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  • MAGA Lets Their Racism Show Towards Bad Bunny: Puerto Rico is part of the United States idiots

    MAGA Lets Their Racism Show Towards Bad Bunny: Puerto Rico is part of the United States idiots

    Let me start with the obvious: Puerto Rico is part of the United States. If you keep forgetting that, maybe read a map. But that fact seems to blow open minds like a shock collar when the MAGA brigade—provoked by Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl headline—whips out the same ugly refrains: “He’s not American.” “Latin takeover.”…

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  • Missouri First — Or Missouri Forever? Goodbye Democracy.

    Missouri First — Or Missouri Forever? Goodbye Democracy.

    In Jefferson City, the Capitol passed a new gospel: Missouri First Map. The state’s governor, flanked by Republican legislators, signed HB 1 in a late-September flourish, after calling a special session, rushing through House and Senate votes, and locking in a mid-decade congressional redistricting that does less to reflect population and more to inscribe power.…

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  • From Hypertext Dreams to Data Nightmares: Tim Berners-Lee’s Reminder That We Broke His Toy

    From Hypertext Dreams to Data Nightmares: Tim Berners-Lee’s Reminder That We Broke His Toy

    The man who sketched the web on paper napkins at CERN now has to watch it shuffle around in stained sweatpants, working shifts for monopolies that surveil your cousin’s cat pictures and weaponize your grandmother’s political rants. Tim Berners-Lee, knighted not just for giving us hyperlinks but for unleashing the entire World Wide Web on…

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  • Degrees of Separation: Michelle’s Princeton-Harvard Reality vs. Melania’s Slovenian Fairy Tale

    Degrees of Separation: Michelle’s Princeton-Harvard Reality vs. Melania’s Slovenian Fairy Tale

    America has always been a nation obsessed with résumés, transcripts, and whether or not you really sat through Econ 101 without crying into a vending machine Pop-Tart. But somehow, in our supposedly merit-based society, the woman who actually clawed her way through Princeton University and Harvard Law School—graduating with honors while juggling race, class, and…

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  • Dominion and Giuliani’s $1.3 Billion Secret Settlement: When Lies Pay and Democracy Gets the Bill

    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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  • The Coup That Wasn’t: Trump and the Fantasy of FBI Agents in the Crowd

    The Coup That Wasn’t: Trump and the Fantasy of FBI Agents in the Crowd

    It’s not just revisionism. It’s fiction masquerading as revelation. On a Saturday morning, the former president posted on his social feed that the FBI “secretly placed” 274 agents into the January 6 crowd—agents who, Trump implied, likely acted as “agitators and insurrectionists.” It was his best shot yet at reframing the riot not as mob…

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  • Citizenship: Now Just Another Executive Order

    Citizenship: Now Just Another Executive Order

    Imagine a world where being born on U.S. soil no longer guarantees U.S. citizenship. That world is now on the table, offered in polite legal briefs and grant requests to the Supreme Court. The Trump administration, having signed an executive order restricting birthright citizenship, is now imploring the highest court to rescue it, after lower…

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  • When the Supreme Court Pressed Snooze on $5 Billion: Democracy Aid Goes on Hiatus

    When the Supreme Court Pressed Snooze on $5 Billion: Democracy Aid Goes on Hiatus

    On September 26, 2025, in a terse one-sentence emergency order, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to keep nearly $5 billion in congressionally appropriated foreign aid frozen—overturning a lower-court injunction and giving institutional blessing to what amounts to a year-end “pocket rescission” strategy. The effect: delay the money’s disbursement until it expires on…

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  • Government Shutdown or Trump’s Hostage Crisis? Why a Blank Check Is Signing Off on Fascism

    Government Shutdown or Trump’s Hostage Crisis? Why a Blank Check Is Signing Off on Fascism

    Shutdowns are the cheapest trick in Washington’s self-destructive playbook. When the lights dim and federal workers line up for IOUs instead of paychecks, when parks shutter and inspectors vanish, it’s not governance—it’s hostage theater. And here we are again, staring down another government shutdown, a ritual that has grown so common it has its own…

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  • Tribal Theater in Fiji: Survivor 49’s Grand Illusion of Fairness

    Tribal Theater in Fiji: Survivor 49’s Grand Illusion of Fairness

    The two-hour premiere of Survivor’s latest season dropped us straight into the tropics: Fiji. Sand, sweat, whispered alignments, and the familiar tension that says, “You’re not safe.” But what struck me most was not the immunity challenges or the plundered rice rations — it was the spectacle of alliances forming and betrayal already baked in.…

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