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  • Top Secret, Do Not Forward: The Bolton Doctrine of National Security Scrapbooking

    Top Secret, Do Not Forward: The Bolton Doctrine of National Security Scrapbooking

    The federal government has finally located the one man in Washington who can make Donald Trump’s document crimes look like a Marie Kondo project. His name, once again, is John R. Bolton—a man whose mustache has seen more classified briefings than most senators. According to a newly unsealed federal indictment in Maryland, Bolton, the hawkish

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  • The Lines We Draw: Trump’s Supreme Court Decides Racism Needs A Reboot

    The Lines We Draw: Trump’s Supreme Court Decides Racism Needs A Reboot

    Every few years, America remembers that it is technically a democracy, dusts off its maps, and starts drawing lines like a toddler with too many crayons and not enough supervision. This week, that coloring session moved to the Supreme Court, where the justices heard oral arguments in the latest Voting Rights Act showdown out of

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  • The Pentagon’s New Press Policy: Silence Is Security

    The Pentagon’s New Press Policy: Silence Is Security

    There’s a strange kind of quiet settling over Washington, the kind that hums beneath fluorescent lights and seeps into locked hallways. You can almost hear it in the Pentagon now, where the familiar chaos of reporters—phones buzzing, keyboards clacking, voices volleying across corridors—has been replaced by the steady whirr of an air vent. The silence

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  • TRUMP ADMINISTRATION GOES CRUISING: AMERICA’S NEW WAR CRIME REALITY SHOW

    TRUMP ADMINISTRATION GOES CRUISING: AMERICA’S NEW WAR CRIME REALITY SHOW

    Some presidents get monuments. Some get wars. Donald Trump just got a franchise — Operation Sea Control, the world’s first state-sponsored reality series starring the CIA, the Caribbean, and a flotilla of very confused smugglers. The premise: Washington authorizes covert operations in Venezuela, calls it “freedom,” and then releases clips of blown-up boats to prove

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  • Shutdown Theater: When Trump Decided the Government Works Better Without Workers

    Shutdown Theater: When Trump Decided the Government Works Better Without Workers

    It takes a special kind of government to run a shutdown like a start-up.A federal judge just told the Trump administration—again—that firing thousands of workers in the middle of a shutdown isn’t “streamlining.” It’s illegal. But if you squint hard enough and forget about laws, ethics, and human beings, you can almost admire the logic.

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  • The Only One That Matters: How Trump Turned the Gaza Summit Into a Global Open Mic

    The Only One That Matters: How Trump Turned the Gaza Summit Into a Global Open Mic

    It began the way every Trump summit begins—late, loud, and somehow missing a sense of reality. The Guardian’s report from Sharm el-Sheikh reads like dispatches from an international hostage situation where the hostages are diplomacy, grammar, and basic adult decorum. Picture a beachfront hotel filled with exhausted world leaders, their aides clutching binders, waiting for

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  • When You Fire the Weatherman, Don’t Act Surprised When the Sky Kills You

    When You Fire the Weatherman, Don’t Act Surprised When the Sky Kills You

    America loves a good disaster, as long as it happens far enough away to make for cinematic B-roll. The Bering Sea monster that shredded western Alaska this week—one part typhoon, one part apocalypse—checked all the right boxes: 100-mile-per-hour winds, a record storm surge, homes swallowed whole, hundreds displaced, one confirmed death, and a governor insisting

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  • The Young Republicans Just Invented “Accountability Theater,” and the Curtain’s Already Falling

    The Young Republicans Just Invented “Accountability Theater,” and the Curtain’s Already Falling

    For decades, the Republican Party has reassured America that its future is in good hands—steady, business-casual hands wrapped around a Bud Light and a copy of Atlas Shrugged. Then came the RESTOREYR WAR ROOM leak, 2,900 pages of digital sewage proving that the future of the GOP is, in fact, a racist group chat with

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  • No Kings Day: America’s Most Patriotic Middle Finger

    No Kings Day: America’s Most Patriotic Middle Finger

    The founders would have loved this. Not the powdered wig cosplay or the “Don’t Tread on Me” truck decals that confuse tyranny with speed limits—but the idea that millions of Americans could, in 2025, look at a would-be monarch and collectively say: nope. This October 18, No Kings Day returns. And if June was the

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