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From Gaza Clips to Nazi TikTok: How the Algorithm Funnels Kids to White Nationalism
When Tucker Carlson sits down for a warm, fireside-vibe chat with Nick Fuentes and the discourse acts shocked, maybe the real scandal is how quickly the algorithm now ushers young people from “criticizing a government” to “maybe Jews don’t belong in America.” Tucker Carlson has always been something of a political weather vane, albeit the
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Cornered Trump Starts Throwing Policy Spaghetti: Tariffs, Venezuela, MTG, Oh My!
Tariff reversals, Venezuela war drums, and a Truth Social tantrum at Marjorie Taylor Greene all collide in the shadow of an Epstein scandal that refuses to die The problem with political improvisation, the real danger beneath the theatrics, is not that it looks chaotic from the outside. It is that it feels orderly to the
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Trump’s Epstein Problem: The Dog That Finally Barked at 218 Signatures
Congress rarely moves with speed unless it is the speed of decay. But once in a generation, the planets align, a freshman gets sworn in on a Friday night, and the House of Representatives actually does something explosive by accident. This week, that accident arrived in the form of newly sworn in Representative Adelita Grijalva,
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Democrats End a 43-Day Shutdown by Arguing Over the Debris
There are many ways to end a government shutdown. You can compromise. You can capitulate. Or, if you are the Democratic Party, you can split into factions and hold a family intervention in the middle of a burning building. The forty-three-day shutdown ended the way every American civics textbook secretly dreams: not with a unifying
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Islam Isn’t Violent: State Sponsored Religion Is Violent
THE GOSPEL OF SELECTIVE OUTRAGE AND OTHER HOLY TRADITIONS WE PRETEND NOT TO NOTICE Religious superiority is the type of moral panic that spreads through America like pollen in spring, coating every surface, irritating every conversation, and triggering sneezes of self righteousness that echo for miles. The current strain is Islamophobia, a recycled political contagion
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Trump Tries To Probe More People Without Consent In Florida
There is a certain kind of breaking news alert that feels less like journalism and more like a smoke alarm that only goes off after the house is already engulfed. The latest comes from the Southern District of Florida, the federal jurisdiction that has spent the past decade juggling everything from Mar a Lago search
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Congress Invents a Cash Prize for Being Investigated, Because Nothing Says Accountability Like Suing the Government for Doing Its Job
There is a special kind of American hypocrisy that blossoms only when senators learn that the law, the boring gray machinery of subpoenas and court orders, might apply to them. It is the kind of hypocrisy that smells like cologne, leather briefcases, and fear. And here we are again, watching lawmakers sprint down the Capitol
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Pardonpalooza: Trump’s Get Out of Jail Free Card For Those Who Helped Him Try To Steal the 2020 Election
There comes a moment in every political season when you realize the country is not being governed so much as improv’d, and the cast has decided to try audience participation. The latest spectacle arrived with a flourish of parchment and a press release drafted in what appears to be the disappointed sigh of the rule
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The Country Wanted a Trump Test of Chaos, So Let Them Have the Full Factory Tour
If the country insists on touching the stovetop again just to “make sure it’s still hot,” who am I to stand between a democracy and its favorite form of self-harm. There are moments in public life when you stop trying to warn people about the cliff and instead hand them binoculars so they can appreciate
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The Shutdown That Ate Democracy’s Homework: A Love Letter to Gridlock, Delusion, and the Filibuster Fetishists
There is a certain kind of American absurdity that only blossoms when the government is closed, the airports are melting down, and someone in the Senate has started speaking of the filibuster as if it is a religious relic discovered deep beneath the floor of the Capitol. You can almost set your watch by it.