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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,
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Trump Is The Speaker of The House and Mike Johnson Forgot How to Speak
Somewhere between the Capitol dome and Mar-a-Lago, the People’s House misplaced its voice. The New York Times tried to call it “a portrait,” but it read more like an autopsy. Speaker Mike Johnson, the man theoretically third in line to the presidency, has kept the House out of session for most of the shutdown, spending
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The Recall Economy: How Deregulation Turns Your Pantry, Medicine Cabinet, and Nursery Into a Roulette Wheel
There’s a joke that isn’t funny anymore: if you want to understand American politics, skip the speeches and read the recall notices. The speeches are for theater; the recalls are for people who eat food, put drops in their eyes, buckle a baby into a lounger, or charge a phone without wondering if the battery
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Trump’s Meme Administration: When the Government’s Group Chat Took Over the Country
Somewhere between the press briefing room and a Fortnite lobby, the machinery of American governance appears to have been replaced by a collection of preteens armed with official seals, a ring light, and an unhealthy relationship with social media validation. The official feeds of the White House, DOJ, Pentagon, and assorted Cabinet offices now read
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Trump sold who the Pentagon? Inside America’s First Crowdfunded Military Payroll
There’s something exquisitely American about a shutdown that ends with the Pentagon passing a hat. Somewhere between a bake sale and a Bond villain subplot, the Department of Defense just accepted a $130 million “gift” from an anonymous donor—yes, a literal donation—to help pay soldiers’ salaries while the government remains closed for business. President Trump,
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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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Shutdown: The First Hairline Fracture in the Blue Wall
For three weeks, Chuck Schumer has performed the Senate equivalent of yoga on hot coals—keeping forty-nine Democrats in the lotus position while the government burns around them. It worked, until it didn’t. Axios dropped the news like a leaky ceiling tile: Georgia senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock quietly crossed the aisle on a Republican
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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