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  • Prince Andrew’s Title Tantrum: When the Crown Smells Smoke From the Epstein Files

    Prince Andrew’s Title Tantrum: When the Crown Smells Smoke From the Epstein Files

    There’s something about the smell of royal scandal that hits differently—less like smoke and more like an expensive candle trying to cover up the scent of a body decomposing under the palace floorboards. The official word from Buckingham Palace this week is that Prince Andrew, formerly the Duke of York, is voluntarily “stepping back” from

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  • Admiral Overboard: How to Lose a War Before It Starts When You Bomb People Illegally

    Admiral Overboard: How to Lose a War Before It Starts When You Bomb People Illegally

    Admiral Alvin Holsey’s early retirement announcement landed with the subtlety of a depth charge. The commander of U.S. Southern Command—one of the most experienced and respected flag officers in the Navy—is stepping down two years early, just as the Caribbean simmers with covert operations, disputed maritime strikes, and the growing sense that the United States

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  • Top Secret, Do Not Forward: The Bolton Doctrine of National Security Scrapbooking

    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

    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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  • Trump: The Mirror, The March, and the Misdirection

    Trump: The Mirror, The March, and the Misdirection

    A field guide to déjà vu in a country pretending it has never read this chapter He tells a story about a wounded nation and casts himself as the cure, and the lights are bright because glare is a better costume than truth and the soundtrack thumps because rhythm is easier to remember than evidence.

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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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  • No Kings Day: America’s Most Patriotic Middle Finger

    No Kings Day: America’s Most Patriotic Middle Finger

    The founders would have loved this. Not the powdered wig cosplay or the “Don’t Tread on Me” truck decals that confuse tyranny with speed limits—but the idea that millions of Americans could, in 2025, look at a would-be monarch and collectively say: nope. This October 18, No Kings Day returns. And if June was the

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  • Trump’s America Rediscovers Measles and Other 19th-Century Hobbies

    Trump’s America Rediscovers Measles and Other 19th-Century Hobbies

    Congratulations, America. We’ve finally done it. We’ve brought back a disease that modern medicine already defeated when bell-bottoms were still a gleam in disco’s eye. Somewhere, Jonas Salk is shaking his head in the afterlife, muttering, “I leave you people alone for sixty years and you start playing Oregon Trail again.” According to NPR, the

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  • When the Curtain Falls: Diane Keaton Leaves a World Unworthy of Her Talent

    When the Curtain Falls: Diane Keaton Leaves a World Unworthy of Her Talent

    I want to start by acknowledging that writing satire about someone’s death is delicate—especially when the person is beloved, irreplaceable, and has left an indelible mark on our lives. Diane Keaton’s passing on October 11, 2025, at age 79, is real grief; the only ironic jabs I’ll risk are at the world she leaves behind,

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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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