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Trump Justice Department’s Loyalty Program: Prosecuting Critics for Points
There’s something almost admirable about the efficiency of it all. America’s justice system, once the weary guardian of impartial law, now runs like a Vegas rewards app for political vendettas. Axios’ reporting on the “enemies to defendants” scoreboard inside Trump’s Justice Department reads like dystopian fan fiction written by a disbarred screenwriter who found QAnon
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The Moral Collapse of MAGA: How Hitler Memes Became Conservative Icebreakers
There’s a certain nausea in watching a nation re-enact its own moral autopsy and call it performance art. You scroll through Politico’s leak of the “Young Republicans” group chat, where grown men with government titles type “I love Hitler” like it’s an inside joke at a frat mixer, and then you flip to The Atlantic’s
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Top Secret, Do Not Forward: The Bolton Doctrine of National Security Scrapbooking
The federal government has finally located the one man in Washington who can make Donald Trump’s document crimes look like a Marie Kondo project. His name, once again, is John R. Bolton—a man whose mustache has seen more classified briefings than most senators. According to a newly unsealed federal indictment in Maryland, Bolton, the hawkish
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Trump’s Failing Ceasefire That’s Cosplaying As A Peace Plan
At the midpoint between “mission accomplished” and “please hold,” the Gaza ceasefire now lives in the liminal space where optimism is just fatigue wearing better clothes. Cameras caught the handshakes, the solemn statements, the flags arranged like theater props—but now the applause has faded, and the work has begun to creak under its own paperwork.
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The Great San Francisco Photo Op: Trump Plans His Next ICE Invasion
There are few things more American than a trial balloon floated before breakfast and litigated by lunch. This week’s episode comes courtesy of President Donald Trump, who told reporters he is “considering” sending National Guard troops into San Francisco. The comment, equal parts threat and theater, landed with the kind of bureaucratic thud that rattles
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Shutdown Theater: When Trump Decided the Government Works Better Without Workers
It takes a special kind of government to run a shutdown like a start-up.A federal judge just told the Trump administration—again—that firing thousands of workers in the middle of a shutdown isn’t “streamlining.” It’s illegal. But if you squint hard enough and forget about laws, ethics, and human beings, you can almost admire the logic.
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The Death of Facts: How Ring Wing America Replaced Reality with Programming
There was a time, not all that long ago, when America had one reality. It wasn’t perfect, but at least it was shared. We all tuned in to Walter Cronkite or Peter Jennings or Dan Rather. The evening news would come on, everyone would collectively lower their voices, and for thirty blessed minutes the country
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The Last WTF: Marc Maron, Barack Obama, and the Funeral for American Adulthood
There’s a particular tone you can hear only in the voice of a man who has seen the apocalypse, accepted it, and still shows up for soundcheck. Marc Maron has been that voice for sixteen years—equal parts therapy session, post-mortem, and open-mic confession booth—and on October 13, 2025, he turned off the mic for good.
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When the Cult of Personality Goes Biblical: Trump as the Antichrist (From An Atheist Who Doesn’t Believe in Such Things)
There’s an old superstition that when the world begins to eat itself, a showman appears to tell it the apocalypse is just a ratings opportunity. Even if you don’t believe in God, hell, or horned beasts rising from the sea, you have to admit that Donald Trump’s recent “peace deal” in the Middle East reads
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Sugar High or Crash Diet? How Sorkin Says AI Is Fueling America’s Next Reboot: 1929 Stock Market Crash
You knew it would happen: someone on 60 Minutes lifting it all up, peering into the neon smog of 2025, and muttering, “I think it’s a bubble.” That someone was Andrew Ross Sorkin. As markets wobble after tariff threats, Sorkin told Lesley Stahl that today’s economy is being propped up by an AI sugar rush—hundreds