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Mayor of America: The Case for Pete Buttigieg, Competence’s 2028 Stand
Somewhere in the churning, meme-choked fog of modern politics, competence became uncool. Governing got rebranded as “deep state meddling.” And the people who actually know how to do things—like fix a bridge, regulate a train, or refund a plane ticket—got replaced by men who post. So maybe it’s time we talk about Pete Buttigieg. Because
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Welcome to the Feed, Citizen: Elon Musk’s Grok Will Now Decide What You Think
You wake up, open Twitter, and the first thing you see is a video of a toaster on fire subtitled “BREAKING: Free Speech.” You scroll. Next up: a paid post from a billionaire who just discovered poverty. You scroll again, and the same post appears, this time with AI-generated replies debating whether the toaster identifies
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Trump Wants to Hear the Desert Scream Again: The Sound of Nuclear in a Country That Forgot What Fallout Smells Like
There’s a certain poetry to it, really. A president who once bragged about acing a dementia test now wants to bring back nuclear testing, apparently to prove he can still make something explode. In a pre-summit flourish that left even his own defense officials blinking through radiation metaphors, Donald Trump announced that he had directed
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The Starve and Shred Strategy: How Trump Turned the Shutdown Into a Weapon of Mass Deprivation
By now, Americans should know better than to mistake cruelty for incompetence. But here we are again, watching a government shutdown framed as bureaucratic “discipline” when it’s really just budgetary arson disguised as fiscal virtue. The Bulwark’s analysis this week pulled the curtain all the way back. Speaker Mike Johnson, playing the human air freshener
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Pegasus In A Flag Pin: How ICE Built a Dragnet For Your Phone, Your Doctor, and Your Feeds
They call it “discipline” and “modernization,” but it walks like illegal mass surveillance, chills speech like a gag order, and it is the biggest story no one on primetime wants to say plainly. I am not here to soothe you. I am here to describe a machine that has been assembled in plain sight while
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The Ceasefire That Fired Back: We’re Totally Surprised….it lasted this long
There are moments in history when language becomes so thoroughly mangled that it folds in on itself. This week, that word is ceasefire. Once a term for stopping violence, it now means “repositioning artillery for improved optics.” The latest headlines read like a tragic parody: Israel launched new strikes across Gaza after Prime Minister Benjamin
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Welcome to the Golden Age of Layoffs: Where Jobs Go to Die and Stocks Go to Heaven
There’s an old rule in politics: if you can’t fix the problem, fire the statistician. And sure enough, President Trump has done exactly that, sacking the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the crime of arithmetic. Because in this second-term economy, math itself has become subversive. Without the Bureau’s honest numbers, the government
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Congratulations, You’re the Plot Twist: How America Outsourced the Apocalypse to Itself
If you can’t see the connection between mass layoffs, record unemployment, AI automation, a government shutdown, SNAP benefit lapses, National Guard deployments, and the quiet rollout of digital IDs, congratulations. You are not “woke,” you are not “unbothered,” and you are not “staying out of politics.” You are the unpaid extra in a dystopian reboot
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Trump Passed His Dementia Test and Is Thankful He Studied
Some presidents measure success by legislation passed, crises avoided, or wars prevented. Ours measures it by whether he can remember five random words in the right order. This week, President Donald Trump announced—again—that he “aced” his dementia test, a boast that feels less like an assurance of cognitive health and more like a cry for
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First They Came for the Punchlines: A Modern Adaptation for the Age of Selective Outrage
Pastor Martin Niemöller’s famous warning, “First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out…” has been printed on everything from posters to classroom walls to dorm room tapestries. It has become a kind of moral shorthand for complicity, a poem that whispers to history students, “Don’t wait until it’s your turn.” And