Weekly Reads for Saturday Sep 26, 2026

Apple CEO Tim Cook’s Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation

I know a lot of people don’t care that Tim bowed low enough to Trump to reach Trump’s ass with his lips. I know a lot of people think he had no choice. I do, and I don’t. I do care. I don’t believe he had no choice. He made a choice. Every single person in the US that accepts, bows to, and goes along with normalizing this whole class of authoritarians taking over the country are responsible for enabling it to happen in the first place.

You’re Not Hallucinating: The Amount of Recalled Food Is Skyrocketing | The New Republic

I wish I had good news in this time’s edition of “Weekly” Reads. I don’t.

ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database | WIRED

We may be the only country tilting into authoritarianism whose populace has successfully been convinced that LESS freedom is actually the MOST freedom. We’re the free ones!!

Route 66 Turns 100: A Brewery-by-Brewery Road Trip Guide From Chicago to Santa Monica | VinePair

If you’re like me and you’ve decided the appropriate response to all this is to just drown your sorrows in poison, this one actually IS good news. I like it anyway. Fuck it.

This is the Hunger Games Era of the United States. | by Lauren Elizabeth | Sep, 2026 | Medium

Ok, enough happy drinking. Back to the bad stuff.