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  • Dominion and Giuliani’s $1.3 Billion Secret Settlement: When Lies Pay and Democracy Gets the Bill

    Dominion and Giuliani’s $1.3 Billion Secret Settlement: When Lies Pay and Democracy Gets the Bill

    There’s a peculiar magic trick the powerful love: make a noise so loud it draws attention, then vanish the outcome so no one can reverse-engineer the fraud. Yesterday, a mammoth defamation case—one purporting to demand $1.3 billion from a man who spent years amplifying election falsehoods—ended not in a verdict or a sensation, but in…

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  • Disney’s Kimmel Imbroglio: Shareholders Su for Truth While Politics Invade the Boardroom

    Disney’s Kimmel Imbroglio: Shareholders Su for Truth While Politics Invade the Boardroom

    There are many ways for an entertainment empire to humiliate itself. Some settle for the small stuff: a blockbuster flop, a malfunctioning roller coaster, a streaming password crackdown that feels like a mugging. But every so often, a corporation aims higher—producing an operatic self-own so baroque it deserves its own tragic score. Thus we arrive…

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  • South Park Season 27 Skewers Trump, Satan, Carr & Noem — It’s Political Satire on Steroids

    South Park Season 27 Skewers Trump, Satan, Carr & Noem — It’s Political Satire on Steroids

    South Park is back. And this season, it’s swinging harder than ever — not content to linger in the margins, the show has waded into naked deepfakes, Satanic pregnancies, face-melting governors, ICE raids that include dogs, CPC principal rebirths, and a nonstop blitz of Trump-era parody across every frame. If you’re keeping score, here’s your…

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  • Apple Blinks at the Screen: When a $3 Trillion Company Gets Spooked by a TV Show

    Apple Blinks at the Screen: When a $3 Trillion Company Gets Spooked by a TV Show

    Apple has spent the last decade branding itself as the patron saint of courage.Courage to remove the headphone jack. Courage to sell you the same laptop three years running with one extra port. Courage to charge $19 for a cloth. But courage to air a scripted drama about violent online networks in the weeks after…

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  • United We Scroll: 100 Things We All Secretly Agree On That Democrats Actually Campaign On While Republicans Pretend Don’t Exist

    United We Scroll: 100 Things We All Secretly Agree On That Democrats Actually Campaign On While Republicans Pretend Don’t Exist

    Every morning, cable news assures us that America is a house divided, a republic hanging by a thread, two tribes locked in a forever war where a neighbor’s yard sign is the moral equivalent of Pearl Harbor. Turn on Fox News and you’ll learn Democrats are Satan’s personal interns. Flip over to MSNBC and Republicans…

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  • The $100 Billion GPU Marriage: Nvidia and OpenAI’s Compute Cathedral

    The $100 Billion GPU Marriage: Nvidia and OpenAI’s Compute Cathedral

    There’s something uniquely American about announcing a hundred-billion-dollar partnership with the casual bravado of a press release that might as well have read: “We’re building God’s calculator, and we’d like you to know the first down payment clears next week.” That’s what Nvidia and OpenAI just did. The “letter of intent”—a corporate prenup written in…

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  • When Separation of Powers Becomes Separation Anxiety

    When Separation of Powers Becomes Separation Anxiety

    The Supreme Court has once again reminded us that the Constitution is less a sacred text and more a choose-your-own-adventure paperback where one ending includes civil liberties and the other ends with Donald Trump auditioning for The Apprentice: Federal Agencies Edition. On September 22, 2025, the Court—in a tidy little 6–3 order—handed President Trump what…

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  • Jimmy Kimmel Live, Dead, and Resurrected: Disney, the FCC, and America’s New Speech Test

    Jimmy Kimmel Live, Dead, and Resurrected: Disney, the FCC, and America’s New Speech Test

    Disney can reanimate cartoon deer and resurrect billion-dollar franchises, but even they didn’t think they’d have to stage a primetime Lazarus trick for Jimmy Kimmel. Yet here we are. After an extraordinary two-week suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live!—a late-night show that once got canceled only for recycling too many “Matt Damon” bits—Disney announced the show…

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  • When AI Doesn’t Care If You Have a Degree: The Entry-Level White-Collar Bloodbath

    When AI Doesn’t Care If You Have a Degree: The Entry-Level White-Collar Bloodbath

    AI isn’t coming for the CEOs or the hedge-fund moguls. It isn’t storming into your surgeon’s operating room or your plumber’s crawlspace. It’s coming for the kid in the cubicle whose first job is answering customer chats with fake sincerity, filing someone else’s receipts, or fixing the typo in slide 34 of a PowerPoint. In…

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  • When Congress Governs by Split Screen

    When Congress Governs by Split Screen

    Democracy has always been a little theatrical. The marble halls, the pomp, the roll calls delivered like Broadway overtures—it’s part politics, part melodrama, part daytime soap. But lately the Capitol has taken the metaphor too literally. On one screen: a government funding bill collapsing in the Senate. On the other: a resolution sanctifying Charlie Kirk,…

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