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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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How To Gerrymander Like A Hypocrite: Trump Sues The Blue State, High-Fives The Red One
The moment the scoreboard tilts the wrong way, some teams tighten their laces and others make a beeline for the referee’s locker room. The Trump administration has opted for the latter, this time hauling the Justice Department along to pound on the door. In California, voters just approved a new congressional map under Proposition 50
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Inside The Trump-Epstein Emails And A Capitol Pressure Campaign
Stop arguing about vibes and name what is on paper, on tape, and on the bank ledger. There is a rule of political weather that never fails. When a storm breaks over power, the first response is fog. Statements get longer, memories get shorter, and a chorus of very serious people insists that nothing can
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Where Did the Money Go, Don? The Great Trump Tariff Refund Panic
It’s hard to take a “billionaire” seriously when he keeps losing count of his billions. But here we are again, watching Donald Trump tell the country that if the Supreme Court rules against his tariffs, America will owe “three trillion dollars.” Three trillion. By breakfast, that number will probably be six. By dinner, he’ll say
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Democrats Forfeit Shutdown, Filibuster Wins, Voters Get Empty Promises And Pain
If you start a fight you cannot win, you at least leave with a lesson, a villain, and a plan. Democrats left with none of the above and a press release that reads like surrender. I agree with Tim Miller and the Pod Save America bros on the core point. It was obvious from the
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Trump Tries To Probe More People Without Consent In Florida
There is a certain kind of breaking news alert that feels less like journalism and more like a smoke alarm that only goes off after the house is already engulfed. The latest comes from the Southern District of Florida, the federal jurisdiction that has spent the past decade juggling everything from Mar a Lago search
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Congress Invents a Cash Prize for Being Investigated, Because Nothing Says Accountability Like Suing the Government for Doing Its Job
There is a special kind of American hypocrisy that blossoms only when senators learn that the law, the boring gray machinery of subpoenas and court orders, might apply to them. It is the kind of hypocrisy that smells like cologne, leather briefcases, and fear. And here we are again, watching lawmakers sprint down the Capitol
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Pardonpalooza: Trump’s Get Out of Jail Free Card For Those Who Helped Him Try To Steal the 2020 Election
There comes a moment in every political season when you realize the country is not being governed so much as improv’d, and the cast has decided to try audience participation. The latest spectacle arrived with a flourish of parchment and a press release drafted in what appears to be the disappointed sigh of the rule
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The Great Trump MAGA Cleanse: When a President Uses the Pardon Power Like a Leaf Blower in a Crime Scene
The news broke like a dropped stack of subpoenas. President Donald Trump issued sweeping federal pardons to Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Christina Bobb, Boris Epshteyn, and dozens of false electors whose signatures still appear on documents that prosecutors occasionally hold up with tongs. Pardon attorney Ed Martin delivered the announcement with the weary
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The SNAP Yo-Yo Diet: Washington’s New Plan To Starve America One Whiplash At A Time
There is a special kind of nausea that comes from watching a government treat 42 million people like a toggle switch. It is the same nausea you get when you open your bank app, see a deposit, exhale for the first time in a week, and then receive a memo from Washington telling you that