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Five Years Later, January 6 Graduated From Denial to Doctrine
How a pressure campaign became a pardon program, and why the transcripts matter now. Five years on, January 6 is no longer debated as a misunderstanding. It has been processed, sanded down, rebranded, and finally monetized as a loyalty signal. The most dangerous thing about the anniversary is not that people disagree about what happened.
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Fox News Host Pete Hegseth vs War Hero Mark Kelly: Telling Soldiers to Obey the Law Is Not Sedition, It’s the Job
When loyalty tests replace doctrine and truth gets charged with misconduct. The Pentagon announced that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is seeking administrative punishment against Senator Mark Kelly for saying something that should have been so boring it barely registered as a headline. Kelly said service members should not follow unlawful orders. That’s it. No
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January 3, 2026, and the Day the United States Decided It Was the Government of Venezuela
Regime change, now with a press release and an IOU. On January 3, 2026, the United States woke up to a sentence that used to require months of debate, a roll call vote, and at least the pretense of international consensus. President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. military had executed a “large-scale strike” on
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“Locked and Loaded” for Someone Else’s Streets, While Ours Are Still Cracking
When foreign policy becomes a midnight post and democracy is optional paperwork. President Donald Trump went to Truth Social and announced that the United States is “locked and loaded and ready to go” if Iranian authorities violently suppress the latest wave of protests spreading across the country. The phrasing was familiar, theatrical, and deliberately vague,
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MTV Finally Turned Off the Music, and Let the Epitaph Roll
The channel that taught America how to watch sound signed off with a joke that stopped being funny decades ago. MTV ended its last remaining 24 hour music video channels by playing “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the same song that launched the network in 1981. It was meant to feel clever, full circle, maybe
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Happy New Year, 2026, and No I’m Not Reinventing Myself for You
New year, same spine, better math. Happy New Year, 2026. That’s it. No fireworks language. No spiritual confetti. No ceremonial shedding of skin for the benefit of strangers who will scroll past in half a second anyway. This is not reinvention theater. This is survival math. Life is getting busier in all the right ways,
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Democrats Need To Run On At Least $25 an Hour Minimum Wage or Admit the Economy Runs on Quiet Cruelty
A minimum wage that can’t buy rent is not a wage. It’s a suggestion with a time clock. America is in a strange phase of capitalism where we have decided inflation is a natural disaster but poverty is a personal flaw. We hold candlelight vigils for the price of eggs, then lecture full-time workers about
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CISA’s Acting Director Took a Polygraph He Didn’t Need, Failed It, Then Put the Calendar Under Investigation
National security, now featuring grievance management and the administrative leave of anyone who has ever touched a scheduling app. There’s a particular kind of chaos that only exists inside agencies that handle sensitive intelligence. It’s not loud. It’s not cinematic. It’s the quiet kind where people stop sending emails and start communicating through pauses, raised
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Epstein Files Transparency Act Meets DOJ’s Blackout Marker, and Congress Discovers the “Oops, All Redactions” Loophole
A statutory deadline, a disappearing website, and the federal government’s newest genre: partial compliance theatre. Congress did that rare Washington thing where everyone pretends the job still matters. They passed a law. They put a deadline in it. They specified what had to be released. They even limited the excuses, the usual ones about victim
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60 Minutes Pulled the CECOT Deportation Story, and CBS Just Invented the White House “Kill Switch”
When corporate consolidation meets political fear, the investigative segment becomes a ghost. There are two kinds of silence in American journalism. One is the ordinary kind, the necessary pause while reporters verify names, confirm documents, and wait for reluctant sources to stop pretending their phones are dead. The other kind arrives after a story has