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Trump: The Mirror, The March, and the Misdirection
A field guide to déjà vu in a country pretending it has never read this chapter He tells a story about a wounded nation and casts himself as the cure, and the lights are bright because glare is a better costume than truth and the soundtrack thumps because rhythm is easier to remember than evidence.
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The Hatch Act: The Law That Everyone Violates and No One Enforces
Somewhere in the dusty filing cabinets of American democracy, beneath the “Do Not Remove Under Penalty of Law” mattress tags and the ghost of civics classes past, lies the Hatch Act. Passed in 1939, it was meant to be the firewall between government work and campaign work. The promise was simple: no mixing taxpayer business
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Kids Being Kids: The Vice President’s Guide to Radicalizing the Next Generation
There’s a certain point where a democracy stops pretending it’s fine and just sits down to laugh at its own obituary. We hit that point when Vice President JD Vance stood before cameras this week and called a leak of nearly three thousand pages of racist, antisemitic, and misogynistic messages from young Republican leaders “what
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When You Fire the Weatherman, Don’t Act Surprised When the Sky Kills You
America loves a good disaster, as long as it happens far enough away to make for cinematic B-roll. The Bering Sea monster that shredded western Alaska this week—one part typhoon, one part apocalypse—checked all the right boxes: 100-mile-per-hour winds, a record storm surge, homes swallowed whole, hundreds displaced, one confirmed death, and a governor insisting
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The Young Republicans Just Invented “Accountability Theater,” and the Curtain’s Already Falling
For decades, the Republican Party has reassured America that its future is in good hands—steady, business-casual hands wrapped around a Bud Light and a copy of Atlas Shrugged. Then came the RESTOREYR WAR ROOM leak, 2,900 pages of digital sewage proving that the future of the GOP is, in fact, a racist group chat with
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The Pentagon Has Entered Its “No Reporters, Please” Era
The building that invented acronyms, leaks, and irony has decided it’s allergic to all three. According to CNN’s media desk, the Pentagon under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has rolled out sweeping new restrictions that would make even the Kremlin’s press office blush. The new “access pledge” requires journalists to sign away their ability to do
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Statehood for the States That Aren’t: A Hypothetical Love Letter to Democracy’s Participation Trophy
There’s a certain kind of American optimism that only emerges when we start talking about statehood, the same bright-eyed, civics-class sparkle that insists representation is a moral right and not a political chess move. But let’s be honest—if every U.S. territory and D.C. were granted statehood tomorrow, the fireworks wouldn’t be about democracy fulfilled. They’d
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The GOP’s Youth Wing Texted Its Soul—and the Screenshots Are a Horror Film
Once upon a time, “Young Republicans” conjured up an image of overeager poli-sci majors in red ties quoting Reagan and networking over light beer. You know, the overconfident debate-team archetype—annoying, yes, but largely harmless. Fast-forward to 2025, and Politico has dropped a leak that proves the next generation of GOP leadership is less “country club
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The Last WTF: Marc Maron, Barack Obama, and the Funeral for American Adulthood
There’s a particular tone you can hear only in the voice of a man who has seen the apocalypse, accepted it, and still shows up for soundcheck. Marc Maron has been that voice for sixteen years—equal parts therapy session, post-mortem, and open-mic confession booth—and on October 13, 2025, he turned off the mic for good.
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San Francisco: Elon Musk Says Send in the Troops, but Make It Disruptive
In a city famous for kombucha, kale, and kombucha-flavored kale, it was only a matter of time before San Francisco’s billionaires decided the next great innovation would be fascism—but with better UX. On October 12, 2025, the San Francisco Chronicle reported the unthinkable: Elon Musk and Marc Benioff, two of the Bay Area’s most inflated