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Hillary and Kamala Told You: A Double Ledger of Warnings They Laughed At and We Now Live In
History keeps receipts. Sometimes they’re in the form of subpoenas. Sometimes they’re in the form of women who told you exactly what would happen, then watched you pick the showman over the steward. This is that ledger. The one we were warned about. Twice. Once by Hillary Rodham Clinton, the woman mocked for sounding too
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Elon Musk and the Gospel of the Billionaire Brain Worm: From Flamethrowers to Neural Lace and Everything in Between
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who think Elon Musk is the next Da Vinci, and those who think he’s the world’s most expensive Reddit thread. After three hours on The Joe Rogan Experience, you can be forgiven for believing he’s both. Because when Musk starts talking, time stops being linear.
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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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The Art of the Tariff Deal: China Takes A Wrecking Ball To Trump
It takes a special kind of genius to spend ten months lighting the economy on fire only to celebrate putting out one match. President Donald Trump has done it again, staging a “historic tariff breakthrough” that cuts the fentanyl import duty from 20 percent to 10 percent and lowers the overall average tariff rate from
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Trump White House Halloween You Can’t Unsee: Voldemort, Maleficent, and the Budget Ring of Power
Under the glitter and smoke, the costumes translate into deregulation, propaganda, and cuts that land on real people. There are holidays that ask for reverence, others that ask for ritual. Halloween asks for honesty. Put the thing you want on your face and watch the room tell you who you are. At the White House,
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Paramount Skydance Presents: The Invisible Hand of the Market (Now Playing in Your Severance Package)
In the golden age of corporate synergy, nothing says “bold new era of storytelling” like firing two thousand storytellers. This week, Variety confirmed what everyone in media already felt vibrating under their cubicles—the long-rumored Paramount-Skydance merger has completed its most time-honored ritual: the bloodletting. Roughly 10 percent of the combined workforce—around 2,000 people—will soon discover
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The Ceasefire That Fired Back: We’re Totally Surprised….it lasted this long
There are moments in history when language becomes so thoroughly mangled that it folds in on itself. This week, that word is ceasefire. Once a term for stopping violence, it now means “repositioning artillery for improved optics.” The latest headlines read like a tragic parody: Israel launched new strikes across Gaza after Prime Minister Benjamin
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Welcome to the Golden Age of Layoffs: Where Jobs Go to Die and Stocks Go to Heaven
There’s an old rule in politics: if you can’t fix the problem, fire the statistician. And sure enough, President Trump has done exactly that, sacking the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the crime of arithmetic. Because in this second-term economy, math itself has become subversive. Without the Bureau’s honest numbers, the government
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America Wants This, Fox Sells That: The Real Majority vs the Minority Megaphone
Most voters back abortion rights, gun safety, paid leave, cheaper insulin, the Child Tax Credit, DACA, clean energy, and voting rights, yet a right-wing media machine keeps drowning them out on purpose. The Party With the Policies, the Party Without the Mic I keep a small superstition on my desk, a notebook where I write
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Congratulations, You’re the Plot Twist: How America Outsourced the Apocalypse to Itself
If you can’t see the connection between mass layoffs, record unemployment, AI automation, a government shutdown, SNAP benefit lapses, National Guard deployments, and the quiet rollout of digital IDs, congratulations. You are not “woke,” you are not “unbothered,” and you are not “staying out of politics.” You are the unpaid extra in a dystopian reboot