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Amazon To Cut 600,000 Jobs: When They Offer You a Robot Berserker for Free Shipping
There’s a moment in every supposedly “innovative” company where the victory lap turns into a funeral procession—and for Amazon, the leaked plan to automate three-quarters of its operations and eliminate or avoid hiring over 600,000 U.S. jobs by 2033 marks the coffin nail. These aren’t little tweaks; internal strategy documents show the robotics team wants
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Big Raid on Canal Street: When the Counterfeit Crackdown Looks More Like Occupation
There’s something disquieting about seeing dozens of federal agents—batons, rifles, zip-ties, armored vehicles—rolling onto a stretch of Manhattan known for knock-off handbags and street vendors, rather than insurgents. On October 21, 2025, in an operation that looked less like “intelligence-driven enforcement” and more like “military parade meets commerce,” ICE and a coalition of federal agencies
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Law and Disorder Portland Edition: The Boots Are Coming From Inside The Country
There’s a subtle tremor in civil society when the uniformed hand that writes the citation also carries the deployment order. A divided panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has quietly given the green light to Donald J. Trump to federalize the Oregon National Guard—for now—and deploy it into downtown
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The Ten-Minute Louvre Heist: How to Rob an Empire Before Your Coffee Cools
There’s a reason Paris loves a good crime. The city romanticized heists before Hollywood did, and it’s been living off the legend of the 1911 Mona Lisa caper for more than a century. But this one isn’t charming. This one hurts. In a daylight raid that lasted roughly the length of an espresso break, a
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The Hunger Games: Trump’s SNAP Shutdown
There’s a moment every fall when America pretends to care about food. Usually it arrives in the form of syrupy commercials: laughing families in sweaters, grocery carts brimming with abundance, the phrase “holiday spirit” hovering over a table that looks sponsored by a butter manufacturer. This year, that tableau feels like parody. Because as the
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Ceasefire on Tap: How Gaza’s “Pause” Turned Into a Sistema of Suspended Violence
There’s a baffling rhythm to modern war: the violence pauses, the cameras blink once, and the scoreboard resets—but nothing actually changes. On October 17, after Israeli officials claimed Hamas fighters killed two Israeli soldiers near Rafah and breached the U.S.–brokered truce, Israel launched what it called its heaviest wave of post-ceasefire airstrikes—targeting tunnels, weapons sites,
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Operation Campaign Reel: The War That Started Because Trump Got Bored on a Yacht
The Caribbean has always had a cinematic allure: turquoise water, tropical breezes, and now, apparently, a naval blockade that could double as the trailer for a Michael Bay reboot of Bay of Pigs. Since early September, President Donald Trump has pushed the United States to the brink of open war with Venezuela, cloaking the move
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The Algorithm Will See You Now: How YouTube Became Television’s Final Boss
There’s a poetic cruelty in watching television networks—once smug arbiters of American attention—now refreshing their own YouTube analytics like anxious creators in ring lights. For decades, they owned the living room. Now, they’re tenants, and the landlord’s name is YouTube. The deep dive is no longer theoretical: YouTube has eaten TV’s lunch, commandeered its dinner
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No Kings Day: America Remembers We Do Not Bow To Authoritarian Rule
I woke to drums on my phone, not the kind that say war, the kind that say get dressed. Somewhere a sousaphone blared and a snare line snapped, and every clip in my feed looked like a country remembering how to count. A multi-city rhythm rose up from breakfast tables and bus stops and union
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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