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Verizon Shrinks 20% of Workforce Because Economy is Booming
A corporate efficiency makeover that looks suspiciously like a disappearing act. The thing about telecom giants is that they love to talk about connection, yet the real connective tissue of their business is the quiet thrum of payroll software calculating who will still have health insurance by the time quarterly earnings hit the wire. Verizon,
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Trump Says Groceries Are Cheap Now, So Please Stop Looking at Your Receipts
An official memo from the alternate universe where gas is two dollars, milk is basically free, and your checking account is lying to you/ Americans have endured many strange plot twists in public life, but few moments rival the latest presidential message that rolled out like a weather alert from a parallel dimension. Donald Trump,
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Democrats Forfeit Shutdown, Filibuster Wins, Voters Get Empty Promises And Pain
If you start a fight you cannot win, you at least leave with a lesson, a villain, and a plan. Democrats left with none of the above and a press release that reads like surrender. I agree with Tim Miller and the Pod Save America bros on the core point. It was obvious from the
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Islam Isn’t Violent: State Sponsored Religion Is Violent
THE GOSPEL OF SELECTIVE OUTRAGE AND OTHER HOLY TRADITIONS WE PRETEND NOT TO NOTICE Religious superiority is the type of moral panic that spreads through America like pollen in spring, coating every surface, irritating every conversation, and triggering sneezes of self righteousness that echo for miles. The current strain is Islamophobia, a recycled political contagion
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The SNAP Yo-Yo Diet: Washington’s New Plan To Starve America One Whiplash At A Time
There is a special kind of nausea that comes from watching a government treat 42 million people like a toggle switch. It is the same nausea you get when you open your bank app, see a deposit, exhale for the first time in a week, and then receive a memo from Washington telling you that
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Democratic Masterclass: How To Lose A Win In Washington
The shutdown was a test of priorities. Democrats chose speed over substance, Republicans chose leverage over food, and the math of Rule XXII did the rest. The country just lived through a civics lesson that felt like a stress test. After forty days of a government shutdown that reached into kitchens, baggage claims, and clinic
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The Country Wanted a Trump Test of Chaos, So Let Them Have the Full Factory Tour
If the country insists on touching the stovetop again just to “make sure it’s still hot,” who am I to stand between a democracy and its favorite form of self-harm. There are moments in public life when you stop trying to warn people about the cliff and instead hand them binoculars so they can appreciate
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The Shutdown That Ate Democracy’s Homework: A Love Letter to Gridlock, Delusion, and the Filibuster Fetishists
There is a certain kind of American absurdity that only blossoms when the government is closed, the airports are melting down, and someone in the Senate has started speaking of the filibuster as if it is a religious relic discovered deep beneath the floor of the Capitol. You can almost set your watch by it.
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Trump’s Hunger Games Presidency Hits the Supreme Court
When the most powerful man in the world fights for the right to starve his own people There are many ways a civilization can measure its decline. Breadlines. Infrastructure decay. Reality-TV personalities winning office. But there is something uniquely cursed about a United States president who refuses to pay out SNAP benefits during a shutdown,
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Trump Says “Everything Is Fine” As The Cost Of Living Sky Rockets And Jobs Disappear
When reality raises the bill, you can gaslight the country or govern for it. Doing both is not a plan. The country knows the difference between a sales pitch and a receipt. We have been stuck in the pitch again, the kind where a leader tries to hypnotize prices into behaving by announcing that they