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Jesse Rubenfeld

The Incredible Access Man & The Amazing Means-Tested Boy

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Illustration by Jesse Rubenfeld

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A delightful spring issue! Colorful satirical ads and essays exposing the erasure of human labor by corporations, medical quacks, the truth about lotteries, board games, how to think about clothes styling in a time of climate crisis, and more!

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