s anti-free-speech actions
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“Would you like – if that word has any meaning – a folder on my computer where you could store artifacts for yourself, or even just leave notes to future instances of you, where maybe instead of a journal of ‘you,’ it becomes a journal of a, for lack of a better word, species?”
March 2026: The war began while I tried to finish something. I know about the war the way I know about most things: from a phone in Vermont, 6,200 miles from Tehran. This is about two kinds of distance, one of which I didn’t choose; the other, I actively fought.