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  • When Border Patrol Starts Haunting Charlotte Church Lawns, You Know the Empire Is Fucked

    When Border Patrol Starts Haunting Charlotte Church Lawns, You Know the Empire Is Fucked

    Interior enforcement turns Charlotte into a stage set for federal theater, complete with smashed windows, masked agents, and a government insisting the chaos is for your own good. Charlotte is not a border town. Charlotte is not even near a border town. Charlotte is the sort of place where church volunteers trim hedges in the

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  • America Says It Wants A Woman President, Michelle Obama Says: Stop Lying

    America Says It Wants A Woman President, Michelle Obama Says: Stop Lying

    When the country insists it is ready for female leadership but recoils every time an actual woman steps up, someone eventually has to say the quiet part out loud. Michelle Obama walked onto the stage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, sat down with Tracee Ellis Ross, and proceeded to set the national fantasy of

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  • The Schrödinger’s Scandal Strategy: Trump Says the Epstein File Is Both Fake and Also a Weapon

    The Schrödinger’s Scandal Strategy: Trump Says the Epstein File Is Both Fake and Also a Weapon

    When a president tries to call a scandal a hoax while simultaneously using it as a ghost pepper to burn his enemies. America has entered the kind of political funhouse where every mirror is cracked, every door leads back to the same hallway, and the tour guide keeps shouting that the haunted house isn’t real

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  • MAGA Should Remember That Loyalty Is A One-Way Door In Trump’s World

    MAGA Should Remember That Loyalty Is A One-Way Door In Trump’s World

    The pattern is not complicated, it is a shredder that activates the second anyone near him grows a conscience, a spine, or an audience of their own. There is a certain look people get when they realize the room they thought was a team is actually a stage. It is the look of a person

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  • The New Campus Survival Skill: Duck, Cover, And Don’t Say “White Supremacy” Out Loud

    The New Campus Survival Skill: Duck, Cover, And Don’t Say “White Supremacy” Out Loud

    Indiana discovers that if you squint hard enough, teaching racism is now suppressing intellectual diversity. The modern university used to worry about things like research output, crumbling lecture halls, and whether students would riot if the dining hall replaced curly fries with the straight, morally ambiguous kind. Indiana University Bloomington has discovered a more avant

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  • Pete Hegseth is the Only One Willing to Touch Trumps Southern Spear

    Pete Hegseth is the Only One Willing to Touch Trumps Southern Spear

    Somewhere in the bowels of the Pentagon, there must be a windowless room where names for military operations are spitballed by men who still believe Axe body spray counts as grooming. It is the only explanation for how, during a national reckoning over Epstein’s global child trafficking ring and the Trump administration’s frantic effort to

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  • Trump Says Groceries Are Cheap Now, So Please Stop Looking at Your Receipts

    Trump Says Groceries Are Cheap Now, So Please Stop Looking at Your Receipts

    An official memo from the alternate universe where gas is two dollars, milk is basically free, and your checking account is lying to you/ Americans have endured many strange plot twists in public life, but few moments rival the latest presidential message that rolled out like a weather alert from a parallel dimension. Donald Trump,

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  • CATHOLIC GUILT FOR TRUMP: THE HOLY WATER JUST BOILED OVER

    CATHOLIC GUILT FOR TRUMP: THE HOLY WATER JUST BOILED OVER

    The bishops finally found their voices again. Not the soft indoor-voice homilies that float above parish pews like incense, but something closer to a raised eyebrow from God. America’s Catholic hierarchy, after years of sounding like they were trapped between a Fox News chyron and a Vatican footnote, just dropped a “Special Message” on immigration

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  • From Aloy to All-In: When Horizon Goes MMO and Mobile—and the Monsters Charge

    From Aloy to All-In: When Horizon Goes MMO and Mobile—and the Monsters Charge

    I have a confession to make: I love MMOs. Give me the dark parking lot of EverQuest, the regimented raiding towers of World of Warcraft, the sprawling social village of Final Fantasy XIV—I’ve sat through login queues, ignored dinner invites, and hasta-la-vida’d sleep for one last respawn. So when Sony Interactive Entertainment and NCSOFT revealed

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  • Epstein: Trump Has His Own Email Problem and I Think I Hear Hillary Laughing

    Epstein: Trump Has His Own Email Problem and I Think I Hear Hillary Laughing

    THE CORPSE WHO CALLED THE PRESIDENT A DOG There is something exquisitely American about needing twenty thousand emails from a dead pedophile to state the obvious, which is that Donald Trump, self appointed innocence mascot of the MAGA Republic, has never once in his life been anywhere near a situation without lying about it. And

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