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The Morning After the Wave: Trump’s Truth Social Tantrum and the Art of Governing by Gripe
There is a sound that follows defeat, and it is not silence. It is the clattering of a smartphone in the small hours, the electronic cough of a man refreshing his own reflection. The morning after Democrats’ big wins, while New York was still sweeping up confetti and poll workers were still drinking reheated coffee,
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Kash Patel’s $60 Million Date Night. Wait, Someone Would Date Kash Patel?
Every great American scandal begins the same way: with a man insisting it’s not a scandal. FBI Director Kash Patel, the latest maestro of taxpayer-funded romance, would like you to know that when he took a $60 million federal jet for a “date night,” it wasn’t corruption. It was patriotism. Because his girlfriend, a self-proclaimed
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The Ocean’s 107 Days Problem: George Clooney and the Art of Missing the Point
There’s something almost poetic about George Clooney criticizing the Democratic Party from an Italian villa while American democracy keeps coughing up blood in the background. It’s like watching a man deliver a eulogy for a house he helped burn down, except he’s doing it over espresso, wearing a watch that costs more than a precinct’s
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The Great Gatsby 2: Trump’s Halloween Feast While America Starves
Every generation gets the Gatsby it deserves. In the 1920s, it was Jay. In 2025, it’s Donald. One spent his fortune chasing a dream across the bay. The other rented out an entire country and called it Mar-a-Lago. This week’s masquerade ball at the Winter White House wasn’t just a Halloween party—it was performance art.
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When the Substitute Teacher Runs the School: Obama’s Return and the Democrats’ Echo Problem
There are few sights as surreal as watching a former president outshine his successors while trying not to. Barack Obama, ten years out of office, has become the most effective voice in the Democratic Party again, not because nostalgia sells, but because competence apparently does. His reemergence on the campaign trail for down-ballot Democrats feels
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The Golden Throne of Mar-a-Lincoln: When Optics Replace Government
It is a curious image of the modern presidency: the country in a government shutdown, the courts ordering the Department of Agriculture to raid emergency funds to keep SNAP afloat, and the Commander-in-Chief posting 24 glossy photos of his newly renovated Lincoln Bathroom, complete with black and white statuary marble, gold handles on the tub,
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Welcome to the Feed, Citizen: Elon Musk’s Grok Will Now Decide What You Think
You wake up, open Twitter, and the first thing you see is a video of a toaster on fire subtitled “BREAKING: Free Speech.” You scroll. Next up: a paid post from a billionaire who just discovered poverty. You scroll again, and the same post appears, this time with AI-generated replies debating whether the toaster identifies
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The Ceasefire That Fired Back: We’re Totally Surprised….it lasted this long
There are moments in history when language becomes so thoroughly mangled that it folds in on itself. This week, that word is ceasefire. Once a term for stopping violence, it now means “repositioning artillery for improved optics.” The latest headlines read like a tragic parody: Israel launched new strikes across Gaza after Prime Minister Benjamin
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The Hunger Games: Trump Edition — How to Manufacture a SNAP Crisis in Three Easy Bureaucratic Steps
When the Trump administration announced it was freezing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for more than forty-one million Americans during the shutdown, the official explanation was simple: fiscal responsibility. The unofficial one was simpler: cruelty is the point, and hunger is a feature, not a bug. Now, twenty-five Democratic-led states and Washington, D.C., are
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Trump Passed His Dementia Test and Is Thankful He Studied
Some presidents measure success by legislation passed, crises avoided, or wars prevented. Ours measures it by whether he can remember five random words in the right order. This week, President Donald Trump announced—again—that he “aced” his dementia test, a boast that feels less like an assurance of cognitive health and more like a cry for