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Trump Is The Speaker of The House and Mike Johnson Forgot How to Speak
Somewhere between the Capitol dome and Mar-a-Lago, the People’s House misplaced its voice. The New York Times tried to call it “a portrait,” but it read more like an autopsy. Speaker Mike Johnson, the man theoretically third in line to the presidency, has kept the House out of session for most of the shutdown, spending
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Arctic Frostbite: How Trump’s DOJ Turned Revenge Into a Branch of Government
Some scandals melt under scrutiny. Others freeze time itself—like Operation Arctic Frost, the FBI’s now-infamous 2022 election-interference investigation that asked a few telecom companies for call logs and somehow got rebranded as the new Watergate. The facts were simple enough: the Bureau, approved at senior levels by Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray, and Lisa Monaco, used
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Trump’s Meme Administration: When the Government’s Group Chat Took Over the Country
Somewhere between the press briefing room and a Fortnite lobby, the machinery of American governance appears to have been replaced by a collection of preteens armed with official seals, a ring light, and an unhealthy relationship with social media validation. The official feeds of the White House, DOJ, Pentagon, and assorted Cabinet offices now read
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Democrats Don’t Need a Savior. We Need to Stop Suffocating Hope
There’s a new morality tale making the rounds in political media, and this time it stars Graham Platner, the tattooed Maine oysterman who tried to run for Senate, briefly became a folk hero, and then turned into the cautionary example in Politico Magazine’s think piece about how Democrats keep “falling for fantasies.” Their argument: Democrats
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Zohran Mamdani: Building Bridges While The Ignorant Builds Walls
If you walked into Astoria today and asked what it looks like when a politician actually organizes for the people—not the patrons, not the press hits, but the ten-ants—they’d mention one name more than any other: Zohran Mamdani. Born in Queens, raised between Kampala and Doha, organizer-turned–New York State Assembly member, now casting a wide
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Trump sold who the Pentagon? Inside America’s First Crowdfunded Military Payroll
There’s something exquisitely American about a shutdown that ends with the Pentagon passing a hat. Somewhere between a bake sale and a Bond villain subplot, the Department of Defense just accepted a $130 million “gift” from an anonymous donor—yes, a literal donation—to help pay soldiers’ salaries while the government remains closed for business. President Trump,
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Divide, Distract, Deregulate, Disappear: Your Anger Was Focus-Grouped
Culture-war noise keeps you busy while antitrust is gutted, noncompetes spread, and public money builds luxury towers. The Hand in Your Pocket Is Wearing a Cufflink The oldest magic trick in politics begins with a sigh and ends with your wallet. The sigh is theatrical, “What is happening to our great nation?”, and the wallet
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America’s New Marching Orders: How to Turn the National Guard Into a Campaign Prop (and Still Call It “Public Safety”)
There’s a special kind of genius in bureaucratic evil—the kind that hides a revolution inside a memo. The latest leak out of the Pentagon reads less like a defense directive and more like a stage direction for an authoritarian dress rehearsal: by April 1, 2026, every state’s National Guard must have a rapid “Response Force”
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Genuflecting Giants: How the Right, the Media & Big Tech Bungled Their Own Catechism to Worship Trump’s Tiny Orbs
There’s a peculiar, humiliating ritual underway in Washington—and it’s not about crowns or scepters so much as knee-bends. The entire ecosystem of Republicans, big media empires, and corporations is tilting toward Donald Trump with a devotion that erases the very principles they once claimed as foundational. They weren’t just political allies—they were self-proclaimed guardians of
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How to Rig an Election While Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud
It’s 2025, which means we’re back in the part of the American cycle where politicians stop pretending to govern and start designing the next democracy-themed escape room. The new blueprint—marketed, ironically, as Never Again 2020—isn’t a conspiracy theory or a master plan. It’s a step-by-step guide written in bureaucratic beige and marketed as “election integrity.”