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The Great Halftime Faceplant: Turning Point USA Declares War on Bad Bunny (and Loses Before It Starts)
The Super Bowl halftime show used to be about pyrotechnics, wardrobe malfunctions, and the occasional left shark dancing off-beat. Now it’s a referendum on whether America can tolerate hearing a language other than English for more than three minutes. Welcome to 2026, where Bad Bunny will headline the official NFL halftime show—and Turning Point USA,
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Letters From the Border, Echoes in Rome: Pope Leo XIV vs. Operation Midway Blitz
If you want to know how power really moves in 2025, don’t watch the tank convoys rolling down Chicago boulevards or the ICE jackets fanning out across El Paso school zones. Watch instead the moment when a packet of handwritten letters from parish shelters in Texas and New Mexico lands on the Pope’s desk in
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America’s Great Sleepwalk Amongst Fascism: Snoring Through the Funeral of Democracy
The first rule of dying democracies is that nobody notices until the casket is already lowered into the ground. By then, the guests are too busy checking their phones to clap, or to care, or to even remember whose funeral they’re attending. America, it turns out, is the kind of family that shows up late
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The Art of the Pardon: Trump, Maxwell, and the Cult of Selective Mercy
October 7, 2025. Mark it. That was the day Michael Wolff—yes, the man who has made a career spelunking through Trump’s psyche like it’s a haunted mineshaft—announced to The Daily Beast that a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell could be coming “as soon as this week.” Not next month, not in a season finale cliffhanger, but
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Abbott offering Texas Troops To Invade Portland and Chicago? Confederate Nostalgia in Combat Boots
It takes a special kind of delusion to believe that the way to solve your state’s problems is to march your soldiers into someone else’s backyard. And yet, here we are: Texas National Guard troops, under orders from Republican leadership, staging deployments into Chicago and Oregon. No invitation, no local mandate, just the swagger of
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“Democrat Layoffs” and the Great Shutdown Purge
Day five of the shutdown, and the White House’s playbook just got darker. At 12:01 a.m. on October 1, federal funding lapsed. By October 5, director Kevin Hassett appeared on State of the Union to publicly warn: yes, mass federal layoffs could begin—if Trump deems negotiations “going nowhere.” He framed this as a conditional escalation,
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“You’ll Still Be Paid”—But the Pentagon Says Nope: The Trump Shutdown Delusion
At a Navy ceremony touting 250 years of might, President Trump looked out over ranks of sailors and Marines and vowed: despite the government shutdown, service members “will still be paid”—teasing raises and calling the promise ironclad. Watching that, one might imagine gold coins raining from the sky onto fatigued boots. But the legal landscape
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Speaker Johnson’s Imaginary Health Plan: How to Invent a Shutdown Crisis in One Sound Bite
The playbook is simple. Find a bureaucratic chart so boring it could put actuaries to sleep, then scream into a cable-news camera that it means “Democrats are shutting down the government to give illegal immigrants free health care.” If you’re lucky, you’ll trend on X by lunchtime. If you’re Mike Johnson, you repeat it on
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The Buffet of Betrayal: Fake Friends and Their Discount Recipes
There is a certain genre of person who insists on showing up to your table with Tupperware in hand, uninvited, ready to scoop the last spoonful of your mac and cheese while loudly congratulating themselves for “being here for you.” These are the same people who clap when the plane lands, repost inspirational quotes on