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Judicial Interference and Other Inconvenient Miracles: How Two Judges Just Fed America While the White House Starved It for Sport
Somewhere between the concept of governance and the art of extortion, the Trump administration decided that feeding 42 million Americans during a shutdown was “optional.” The Department of Agriculture, apparently moonlighting as a nihilist book club, announced it would simply stop issuing SNAP benefits when the clock struck midnight on the first of the month.
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Andrew is Now Prince of Nothing: How the Crown Did What Congress Won’t
Somewhere in the foggy precincts of Britain’s class system, King Charles III just did something extraordinary: he looked his brother in the face, stared into the abyss of Jeffrey Epstein’s fallout, and said, “Not in my house.” And then, with the unhurried precision of a man pruning a diseased branch, he cut. Prince Andrew, Duke
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Mayor of America: The Case for Pete Buttigieg, Competence’s 2028 Stand
Somewhere in the churning, meme-choked fog of modern politics, competence became uncool. Governing got rebranded as “deep state meddling.” And the people who actually know how to do things—like fix a bridge, regulate a train, or refund a plane ticket—got replaced by men who post. So maybe it’s time we talk about Pete Buttigieg. Because
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The Art of the Tariff Deal: China Takes A Wrecking Ball To Trump
It takes a special kind of genius to spend ten months lighting the economy on fire only to celebrate putting out one match. President Donald Trump has done it again, staging a “historic tariff breakthrough” that cuts the fentanyl import duty from 20 percent to 10 percent and lowers the overall average tariff rate from
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How to Nuke a Rule: Trump, the Filibuster, and the Illusion of Process
When Donald Trump takes to Truth Social to explain constitutional procedure, it’s like watching a raccoon perform heart surgery. The confidence is unmatched, the tools are wrong, and yet somehow half the country insists he’s reinventing medicine. This week, Trump posted what might be his most nakedly authoritarian policy demand to date: “Republicans must use
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Paramount Skydance Presents: The Invisible Hand of the Market (Now Playing in Your Severance Package)
In the golden age of corporate synergy, nothing says “bold new era of storytelling” like firing two thousand storytellers. This week, Variety confirmed what everyone in media already felt vibrating under their cubicles—the long-rumored Paramount-Skydance merger has completed its most time-honored ritual: the bloodletting. Roughly 10 percent of the combined workforce—around 2,000 people—will soon discover
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Trump Wants to Hear the Desert Scream Again: The Sound of Nuclear in a Country That Forgot What Fallout Smells Like
There’s a certain poetry to it, really. A president who once bragged about acing a dementia test now wants to bring back nuclear testing, apparently to prove he can still make something explode. In a pre-summit flourish that left even his own defense officials blinking through radiation metaphors, Donald Trump announced that he had directed
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The Starve and Shred Strategy: How Trump Turned the Shutdown Into a Weapon of Mass Deprivation
By now, Americans should know better than to mistake cruelty for incompetence. But here we are again, watching a government shutdown framed as bureaucratic “discipline” when it’s really just budgetary arson disguised as fiscal virtue. The Bulwark’s analysis this week pulled the curtain all the way back. Speaker Mike Johnson, playing the human air freshener
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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 Gospel According to Hypocritical Christians: How Trump and MAGA Baptized Greed and Called It Policy
There is a curious arithmetic in American Christianity, a kind of divine math that turns compassion into socialism, wealth into righteousness, and selective literacy into law. It goes something like this: when it comes to who sleeps with whom, suddenly the Bible is binding federal code, the Supreme Court is a Sunday school, and the