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When Disrespect Becomes a Death Sentence: How the killing of Renee Good reveals a country choosing power over law.
The story of Renee Good has been rushed through the public bloodstream as a tragic misunderstanding, a split second decision, an unavoidable outcome of chaos. That framing is not just wrong. It is a strategy. It exists to dull outrage, to compress accountability, and to normalize a level of state violence that should stop the
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Trump Calls Fentanyl a Weapon of Mass Destruction, and the Iraq War Echo Starts Clearing Its Throat
When you rename a crisis, you also rename what you’re allowed to do about it. If you ever want to watch a government change the shape of reality without changing the underlying problem, pay attention to vocabulary. Not the boring vocabulary, not the kind that lives in briefing binders, but the kind that arrives with
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Trump and MAGA’s Fake Outrage Over Charlie Kirk Rhetoric Takes Center Stage Amidst Tragic Loss of Rob Reiner
A national treasure, a grieving family, and a president who still thinks empathy is for losers. There are certain moments when a country quietly tests its own spine. Not in a grand, cinematic way, not with flags and speeches, but in the small, practical way a human being looks at another human being’s grief and
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America’s Food Safety Is So Broken That Even the Experts Eat Like They’re Disarming a Bomb
When your dinner order starts to sound like a legal deposition, something has gone very wrong There is a moment, somewhere between opening a menu and making eye contact with the waiter, when modern Americans are expected to perform confidence. We scan descriptions of leafy greens and artisanal toppings, nod thoughtfully at words like fresh
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Bondi Beach and the Paperwork After the Sirens
A terror attack, a nation in shock, and the familiar moment when everyone realizes the system worked exactly as designed, which is to say too late. Bondi Beach is supposed to be the place Australia sends to the world as proof of ease. Sun, water, the soft promise that life can be simple if you
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2028: Democrats Need A New Deal For A New Era
By 2028 the Democratic Party must stop running as a cautious maintenance crew and instead offer an unapologetic governing vision that begins with abolishing the filibuster to enable majority rule, then moves swiftly into universal government-backed health care, aggressive antitrust enforcement, modern gun safety laws, and a rebalanced tax code that raises rates on billionaires…
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Abraham Quintanilla, The Father Who Built the Selena Vault, Has Died and the Locks Are Still Warm
Abraham Isaac Quintanilla Jr. was the architect, the gatekeeper, the father, the manager, and the human perimeter fence around Selena’s life, and now that he’s gone, the argument over protection versus possession will keep pacing the room. Abraham Isaac Quintanilla Jr., Selena Quintanilla-Pérez’s father, longtime manager, and the engine behind Selena y Los Dinos, died
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Israel and Gaza: Ceasefire With an Asterisk
A “targeted” hit, a disputed death, civilian casualties, and the world’s most brittle truce doing that familiar thing where it pretends it can survive physics. Israel announced it carried out a targeted strike in Gaza City that it says killed Raed Saed (also rendered Raad Saad), described by the Israeli military as a senior Hamas
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The Remake is Always Worse: Why the War on Venezuela is Just the Iraq Script with an Orange Trump Filter
We have seen this movie before, and spoiler alert: the ending involves a lot of sand, a lot of blood, and absolutely zero refunds. The American military machine has always had a flair for the cinematic, but the recent seizure of the oil tanker Skipper off the coast of Venezuela felt less like a naval
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The Red Hat Welfare State: Trump’s $12 Billion “Bridge” Is Just a Toll Road You Paid For Twice
Welcome to the Golden Age of Conservative Socialism, where the government is the problem unless you own a tractor, in which case the government is a limitless ATM. There is a specific, bitter irony that settles in when you watch a political movement dedicated to “free markets” and “personal responsibility” suddenly decide that the federal