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  • The Shutdown Kings: This Was The GOP’s Project 2025 Plan All Along

    The Shutdown Kings: This Was The GOP’s Project 2025 Plan All Along

    It is a curious thing to watch a political party hold every lever of government power—White House, Senate, House of Representatives, and Supreme Court—then turn to the public with the wide eyes of a hostage negotiator and insist that it is someone else’s fault they cannot govern. It is like inheriting the keys to the

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  • When “Equal Protection” Means Protecting Only Some: Race, Law, and the Constitution’s Costume Changes

    When “Equal Protection” Means Protecting Only Some: Race, Law, and the Constitution’s Costume Changes

    The Headline They Won’t Print “Colleges Can’t Consider Race in Admissions, But ICE Can When They Stop You on the Street” That is the American paradox in its purest form. The same Supreme Court majority that clutched pearls over Harvard and UNC using race as one factor in evaluating applicants has no issue with Border

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  • Chicago as Training Ground: A Federal Dress Rehearsal in Urban Camouflage

    Chicago as Training Ground: A Federal Dress Rehearsal in Urban Camouflage

    What is a city for, if not shopping, dining, living, and occasionally being transformed into a federal obstacle course? Chicago, always known for deep-dish pizza and mobster clichés, has now been recast as the Pentagon’s favorite indoor paintball arena. Only this time the paintball guns are real rifles, and the “players” are U.S. citizens unlucky

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  • The Reboot Nobody Ordered: Make America Sick Again

    The Reboot Nobody Ordered: Make America Sick Again

    It is 2025, and America has managed to drag an old virus out of retirement like a boy band on a nostalgia tour. Not the fun kind of reboot—no slick streaming revival, no “Measles: The Musical.” This is a disease revival, unwanted, unnecessary, and entirely predictable. The CDC’s latest report confirms 1,544 measles cases so

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  • Shut It Down (to “Save” ACA): Democrats’ Gambit or Political Pyrrhic Victory?

    Shut It Down (to “Save” ACA): Democrats’ Gambit or Political Pyrrhic Victory?

    When the federal lights went dark at 12:01 a.m., they went dark not from incompetence but by design. On Day One of the shutdown, Democrats—led by Schumer and Jeffries—did something rare: they leaned into it. They embraced disruption as leverage. They would treat a government shutdown not as failure, but battlefield, by insisting that any

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  • If MAGA thinks the New Pope is Woke, Wait Till They Read About Jesus

    If MAGA thinks the New Pope is Woke, Wait Till They Read About Jesus

    Picture this: the White House is stressed, Chicago is festering under federal patrols, Republicans are fighting over funding bills, and in strolls Pope Leo XIV—America’s first pontiff—to disrupt the script. His declaration is simple and seismic: being “pro-life” cannot exempt cruelty toward immigrants. To sanction inhumane migration policy, he says, is to undercut life itself.

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  • Shutdown Showdown: When the Federal Lights Flicker, Standing Ground Might Be the Only Power Move Left

    Shutdown Showdown: When the Federal Lights Flicker, Standing Ground Might Be the Only Power Move Left

    Washington, D.C. — the unfortunate date when “the lights go out” became literal again. After the Senate failed to pass a stopgap spending bill, the White House ordered agencies to activate shutdown protocols at exactly 12:01 a.m. on October 1. Through memos from OMB and OPM invoking the Antideficiency Act, the chaos began: mass furloughs,

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  • MAGA Lets Their Racism Show Towards Bad Bunny: Puerto Rico is part of the United States idiots

    MAGA Lets Their Racism Show Towards Bad Bunny: Puerto Rico is part of the United States idiots

    Let me start with the obvious: Puerto Rico is part of the United States. If you keep forgetting that, maybe read a map. But that fact seems to blow open minds like a shock collar when the MAGA brigade—provoked by Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl headline—whips out the same ugly refrains: “He’s not American.” “Latin takeover.”

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  • Nicole Kidman & Keith Urban: The Divorce Heartbreak Tour We Never Wanted

    Nicole Kidman & Keith Urban: The Divorce Heartbreak Tour We Never Wanted

    I don’t know who put “Public Divorce” on this year’s marquee, but somehow it cast Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban as its centerpiece act—the tragic stars of a love story we all believed in. Their separation announcement hit like a meteor strike: stunning beauty in motion frozen mid-dance, two icons unraveling in public while fans

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  • MAGA is a Domestic Terrorist Idealogy: Fires, Bullets, and Quiet Denials

    MAGA is a Domestic Terrorist Idealogy: Fires, Bullets, and Quiet Denials

    A Sunday service turned into a nightmare. In Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, a man drove a pickup into a Mormon chapel, sprung open fire with a rifle mid-worship, doused the building with gasoline, and watched as flame and lead collided. The local police rushed in. Within minutes he was dead. The dead and wounded, survivors

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