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  • Hispanic Heritage Month Cancelled Due to Immigration Enforcement: Culture Meets Checkpoint

    Hispanic Heritage Month Cancelled Due to Immigration Enforcement: Culture Meets Checkpoint

    The Month That Wasn’t September 15 used to mark the start of Hispanic Heritage Month—a time for parades, mariachi, food festivals, and school assemblies pretending arroz con pollo is “cultural immersion.” This year, it marked something else entirely: postponements and cancellations. Chicago’s El Grito festival? Cancelled. Sacramento’s celebrations? Postponed. Charlotte’s events? Scrapped. CBS, AP, and

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  • COTALAND: Austin’s Roller Coaster to Nowhere (Yet)

    COTALAND: Austin’s Roller Coaster to Nowhere (Yet)

    A Park Delayed, but Dreams are Never Late The theme park industrial complex has a formula: announce early, overpromise wildly, and then pray nobody notices when the opening date slides into the next election cycle. COTALAND, Austin’s would-be roller coaster Mecca, is now on that exact track—ironically the only track they’ve managed to finish on

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  • Trump’s Traveling Roadshow of Troops: Now Appearing in Memphis

    Trump’s Traveling Roadshow of Troops: Now Appearing in Memphis

    Donald Trump has always treated the presidency like a touring act—part reality show, part casino floor, part authoritarian cosplay. And on September 12, 2025, he added a new stop on the circuit: Memphis. The big announcement? He’s deploying the National Guard to patrol its streets. Not because Memphis asked for it, not because crime is

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  • SNL Says Goodbye to Ego Nwodim and Hello to the Eternal Lorne Michaels Hunger Games

    SNL Says Goodbye to Ego Nwodim and Hello to the Eternal Lorne Michaels Hunger Games

    Seven Years, One Exit Post, and a Cast in Perpetual Revolt Ego Nwodim did what every modern celebrity does when it’s time to move on: she opened Instagram, wrote “unforgettable” in italics, and announced she was leaving Saturday Night Live after seven seasons. Seven years of wigs, cue cards, and sketches that hit about as

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  • Stagflation Lite™: Now With Extra Tariffs and Tomato Surcharges

    Stagflation Lite™: Now With Extra Tariffs and Tomato Surcharges

    America, you can relax. Inflation is only at its highest pace since January, jobless claims are at their highest since October 2021, and the Labor Department has discovered that somewhere between April 2024 and March 2025, we misplaced nearly a million jobs. (Don’t worry, they’re probably under the couch with your missing socks and Biden’s

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  • Big Little Lies Season 3: HBO’s Attempt at Resurrection Theater

    Big Little Lies Season 3: HBO’s Attempt at Resurrection Theater

    The Prestige Necromancy Business HBO just announced what Hollywood does best: recycling. Big Little Lies—the Monterey mommy noir that gave us Nicole Kidman in silk blouses whisper-screaming about trauma and Reese Witherspoon perfecting the art of weaponized brunch—is being resurrected for a third season. Francesca Sloane, fresh off Mr. & Mrs. Smith, is tasked with

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  • Paramount Skydance Wants to Eat Warner Bros. Discovery for Breakfast

    Paramount Skydance Wants to Eat Warner Bros. Discovery for Breakfast

    Cue the Mergers and the Popcorn America loves a sequel, even when it’s corporate consolidation. This September, barely a month after Paramount Skydance finalized its $8.4 billion deal to absorb Paramount Global, the trades are abuzz with whispers: now they want Warner Bros. Discovery. Yes, the company that just finished moving its things into Paramount’s

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  • iPhone 17 Air, Pro, and the Gospel of “Good Enough AI”: What Apple Really Sold You

    iPhone 17 Air, Pro, and the Gospel of “Good Enough AI”: What Apple Really Sold You

    Apple didn’t throw a pep rally for artificial intelligence. It staged a fashion show for rectangles. Four phones, one new tier, one very thin thesis: design, battery, camera—and then we’ll whisper “AI” like a kitchen appliance setting. The headline isn’t sentience. It’s silhouette. The new iPhone Air arrives as a sheet of resolve: 5.6 mm

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  • America’s New Job Fair: Now Hiring Deportation Apprenticeships

    America’s New Job Fair: Now Hiring Deportation Apprenticeships

    The Trump administration has always treated immigration enforcement less like policy and more like a casting call. But now the casting call has become a crash program: 10,000 new ICE officers and 3,000 CBP agents by year’s end. Funded by a $170.7 billion “One Big Beautiful Bill,” the program is less about public safety and

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  • E. Jean Carroll vs. Donald Trump: The $83.3 Million Reminder That Defamation Still Has a Price Tag

    E. Jean Carroll vs. Donald Trump: The $83.3 Million Reminder That Defamation Still Has a Price Tag

    The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a unanimous per curiam decision that might as well have been subtitled “Actions Have Consequences, Even for Presidents Who Think They’re Immune to Consequences.” The ruling upheld the $83.3 million defamation judgment against Donald J. Trump in Carroll v. Trump (No. 24-644), rejecting his immunity claim with

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