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Trump Administration’s New Favorite Hobby: Indicting Your Political Enemies (Now Featuring Letitia James)
Welcome to the new normal, where the Justice Department is not a neutral institution but a courtroom carnival that rolls through town every few months with fresh political headhunts. On October 9, 2025, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on charges of bank fraud
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Chicago Judge Hits Pause on Trump’s Troop Show: Sovereignty on Life Support
When America elects a man who treats the Constitution like a napkin for his Diet Coke spills, you get weeks like this: federal helicopters dangling agents over Chicago apartment buildings, immigration patrols conducting fashion-police stops downtown, and the President attempting to cosplay Lincoln while importing National Guard troops from Texas as if Illinois were suddenly
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Liberty Vote or Liberty Lost? Why Dominion’s Sale to a GOP-Led Company Should Make Us All Nervous
On October 9, 2025, the Associated Press confirmed what election administrators had been whispering about: Dominion Voting Systems—the same company dragged through the mud with lies about 2020—has been sold. The buyer? Liberty Vote, a newly formed company led by Scott Leiendecker, a former Republican election official and founder of pollbook vendor KNOWiNK. The purchase
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Trump’s Secret Messaging Ministry: When Truth Social Becomes the Oval Office’s Broken Pager
Once upon a time, presidents used secure lines, classified document systems, and the color-coded envelopes of official communication. Now, Donald Trump apparently prefers his cabinet to conspire via Truth Social direct messages. That’s not just sloppy—it’s a violation of everything grownups in government swear by. Using a public social app as a back-channel is like
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The Party of No Consequences: Why Approval Ratings Are a Dead Metric in a Dead Democracy
There was a time back when reality TV was still filmed in actual mansions and not in crumbling democracies that people used to care about approval ratings. Pollsters would trot out their little charts, cable news would plaster bar graphs across the chyron like an EKG of democracy itself, and voters would argue about whether
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America’s Great Sleepwalk Amongst Fascism: Snoring Through the Funeral of Democracy
The first rule of dying democracies is that nobody notices until the casket is already lowered into the ground. By then, the guests are too busy checking their phones to clap, or to care, or to even remember whose funeral they’re attending. America, it turns out, is the kind of family that shows up late
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Pam Bondi’s Great Stonewall Revue: How to Say Nothing for Hours While Redecorating the Constitution
On October 7, 2025, Attorney General Pam Bondi finally got her Senate Judiciary oversight debut. The cameras rolled. The senators fanned themselves like gossipy dowagers. Bondi smiled that Florida-gated-community smile—the one that says I have seen the HOA bylaws and I intend to enforce them with prejudice. For hours, she spoke in what can only
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Stephen Miller’s Plenary Power Hour: When Fascism Becomes a Talking Point
On October 7, 2025, in what might generously be called a “CNN moment” (though it felt more like a YouTube conspiracy livestream accidentally slipped into prime time), Stephen Miller declared with a straight face that Donald Trump has “plenary authority.” He said it in the kind of lawyerly monotone that makes you think it’s a
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Remember the Alamo, Forget the Constitution: Texas Invades Chicago with the National Guard
It’s official: Greg Abbott has discovered a new frontier in hypocrisy. On a crisp October morning, Texans awoke to the news that their governor had dispatched National Guard troops—not to guard the Texas border, not to respond to a hurricane, not even to escort Ted Cruz home from Cancun—but to Chicago. Against Illinois’ wishes. Against
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The Supreme Court’s New Term: Now Playing, the Trump Cinematic Universe of Unlimited Power
On October 6, 2025, the United States Supreme Court flung open its majestic marble doors to launch the 2025–26 term, and the BBC wasted no time pointing out what the docket really is: a season pass to the Trump Expanded Universe, where executive power is both the script and the punchline. Forget your garden-variety disputes