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  • Portland: The Revolution Will Be Choreographed And Feature a Frog

    Portland: The Revolution Will Be Choreographed And Feature a Frog

    It’s 2025, and in Portland, resistance now comes with a soundtrack and a splash zone. The city once branded a “war zone” by right-wing commentators has become something else entirely—a performance art piece starring inflatable amphibians, unicorns, and a surprising number of sharks. The Portland ICE facility—once the backdrop for grim standoffs and militarized optics—has

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  • Outbreak of the RFK Jr. and Russ Vought Virus: No CDC Employees Left To Treat It

    Outbreak of the RFK Jr. and Russ Vought Virus: No CDC Employees Left To Treat It

    If you ever needed proof that America has officially become a satire written by a malfunctioning chatbot, behold: the CDC accidentally fired itself during a government shutdown. Not metaphorically. Not “downsized for efficiency.” Literally—hundreds of our nation’s top epidemiologists, lab chiefs, and field investigators got layoff emails mid-pandemic prep because someone in Washington pressed “Send

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  • The Riyadh Comedy Festival Where the Joke Is You

    There’s a new punchline in Riyadh this week, and it isn’t coming from the mouths of Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Bill Burr, or Pete Davidson. It’s the sound of cash registers ringing, echoing louder than any laugh track, in a hall where more than fifty Western comics are performing for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

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  • Trump’s Jail Talk: When Presidents Play Sheriff of Dissent

    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,

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  • Abbott offering Texas Troops To Invade Portland and Chicago? Confederate Nostalgia in Combat Boots

    Abbott offering Texas Troops To Invade Portland and Chicago? Confederate Nostalgia in Combat Boots

    It takes a special kind of delusion to believe that the way to solve your state’s problems is to march your soldiers into someone else’s backyard. And yet, here we are: Texas National Guard troops, under orders from Republican leadership, staging deployments into Chicago and Oregon. No invitation, no local mandate, just the swagger of

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  • Trump’s Bin Laden Time Machine: A Masterclass in Historical Fan Fiction

    Trump’s Bin Laden Time Machine: A Masterclass in Historical Fan Fiction

    The thing about Donald Trump’s storytelling is that it is less history than it is improv theater. He does not so much recall events as audition alternate scripts, testing which version gets the biggest laugh, gasp, or cheer from the crowd. The fact-checkers arrive on cue, scripts in hand, to point out that the timeline

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  • “You’ll Still Be Paid”—But the Pentagon Says Nope: The Trump Shutdown Delusion

    “You’ll Still Be Paid”—But the Pentagon Says Nope: The Trump Shutdown Delusion

    At a Navy ceremony touting 250 years of might, President Trump looked out over ranks of sailors and Marines and vowed: despite the government shutdown, service members “will still be paid”—teasing raises and calling the promise ironclad. Watching that, one might imagine gold coins raining from the sky onto fatigued boots. But the legal landscape

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  • Brighton Park Shooting, Tear Gas, and the Shutdown Spectacle: How DHS Turned Chicago Into a Border War Zone

    Brighton Park Shooting, Tear Gas, and the Shutdown Spectacle: How DHS Turned Chicago Into a Border War Zone

    The city was promised patrols, deterrence, maybe a few stern traffic stops. What it got instead was a rolling combat scene: Border Patrol convoys pinned in, a U.S. citizen shot, a neighborhood suffocated in tear gas, and a shutdown government still finding time to flex its muscle in Brighton Park. It is the latest installment

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  • Bad Bunny’s SNL Comeback and the 51st Season’s Cultural Cruising Missile

    Bad Bunny’s SNL Comeback and the 51st Season’s Cultural Cruising Missile

    The moment Saturday Night Live returned for Season 51, it felt like an updated version of a political reset button. A bilingual monologue, a defense of art in a politically fracturing country, and a cold open so sharp it felt like glass in the face. Against the backdrop of shutdown fights, Pentagon sermons, and presidential

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  • When Apple Ditches the Goggle in Favor of the Invisible Lens

    When Apple Ditches the Goggle in Favor of the Invisible Lens

    It began with a whisper, a rumor caught in internal memos and whispered hallway code names. Then it broke: Apple has paused its overhaul of the expensive, bulky Vision Pro headset and is reallocating staff toward a two-track glasses program. The $3,499 mixed-reality goggle is no longer the future—it’s the relic. The future is voice,

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