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  • Everything Since 2016 Was A Dream: The Writers’ Room Has Lost Control of the Plot

    Everything Since 2016 Was A Dream: The Writers’ Room Has Lost Control of the Plot

    If the last decade were a TV series, even the interns would be begging the showrunners for a hard reboot before cancellation. There comes a time in every long running series when the writers lose all sense of proportion. When the storylines pile up like abandoned shopping carts, when characters behave like they have been

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  • America Says It Wants A Woman President, Michelle Obama Says: Stop Lying

    America Says It Wants A Woman President, Michelle Obama Says: Stop Lying

    When the country insists it is ready for female leadership but recoils every time an actual woman steps up, someone eventually has to say the quiet part out loud. Michelle Obama walked onto the stage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, sat down with Tracee Ellis Ross, and proceeded to set the national fantasy of

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  • MAGA Should Remember That Loyalty Is A One-Way Door In Trump’s World

    MAGA Should Remember That Loyalty Is A One-Way Door In Trump’s World

    The pattern is not complicated, it is a shredder that activates the second anyone near him grows a conscience, a spine, or an audience of their own. There is a certain look people get when they realize the room they thought was a team is actually a stage. It is the look of a person

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  • Cornered Trump Starts Throwing Policy Spaghetti: Tariffs, Venezuela, MTG, Oh My!

    Cornered Trump Starts Throwing Policy Spaghetti: Tariffs, Venezuela, MTG, Oh My!

    Tariff reversals, Venezuela war drums, and a Truth Social tantrum at Marjorie Taylor Greene all collide in the shadow of an Epstein scandal that refuses to die The problem with political improvisation, the real danger beneath the theatrics, is not that it looks chaotic from the outside. It is that it feels orderly to the

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  • The New Campus Survival Skill: Duck, Cover, And Don’t Say “White Supremacy” Out Loud

    The New Campus Survival Skill: Duck, Cover, And Don’t Say “White Supremacy” Out Loud

    Indiana discovers that if you squint hard enough, teaching racism is now suppressing intellectual diversity. The modern university used to worry about things like research output, crumbling lecture halls, and whether students would riot if the dining hall replaced curly fries with the straight, morally ambiguous kind. Indiana University Bloomington has discovered a more avant

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  • Pete Hegseth is the Only One Willing to Touch Trumps Southern Spear

    Pete Hegseth is the Only One Willing to Touch Trumps Southern Spear

    Somewhere in the bowels of the Pentagon, there must be a windowless room where names for military operations are spitballed by men who still believe Axe body spray counts as grooming. It is the only explanation for how, during a national reckoning over Epstein’s global child trafficking ring and the Trump administration’s frantic effort to

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  • Trump’s MAGA: From “Save the Children” to “Hoax, Move On”

    Trump’s MAGA: From “Save the Children” to “Hoax, Move On”

    When receipts finally pointed inward, the outrage machine swapped sirens for excuses. There is a particular silence that follows a scream. It is not peace. It is calculation. For years, MAGA’s media ecosystem trained its audience to chase phantoms through pizzerias and Instagram posts, to read secret codes on menus, to believe that a ring

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  • Trump Says Groceries Are Cheap Now, So Please Stop Looking at Your Receipts

    Trump Says Groceries Are Cheap Now, So Please Stop Looking at Your Receipts

    An official memo from the alternate universe where gas is two dollars, milk is basically free, and your checking account is lying to you/ Americans have endured many strange plot twists in public life, but few moments rival the latest presidential message that rolled out like a weather alert from a parallel dimension. Donald Trump,

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  • CATHOLIC GUILT FOR TRUMP: THE HOLY WATER JUST BOILED OVER

    CATHOLIC GUILT FOR TRUMP: THE HOLY WATER JUST BOILED OVER

    The bishops finally found their voices again. Not the soft indoor-voice homilies that float above parish pews like incense, but something closer to a raised eyebrow from God. America’s Catholic hierarchy, after years of sounding like they were trapped between a Fox News chyron and a Vatican footnote, just dropped a “Special Message” on immigration

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  • Democrats End a 43-Day Shutdown by Arguing Over the Debris

    Democrats End a 43-Day Shutdown by Arguing Over the Debris

    There are many ways to end a government shutdown. You can compromise. You can capitulate. Or, if you are the Democratic Party, you can split into factions and hold a family intervention in the middle of a burning building. The forty-three-day shutdown ended the way every American civics textbook secretly dreams: not with a unifying

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