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  • Trump’s Gaza Ultimatum: 20 Points, 72 Hours, and a Peace Plan Written in Smoke

    Trump’s Gaza Ultimatum: 20 Points, 72 Hours, and a Peace Plan Written in Smoke

    The spectacle began at the White House: President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu had unveiled a “Gaza plan”—twenty bullet-points in a scripted ultimatum: Hamas must return all hostages within seventy-two hours. Once that’s done (or claimed done), Israel would reciprocate with the release of 250 Palestinians serving life terms, plus some 1,700 Gazans detained…

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  • Truck, Guns & Fire at Church: The Grand Blanc Massacre, the Vet Suspect, and America’s House-of-Worship Nightmare

    Truck, Guns & Fire at Church: The Grand Blanc Massacre, the Vet Suspect, and America’s House-of-Worship Nightmare

    The morning sun in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, had barely cleared the steeples when violence crashed into the sanctuary. What was meant to be a day of worship became an inferno of terror: a truck barreled into a church foyer, gunfire roared, gasoline ignited flames, and an Iraq-war veteran now lies dead among the debris.…

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  • The Coup That Wasn’t: Trump and the Fantasy of FBI Agents in the Crowd

    The Coup That Wasn’t: Trump and the Fantasy of FBI Agents in the Crowd

    It’s not just revisionism. It’s fiction masquerading as revelation. On a Saturday morning, the former president posted on his social feed that the FBI “secretly placed” 274 agents into the January 6 crowd—agents who, Trump implied, likely acted as “agitators and insurrectionists.” It was his best shot yet at reframing the riot not as mob…

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  • The New Perjury Standard: A Partisan Scalpel For Comey

    The New Perjury Standard: A Partisan Scalpel For Comey

    Somewhere between the solemnity of congressional hearings and the cheap thrill of cable news lies a phrase so heavy it used to rattle marble columns: lying to Congress. It once suggested disgrace, a scarlet letter on a public servant’s record. Now it is being hauled out as a courtroom cudgel, with prosecutors preparing to indict…

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  • Epstein and Trump: Best Friends Forever on the Mall

    If Washington, D.C. is America’s front lawn, then the National Mall is the part where we put out our most awkward lawn ornaments. Statues to presidents, monuments to wars, the occasional scaffolding around the Capitol—these are the ornaments meant to convey gravitas. So when a 12-foot bronze-finished sculpture depicting Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding…

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  • Elon Musk and the Free-Speech Flamethrower: How One Billionaire Turned Tragedy Into Trending Content

    Elon Musk and the Free-Speech Flamethrower: How One Billionaire Turned Tragedy Into Trending Content

    Charlie Kirk is dead, felled by a bullet that cracked open the already brittle shell of American politics. A tragedy, a headline, an FBI investigation with reward money stapled to it. And then, like clockwork, Elon Musk did what Elon Musk always does: treated the entire ordeal as if it were just another opportunity to…

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  • When Separation of Powers Becomes Separation Anxiety

    When Separation of Powers Becomes Separation Anxiety

    The Supreme Court has once again reminded us that the Constitution is less a sacred text and more a choose-your-own-adventure paperback where one ending includes civil liberties and the other ends with Donald Trump auditioning for The Apprentice: Federal Agencies Edition. On September 22, 2025, the Court—in a tidy little 6–3 order—handed President Trump what…

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  • How Trump Invented the Two-Tiered System of Human Decency

    How Trump Invented the Two-Tiered System of Human Decency

    The Scene at Glendale The memorial for Charlie Kirk was never going to be quiet. A man whose career thrived on microphones and grievance could hardly be remembered in whispers. So when President Donald Trump stood at the podium in Glendale and declared that this was a time for “respect” and “civility,” it was almost…

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  • The Stadium as Cathedral: Charlie Kirk’s Resurrection Tour

    The Stadium as Cathedral: Charlie Kirk’s Resurrection Tour

    America has never been subtle about grief. We brand it, stream it, and sell t-shirts out of the trunk. But even for a country that once turned the O.J. trial into a daytime soap, what happened inside State Farm Stadium in Glendale was… operatic. Or maybe that’s too generous—let’s call it what it was: a…

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  • Charlie Kirk: The First Time the GOP Has Cared About a School Shooting

    Charlie Kirk: The First Time the GOP Has Cared About a School Shooting

    They say tragedy unites. They also say power corrupts. In America right now, we’re seeing how the former becomes the latter—fast. Because in the days following Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Republicans escalated their post-martyr politics from solemn resolutions in Congress all the way into statehouses, into speech bills, statues, free speech holidays, and threats of passport…

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