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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
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Abbott offering Texas Troops To Invade Portland and Chicago? Confederate Nostalgia in Combat Boots
It takes a special kind of delusion to believe that the way to solve your state’s problems is to march your soldiers into someone else’s backyard. And yet, here we are: Texas National Guard troops, under orders from Republican leadership, staging deployments into Chicago and Oregon. No invitation, no local mandate, just the swagger of
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Republicans Know How to Win, Democrats Know How to Lose, Let’s Steal the Playbook and Keep Our Souls
If American politics were a sport, Republicans would be the team that shows up in matching uniforms, drills the exact same play for three seasons, and then executes it with a discipline usually reserved for marching bands and cults. Democrats, by contrast, would be the club team made up of brilliant but argumentative grad students
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Why “Be Civil” Is a Trap and How to Reclaim Argument Without Letting Authoritarians Win
There is a comfortable version of civic medicine that liberals love to prescribe: a warm sermon about niceness, a gentle chiding to turn down the volume, a plea to swap Twitter tirades for polite coffee with people you secretly loathe. It sounds virtuous, and in a vacuum it would be. But these are not normal
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“Democrat Layoffs” and the Great Shutdown Purge
Day five of the shutdown, and the White House’s playbook just got darker. At 12:01 a.m. on October 1, federal funding lapsed. By October 5, director Kevin Hassett appeared on State of the Union to publicly warn: yes, mass federal layoffs could begin—if Trump deems negotiations “going nowhere.” He framed this as a conditional escalation,
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“You’ll Still Be Paid”—But the Pentagon Says Nope: The Trump Shutdown Delusion
At a Navy ceremony touting 250 years of might, President Trump looked out over ranks of sailors and Marines and vowed: despite the government shutdown, service members “will still be paid”—teasing raises and calling the promise ironclad. Watching that, one might imagine gold coins raining from the sky onto fatigued boots. But the legal landscape
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Court of Maximum Ambition: How the Supreme Court Became the President’s Side Hustle
The curtain rises on a new Supreme Court term, and the docket does not so much whisper “constitutional law” as scream “everything you thought had limits now up for grabs.” Imagine a roulette table where the chips are tariffs, citizenship, regulators, voting rights, sports teams, and campaign cash. The wheel spins, the croupier smirks, and
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Brighton Park Shooting, Tear Gas, and the Shutdown Spectacle: How DHS Turned Chicago Into a Border War Zone
The city was promised patrols, deterrence, maybe a few stern traffic stops. What it got instead was a rolling combat scene: Border Patrol convoys pinned in, a U.S. citizen shot, a neighborhood suffocated in tear gas, and a shutdown government still finding time to flex its muscle in Brighton Park. It is the latest installment