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The Guard Was Called (and Illinois Put On Notice)
The White House confirmed that the president authorized federalization of three hundred Illinois National Guard troops to “protect federal officers and assets” in Chicago. Governor J.B. Pritzker answered with fury, saying he had been handed a manufactured performance disguised as an ultimatum: activate the Guard himself or watch Washington seize control. The move followed a
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The Clean-Energy Purge: Trump Axes Billions While Blue States Burn
Once upon a shutdown, the Department of Energy quietly became an executioner. In the first two days of October, with government stalled and Congress gridlocked, the Trump administration canceled roughly $7.56 billion in clean-energy funding—snatching away support from 223 projects across 16 Democratic-leaning states. Projects included caliber hydrogen hubs in California and the Pacific Northwest,
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Day One of the Fascist Purge: Russ Vought of OMB Plans to Punish Democrats
The shutdown was supposed to be about budgets. Instead, it has become a bonfire of the civil service, and the match is being struck in Russ Vought’s hand. On the first day of the shutdown, he told House Republicans that mass firings would begin “in a day or two.” This wasn’t speculation. He described a
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Trump at Quantico: A Live Lie Broadcast—And the Camera Didn’t Stop Rolling
He stood before a sea of stars and bars and medals—generals, admirals, the brass elite—at Marine Corps Base Quantico. The optics were as cinematic as any rally: the uniforms glinting, the flags waving, the towers of power gathered in homage. Into that tableau walked Donald Trump, armed with a speech filled with rhetorical grenades. According
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Being Good at Goodbye
The hardest skill I ever learned was not empathy or leadership or writing a book. It was goodbye. Goodbye is the only thing I’ve been allowed to master. It’s the only certificate hanging on the wall. Some people collect diplomas; I collect exits. I don’t mean the cinematic goodbye—the one where a person drives off
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Dominion and Giuliani’s $1.3 Billion Secret Settlement: When Lies Pay and Democracy Gets the Bill
There’s a peculiar magic trick the powerful love: make a noise so loud it draws attention, then vanish the outcome so no one can reverse-engineer the fraud. Yesterday, a mammoth defamation case—one purporting to demand $1.3 billion from a man who spent years amplifying election falsehoods—ended not in a verdict or a sensation, but in
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Tariff Tsunami: Trump’s Import Spike Crushes Farms, Homes & Health
It is not hyperbole to say that on one cheerful afternoon in late September, President Trump rolled out a tariff package that feels like a slow-motion economic apocalypse. Effective October 1, the administration slapped a 100 percent tariff on pharmaceutical drugs, 50 percent on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities, 30 percent on upholstered furniture, and
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Epstein and Trump: Best Friends Forever on the Mall
If Washington, D.C. is America’s front lawn, then the National Mall is the part where we put out our most awkward lawn ornaments. Statues to presidents, monuments to wars, the occasional scaffolding around the Capitol—these are the ornaments meant to convey gravitas. So when a 12-foot bronze-finished sculpture depicting Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding
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Trump Cancels Talks, Shutdown Clock Ticks Louder
There are rituals in Washington that feel less like governance and more like reruns of a bad reality show. One of the longest-running is the shutdown dance: leaders promise to meet, promise to negotiate, promise to avert disaster—and then someone flips the table, storms out, and insists the other side ruined dinner. This week, the