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Judicial Interference and Other Inconvenient Miracles: How Two Judges Just Fed America While the White House Starved It for Sport
Somewhere between the concept of governance and the art of extortion, the Trump administration decided that feeding 42 million Americans during a shutdown was “optional.” The Department of Agriculture, apparently moonlighting as a nihilist book club, announced it would simply stop issuing SNAP benefits when the clock struck midnight on the first of the month.
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Break the Glass, Save the House: A Field Manual for Democrats Who Are Tired of Being the Only Adults in a Burning Room
There is a moment in every family crisis when the responsible sibling realizes that being responsible is not the same thing as being effective. You can tidy while the kitchen burns. You can organize receipts while the roof caves in. You can stand there with your binder of excellent plans and watch a cousin rewire
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Mayor of America: The Case for Pete Buttigieg, Competence’s 2028 Stand
Somewhere in the churning, meme-choked fog of modern politics, competence became uncool. Governing got rebranded as “deep state meddling.” And the people who actually know how to do things—like fix a bridge, regulate a train, or refund a plane ticket—got replaced by men who post. So maybe it’s time we talk about Pete Buttigieg. Because
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How to Nuke a Rule: Trump, the Filibuster, and the Illusion of Process
When Donald Trump takes to Truth Social to explain constitutional procedure, it’s like watching a raccoon perform heart surgery. The confidence is unmatched, the tools are wrong, and yet somehow half the country insists he’s reinventing medicine. This week, Trump posted what might be his most nakedly authoritarian policy demand to date: “Republicans must use
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When Facts Become Fireable Offenses: DOJ Suspends Two US Attorneys Over January 6th Truth Telling
It takes a special kind of government dysfunction to turn a routine sentencing memo into a constitutional crisis. Yet here we are. Multiple outlets confirmed this week that two Assistant U.S. Attorneys, Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White, were placed on administrative leave—mere hours after filing a memo that did the unthinkable: it described January 6
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Trump Wants to Hear the Desert Scream Again: The Sound of Nuclear in a Country That Forgot What Fallout Smells Like
There’s a certain poetry to it, really. A president who once bragged about acing a dementia test now wants to bring back nuclear testing, apparently to prove he can still make something explode. In a pre-summit flourish that left even his own defense officials blinking through radiation metaphors, Donald Trump announced that he had directed
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The Missing Congresswoman: How Mike Johnson Turned a 42-Point Win Into a Hostage Situation
It takes a special kind of cynicism to lose an election by forty-two points and still claim victory through bureaucracy. Enter Speaker Mike Johnson, the man who can make “government by inaction” sound like constitutional originalism. Adelita Grijalva—daughter of longtime Arizona Representative Raúl Grijalva, former Tucson school board president, and newly elected congresswoman for Arizona’s
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The Starve and Shred Strategy: How Trump Turned the Shutdown Into a Weapon of Mass Deprivation
By now, Americans should know better than to mistake cruelty for incompetence. But here we are again, watching a government shutdown framed as bureaucratic “discipline” when it’s really just budgetary arson disguised as fiscal virtue. The Bulwark’s analysis this week pulled the curtain all the way back. Speaker Mike Johnson, playing the human air freshener
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Pegasus In A Flag Pin: How ICE Built a Dragnet For Your Phone, Your Doctor, and Your Feeds
They call it “discipline” and “modernization,” but it walks like illegal mass surveillance, chills speech like a gag order, and it is the biggest story no one on primetime wants to say plainly. I am not here to soothe you. I am here to describe a machine that has been assembled in plain sight while
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The Hunger Games: Trump Edition — How to Manufacture a SNAP Crisis in Three Easy Bureaucratic Steps
When the Trump administration announced it was freezing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for more than forty-one million Americans during the shutdown, the official explanation was simple: fiscal responsibility. The unofficial one was simpler: cruelty is the point, and hunger is a feature, not a bug. Now, twenty-five Democratic-led states and Washington, D.C., are