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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 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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Making America Gaudy Again: Trump Dismisses U.S. Commission of Fine Arts To Green Light Mussolini DC Program
It’s official: Washington, D.C. has entered its Versailles phase. CBS News reports that President Donald Trump has summarily dismissed all six sitting members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts—the body that, for more than a century, has ensured that the nation’s capital doesn’t look like a suburban megachurch with delusions of grandeur. The firings
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Welcome to the Golden Age of Layoffs: Where Jobs Go to Die and Stocks Go to Heaven
There’s an old rule in politics: if you can’t fix the problem, fire the statistician. And sure enough, President Trump has done exactly that, sacking the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the crime of arithmetic. Because in this second-term economy, math itself has become subversive. Without the Bureau’s honest numbers, the government
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What If Jesus Voted? Immigration, Healthcare, and Feeding the Hungry Would Win
He said welcome the stranger, heal the sick, and give to the poor, which sounds a lot like policy priorities and not a Sunday slogan. I did not grow up with a theology degree. I grew up with casseroles at funerals, a choir that sang off key with conviction, and a rotating cast of adults
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Sudden Silence From Hunter Biden Outrage: How the Trumps Turned Public Office into Private Equity
America loves a good family business story—until it involves the government, a few billion in Gulf money, and a golf tournament sponsored by a monarchy. For years, the public has been treated to breathless coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop, that Rosetta Stone of speculation and projection. But while every congressional hearing and cable chyron has
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Freedom, Firewalls, and Freefall: How Trump’s Week in Power Looked Like a Season Finale Written by Kafka
There are weeks in American politics that feel like historical footnotes, and there are weeks that feel like the Constitution was left in a microwave. This one was the latter. By midweek, the Trump administration managed to detain a journalist, nationalize TikTok through a handshake with Xi, pay the military during a government shutdown, and
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Eat the Rich, Not the Ramen: America’s Favorite Pastime of Blaming Hungry People on SNAP for Being Poor
America has a long, proud tradition of punching down. We could have been the country that invented bullet trains or universal childcare, but instead we perfected the art of yelling “Get a job!” at someone carrying a bag of store-brand cereal and a SNAP card. Forty-two million people are on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,
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The Great Denaturalization Reboot: When Patriotism Became a Costume Party For MAGA
It’s happening again. The right has discovered a thrilling new hobby: pretending the Fourteenth Amendment is optional. Apparently, “We the People” now comes with a disclaimer—“unless you’re Muslim, queer, left of Ronald Reagan, or pronounce your name with too many vowels.” Across talk radio, committee hearings, and influencer podcasts with the production value of a
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Trump’s Federal Eyes At Your Precinct Door, Brought To You By The People Who Keep Screaming Fraud
The first thing to understand is that the suit with the clipboard is not there for you. That’s the official line, of course. The Justice Department says the monitors are there to “protect voting rights,” “ensure transparency,” and “uphold the integrity of the process.” They’re being dispatched to six jurisdictions: Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Kern,