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X’s Algorithmic Hunger Games: When Your Feed Becomes a MAGA Mall
If you logged into X on October 9 or 10, 2025, you probably expected the usual feed: a few memes, your cousin’s dog video, maybe one of those cryptic subtweets from someone who still thinks “vaguebooking” works in 280 characters. Instead, what you got was a carnival barker’s megaphone of right-wing political content—accounts you never
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Trump Administration’s New Favorite Hobby: Indicting Your Political Enemies (Now Featuring Letitia James)
Welcome to the new normal, where the Justice Department is not a neutral institution but a courtroom carnival that rolls through town every few months with fresh political headhunts. On October 9, 2025, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on charges of bank fraud
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Chicago Judge Hits Pause on Trump’s Troop Show: Sovereignty on Life Support
When America elects a man who treats the Constitution like a napkin for his Diet Coke spills, you get weeks like this: federal helicopters dangling agents over Chicago apartment buildings, immigration patrols conducting fashion-police stops downtown, and the President attempting to cosplay Lincoln while importing National Guard troops from Texas as if Illinois were suddenly
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Discovers Health Care Costs Money: A MAGA Swan Breaks Formation
If you’ve been wondering what happens when a political creature of pure MAGA instinct suddenly develops a pre-existing condition called “reality,” you need look no further than Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s recent metamorphosis. NBC News reported on October 9, 2025, that Greene—yes, the same woman who once made headlines for chasing David Hogg through Capitol
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The Great Halftime Faceplant: Turning Point USA Declares War on Bad Bunny (and Loses Before It Starts)
The Super Bowl halftime show used to be about pyrotechnics, wardrobe malfunctions, and the occasional left shark dancing off-beat. Now it’s a referendum on whether America can tolerate hearing a language other than English for more than three minutes. Welcome to 2026, where Bad Bunny will headline the official NFL halftime show—and Turning Point USA,
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Liberty Vote or Liberty Lost? Why Dominion’s Sale to a GOP-Led Company Should Make Us All Nervous
On October 9, 2025, the Associated Press confirmed what election administrators had been whispering about: Dominion Voting Systems—the same company dragged through the mud with lies about 2020—has been sold. The buyer? Liberty Vote, a newly formed company led by Scott Leiendecker, a former Republican election official and founder of pollbook vendor KNOWiNK. The purchase
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Letters From the Border, Echoes in Rome: Pope Leo XIV vs. Operation Midway Blitz
If you want to know how power really moves in 2025, don’t watch the tank convoys rolling down Chicago boulevards or the ICE jackets fanning out across El Paso school zones. Watch instead the moment when a packet of handwritten letters from parish shelters in Texas and New Mexico lands on the Pope’s desk in
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When DHS Becomes the PR Department for Trump’s Enforcers: Zach Bryan, “Bad News,” and the Federal Trolling Tour
Country music has always had a rebellious streak—train lines, stolen kisses, dusty roads, heartbreak. But when your protest song provokes the Department of Homeland Security to scrap together a montage of ICE raids and set them to your chorus, you’ve officially crossed from troubadour to target. On October 8, 2025, Axios dropped a story that
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When Abbott Becomes the Paint Censor: Texas’ Rainbow Crosswalk Crackdown
In Texas, the fight for highways has become a battleground for identity. On October 8, 2025, Governor Greg Abbott issued a sweeping order: purge “political ideologies” from state and local roadways. He threatened to freeze city and state transportation funds and suspend TxDOT agreements if municipalities didn’t obliterate all nonstandard pavement — a threat directed
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Trump’s Jail Talk: When Presidents Play Sheriff of Dissent
It starts, as so many American breakdowns do now, with a social media post typed out between the golf course and the motorcade. On October 8, 2025, President Donald Trump fired off on Truth Social that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson “should be in jail” for “failing to protect ICE Officers.” He added, as a flourish,