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  • Congratulations, You’re the Plot Twist: How America Outsourced the Apocalypse to Itself

    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

    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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  • The Ballots Are Coming From Inside the Mailbox: Trump’s Latest Election-Rigging Hallucination Hits the Road

    The Ballots Are Coming From Inside the Mailbox: Trump’s Latest Election-Rigging Hallucination Hits the Road

    Donald Trump has logged on again, which means logic has logged off. His latest Truth Social rant claims that the 2020 election was “Rigged and Stolen,” that mail-in voting should be banned, and that California’s Prop 50 redistricting referendum will have “Millions” of fake ballots “shipped” in. He offered no proof, no evidence, no math—just

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  • Sudden Silence From Hunter Biden Outrage: How the Trumps Turned Public Office into Private Equity

    Sudden Silence From Hunter Biden Outrage: How the Trumps Turned Public Office into Private Equity

    America loves a good family business story—until it involves the government, a few billion in Gulf money, and a golf tournament sponsored by a monarchy. For years, the public has been treated to breathless coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop, that Rosetta Stone of speculation and projection. But while every congressional hearing and cable chyron has

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  • Gavin Newsom Has Entered The 2028 Presidential Chat

    Gavin Newsom Has Entered The 2028 Presidential Chat

    Some politicians run for president. Others just wait until the universe hands them a feud that doubles as an audition. Gavin Newsom appears to have found his in a televised spat about truck drivers, English proficiency, and the statistical miracle of California’s 40% lower fatal crash rate. During his CBS News Sunday Morning interview, Newsom

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  • Trump’s Biggest Win Isn’t in Court It’s in the Newsroom

    Trump’s Biggest Win Isn’t in Court It’s in the Newsroom

    As billionaire owners consolidate outlets and executives sand down the truth, America’s press swaps watchdog bite for brand-safe whispers while power tightens the faucet on facts. I keep a short list of American rituals that used to mean something: the Fourth of July, jury duty, and a headline that calls a thing what it is.

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  • The Basket Was Too Small: America’s Deplorable MAGA Problem Is a Feature, Not a Bug

    The Basket Was Too Small: America’s Deplorable MAGA Problem Is a Feature, Not a Bug

    There was a time when Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” remark was treated as a political scandal, a supposed gaffe that confirmed her elitism. The pundits clutched pearls, the right performed outrage, and the press dissected it like a frog in biology class. But looking back, she wasn’t wrong; she was being polite. If anything,

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  • The Dronefather: How Trump Turned the Sky into a Family Business

    The Dronefather: How Trump Turned the Sky into a Family Business

    It starts, as all American dystopias do, with a slogan and a waiver. On June 6, President Trump signed two executive orders declaring it was time to “unleash American drone dominance” and “restore airspace sovereignty.” Which sounds patriotic enough—until you realize it’s the bureaucratic equivalent of saying, “We’re going to fill the sky with surveillance

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  • The Great Denaturalization Reboot: When Patriotism Became a Costume Party For MAGA

    The Great Denaturalization Reboot: When Patriotism Became a Costume Party For MAGA

    It’s happening again. The right has discovered a thrilling new hobby: pretending the Fourteenth Amendment is optional. Apparently, “We the People” now comes with a disclaimer—“unless you’re Muslim, queer, left of Ronald Reagan, or pronounce your name with too many vowels.” Across talk radio, committee hearings, and influencer podcasts with the production value of a

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  • Trump’s Federal Eyes At Your Precinct Door, Brought To You By The People Who Keep Screaming Fraud

    Trump’s Federal Eyes At Your Precinct Door, Brought To You By The People Who Keep Screaming Fraud

    The first thing to understand is that the suit with the clipboard is not there for you. That’s the official line, of course. The Justice Department says the monitors are there to “protect voting rights,” “ensure transparency,” and “uphold the integrity of the process.” They’re being dispatched to six jurisdictions: Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Kern,

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