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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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Democratic Masterclass: How To Lose A Win In Washington
The shutdown was a test of priorities. Democrats chose speed over substance, Republicans chose leverage over food, and the math of Rule XXII did the rest. The country just lived through a civics lesson that felt like a stress test. After forty days of a government shutdown that reached into kitchens, baggage claims, and clinic
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The To Do List From Hell: Watching Project 2025 Move From Blueprint to Reality in Real Time
If you want to understand the moment you are living through, stop watching the melodrama and start reading the paperwork. America is not being remade through mystery or improvisation. It is being remade through a 920 page governing blueprint called Project 2025, a document that outlines, in clinical specificity, how to dismantle the federal government
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The Country Wanted a Trump Test of Chaos, So Let Them Have the Full Factory Tour
If the country insists on touching the stovetop again just to “make sure it’s still hot,” who am I to stand between a democracy and its favorite form of self-harm. There are moments in public life when you stop trying to warn people about the cliff and instead hand them binoculars so they can appreciate
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Operation Midway Blitz and the Federal Imagination Problem
When a crackdown starts to look less like law enforcement and more like a government sponsored haunted house Public safety is supposed to be boring. That is the entire point. Well functioning systems do not need dramatic lighting, surprise helicopter entrances, or senior officials narrating their own heroism. Which is why Operation Midway Blitz, a
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The Fifty Year Mortgage, Otherwise Known as “Homeownership, But Make It a Long Term Relationship With Your Bank
When vibes based housing policy meets compound interest and everyone pretends it is fine There comes a moment in every collapsing empire when someone proposes an idea so astonishing, so unintentionally revealing, that it deserves to be preserved in a glass case next to the artifacts of past civilizations that also tried financial innovation instead
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The Optimus Secession: Elon Musk Unveils the Robot That Will Replace Us, Rule Us, and Possibly Charge Us a Subscription Fee
A cyberpunk shareholder rave, a trillion dollar man, and a humanoid life form that will both eliminate poverty and make you its pet There are certain moments in history when you can feel the ground shift beneath your feet. The moon landing. The Berlin Wall. The first time someone uttered the phrase “live, laugh, love”
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Trump Says “Everything Is Fine” As The Cost Of Living Sky Rockets And Jobs Disappear
When reality raises the bill, you can gaslight the country or govern for it. Doing both is not a plan. The country knows the difference between a sales pitch and a receipt. We have been stuck in the pitch again, the kind where a leader tries to hypnotize prices into behaving by announcing that they
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Trump The Commander in Chaos: How One Man With Thirty Four Felonies Is Selling Nigeria as His New Christian Reality Show
When a complex security crisis becomes a stage prop for a felon who cannot legally hold a handgun, but gets to command the largest military on Earth Let us begin this meditation in the American contradiction that keeps giving: a man with thirty four felony convictions cannot own a firearm, cannot pass a background check,
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Clean Toilets, Dirty Secrets: ICE Finally Gets a Court-Ordered Makeover in Broadview
Somewhere between bureaucracy and mildew, the Constitution just won a small victory. This week, a federal judge in Chicago decided that the Bill of Rights applies even when the floors are wet. U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman issued a temporary restraining order forcing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to clean up the Broadview detention facility