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Pegasus In A Flag Pin: How ICE Built a Dragnet For Your Phone, Your Doctor, and Your Feeds
They call it “discipline” and “modernization,” but it walks like illegal mass surveillance, chills speech like a gag order, and it is the biggest story no one on primetime wants to say plainly. I am not here to soothe you. I am here to describe a machine that has been assembled in plain sight while
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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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Congratulations, You’re the Plot Twist: How America Outsourced the Apocalypse to Itself
If you can’t see the connection between mass layoffs, record unemployment, AI automation, a government shutdown, SNAP benefit lapses, National Guard deployments, and the quiet rollout of digital IDs, congratulations. You are not “woke,” you are not “unbothered,” and you are not “staying out of politics.” You are the unpaid extra in a dystopian reboot
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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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Zohran Mamdani: Building Bridges While The Ignorant Builds Walls
If you walked into Astoria today and asked what it looks like when a politician actually organizes for the people—not the patrons, not the press hits, but the ten-ants—they’d mention one name more than any other: Zohran Mamdani. Born in Queens, raised between Kampala and Doha, organizer-turned–New York State Assembly member, now casting a wide
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Divide, Distract, Deregulate, Disappear: Your Anger Was Focus-Grouped
Culture-war noise keeps you busy while antitrust is gutted, noncompetes spread, and public money builds luxury towers. The Hand in Your Pocket Is Wearing a Cufflink The oldest magic trick in politics begins with a sigh and ends with your wallet. The sigh is theatrical, “What is happening to our great nation?”, and the wallet
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America’s New Marching Orders: How to Turn the National Guard Into a Campaign Prop (and Still Call It “Public Safety”)
There’s a special kind of genius in bureaucratic evil—the kind that hides a revolution inside a memo. The latest leak out of the Pentagon reads less like a defense directive and more like a stage direction for an authoritarian dress rehearsal: by April 1, 2026, every state’s National Guard must have a rapid “Response Force”
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How to Rig an Election While Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud
It’s 2025, which means we’re back in the part of the American cycle where politicians stop pretending to govern and start designing the next democracy-themed escape room. The new blueprint—marketed, ironically, as Never Again 2020—isn’t a conspiracy theory or a master plan. It’s a step-by-step guide written in bureaucratic beige and marketed as “election integrity.”
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The People’s House, Privately Bulldozed: How the East Wing Vanished While We Were Looking Away
Let’s start with the blunt fact: the East Wing of the White House—the entire public-facing half of the executive mansion—no longer exists. It’s gone. Not “under renovation,” not “under review,” but demolished. The Office of the First Lady, the Social Office, the Calligraphy Office, the Visitor Entrance, the East Colonnade, the Family Theater—flattened to rebar
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The Red Scare Remix: Why “Democratic Socialism” Is Not Communism, and Capitalism Was Never Pure
There’s a certain irony in the fact that Americans can’t define “socialism” but they can sure yell it. It’s our national reflex: hear a policy that sounds vaguely public-minded, grab the nearest flag, and shout “Communism!” as if Khrushchev himself were hiding under your Medicare card. So let’s do something rare for this political century—define