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  • Shutdown, Smear, & Scapegoat: How GOP Messaging Became the Crisis

    Shutdown, Smear, & Scapegoat: How GOP Messaging Became the Crisis

    There’s something theatrically grotesque about a nation grinding to a halt while its communications director snarls into a microphone that the party in control of half the electorate is really a coalition of “Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals.” On October 17, 2025, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt breathed those words on Fox

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  • Artillery Over the 405: America’s Longest Traffic Jam Turns Into a Military Parade

    Artillery Over the 405: America’s Longest Traffic Jam Turns Into a Military Parade

    There’s something quintessentially American about the sight of artillery fire streaking across a highway full of Teslas. It’s not just the juxtaposition of power and paralysis, of steel ambition and rubberized helplessness—it’s that we managed to turn an interstate into a battlefield metaphor without even noticing. On October 18, 2025, California drivers got front-row seats

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  • Is America Replaying 1930s Germany? Trump, Fascism, and the Creep We Pretend Not to See

    Is America Replaying 1930s Germany? Trump, Fascism, and the Creep We Pretend Not to See

    I remember sitting in history class as a kid and staring at the photos they always brought out for the chapter on Germany, the ones with the flags and the straight lines and the faces that were either rapturous or empty, and thinking how did they let this happen. I was convinced there must have

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  • The Lines We Draw: Trump’s Supreme Court Decides Racism Needs A Reboot

    The Lines We Draw: Trump’s Supreme Court Decides Racism Needs A Reboot

    Every few years, America remembers that it is technically a democracy, dusts off its maps, and starts drawing lines like a toddler with too many crayons and not enough supervision. This week, that coloring session moved to the Supreme Court, where the justices heard oral arguments in the latest Voting Rights Act showdown out of

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  • Disarm or Disaster? The Gaza Ceasefire’s Tightrope Act

    Disarm or Disaster? The Gaza Ceasefire’s Tightrope Act

    Welcome to “Peace as Spectacle, Round Two.” The ceasefire’s first act produced something concrete: all 20 living Israeli hostages were handed over, hundreds of Palestinian detainees released, IDF pullbacks commenced, and aid convoys began crossing. But now the sequel begins, with disclaimers: Netanyahu insists that Hamas must “give up its arms or all hell breaks

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  • Glitter, Glam, and Grand Larceny: The Real Housewives of Insurance Fraud

    Glitter, Glam, and Grand Larceny: The Real Housewives of Insurance Fraud

    In what can only be described as a collaboration between Law & Order: SVU and Real Housewives of Potomac, NBC News reports that Dr. Wendy Osefo and her husband, Edward, have been arrested in Maryland for allegedly staging a home burglary to collect a fat insurance payout. Yes, you read that right. Another week, another

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  • Chicago Judge Hits Pause on Trump’s Troop Show: Sovereignty on Life Support

    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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  • Marjorie Taylor Greene Discovers Health Care Costs Money: A MAGA Swan Breaks Formation

    Marjorie Taylor Greene Discovers Health Care Costs Money: A MAGA Swan Breaks Formation

    If you’ve been wondering what happens when a political creature of pure MAGA instinct suddenly develops a pre-existing condition called “reality,” you need look no further than Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s recent metamorphosis. NBC News reported on October 9, 2025, that Greene—yes, the same woman who once made headlines for chasing David Hogg through Capitol

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  • The Supreme Court’s New Term: Now Playing, the Trump Cinematic Universe of Unlimited Power

    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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